What are blue balls? Most people – healthcare providers included – are familiar with this term referring to scrotal discomfort experienced in response to prolonged sexual arousal without orgasm.
Even though most people have heard about"blue balls" and a quick internet search reveals links to a variety of health-related and popular websites containing basic information, there is surprisingly little research on this phenomenon in medical journals.
, revealed that in some ways, this experience is"no big deal" and in other ways, it is a very big deal. The term assumes that discomfort resulting from sexual arousal without orgasm only exists in"balls," referring to the scrotum. The process of sexual arousal described earlier, however, isn't specific to genitals featuring a scrotum.In line with this, our results show that just over 42 percent of participants with a vulva reported experiencing discomfort resulting from sexual arousal without orgasm. Fifty-six percent of respondents with a penis reported this experience.
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