nordmann

GenJaneu, I apologize on behalf of the many who did not take your question seriously.

The short answer to your question is that if you squeeze a man's testicle with even half the force that an average woman's hand can squeeze with, it is going to completely incapacitate him unless he is on some sort of serious anesthetic drug. And even then, I'm not sure. I heard from a guy who got hit with a paint-ball (not even ruptured) who said that the strongest painkillers the hospital had didn't completely stop the pain--if he wasn't knocked out cold, he was still in agony. If you can can crush a half-ripe plum or apricot in your fingers, then you can squeeze hard enough to rupture a testicle, and no man--not even one doped up on PCP--can continue to do anything after that injury.

I've read quite a few postings in various places saying something to the effect that groin attacks aren't as effective as what you see on TV. That's total, ridiculous BS. Why do men say that? Are they scared to admit that they have this weakness? Do they want to risk getting hit there as a "prank", since it's "not really all that painful"? In reality, it's only on TV that guys who get hit there with a full-force soccer kick just grunt, make a funny face, and then go on fighting three seconds later. A forceful kick there is going to drop a man for five or ten minutes, and when he does manage to stand back up again on his weak, wobbling legs, fighting is going to be the last thing on his mind. That's if it doesn't hospitalize him, which it very well could do.

Yes, there are guys who are into "ballbusting", who enjoy having a woman hit them there. But we're talking light to moderate blows. Even the most hardened masochist can't take a forceful blow there without suffering the usual effects. And as long as he's crumpled to the ground in a helpless, harmless, motionless pile, and you get away unharmed, who gives a crap whether he "enjoyed" it.

What women don't understand is that there is a lot more than just pain involved in a groin strike. There is something about it that literally paralizes men, and this paralysis can even extend to our diaphram, which makes it almost impossible to even breathe. With other types of pain, you can at least keep breathing and moving around, but not after a kick to the nuts. I don't understand why, but it feels as if your central nervous system goes into some partially-disabled state, and no matter how much you want to recover, stand up, pretend you're OK, and take the pain like a man, you can't, because you are physically unable to exert more than the tiniest force through your limbs--especially your legs.

I've been kneed there once, and slapped there once. Neither time was a hard blow--more of a very light blow, really. If I'd been a woman, I probably would barely have noticed. The knee happened when I was a boy, and it made me turn around and quietly find a place to sit down for a while to ponder whether taunting that girl was such a good idea after all.

The slap came when I was an adult, and it was delivered by a girlfriend who was physically abusive to me, and who injured me on several occasions. That slap seriously hurt. I was on the ground for what seemed like hours, I could only dimly hear things, and my vision was going dim with brown spots. I could barely breathe except in tiny gulps of air, and I couldn't move my legs appreciably. The pain was indescribable. It was a creeping, dull ache, and I felt it in almost my entire body. At one point if felt as if I was about to vomit. It may not have been the worst sheer level of pain I've ever felt, but as an overall sensation, I can't think of anything I've lived through that was as unpleasant, intimidating, and disabling as that. I don't want to even try to contemplate what a ruptured testicle would feel like. I'm guessing that if I had to choose, I would rather just end it all than experience a rupture.

All that said, the testicle squeeze is something that rarely happens in a fight situation. They are as slippery as fish inside that little bag, and men usually don't just hold still while you fumble around with their testicles trying to get a solid hold of one. A few other posters said as much. If you're trying to do this through a pair of pants--especially baggy jeans or something like that, grabbing a guys balls gets even more difficult. I would second the notion that a quick slap would work much better.

So don't do the squeeze. Give the balls some impact instead. Do the slap, knee, kick, heel, punch, elbow, or whatever. If you do it, do it fast, and do it hard. Make sure you connect with the testicles (not just the penis), and that you connect with more than just a tap. If you do this, you have just won the fight, hands down.

He might be expecting you to try it, though, so distract him first by making it look as if you're going to go for his eyes or throat. The nice thing about the groin is that it's all the way down there, and so men have to defend two entirely seperate areas, both of which are vulnerable to low-force strikes that an untrained person has a reasonable chance of pulling off. As a woman, you have only one severely vulnerable area to defend, and it happens to be right near where you arms attach to your body. You'd be stupid not to take advantage of this basic strategic advantage.

I wonder how many women's self-defense programs teach techniques carried over from traditional MA that were originally developed by men, who developed the positions, strikes, and blocks they use under the restriction that they could do nothing that would leave the testicles open for a strike.