Just to clarify
Also, just to clarify, I'm not emphasizing the kick as the only good strike method against the groin. Lots of other ways work, too, and you're probably right about the knee being the most reliable one.
As a matter of fact, during most fights, the groin is rarely out of range of all possible attack methods an opponent has at his or her disposal. This is yet another thing that makes the groin such a liability. It must be constantly guarded from hand, knee, and foot attacks, and even elbow, heel and stomping attacks under certain circumstances.
If you take the groin off the table as a desirable target (the way some men seem to want to do), then you go from two regions of a man's body that are vulnerable to relatively low-power strikes that most non-MA specialists can succeed with, to one. And that one remaining area (the head and neck area) is right near where the arms connect to the body, where they are perfectly positioned to protect it. If that one area is all your opponent is absolutely required to defend against someone who does not live, eat, and breath MA, then it becomes much harder to get anything through.
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