Militant feminists are behind this latest craze. Clearly they have infiltrated youth culture, influencing boys to believe they enjoy tests of testicular fortitude, when in fact such behaviors may cripple sperm counts and reduce testosterone production.

[edit on 26-11-2009 by ChristinaA]

This poor guy's story is unbelievable:

Jake Arend doesn't need survey results to convince him ball tapping is a serious problem.

Classmates began hitting him in the groin when he was in sixth grade and it continued for years.

"I was just the scrawny kid everybody picked on to make themselves look better," Arend said. "If you get hit in that area, you just want to fall and cry, but I tried not to."

By the time Jake got to Danville High School, he says he was being ball tapped every week – sometimes even three or four times a day.

"Sometimes it would be just the flick of a wrist, and there was one time I actually got hit in the area with a socket wrench," he recalled. "When I got hit with that, I actually just hit the ground and just laid there in the fetal position for five to ten minutes for the pain to go away, then I got up and went to class."

Jake never told his parents and he never told his teachers, fearing the bullies at school would hit him ever harder if they got in trouble.

"I just thought 'It's pain. I'll deal with it,'" said Arend.

When Jake graduated in May 2009, he thought all that pain would be a thing of the past. It was just getting started.

Emergency surgery

In late October, Jake was rushed to Hendricks Regional Hospital in Danville where doctors performed an emergency operation. Years of enduring ball tapping had finally taken its toll. Undetected scar tissue had completely sealed off Jake's urinary tract, resulting in horrifying pain.

"It was a pain like I've never felt before. It was like taking a knife and just jamming it down in your stomach and dragging it all the way down through your genital area," he said. "The urologist said the signs can go undetected for years until it hits you like it hit me."

Doctors placed a catheter in Jake's urethra and told him he will need another operation to fix all the damage caused by repeated blows to the groin.

For Jake's father, that recent trip to the emergency room was the first time he had ever heard of ball tapping. "I never in a million years would have thought this was happening to him," said Eddie Arend. "Evidently it's happening at a lot of schools. It's not just his school."

School nurses confirm that's true.

WTF?????

[edit on 26-11-2009 by loam]

not really relevant but does contribute to understanding what can happen: a friend of mine here is a world class mountain biker. he did a huge drop and landed without his feet on peddles, one of his balls popped exploded and is now gone.

thats possibly the most insane craze ever - the guy in the first video had a really creepy gleeful look on his face too, weird.

maybe this is a cunning depopulation plan from some eugenics group - anyone stupid enough to play or week enough to keep getting got doesn't have children....

more likely just stupid kids being stupid, man what is wrong with people?

Any male who engages in such a game doesn't deserve testicles, period.

If someone asked me to "play" this with them, first I'd punch them in the balls, and then I'd punch them in the face for disrespecting their balls like that.

This is beyond stupid..

One step closer to the movie Idiocracy.

Lets discuss this, instead of posting endless videos?

Its a stupid craze, and a stupid thing to do.

This kind of thing can have far reaching medical consequences that go beyond a simple prank, in both terms of trauma leading to testicular cancer, reproductive issues etc.

Its assault. Plain and simple. It should be treated as such IMHO.

This must be part of the Government's new sterilization campaign.

Yellow # 5 and wireless x-box controllers werent woking fast enough I guess the only out was ......sack tap.

ouch.

LOLZ

I don't have balls. But if I did, the person who attacked my balls would be in big trouble.

That is about the most stupid game I've ever heard of.

There must be some psychological reason these boys are allowing their balls to be hit.

Although disgusting it is very interesting.

Good god, this isn't going to be another happy slap phase that will sweep the world. I hadn't heard about this ball tapping but it sounds pretty damn disgusting. More surprising is the fact that its other guys doing it. Guys who (should) know well it is ~$*%ing sore as hell, and it is a little known fact that a hard enough hit to the balls can kill a man.

The only time I would ever condone a this type of thing was in a no win situation where if you didn't resort to a shot below the belt it could mean a serious injury to yourself or others and you had no other way of getting out of the situation.

You've got to question the psychology behind a guy who goes around hitting other people in the balls. If someone came up to me braging that he just tapped someones balls, had fun doing it and was planning to do it again... well I wouldnt be looking at them the same way anyway again.

Also to dizziedame, if you could ever experience a hit in the balls you would know that for about 5 mins afterwards there is not much you can do besides try to hold yourself up, so you wouldn't be causing much trouble for the person who had hit you before they had a good chance to get away.

I remember in grade school it was considered funny to occasionally give another guy a light tap, but was never asked for or participated in willingly by the guy receiving. Of course that was kids acting stupidly and juvenile. Also we were not doing it really hard either nor did any one willingly let it happen to them.

These people are outright crazy for participating in it willingly. Some are not willing participants but those dishing it out seem to be doing it in a far more aggressive manner than I recall too.

The whole thing has been around just not in these staged for a very long time. It used to be a passing joke rarely done. This looks like an everyday occurrence. It is really sickening and I can rarely watch it without thinking of the pain.

I also think to a degree we can blame the home video shows that stated in the 80’s for making it something more popular to make fun of than it once was. Also you have nut jobs in shows like Jackass doing ignorant sicken humor (if you can call it that) no different than what you see here. I recall someone showing me a clip that showed one of those morons putting a baby alligator on his junk. He actually had the thing bite him there and let it hang. Not to mention the other clip of them rolling bowling balls into their stuff as well. These idiots are doing it on TV and are “heroes” for some odd reason to many children. Of course their parents are too busy doing their thing so they do not encourage their kids to not do stupid crap like this.

Raist

Ball tapping eh???????

Not something I have come across before as a trend, so to speak. Is the practise a US related one or does it happen in the UK and other countries?

My advice to folk who are the victims of ball tapping - Wait until the pain subsides, identify your attacker, then at a later date hit him across the bridge of his nose with the bottom half of a pool cue whilst shouting "How you like dem apples?"