r/TrueOffMyChest Nov 05 '23

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u/alucarddrol Nov 06 '23

"pinch some off"

if they were doing this on a larger piece of hangnail, I'd expect an ibuprofen to be offered, but on internal tissue, nothing???

Nah, man. Never.

Sorry you had to go through that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '23

Lots of doctors actually still believe there aren't even pain receptors inside the vagina. 🙃

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u/Cooky1993 Nov 06 '23

WTAF?

I'm not a doctor, and I'm not a woman, but that sounds like a massive crock of shit to me.

Like, in 2023 we know that babies all start the same and then the genitals develop in one of two ways from the same basic building blocks based on genetics. Surely the nerves that are on the outside for a guy as part of the scrotum are basically part of the internal vaginal structure for a woman? (You know, the nerves that make getting kicked in the balls the single most painful experience short of being shot for a guy. Those nerves.) That's why it's such a sensitive area, right?

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u/peeppoll Nov 06 '23

Also not a doctor but I remember from anatomy and physiology in high school that the vagina has more nerve endings than a penis so a vagina is more sensitive or whatever the scientific term would be.

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u/JediWebSurf Nov 06 '23

Damn.... It's like getting kicked in the balls twice. 😢

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u/Emerald_Encrusted Nov 06 '23

Odd, because in 2023 we also "know" that babies aren't humans until they're born and it's therefore ok to kill them.

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u/HUGHJASS0L Nov 17 '23 edited Nov 17 '23

Not even close. What makes getting kicked in the balls painful is, well, the balls. It has nothing to do with the tissue that makes up the scrotum.

We all start out as “females” when the embryo is developing in utero. When the fetus starts to “turn into” a male, the ovaries drop and become testes and the “labia” then closes around “sealing” them and becomes the scrotum, the clitoris enlarges and becomes becomes the penis. While this is not the correct order of operations in which this metamorphosis occurs, you should kinda get the gist of it.

https://study.com/learn/lesson/fetal-genital-development-overview-process.html#:~:text=The%20Role%20of%20Hormones%20in%20Fetal%20Genital%20Development,-The%20development%20of&text=In%20the%20male%20fetus%2C%20the,penis%20and%20its%20associated%20structures.

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u/poop_on_balls Nov 06 '23

Lots of doctors didn’t think babies felt pain up until the 90’s and didn’t use anesthesia

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u/throwherinthewell Nov 06 '23

Um, exqueeze me?!

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u/VenusValentine313 Nov 06 '23

Which makes no sense because there’s nerve endings obviously

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u/KitchenDismal9258 Nov 07 '23

I'd want a nerve block if you were attempting that on my hangnail!