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Experts warn men not to turn scrotums into septic DIY water balloons

Jason Weisberger
May 21, 2026
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Doctors are pleading with men to stop injecting assorted fluids into their testicles for social-media masculinity cred, which feels like the sort of sentence that should never have needed writing.

Online masculinity culture continues its determined march well beyond its current body-horror parody with “ballmaxxing,” a trend involving DIY scrotal inflatio…

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