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Blue Balls: A Ball-Faced Lie?

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Blue Balls: The First Time We're Talking About It

Over 40% of people with vaginas said that they too felt something like blue balls. One person wrote to us saying they felt sharp pains. Another described it as throbbing or a deep achy feeling. Professor Carolyn Pecal, why all the focus on the balls? Why is this the first time that you and I are talking about it and thinking about it? And the answer, you might have guessed, rhymes with the katriarchy.

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