High Elms Ben-KWhat is happening
How The ‘Ballmaxxing’ Trend Brings Dangers To Men’s Genitals
Arakin@TheBreadmonkey
"What do you want?"
"Ball in-fla-tion"
"You'll never get it!"
"By hook or by crook, we will."
(Tho it beggars the question of how the heck they're gonna ride the penny farthing bicycle afterwards)
Sam Stephens@TheBreadmonkey fun fact; Portmeirion (the filming location) is open to tourists, and the gift shop sells those balls. We considered getting one and didn't, but we did get a tea towel that coincidentally is the current tea towel.
Extreme Electronics@TheBreadmonkey You are a Ben, not a number!
elhadjimurad@TheBreadmonkey Coincidentally, my ringtone for the past I-don't-know-how-many years is from Episode 1 of The Prisoner:
(Electronic 'ring' sounds from telephone with the number 6 on it)
Operator: Is your number six?
Prisoner: Yes.
Operator: Just one moment, I have a call for you.
(Electronic 'ring' sounds from telephone with the number 6 on it)
Operator: Is your number six?
Prisoner: Yes.
Operator: Just one moment, I have a call for you.
Human GhostwriterBeing a man is so stupid now.
ptoothfish (but beige)@HG @TheBreadmonkey south park, as always, did it
Nic Dafis
Nick@HG @TheBreadmonkey I can’t believe they’re making every man do this. What about those of us who already have Big Naturals, nut-wise? Big Nuturals?
I'd support it more if it reflected a policy choice by our elected officials than just a thing dudes are doing unprompted.
DJDarren
Joanna Holman@TheBreadmonkey we’ve underestimated how absurdist natural selection is willing to be to get things done
s1m0n4
✨pencilears✨@s1m0n4 @TheBreadmonkey it's a kink. Most people with this one just commission a freak to draw their tanuki fursona.
Raj Patel 
cuan_knaggs@TheBreadmonkey so it's moved out the kink scene then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrotal_inflation (CW: it has pictures)
Dude! CW!
@TheBreadmonkey sorry about that. the preview wasn't showing the images just now
@mensrea 😂 gave me *quite* the surprise
@TheBreadmonkey it does look like something from a medical report that's being brought up as an argument against contact sport
lower-value human capital@mensrea @TheBreadmonkey Do NOT for the love of all that's good click through to any of the "possible complications" in that WP article. In particular do not go look at the article on Fournier gangrene.
Sweet holy donkey-fucking Jesus. That's my nightmares sorted for a good long while.
@sennoma @TheBreadmonkey it sure is swell aint it
@TheBreadmonkey just get older, my dudes, you will find your balls exceed your hopes and dreams, and you will sit on them 100% more than you ever wanted
Madcollector@TheBreadmonkey I recall a scene from Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis 20 years ago where the main character had... this happen to him. That sounded quite unpleasant.
Hedgewizard 🐈It was only a matter of time before science made the dream a reality
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2026/05/08/ballmaxxing-trend-has-men-infusing-saline-into-their-genitals/
#vizcomic
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2026/05/08/ballmaxxing-trend-has-men-infusing-saline-into-their-genitals/
#vizcomic
@Hedgewizard This was the first image that came to my mind!
Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!@TheBreadmonkey tut, kids these days.
They probably don't even realise that AC/DC have the biggest balls of all.
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Sammi@TheBreadmonkey After years of social pressure on women to have all kinds of implants and surgeries I kinda feel that this is some kind of cosmic retribution on men.
Seriously, no don't do this if you want to impress women then make them squeak like a dog toy when you press them.
Guillotines and woodchippersThis is just propaganda for Big Testicle
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ
nightjar@Mabande @TheBreadmonkey cursed image
砂漠人 
x 🏜️@nightjar @Mabande @TheBreadmonkey Hard disagree. This is a glorious image (and figurine) that by chance coincided with a topic my pal and I were discussing today on our hike.
@nightjar @Mabande @TheBreadmonkey nope more like a new take on that statue of cows painted all crazy by local artists thing that cities are doing all over now.
But with bigger balls.
@Mabande @TheBreadmonkey and, unbidden, I now have a Brimful of Asha earworm 😅
Everybody needs a scrotum for a pillow
Everybody needs a scrotum
SPICY EVIL CAET🍬🍭🎄
@TheBreadmonkey bone(r)smashing 2.0
Bob Thomson@TheBreadmonkey One of the post ops effects I had never anticipated after my kidney transplant was giant bawz; Already on the larger size, either trauma from the op or oedema made them massive and highly uncomfortable. Lasted a few days after I was discharged 10 days after the op too. Do not recommend. Why are men?
I am trying very very hard not to make a comment about 'Lasted a few days after I was discharged'. So know that I am being a responsible serious adult and not making any kind of joke about this.
@TheBreadmonkey lol your restraint is admirable and appreciated :)
Charles ☭ 
is a GreenEvery fetish is niche until suddenly everyone is doing it.
"Stone Cold" Yours Truly@TheBreadmonkey "...many of these seem DIY, meaning the owners of the scrotums did the inflations themselves."
i've never thought of myself "owning" my scrotum.
Raglan Niall 
@Somarasu is it on hire-purchase or do you rent?@TheBreadmonkey
@Niall @TheBreadmonkey I'd imagine it's kind of a "rent to own" deal
@Niall @TheBreadmonkey oh definitely. You'd hate to be stuck long-term with something you hate
KanaMaunaDr. Darwin approves
bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵@TheBreadmonkey this sounds like one of these made up ragebait things, but in this day and age I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually a common manosphere thing
@TheBreadmonkey oof, yeah, as long as they stick to saline it's mostly fine, but sometimes people move to harder more permanent injections, which, can kill you.
https://www.thestranger.com/features/2018/11/05/35073826/death-of-a-kinkster
thefathippyWTAF?
I once new someone whose "balls swelled to the size of coconuts" after an infection, as described by his wife. He found it, err...most unpleasant, not just the pain, but the treatment.
What are these blokes going to do as they age? Won't somebody think about gravity! Short shorts must be banned!
WTL@TheBreadmonkey Will the stupid ever end?
Rob@TheBreadmonkey urghh the whole addition of 'maxxing' has exploded since being adopted by the incel community, I read a story about baking where the writer used cakemaxxing as if that sounded cool..it does not.
That said, doing that to your balls, will likely lead to irreversible damage that would mean these incels can no longer procreate - so, every cloud I guess.
for a day, while . . . 🗽apparently, ballmaxxing demands have passed me by . . . that's what's happening . . .
Luka R.@TheBreadmonkey We are reaching singularity of The Onion, shitposts and general news.
@TheBreadmonkey For the record, I don't think "ballmaxxing" is "a trend", no matter how hard corporate media tries to make it a trend. Saline injections are not new. Weird online communities are not new. "Ballmaxxing" is not trending on TikTok.
Michael Gemar@TheBreadmonkey Men would rather inject saline into their ballsack than go to therapy.
Lucas Treffenstädt@TheBreadmonkey whatever they're maxxing, I know what their dump stat is.
Timothy Wolodzko@TheBreadmonkey and we thought female beauty influencers were toxic...
@TheBreadmonkey No.
Nope. NO.
I won't accept it. This doesn't exist. It's not a thing. They are just letting the LLM write everything now.
*shudder*