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Not that I encourage guys to play with themselves, as most of the men I know don’t seem to need the encouragement; they seem to always have their hands on their crotches or down their pants, making those oh-so necessary minor adjustments or as I like to call it, “checking to make sure nothing has runoff since the last time they checked (in the last 5 or so minutes).”

Aside from the borderline recreational self-checking, I do encourage most of my young male friends to sit down sometime and really do a thorough check of their testicles for anything out of the ordinary.  When I was in college, I met one guy each year that had found themselves facing a real nightmare, that of testicular cancer. I remember my sophomore year roommate telling me about it one night when we were trying (valiantly) to use the power of various potent chemical cleaning solutions to get the multi-year layers of grime off the tile shower in our condo. He was rather blase about it, telling me about how he woke up in pain one night and that it had swollen and was sore, and how his doctor lopped it off and sent it to the lab for analysis.  When it came back positive, he got some of his sperm frozen at the local sperm bank and then got his cancer treatment and moved on with his life.  Not shy at all, he and I showered together and he asked if I wanted to see the scar and check it out.  Sexually, it was not at all exciting, but medically, it was of interest to see his lone ball hanging there all by its lonesome, and hold it and look at the scar from where they extracted his malignant one. I asked if his sperm count was at all affected and he smiled and said that it had actually gone up a little, since they lopped off his cancerous one.  He thought it was because his body realized the loss of the bad one and let the other one make up for the loss.

I was reminded of this the other day when 23 year old US Olympic swimmer (and all-around hottie) Eric Shanteau announced that he has testicular cancer.  He is going to delay surgery until after the Olympics, but will have doctors monitoring him to make sure there’s no change in his condition during the interim. I thought, “Geez! Such a young guy!” Then I read that testicular cancer is a cancer that seems to occur with some frequency in young men.

So… if you don’t know how to do a testicular self-exam, click on the link below to find out, because (in the words of GI Joe, “knowing is half the battle”):

http://kidshealth.org/teen/sexual_health/guys/tse.html

So, that pseudo-public service annoucement aside, there’s plenty of other things to do with your testicles for fun too!  I know there are some guys out there that are nearly psychotically sensitive about their balls, almost to the point of not wanting them touched before, during or after any kind of sex.  One of my regular friends, a straight guy whose girlfriend doesn’t enjoy “worshipping his idol” as much as I do mentioned to me during his second time over at my place that he usually didn’t like getting his balls stroked or sucked. Not intentionally, I forgot that he said that, and would alternate lightly sucking and rolling around his balls in my mouth during a few of his subsequent visits.  Amusingly enough, one night I had a flash of memory of him telling me, so I stopped touching them and remarked that I’d forgotten that he didn’t like that.  He looked at me and sort of blushed and said, “well… you’ve sort of turned me on to that now, and I kind of look forward to it.  You do this cool thing with your tongue when you’ve got my balls in your mouth that makes me nearly cum, so I’ve really gotten into it.”  This was the first I’d heard of that particular tongue talent, though I’ve had two of my guy friends remark on it since and have smiled each time. One of my younger guy friends asked me if I had access to either a cock-ring and ball stretcher combo, or just a ball stretcher that he could use when he came over.  Luckily, I had my leather snap cockring on me and spent about 20 minutes demonstrating on him how he could use it as a cockring, or a cock and ball ring, or a ball separator/stretcher.  From my early days of living in DC and going to various “Dungeon Dance” parties, I have a not entirely small cache of leather goods, toys, and more!  Here’s what I recommend for any guys looking to dabble in some ball-play:

10 Speed Adjustable Leather Cockring	10 Speed Black Leather Cock Strap 10 round studs on black leather strap. The width of the strap is 3/4 of an inch. Perfect for wrapping around your dick, balls, or both. Also works as a wristband, too!
Dr. Joel Kaplan's Erection Lasso - Black	Dr Joel Kaplan Erection Lasso - Black Surgical grade Latex cock enhancer is fully adjustable, comfortable and easily removed.
Dr. Kaplans Silicone Cockring - Clear	Dr Joel Kaplan Silicone Cock Ring - Clear Super-stretchy, hygenically superior silicone cock ring endorsed by Dr Joel Kaplan.

Here’s a bit of show and tell for today’s subject, courtesy of xtube (www.xtube.com). Notice that the guy in the video is wearing two rings, one around the base of his dick and one to pull down his nuts.  Enjoy!: