blue balls

my balls ache.

They ache so much that i started to think it must be psychosomatic. [To be sure, they only ache, there is no acute pain].

Being a long-time consumer of story smut, i've read about "blue-balls" a million times. But since i never really experienced it, i figured it is mostly made-up, mostly to guilt-trip girlfriends and wives who aren't bold enough to tell their men to go jerk-off if it's that bad.

But the aching is going on and on, and is getting stronger.

So, i did a little research.

Wikipedia (FWIW) calls it out as a real phenomenon, particularly for men over 40 for whom (Wikipedia claims) the symptoms can last up to 12 hours after erection.

Wikipedia does cite this pediatrics paper which provides a case study and the results of a literature review. The paper reports that the literature is strangely silent on the topic but that the "great majority of adult, pediatric, urologic and emergency physicians, as well as nurses and non-medial people informally surveyed, know of this condition."

"Condition" appears to be a key word choice, because it seems from the material reviewed that despite the aching, i am in no danger of being harmed.

Do i like being made to suffer in denial, particularly by Her? Of course. But does it still hurt? Yes!