'Blue balls' is a widely used colloquialism describing scrotal pain after high, sustained sexual arousal unrelieved because of lack of orgasm and ejaculation.
By admission of its senatorial sugar daddy (Tom Harkin), research into alternative medicine has failed to produce, well, any effective therapies. No longer. The authors have identified a disorder with tons of anecdotal evidence supporting one of the favorite AltMed therapies of my alma mater's big embarassment, Duke Integrative Medicine's Massage and Bodywork.
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Obviously, this therapeutic research merits further clinical research; but how to construct an appropriate, placebo-controlled, double-blind study? The original authors remain optimistic in their responses to correspondents:
They "fervently hope" for "an end to this dreaded condition"; about this we can offer assuranceblue balls is real, and a cure is coming.
