Exactly.. evolution does not = intelligent design. Evolution has produced far more failed and extinct species than it has successful ones over millions and millions of years.

Although now that I posted that, i am questioning my own definition of a successful species. I guess every species is "successful" until they go extinct!
Anywho

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I heard an interesting speculation years ago on the radio, wondering why the stones are on the outside. It seems like they would be more protected if lodged inside behind some bone or cartilage. They pointed out that the testes won't function/produce sperm if they are too warm, if they accidentally ascend up into the abdomen. So it would appear that having them on the outside has been a feature that was selected for or at least well accommodated. Hard to figure as damaged balls means: exit the gene pool.

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If they were hidden up behind bone and cartilege how could you scratch them?

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Anyway,
Is it true that the penis will actually go back..inside..the body in extremely cold scenarios, in order to stay close to the warmth the inner body cavity provides.

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I still think it's a design flaw. I get the current design concept due to temp restrictions. I do not buy the if they hurt you will protect them idea. I protect all my organs with equal zeal. The sex drive is what encourages people to procreate so I think if the nads were behind armor plating and designed to withstand higher temps I would be happier and I would still screw like a bunny.

May be the protection theory is right but I still think there are easier ways for this to be accomplished.

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If males had additional bone/cartilage suspended far down enough to protect the privates, I think mobility would be a REAL problem...

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Then tuck the little guys away in the pelvis. Nature came up with the platypus, I think it can come up with a way to protect my nuts and not affect performance or utility.

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If it wasn't painful you would not know about it because you did not feel any pain. If this process eliminates your ability to produce offspring then it conflicts with your biological objective. Therefore, it HAS to be painful. As an example:

When you perceive a threat to your manhood, you either fight or flee. If you fight, you risk more damage. If you flee you preserve the self and your biological objective.

So if your manhood was armored and protected, but it still received physical damage, the this negates the purpose of the armor (which is similar to choosing to fight).

That's why it's really sensitive to pain, so when the pain becomes unbearable, THEN you flee, and this preserves your biological objective.

You're not the first to think of a way to protect your manhood

In addition, they're in a "bag" and not in a fixed structure so they can move around. This provides more protection so they're more flexible to physical contact, and this allows temperature regulation as well.

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you got a brain to invent a cup, on the sensitivity it makes sense, if you didnt feel getting a nut shot you likely would not be able to pass on the numb gene and you would be weeded out of the pool......

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That's what I had in mind. The female organs are all well protected without some dinosaur like plate, or at least more so than my poor li'l cajones. It's hard to imagine why having them hanging out in the open would have been selected for. But here we are so there must have been some reason.

OK, here we go:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=why-do-human-testicles-hang-like-th-2009-11-19

In many respects, the activation hypothesis serves to elaborate what many of us already know about descended scrotal testicles: that they serve as a sort of “ cold storage” and production unit for sperm, which keep best at lower body temperatures. But it goes much further than this fact, too. It turns out that human testicles display some rather elaborate yet subtle temperature-regulating features that have gone largely unnoticed by doctors, researchers and laymen alike. The main tenet of the activation hypothesis is that the heat of a woman's vagina radically jumpstarts sperm that have been hibernating in the cool, airy scrotal sack. Yet it explains many other things too, including why one testicle is usually slightly lower than the other, why the skin of the scrotum becomes more taut and the testicles retract during sexual arousal, and even why testicular injuries--compared to other types of bodily assault--are so excruciatingly painful to men.

www.epjournal.net/filestore/​ep07517526.pdf

(whoops, that link doesn't work - I can go to it by clicking on the search result, which yields a pdf file with no URL - the above URL is in the result box - 3rd one down here, title line is:

[PDF] On the Origin of Descended Scrotal Testicles: The Activation ...)


http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oG7lQwP5JNolIAWS1XNyoA;_ylc=X1MDUCMyMTQyMzU3MDg5BF9yAzIEYW8DMQRmcgN5ZnAtdC03MDEEZnIyA3 NidG4EaG9zdHB2aWQDWDJWRy5Fb0c3djVvNnNJY1M2bXFNUUYuMERZT0EwMlNQekFBRFowdwRuX2dwcwMwBG9yaWdpbgNzcnAEcX VlcnkDZXZvbHV0aW9uIG9mIHRlc3RpY2xlIHNhY2sEc2FvAzIEdnRlc3RpZANERkQ1?p=evolution+of+testicle+sack&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-701&type_param=

Introduction

It is almost unthinkable to ask why ovaries do not descend during embryological development and emerge outside the female’s body cavity in a thin, unprotected sack. Evolution is based on reproductive competition among individuals for genetic representation in future generations. The integrity of the gonads is of paramount importance when it comes to reproduction. Because of vulnerability to damage, insult, and temperature variation, unprotected ovaries located outside the body cavity would be an enormous handicap/serious reproductive disadvantage. The same reasoning applies with equal force to the testicles. But unlike ovaries, descended testicles located outside the body cavity in the scrotum are common among many mammals in spite of all the obvious risks and disadvantages.

We propose a simple mechanism in the common ancestry of mammals (or at least placentals) that may have evolved to promote descended, scrotal testicles. We also examine a number of adaptations that appear to have evolved to maintain scrotal testicles and minimize the costs of this peculiar gonadal arrangement. Finally we offer testable predictions about the minority of mammals without descended testicles (testicondy).

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Reminded of an old Star Trek movie . . .

That was'nt his knee. Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain

I remember well the words of the female bath attendant at the Tokyo onsen.

"Hot bath no make baby!"

So yes, heat destroys sperm.

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To answer the OP.....some things are easily over thought!

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