What is the purpose ...
 

of having it hurt when you get hit in the nuts? Seriously. Most things seem to have an evolutionary purpose. Eye lids protect your eyes. We have fingers to manipulate things. Organs have a purpose of not they seem to be shrinking away like the appendix. What is the reason for having it hurt like a SOB when you get hit in the nuts? I know the why... nerves and such I just want to know the why as in what purpose does it serve?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86cQobU-n4&feature=related

FF to the 40s mark.

Procreation of the species. It's nature's way of letting you know that you can't be cavalier about the way you treat your testes...

That hurt to much to watch.

A simple warning label would suffice (fragile, do not drop, hit or crush). If they are so delicate, why not place them behind bone or cartilage? Seems like a design flaw to me. I wonder if there is a recall notice or some sort of retro-fit?

In human 2.0, all the works went internal. ;)

Intelligent design at work :rolleyes:

- Peter.

Seems like a good system as it is set up now. Smart people figure out to protect them and reproduce. Not so smart don't protect them and reproduce less. At least that is my theory. Like most of my ideas, it doesn't always work.

The testes have to be some ridiculous temperature between room temp and body temp in order to produce sperm (if I recall correctly, ~90-ish), hence why they shrink in cold and expand with heat :rolleyes:

The problem would lie at the cellular level rather than a design flaw; it's just too hot to replicate our entire genome at a high temperature.

The testes needs to be kept cooler than our body temp to be able to produce sperm.

Either way the entire animal kingdom has this problem.

That sport science guy should have a sperm count done. I bet he has near zero.

I get the temp thing but why the sensitivity? Anything hanging out like that should not be that sensitive to pain. I would rather have mu finger smashed than mu nuts hit.

I still think its a design flaw.

If they were not that sensitive, you would not protect them as you would now. Again, it follows the same principle - protect them and keep them in the correct temperature range as mentioned - so you can produce more offspring.

Biologically, producing offspring is our primary objective as organisms. If you know they hurt when they get knocked up, you would do everything to protect them. Natural instincts working for you.

The Jackass fellows must have a negative sperm count, no doubt.