Need male-type advice

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but it's not for me, per se, but Himself. Of the many reasons I hate being a single mom, answering his male phisiology questions has to be #1 on the list.

So, tonight I get him in the tub. I go off to give him privacy...but he gets quiet, so I have to go back in to check on him (I do NOT want a repeat of his "peepee art" phase!). He is sitting in the tub, smooshing his scrotum, with a perplexed look on his 5 year old face.

"What's up?" I ask...dreading the answer, but, you know, you gotta ask.

"What are these balls?" he asks in a very perturbed voice.

"Errrr - that's your scrotum. It's part of your penis" I venture, hesitantly.

"Huh. Why are they squishy?"

Ummmmmmmm - I dunno. And that's what I told him. I also told him to ask his Uncle James or his Papaw or Grandpa. It'll be a bit before he sees any of them, though....so.

I gotta ask - how does one answer this type of question? I mean, I'm not equipped with the same equipment (and he asked why that was, too......) so I don't have the, ummm, first-hand experience to properly answer these types of questions.

I mean, Dusty has been happy to demonstrate some things (like the "proper" stance to keep your feet dry), but I have a feeling he'd get a bit perturbed if we started squishing his balls in some sort of demonstration attempt. *g* There's only so much a horse can take, y'know?

(And I really hate to see the kinds of spam I'm gonna get for this one!)

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[piraterogue.livejournal.com]

Well, you have two options there, one if he thinks that the Actually ball-like parts are "squishy" it's because they are not fully developed on him. If he wondered why the whole scrotum is "squishy" it's because in order to work right they need to stay apprxomatly the same temperature all the time. So the 'sack' of skin they are in, called the scrotum, can expand and contract to either get airflow to cool them off, or contract towards the body to warm themselves up.
How you explin that to him if up to you, but that's the basics *L*

Now before you worry Too much who I am, I am melacholia's husband.

[fiberaddict.livejournal.com]

Hi! I recognized the name - thanks for taking the time to respond!


I think he was curious as to why the whole scrotum was squishy - I had to to find something else to look at, because it was pretty funny (think play dough....and slinkies. I winced a couple of times!)

Good answer - I'll try to explain it to him without stammering and stuttering....and hope he doesn't ask any more Why? or How Come? or But, what? questions. I had no idea that 5 was going to start off so difficult (I almost said hard, but in context it made me laugh. *g*)

At least he hasn't argued with the whole "God gave you a joystick, but you have to play with it in private" lecture. *g*