Why would easy-going librarians be so shocked from a book that won the 2007 Newbury Medal? The author used the word "scrotum."
Scrotum.
In the book, a girl hears the word through a hole in the wall about a dog who was bit by a rattlesnake on the scrotum.
Everybody freak out. Do it now.
The word scrotum is not something to be taken lightly. With the testicles, it has some weight. But it is innocuous. Why? Because every male mammal has one scrotum (and two testicles barring birth defects or surgery).
But why is it an issue that something that every male mammal has is bit by a rattlesnake? Why isn't anyone pitching a fit about every time a bullet (which kills people) is mentioned or a gun (which uses a bullet to kill people) is described? How about blood?
Why? Because violence is okay. Sex is not. Even when mentioning the part of a dog's body that holds the organs that provide the sperm to the actual organ that facilitates copulation in a subordinate species.
Not okay.
Either way, I'm sure I'm not helping with this:
"It didn't hurt a bit"
Photo from here. Macro'd myself.
I blame it on bovine hormones.
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I suppose you can blame it on bovine hormones if you like but tofu is the more likely culprit. You see, many if not most gay men shave (or at least trim) down there. And we know what causes gayness, yes?
You silly straight boys crack me up.
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