I see boys in elementary, junior high, and high school coming in with these injuries," he says. His little brother sees him doing and does it at his school. Wheeler says that the fad of sack tapping may be escalating thanks to the numerous videos of it on the Internet. "You can fix a tear in the testicle, but if it's ruptured bad you have to remove the testicle because the tissue will die and cause infection." The force has to be fairly quick and really hard to break that capsule," he says. "The testicle is protected by a fibrous capsule. To suffer some of the injuries reported from this game, Katz says, the boys must be slapping with "quite a bit of force." There's no doubt about your toughness the whole world can see."īut where does dominance "play" leave off, and violence begin? "It's a pride thing, and by posting it to the Internet it's like proof. "It's a way of establishing dominance and because it's hard to withstand being hit in the groin, it becomes a good measure of toughness." "Games like this are to see how tough you are," he says. Raison compares sack tapping to the common game of "chicken," where boys take turns hitting each other to see who can take the most hits without calling off the game. "Sack tapping resonates on a lot of different levels, some of which kids are probably not fully aware of," he says. It does, after all, involve the "all-around central organ of dominance for man." Charles Raison, an associate professor of psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, says the game might have a lot to do with asserting dominance. "That's why when a guy gets hit in the balls, he feels it in his stomach as well," Katz says.ĭr. In the womb, the testicles form inside the body, so when they descend they take nerves from the abdomen with them. Aaron Katz, a urologist at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. The groin is one of the most sensitive parts of the body because it has such a rich supply of blood and nerves, says Dr.
Watch ABC 10’s report and check out some more photos below.This fad is no joke, Wheeler says, "It's just ridiculous that boys are doing this." Playing 'Chicken' of the Groin Only those who’ve been there can understand, and only those who’ve been there can help. No matter how hard they try, it’s very unlikely that someone who hasn’t been to combat is going to get a combat vet to put the gun down and choose to live a bit longer. We choose to express our dark humor and let our terrible jokes fly like eagles, all in an effort to get combat vets to laugh, get together, and stop fucking killing themselves. We are combat veterans who ch oose to tell our stories in the same manner that we’d tell them in a living room with our best bros. Irreverent Warriors are guys who have used humor to get through the darkest side of humanity.
More from Irreverent Warriors’ Facebook page: “In addition to the laughter is the opportunity for guys to open up to each other,” Maher said. They hope the effort will catch on and people will hold more events like this. The two started Irreverent Warriors to put on events like the walk, with the message that brotherhood will never die. Maher broke at least 20 bones, and Loya suffered traumatic brain injury when he was blasted by a 30-pound improvised explosive device and came to at the bottom of a river. Ryan Loya his best friend since the two bonded in Afghanistan. Danny Maher (also known by his pen name Donny O’Malley), has been calling Marine Sgt. The men who organized the walk are the Irreverent Warriors.