<p>If we're going to have looksmaxxing, we might as well have ballmaxxing too, am I right? To be clear, I'm not advocating that either should be a thing, but since nobody is putting a stop to the one, why not have the other?</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/doctors-warn-looksmaxxing-dangers-influencers-livestream-emergency">Looksmaxxing is a bizarre</a> "online self-improvement practice," according to Wikipedia. It's focused on the process of maximizing one's physical attractiveness. Now ballmaxxing is slightly different from that.</p><p>Ballmaxxing is all about going for the biggest balls possible. Why? Who really knows, but it's here and, according to <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a70848194/saline-testicle-inflation/">Men's Health</a>, there are some who have been wrapped up in the pursuit of bigger balls for many years.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://link.podtrac.com/dmwdd_article"><strong>ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON’T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!</strong></a></p><p>A 57-year-old man by the name of Marcus told the men's lifestyle magazine that he's been obsessed with making his balls bigger for decades. It's a "passion he thinks grew out of the comic books he’d read as a child."</p><p>By his own measurements, his scrotum is "bigger than a mango" at 14.5 inches. He has managed to grow it to that size by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/iv-therapy-supplements-scrutiny-experts-warn-potential-side-effects">injecting a surgical lubricant</a> called Surgilube.</p><p>Why? He's not sure. But he's learned a few things along the way. He said, "I'm astonished at how flexible the testicles are. They just expand."</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.foxnews.com/outkick-culture"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR MORE OUTKICK CULTURE COVERAGE</strong></a></p><p>Fascinating. Not only that there's someone out there doing that, but that he's not alone. Men's Health reports there's a subreddit for "saline inflation" that has more than 8,700 members.</p><p>They are, of course, sharing their own ballmaxxing journeys with one another. A journey described by Jack, 31, who told Men's Health, "Nothing really matches experiencing it yourself."</p><p>The blue-collar worker added, "You have to talk yourself into doing it, find the time, get everything prepped, and then sit there for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and a half while it takes effect."</p><p>There's a "burning sensation" that is apparently part of the whole experience. An experience that has been described as "electrifying, addictive, euphoric and transcendental."</p><p>One may come to the conclusion that perhaps they have <a target="_blank" rel="noopener" href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/bill-maher-encourages-young-men-drink-more-get-out-parents-basement">too much free time</a> on their hands if they're pumping saline into their balls for fun. I say at least they're not carving people up in their basements.</p>
