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  "textContent": "Doctors are pleading with men to stop injecting assorted fluids into their testicles for social-media masculinity cred, which feels like the sort of sentence that should never have needed writing.\n\nOnline masculinity culture continues its determined march well beyond its current body-horror parody with \"ballmaxxing,\" a trend involving DIY scrotal inflation and extremely foreseeable medical consequences. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Experts warn men not to turn scrotums into septic DIY water balloons appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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