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(Created page with "<html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p>The <b>scrotum</b> is an external bag of skin and muscle which contains the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Testicles" title="Testicles">testicles</a>. It is an extension of the abdomen, and is located between the <a href="/index.php?title=Penis" title="Penis">penis</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=Anus" title="Anus">anus</a>. The female homologue during fetal development is the...")
 
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<html><div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" id="mw-content-text" lang="en"><p>The <b>scrotum</b> is an external bag of skin and muscle which contains the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Testicles" title="Testicles">testicles</a>. It is an extension of the abdomen, and is located between the <a href="/index.php?title=Penis" title="Penis">penis</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=Anus" title="Anus">anus</a>. The female homologue during fetal development is the <a class="mw-redirect" href="/index.php?title=Labia_majora" title="Labia majora">outer labia</a>.
'''Loss of hearing''' from ear piercing is an [[Urban legend|urban legend]] — under normal circumstances there is no way for your hearing to be damaged by a piercing. Sure, if a piercer slips, falls, and rams a needle through your eardrum, then you could have hearing loss, but that's just not going to happen.
</p><p>The function of the scrotum is to keep the testicles at a temperature slightly lower than that of the rest of the body. For the human, a temperature around 34.4 degrees Celsius (94 degrees Fahrenheit) appears to be ideal; 36.7 degrees Celsius (98 degree Fahrenheit) may be damaging to sperm count. The temperature is controlled by making the scrotum tighter or looser, hence moving the testicles closer to the abdomen when it is cold, and away when hot, through the cremasteric reflex: the gradual tightening and loosening of the cremaster muscle in the abdomen and the dartos fascia (muscular tissue under the skin) in the scrotum.
</p><p>Although the ideal temperature for sperm growth varies between species, it usually appears, in warm-blooded species, to be a bit cooler than internal body temperature, necessitating the scrotum. Since this leaves them vulnerable in many species, there is some debate on the evolutionary advantage of such a system. One theory is that making sperm highly sensitive to elevated body temperature prevents impregnation of females who are ill. Furthermore, some enzymes in sperm are denatured at higher temperatures and thus render them incapable of fertilising a female ovum.
</p><p>In humans and some other mammals the base of the scrotum becomes covered with pubic hair at puberty.
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As far as an infection traveling inward and doing such damage, but it's one of those "one in a million" things; you're just as likely to lose your hearing from scratching your ear and having a cut from your fingernail get infected and travel inward.


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Large gauge [[Inner conch piercing|inner conch piercings]] and other piercings that noticeably alter the structure of the ear will however make slight differences in the ability of your ear to channel sound (like a funnel) into the inner ear. The degree of this change should be extremely minor in normal circumstances and I doubt most people are even aware of it.
 
== Entries related to this risk ==
* [[Inner Conch Piercing]]
* [[Tragus Piercing]]

Latest revision as of 07:18, 17 September 2023

Loss of hearing from ear piercing is an urban legend — under normal circumstances there is no way for your hearing to be damaged by a piercing. Sure, if a piercer slips, falls, and rams a needle through your eardrum, then you could have hearing loss, but that's just not going to happen.

As far as an infection traveling inward and doing such damage, but it's one of those "one in a million" things; you're just as likely to lose your hearing from scratching your ear and having a cut from your fingernail get infected and travel inward.

Large gauge inner conch piercings and other piercings that noticeably alter the structure of the ear will however make slight differences in the ability of your ear to channel sound (like a funnel) into the inner ear. The degree of this change should be extremely minor in normal circumstances and I doubt most people are even aware of it.

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