This was common on my HS football team. As we were lined up on the sidelines waiting to practice or play, certain kids would walk down the line and whack your nuts with the back of their hand, ostensibly to give you a reason to wear a cup. The end result was 40 boys standing around with their hands hanging in front of their crotches.
The kids that did that are still hillbillies in Kansas, with 3 kids in a trailer park and long criminal histories.
This is almost as head-slappingly dumb as that article putting parents on watch about the 'spraying yourself with Axe and setting yourself on fire' teen fad from a few months back.
This has a ring of "rainbow party" about it to me. Namely, ridiculous reporting by a conservative-leaning news source on something they believe is an epidemic, because they've only just discovered it. Or made it up.
@13 This stuff happened when I was a teenager. Seriously. Frankly, I'm glad. Idiots voluntarily indirectly castrating themselves? I think I feel the gene pool getting stronger!
From Yukio Mishima's semi-autobiographical Confessions of a Mask:
"'Dirty' was a traditional sport at our school, always widespread among the boys during their first and second years, and as is the case for any craze for a pastime, it was more like a morbid disease than an amusement. We played it in broad daylight, in full public view. Some boy--call him A--would be standing around not keeping his wits about him. Noticing this, another boy--B--would dart up from the side and make a well-aimed grab. If his grab was successful, B would then retreat victoriously to a distance and begin hooting:
'Oh, it's big! Oh, what a big one A has!'
...
As though by prearrangement the victim would shout:
'Oh, that B--he's dirty!'
Then the bystanders would chime in with a chorus of assent:
'Oh, that B--he's dirty!'"
(pp. 50-51, Weatherby translation)
Actually that is perfectly normal and nice to be a doctor, maybe I have been reading too much youth pastor watch!
The kids that did that are still hillbillies in Kansas, with 3 kids in a trailer park and long criminal histories.
Comparing a very old and stupid self destructive game to a new one?
I think in my school days it was slap jack.
What is this; the west's answer to Kancho?
"'Dirty' was a traditional sport at our school, always widespread among the boys during their first and second years, and as is the case for any craze for a pastime, it was more like a morbid disease than an amusement. We played it in broad daylight, in full public view. Some boy--call him A--would be standing around not keeping his wits about him. Noticing this, another boy--B--would dart up from the side and make a well-aimed grab. If his grab was successful, B would then retreat victoriously to a distance and begin hooting:
'Oh, it's big! Oh, what a big one A has!'
...
As though by prearrangement the victim would shout:
'Oh, that B--he's dirty!'
Then the bystanders would chime in with a chorus of assent:
'Oh, that B--he's dirty!'"
(pp. 50-51, Weatherby translation)