I believe there is a fair bit of evidence to support the conclusion. I'm going to list several reasons for why I believe that to be the case and address common counter-arguments.
1. Viewing the external male genitals (scrotal contents) as a 'design flaw':
-I'm not sure if all that many boys or men have arrived to the thought of perceiving their natural born anatomy as suboptimally designed but there are books, journal articles and even educational sources that essentially encourage boys and men to find flaws between their legs. Here's a good example. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/T3nYdWpBzChnWDjz3nK1ss/testicles A website associated with the world's largest broadcasting organization encourages boys to associate their testes with pain, potential violence and asserts that the scrotum is "flimsy".
2. Downplaying or ignoring the upsides of having external gonads.
-Testicular cancer is the number one killer of young men among cancers and the external location of the testes makes it far easier to spot before too late. Some educational resources on anatomy and physiology note that the scrotum is the other major erogenous zone of males in addition to the penis but the importance of this fact is usually glossed over in popular speech. One potential reason for this is that people are more shy about sex and affection than they are about addressing negative and even gruesome matters. Hence minors are often allowed to enjoy entertaiment depicting realistic violence (including violence against the testicles) but merely seeing nudity, not to mention caressing the intimate parts of a man as opposed to hurting them, would cause uproar among many parents. There's a YouTube video called "Woman's perspective on testicles" which essentially consists of little but talking about attacks, pain and wondering why males supposedly hit each other there. This is the kind of perspective that popular culture depictions of male gonads lends us to; not to wonder, excited curiosity or affection as would usually be the case regarding any part of the female anatomy. The fact that the external presence of the testes (and consequently the existence of the scrotum) is often presented as a burden or an anomaly to be explained by sperm temperatures, also advances the public perception of the testes as non-sexual and sexually unimportant, which can cause men to be ashamed of trying to direct their partner's attention to the degraded area in the hopes of greater satisfaction and intimacy, despite the glaringly obvious presence of this body part relative to some parts of female sexual anatomy held to be highly important (particularly clitoris) and probably considered important for a good reason. This comparison does not in any way seek to diminish or devalue the importance of any erogenic female parts or to compare their relative importance between the sexes but to help visualize a male issue.
3. Depicting testicular injuries and abuse as humorous or rightful.
-Testicular abuse, often with an intergender component, has been depicted as humorous or as a justifiable act of revenge when confronted with mere words in numerous films, advertisements, music videos and tv-series'. In almost no circumstances would the molestation and hurting of female genitals be depicted as an appropriate response to hurtful words. Regardless of what the motives of the attacker may be, the attack is directed against an intimate area of the body and can distort the psychosexual development of a boy or man and cause difficulties in forming intimate relationships with the opposite sex much like rape or sexual assault of a girl/woman by a boy/man.
It is sometimes argued that not all of such violence or such depictions are intergender and that males engage in it too. True and condemnable as that is, the psychological consequences of intergender abuse are obviously different. The average male does not seek to form an affectionate relationship with a member of the same sex. In the same vein, a fellow woman could technically dish out sickening violence and insult against the private areas and sexuality of a straight girl or woman and this would surely disturb the victim but it is doubtful if this would negatively affect her ability to fulfill her sexual needs with a loving man.
1. Viewing the external male genitals (scrotal contents) as a 'design flaw':
-I'm not sure if all that many boys or men have arrived to the thought of perceiving their natural born anatomy as suboptimally designed but there are books, journal articles and even educational sources that essentially encourage boys and men to find flaws between their legs. Here's a good example. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/T3nYdWpBzChnWDjz3nK1ss/testicles A website associated with the world's largest broadcasting organization encourages boys to associate their testes with pain, potential violence and asserts that the scrotum is "flimsy".
2. Downplaying or ignoring the upsides of having external gonads.
-Testicular cancer is the number one killer of young men among cancers and the external location of the testes makes it far easier to spot before too late. Some educational resources on anatomy and physiology note that the scrotum is the other major erogenous zone of males in addition to the penis but the importance of this fact is usually glossed over in popular speech. One potential reason for this is that people are more shy about sex and affection than they are about addressing negative and even gruesome matters. Hence minors are often allowed to enjoy entertaiment depicting realistic violence (including violence against the testicles) but merely seeing nudity, not to mention caressing the intimate parts of a man as opposed to hurting them, would cause uproar among many parents. There's a YouTube video called "Woman's perspective on testicles" which essentially consists of little but talking about attacks, pain and wondering why males supposedly hit each other there. This is the kind of perspective that popular culture depictions of male gonads lends us to; not to wonder, excited curiosity or affection as would usually be the case regarding any part of the female anatomy. The fact that the external presence of the testes (and consequently the existence of the scrotum) is often presented as a burden or an anomaly to be explained by sperm temperatures, also advances the public perception of the testes as non-sexual and sexually unimportant, which can cause men to be ashamed of trying to direct their partner's attention to the degraded area in the hopes of greater satisfaction and intimacy, despite the glaringly obvious presence of this body part relative to some parts of female sexual anatomy held to be highly important (particularly clitoris) and probably considered important for a good reason. This comparison does not in any way seek to diminish or devalue the importance of any erogenic female parts or to compare their relative importance between the sexes but to help visualize a male issue.
3. Depicting testicular injuries and abuse as humorous or rightful.
-Testicular abuse, often with an intergender component, has been depicted as humorous or as a justifiable act of revenge when confronted with mere words in numerous films, advertisements, music videos and tv-series'. In almost no circumstances would the molestation and hurting of female genitals be depicted as an appropriate response to hurtful words. Regardless of what the motives of the attacker may be, the attack is directed against an intimate area of the body and can distort the psychosexual development of a boy or man and cause difficulties in forming intimate relationships with the opposite sex much like rape or sexual assault of a girl/woman by a boy/man.
It is sometimes argued that not all of such violence or such depictions are intergender and that males engage in it too. True and condemnable as that is, the psychological consequences of intergender abuse are obviously different. The average male does not seek to form an affectionate relationship with a member of the same sex. In the same vein, a fellow woman could technically dish out sickening violence and insult against the private areas and sexuality of a straight girl or woman and this would surely disturb the victim but it is doubtful if this would negatively affect her ability to fulfill her sexual needs with a loving man.
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