"I am very happy with mine and I would like for this contest to be a way for men to gain confidence in their scrotums," he said. Moreover, it can be difficult for those who have sex with men to know what to do with testicles during sex, a conundrum made even trickier by the fact that men tend to have varying levels of sexual sensitivity down there.įor Sloan, putting scrotums on a pedestal has a high-minded purpose: he wants to give men the chance to proudly display a less-appreciated part of their junk. While scrotums have had a resurgence in the public consciousness lately - thanks in large part to the popularity of the Scrotum Backpack and the now-defunct Nutscapes Instagram, which juxtaposes men's hairy testicles with picturesque landscapes - Sloan is correct that scrotums are, all things considered, an under-appreciated part of the male anatomy.Ī quick glance at Yahoo! Answers threads indicates that there's a great deal of mystery surrounding the scrotum, with posters frequently using words like " weird" to describe the appendage.
"The scrotum is like the penis's disliked step-cousin," he said. The launch of the Scrotum Beauty Pageant prompts an obvious question: Given that scrotums aren't exactly considered a desirable part of the male anatomy, why wouldn't Sloan just launch a Penis Beauty Pageant instead? His answer is simple: it would be too "predictable." "I fear nothing would be learned from it," he told Mic.Īccording to Sloan, the scrotum isn't often considered something worthy of appreciation, despite its crucial function as the external sac that protects the testes. He brainstormed a few options with Mic - enlarging it and adding a hole, for example, or converting it into a wearable device "so that and their partners can experience the auditory and physical stimulus of scrotum slapping during sex" - but ultimately decided those options wouldn't sell very well. "I'm a relatively creative person and I cannot think of a sex toy to make from a man's scrotum," he explained. Instead of 3D-printing the prettiest scrotum to serve as a model for a sex toy, as he did with the Vagina Beauty Pageant winners, Sloan told Mic he plans to "make decorative items out of the winners' balls." He envisions using the winning scrotum as a model for paperweights, doorstops and bookends, among other things. (It was also, undoubtedly, a shrewd PR strategy for Sloan's sex toy business, as the winners' ladybits were ultimately replicated for use in a sex toy.) Yet when the Vagina Beauty Pageant went viral, it was branded as yet another sexist and skeevy way to objectify women's bodies.īut while Sloan told Mic that the aim of both competitions was "to provide insight on genital beauty standards," the parameters are slightly different this time around. Drink it in, folks.Shockingly, this is not without precedent. At first blush, the Scrotum Beauty Pageant seems like the male counterpart to this summer's Vagina Beauty Pageant, which Sloan referred to as the world's first crowdsourced competition for the world's most beautiful vagina.Īt the time, Sloan claimed the results of that contest would be used as a statistical resource to study vulval variety. The women who won the challenge are surprisingly adept at drinking what Rogan calls simply, “protein and cells.” It is easier when there’s no pubic hair with which to contend. Thank GOD the television executives over in Denmark apparently have no such souls to search, as they felt no compunction about airing it. Then they chased it with urine because, obviously. It involved contestants drinking donkey semen. You may also recall that, during “Fear Factor’s” brief run, there was a challenge that NBC - after seconds and seconds of intense soul searching - decided not to run.
Over the winter break, you may recall that NBC made the decision to bring back “Fear Factor” for a limited run because the world had apparently gone long enough without seeing Joe Rogan on television (despite modest ratings, NBC nevertheless did not renew “Fear Factor” because there’s only so much Joe Rogan the world can contain).