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Testicle plyers - torture device for testicles.

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I remember a while back there was a post about a type of punishment in prisons where a man was tied upside-down with his legs parted and his testicles struck to cause him pain. I find its good to know that testicle torture is not new but has been done for thousands of years so I thought I would write about a device from the medieval period. Just like now in the past it was important to punish men so there was a need for a device or tool that could be used primarily on the testicles and penis of a man. Like now there was a clear need to slowly and painfully destroy one of both testicles of a man. One device became popular for use on the testicles and penis to the point it became synonymous with painful castration. This was the Crocodile shears or crocodile plyers (seen below). Unlike today people accepted a large number of men simply could not behave correctly or would commit sexual crimes towards women. This being accepted the use of testicle rupture was practiced widely an