scrotal inflation

{{Short description|Sexual practice}}

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Scrotal inflation or scrotal infusion is a sexual practice in which fluid (typically saline solution, but sometimes air or another gas{{Cite journal |issue=11 |pages=652–653 |year=1980 |pmid=7436145 |volume=46 |journal=The American Surgeon |last2=Kagan |last1=Sharma |title=Scrotal emphysema |first1=T. |first2=H.}}) is injected into the scrotum in order to make it balloon in size.{{Cite journal |issue=7 |pages=716–717 |year=2003 |pmid=12940330 |volume=96 |journal=Southern Medical Journal |last1=Summers |title=A complication of an unusual sexual practice |doi=10.1097/01.SMJ.0000078368.00806.A7 |first1=J.}} It carries a number of risks of serious complications, including scrotal cellulitis{{Cite journal |year=2006 |pages=187–8 |pmid=16581752 |pmc=2564698 |doi=10.1136/sti.2005.017020 |issue=2 |volume=82 |last2=Blackwell |first1=K. G. |first2=A. L. |title=Unusual cause of acute scrotal cellulitis in an HIV positive man |journal=Sexually Transmitted Infections |last1=Yoganathan}} and subcutaneous emphysema,{{Cite journal |issue=3 |pages=225–226 |year=1969 |pmid=5350135 |volume=17 |journal=Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal |last2=Nixon |last1=Bush |title=Scrotal inflation: a new cause for subcutaneous, mediastinal and retroperitoneal emphysema |first1=G. |first2=R.}} and possibly fatal complications such as Fournier's gangrene or air embolism.