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Re:Evolution’s Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles? by rarec on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:08PM (#17208883)
It's also possible, in a roundabout way, that external testicles are more for display rather than practicality. Sexual selection has a fairly heavy weight on evolution, even if such a trait has some pretty big downsides (male peacocks being a prime example of this).
Re:Evolution’s Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles? by beaconstudios on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:13PM (#17208943)
That would make total sense if the human mating ritual involved the male impressing the female with the size of his testicles.
Re:Evolution’s Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles? by gowld on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:28PM (#17209108)
How do you know it didn't? Culture changes faster than evolution.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/79897/why-arent-classical-sta...

“Ancient Greece was a highly masculinist culture,” she explained. “They favored ‘small and taut’ genitals, as opposed to big sex organs, to show male self-control in matters of sexuality."

Re:Evolution’s Worst Mistake? How About External Testicles? by beaconstudios on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:59PM (#17209531)
exactly, most of culture changes fast and for there to be a sexually selective pressure on testicles for a long enough time to make a difference, it would surely persist into recorded history. Either human mating practices are cultural and transitive so they would not exert continuous evolutionary pressure, or they are somehow more ingrained and thus could exist long enough to trigger noticeable evolutionary changes.