Only for men

With great pleasure I watch the diving skills of a number of young girls and boys who dive from the quay with all kinds of daring jumps into the river meters below them. The boys in their nakedness and the girls as befits very demurely dressed from head to toe. 

The presence of the girls makes the young men somewhat overconfident and they try to outdo each other with daring tumbles and jumps.

When one of the boys starts a hefty jump, he hurts his 'chimes' on the fence and screams in pain. Like a greyhound he runs away and his face speaks volumes. I quickly set up my camera and try to capture the situation. When the boy has disappeared, the story 'Scrotum' by our Dutch scholar and writer Wim Daniëls comes to mind:

“Everything increasingly indicates that the creation of the male genitalia must have been aborted at an early experimental stage. There may have been unforeseen complications with the testicular suspension, which could not be reconciled. After this, the executor of the entire project seems to have given the order to throw all test specimens on the scrap heap. But for some reason that command was not well understood, after which the experiment version was launched as the final version. Recovery was then no longer possible. In an attempt to disguise the gigantic mistake, the word 'scrap heap' was Latinized to 'scrotum'. But humanity has been left with the baked pears from that time on. The reproductive function of the male genitals is still reasonable for most men, although you hear more and more alarming reports from gynecologists about the increasingly weak sperm. This seems to be mainly the result of too warmly packed testicles. In the past you didn't have to worry about that. If you had washed a pair of underpants once, you immediately had enormously wide legs. It was admittedly not a sight, but such underpants ventilated well. Albeit with disastrous consequences. The farewell greeting 'the balls' can therefore have a wry connotation in the long run.”

The young diver gave no farewell greeting, but his face read “oops oops my balls.”

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The light-hearted amusing stories of Wim Daniëls are bundled in the booklet Kom Komma. ISBN 9789400403710