This sociological manifestation of bullying can result in severe testicular injury that may require amputation as the only form of treatment.
[2][4][7][5] ABC News' chief medical correspondent Dr. Tim Johnson commented, "the trend isn't restricted to Minnesota",[2] and has "gotten out of control" as per Dr. Scott Wheeler.
[3] Dr. Wheeler, a urologist in Minnesota, has seen an increase of hospitalization caused by "sack tapping" incidents, and commented that criminal charges could be filed against the attacker as a result of the one instance.
[1] Jack Shafer, writing in Slate magazine in 2010, commented that despite the media describing sack tapping as "the latest dangerous craze", the practice was not new and had existed for some time, and the recent focus was simply "sensationalist journalism".
He claimed to have been "taking shots to my crown jewels when I was a 1960s teenager", adding that the term had been listed in the Urban Dictionary since February 2003.