Male competitors sit in a sauna at the Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland August 9, 2008. The aim of the competition is to find out who can endure sitting in the sauna for the longest period of time.
Male competitors sit in a sauna at the Sauna World Championships in Heinola, Finland August 9, 2008. The aim of the competition is to find out who can endure sitting in the sauna for the longest period of time. REUTERS/Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva (FINLAND).

Thirty-year-old Russian soap opera actor Dmitry Nikolaev doesn’t have “balls” anymore – that is literally, not figuratively.

He lost his testicles to a pretty blonde woman he met at a bar after performing at a small Moscow theatre. After drinks, she invited him to a sauna and he went with her, reports Daily Mail.

According to police report, they kissed and drank more beer and he passed out. When he woke up the next morning, Nikolaev was already at a bus stop and felt intense pain in his groin area.

The blood in his pants turned out that his testicles were removed, according to the doctors who examined him. The surgery was done skillfully, indicating the one who removed his testicles has medical education since the skin was cauterised and it was a clean cut.

Police said the woman he met was probably a member of a gang that sells human organs in the black market. Nikolaev probably put his acting skills to use when he explained to his wife the loss of his “crown jewels” to his needing emergency surgery because of a sudden serious ailment.

According to io9.com, men like Nikolaev who lost their testicles could resort to Testosterone Therapy, which is also used on men who have Klinefelter’s syndrome, a genetic disorder in which a male carries an extra X chromosome.

T-Therapy is used to improve sexual desire, mood, energy and sleep as well as to treat weak erections since testosterone control the production of nitric oxide, the chemical signal in the male genital that initiates erection.

There are contradictory results on the effect of T-Therapy on men, one of them is it contributes to prostate cancer.

In 2013, 2.3 million Americans were prescribed T-Therapy, up from 1.3 million in 2010, according to the US Food and Drugs Administration.

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