Manosphere Influencers Want You To Eat Raw Testicles To Increase Testosterone

Does it work, or is this trend, um…nuts?

Carlyn Beccia
Sexography
Published in
5 min readNov 16, 2022

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The Carnivore Diet: Manosphere Influencers Want You To Eat Raw Testicles To Increase Testosterone
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Once upon a medieval time, religious leaders would dictate what men ate. Fast on these days. Don't eat that delicious pig. Eat fish on Fridays. And give the womenfolk only the scraps.

Now, religion has far less sway in our burgeoning secular society.

Instead, the Rogans, Petersons, and Tates are the new messiahs. And the messiahs want you crazy kids to eat your bull balls…raw.

One influencer who calls himself the "Liver King" ate raw testicles on an IG video to get the squeamish neckbeards on board. He explains;

“Traditional peoples and early ancestral healers believed that eating the organs from a healthy animal would strengthen and support the health of the corresponding organ of the individual — also known as “like supports like.”

He is correct. (At least about the “ancestral” part.) This "like supports like" theory is an ancient medicinal theory called the doctrine of signatures — the belief that eating plants and animals resembling a human body part would cure that body part.

For example, ancient physicians prescribed walnuts for head injuries because walnuts look like tiny brains. They…

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Carlyn Beccia
Sexography

Award-winning author of 13 books. My latest: 10 AT 10: The Surprising Childhoods of 10 Remarkable People, MONSTROUS: The Lore, Gore, & Science. CarlynBeccia.com