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In May 2015, a video featuring a woman reading an actual children’s book called Do You Want to Play with My Balls? went viral on YouTube. The book in that video resembles a typical children’s book, featuring pages of illustrations superimposed with simple sentences spoken by child characters: https://youtu.be/Y3loy0EG4uQHowever, all the sentences uttered by those child characters are repetitions of old suggestive jokes involving the duality of the word ball as something referring to both a spherical objects used in sports and games and a slang term for a portion of the male genitalia (i.e., the testicles): While the video left many viewers in hysterics, others were confused by the nature of the book. Was this a real product? Could you buy it in stores? Was it really meant for children? Some publications even condemned the book, terming it the most disgusting and evilest children’s book ever created! However, Do You Want to Play with My Balls? (like the popular 2011 book Go the F**k to Sleep) is not a work targeted for young readers, but rather a parody of children’s books intended for a grown-up audience. Do You Want to Play with My Balls? was written by the Cifaldi Brothers and originally had a very small production run of about 100 copies. When the book became a viral hit, Bum Bum Books decided to put the book back into production and started a Kickstarter campaign to fund the effort: Interested readers can purchase digital copies of the book from online retailers such as Amazon and iTunes. As for the book’s intended audience, Bum Bum Books wrote that Do You Want to Play with My Balls? was the perfect gift for parents, fun loving adults, friends, and even young children (though it’s probably best that they’re young enough to not understand the meaning of a pun).
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