YOU could call it a bit of a balls up.

And while we may never know what this man was really thinking when he decided to put a steel ring on his penis, it’s safe to assume he won’t be doing it again in a hurry.

A man in China was left humiliated and more than a little sore after he placed a steel ring around his manhood before going to bed.

The man from Suqian city in China, told hospital staff he placed the ring around his genitalia for fun.

But the next morning he found he couldn’t remove the object and his genital area was swollen, JSTV, a local TV station of Jiangsu province reported.

Doctors called in the big guns after realising the object was harder to remove than they thought.

The Suqian fire brigade attended the hospital on December 20 to help and were forced to use a disc-cutter after pliers failed to do the job.

In a video of the incident a firefighter tells the man to relax as he begins sawing.

It took 20 minutes and plenty of water to keep the area cool and the cutter from overheating but the man was eventually free.

It is understood while his pride was injured he suffered no long-term damage from the incident.

While the Chinese man escaped relatively unscathed from this incident, another man, 50, in Honduras wasn’t so fortunate.

The middle-aged man had to have his penis amputated after getting it stuck in a bottle while using it as a sex toy.

The man was rushed to hospital after his penis turned black and started to decay, The New York Post reported.

A doctor in charge of the operation said the man didn’t have a partner and was trying to release his frustration when his manhood became stuck.