Douche No More?

[+ MysticMenace]

There's a video that came out today about the A-BALL. The A-BALL, developed by Polari Labs, is a product made from seaweed and hydrated collagen designed to replace traditional douching by acting as a barrier against feces during anal sex (1:53-2:06, 2:32-2:47). It is inserted before intimacy and designed to soften and be naturally expelled within 30 minutes to an hour (7:41-8:05, 12:01-12:25). The founders' future goals include conducting human trials next year and making the product widely available in pharmacies and supermarkets to eliminate shame and improve sexual health (6:15, 27:26-27:52).

 

Would you try this?

[mtaabq]

“Eliminate shame”? I haven’t watched the video yet but, darling, I eliminated shame from my life and my vocabulary years ago! 

Having said that, I will now watch the video. 

[+ SirBillybob]

Next iteration of fun with customs / immigration officers …

Officer: A-ball, you say? This looks like an oversized gummie and the name screams illegal drug.

Entrant: No, it blocks residual rectal canal fecal matter during receptive anal intercourse and self-expels during subsequent bowel movement. I realize it rings like “8-ball” without the ‘t’ but that tracks with its size approximately one-eighth of the object length for which it is ultimately purposed. 

—- Pick one based on probability … 

Officer: Yeah, right, fancy spit-balling. Extend both hands in front of you.

Officer: But inquiring minds want to know, does it impede prostate stimulation and prostate-mediated robust ejaculation, or are thrust vibrations satisfactorily transported through the barrier?

Edited March 7 by SirBillybob

[jeezifonly]

Somehow this reminds me of an old joke from my childhood about a monkey and the pig with a cork in his butthole...

 

[Bokomaru]

There is a way to douche without douching. This is over the counter in EU but very difficult to find in the US. I’ve used it multiple times. Very effective. 

[Nue2thegame]

36 minutes ago, Bokomaru said:

There is a way to douche without douching. This is over the counter in EU but very difficult to find in the US. I’ve used it multiple times. Very effective. 

A CO-2 suppository? Sounds like a good way to turn into a human Seltzer water dispenser-  not the effect I usually go for before a date but I’ll take your word that it works. 

[+ SirBillybob]

On 3/8/2026 at 10:09 AM, Nue2thegame said:

A CO-2 suppository? Sounds like a good way to turn into a human Seltzer water dispenser-  not the effect I usually go for before a date but I’ll take your word that it works. 

They are laxative / enema, in contrast to douche. 

[+ nycman]

Wait, do you want me to stick a “seaweed and hydrated collagen” cork up my ass so you don’t get shit on your dick?

How about I just go douche instead? 

[Luv2play]

2 hours ago, nycman said:

Wait, do you want me to stick a “seaweed and hydrated collagen” cork up my ass so you don’t get shit on your dick?

How about I just go douche instead? 

They explain why this a ball  is better in the video. At least that’s the concept they are working on. Trials with humans still need to be completed.

[Whippoorwill]

Interesting. 

I never heard of douching before anal sex until I was in my 40s (1980s) in San Francisco and had a housemate who was into fist fucking big time. I was surprised when he installed a hose douche in the shower. Up until then I had had a couple of decades of very active fucking and getting fucked. A little brown now and then was just an occupational hazard. Only twice in hundreds of times was it more than "a little" which was both messy and embarrassing. I doubt our diets were any better then, maybe we are just more meticulous today. Now I always douche if I think I might be going to get fucked. I'd give the "gummie" a try, for sure. 

This also reminds me that I never heard of "tops" and "bottoms" and "verse" until about then also. Occasionally someone would say "I don't do that" or "that's too huge to put in me" but the assumption was always that everything was on the menu. The only question was who fucked whom first/who came first. 

Never in my life have I quizzed who's doing what to whom before I went home with someone from the bars. 

[Luv2play]

I have had the same experience over the many decades I have been active, first with boyfriends and hookups and then with escorts. Only a few times I can remember bottoming resulting in a mess. 
More recently though it has become a bigger issue. One reason may be that the escorts are coming equipped with bigger machinery than some of my boyfriends had.

[marylander1940]

1 hour ago, Luv2play said:

I have had the same experience over the many decades I have been active, first with boyfriends and hookups and then with escorts. Only a few times I can remember bottoming resulting in a mess. 
More recently though it has become a bigger issue. One reason may be that the escorts are coming equipped with bigger machinery than some of my boyfriends had.