Sounding. What's your reaction?

[+ Lance_Navarro]

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Because of my experience in sounding, I get a fair number of requests from guys who want to try it, but I've also experienced alot of guys who are completely freaked out by the idea of it (which often evolves into an interest). I've found it to be one of you most polarizing of all fetishes/kinks. So, what is your reaction to it?

[+ Truereview]

I'm all for exploration and learning. To me, it is not so much the act but how it is introduced to me and the environment and circumstances. For example, don't come to me with sounding ideas on my first meeting (unless I requested it). That will just send me running! If I've gotten to know a particular courtesan ( I don't use term lightly, bc to me, courtesan means an expert in all aspects of sensuality and companionship), I would be open to learning about it if the environment is conducive and the circumstances are right.

 

Btw, that's a mighty big rod, Mr. Navarro.

[sincitymix]

yeah not for me. ive seen vids of people using stuff attached to drills and going to town..looks painfull.

[+ Lance_Navarro]

I'm all for exploration and learning. To me, it is not so much the act but how it is introduced to me and the environment and circumstances. For example, don't come to me with sounding ideas on my first meeting (unless I requested it). That will just send me running! If I've gotten to know a particular courtesan ( I don't use term lightly, bc to me, courtesan means an expert in all aspects of sensuality and companionship), I would be open to learning about it if the environment is conducive and the circumstances are right.

 

Btw, that's a mighty big rod, Mr. Navarro.

 

 

Oh yeah, I would never pull out a set of sounds unless it was requested and also wouldnt propose to unless plenty of trust and comfort has been established and there's a request to explore some limits. I also love the term courtesan, and the ever-fun "sexpert" . In response to something you said earlier in another thread. I loath the term "Johns", but hope that I never offend with the term "regulars", I simply mean it to identify those that I see on a regular basis.

[+ poolboy48220]

I'm curious. I've seen a couple of videos where it's done gently and gradually, and it intrigues me.

[+ Lance_Navarro]

yeah not for me. ive seen vids of people using stuff attached to drills and going to town..looks painfull.

 

Drills!?! Oh, hell no!!! That's just asking for a torn urethra. I prefer slow and gentle.

[sincitymix]

Drills!?! Oh, hell no!!! That's just asking for a torn urethra. I prefer slow and gentle.

the only tight space that's going to have large thick hard objects forced into, is going to be my ass:P

 

sounding just reminds me of a video I saw of a scope being ran through the urethra to find kidney stones

[TruHart1]

I'm all for exploration and learning...etc.

 

Btw, that's a mighty big rod, Mr. Navarro.

To me, both the sounding rod and the Navarro rod look mighty big! :D

 

TruHart1

[whipped guy]

Not being judgmental here and I simply expressing my personal opinions based on personal experiences. Plus, being a retired healthcare professional certainly colors how I approach such types of play.

 

The bottom line is that its emphatically not for me. The last time I had something done it was under the supervision of an MD and sterile instruments were utilized along with a sterile lubricant. Unless those parameters are meet I would not go near the thought with even a ten foot pole much less an 8 inch sound. Plus, and perhaps it was the setting and situation under which I experienced the procedure, it does not seem like something from which I personally would derive pleasure. In addition, a friend needs to have it done periodically for medical reasons. He almost was considering throwing in the towel to avoid the procedure.

 

In any event, I've seen it done under horrendously filthy conditions. Not a good thing at all. Again, simply an opinion from someone who worked with sterilized instruments all his life.

 

Nipple clamps, floggers, and paddles are more my style and again only when used in a responsible fashion.

 

So I'll pass on sounding. Yeah, I know! I'm no fun!

[+ quoththeraven]

Not being judgmental here and I simply expressing my personal opinions based on personal experiences. Plus, being a retired healthcare professional certainly colors how I approach such types of play.

 

The bottom line is that its emphatically not for me. The last time I had something done it was under the supervision of an MD and sterile instruments were utilized along with a sterile lubricant. Unless those parameters are meet I would not go near the thought with even a ten foot pole much less an 8 inch sound. Plus, and perhaps it was the setting and situation under which I experienced the procedure, it does not seem like something from which I personally would derive pleasure. In addition, a friend needs to have it done periodically for medical reasons. He almost was considering throwing in the towel to avoid the procedure.

 

In any event, I've seen it done under horrendously filthy conditions. Not a good thing at all. Again, simply an opinion from someone who worked with sterilized instruments all his life.

 

Nipple clamps, floggers, and paddles are more my style and again only when used in a responsible fashion.

 

So I'll pass on sounding. Yeah, I know! I'm no fun!

 

We all know you're plenty of fun, WG!

 

I know of at least one porn star who loves sounding (Jessie Colter). Although it's more of a hypothetical for me as a cisfemale, after a painful experience with a cytoscope inserted in my urethra to check out my bladder, my inclination would be to protect my (non-existent) junk from such invasion.

 

But to each their own. I know a writer who made sounding seem hot, and she wasn't writing from experience, just from research. Those of you who do not like kinky, intense stories or Dr. John Watson of BBC's Sherlock depicted as not-entirely mentally healthy should not click the link.

[+ Funguy]

As a physician I can only shudder when I picture this procedure done in a non-sterile environment and without sterile gloves. I have seen way too many complications which have occurred even with the most capable hands - infections, traumatic contusions and tears of the urethra, etc. I have also witnessed the patient discomfort (tho this is too mild a description) when one has not used a local anesthetic agent. Of course, when used with the expectation of pleasure, anesthetic would not be used so .......

[+ Lance_Navarro]

For the record, I do try and ensure that my sounding experiences are as sterile as possible, without having an autoclave available. I use alcohol swabs to sterilize the rods, I place them on paper towels or fresh/unused hand towels and I try to only touch the proximal ends of the rods, so that areas that I'm touching are not entering the urethra. For the record though, I don't much care for medical lube, it's not slippery enough and there's too much friction which creates the potential for damage. I figure that silicone lube being squeezed from a bottle is likely sterile enough. None of my clients have experienced any medical issues after sounding with me.

[whipped guy]

Keeping things simple and in a nutshell, alcohol does not sterilize things. It really only acts as a disinfectant and only if there is sufficient contact time. Metal items such as sounds probably should be soaked for at least fifteen minutes for the maximum effect to occur. While this will kill bacterial cells by protein coagulation, membrane disruption etc. it will not not kill bacterial spores. Therefore the action is classified as a disinfectant and is of course better than doing nothing. Simply wiping the items most likely would not give sufficient time for the maximum effect to occur. This is especially important given the fact that the maximum effect still falls short of the ideal result which would be sterilization.

[+ Gar1eth]

The only way I would be into it is if we were on a river, and the sounder is calling out 'Mark Twain'.

 

 

Gman

[geminibear]

I'm guessing this isn't the story about a boy and his dog?

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdv0OMY1U

[+ Gar1eth]

Keeping things simple and in a nutshell, alcohol does not sterilize things. It really only acts as a disinfectant and only if there is sufficient contact time. Metal items such as sounds probably should be soaked for at least fifteen minutes for the maximum effect to occur. While this will kill bacterial cells by protein coagulation, membrane disruption etc. it will not not kill bacterial spores. Therefore the action is classified as a disinfectant and is of course better than doing nothing. Simply wiping the items most likely would not give sufficient time for the maximum effect to occur. This is especially important given the fact that the maximum effect still falls short of the ideal result which would be sterilization.

 

I think alcohol can sterilize-but it depends on the concentration-length of exposure etc. And it may not be a universal sterilizer. I'm not sure most chemicals can be 100% universal sterilizer after all they've found bacteria living in the depths of the ocean around thermal vents.

 

Are these sounds metal? If they are, boiling would pretty much sterilize them. Before disposable red rubber catheters were made for bladders, they were made of metal. And boiling was the method used for sterilization.

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

the only tight space that's going to have large thick hard objects forced into, is going to be my ass:p

 

 

I'll modify this a bit. The only tight space that's going to be associated with my ass is me trying to cram my size 56 waist into my size 30 undies!!!

 

 

Gman

[+ Keith30309]

It looks frightening in an almost primal way, but perhaps therein lies its appeal.

 

What is the reaction of those who try it? 50% love it and 50% hate it? 90/10?

[Moondance]

My adventures in up-the-urethra activities have been limited to the removal of an unpassable kidney stone and the subsequent insertion of a probe to explore inner space and retrieve a temporary stent. I was glad to be asleep for the first and had no real interest in watching the second on a monitor, despite the encouragement of my urologist. ("No thanks, I'll just count the pores in the ceiling tiles if you don't mind.")

 

I'm open to sexual adventure, not a vanilla-only kind of guy, and have enthusiastically explored some kinks and fetishes (discovering that some are not really for me, wanting more of others), but sounding strikes me as more intimidating than tempting, more medical than sexy. That's just me, but I'd still like to understand what makes it pleasurable for others.

[whipped guy]

Again in a nutshell since boiling has been mentioned: Simple boiling does not sterilize it only disinfects. Of course again that's better than doing nothing. That is why autoclaves are utilized. Autoclaving adds extra pressure into the equation so as literally to blast the bugs and germs on instruments with steam long enough result in sterilization. The extra pressure in an autoclave means that water boils at a temperature higher than its normal boiling point of 100 degrees. The result being that it kills microbes more effectively. Since the temperature is about 120 degrees it is much more effective. In essence it is pressure cooking the bacteria and any bacterial spores.

 

Of course in the case of sounds, the instruments would need to cool down after being disinfected by boiling or sterilized via an autoclave. Not doing so would add a further layer of heat laced kink into the an already kinky equation!

 

Not preaching here, simply 'splaining!

[Battle]

I have difficulty inserting contact lenses..sounding, I think not..

[Moondance]

I have difficulty inserting contact lenses..sounding, I think not..

 

Ooooh, now there's a good point! Also, hilarious.

[+ Lance_Navarro]

It looks frightening in an almost primal way, but perhaps therein lies its appeal.

 

What is the reaction of those who try it? 50% love it and 50% hate it? 90/10?

 

I would say at least 80% of my clients that attend it tell me that they enjoy it, though I don't think many of them make it a regular part of their sexual play, but neither do I. It's something that I only do once every few months and usually upon the request of a client. Sounding with metal rods is alot easier and more "comfortable" than having a catheter inserted. Metal is alot more smooth and the weight of them allows them to just "drop-in", gravity does the work, versus catheters that have to be "fed-in". For those opposed, I'm sure that doesn't make you squirm any less.

 

On the plus side, if I ever have a kidney stone, I'll be able to pass it no problem!

[+ Truereview]

I'm open to sexual adventure, not a vanilla-only kind of guy, and have enthusiastically explored some kinks and fetishes (discovering that some are not really for me, wanting more of others), but sounding strikes me as more intimidating than tempting, more medical than sexy. That's just me, but I'd still like to understand what makes it pleasurable for others.

Thank you for stating this so eloquently, MoonD. My sentiments exactly..I'm intrigued and curious, and would want to explore it under the right circumstances and (sterile) environment. I'm also now more informed thanks to @whipped guy, [uSER=9945]@funguy[/uSER], and @Lance_Navarro. Love learning new stuff! Thanks, you guys.

[Moondance]

On the plus side, if I ever have a kidney stone, I'll be able to pass it no problem!

 

I hope so. (I wish that for anyone!)

 

What I think you mean, Lance, is that your urethra is in excellent shape, perhaps more open-for-business than it might be because of your experience with sounding. That's swell, but here's the thing: the damn stone also has to nativate the ureter (kidney to bladder) which can be more of a challenge than the urethra, I am sorry to say from experience.