Male readers of the internet crossed their legs and let out a unified grimace of pain when a story made the rounds about a year-old Australian man who got a fork lodged in his dong. While plenty of people who read the report or even worse, saw the pictures had no idea why a person would try to shove anything—especially a rouge piece of cutlery—up his pee slit, those of us who frequent the kinkier side of life know this is a fairly common practice known as "sounding. If you really want an education, search for the term on XTube NSFW, idiot , and revel in a variety of videos featuring guys putting all sorts of junk into their junk. Yeah, it's not really my bag, either.
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Sounding: The fetish where you push a rod up your urethra | Metro News
In men , the urethra is a tube that runs from the bladder through the penis. In women it runs from the bladder through the pelvis. The urethra carries urine from the bladder outside the body. Two common STDs that can cause this symptom include chlamydia and gonorrhea.
Would you push a rod down your penis for sexual pleasure? What you need to know about sounding
To determine whether men who perform recreational sounding are at increased risk of engaging in unsafe sexual behaviours, developing sexually transmitted infections STIs and lower urinary tract symptoms LUTS. We compared ethnodemographic and health-related variables between the sounding and non-sounding populations. There were respondents with complete data, Men who had engaged in sounding were more likely to report certain high risk sexual behaviours e. Men who had engaged in sounding had a slight but statistically significant increase in LUTS but no significant difference in prevalence of ED.
Generally an activity for the more experienced sexual adventurer, sounding is the act of sliding a very well lubricated rod down the urethra — the bit of your anatomy that you pee out of — for pleasure. And yes, women do it too. This is made simpler for men by the fact that the entrance is obvious and the internal tube is straighter and longer. As with most sex play, there are two main reasons to explore urethral sounding — for the physical benefits and also for the psychological turn on. The urethra is lined with super-sensitive nerve endings, which can be extremely pleasurable when stimulated.