New to sounding.

I'm wanting to try sounding, whats a good check list for supplies? alcohol prep pads, exam gloves, surgilube, the sound itself (I ordered this one in simi soft http://siliconenozzles.com/product.sc;jsessionid=383E805B0B5E9D4353ED863B9E40D9A4.m1plqscsfapp05?productId=201&categoryId=9)

Anything else?

What are you going to do with the prep pads?

As someone who regularly experiences sound insertions for medical purposes I'm curious as to why you would want alcohol prep pads ?

The alcohol stings and burns as its wiped over your skin. So I'd imagine not very pleasant wiping the end of your penis with one .

Also my sounds treatment is carried out by a medical professional. Everything has to be sterile to minimise the risk of infection.

I hope you have researched enough to know what you are doing. It can be a pretty painful experience at times. You can cause lasting damage if you go in too far , let alone an infection. I've also had to work up to the sound size I can comfortably take . It's took months of weekly treatments. It's not something I would play with without requiring some knowledge first.

Well my main logic was to use them to wipe it down then wait for the alcohol to evaporate but it sounds like this is a horrible idea, any suggestions for something else to keep them sterile? I suppose I could boil them but something else would be easier for me.

Edit: I just remembered I got the idea from asking silicone nozzles abut a starter sound "After washing it's also a good practice to clean the sound with alcohol and allow it to air dry before applying an ample amount of Surgilube to the sound and to the inside of your penis. ".

Don't trust a kinky toy company for medical advise. If you want to play with sounds, learn proper STERILE technique. Alcohol doesn't sterilize anything. Exam gloves? Clean but not sterile. Sergilube? Sterile in individual packets only. Silicone sound? Who knows if it can be sterilized. Your penis CAN NOT be sterilized but there are prep methods used by real medical professionals. Look them up and use them religiously.

Search the interwebs for real medical information, not kink instructions.

Don't play with sounding. A perforated GU tract is a surgical emergency. Also, as has been said, you must get the correct equipment to sterilize your tools and the supplies and technique to wrap them to keep them sterile for a while.

So, if you are going to insist on sounding someone, get training first, (the net is not enough), and guidance the first few times.

Well this is why I asked this is starting to sound (lol) like its more trouble then its worth, I think I might cancel the sound order and put the money towards a new enema nozzle instead.

^^^^ That's a good idea.

If you sound yourself and puncture something, you have yourself to blame.

Sound someone else and puncture something and you will probably be sued and possibly face criminal charges.

Sounds like some responsible advice given here. The one thing I would add is that experimenters are always wanting to take it to the next level till finally the break something. While sounding is intended in helping one empty their bladder it seems logical that scar tissue would be counter productive, Aye?

Sure is very good advice spend your cash on strong vibrator or electrastim

Tree Person,

You have been given very good advice!

Andie

Tree Person I really hope that you do in fact reconsider your discussion on playing with that silicon sound. As the others have mention you can seriously injury yourself permanently by causing a perforation as well as causing a urinary track infection (UTI) which can lead to further problems like renal ( kidney) failure.

Sounds are not a toy and as niknoks has stated " It can be a pretty painful experience at times. You can cause lasting damage if you go in too far , let alone an infection. I've also had to work up to the sound size I can comfortably take . It's took months of weekly treatments. "

So please reconsider your decision to play with sounds.

@RN1993

Like I said in another post after reading the responses it just sounds like too much trouble to bother with, so I canceled my order and ordered a new enema nozzle instead (which shipped today yay!).

I would not mind trying sounding with someone who actually knew what they were doing but as a solo activity its starting seem like a bad idea.

I am going to try sounding. Have invested in a very serious looking feeling kit with 12 different sizes of sounds and trust my Mistress completely. She is not medically trained but will be very patient and gentle with me. Does anyone have any advice aside from "Don't do it!" because i am not looking back at this point.

Really only looking for suggestions on first steps. If you can't be of use in that kind of response, i would ask you to reply to someone else who may be looking to be talked out of it.

I'm a doctor and don't recommend it due to infection risk, etc., even though I'm honestly curious about how it would feel. If you are bound and determined to be cathed or sounded, find a friendly medical professional like a nurse or doc with a lot of experience to SHOW you the necessary sterile technique to do it with minimal risk. Don't rely on internet videos because most I've seen are NOT done with sterile technique. Just putting on a pair of gloves does nothing to help sterility - most vids I've seen are using nonsterile gloves with no other attempt to do it correctly. Even done perfectly correctly the risk is not zero. Good luck.

Eric

KNOW THE ANATOMY.

Know the shapes and curves and sizes of instruments you will be using and how they relate to the anatomy.

Have a ready source of antibiotics.

I still like to sound myself, and have never had infections. I have had mild trauma resulting in bleeding.

First: Try doing it yourself before letting someone else do it to you. If it hurts, that's a sign you shouldn't proceed or only do so with great care. Your partner can't feel your pain, and might press on before you have time to tell her to stop. causing injury. I would advise you not let partner do anything to you, that you haven't done painlessly. For example, if you can put in an 8 mm sound easily, you know she won't injure you, but don't let her put in a 10 mm. The most difficult and dangerous part is making the curve from the penile urethra to the membranous and prostatic urethra. It's a four inch radius curve, easily done with a curved sound but hazardous with a straight sound (if you're not a urologist) A straight sound will only easily go the the bend. Rookies should only go this far. Figure, on your own body how far a sound is for that point. When you've sounded several times. use a curved sound to go in farther.

Second: look at several catheterization videos on youtube to learn how to clean and disinfect your penis. The brown stuff is Betadine or generic. Alternately Zepharin is used for iodine allergic persons. Use gloves. They're cheap and remove one other source of infection. Use clean surfaces (I use paper towels) for the sounds. If you don't use gloves, do not touch the part that goes into the body. Conversely don't let the part the hand touches go in.

Third Disinfect the sounds: There are several cold disinfectants on the market I soak plastic in zepharine Metal ones I pressure cook in aluminum foil wrap. A very effective and fast disinfectant is acetone.(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/22732442_Acetone_sterilization_in_ophthalmic_surgery)

Third: Before playing drink a lot of water: I drink a quart and a half or more in the couple hours leading up to play. You might want to test yourself to see what you need to do to have your kidneys putting out a lot of urine at and after the time you play. The reason I want a lot of pee is to flush out anything around.

Fourth: If it bleeds..STOP Be sure and pee a lot to prevent infection (see #3)

Fifth: If it hurts after, and the pain worsens or it won't stop bleeding..GO to the ER

Here's my 2¢...

I've tried it because 1) I've been curious why some people enjoyed it and 2) I have BPH and wanted to know if it would help improve my urine stream and allow me to ditch the stupid-expensive Rx with the bummer side-effects. So, I studied up on anatomy, found a medical clip on YouTube, studied up on sterile procedure, and purchased a shelf-full of supplies, e.g, sterile gloves, sterile lube, "sterile field" pads, etc, etc, and I figured out how to successfully insert sterilized Van Buren dilators past my prostate without injury and the results were...

1) Well blow me down, as long as I didn't have an active infection, it really did feel fantastic. Amazing. No wonder. Wow!

2) My urine stream improved dramatically. I mean like, "Yes! This is great! Peeing feels good again!"

3) No matter what well-thought out, carefully followed steps I took, after 2 or 3 sessions I would inevitably come down with a f***ing infection that would send me to my urologist. After 3 rounds of that game, I gave up.

My advice...

Try it if you must, but even if you manage not to injure yourself, it's probably only a matter of time before you come down with an infection.

However, as long as you never go past about 4", keep everything as sterile as you can, and make sure to pee afterwards, you'll probably not have a problem.

Here's my 2¢...

Wow @radio , what I want to know is... where did you find a keyboard that has a CENTS sign? Haven't seen one of those in years!

Sorry for having nothing to add to this conversation...

Wow @radio , what I want to know is... where did you find a keyboard that has a CENTS sign? Haven't seen one of those in years!

My iPad keyboard brings up alternate characters for certain keyboard locations like the dollar sign $$$. If you hold the $ sign down it brings up pounds £, euros €, yen ¥ and other signs including cents ¢.

Eric

@ericmacson Ah! I'm mostly old school when I post on zity - I use a PC. It's why I blather on writing long posts because I'm a pretty good typist on a keyboard! Didn't even enter my mind all these new fangled devices! 😁

@ericmacson Ah! I'm mostly old school when I post on zity - I use a PC. It's why I blather on writing long posts because I'm a pretty good typist on a keyboard! Didn't even enter my mind all these new fangled devices! 😁

Nothing wrong with long detailed posts. I for one really enjoy reading when people enthusiastically go into great detail about their passions. A lot of mine are probably like that too, but it takes more slow and steady effort as I'm typing with one or two fingers on my iPad.

Eric

I've been doing sounds for years, though very infrequently. So far no problems. I am not a medical; professional and can only offer anecdotal comments based upon my own experience.

I did get some good instruction and have been to a couple of sounding classes. What works for me is that my sounds are dedicated for use on me only. So no worries about std's and I just need to clean them from air borne bacteria and of course after use. Urine is sterile and for the most part so is your urethra. Stay away from your bladder. I clean the sound with sterile providine iodine wipes, then after 30 sec, wipe them off with sterile alcohol wipes. I use sterile exam gloves and a sterile "window" paper field. I wipe my penis with another sterile providine wipe and then wipe it off with a sterile alcohol wipe. I use sterile lube packets and fill a sterile syringe with the lube.

Is this proper sterile procedure--probably not but it is reasonable and so far no infections. Inject a little lube in your penis--note the sterile syringe does not have a needle attached--heaven forbid. Then use it to apply lube to the tip of the surgical steel sound. Don't use too small a sound so as not to puncture anything but obviously you do want to start small. Once the tip of the sound has been introduced into your penis and a LITTLE bit of force is required here and maybe some discomfort. Then no additional force is required, the sound will fall into the penis by its own weight. In fact I slow it down to make it more sensual.

Before starting a session, drink at least 8 oz of cranberry juice or at least beer so you will be able to flush out afterwards. I really can't offer advice for other people other than don't share sounds. I think surgical steel is safer than silicone and if you use common sense and just let the sound fall under gravity, you are probably not likely to perforate anything. Infections are always possible but so far my cleaning technique has worked for me

Thanks to all of the replies. The information was valuable beyond words. My Mistress is quite insistent that I need to be trained with this technique and I confess that it really is a turn on to think of Her fucking me in the cock with Her sounding tool of choice. . .

Good luck.

I hope she knows what she is doing and doesn't give you an infection to remember her by.

Thank You. Yes she is a quick study and has been trained to perform minor medical treatments through Saint Johns Ambulance and assorted research. She is also very responsive when I'm being penetrated by Her sounds.

So in short, yes! She has sounded me in two separate sessions. So far the smaller sounds are the more painful and now that She's worked me up to larger ones there is little or no pain and she is able to ejaculate me to the point of ruined orgasm with the sound remaining in place.