MizSuz
Posts: 1881
Joined: 1/1/2004
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Sundew02
If you have never been catheterized, then the size alone will burn, possibly cause you to bleed, the Q-tip would have to be extremely well lubricated. Even if a bit of cotton was left, you would pass it the next time you emptied your bladder. The problem I have with this type of play is later in life. This would be an irritant to your prostate gland. And it could eventually cause you to lose control of your bladder, or worse. Limited catheter play is one thing, with a REAL catheter. They are fairly inexpensive and available for purchase online. If you decide to do this, drink lots of water post play, to flush out your urethra, to stop the normal components ( ie uric acid)of your urine from burning and irritating your abraded flesh. Choices, choices, your call. Take care, Tess
I agree with Tess on many fronts in this. Especially the part about YOUR reponsibility in your post play healthcare. Drinking the water (or Cranberry juice) will greatly facilitate flushing and reduce the burn.
I do urethral insertion play quite often. I agree with Tess about 'later in life.' Not so much regarding the prostate, although an infection could cause that. However, my experience is that men, as they get older, are notoriously prone to urethral obstructions and collapse. A slight infection today has the potential to become scar tissue over the years. Scar tissue tends to beget scar tissue and then you have a mass of scar tissue large enough that you have difficulty urinating around it. I know older men who have been instructed by their doctor to use multiple qtips (very well lubricated) three and four times a day to keep the urethra dialated enough to allow for urination.
So the question becomes not so much will it harm you now, as much as does the practitioner (in this instance the domme) have enough concern over the long haul, when she may not be around anymore, for your well being?
For this reason I never do urethral insertion with anything that isn't sterile. Qtips are not sterile. Even in hospitals and doctors offices, if you need to be cathetarized it's done using some fairly stringent 'sterile technique' that most medical personnel learn early in their education but few lay people learn. For the record, alcohol not only doesn't sterilize things, but it doesn't even do a really good job as an antiseptic either. Alcohol is good for removing surface grime and oil...it does not disinfect and anyone who tells you it does is uninformed.
I'll give you an example: Did you know that you can open a sterile cath kit, lay it out to work with it, make sure you get the gloves on without contaminating them, etc., and then reach over the kit to get something and you have technically contaminated your sterile field, simply by virtue of reaching over the kit to get something?
Certainly not everyone who has qtips inserted get infections, but for ME it simply increases the potential for it and I'm not willing to do that sort of play on someone else without being able to say that I gave them as at least much protection as a healthcare professional would have. My argument FOR doing stuff like this in a private home or dungeon is that you are much less likely to have airborn pathogens (germs) of other sick people floating around.
For me, I simply won't take those kinds of risks, problems that could seem to not be a problem for years, with someone else's body.
I do, however, know how to sterilize things at home. It's an incredible pain in the ass without benefit of an autoclave, so I'm very judicious about how much of it I do because the preparations and subsequent clean up are a lot of work (I usually don't let other people do my own sterilizing so the work falls to me).
For two years I've been refusing to buy any more toys until I get an autoclave. Of course, I've got more toys than I can fit into my dungeon as it is, but I NEED an autoclave.
I digress...you probably are not likely to suffer immediate difficulties by having qtips inserted into your urethra. Whether or not you suffer later is yet to be seen.
_____________________________
“The more you love, the more you can love—and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”
- Robert Heinlein
|
penile insertion - 
Profile
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread