Freaky Fridays: Sounding

Welcome to the first, of hopefully many, Freaky Fridays and the end the first week of THE DIRTY WORD weblog. 

My overall plan is to make every Friday's topic about some misrepresented, misunderstood, incredibly bizarre, or plainly unknown kink, so if your squeamish, I'd just rest your eyes after Thursday's column, because its going to get pretty weird from here.

Really, go do something else.

We're going to end the work day with a subject that just sounds so incredibly agonizing, there is no way I could not discuss it publicly. 

Today's topic is the slightly intriguing, commonly frightening, sexual adventurism known as urethral sounding or urethral play. 

Its a delightful process, in which an item, usually a long stainless steel medical instrument, known as a sound, typically used by urologists, is inserted up the urethra. Doctors use these tools to stretch the urethra and locate possible obstructions. Not doctors, as we'll call them here, have found expressly different home uses for these objects.

Adamant sounding fetishists, usually males, use the tool for verity of reasons, with a whole multitude of different goals in mind, but all resulting in physical or mental sexual pleasure. 

The desired result seems to be to expand the tiny opening of the urethra, allowing increasingly larger toys to be inserted.

In men, deep penile penetration, can be used as a means of stimulating the prostate from within. Typically though, the act plays more into a submission or domination, power dynamic scenario. Having less to do with the physical sensations of the object being inserted and more to do with the control and, depending on your sexuality, the reversal of gender roles. A heterosexual man can go from being the fucker, to being the fuckee.

The pain involved, not to mention the visual aspect could also stimulate certain masochist's tastes.   

There are a verity of different type of sounds. Some shops offer custom work. While researching this article I read a man's story about his quest for a short hollow sound, he could wear all day, without removal, even during trips to the little deviants room. 

The selection for these devices only seems to end with imagination and physical limitations. The most popular and easy to find seem to be the "Van Buren," which sounds like a German furniture company, the "vibrating sound," and the "rosebud," which is a very thin metal tube, with a large egg shaped bullet at the end of it, used to "stimulate the inner lining of the urethra." The name also means I'll never be able to watch Citizen Kane without giggling. 

Everything discussed above has to do mostly with the male urethral play scene. There are sounds made just for women. They're shorter, and a different shape all together. Information on female  play is harder to come by and because the urethra is shorter, the risk for infection is greater. The best way to avoid this is by consulting a kink friendly doctor or experimenting with a trusted and experienced partner. Certain professional dominatrixes are well versed in urethral play, and are easily found if you have access to google. 

I hope this whole educational experience has been as emotional scaring as it has been for me. In the mean time I'm going to excuse myself from the office and try to remove a chop stick from my pee hole.