[sebbie]

Part LXXXIX

I have been reading a host of different medical sites relating to the use of a penis pump as a medical device for treating ED after prostate surgery. A lot of these are high-end places like Mayo clinic and urologists explain in somber tones how the device might aid in a patient’s recovery. The hypothetical patient is a male with a female partner, and the guy is worried about not being able to get hard enough to even get inside of her let alone to satisfy her with his penis. I also learned that prescription “medical-grade penis pumps typically cost from $200-500 whereas the devices sold on Ebay run from $12 to maybe $50, no prescription required.

A penis pump is a penis pump, pretty much. They normally consist of a clear polycarbonate plastic cylinder about 2 inches in diameter and 8 inches long though a few are bigger. And a small vacuum pump, either a manual one or one powered by a rechargeable battery. And a sheath of some sort of flexible silicone rubber that goes over the base of the tube. That sheath forms a seal that is pressed against your groin at the base of the penis air tight and thus a vacuum when the pump is used. The sheath has a hole only big enough to fit your penis through, at least in theory. The sheath will vary quite a bit in design and material depending on the pump you buy.

The powered pump I bought works well at creating vacuum, but I was getting a pain or soreness at the base of my penis as the vacuum level increased. This part was not erotic at all. And I didn’t like the pain I was experiencing. What was going on, anyway?

I quickly discovered that with as the vacuum level increased I was actually starting to pull my balls partway into the pump along with my penis. The sheath was there in part to keep body parts other than the penis outside the cylinder and this was not happening as well as it should.

I needed a better sheath to use with both pumps and so I started looking on Ebay again and found the ones in the photo attached. They are just a very soft and stretchy cylinder which when placed on the pump tube look as you see in the photo. I tried one of these with the manual pump last night. Ahhh, much better, No pain at all. Tonight I will experiment using this sheath with the powered pump. I also discovered that as a lube for these, a bit of clear Softsoap® works about the same as Astroglide as a lube. The Astroglide might be fine as a lube for intercourse, but in one of my extended masturbation sessions it tends to dry and get sticky.

So, yesterday afternoon I decided to see what was out there on the porn video sites in which guys demonstrate the recreational uses for the penis pump. There are lots of videos of that sort, many just videos of guys showing a growing erection inside the pump tube with each pump squeeze. I say videos of men of all ages, from late teens on. Most of the ones I saw were guys who likely could easily get and sustain an erection easily without the pump but found the idea of pumping themselves up to be form of erotic recreational sex.

I also found some of the information useful in better understanding the issue of the sheath not keeping the balls completely out of the vacuum cylinder. There was a cock and ball torture (CBT) video that demonstrated the issue in maybe too much detail. The other guys had one guy restrained with leather straps. They then used a penis pump on him similar to the manual one I have but without any silicone sheath on the end of the tube. They merely placed the 2” inch polycarbonate plastic tube to his groin with sufficient pressure to seal it and create a vacuum. With a two-inch hole in the plastic tube, not only will the restrained guy’s penis get vacuumed into the tube, but his balls were quickly sucked upward and inside the tube completely with just space enough for the balls to press against the expanding penis and the tube itself. Quite a predicament!

Given the experience I had when my balls were only getting a small section partly into the cylinder, this must have been extraordinarily painful as the guy’s “friends” made sure the vacuum level kept increasing as the guy struggled and screamed out with the pain associated with having his balls in that situation. As a penis pump-using viewer, this was interesting to see but I would quickly become concerned that the pump could do permanent damage to a guy’s balls used that way. But I guess that is part of what CBT eroticism is all about for the participants. My bottom line on all of this is that the sheath you choose to use with your pump in part is there to keep other body parts out and therefore is the most important consideration of all.

So, where am I on all of this? The devices clearly have serious medical applications for guys dealing with ED irrespective of the underlying cause, but are especially helpful to guys like me who have faced surgical removal of the prostate. I do not have a sex partner, but if I did, I think I would be more than able to satisfy her in intercourse using my pumper as an aid. I seem to retain an erection for a long time after I remove the pump, even without a penis ring, plenty of time to stick it into another bodily orifice.

However, as things to do sexually from a pure recreational masturbation perspective, these pumps clearly have uses as well and I fully understand why they are popular with many guys. Assuming a guy is able to get and retain an erection without using a pump, as low-cost recreational devices go this is benign with no adverse side effects (except if you decide you want to find out how it feels to have your balls vacuumed and squeezed into the tube along with your penis).

Once I remove the pump, even though I am considerably bigger in length and girth, I do not feel that immediately I must have an orgasm. I am thinking about this of course, but I am not at a point of no return—not yet, anyway. My penis is not as stiff as it would have been when I was 19, or even 30, but it still feels really neat coming out of the pump. And those nerve endings on the underside feel great, almost like they did before the surgery. I face choices. I can simply masturbate to ejaculation without wearing anything over my penis. Or I can slip on a favorite swim brief and just take myself to the next level while “playing” with a good penis position—the same thing I did when I was in my 20s, pretty much. And, most thankfully, this now feels very similar to what I remember from way back when.

Or, what I did last night—crawled into a skimpy thong with a really snug pouch and a cord that cinched between my glutes, and had an orgasm that way in my condition. Perfect! So many fond memories of masturbating in days gone by. And I can keep right on being in that wonderful place I found and went into with much enthusiasm so long ago.

To be continued…