This is a post I’ve been promising to write for a while, on male chastity health and safety. For now, let’s look at the purely physical aspects.
There seem to be three main concerns:
- Is it safe to go without an orgasm for a prolonged period of time, even indefinitely?
- Is it safe to wear a chastity belt for a long time?
- Will being locked in a chastity device male my penis shrink?
Let’s take them in reverse order.
I’ve read lots of claims on forums that locking a man in long-term chastity and not allowing him to have an erection can cause his penis to shrink. I don’t know if there’s any truth in this, but certainly the claims don’t seem very likely.
Why?
Because not one I’ve read has been written in the first person. It’s always reporting something they’ve read, heard or has described to them as happening to someone else. It’s a bit like those urban legends that go around – it’s always a friend of a friend, or something like that, a connection close enough to be plausible but far enough away to be unverifiable.
And since the skin of the penis is very flexible, it doesn’t strike me as being likely this should happen.
There are all sorts of reasons for your penis to shrink but I can’t find any reliable and verifiable evidence that locking someone in a male chastity belt is one of them.
Of course, this doesn’t mean I’m right.
And for me, it’s moot anyway, because I frequently treat John to some serious tease and denial, which means he (and I) enjoy the full benefit of his unfettered erection. Well, he doesn’t often enjoy the full benefit, but you know what I mean – male chastity for us is based on orgasm denial more than sexual activity with his penis.
It could also happen for psychological reasons (being locked up for a long time may well remove the desire in some men and make them psychologically impotent). I don’t know – it’s likely to be different from man to man, and for the same man in different circumstances.
And the answer is simple: you can avoid it with simple tease and denial, or, indeed, regular full sex, with or without orgasm. While this is just my own opinion, locking a man’s penis away completely and forever just wouldn’t suit me because that’s not how I want my relationship to be.
Now, is it safe to wear a male chastity belt for a long time?
A bit of common sense will tell you it depends on the belt and it depends on what you’re doing in it. If the belt is comfortable and fits well, and you’re not, say, crawling around MRI scanners or spending your time sitting in activated microwave ovens or induction furnaces, I don’t see why not.
It’d be insane to put the belt or device on and never take it off again for inspection or cleaning (another claim you see bandied about a lot on the ‘net). But so long as you do take it off for inspection regularly, and apply some of that common sense regarding access to the key in an emergency, there’s no reason not to wear a comfortable male chastity device more or less indefinitely.
A related note of caution: it’s tempting and hot to make escape “impossible” and to have the key unreachable (like, maybe thousands of miles away, or in someone else’s possession when there’s no way you can get to it). This is not a good idea. Emergencies do happen and even simple things like a testicle slipping out of a ring can be incredibly painful and even dangerous if not attended to quickly (once one of John’s balls popped out of his Lori, even though that looked impossible).
As before, for John and me the question of “how long is safe?” is moot, since I like to play with him unlocked fairly often, usually at least once a week and frequently more often than that.
Finally, the most interesting question of all: “is it safe to go without an orgasm for a prolonged period of time, even indefinitely?”
The answer has to be unequivocally yes. Male chastity and orgasm denial can be permanent without risk to physical health, of that I’m sure. Your man’s mental health might suffer, but that’s another matter.
Some men will tell you when they’re horny that it’s actually dangerous for their testicles not to be allowed to orgasm. I expect most women have heard this at one time or another in their lives whether they’re into male chastity or not, especially from young, horny men who’re trying to coerce you into giving them what they want.
And I might be wrong, but I think it’s bollocks, if you’ll forgive the pun. If it was true, then vasectomised men would have the same problems, since there’s no way for sperm to escape their testicles through the vas deferens. This is functionally equivalent from the testicles’ point of view to not having an orgasm.
However, there is some evidence to show an increased problem with the prostate if it’s not emptied from time to time (but then there’s research showing the opposite). So the jury’s out.
No one actually knows (which is why they’re still doing research, at least according to pubmed.com).
But, of course, it’s perhaps best to be cautious, and we lose nothing because emptying the prostate does not mean your man has to be allowed to orgasm.
There are other ways of doing it which go from the sublime to the frankly ridiculous (to my mind), and I’ll describe them in detail in a post tomorrow.
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The penis is not muscle tissue. It will not atrophy from lack of exercise like the gluteus maximus muscles of some keyboard jocks. It is spongy tissue that merely fills with blood. Long terms without being let out may change things to a small degree, but that is temporary.
If men are worried about their equipment shrinkage, they should pay more attention to losing 30 pounds off of their gut; fat padding in the groin area can make the penis appear shorter (not to mention making it more difficult to get closer).
Tom, I do wish you'd stop ruining people's fantasies with inconvenient facts!
Fascinating subject for speculation but alas we are unlikely to ever know the answers. Almost all of these questions and others can only be answered by someone doing actual research. That is getting a sufficiently large group of men and randomising them into a chastity group and a control group, standardising how the chastity group are locked and treated, and then following them up for a sufficient number of years, perhaps decades.
In the absence of that we can search the medical literature for case reports of problems (few), surf the web for anecdotes (worthless), and look at what we can deduce from related medical research and what is already known about urogenital physiology and pathology. The latter does however require, at least, postgraduate education and experience in an appropriate field.
So taking one of your examples, penis shrinkage, prolonged locking in a tube that restricts erection could certainly result in fibrosis in the corpora cavernosa forming and reducing the degree of tumesence attainable and possibly also flaccid volume. It's biologically logical but, who knows? Without actual research on humans or an appropriate animal model all we have is informed educated speculation.
On the subject of ejaculation the urology research (a critical reading of the papers and their methodology is required, press releases and journalistic reports are worthless) does seem to favour the argument that regular ejaculation throughout life is associated with a reduced incidence of certain prostatic problems As for vasectomy, well it's not a fair comparison since the issues usually raised are about the prostate not the testes. One also has to consider that vasectomy is a procedure that sometimes does have longterm negative health consequences for example a significant incidence of chronic pain (over 20%).
Generally though I think the advice to take it out and inspect it regularly, to provide sufficient opportunity for the penis to be "exercised" and techniques like milking or ruined orgasms along with avoiding an over tight device are probably sufficient to reduce significantly or eliminate most of the hypothetical risks.
My own opinion, nothing more, is that it is likely that ejaculations and orgasms are necessary for optimal long term health. However when it comes to the questions of how many, how often I'm not going to even speculate.
Nice post,
Michael
There was some research carried out in 2003 by an Australian Doctor who suggested that regular masturbation rather than sexual intercourse (the added risk of STD’s with multiple partners) could reduce the risk of prostate cancer. He suggested that ejaculation helps to “flush” out any carcinogens that may accumulate in the prostate. Like all research I’m sure that there is some that contradict this. Interestingly he didn’t mention prostate massage. However it could just be that he enjoyed the experience and needed to justify it.
Hi, this blog is really helpful. i am looking to be in chastity 24/7, but am not sure what device to get. i want to look flat in the groin area and actually like the idea of having a smaller penis even though i am average in size. Can anyone suggust a device? i have looked at CB 6000, 3000, and 1500 already.
Stephen, the only way you'll find out is to try a few and see what works best. I write about this in the Guide.
If you want to look flat in the groin area, though, you'll probably need somethng like a full belt.
I believe NeoSteel have a specially designed belt to do just this. It won't reduce the size of your penis (give me a break), but it will make you appear flatter.
Have both of you considered volunteering to give information to a study group if you take up your plan to go for a really long term orgasm denial?
If orgasms were vital for health then a lot of Catholic priests should be suffering innordiantely from prostate cancer.
sarah,
how often should device be removed as far as cleaning penis and device. i ask because if all of a sudden my wife wants to enjoy sex ,would one have to clean off first.
robby
Robby, if you can’t tell when your own penis is dirty, I’m not sure I can actually help you.