What is Urethral Sounding?
Sounding kits on display in our shop are often looked at with complete confusion, leading customers to ask us, What is Urethral Sounding?
Urethral sounding is the practice of inserting objects into the urethra for sexual gratification. The urethra on both men and women is lined with super sensitive nerve endings. When stimulated they can feel extremely pleasureable.
Urethra Size
The urethra is quite small in size, in men usually less than 9mm wide, generally measuring between 6-8mm and in women usually measures around 6mm. So inserting objects into the urethra can be risky. If you choose to indulge in this kind of play it is imperitive that you use the proper equipment. You need to use sounding tools from reputable places to ensure cleanliness, and to make sure that the sounding items are made of bodysafe material.
The urethra on a man whether flaccid or erect is not straight, it takes many turns to pass through the pelvic floor muscles and prostate to eventually end up inserting the sounding device into the bladder, which many people want to do if they are seeking deep sounding sensations. The fact that it isn’t just a straight line to pleasure should highlight how delicate the area is and one wrong turn could result in trauma to the tissue and could also cause an infection. Using lots of good quality water based lubricant can help make sounding easier but it isn’t something that should be done lightly. Do your research before partaking and buy appropriate sounding kits from a sex shop with a good reputation.
Sounding kits
Sounding kits typically come with a few different sizes, this is so that as you get used to one size you can move up to the next, for more sexual satisfaction. It is very important to not move through the sizes too quickly. It is not a good idea to stretch your urethra beyond what it should naturally be capable of.
Women using sounding devices, whilst less common is still something some like to do. For women the area is even smaller so care needs to be taken here too.
People who enjoy this describe sounding as exquisite. A pleasure/pain that you can’t experience any other way. It is believed the feeling can be quite addictive.
If you choose to try this, do your research, take things slowly, stop if it feels too painful and use bucket loads of lubricant. After play make sure you thoroughly clean your instruments with a toy cleaner. Safe play is the best play.
Your Questions Answered
What is Urethral Sounding? is the 30th in a series of short articles answering the questions we are frequently asked. These questions are from in-store and online via our website or social media platforms. By creating these articles, we hope to help out others with the same or similar queries.
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