Machomansgris: Tripod, I think the problem is that you're not tied up
Great that you are taking this nerve racking step to a new pleasure. Your courage will win out.
I must admit that first time I tried, I also chickened out because of the smarting. But I just couldn't accept defeat, so I tried again a few months later and this second time went as I described above, the difference being that I had properly blunted the knitting needle.
Perhaps you are using a rod that is too thick or the end is not blunt or polished enough. All my sounds (knitting needle or proper urologist sounds), have a hemispherical end.
What are you using? How thick? What's the problem? Can't you get through your piss slit, or can't you get past the narrowing of the urethra at the beginning of the shaft?
Use lots of really slippery lube. You'll sweat and probably get an adrenalin rush too. I still do, I've only done this 5 or 6 times to myself and 3 times to my tied up fuck chum.
The smarting should only happen in the cockhead, once you get beyond that your in for a pleasure trip. Promise.
Machomansgrisen.
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