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Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

#141

Someone once told me that these cock cage devices are more dangerous than they seem. Some of these fetishists wear them for weeks or months so that they arent able to get a full erection for a long period of time. It's all fun and games until they finally take it off and realize it's not the same. It turns out if you don't use it, you lose it.

All the info I can find suggests this is made up. People want to believe its true which perpetuates the myth.

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So looking at it it's 2 parts that get locked together. A ring part that you place the shaft and balls through. Then the container that when placed over the shaft and locked to the ring leaves a gap the balls can no longer get through. Thus it is attached until the lock is released and the ring and container are separated again. It's a chastity device so the point is that when it's on you can't actually do anything s…

Ah gotcha. So it's the act of being restrained that provides the gratification, and being under someone else's control.

I must admit I'd far rather people get their restraint jollies with devices like this than by electing politicians to provide fear/trust/control/submission for all.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

#144

Someone once told me that these cock cage devices are more dangerous than they seem. Some of these fetishists wear them for weeks or months so that they arent able to get a full erection for a long period of time. It's all fun and games until they finally take it off and realize it's not the same. It turns out if you don't use it, you lose it.

This is part of the fetish.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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This thing has been an absolute nightmare since it was released 18 months ago. I've had a few people contact me (note: https://buttplug.io (NSFW) is my project, I get contacted about stuff like this all the time, someday I will write a book about various support stories) with their hardware stuck on. There have been multiple security issues reported, and the company really seems to have no clue how to deal with the t…

Buttplug.io is officially my new favourite domain name.

primo.af is pretty good, too.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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post #101

I'm having a hard time coming up with a scenario in which the user of such a device would not be in an abusive situation. Any examples?

orgasm control / BDSM. It’s a fetish.

I would go so far as to say that this likely isn't used in abusive situations at all.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, things like this used to be utilized as torture devices - with the apt name of the Pear of Anguish.

Reminds me of my visit to the Museum of Torture in Italy. Quasi-NSFW-ish but nothing gory, still, proceed with caution if you are squeamish. http://www.torturemuseum.it/en/

I went there with my girlfriend about 5 years ago. We still laugh that it made us feel a bit unwell and had to leave.

Would still recommend.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

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While the headline certainly is having a device like this needing to be ground open the other privacy concerns are quite possibly worse. Being able to track both the name of who bought it and the location of someone using a device like this has got to be a near classic example of private information that hurts no one but could severely damage a person if it got out.

THIS! The headline is about them getting locked on, because that's funny, but the buried lead is actually this: > The security researchers said they discovered a way to fool the server into disclosing the registered name of each device owner, among other personal details, as well as the co-ordinates of every location from where the app had been used. That's some really sensitive info, with the potential to destroy so…

I wish society were more sex-positive, stopped considering matters of sexuality or sexual activity to be so controversial, and stopped responding to them with such moral outrage to the point that your personal sexual activity could be considered something blackmail-worthy!

(I think this is a bigger problem in America than Europe.)

In either case, indeed, we need privacy (because other countries have terrible persecution around matters of mere sexuality) and as much maturity as we can muster when discussing it. I'm so proud of how mature this comment section is. Not a single giggling sexual joke in sight - at least here up at the top. Other sites would be riddled with it, with nothing serious discussed.

Re: Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in

#150

Someone once told me that these cock cage devices are more dangerous than they seem. Some of these fetishists wear them for weeks or months so that they arent able to get a full erection for a long period of time. It's all fun and games until they finally take it off and realize it's not the same. It turns out if you don't use it, you lose it.

That sounds fairly urban legendy, though it can depend on the user and their anatomy, of course. I know many people who've used or worked with these devices for years and that has not been the case for them. That said, due to the types of cage mechanics, weight and makeup of different cage materials, etc, there is definitely the possibility of some physical issues, including some nerve issues. It usually just things…

The penis also lacks muscles (which do atrophy with lack of use). The more reputable reports from long-term wearers suggest that the plumbing still works even with near constant wear, provided that care is taken to ejaculate once in a while (e.g., monthly).

Because the purpose of male chastity devices is to prevent erections and orgasms, long-term wearers (who are a minority compared to the amount of folk who use such as device as a form of (prolonged) foreplay or as part of an erotic roleplaying scenario) may achieve such an ejaculation by means of a prostate massage (i.e., 'milking' him). The health goal here is mainly to keep the prostate healthy though.

Chafing, pinching, skin irritations; those are common health related issues though.

> and don't order some random cheap thing off AliExpress.

Or do, just to explore the different models cheaply, but treat them as novelty items. And yes, do read up on reviews, or ask in online communities. This is, quite emphatically, not a one-size-fits-all item.

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