Originally Posted by Big Girtha
Wad. She may be right. This might very well BE insane.
Hey, as in most things, we must do a cost-benefit analysis. Your girth gains speak for themself; and if all you’ve suffered so far, after all this crazy shit, is that you have a vein that’s beginning to be thrombosed, you’ve been pretty lucky.
In the past, I’ve done some very mild clamping - just to keep up engorgement for a while after a session. There was no pain or discomfort, it was even mildly pleasurable. The problem is, guys take it overboard: clamping up near the glans, multiple clamps, guys even doing PE while clamped - even hanging while clamped. That shit is absolutely insane.
And while I’ve never had a problem with girth (at my smallest ever I was 5.2 midshaft & about 5.6, 5.7 base), I wouldn’t take similar risks if clamping could be adapted for length gains - which I really am after.
Once, after only a few months into PE, I bought into the “shocking session” bullshit, and I did a crazy number of very strong jelqs. I stopped the session immediately when I noticed a swelling the size of a jelly bean on the left side of my shaft, just below the glans. It scared the shit out of me. I never knew what it was. If it was fluid, it wasn’t a donut because it was just on the left side. It wasn’t hard, and it went away with a day or so, so it wasn’t a thrombosis. Whatever it was, it taught me a lesson. I remember thinking, “Oh shit! What did I do?”
I’m very careful now. Sure, another inch of EL would be great, and I wouldn’t mind recovering some lost EG - especially since the Mrs. and I are history. But I don’t ever want to say again, “Oh shit! What did I do?”