All a condom does when pumping is to reduce the pressure difference experienced by your penis inside the condom. In effect, you are pumping at a reduced pressure, depending on the elastic properties of the condom. Because condoms can deform easily, their elastic properties are not constant along the whole length of the condom (e.g. They can bulge), and hence the effective reduction in pressure difference experienced by your penis might not always be uniform along its length. If you want to reduce the effects of pumping at high pressure, simply pump at lower pressure. This is better solution because the pressure is known (presumably you have a pump with a gauge), and the pressure difference along your penis is constant. Using a condom is just plain silly.There might be a marginal effect caused by reduced heat transfer through the condom, which will help to keep your penis warm, but I doubt this is relevant.
That’s one way to look at it. Here’s the other and the common consensus among long-term condom pumpers. Tell me your thoughts on this if you will.
I do it for hygiene though most people pumping are purposefully using condoms that are too-tight on their dick in an attempt to create a bit of a compression force against the skin where ‘lymph’ will flow into after long pumping sessions. The pressure directly on the skin seems to counteract the ability of lymph to flow from the veins into the nearby tissue. I believe this might be due to ‘veins’ being the part of the dick that sticks out the most which if you think of say like a tarp across an uneven surface, tied very tightly, the areas experiencing the more ‘pressure’ pushing down from the tarp would be the areas the tarp comes in contact with directly. This’ll end to be the areas of the uneven surface that stick out the most. In the case of the dick, that would be the veins of the penis. Thus pressure on the veins seems to counteract lymph leakage. The overly tight condom puts more pressure relative on your veins compared to the surrounding tissue allowing most of the pressure of the ‘pump’ to be allied to the other tissue while the veins leakage minimal.
What some people are finding is if they naturally have ‘hair’ on their dick, using a condom seems to help prevent their hairs from becoming infected/in-grown etc. It seems like the condensation that occurs on the inside edge of a the cylinder of pump, especially if heated. That touches the ‘skin’ under high pressure with your pores open seems to enhance the likelihood of pore/hair folicle infection. This might not seem like a big deal but humid, wet, moist environments with the right combination of protein, carbs and fats is great for growing bacteria.
So for me, I like condom pumping for the hygiene reasons. Everyone’s DICK and I mean EVERYONE’S will leak precum during a pumping session from your dick into the tube at a very small rate which in turn leaves your pump filled with ‘some’ amount of precum which is pretty high in protein, some carbohydates and fats; so it is great as a bacteria culture consequently. Even if its only 1-2ml, that 1-2ml if you don’t clean your pump after every session will be slowly ‘rotting’ in an effect inside the tube so the next time you go to stick your dick in, there’s already bacteria in there and pressure with open pores and hair fociles.yeah.
At least with a condom, your precum leaking theoretically should be ‘capture’ in the tip of the condom and when you remove the relatively ‘sterile’ condom, conditional on you wash your hands before you start pumping, (condoms are suppose to be sterile coming from a package). So there’s no introduction into your cylinder of either bacteria or precum and thus less often cleaning of the cylinder is required. So you can think of a megabox of like 200 condoms where condoms are 30 cents a piece as a choice of choosing between ‘less lymph leakage.’(possibly) + less often cleaning required or cleaning after each use. For myself, 30 cents means nothing so I’d rather spend the 30 cents and save the 6 minutes to wash/clean/dry the cylinder each day and rather do it once per week. You know?
