# Blowing air through your urethra **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 2, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040 "2009-11-02T12:30:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/41 "2009-11-03T14:21:15Z")
This discussion inspires a catch phrase that is way better than that oldy but goody “quit trying to blow smoke up my ass”. The details and actual construction of the 21st century version are left as an exercise for the reader. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/42 "2009-11-03T19:45:49Z")
> [@Livardo](#): > > What would happen to me if I inserted the red straw from a [“compressed gas”](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X1W80MWHL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) duster into my urethra and pressed the trigger, say, for about 5 seconds or so? > I imagine it would be terribly painful, but would I suffer long term consequences from this stunt? [Darwin Awards]Please provide your full name, age, location, and date of event, along with any news articles, medical reports, coroner reports, or obituaries documenting the event. Your application for the 2009 Darwin Awards will be given due consideration pending verification.[/Darwin Awards] ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/43 "2009-11-04T00:59:10Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > You bet it can happen. Fatal air embolism from trauma to that area is well reported. Oh, I don’t have any doubt that an embolism _could_ occur, I’m just wondering what would happen first–supposing that there wasn’t any type of incision/accidental puncture, and that air pressure alone was the determining factor. Where’s the weakest point at which a ‘blowout’ would take place? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/44 "2009-11-04T01:09:21Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > These cans are high pressure air. Something will rupture and you’ll bleed out. The embolism or frozen necrotic wanker won’t even matter. This. Stick the air nozzle halfway into the end of a hot dog and press the plunger for a couple seconds. Really, give it a try. You’ll get a very good idea of what you’ll be dealing with. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/45 "2009-11-04T03:04:28Z")
Sounds like a can of compressed air is NOT recommended for generating on-demand dickfarts/manqueefs/woodwinds. > **[Can you fart through your dick?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504053)** > > Suppose you are a diabetic, and are putting out excess glucose in your urine. Let’s also suppose you have some kind of yeast infection in your bladder. Could the yeast ferment enough glucose to produce an…expressable…quantity of carbon dioxide? Is... ---
**Author:** ![Keeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Keeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keeve)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/46 "2009-11-04T03:48:03Z")
> [@Livardo](#): > > What would happen to me if I inserted the red straw from a [“compressed gas”](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X1W80MWHL._SL500_AA280_.jpg) duster into my urethra and pressed the trigger, say, for about 5 seconds or so? FIVE WHOLE SECONDS ??? My WAG is that you’d pass out from the pain before the second second. Or at the very least, you’d let go of the can from sheer surprise. Here’s a somewhat safer experiment you can try, sort of as “practice” or a “warmup” to the above: Put a couple of fingers around that tube. Then try and hold those fingers real tight, perhaps in a fist, to approximate how there’s no escape route from the penis for all that compressed gas. Then be amazed at how impossible it is to hold that gas in. ---
**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/47 "2009-11-04T04:07:22Z")
> [@Keeve](#): > > FIVE WHOLE SECONDS ??? > > My WAG is that you’d pass out from the pain before the second second. Or at the very least, you’d let go of the can from sheer surprise. > > Here’s a somewhat safer experiment you can try, sort of as “practice” or a “warmup” to the above: Put a couple of fingers around that tube. Then try and hold those fingers real tight, perhaps in a fist, to approximate how there’s no escape route from the penis for all that compressed gas. Then be amazed at how impossible it is to hold that gas in. Heh.. I was going to say 30 seconds but that seemed a little excessive. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/48 "2009-11-04T08:21:35Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > By the way, the reason some guys do this is, if the sound is long enough and the penis is short enough, you can stimulate the prostate. There’s no reason to go all the way to the bladder, unless you’re a medical professional clearing an obstruction. Thanks for this. In the years since I first heard of sounding, I’d never been able to figure out why anyone would do it. Still leaves me curious how it was first discovered to be pleasurable, though. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/49 "2009-11-04T08:26:17Z")
> [@zagloba](#): > > Thanks for this. In the years since I first heard of sounding, I’d never been able to figure out why anyone would do it. Still leaves me curious how it was first discovered to be pleasurable, though. I’d speculate that that’s the minority, there’s much simpler ways to stimulate the prostate after all. The majority probably do it for less mechanical reasons, such as the thrill of the forbidden, unusual or unique and the masochistic thrill of body modification and pain. They sell graduated sizes for a reason afterall, you can’t discount the presumed wow-factor in fetishes. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/50 "2009-11-04T15:12:25Z")
I’m just happy that the OP didn’t say “Need answer fast.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/51 "2009-11-04T20:08:39Z")
Sounding is one those things that pops into the mind of a guy with his erection in his hand. “What could I do to make this more interesting? Hey, I know…” The outside of it seems sturdy, even invincible. The inside, though, is tender and mostly sterile. The risk of getting an infection from sticking something nonsterile into the urethra is a clear hazard. When you compare the pleasure you might get from sounding to that of walking around with your pecker on fire while you wait for the Cipro to work, it seems like a dumb experiment. A 15-year-old boy doesn’t know all that. He just thinks, “I wonder what that would feel like?” “No, Hilda, blow job is just a figure of speech. You’re supposed to suck.” ---
**Author:** ![Dust\_in\_the\_wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dust\_in\_the\_wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dust_in_the_wind)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/52 "2010-05-13T15:13:56Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > A 15-year-old boy doesn’t know all that. He just thinks, “I wonder what that would feel like?” that is true.. ive done this.. not joking with anyone. wasnt told that i shouldnt do it.. n did it when was about 12 or so. and now i can sorta tell that there is a “air bubble” between where ass is to about above penis is.. i know should probly get cheaked out asap. but the fact is that its too embarissing to do.. and the fact that family would end up finding out.. id rather them not.. and no one to ever.. thats why i wish to be anon. but yea this sorta thing does happen.. and i wish i would of been told when was kid not to do this or any stupid stuff.. but when ur a kid and alone alot u forget about what could happen and only care about now and experimenting. so besides doctor any solution?.. the air seams to have somehow went throu the urethra and now is a “bubble” or somehow between the layer between the testicles and the scrotum.. and im not sure if its the fact that i cant stop masterbating every fewdays or not.. but also. have problems jsut getting a boner like ease.. like useto be able to.. 19 now so not sure if age or.. just cronic masterbation.. its one thing i rilly need to stop. but need help to stop. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/53 "2010-05-13T16:54:09Z")
Another classic first post, ladies and gentlemen. **Dust\_in\_the\_wind** , talk to your doctor about it. If you don’t want to make a special appointment, bring it up at your next regular checkup. You’re [not going to get any medical advice on this site](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=551788), I’m afraid. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/54 "2010-05-13T19:13:12Z")
**Livardo** , I cannot even imagine what gave you that thought. Makes an interesting thread, though. **Dust\_in\_the\_wind** , go see a doctor. I’m serious. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/55 "2010-05-13T19:26:35Z")
> [@Dust\_in\_the\_wind](#): > > and im not sure if its the fact that i cant stop masterbating every fewdays or not.. but also. have problems jsut getting a boner like ease.. like useto be able to.. 19 now so not sure if age or.. just cronic masterbation.. its one thing i rilly need to stop. but need help to stop. I am not a doctor or any kind of medical professional and any information from me that looks like medical advice is by definition absolutely worthless. Still, it’s my understanding from reading things that **are** reliable sources of medical advice that masturbation every few days is not considered medically unhealthy or abnormal for any healthy individual, certainly not 19-year-old males. I agree with other posters that you absolutely should tell a doctor about your concerns about a possible air bubble of some kind in your system (although if the incident occurred seven years ago and you’ve made it this far with normal penile functioning, that seems like a good sign). Don’t worry about embarrassment, your doctor has heard about way weirder stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Dust\_in\_the\_wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Dust\_in\_the\_wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dust_in_the_wind)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/56 "2010-05-13T20:19:00Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Don’t worry about embarrassment, your doctor has heard about way weirder stuff. thank you “Kimstu”, this some what helps with the way i am acting with this.. and to all thank you yes i will try to see a doctor when i possibly can. ---
**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/57 "2010-05-13T21:08:18Z")
Hey, you guys necro’d this thread! For the record, I never in a million years would try this on myself. Or anyone! I do plan to do it to a weiner though. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040/58 "2010-05-14T02:02:22Z")
After you try this, be sure to hire that lawyer who got McD’s to warn us the coffee is hot…you can sue for damages and win! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blowing-air-through-your-urethra/516040.md?page=2)