# Milking the Prostate - TMI **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 22, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100 "2004-12-22T02:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/21 "2004-12-22T21:49:42Z")
> [@Inigo Montoya](#): > > So, this … effect. > > Is this something I need to get concerned about when facing my first digital exam? No. It’s definitely dependent on mood. If you’re really worried about it you could (ahem) clean the pipes out before (heh heh) hand. 12 o’clock, about two knuckles in. _Gently_. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/22 "2004-12-22T22:30:44Z")
We talked about this in this thread: [How do quadriplegics/injured people relieve sexual tension?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5516418#post5516418) > [@](#): > > From the site: > [http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=22405](http://www.spinalcord.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=22405) > > Rectal Probe Electroejaculation (RPE) is an option if PVS is not successful. RPE is when a doctor inserts an electrical stimulation probe into the rectum, and the controlled electrical stimulation produces an ejaculation. ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/23 "2004-12-22T22:31:08Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > I’ll bet many people viewing this thread would like even FURTHER detail, like maybe where is it? 12 o’clock? 6 o’clock? 😃 The prostate is on both sides of your rectum. When I had mine biopsied, three needles were inserted on each side. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/24 "2004-12-23T00:05:51Z")
O.K. nobody gets to say “You owe me a new keyboard” in this thread! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/25 "2004-12-23T00:10:10Z")
If you’re all :eek: then you’re doing it wrong. You should look like :o or possibly like 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/26 "2004-12-23T01:25:14Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > O.K. nobody gets to say “You owe me a new keyboard” in this thread! :eek: Or flared bottom mouse. ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/27 "2004-12-23T03:11:48Z")
> [@](#): > > jthis thread has the fewest posts per view on page one, I believe. What does this tell us? Maybe that we like to watch, but we don’t know very much? Is that…Kinsey? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/28 "2004-12-23T03:25:44Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Or flared bottom mouse. The sexual proclivities of mice are slightly beyond the edge of good taste! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/29 "2004-12-23T03:34:09Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Dogs with prostatitis typically do not enjoy the maneuver and are usually muzzled. Muzzled! I was sure that said “puzzled” when I first read it. Dog: “hey! what are you doing back there? hey! what… oh, oooh … ahh.” ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/30 "2004-12-23T04:21:44Z")
> [@1920s Style "Death Ray"](#): > > Dog: “hey! what are you doing back there? hey! what… oh, oooh … ahh.” Yeah, we play with their prostates, we express their anal glands, and we wonder why they figure we won’t mind if they hump our legs? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/31 "2004-12-23T22:16:07Z")
I’m really confused. 😕 Is stimulation of the prostate – electrical or otherwise – something like, press the button, ZAP! and you ejaculate or does it require a repetitive stroking more like normal sex? Why would a “sample” be taken by this method rather than conventional masturbation? Which procedure is used to obtain sperm bank deposits? It must be enjoyable as some in this thread have claimed, but why aren’t tools for this purpose sold in sex shops and hookers offering this service if it’s so good? Or do they and I’m just not hip enough to have been so propositioned? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/32 "2004-12-23T22:29:37Z")
:: Hooker standing under streetlamp, snapping on a latex glove :: “Hey, Inigo, wanna try something _different_?” No…I can’t see that being an effective proposition. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/33 "2004-12-23T22:42:39Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > It’s also a useful maneuver to do on men with recurrent prostatitis, to try to establish the infective agent. Massage vigorously, then have the patient provide a clean-catch urine sample, and send it for culture. Hubby had chronic prostatitis, I have to add this to your comments. During an infection attepts to milk the prostate are likely to be very painful. The prostate in question has to be somewhat functional for this to work. Prostates can be left non-functional by a series of infections. Some doctors don’t seem to accept this and will try to milk the prostate anyway, seemingly with a vengence. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/34 "2004-12-23T23:11:35Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > It must be enjoyable as some in this thread have claimed, but why aren’t tools for this purpose sold in sex shops… There are. You just won’t find many guys admitting that they’ve had it used on them. “Honey, what’s this…Jeff…Stryker…realistic…WHAT?!” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/35 "2004-12-23T23:12:49Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > There are. You just won’t find many guys admitting that they’ve had it used on them. > > “Honey, what’s this…Jeff…Stryker…realistic…WHAT?!” Many _ **straight** _ guys, let me edit… ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/36 "2004-12-24T19:38:46Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > There are. You just won’t find many guys admitting that they’ve had it used on them. > > “Honey, what’s this…Jeff…Stryker…realistic…WHAT?!” Musicat must not have been inside many sex shops. I mean, dildos, buttplugs, anal beads - about half the contents of the average sex shop is meant to be stuck up yer butt. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/37 "2004-12-24T20:33:30Z")
Obligatory link. [(Flash animation with sound.)](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/plugs.php) ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/38 "2004-12-25T00:27:06Z")
The technique in question is featured in a scene from the movie "[How To Kill Your Neighbors Dog](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207524/) ". ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/39 "2004-12-25T04:26:20Z")
**Jurph** Posting #21 You say the prostate is located at “12 o’clock”. Isn’t the prostate located about “2 knuckles in” (to use you vernacular) and towards the abdominal wall? The term “12 o’clock” can be kind of vague in reference to the human body. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100/40 "2004-12-25T05:02:25Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > **Jurph** Posting #21 > > You say the prostate is located at “12 o’clock”. Isn’t the prostate located about “2 knuckles in” (to use you vernacular) and towards the abdominal wall? The term “12 o’clock” can be kind of vague in reference to the human body. Nearer to the front of the body. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/milking-the-prostate-tmi/281100.md?page=3)