Do you have a catheter fetish? It doesn’t come up often in conversation, but the urethra and bladder are body parts that can provide sexual and psychological pleasure.
While many of us may experience pleasure while urinating or enjoy some aspect of golden showers or water sports in our fetish explorations, some people enjoy catheter play in particular.
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What Is Catheter Play?
Catheterophilia is the fetish name for catheter play. It means “love of catheters.” A catheter is a medical device consisting of plastic or rubber tubing and a small balloon or funnel. It is inserted through the urethra to the bladder. In a clinical setting, the purpose is to help with urination. The catheter on the outside end is generally attached to a bag that collects the urine.
Catheter play involves inserting, using and controlling the catheter for sexual purposes: urethral stimulation; BDSM such as domination and submission, bondage and restraint, sadism and masochism, humiliation, control; and urine fetishes.
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Catheter Play in BDSM
Catheterophilia is often manifest as a BDSM kink, with pain, control, and humiliation being central themes in catheter play.
Someone who has a catheter inserted cannot control whether or not they go to the bathroom. This is entirely the control of the dominant. If a catheter is open, the bladder will drip and drain through the tube every time liquid comes into it. If the catheter is closed, the person cannot empty their bladder even if they need to go or want to drain it. This makes a submissive very vulnerable.
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A full bladder can be humiliating and also painful. The catheter itself can be a painful or raw feeling, and can burn after removal. For masochist subs, this sensation reminds them who they belong to and reminds them of the scene that just took place.
BDSM power exchange relationships can be about domination and submission, or about sadism and masochism, or both. Catheter play can be part of pain play, humiliation play, degradation play, and more.
Catheter Play as a Medical Kink
As with most fetishes, medical fetishism is an extremely broad spectrum of kinks and interests. Someone can have a medical fetish in general, and experience sexual excitement from a range of medical themes, ideas, devices and procedures.
Medical kinks can include anything from a doctor-patient relationship to gynecology tools to the processes of swabbing and bandaging wounds to needles to dental procedures. Catheter play can be connected to medical fetishism, as one of many interests or as the dominant medical fetish.
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Catheter Play as Extreme Penetration
For some people, catheter play is about penetration. The urethra is an orifice, like the mouth, anus, and vagina. It may feel taboo or difficult to penetrate, making that penetration even more pleasurable. The penetration actually goes into the bladder, an internal organ, and this concept can be very exciting for some people.
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Catheter Play as Urethral Sounding
Urethral sounding is urethral penetration with special rods, and it can feel very pleasurable or very painful, making it pleasurable for some. Urethral sounding is its own practice and play, and can be connected to BDSM or to penetration.
Catheter play goes further and involves the bladder and urine. Those who enjoy urethral sounding may also enjoy catheter play.
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Catheter Fetish and Urethralism
Urethral sounding is a kind of urethralism, which is a kink where inserting foreign objects into the urethra is considered pleasurable. A sounding device is a specific kind of object designed for play, and a catheter is a medical device used for the purpose.
Someone into urethralism may want any or many kinds of objects inserted, including catheter play. Reports from hospitals have included crochet hooks, knitting needles, and ballpoint pens.
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Catheter Play and Urine Kinks
There are a number of different ways to explore urine fetishism alongside a catheter kink. Getting pissed on and having a catheter inserted, watching someone wet their pants, drinking piss, being peed on. If urine is a driving fetish, it may interest someone for that reason.
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Catheter Play in Diaper Fetishes
Catheter play involves urine and control, so it makes sense that some people with an interest in it are also interested in wearing diapers and adult baby relationships.
Common Catheter Play Questions
What Does a Catheter Feel Like?
The feeling of having a catheter can include pain, discomfort, rawness, burning, pleasure, and the feeling of penetration. In a medical or clinical setting where a catheter is placed professionally to relieve urinary distress, pain will be minimal.
Someone inexperienced in placing it will cause pain or discomfort. People who enjoy the sensation report pleasurable kinds of pain and stimulation. The urethra is part of the penis and it also runs parallel to clitoral nerves and the vagina so it makes sense that activity in this area is connected to sexual excitement.
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Is the Catheter Fetish Mainly Men?
Without reliable studies and statistics it is hard to say, but anecdotally, yes. However, some women are curious about catheter play, enjoy the adventure, or have an actual catheter fetish.
Can You Have Sex with a Catheter In?
Yes, it is possible to have sex while wearing a catheter, for men and women. Some report pain and discomfort from the extra stimulation and some don’t.
Is Catheter Play Dangerous?
Yes. Catheter play is high risk. It can damage the urethra or bladder or introduce serious infections into the body. Using medical grade catheters, using sterile catheters only, and playing with lovers who are experienced are essentials of catheter play safety.
It is still a high risk activity, especially because many people avoid seeking medical help when something goes wrong, due to embarrassment or shame, and the hope that the infection or pain will go away. Be sure to get help immediately if something goes wrong.
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