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What is an 'Arab Strap'?

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John Paul Vann

16:27 / 26.04.04

Not strictly a thread I know, but this has really been discombobulating us here in the east.
We have been listening to Belle & Sebastian's 'the Boy with the Arab Strap' all afternoon (which is good sometimes & at others, awfully frilly - you really have to be in the right mood) & we quite like the band Arab Strap in an inoffensive way too.
There has also been some suggestion of it being quite rude, & lets face it, in the right context anything with 'strap' in its name has to be risqué, nes pas?

Please help, god knows, we need it...

Mourne Kransky

16:53 / 26.04.04

An Arab Strap consists of a large metal ring that fits around the base of the penis, a slightly less large metal ring that fits around the midpoint of the shaft, both connected by a strap of leather that fits snugly around the scrotum and the base of the shaft.

It is reputed to maintain an erection more fiendlishly than the humble cockring.

Now, a Belle & Sebastian you really don't want to know more about, although Kevin Spacey swears by his I gather.

Ganesh

16:58 / 26.04.04

What he said.

Warewullf

22:08 / 26.04.04

Hrm, I never knew what that was called... (Although my BF did...)

And don't knock the humble cockring.

Huh. Gayest thread ever?

w1rebaby

00:33 / 27.04.04

Has anyone ever used one of these? I'm not that keen on the idea of restricting blood flow to my John Thomas, to be honest. It sounds a little uncomfortable.

Grey Area

08:09 / 27.04.04

I've read the description to some people in the office. The consensus is that if anyone comes at them with that thing strapped to their john thomas they'd be out of the door faster than a really fast thing. I guess the thought of a leather and metal festooned penis is not universally attractive. Goodness knows why...

illmatic

09:13 / 27.04.04

My legs have gone numb.

Christoph_Chicken

09:27 / 27.04.04

Have you been using leg rings?

Isn't it the Arab types who are also fond of inserting a length of smooth metal into their John Tomi, and then moving their hands rapidly up and down?

Ganesh

09:38 / 27.04.04

Always been a bit leery of getting stuck in all-metal cockring. The adjustable leather ones are okay, though.

And yeah, I've heard the same story about men from Arab countries and intra-urethral sounds used as masturbation aids...

Warewullf

10:16 / 27.04.04

It's called "Sounding" and my mate is greatly looking forward to trying it this weekend in Manchester...

As for cockrings, Metal looks best, Rubber works better and leather looks ok but doesn't work as well. For me, anyway...

Grey Area

10:32 / 27.04.04

'Sounding'...you know, I've read/heard/had described in graphic detail that it can be a very stupid thing to do. Something about damage causing air to enter your bloodstream or something. Anyone care to correct me?

lord nuneaton savage

11:03 / 27.04.04

Umm, don't want to contradict but I'd always heard it was a sex aid for horses used by Arabian stud farmers. Hence the 'arab' bit.

Christoph_Chicken

12:08 / 27.04.04

Like reins and stirrups?

Ganesh

12:09 / 27.04.04

I'd heard it originated from a contraceptive device for horses (there's still a version with several rings going the length of the penis, called a 'stallion guard'). Evolved into a male sex toy, though. As these things do.

Ariadne

12:15 / 27.04.04

How would it work as a contraceptive device?

Ganesh

12:27 / 27.04.04

I think it worked by either making the horse's cock so bulky it couldn't effect penetration or, in some versions, it could be strapped upwards or downwards.

Christoph_Chicken

12:43 / 27.04.04

How strange is that? my witty response to Ganesh's Like these things do was actually posted before, even though I must have posted after, having read it..... ?

I wonder if these contracepted horses can talk... and what they say about us Humans...

Ariadne

12:54 / 27.04.04

Oh. Not the sort of contraception the horse would choose, then.

Ganesh

13:02 / 27.04.04

No, horses are dreadfully irresponsible. Many insist on barebacking. It's sheer hippocracy.

pomegranate

22:05 / 27.04.04

i can't believe john thomas is brit slang for the male member, cos that's my dad's name. and he's john thomas, jr.

Warewullf

22:15 / 27.04.04

*snicker*

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:15 / 27.04.04

et, voila

Goodness Gracious Meme

22:18 / 27.04.04

mantis: he probaby doesn't want to let that get about.

*extra snicker*

Grey Area

07:32 / 28.04.04

No, horses are dreadfully irresponsible. Many insist on barebacking. It's sheer hippocracy.

*groan* You should get a hard slap for that one Ganesh.

Goodness Gracious Meme

08:08 / 28.04.04

Isn't that a violation of his hippocratic oath?

Spatula Clarke

11:10 / 28.04.04

Tip for the day: Never get John Thomas and John Hancock confused when asking somebody for their signature.

Myshka

12:38 / 29.04.04

Not quite on thread I know, but on the subject of strange practices referred to by musicians;
Does anybody know what 'runtering' is?
as in the Bryan Adams song

"When the feeling's right,
Im gonna stay all night,
Im gonna runter you"

I have no idea what this is but it sounds pretty scary

12:54 / 29.04.04

It is scary. The world is full of wrong sex. Only yesterday, someone asked me if I liked 'Kipling'.

sleazenation

14:20 / 29.04.04

to which the only reply is "I don't know, I've never been Kippled"...

Baz Auckland

16:07 / 29.04.04

Before he was schooled in Barbelith and the Pirate vs. Ninja debate, my brother was asked by someone in a pub in London if he liked pirates. He replied "um...yeah, pirates are all right." The man then went "ooh, pirates, yeah? eh? eh?" Nudging him with his elbow and raising his eyebrows.'

This made my brother fear that he had suddenly expressed an interest in something very odd and very sexual. "Oh my God! What does it mean if I like pirates?! What did I just agree to?!"

ibis the being

16:42 / 29.04.04

bite your tongue, ibis. bite your tongue.

pomegranate

22:33 / 29.04.04

it's ok, guys, you can laugh. i mean, it's funny. if yr british. in which case you also think benny hill is funny. so, whatever...

Ganesh

22:49 / 29.04.04

That's true - because, after all, we Brits do have a single one-size-fits-all national sense of "fun", don't we? And we are, after all, showing endless repeats of The Benny Hill Show on our terrestrial channels, aren't we? Umm... aren't we?

Spatula Clarke

23:53 / 29.04.04

It is funny, yeah. Like being called Mr Dick Penis. Funny!

I don't understand what's funny about being called Benny Hill, though. Could somebody please explain?

Anyhoo, I speak from experience. Not about being called Mr Dick Penis, but about getting John Thomas and John Hancock confused. I think what made it worse was that I'd asked the other person to "slap it down right there" for me.

Mourne Kransky

00:24 / 01.05.04

6 years at High School in a deprived rural central Scottish community with a headmaster called Dickie Cox (sans blague) and I don't recall that we ever made more of it than the obvious. Well, it was the early seventies and we were more innocent then.

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