All that being said, I don’t think I’d lock up a fresh PA piercing. I think we waited at least a month (the same amount of time they tell you to abstain from sex). Even then, I’d be very careful hooking the ring onto anything and pay very careful attention to how it felt. Also, IMO, it wasn’t until I stretched my piercing to 6ga that it was big enough to be good for chastity security. Higher gauges, when pulling against the piercing, could result in the dreaded “cheese slicer” phenomenon. The occasional tug and pull are a lot more comfortable at 4ga than they were at 8ga.

I bet the SH2 is easier to clean what with all those slots at the bottom. Probably drains better, too.

WRT to infection, are you talking about a UTI or the piercing getting infected? I don’t know much about how one get’s a UTI, but I do clean the tube out twice a day. The piercing is totally healed at this point, so infection there isn’t possible. The nice thing about urine is that it comes out of your body sterile. Except for the smell, it’s almost like a self cleaning oven or something…

(Could have just emailed you I guess but I thought the question might be useful to others to see here too)

http://steelworxx.de/Steelheart-28p.html

The tools I used to open and close the PA ring are here:

http://www.thechaingang.com/product_info/238/ring-closing-pliers

http://www.thechaingang.com/product_info/571/ring-opening-pliers

If you have a 4 ga ring like mine, you’ll need the large size of both.

My email address is thumpermn at gmail dot com. You’re not blind, but it’s hiding at the bottom of every page.

I’m about half way done writing a page for my blog that goes into more detail with the Steelheart. That video you saw on Xtube will be part of it. It should answer a lot of your questions, but I’m happy to tell you whatever you need to know in the mean time.

The email address I linked is fake, but if you reply here, I’ll see it. I looked all over your blog for your email address, but I guess you’re remaining anonymous (or I’m just blind).

I’m having a hard time picturing something – the PA already makes your urine stream unpredictable, so how does the SH help? Are you filling up the tube and allowing (ahem) hydraulic pressure to direct the stream?

The opening in the SH is round hole about a 1/3 of an inch across (or so). It fills faster than it drains and, indeed, the hydraulic pressure creates a lovely, coherent stream (though you need to be careful when the last of it dribbles out). It can’t really be directed. It just follows gravity.

As to BT’s query – let me qualify that by saying that CDs are always balancing between comfort, convenience, and security. It’s like the little motto that you see in many offices:

1. Good
2. Fast
3. Cheap.

You can pick only 2 two.

I happen to like my CB3k. Admittedly, it’s heavily modified, probably more so than the average user might be able to do. But for us, it’s a 9 on the Comfort and Convenience, and a 6 or 7 on the Security. Obviously, anyone so motivated can get out of any device – but the more difficult it is (without sacrificing much in C or C), the hotter it is.

That being said, if one’s willing to go to the trouble of actually modifying their body (i.e., genital piercing), then the devices can be made much more secure. Can I tell you it’s 100% impossible to come wearing the Steelheart with the new PA fixing? No, but the likelihood of doing it easily has now moved into the low single digits. I can’t imagine a way to do it and, when combined with my inclination not to try, it has become effectively totally secure.

Ironically, though, not more secure than before since I was disinclined to try to defeat it. Knowing I could (and rather easily) tended to remove some of the mystique for me. I needed to bring a fair amount of self-control to the arrangement and, since I kink on lack of control, the less the device allows me, the hotter it gets.

To a certain extent, it’s as though I need to have greater respect for the device. As it stands now, the modified Steelheart is very respectable.

One thing I have never understood is the idea of hiding the key. A key needs to be where it can be easily found, but not used without giving away that fact. And it is understood that by giving away the fact that the emergency key was used the sub is agreeing to any consequences which that might entail.

It seems to me that a simple sealed envelope would do the trick provided the seal couldn’t be opened without damaging the envelope, and the envelope is also unique enough that it isn’t easly swapped out. Scotch tape and greeting cards come to mind as dirt simple, but it could be made as elegant as one wished. Does Belle have a signet ring? How about you? The sort that they used to use with sealing wax? Something like that could class it up.

Furthermore the envelope arrangement opens the possibility of someone not “in the know” about your kink still acting as a delivery boy. They only need to know that you need the envelope, not what is in it or why. As far as they would be concerned it could be emergency cash or something of that sort.

Once you get to the stage that the usual assortment of household tools won’t get the thing off I think you need to make a contingency plan… But how freaking hot is that? Seriously! No fooling around anymore with bits of easily broken plastic. This is the real thing! But that means real responsibility for safety and good health too.

BT

You still can’t pee at a urinal, though.

Au contraire, mon frère. The hole at the end of the tube allows the stream to exit in an orderly manner. I can stand at a urinal and basically drain the tube just like any other dude. In fact, it’s easier to pee with the Steelheart than it ever was with the CB6K.

The downside is that the same little hole makes hygiene a bit more problematic. I find I need to clean it more often.

Reading you over the last year has made me stop squicking about getting a PA. I’m still not getting one, but at least I’m not all weirded out by the idea.