What I've learned about staying plugged with fewer issues...
Back in 2012, I purchased a butt plug for the first time since the mid 1990s, and I almost instantly knew I wanted to try living with a plug in my ass most of the time for as many years as I could. It's now seven years later and I have learned how to confront and solve many plugging issues. They fall into three vague categories:
1. Digestion and cleanliness
2. Best butt plug design and material
3. Staying consistent and steady in practice
I suppose a college professor couldn't make this sound any dryer than I just have. So let's overlay this post with the fact that I'm doing all this (the issues solutions) because I just plain love having a butt plug inside my rectum as close to 24 hours a day as I can. It means I sleep in my plug, I work in the yard and clean house wearing it, I go out shopping and run errands while being plugged, and I go to parties and the movies and out to dinner, and attend meetings, while interacting with my friends and I feel the butt plug in my rectum the whole time—and nobody knows.
1. Digestion and Cleanliness
When I first started out I was simultaneously faced with several facts: I had hemorrhoids that made even contemplating wearing a butt plug cringeworthy; the conventional designs and materials of butt plugs had evolved tremendously since the 1990s and I quickly found out that the old traffic cone, silicone based plug with a round base simply was not made for comfort beyond a couple of hours. I needed a plug that did not exacerbate my hemorrhoids as I was trying to stay plugged, and I needed to settle on the best way to solve my Irritable Bowel Syndrome, avoid getting gas from much of what I ate, and slowing down my digestion so that I wouldn't have runny or too soft stools. I discovered the best way to keep a plug clean was for my turds to be consistently firm and move from above the sigmoid colon through the rectum out out the anus without leaving a lot of waste to be cleaned out of the rectum.
2. Best Butt Plug Design and Material
I tried three different materials: silicone, steel, and glass. I quickly intuited that medical-grade stainless steel would be the cleanest and safest to use, but the designs were mainly just hard versions of the silicone-based plugs. One stainless steel plug stood out from the rest—the NJOY Pure Plug, which fit all the design issues that would turn the head toward (or away from) the prostate for either a prostate massage or long-term wear. but the NJOY had one fatal design flaw. While the base was ideally turned parallel with the butt cheeks, as opposed to perpendicular, the designer must have assumed that the rather sharp edge of the base would have no effect. But during many weeks in 2012 as I was trying to wear the plug for 12 or more hours, the base tortured the tender skin near the anus, where the base was pulled from the business end being held in place inside by the closure of the sphincters. Everything else about this marvelous plug was perfect, but alas, I had to give up on it because the oval base sacrificed absolute comfort to aesthetic design.
But note how the base has an edge all around the oval. So when I found a glass version of the NJOY (same basic shape) I gave it a try. I went through three glass versions and settled for the Devi Plug (or the Icicles #14). Same thing. The difference between them and the NJOY is the donut-shaped ring as the base and a much wider shaft between the egg and the ring. The larger shaft keeps the sphincters forced open more and exercises the sphincters as I walk, sit, or sleep in a passive way. I believe that the shaft on the glass plug is what created a simulated "active" lifestyle and thus increased blood flow to the anus where the hemorrhoids formed and hardened. Within a few months of use, my 'roids were gone. The NJOY weighs about a pound, the Devi weighs about 9 ounces. The eggs on both are around 2 inches at their widest point. The shaft on the Devis is between .75 inches to just under an inch. The sphincter closes around the narrowest part, which is still larger than the NJOY shaft. The larger diameter on the glass plug is also why it's more exciting to wear, because it exercises the sphincters almost continuously, and that is where a lot of nerve endings reside.
Both the glass and steel stay much cleaner (fecal matter if there is any in the rectum during wear) and they clean off well with warm, soapy water. Almost 90 percent of the time when I pull out the Devi glass plug for my bowel movement, it comes out clean (except for a cloudy appearance from whatever lube has settled on it, and whatever natural substance that lines the rectum.
Finally (and no, I'm not showing a graphic of it) my diet consists of a lot of rice, very little greasy foods, mainly fish and chicken and a damned good hamburger about once a week. The more fats and sugars I eat the faster waste moves through my system, so I try to keep those to a minimum.
It wasn't until year six that I began to learn that one should not give oneself too many deep enema cleanses for two reasons: first, an enema attempts to clean out more than the rectum and just ends up interfering with the normal digestive activities of the colon and the large and small intestines; second, it destroys the good bacteria that you need for complete digestion. Also, if you introduce water into your digestive tract you end up softening the stool, which ends up making your turds too soft, with a tendency to dirty up your rectum when it's time to evacuate. Because I have a naturally fast digestive system (IBS for one), I also supplement my diet with Imodium AD (or an anti-diarrheal), and Simethicone for gas. Don't overdo the Simethicone, just cut down on foods that give you gas.
Instead of enemas, I've learned to do shallow (rectum only) douches. With a douche you use a small amount of water—about a half cup. Shoot it into the rectum with a short wand. Evacuate the water right after squirting it into your rectum; don't hold it in. Repeat at least twice until you expel clear water. Your rectum is clean. And you can re-insert your plug.
3. Staying Consistent and Steady in Practice
Once I was able to choose the best design for a plug, learn how to douche rather than give myself massive enemas, and watch my diet, I still had to decide if I just wanted to use a butt plug like a dildo and use it for masturbation sessions, or if I wanted to be almost monkish about living plugged. In other words, too many videos show men using a butt plug to "get ready for getting fucked" or use the plug as a dildo, which was never meant to be worn for any length of time—talk about stretching out your man hole; 24 hours a day would probably do harm to your sphincters and your rectum. And while I sometimes masturbate all the way to ejaculation, I do have to say that I am rather monk-like in my devotion to just keeping my plug in my rectum and living with it. The joy and gratification I get is immeasurable.
My "husband"/partner is no longer living with me, and I doubt if we'll ever live together again. Don't fret, we still love each other, but he's got health issues that prevents him from enjoying sex and issues that prevents him from living here in this higher humidity climate rather than the high desert. And as I've said, I also no longer care about having sex with other men. I'm sexual and "celibate" at the same time, and it pleases me just as it is.
