Prostate Massage – Precautions and Contraindications

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Note: before having a Prostate Massage, check with your physician or healthcare practitioner if there are no medical objections, notably if you suffer from an acute prostate disorder.

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You can carry out Prostate Massage yourself or have it done by a partner, but if it’s a first-time experience it’s perhaps better to have a professional prostate massage therapist doing the treatment. By doing so, you can experience how Prostate Massage should feel, which makes it much easier to do it yourself afterwards.

An Internal Prostate Massage (performed via accessing the rectum) should always be done gently, with clean hands, and with plenty of lubricants, and preferably with the use of thin latex gloves (to be obtained at any pharmacy), and with short, clean nails.

Note that a first-time Prostate Massage generally feels somewhat uncomfortable or strange. Nevertheless, vigorous, hard or strong internal pressure and movement is never advised; the anus, rectum, and prostate are delicate organs that can easily be damaged, causing cuts, tears, fissures, bleeding, and abrasions.

Rectal cuts, fissures, and tears are not only uncomfortable; they can also create a higher risk of bacterial infections, cellulitis, or flare-ups of hemorrhoids.

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Men who suffer from acute bacterial prostatitis are advised not to have an Internal Prostate Massage, because this may increase inflammation and the spreading of bacteria to the urethra or other parts of the urinary tract system, and finally to the bloodstream.

Additionally, men who are already diagnosed having prostate cancer, spreading of cancer cells may be stimulated (metastasis). To be clear: if you have prostate cancer, Prostate Massage is not advised.

Mind that performing manual Prostate Massage (notably internal prostate massages) without formal training can do harm to the reproductive system. This also counts for the use of both non-electronic and electronic prostate massagers without training and/or proper instruction.

If you use sex toys i.e., prostate massagers, only use those that are considered absolutely safe, that is, really do research and inform yourself well and check thoroughly on materials used, quality, and safety aspects.

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