billf82 (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:05 pm Over the years, I have used an elastrator many times in play sessions. I have had experience both as the one being banded and the one applying the band. I find the experience (in either role) to be extremely exciting. This is a real, practical castration tool. Granted the consequences of letting the process complete on a human may be a bit untoward, but as far as killing the balls goes, it will do the job. Quite frankly, I don't know which gives me a bigger rush, banding or being banded. All of my playing has involved restraints so that the bandee was pretty much helpless. My partners in this have all pretty much found the experience very exciting as well. I try to limit time banded to 20 minutes maximum, usually somewhat less. I don't do this frequently which might affect the pain level, but I've found that by twenty minutes, that deep ache is more than I want to continue. In general, guys I've played with have agreed with that timing and pain assessment. Cutting the band always produces the intense sting. I have tried topical anesthetics to reduce that but without a lot of success. (Maybe picked the wrong ones.) That part I really don't enjoy but that may be at least partly because it tends to be post-orgasmic. I have noticed no lasting effects and, in fact, other than some tenderness of the scrotum, no short term effects.