Stuff Every Prostate Milker Needs To Know – Hygiene

Wash Your Hands Copyright © 2001 Tony Ross / Anderson Press
 
 
Step right up, I got information on how to maintain safer hygiene practices and precautions.

I got mustard.

Who could possibly resist?     ;)
 
 
Welcome to the hygiene support page for my Prostate Milking post. Here you will hopefully find everything a milker needs to know about effective and safer hygiene practices and precautions for milking.

I originally created this page as a support resource for my prostate milking post. But I find that the practices described here can also be useful for other stuff. Meticulous hand cleansing, for example, is useful and appropriate for lots of situations.

In the process of the extensive research I did for this page, I came across a lot of information which was conflicting, confusing, incomplete and inaccurate. I personally guarantee that the information included here is as detailed, comprehensive, and accurate as I could possibly make it.
 

(but of course, the standard disclaimers apply about how I’m not in any way liable, responsible, or culpable for any consequences resulting from any choices you make according to this information. I offer this resource as information only; anything you do with it is your own business. On your own head be it)   :p

 
 
The resources I used to assemble this information may be found on my references page. You may confirm, deny or simply check stuff out more thoroughly by reading through some of that material if you wish.

I encourage you to learn just as much as you can about hygiene. In my view, hygiene as a topic includes issues such as safety, health, medical risk, behaviour and consent.

I firmly believe that hygiene as a topic is very much underrated. I hope, after going through the material I’ve included here, that you come to agree with me.

I also hope you find it helpful.     :)
 
 

What’s Up With This Milking Hygiene Thingy?

There are a number of elements which contribute to milking situations which can lead to health and safety risks. These risks apply equally to both you and your milk-ee. Without good hygiene practices, these elements can increase risks of transmitting disease and/or infection between you and others.

So, essentially, the point of this page is to provide information on how to avoid transmitting disease and infection by maintaining safer hygiene practices.
 

Let’s hear a big fat YAY for avoiding disease and infection!

 
 

The Elements Of Risk

These are a few of the elements I’ve identified as being specifically milking related hygiene risks:
 

• The extremely thin, fragile, epithelial covering of the anal and rectal wall is easily injured.

 

• Fingernail contact and/or excessive pressure may cause tiny perforations, lacerations, bruising, or other injuries.

 

• Such injuries bleed very easily due to the rich local blood supply.

 

• Injuries or bleeding may often remain undetected unless there is meticulously careful monitoring, and even then they are easily overlooked.

 

• Due to the nature of the anal and rectal areas, faecal matter is likely to be present.

 

• Microbes such as E. coli, which normally live harmlessly in the gastro-intestinal tract, can cause infection or disease if they are introduced to the body through an open wound or blood.

 

• Infection and disease can be transmitted through exposure to the blood, open wounds, body secretions and/or faecal matter of another person, both from them to you and from you to them.

 

• Any inadvertent hand to mouth contact during milking can exacerbate these risks by introducing any or all of your milk-ee’s microbes, infections, diseases, secretions, faecal matter and/or blood to either your mouth and/or nose, or his.

 
Please Note:     These risks are equally applicable to all milking participants.
 
 

How To Minimise The Risk Thingy

Now that you have some idea of the hygiene related risks associated with milking, it is possible to minimise those risks by modifying your behaviour accordingly.

Here are some ideas about how to do that:
 

1. Please maintain scrupulous and meticulous personal hygiene, including thorough and careful hand washing and appropriate glove use.

   Please be aware that the risks of spreading infection and disease are significantly increased by exposure to open wounds, blood, body secretions, E. coli and other microbes in any faecal matter which may be present.

   I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to understand why maintaining hygienic hand and body cleansing is so crucially important for activities such as milking.

 

2. Avoid all activities which may result in hand to mouth contact during milking.
    
   So do not eat, drink, or smoke during milking. Anything you do outside of the actual prostate massage must be done using your ungloved hand. This may seem obvious, but the stakes are high enough that I think it’s worth mentioning explicitly, just in case of any fuckwitism which might have accidentally wandered into the area.

 

3. Maintain meticulous and thorough hand cleansing procedures.
    
   The importance of this cannot be emphasised too strongly.
    
   • Wash hands thoroughly, both immediately before and immediately after milking.
   • Use a fresh supply of disposable paper towels if drying is necessary.
   • Use a fresh paper towel to turn off the taps (if, like most of us, you don’t happen to have those cool elbow operated tap thingys at home).

    

4. Avoid touching anything with your hands after hand cleansing is complete, aside from your milk-ee’s anus and rectum.

   This includes sink taps, doorknobs, doors, furniture, walls, containers of wipes, lubricant bottles, and everything else.

   During the time after you wash your hands and before touching your milk-ee’s anus, have your milk-ee hand you individual wipes, and have him handle any containers to squeeze out lubricant for you.

   After your hand cleansing, prior to milking, and during milking, your milk-ee must be the one to handle all of these items.

 


5. Wash with ordinary soap and water.   Avoid antibacterial products.

   According to one study conducted by the CDC, and another study conducted jointly by the Schools of Nursing and Public Health at Columbia University, hygiene levels in families who used antibacterial cleansing products did not differ significantly from hygiene levels in families who used ordinary non-bacterial cleansing products.

   There were also additional risks identified with antibacterial cleansers used indiscriminately throughout the home, such as some bacterial cross-resistance to some antibiotics, some bacteria developing resistance to the antibacterial agents in the cleansers, and adverse skin reactions to the antibacterial agents in the cleansers. More information may be found in this short readable summary.
    
   So wash with ordinary soap and water, and avoid antibacterial products.

   This Is Important.

 

6. Alcohol is an extremely effective cleansing agent which kills most microbes, if used correctly.

 

7. Appropriate glove use is mandatory. You will really need a good single use disposable medical-grade glove to function as a barrier. This will help avoid possible cross-contamination, infection, or disease transmission if either of you happens to have any scratches or other open wounds which you might not notice.

 

8. Meticulous hand washing is also mandatory. It is hardly worth going to all that trouble to use a glove if you aren’t also going to thoroughly wash your hands to further reduce the possibility of cross contamination. The glove will just pick up anything from your hands if you don’t wash them first.

 

9. Glove use and hand washing MUST go together. Neither are mutually exclusive.
    
   Glove use must be in addition to thorough hand cleansing, not instead of. Glove use does not replace nor eliminate the requirement for meticulous hand washing, nor vice versa.

 
 

Funky Cool Hand Washing Chart

Chart from the World Health Organisation on how to hygienically cleanse hands.
 
Copyright © World Health Organization 2008. All rights reserved. Used here by kind permission.

 
 

Ok, Just The End Bit To Go Now

Ok, this was kind of tedious, but unfortunately terribly necessary. I did my best with it. I’m sure I could have done better if this had been the only post I’d been doing, instead of the 12 or so resource pages I’ve been doing at once which go with the milking post.

Can you tell that I’m getting a little bit fed up? Sure, it’s only been a couple of months I’ve been working on this.     :)

Anyhow, I think the end’s in sight. Everything’s up and pretty much completed with the exception of the Rantage Out-Takes, References/Bibliography, and the Prostate Milking post itself.

I may just take a break now and have a kebab.

I’ll be sure to wash my hands.     :)