roninhouston wrote: RTE's also get hard when the IPP is inflated. When inflated and aroused you can feel all three masses, more like hard veins, running thru the perineal area. RTEs are attached or extended to the pubic bone. RTE form the root of the IPPs and provide the leverage when erect from the pubic arch.
Having never seen a prosthesis in person, I do not know how hard its material is or that its hardness changed during inflation. I thought it was not any more flexible than say, a solid nylon block. So, I thought embedding as much of the high-pressure tubing and valves inside would lead to longer life for those components. No exposed connectors and no pinching or tangling of tubing.
roninhouston wrote:Seems like you are running out of RTE space to put a button on that end of it, it would have to be on the bottom of shaft to seem natural. Otherwise you have a bump on the top of your shaft. I have two 5 cm RTEs, they start at the bottom of my shaft and go almost to my anus, i.e., the bottom third of the penis.
IMHO would look to put a button in the scrotum area, where the pump is now. It would be easy to reach. As for as RTE life, have not heard of any problems with them, most problems seem to be with the pump bulbs wearing out.
Yes the available space is the great unknown. I have no idea of the dimensions available inside the human body, so that is the source of my question. Is there enough rear extender to contain the parts If and enough of it able to be touched by an operator (yourself or partner) to 1) inflate the device and 2) open the deflation valve? And still be of a practical size installed?
If a solid rear tip to the inflatables were to be long enough to mount a toggle button of some kind (Maybe a button that reaches from side to side of the rear extender. Push it on the left and it's closed, push it to the right and it's open) or a ball-point pen type button somewhere, or going high-tech, a valve that could be toggled open or closed by passing a magnet across your pubis or under your scrotum. (DO NOT LOSE THE MAGNET WHILE ERECT!) Of course, MRI machines would be a problem here, too.
What I was contemplating in my topic "Pumpless Implant" was some way to 1) minimize the pieces in the scrotum (mine would be a tight fit), 2) minimize the fragility of the connectors, tubing, pump and valves by enclosing them in a protective casting and 3) enable inflation without pumping by hand, instead using foreplay and the initial actions of beginning coitus to do the inflation.
Key to the practicality are three things. 1) That initial inflation could be done by moving the upper end of the Rear Extender (which depends on you being able to manipulate it), 2) some way to operate the deflation control valve and 3) the volume of the pumping bulbs being large enough to deliver enough fluid to the inflatable tubes.
The two big questions are,
would a rear extender long enough to be worked by hand for the valve and the initial pumping be too long and stick out too far forward to allow normal flaccidity?
I am pretty sure the two individual RTE's in current use are too small to contain my design, so molding the two into a single, larger diameter rear tip extender would be necessary. Would that size be too large to fit in a man's groin? For that matter, why are there separate RTE's for the separate inflatable tubes? I get why there are two tubes, but a single "mount" for the two tubes seems to me simpler. If it's a matter of individual sizing of the left and right tubes, having a two recesses in a single rear tip module would work, as sizing shims could to in the recesses.
Note, I try to use proper terminology, but I am a layman and many of the medical terms throw me. For example your description of the tissues and flesh overlaying the IPP takes some real imagination on my part, and I hope I got it right.
Thanks for reading. I hope I didn't ramble on too long.
Lost Sheep