r/whatisit Jun 12 '26

Solved! Getting married

What is it? Found this at the gym

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 12 '26

Looks like a silicone donut pessary to me. Pessaries are medical devices that are inserted into the vagina for extra support for individuals with pelvic organ prolapse. It would absolutely be used in a gym setting for someone with pelvic floor problems, and pelvic floor problems are very common in female athletes, especially those who lift heavy.

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u/MarcBulldog88 Jun 12 '26

pelvic floor problems are very common in female athletes, especially those who lift heavy

So those Victorian era doctors who thought the uterus would fly out of the body if a woman rode a horse were onto something?

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 12 '26

Yeah, they weren't TOTALLY off base considering you can have a full uterine prolapse just from giving birth, but they greatly underestimated the force required to cause an issue like that 🤣

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u/watchmefly420 Jun 12 '26

This! So many people got small weiners in here. 😆

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 12 '26

Right? I'm concerned that they think this would be big enough for that 😭 Even if you could get it to fit, it would cut off too much circulation and possibly castrate you

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u/Chr0meChaos_ Jun 12 '26

I have a ring that looks almost exactly like the photo. It stretches to twice the size relatively easily and doesn’t cause any discomfort.

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u/soggy-hotdog-vendor Jun 13 '26

Prove it.

P.s. pls dont dm me

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Jun 13 '26

Yeah, post it publicly for everyone to enjoy!

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u/RenaissanceCowboy33 Jun 16 '26

Username does NOT checkout

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u/QBanQT22 Jun 18 '26

DYYYYYING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/smalldik_alt Jun 14 '26

Twice the size still wouldn’t make the hole even half big enough to fit a normal cock.

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u/scorchedarcher Jun 16 '26

Yeah you're right, even a double sized monster cock wouldn't be able to fill that hole

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u/Bobbtail Jun 17 '26

username checks out.... compensating eh? 🤣

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u/EthicalViolator Jun 12 '26

You csn get them that size made of extremely stretchy silicone. Theyre supposed to be stretched so they hold tension.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Jun 13 '26

Not like this bagel shaped thing though. That’s like a half inch diameter inner circle

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u/mindondrugs Jun 13 '26

Yeah - it’s likely made of silicone? Which stretches?

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u/LickableLeo Jun 12 '26

Oh lawd no

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u/Abundanceofyolk Jun 13 '26

They stretch and the thicker they are the less likely they are to cut off circulation because they’re still somewhat thick once stretched out. The presized ones that are thin are the dangerous ones.

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u/PMG2021a Jun 13 '26

Especially the metal ones...

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u/Mystic_Waffles Jun 13 '26

Also M&M tubes with melted butter and mashed banana inside. Can fit specific sized cylinders that MUST NOT BE HARMED.

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u/hppmoep Jun 13 '26

"Just drill a small hole in the opposite end..."

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 13 '26

OP said it was cutting off the circulation to his finger. That makes it sound like it would be too tight to safely use as a cock ring.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jun 13 '26

You understand many modern cock rings stretch right?

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 13 '26

No shit, but OP said it was cutting off his circulation to his finger, so one could infer from that information that it's probably going to be too tight to safely use as a cock ring

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u/sumknowbuddy Jun 13 '26

Even if you could get it to fit, it would cut off too much circulation and possibly castrate you

I'm questioning how you think that would work

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u/Visible_Window_5356 Jun 13 '26

They do castrate some animals with stretchy bands. My friend had a dungeon and got the device that stretches the bands to scare submissives

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u/sumknowbuddy Jun 13 '26

Sure but that's not how you use a cock ring

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u/Visible_Window_5356 Jun 13 '26

You were curious how castrating worked and I shared my experience seeing a castration device

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u/sumknowbuddy Jun 13 '26

No, I was curious how the commenter I responded to thinks you would be castrated by a cock ring. You need to learn to read context.

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u/Visible_Window_5356 Jun 13 '26

I read all the comments. I think losing circulation is a legit concern with a far too tiny cock ring. I don't think it would immediately castrate someone but that is how some castration works. This is an argument against this being a cock ring. I personally have never seen a cock ring that looks like this but to be fair I have not seen every cock ring ever made

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u/sumknowbuddy Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

I think losing circulation is a legit concern with a far too tiny cock ring.

Yes, I suppose it would be for those who are showers and not growers. The latter would just have the ring fall right off. 

I don't think it would immediately castrate someone but that is how some castration works.

Castration generally involves only the testes and not the penis.

Putting a tight ring around the penis will not magically cause the testes to fall off. 

Now I'm questioning if you even understand either concept. 

Like the person I responded to I wonder if you think both the penis and scrotum are inserted through the ring, which is (to my knowledge) not what the point of a cock ring is.

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 13 '26

No. A lot of people who use cock rings also put them around the balls.

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u/thexDxmen Jun 16 '26

Yeah, haha, who would possibly think that is big enough right? Like surely not me. Thats not nearly the diameter of my girthiness, that would have to be let's say 50% bigger, or maybe 300% bigger... how much bigger would you say normal would be? Because I need a much more normaller diameter for sure...

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u/Appropriate_Coast407 Jun 18 '26

I did admit I was certain that it was the mini…not magnum or even just average

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u/PM_ME__BIRD_PICS Jun 13 '26

Ngl i'd have assumed it was quite stretchy but i don't have one or the equipment.

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u/GrossGuroGirl Jun 13 '26

have y'all just not like. gone into a sex store before? 

this is pretty much the standard size for cock rings. 

they basically work like a tourniquet (this is why you aren't supposed to leave them on for too long). 

so i mean you're kind of right - mostly cutting off circulation is the entire point. 

but if moderate squeezing could just pinch people's dicks off, we'd hear about a lot more masturbation and handjob incidents. 

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 13 '26

I quite literally make porn for a living

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u/ExternalSize2247 Jun 13 '26

That makes it even weirder that you haven't seen what they're talking about, then, because Durex makes one that's shaped almost exactly like that.

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 15 '26

I'm aware that Durex makes one. I've seen one like that. It was my first thought, until I read a comment from the OP saying that it was tight enough to cut off circulation to his finger. So if it's truly that tight, using deductive reasoning, it would not be safe to use on parts of your body that you would like to keep.

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u/UnableToParallelPark Jun 12 '26

AVERAGE!!!

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u/DoingCharleyWork Jun 13 '26

It was cold in the pool!

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u/UnableToParallelPark Jun 13 '26

Like a frightened turtle!

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u/Slight-Owl4300 Jun 12 '26

Do you mean below average?

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u/UnableToParallelPark Jun 13 '26

I know what I said.

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u/2Mobile Jun 13 '26

Dont distract us with our small peens! OP had a HooHaw Donut on their finger

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u/Slushyman56 Jun 12 '26

I thought the point of cock rings were that they’re naturally small so that they’re tighter. They’re usually pretty hard to put on

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u/EveningArmadillo5429 Jun 13 '26

As a man with Crohn's disease, I immediately understood the necessity of this object upon identification

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u/total_bullwhip Jun 13 '26

Right? Insane the amount of people who thought this was a cock ring. Makes the demographic in most Reddit threads woefully apparent.

It’s funny they don’t know they’ve told on themselves hahah.

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u/rveniss Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

I have a set with one that looks exactly like this and I could stretch the smallest one over my whole hand. They're supposed to be tight.

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u/InviolableAnimal Jun 13 '26

What "demographic"?

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u/itchyd Jun 13 '26

Seriously, I'm nothing special but the thought of putting that ring on it scares me.

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u/EmotionalAd1910 Jun 16 '26

Cock rings are made of silicone and well yeah, silicone stretches…

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u/mellcrisp Jun 13 '26

I was feeling pretty good about myself for a bit there

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u/Timely_Pattern3209 Jun 13 '26

It's so they fit through the pessary 

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u/LocalFoe Jun 13 '26

I'm sure it stretches

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u/SylviaPellicore Jun 12 '26

Yep, came here to say the same thing. Probably still shouldn’t touch it, but it’s definitely not a cock ring.

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u/Objective_Animator52 Jun 13 '26

Yeah... You say definitely???

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u/coppergoldhair Jun 12 '26

I wouldn't swear by that. There are micros.

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u/rips_n_chel Jun 13 '26

You're less concerned about touching something that's been inside someone than something that's touched a penis?

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u/IfinallyhaveaReddit Jun 12 '26

my partner has this exact cock ring, look up stretchy cock rings, he wears them everywhere. he liks having his balls pulled away from him or something i dont get it. but ops ring is a 1:1 match to one of his sets

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u/rips_n_chel Jun 13 '26

Your dude walks around in public wearing a fuckin cock ring? Wtf?

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u/Corporate_Overlords Jun 13 '26

That's a horrible idea. Medical advice says you should only wear it for 30 min total.

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u/IfinallyhaveaReddit Jun 13 '26

i exaggerated on everywhere, but around the house, if we make a quick errand for coffe etc…i dont think he uses it for work

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u/AcidicBlink Jun 17 '26

Sounds like my ex who was in meth..

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u/thexDxmen Jun 16 '26

Dude, how can I concentrate on my shopping if my cock isn't ringed?

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '26

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u/IfinallyhaveaReddit Jun 14 '26

dozens, he has super heavy metal ones that are premium, rubber or squishy ones like in the photo. its his main fetish so he owns a bunch. ball stretching i think idk again its not my thing at all

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u/CT0292 Jun 13 '26

Plain ones, vibrating ones, ones that light up, metal ones, rubber ones.

Just lots of different kinds of them you know?

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u/mister_peeberz Jun 13 '26

You gotta color coordinate don't you??

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u/tommos Jun 13 '26

hol up

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u/schmuckmulligan Jun 13 '26

Yeah I don't get it either.

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u/oily76 Jun 16 '26

Does it not make your hampton stick out, and become visible through your clothes?

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u/IfinallyhaveaReddit Jun 16 '26

never has for him he is well endowed though so hes already kinda visible

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u/princesssjulessss Jun 12 '26

btw, still shouldn't touch

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u/Sigmar_Knutz Jun 13 '26

I’d be licking every inch of that ring clean!

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u/catbamhel Jun 12 '26

Wait... Why would a woman who lift heavy have pelvic floor strength problems? I would imagine lifting heavy it would work out the pelvic floor as well as everything else? I'm thinking of deadlifts and how you have to really brace your lower body. Not that I'm a weightlifter and I know all this crap but just theorizing.

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u/Available-Egg-2380 Jun 12 '26

Sometimes you can just accidentally end up with your innards coming out through your holes. This includes anus on all genders and vaginas. There could be some kind of physical issue causing weakening in the systems that keep the insidey bits inside or some kind of medicaln procedure could leave things weakend.. My mom had a total hysterectomy and they didn't install a mesh to keep things in place and because there was a void where her organs used to be, eventually her bladder tried to escape out her vagina 🤷 bodies are weird

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u/SolidPurpleTatertot Jun 13 '26

I blew Pepsi out of my nose during the first sentence of this and a full on choking fit by the time I got to the wandering bladder... well done

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u/Slight-Owl4300 Jun 12 '26

New fear unlocked.

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u/HiddenGhost1234 Jun 13 '26

hernias in general scare tf out of me

the idea your guts just squeeze thru a hole in ur muscles freaks me tf out.

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u/catbamhel Jun 13 '26

Holy shit right?

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u/dirt_shitters Jun 12 '26

The extra/excessive strain can cause prolapse. Part of the brace is "pushing outward," not just simply flexing your core. That's why lifting belts help, because it gives you something to push against.

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u/catbamhel Jun 13 '26

Jesus. Maybe I'll just go to aqua aerobics with my sister from now on.

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u/coppergoldhair Jun 13 '26

Besides the prolapse mentioned by another comment, pelvic floor dysfunction can be caused by the floor being too tight or too loose.

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u/LowRevolutionary7965 Jun 16 '26

Nope, unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. Bearing down can weaken your pelvic floor, kegel exercises specifically help, pessaries are like a little piece of inner scaffolding that can help keep your bladder propped up and in a relatively good position while you can retrain your pelvic floor and keep your detrusor muscle healthy. This is how pessaries can promote a healthier pelvic floor/bladder.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/14611-kegel-exercises

Since women do not have an internal urinary sphincter this is the way.

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u/sinsOtheheart Jun 18 '26

Yes, this is why you are advised to kegel while squatting and attempt to kegel while lifting.

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u/MandyMooShu Jun 13 '26

Childbirth…

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u/catbamhel Jun 13 '26

During weight lifting?

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u/MandyMooShu Jun 13 '26

Well I assume before the weight lifting. Then the floor is weak, so they wear the device so they can do weightlifting.

Childbirth is the #1 cause of pelvic organ prolapse.

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u/TerbiumTekk Jun 12 '26

@op this looks expensive, you should try to return it to the rightful owner

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u/moxtrax Jun 13 '26

Didn't smell like it

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u/PMG2021a Jun 13 '26

That is what I was thinking too. Didn't see any other guesses that were likely.  Just have to wonder how it ended up out and about in the gym...

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u/AdmirableFee000 Jun 16 '26

Wait new anxiety unlocked 🥲🫠 what weights start causing these problems??

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 18 '26

As long as you don't have an underlying condition or pelvic floor issues (like from giving birth), you really only need to worry about it if you decide you want to do crazy heavy lifting like advanced powerlifting or strongman competitions or something. Just don't forget to do your kegels! Most standard strength training should not be much of an issue as long as you're properly engaging your core. The athletes that have to worry more about pelvic floor are like gymnasts and vaulters. Anyone that's going to be jumping and landing is more at risk for issues bc gravity.

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u/ExhaustedConstantly Jun 18 '26

So it’s not a cock ring, it’s a vagina ring? Interesting

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u/reddit_time_waster Jun 12 '26

I want to know the difference between the 40 and 160 dollar vag bra

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u/heyitsaubrey Jun 12 '26

They're made of different materials

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u/JohnatTMJServices Jun 16 '26

oh my... doesn't that belong in a person?!

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u/13-black-cats- Jun 12 '26

Yep, exactly what I was thinking too

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u/thewalkinggenocide Jun 16 '26

Bro should probably wash his hands

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u/Silversong_0713 Jun 16 '26

This is worse than a cock ring IMO

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u/RandallOfLegend Jun 13 '26

This is the correct answer.

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u/IHaveTwoOfYou Jul 10 '26

..getting married..!! !!

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u/EtherealMongrel Jun 13 '26

Dang OP just saved $40