Sounding a guy with a feather... do I need to explain why this was excruciating to read? Feathers are a breeding ground for dirt and bacteria; two things you absolutely don't want in your eurethra. Metal exists in this universe and this is taking place in a pleasure house so why wouldn't they have a specialist tool made for this purpose? I get that it's a spontaneity thing but.. no. The urethral lining has the consistency of wet paper towels and isn't a straight path but yeah, just ram it all the way in! I'm sure that will feel great for him and not result in serious injury! Picturing an internal tear in my own d*ck made me want to shrivel up like a raisin.

I'm sure some people would make the argument that 'it's just fiction' but as we saw with the dark BD*M romance boom, people don't do their own research and take the erotica they read at face value (especially when it's something that gets as little representation as sounding) and think that zip ties are an okay form of restraint to use irl. That's how people get seriously hurt, because fiction makes things look easy, when all the author has done is remove all of the 'boring' steps to a kink relationship, like healthy communication, safewords, physical safety for practices like choking and bondage, and... and not giving your partner dickrot, for god's sake! It's a really irresponsible thing to write as an author, is my point. He could have written literally anything else (i.e. something resembling hygienic sounding) because it's fiction.