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This article is about the sadomasochistic practice. For the German grindcore band, see Cock and Ball Torture.

Cock and ball torture (CBT) is a sexual activity involving torture of the male genitals. This may involve directly painful activities, such as wax play, genital spanking, ball busting, genital flogging, genital bondage, urethral play, electrical play, or tickle torture. It may equally consist of the use of cock harnesses, testicle cuffs, parachutes, prolonged stimulation (teasing), metal cages, cock rings, English cages, not necessarily leading to orgasm. Erotic electrostimulation may be used in CBT.

The use of ball bags, ball stretchers, various kinds of chastity devices and the humbler can also be regarded as forms of CBT.

A ball lock may be used for prolonged entrapment, providing an interesting predicament associated with not knowing when padlock will be unfastened, releasing the testicles.

The recipient of said activity receives emotional pleasure via pleasing another. There is also a high level of excitement associated with another focusing so much careful attention on that particularly intimate part of one's anatomy. There may also be social associations regarding controlling said part of the body. The one enacting the activity benefits by enjoying providing such pleasure to the recipient and having that control. Masochists derive pleasure strictly from the level of pain that torture of their genitals provides them. Sadists also derive pleasure not from the recipient's enjoyment of the practice but rather from the pain they cause the recipient to experience.

Some forms of cock and ball torture entail inserting objects into the urethra, including such things as lubricated cotton swaps, pencils, various types of urethral sounds, and when the urethra is sufficiently stretched, even fingers. Ejaculating while the urethra is blocked by a cotton swap or other object can be an excruciatingly pleasurable experience to the devotee.

Hot wax and alcohol can be used on the male genitals to elicit various levels of pain and pleasure, and alcohol also can be ignited in fast, hot flashes on the genitals.

In more extreme forms of CBT, needles may be inserted through the penis, the scrotum, and even the testicles, in the latter case generally in combination with a local anesthetic such as lidocaine. Care must be taken to avoid severe bleeding, infection, or permanent damage to delicate genital structures. Some extreme practitioners nail the penis to boards, burn it with or on hot objects, cut or split it, and in the most extreme forms of CBT simulated or even actual castration might be carried out, though such extreme acts are relatively rare and may be associated with forms of mental illness.

In addition to its occasional role in BDSM pornography, Tamakeri (玉蹴り)(lit. ball kicking) is a whole genre in Japan, a nation with a large CBT community. One notable actress in tamakeri is Erika Nagai.

• Hardy Haberman, Fetish Diva Midori. The Family Jewels: A Guide to Male Genital Play and Torment. Greenery Press, 2001. ISBN 1-890159-34-4.

• Ball stretcher
• BDSM
• Bondage cuffs
• Chastity device
• Cock ring
• Groin attack
• Tamakeri
• Humbler (BDSM)
• Parachute (BDSM)