Family Jewels: A Guide to Male Genital Play and Torment Book

I enjoyed this "How-to" book. It contains everything that is necessary to understand what to do and avoid: basics of BDSM plays (safeword, discussion on limits), anatomy of male genitalia, health and safety tips, ingredients (toys) and methodology. And the recipes (CBT scenes) demonstrate that we can have fun torturing the genitals of another man or having his own tortured.

The POV is unusual: second person. "You like the thought... Your boy likes it too..." This is the teacher explaining his students what to do.

Speaking of CBT scenes, even though I loved the scene with the two boys back to back, I'm not sure that shoe polish on whipped skin is good for it. It's not made of animal grease anymore (at least, not only). It's usually made from a mix of natural and synthetic materials, including naphtha, turpentine, dyes, and gum Arabic, using straightforward chemical engineering processes. Shoe polish is usually flammable, can be toxic, and, if misused, can stain skin. Naphtha and turpentine on chafed skin? Hum! And it wouldn't be a good idea to smoke above shoe-polished balls then. If the desired effect was just to color the balls in blue, he could have used natural coloring for food. But maybe shoe polish is less painful than real blue balls.



I looked for Betadine on Internet, to know if it exists without that yellowish color. Nope! There is iodine in it. That's what gives it that color. Looking for that, I discovered that you can get Betadine soaps, shampoos, sprays, in very small bottles (4 fl oz) and in almost big enough to bath you in (1 gallon). lolll I only knew the domestic little bottles. But there is another as effective disinfectant that is colorless: chlorhexidine-alcohol. The producers of Betadine call it Betasept. You can find it at the same places than Betadine. No, I'm not a seller for that company. That's just for your information.

This book doesn't include electroplay though. I was a little disappointed by this but the author gives a reference for another book ( Juice: Electricity for Pleasure and Pain) that could provide the information needed.

If the author is as meticulous and caring as his examples of scenes show, I wouldn't hesitate to entrust him with my genitals. ;)

Obviously, this is not a novel, but it reads quite well. Even a novice could read and understand it. I had an old copy of this book. I don't know whether the latest edition have fewer typos, but there were many in my version. So I remove half a star for that and the fact that there is no mouth-watering picture of the "meals" (photos of the results). But I didn't find anything else wrong with this book and I enjoyed it, so I round it up to 5 stars.

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