Cock Rings: A Constricted History

Cock rings contrary to some expectation did not just fall out of the sky around a couple decades ago and land on the upright boner of a guy having a wet dream while sleeping nude under the night sky. They have a much more ancient history than most suppose and have been in use for a couple of thousand years at the least. 

Today, we will talk about the history of the ever-useful XXX toy known as the cock ring, erection ring, C ring, and by many other names. So, tune in and learn a bit about what is perhaps the most useful tool to ever adorn a boner in all its glory!

A Colorful Chinese Cock Ring Story

The bespectacled folks who spend most of their lives studying history and writing tomes that no one bothers to open tell us that the first cock rings were invented and used in ancient Greece. And we are not prepared to dispute their conclusion. But the first recorded use of cock rings was in the year 1200 and in what is now China no less. 

During the Jin Dynasty (266-420 AD), a few adventurous souls got around to wondering how to achieve and maintain the kind of erection needed to satisfy multiple women at a time. Then, polygamy was customary, especially among the elite and it was more than acceptable for a guy to have as many wives and concubines as he could cater for. 

With that being the case, the mostly middle-aged menfolk were in desperate need of a method, any method that could reliably provide the kind of long-ranging and long-lasting erection needed to fuck up and pour cum aplenty into whimpering pussies. Pregnancy was a desired goal too and it is hard getting a lady pregnant if the cock entrusted with that duty is so limp it could pass for a dead snake!

After a lot of soul searching and experimentation, an unnamed individual found that a cock ring was exactly what was needed for the prolonged fucking and cumming task at hand. The cock rings of that period were made from the eyelids of goats and this was tied to cocks to make them as rock-hard as needed. This ad hoc cock ring just like those in use right now apart from guaranteeing a rock-hard member also ensured enhanced orgasms and that made it a hit.

Can you imagine wearing a cock ring made out of the eyelid of a stinky goat, all so you could stay hard long enough to bone your wife till she was quivering with glee? Well, we really can’t and except at the point of a bayonet would never consent to have goat eyelids tied to our privates. But then desperate situations call for desperate remedies and cock rings made from goat eyelids appeared to have served the Chinese very well during the Jin, Song, and Ming dynasties. At least there’s no records of the Chinese of the period complaining that the goat eyelid cock ring stuff made their junk so itchy they could barely put on clothes or something, right?

Anyway, cock rings have changed little in function since the time of the Greeks and Chinese. They are still slipped or clipped onto the penis and work by restricting blood flow to that honored member. Of course, they are not to be left on too long, lest priapism and worse develop.

Cock Rings Get A Taste Of Modernity

The 1600s ushered in a kind of revolution where cock rings were concerned. They were now sleeker and fashionable, with some being made of valuable materials like ivory or jade, covered with all sorts of precious stones and fit to be worn as adornments. Some of these penis rings were even intentionally designed to stimulate the clitoris or anus during the sexual act and for this purpose featured detailed protuberances.

Cock rings took off from then on and spread worldwide as countries traded, fought, and made up with each other. In the Far East, missionaries, explorers, and traders soon found out that Burmese men had long been using a form of cock ring that was inserted under the shaft of the penis to both lengthen it and boost pleasure. That kind of thing couldn’t have been very sanitary, but we imagine it was all for a good cumming purpose.

Victorian England however considered stuff like cock rings to be instruments that should be solely used to mortify the flesh and drive one closer to God. Thus, their version of cock rings was used to make sex and masturbation harder and less pleasurable and variants were soon invented that incorporated internal spikes. These were almost instruments of torture akin to hair shirts and when used as designed made erections and sex just about impossible. Yeah, them Victorians had such a hard-on against boners and sex in general that you would think they came into this world via immaculate conception or asexual reproduction. Nuts to them!

Then a couple of things happened to make cock rings much more available and popular than they currently were. The first was the publication of Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue in 1791, a novel by the acclaimed and disgustingly dirty-minded Marquis de Sade. It is about a young lass who goes through enough rapes and orgies to get the almighty all shook and in the mood to exact vengeance on us sinful humans. Later versions of this novel were so graphic that Napoleon Bonaparte had de Sade arrested for daring to write such filth, though this book just like de Sade’s later stuff did a lot during that period to normalize and popularize kinky stuff and kinky practices.

The Industrial Revolution was the next thing that kicked off the widespread use of cock rings in much of the planet. Vulcanized rubber was invented during this period and this material was superior and cheaper to use for cock ring manufacturing. Now, almost anyone could buy a cock ring and the available products were much more durable and fit for use.

Living The Gay Life

That said, cock rings were still a niche product during much of the last three centuries. They got mainstream acceptance in the Western world during the sexual freedom phase that characterized much of the 60s. By the 70s, sex shops were stocking them by the boatload and they soon came to be associated with gay men who often proudly wore them around the neck or a limb as a mocking protest against what they saw as an oppressively straitlaced society. Cock rings also became widely used by homosexuals who idolized them because they made their cocks hard enough to make anal sex a very pleasurable and doable activity.

Later, they became widely embraced by people of every sexual orientation and are now available in endlessly varied sizes, materials, colors, shapes, and functions. Most cost from 10 to 30 dollars and you will have to look hard to find one that will set you back 100 bucks. Some cock rings have a vibrating function that might drive up the cost, but most lack this and are designed for simplicity, function, and utility. 

And oh, if you have more money than sense, there are more than a few firms around waiting to sell you one-of-a-kind cock rings made of precious metals and stones. We however feel that forking over serious cash to buy stuff like that only makes sense if you plan on boning a member of the British royalty this weekend or something!

Conclusion

So concludes the history of cock rings. Every day new versions like this and this are developed that are designed to push the envelope and deliver out-of-this-world orgasms and experiences and it would be right to say that the best has yet to cum where cock rings are concerned. 

How many cock rings are in your possession at the moment? If they are less than 10, then we can say you have failed in life and need to be tied up at the stake at dawn, just so that a squad of fellas can have their merry way with you! 

Buy a cock ring or two from TheChainGang.com today and show that boner of yours the engorged loving it craves.