Anal contraction - smaller sphincter diameter or inward draw?

To me it's just a simple contraction of the sphincter, not sure there's much more to it than that.

i consider it both a contraction of the sphincter along with kagels (prostate pulsations).

Thank you! Perhaps I'm trying to be too specific about the term 🙂 I guess I've just gotten hung up on the idea that the concept seems somewhat fundamental and hence wanting to understand it exactly right. I've been trawling through all the old forum posts without being able to find a post that describes that aspect... So thanks, Smudge!

Btw, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I take your answer to mean "just contract, don't overthink" - and to maybe guess a little further, that some of the contraction translates to a "tighter sphincter" (i.e., squeezing more tightly on the sides of the Aneros in the anal passage), and that some of the contraction equates to drawing / pulling the anus inward toward the front / top of the body (such that the Aneros is pulled deeper in).

I'd be really curious to know if that's how other super-o'ers also use the term.

i have a different view. the most important thing to understand is that the contractions you seek are involuntary. you do not decide to do them. they happen as a result of pleasure, and increase the pleasure.

when you have a standard ejaculatory orgasm, you involuntarily contract all your pelvic floor muscles, including your anus, and many others. you do not decide to do that.

i disagree with the idea that conscious contraction of the muscles can trigger involuntary contractions. the only thing that can drive involuntary contractions is pleasure. that is the key to the aneros feedback loop. sometimes voluntary contractions can produce a bit of pleasure. but, so can just doing nothing, and paying attention to what you are feeling, in conjunction with thinking very sexy, naughty, arousing thoughts.

in sum, i don't think your question is an important one. you are concentrating on a detail that doesn't matter.

once you become skilled at the aneros, you'll learn that there are very many muscles down there, all with a different flavor, and leading to different kind of orgasms:

• anal spincter (an asshole orgasm)
• various spots along the rectum (an anal orgasm)
• the muscles around the prostate (a prostate orgasm)
• the cremaster (scrotum) muscles (a balls orgasm)
• some other set, i don't even know which, that produce the feeling of squirting and ejaculating (but are in fact dry orgasms)
• glutes

darwin

Hey @Candle40,

I'd love to know what most people refer to by an anal contraction

Well, the term is as specific as it get's: it means the contraction of the anal ring muscle. But that doesn't mean everybody is using this term "correctly". And there's another catch: you have two sets of anal ring muscles - an outer one (the one you can clench at will) and an inner one (you can't clench nor relax this one at will - that's the one that makes anal sex painfull for clueless noobs).

(i.e., using muscles to draw the anus toward to the front of the body)

Not quite sure what you mean here. I guess you mean the levator ani respectively the PC-Muscle. These form a sling around the bowles and draw them towards the front. This is a mechanism for defecation: the old kink in the hose trick. The muscle sling grabs the place where your colon ends and blends into the rectum (≠ anus) and only opens to let "one portion" of waste into the rectum. The rectum acts as some kind of airlock. One door is the PC-Muscle, the other one is the anus. When something is waiting "in the chamber" (= the rectum), your inner anal ring muscle recognizes the pressure and slowly relaxes. So over time you'll have to make use of the outer anal ring muscle more and more to keep it in and know it's time to search for a restroom.

So, the PC draws the tip of the aneros towards the front of your body, not the neck (which is hold by the anus).

I've been trawling through all the old forum posts without being able to find a post that describes that aspect...

Since I'm a (lonely) fan of pelvic muscle mapping, I wrote about this a few times. The best source of information I found on this general topic are two youtube videos (one, two) which are also linked in the wiki by now.

@darwin has a point though, that conscious muscle flexing won't get you on the road to Super-O. BUT: training your pelvic floor muscles (aka doing kegels) is very beneficial for waking up the nerval cluster in this region. For me personally, the ability to control the various different pelvic muscles independently is a key skill!

Cheers, Unfug