The prince's wand (also known as a penis plug) is a piece of

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. It consists of a hollow tube with a threaded cap at the end. The tube is inserted into the

urethra The urethra (from Greek οὐρήθρα – ''ourḗthrā'') is a tube that connects the urinary bladder to the urinary meatus for the removal of urine from the body of both females and males. In human females and other primates, the urethra c ...

, and a stem is inserted through a

Prince Albert piercing The Prince Albert (PA) is one of the most common male genital piercings.Gage, Simon; Richards, Lisa; Wilmot, Howard; and Boy George (2002). Queer', p. 159. Da Capo Press, The PA is "a ring-style piercing that extends along the underside of the ...

and into another threaded hole on the side of the tube. The general shape is similar to a police

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. The little side stem holds the tube in place. The threaded cap, often just a ball, can be removed so the wearer can urinate through the hollow tube without having to remove the jewelry (from the Prince Albert piercing). Most prince's wands are held in place by a Prince Albert (PA) piercing, but any urethral piercing can be used, and some wands require no piercing. Prince's wands are somewhat uncommon, expensive to buy and relatively difficult to manufacture or procure. They are most popular among men who enjoy urethral play. Prince's wands require precision measurements of the

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and urethra both flaccid and erect, in addition to the original Prince Albert piercing. Princeswandpenis

Types of prince's wands

There are three basic types of prince's wands. The most common, or standard type is the basic "policeman's nightstick". Ringed wands have one or more external rings that are attached to the bead on the outside stem of the wand that passes through the PA piercing, and encircle the penis. Finally, pinless wands do not require a PA piercing to wear, as they have no stem to insert through a piercing. Rarer features include more than one stem, e.g. two opposite ones for an

ampallang The palang ( iba, crossbar), or ampallang is a male genital piercing that penetrates horizontally through the entire glans of the penis. History Penis piercings of proto-Malay origin predated European contact with tribes in (among others) t ...

or an

apadravya The apadravya, like the ampallang, is a piercing that passes through the glans. While the ampallang passes horizontally through the glans, the apadravya passes vertically through the glans from top to bottom, almost always placed centrally and pa ...

or multiple stems for more than one piercing, and various attachments to the external beads.

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