So I bought an Infrared lamp

Just me but if I wasn’t willing to drill into the ceiling I would be looking for something like a coat rack. Anything that is close to 4 to 6 feet tall with arms. Stable base and not so obtrusive that you can’t maneuver around it.
Then attach an S hook or even a bigger clamp that you can put an S hook on it. Run cheap chain that is only going to cost a few bucks then an S hook to your clamp light. This allows you to have the heat over your penis and allows you to easily raise the height of the light as needed.

I had originally placed the clamp light on the desk drawer next to me. I almost got burned within the first session. The swivel part of the arm just doesn’t seem to be stable enough for me.

Heck if I was desperate I bet 10 to 12 feet of cheap chain I could probably have put one end to the curtain rod on my wall and the other end to the opposite side of my room to anything stable. The closet hanger bar for example. Then where the chain goes over my penis have an S hook with a separate strand of chain coming straight down. Once you do the initial setup you could probably get the chain up and down in 5 minutes.

I just believe the overhead hanging of the light on a linked chain is the safest way to go. Plus even with all the chain and S hooks we are talking 10 maybe 20 dollars maximum.

I’m concerned with the distance I place the IR bulb now that I came across a website that states the exposure time to receive a burn. At 8” the lamp generates >131F - according to the website, it would take 17 seconds for a 2nd degree burn. This is the website:

I have an infrared lamp, but my concern is whether it can impair fertility. This region of the body is sensitive to these radiations?

It has the potential to lower sperm count considering it’ll overheat the testicles - to avoid this read post #16.

How do I read the post # 16?

Ron Magnus - So I bought an Infrared lamp

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Also, I’d like to know if aluminum foil increases heat being generated or does it stay the same?

No time to read the whole thread, but whatever you are using aluminium for, there is no need - any metal will get viciously hot very quickly. If you are using it as a reflector, use white kitchen towel instead.

The way to judge safe distance from the lamp is with the back of your hand, which is very temperature sensitive, if you can stand the heat on your hand for x amount of time, your penis will be fine for that time at that distance too.

I’m thinking of attaching aluminum foil around the dome so I can control the illumination, will the heat remain the same or does the aluminum increase heat? Perhaps I can use cardboard?

I did use the back of my hand, it was fine at 8-10 inches. When clamped, I make sure it’s tight enough that blood doesn’t escape unlike the back of my hand which remains with normal blood circulation - I believe a clamped penis would be much hotter at the same distance due to no or limited blood circulation.

The al shouldn’t make much or any difference in that case. Clamping is probably the only exercise I don’t ever do under a constant lamp - I heat, clamp, reheat as needed etc. or I heat clamped until my penis is up to temperature, then I get out from under the lamp until I need to reheat.

Thanks firegoat.

I’m curious to know why you don’t use heat during clamping firegoat?

I want to be able to focus on exactly what I’m feeling in the tissues when I clamp.
Although the penis is not a particularly heat sensitive appendage (which is why I always suggest using the back of the hand to monitor heat) our nervous systems are wired to register cold or heat before other sensory input. Clamping under a heat lamp reduces the likelihood of feeling if something bad is about to happen, or gauging where the ‘sweet-spot’ of pressure is etc.

I also find that as the penis is very hard and pointing outwards, the lamp can only be pointed at one surface of the penis at a time, whereas I’d rather heat it right through evenly, then clamp.

(Over exposure to heat or cold would be more swiftly fatal to early man than hunger, other forms of pain etc., which is why our nervous systems generally register it before other sensations).

Makes perfect sense to me!

I thought about buying one to use it throughout my sessions, I’ll reconsider!

Oh I do think they are the very best form of heat, and certainly they are well worth having. Using them constantly when stretching, jelqing, hanging or even pumping is pretty much OK if you are sensible. I just would not to for clamping.