The variety of complications from these UP practices
certainly h as the potential of predisposing t he male to
a wide array of disorders. Sometimes calculus formation
can be a phenomenon in which s ome of t hese smaller
foreign bodies can be d etected ( van Ophoven & d eK-ernion, 2000). From t he 74 comments in R inard et al.’s
(2010) study about inserting liquids and objects into t he
male urethra, only 10 respondents m entioned any u ri-nary tract problems; fi ve UTIs were mentioned, four re-ported u rethral irritations, and one s tated h e h ad “some
major and minor bleeding t hat [ were not] serious.