Dodgy, I cant see the image that you have posted for your homemade stretcher. It shows [linked image] where it should be. Id like to see what you came up with as I have some polymorph on the way. Thanks

I checked Dodgy's posts for an email addy, but he didn't post one. Since it's been already four months since he visted her, it's unlikely he'll get your message.

Be creative in making your device. It needs to slightly tax the opening to stretch, yet not create trauma. Make sure all edges are completely smooth.

I doubt "Dodgy" has done anything exactly intentionally to cause this, or that he can do anything to rectify it.

Having read the details on "Imageshack", I can only surmise that we have suffered from excess popularity and that since the image was linked directly here without the advertising overlay required by Imageshack, it has exceeded their (apparently generous) limits and been blocked.

And unfortunately, while I have studiously taken a copy of most images posted here, I have omitted to do so in this case and cannot even offer an alternative link to it.

Happened to look in today and saw his thread!

Link to original thread:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/244184/message/1263997318/Homemade+Stretching+Device

Here's a new uploaded pic:



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Have no idea why it disappeared from Imageshack - certainly wasn't me.

Might be a good idea to keep a local copy in case it disappears again.

By the way, I've nearly finished my stretching (had a month or so out due to an unrelated operation). I can now get four fingers into the opening where originally it was a struggle to insert one. I can now readily retract when erect, and am now really just "going the extra mile" for a little more looseness and to "lock in" the expansion.

Can I just tell any sceptics that stretching *really does work*, stick with it and you'll get results. You need to give your body time to grow those new skin cells, but you'll get there.

Can I also suggest that you keep any device inserted lubricated (I just used plain "E45" cream) so that you can rotate it? I found that a "dry" object caused soreness fairly rapidly.

Thanks again to Jim and Paul for this board - much appreciated.

You see Dodgy, Paul and I have nothing but a theory without young men of courage to trust us and prove our ideas. We thank you for your dedication to seeing your project through.

Thanks also for reposting the picture. I've captured it, so if this problem recurs, we can repost it again.

Many thanks, Dodgy, for continuing to "keep an eye" on this discussion and uploading again the picture of the "Dodgy Stretcher", I most certainly have taken a local copy of this now as Jim has.

Thanks also for your comments on success. This forms a mild sort of "proof" that we are not simply "making up" the concept of stretching and your success story. Neither of us is any Joanne Rowling and we are hardly going to claim that we lost the image just in order to bolster your/ our claims. We go further to point out that the only difficulty is the need for persistence with the desire to achieve a goal through personal effort alone.

Just in case I might omit it at some time, your reminder about the essential use of a lubricant to be used with this or any other stretching device, is most opportune.

I do believe I know what happened to the previous image. Imageshack gives you a link to use to paste into Web pages which includes special references to their site and I gather, allows them to attach advertising which in the usual fashion, subsidises their site. Their Terms of Service state that if an image is downloaded excessively without this payload, they will suppress that image. Network54 on the other hand, strips most such "excess" information from a link (though examination of your more recent post suggests that they have corrected certain bugs that have annoyed me for the last year or two), and it is quite likely that this discussion is sufficiently well viewed to trip Imageshack's supervisory mechanism.

In any case, Jim may be able to edit your original post to insert the more recent image code.

Original posting is edited.