**Cock and ball torture** (**CBT**), occasionally known as **penis torture**, **dick torture**, or **male genitorture**/**male genital torture**, is a sexual activity involving the application of pain or constriction to the [penis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis) or [testicles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testicles). This may involve directly painful activities, such as [genital piercing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genital_piercing), [wax play](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_play), genital [spanking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_spanking), squeezing, ball-busting, genital flogging, [urethral play](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethral_sounding), [tickle torture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle_torture), [erotic electrostimulation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_electrostimulation), kneeing or kicking.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture#cite_note-1) The recipient of such activities may receive direct physical pleasure via [masochism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism), or emotional pleasure through [erotic humiliation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_humiliation), or knowledge that the play is pleasing to a [sadistic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadomasochism) [dominant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_(BDSM)). Many of these practices carry significant health risks.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture#cite_note-2)