Temperature play in BDSM: How to Make an Ice Dildo

Note: This is part 4 of an occasional ongoing "how to" series on BDSM.

Part 1 of the series, How to Tie a Rope Harness Part I, is here.
Part 2 of the series, How to Tie a Frog Tie, is here.
Part 3 of the series, How to Tie a Shinju, is here.

As you might well imagine, none of these posts is even remotely work-safe.

One fun aspect of sensation play that can spice up your sex life is temperature play. Many people have experimented with using ice cubes on their lovers in bed, and I’ve met many women who really, really enjoy the sensation of cold. But there’s more you cn do than just take an ice cube out of the freezer and stroke a bare nipple with it! Presented here is something to take that basic idea to the next level: instructions for making a customized dildo out of ice.

 
  How to make an ice dildo

If you and your lover like using ice, you can create your own sex toys made of ice just by using unlubricated condoms, water, and some ingenuity.

Start with the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels. With a pair of scissors, cut the tube lengthwise. Roll the tube to the diameter you’d like the finished dildo to be, and wrap tape around it to hold it at that size. Take a condom and put it into the top of the cardboard tube, and then overlap the top half inch or so of the condom around the edge of the tube as shown:

Sex ideas: Make an ice dildo

You can use a lubricated or unlubricated condom. If you use a lubricated condom, avoid spermicidally lubricated ones, because the spermicidal lubricant can get funky when it freezes.

Carefully fill the condom to the top with water. Stand the tube upright in the freezer, and wait a few hours. You can probably find all kinds of things to do to entertain yourself while you’re waiting; if not, you can always visit this fine Web site.

In a few hours, the water will freeze. Remove the tube from the freezer. Carefully lift the top edge of the condom from around the tube and tie it in a knot to keep the water from leaking out as the ice melts. Then cut the tape holding the tube closed and remove the ice dildo.

Sex ideas: Make an ice dildo

When you’re finished, the ice dildo should look like the one shown below.

If you like, you can take extra steps to make a fancier dildo by doing things to the cardboard tube before you place the condom in it. For example, if you take thick cord and wrap it in a spiral on the inside of the tube, the finished ice dildo will have a spiral ridge in it. If you take a small sheet of bubble wrap cut to the same width as the inside circumference of the tube and slide it into the tube before you put the condom in it, the finished ice dildo will have a dimpled, textured surface.

Sex ideas: Make an ice dildo

Remember, always run the ice dildo under cool water before you use it. This removes any frost from its surface and starts the outer edge of the ice melting. You don’t want to use ice internally untill it has started to melt and has a thin layer of water on its surface, or the ice may freeze to your skin.


Want your ice cubes or ice dildos to look better? If you boil water and then let it cool before freezing it, the ice will be transparent rather than cloudy.

Cloudiness in ice cubes is the result of dissolved air in the water, which is displaced and forms thousands of tiny bubbles when the water freezes. Boiling the water drives out the dissolved air, which produces ice that is transparent when it freezes.

 
     

58 thoughts on “Temperature play in BDSM: How to Make an Ice Dildo

  1. Okay, so I’m the new kid on the block who’s been tested as just about as plain-vanilla as one can get on the kink scale even after having had sex, so I may be a bit clueless about such things, but. . .

    wouldn’t something that cold do nasty things when it comes up against internal moisture? I know what can happen to your tongue when you lick a popsicle or ice cube, and can only shudder at the thought of that happening with vaginal secretions . . .

    • Nope. That’s why you run it under cool water first.

      It’s a question of thermal energy. As long as the ice has started to melt, it’s just at the freezing point of water. It can’t cause water it comes into contact with to freeze without absorbing energy itself; and when it does that, it melts.

      You can freeze your tongue to an ice cube or a Popsicle if it is significantly colder than the melting point of water. The Popsicle absorbs heat from your tongue, causing the moisture on your tongue to freeze, but it’s so far below the freezing point of water that when the temperature of the Popsicle increases by the same amount as the temperature of your tongue drops, the temperature of the Popsicle doesn’t get high enough for the Popsicle to start melting.

      Warm the Popsicle to the point where its surface is just beginning to melt, though, and your tongue won’t freeze to it.

  2. Okay, so I’m the new kid on the block who’s been tested as just about as plain-vanilla as one can get on the kink scale even after having had sex, so I may be a bit clueless about such things, but. . .

    wouldn’t something that cold do nasty things when it comes up against internal moisture? I know what can happen to your tongue when you lick a popsicle or ice cube, and can only shudder at the thought of that happening with vaginal secretions . . .

  3. Nope. That’s why you run it under cool water first.

    It’s a question of thermal energy. As long as the ice has started to melt, it’s just at the freezing point of water. It can’t cause water it comes into contact with to freeze without absorbing energy itself; and when it does that, it melts.

    You can freeze your tongue to an ice cube or a Popsicle if it is significantly colder than the melting point of water. The Popsicle absorbs heat from your tongue, causing the moisture on your tongue to freeze, but it’s so far below the freezing point of water that when the temperature of the Popsicle increases by the same amount as the temperature of your tongue drops, the temperature of the Popsicle doesn’t get high enough for the Popsicle to start melting.

    Warm the Popsicle to the point where its surface is just beginning to melt, though, and your tongue won’t freeze to it.

    • Not exactly. In one episode the build team were trying to find alternate ways to start a fire: rubbing sticks together, gunpowder, polishing a coke can bottom with chocolate, and so on. One of the last things they did was use an ice lens. They got some clear ice from a local manufacturer of ice for ice sculptures who told them that hey kept the water vibrating to get all the air out. They tried that in the lab and it didn’t work. At no point did someone mention boiling the water.

  4. Not exactly. In one episode the build team were trying to find alternate ways to start a fire: rubbing sticks together, gunpowder, polishing a coke can bottom with chocolate, and so on. One of the last things they did was use an ice lens. They got some clear ice from a local manufacturer of ice for ice sculptures who told them that hey kept the water vibrating to get all the air out. They tried that in the lab and it didn’t work. At no point did someone mention boiling the water.

  5. Ice Dildo Flip

    Hey Tactic, Very interesting idea with the ice dildo. Gonna have to try it for sure.
    I travel a lot, and find myself looking for things to use on the road (sort of speak). Here is something I came up with that works great.

    Fully wet a hand towel with warm water then queeze it out until just damp. Fold over and roll it up VERY tight to create a cylindar of the size you desire. A standard hand towel usualy produces a 8 by 6 shape. You can adjust the size by varing the way you fold it. It needs to be rolled very tight to be ridged. Slide a condom over it and tie the end closed.
    The reason for wetting the towel is it can be gently heated in a microwave which is the oposite of your ice dildo. I supose you could also freeze it too.
    You can also add a little more water just before you tie it closed which has a interesting effect. I think the feel of this thing is more realistic than something hard considering our bods are 90% water anyway.

  6. Ice Dildo Flip

    Hey Tactic, Very interesting idea with the ice dildo. Gonna have to try it for sure.
    I travel a lot, and find myself looking for things to use on the road (sort of speak). Here is something I came up with that works great.

    Fully wet a hand towel with warm water then queeze it out until just damp. Fold over and roll it up VERY tight to create a cylindar of the size you desire. A standard hand towel usualy produces a 8 by 6 shape. You can adjust the size by varing the way you fold it. It needs to be rolled very tight to be ridged. Slide a condom over it and tie the end closed.
    The reason for wetting the towel is it can be gently heated in a microwave which is the oposite of your ice dildo. I supose you could also freeze it too.
    You can also add a little more water just before you tie it closed which has a interesting effect. I think the feel of this thing is more realistic than something hard considering our bods are 90% water anyway.

  7. Ice shots

    The flexable Ice trays you get that make Ice shot cups are great too. Just run them under water like the Ice Dildo and insert them bottom down into your partner and push them home

  8. Ice shots

    The flexable Ice trays you get that make Ice shot cups are great too. Just run them under water like the Ice Dildo and insert them bottom down into your partner and push them home

  9. People love to bring up decentralization these days, whether it’s power or food growth and distribution.

    However, no matter how you slice it, this is ONLY a good idea in a world with expensive, dirty power. Winthin the next 75 to 200 years we as a species will HAVE to find a clean, cheap, abundant source of energy or risk loosing the ability to function as a global community.

    At best decentralization is a stop-gap measure that MIGHT help insure that it’s closer to 200 years than it is to 75 years. However, once clean, cheap, abundant source of energy is found, decentralization will be effectivly meaningless.

  10. People love to bring up decentralization these days, whether it’s power or food growth and distribution.

    However, no matter how you slice it, this is ONLY a good idea in a world with expensive, dirty power. Winthin the next 75 to 200 years we as a species will HAVE to find a clean, cheap, abundant source of energy or risk loosing the ability to function as a global community.

    At best decentralization is a stop-gap measure that MIGHT help insure that it’s closer to 200 years than it is to 75 years. However, once clean, cheap, abundant source of energy is found, decentralization will be effectivly meaningless.

  11. The boiled water we used is practically indestructible! My wife loves the fire/ice differential that this causes.

  12. The boiled water we used is practically indestructible! My wife loves the fire/ice differential that this causes.

  13. I’ve experimented with this in the past. I found that you can add a little shape to your frozen dildo by adding a couple of rubber bands to it, as it freezes. Rubber band size is important but the approx. size of rubber band, can be found in your produce department. Wrapped around Broccoli stems.

  14. I’ve experimented with this in the past. I found that you can add a little shape to your frozen dildo by adding a couple of rubber bands to it, as it freezes. Rubber band size is important but the approx. size of rubber band, can be found in your produce department. Wrapped around Broccoli stems.

  15. I dont know if anyone would want to keep ice in for a long time but it occurs to me that one might be able to use rubber bands as suggested but use a little tighter one to bring the diameter of a certain spot on the didlo in and you could make an anal plug that would stay. You might have to be careful about the skinnier section breaking. But it was an idea I had.

  16. I dont know if anyone would want to keep ice in for a long time but it occurs to me that one might be able to use rubber bands as suggested but use a little tighter one to bring the diameter of a certain spot on the didlo in and you could make an anal plug that would stay. You might have to be careful about the skinnier section breaking. But it was an idea I had.

  17. I am A real Rape Victim and thought i was alone about having fantasy’s but i want a safe word in my fantasy because i dont want something to trigger a memory and me to go into depression again

  18. I am A real Rape Victim and thought i was alone about having fantasy’s but i want a safe word in my fantasy because i dont want something to trigger a memory and me to go into depression again

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