Does balooning have any disadvantages?

I saw these things online, and though you might want to do some more research before continuing. If for nothing else then your physical health.

"Penile exercises can damage or distort the nervous cells, fibers and synapses in the corpora, the area where nitric oxide and dilator cGMP neurotransmitters are released in order to power an erection. Once the false enlargement is gone, the penis looks like a beat up sausage and will not erect spontaneously—not permanently, but for a few days or weeks. When the penis regains its erectile capacity after the nerves repair themselves, the erection may never be as hard as it was."

"After examining my member after a few sessions like this I realized it felt very different. It felt very numb, it was not as hard when erect, and the head was a lot less sensetive than usual. I did some research on the net and noticed a lot of men also had similar experiences with jelqing. I then decided not to do anything sexual for 1 mth to let it recover, but after 2 weeks I was already concerned enough to book a doctor visit as it did not seem to be recovering as well as I hoped. Erections were harder to get, the underside of the penis head (the sensitive bit) was no longer sensitive and I could not really get a nice "plateau" sexual stage either during sex or masturbating. Today I had the appointment and although the doctor luckily said there probably isn't any major damage and recomended to give it a month to heal, I have read stories where others did not notice these changes early enough and did really serious, very much permanent damage to their most precious organs including impotence etc.
I am not sure how my situation will go, hopefully it will improve in time but I am just putting this up as a caution to any others who may be reading this who might be heading down the same track."

 

I think that casual sex adds to the problem, so I strongly advise against it. However, if you spend some time thinking about it, and won't accept that as a part of the challenge, then it isn't a part of it.

 

Glad to hear it. I hope everything goes well for you man.