Fist Me! The Complete Guide to Fisting by Stephan Niederwieser

Fist me provides the best advice of available fisting books. The author strikes up a chatty conversation with good humour which lightens what would otherwise be a dry read. It is comprehensive covering preparation, lubes and tools, learning for beginners as well as advice on more expert play like punching. Although enema bags are common in sex shops but are not mentioned here and nitrile gloves are now standard instead of latex. While good overall the book suffers from lack of editorial oversight that is most evident in the chapters on anatomy and douching – issues that are done poorly elsewhere. Going beyond spelling and grammar there is confusion over which portions of the gut belong to the large intestines and the sigmoid and upper intestines are incorrectly identified on occasions. Lube does not reach the upper intestine as stated. The author in jocular mood falls back on unhelpful analogies that do not correspond to the anatomy’s function – the sigmoid for instance does not function “like a farmer pitch forking manure”. As is typical of fisting advice some silly ideas are propagated in preparation for douching. Easy to digest food is said to transit the gut quicker than other food but instead the converse is often true – that food high in fibre is quicker. In any case timelines of a few hours are plainly wrong even under diarrhoea. Both eating and caffeine are correctly said to induce natural bowel movements but the author utilises only the caffeine while abstaining from food that might help. As is consistent with fisting folklore, the food that is abstained from is the food that is least relevant to cleaning out. The recommendation to abstain from liquids 2 hours before fisting to avoid peeing seems extremely silly just when you want the gut to have replenished the layer of mucus washed out by douching. Despite these deficiencies the core advice is sound and the author maintains a tight grasp of the pain-pleasure equation.