Halloween isn’t the only thing making people squirm in October. Locktober keeps genitals locked up until November.

For the uninitiated, Locktober is the annual challenge where people willingly padlock their junk for thirty-one days. We’re talking cages, belts, and hardware-store chic devices that make TSA scanners a nightmare.

What started as an in-joke on fetish forums has grown into a full-blown season, complete with hashtags, leaderboards, and people bragging about how long they’ve gone without so much as a half-hearted tug. On Reddit, subs trade pictures of their padlocks like baseball cards, logging the days since their last orgasm with a mix of pride and masochism.

And the numbers keep climbing. Clips4Sale, the massive fetish marketplace, named chastity its 2025 Fetish of the Year

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