Review:The First Reasonably-Priced, Custom Plastic Chastity Device (NSFW)
This is a good-news, bad-news review. Finally, you can order a custom-fit, plastic male chastity device. The design is excellent and comfortable. Sadly, there is bad news too.
Using the magic of 3-D printing, there have been a couple of attempts to create a printed chastity device. Custom Chastity, a tiny company in Australia (actually just husband and wife) have designed a 3-D printed device. That’s cool. But even better, for $265 USD, you can buy a custom-fitted device that is made of surgical nylon. The couple uses 3-D design software to create a device that is custom fitted just for you.
That’s the good news. Unfortunately there is a lot of bad news as well. 3-D printers don’t produce items with a smooth surface. Since the device is printed, the finished product has a rough texture. It isn’t exactly sandpaper, but after less than twenty-four hours of wear, I was irritated and red. This isn’t news to Lady Fox, the woman who runs the computer design software. She packs a little bottle of silicone lube with each device. She claims the lube will overcome the rough texture of the device. It didn’t for me. This is far from the end of the story. Let’s start at the beginning.
Custom Chastity offers several chastity device designs. I chose the “Ghost”. This model is fairly open, much like my stainless steel Jail Bird. They offer it in three stock sizes. None were close to my actual measurements. So I went the custom route. They offer the device in a variety of colors. I ordered one in red.
One very nice feature is that when you order a custom cage, you get a poorly, home-printed sample of your custom cage so you can check the size. The finished device is printed by a commercial 3-D printing company like Shapeways. You send them a digital 3-D file and they produce the product. Custom Chastity uses one of these services. For the “test” cage, they print at home. They call it a “resin” version. It’s weak and crude, but it is the size you ordered. My resin copy showed I got the measurements completely wrong. We made some corrections and the final version ended up close, but not close enough. Another try and the size was perfect.
Measuring
The measuring instructions they provide aren’t very clear and are unlikely to produce accurate results. Even with all my experience in buying devices, following their instructions turned out to be a disaster. Here’s what I learned: To measure length you have two choices: You can measure from your body along the top to get the length of your flaccid penis. That is the total length of the finished device. It’s difficult to figure the correct cage size from this number. Custom Chastity recommends this top measurement. If you use it, you need to subtract the thickness of the ring and the gap between the ring and cage. If you set a 10mm gap (what I used), you need to subtract that from the length measurement, then I would suggest subtracting another 13mm. Use metric measurement since that is what they use in Australia and is safer with this tiny company.
Here’s what I found works better. Stand up and measure the flaccid length of your penis from the underside (scrotum to tip). Do this several times and then subtract 10mm from the shortest measurement. Use that to specify the cage length. It will be a snug fit with your urethra poking out a bit at the tip. This makes peeing a lot easier.
Use the instructions on Getting a Good Fit to measure the penis diameter and the base ring size. You can verify your measurements with the resin cage they send you. You only get one shot at the ring. Be sure you have the right size before you order.
Ordering
You will need to select a color for your cage and ring. My experience with the red device was not good. The red dye bled off when I cleaned the device in the ultrasonic cleaner. Lady Fox, the owner of Custom Chastity admits that there are no proven-safe dyes. The nylon material the cage is made of is normally used for hip replacement parts and isn’t dyed. When I bought the second cage, I ordered “white” which I assume is the natural color of the nylon. My total cost, including shipping, ended up at $265 USD for a custom cage and base ring.
Lady Fox and I tried to estimate the correct size since the resin sample was so far off. After another flurry of emails, Lady Fox felt she had the size right. I approved her estimate of the cage size. After another four weeks, I received the “final” cage. It was too long by about 1/2-inch. I asked if there was something I could do to get things right. She agreed to sell me another custom cage for a reduced price (not very reduced, by the way). I told her I wanted it in white since the red color bled off the plastic. I also ordered a white base ring to match the new cage.
Another four weeks later, I received the new cage. The size was perfect, but it was red, not white. There was no new base ring in the package. Lady Fox agreed to replace the cage with a white one of the same size and ship the new base ring. In the meantime I used the red Ghost to test for this review.
Wearing
This device is well designed. The cage is curved downward so it is invisible under clothes. Longer cages are also oval shaped with their flatter side is facing out. It’s a very good way to keep things out of sight. That’s the good news. After just a day of wear, I had a red ring on my body where the ring touched. The ring diameter was perfect. It is the same size as my Jail Bird’s. The problem is the rough 3-D printed texture. I decided to try some do-it-yourself smoothing. I used my Dremel machine and sanding disks to smooth the ring. The nylon is fairly hard, so it took a while. Also be aware it has a fairly low melting point, so the sanding must be done at low speed or the nylon will melt.
With the ring newly-smoothed, The cage went on again; this time for 2 days. The ring no longer irritated me, but I had a sore on the top of my penis and the tip was in some pain too. Again, the rough finish of the device caused the trouble. There was also some redness on my body. I hadn’t smoothed the entire ring. After this test, I put the red device aside. Eventually, the white device was delivered. Before trying to wear it, I smoothed the entire ring and tried to sand the inside of the cage as well. After eight hours of wear, I was getting sore. Clearly the device needs a lot more work.
Conclusion
Even though this seems to be the perfect solution for an airport-safe device, I can’t suggest you order it unless you are prepared to spend several hours smoothing the finish. It’s too bad that Lady Fox and her husband don’t follow through and put the same level of care into their devices that other custom cage makers like Mature Metal do. If they would hand finish their 3-D printed devices, they could compete successfully with the best custom devices.
The Ghost device is well designed. It has a feature I really like. The padlock (supplied with the device) “locks” under a tab on the ring. It sits firmly in place, flat against the top of the cage. There is no rattle or movement. The device also locks easily with a numbered, plastic seal.
For the price, Custom Chastity should finish the device. It’s wrong to send it to customers in the same condition it comes back from the 3-D printing company. I’m sure that the actual cost of printing the device is well under $100 USD. They can afford to spend an hour or two smoothing and polishing. Of course, they can only do that with the white color. The other colors come off when you try to take off the roughness.
Unless you are ready to spend two or three hours with sandpaper finishing the device, you will not be happy. I’m really sad that’s the case. The design is great. The changes Lady Fox made to deliver a device that fits my short, flaccid penis were perfect. The material is strong and shows no sign that it will break over time. I bought some sandpaper and I am trying to work my way in and around the device to smooth it. Once I manage to do that, I am convinced I can easily wear this when I travel, or even when I am home. When it isn’t sanding the skin off my tender region, it fits as comfortably as my Jail Bird.
I chose the Ghost because the open design is easier to keep clean and looks more comfortable. The more closed models probably share all the benefits and defects I found in the Ghost. If you want a reasonably priced custom device and you are willing to take on a do-it-yourself finishing project, this device is a good choice. I’m going to keep looking for a wearable plastic device that doesn’t require me to spend hours doing the polishing work I expected from the manufacturer.
Losers
Another thing Lion and I seem to do well together is lose weight. He was nervous the past two weeks because he was sure he’d gained weight. He was dreading another punishment. Luckily he squeaked by with a .2 pound loss. I did a little better with a four pound loss. Good thing, for him, we aren’t seeing which one of us is the biggest loser each week. He reminded me that he’s been losing weight for some time so dramatic changes aren’t likely. I’ve been losing weight (twenty-eight pounds) for about six months too. I’ll take whatever loss either of us can get.
I’m hoping, with the discovery that carbs make us snooze, that we can be more awake and alert as we lose weight. I think the next step for both of us is to actually start working out rather than just talking about it. Maybe some of that not-snoozing time can be spent on the treadmill or taking walks as the weather gets nicer. And, who knows, maybe some of that energy will be used for play purposes.
Not only do I want to walk, but I want to do some sort of strength training. Lion doesn’t want me to bulk up my whomping arm, I’m sure. But getting in shape will help with everything. The big thing is that if I lose weight and look better, I may want sex again. Maybe. My thought all along has been that I don’t like the way I look, my body is achy, and sex is uncomfortable when your stomach gets in the way. That’s the theory at least. If nothing else, maybe my blood pressure will go down, I’ll have more energy and I’ll be able to do more to make Lion happy.
We’re actually losing weight for ourselves and each other. We want to be together for a long time. Getting healthy is the best way to accomplish that.
Opening Night
When a new play is cast, the first activity is usually a “table read”. The cast and director sit around a big table and run through the script. They stop frequently, commenting and asking questions. This process helps everyone understand the story and prepare for the next step when the play is performed on the stage. It’s an evolutionary process. Over time, people learn the script, understand how they move and relate to one another. Eventually, the sets are complete and the actors wear their costumes for dress rehearsal. Finally, the play goes into previews and the script and stage actions are refined as the actors perform before a live audience. When all is right, the play opens.
Our power exchanges follow a similar process. For example, domestic discipline began with a “table read”. Mrs. Lion established a very small set of essentially-trivial rules. Infractions, when noticed, were punished with light spankings. We evolved to adding more important rules and over time, Mrs. Lion observed my behavior more closely. We learned how to move. The spankings became truly disciplinary and we both moved on our “stage” with more confidence.
Mrs. Lion became more confident and I began living my role. I had no part in directing. Self-reporting stopped becoming necessary. Mrs. Lion became more aware of what I should be doing than I. Punishments grew more painful and humiliating. We were living our parts. The game was gone.
That’s where we are now. We’re nearly ready for previews. Mrs. Lion is firmly in control. I work hard to be obedient. I don’t want to be punished. I absolutely know I can’t escape being disciplined if I require it. We are living our parts. We are moving on the stage with confidence. I don’t think either of us expected to ever reach this point.
At the same time, enforced chastity and orgasm control are also in previews as well. Mrs. Lion confidently controls me sexually. If she feels I am not going to be horny, she may let me run wild (no cage) because access is more convenient without having to unlock me. When she decides that I might be getting interested in sex, the cage goes on. No questions from her. No opinions from me.
She doesn’t have a master plan for my orgasm schedule, but she is confident that she will provide ejaculation when it feels right to her. She’s learned to enjoy my frustration as well as my orgasms. She solicits my opinion on my degree of frustration, but doesn’t use that information as a directive to get me off.
She enjoys seeing me get myself into trouble by purchasing toys or making suggestions for “experiments”. She knows me well enough to predict how much trouble I have gotten myself into. The most recent example is my suggestion for daily orgasms to see if I learn to provide them easily. That experiment failed after two orgasms. Based on her recent posts, she appears to want to try again. Based on my last try, it won’t be nearly as much fun as I imagined.
We’re in sexual previews. Mrs. Lion has developed her own brand of enforced chastity. I can provide input but there is no doubt that I don’t have much influence at all. Mrs. Lion is tuning up her techniques, getting ready for opening night.
It looks to me that opening night isn’t far off. When it comes it will be for both domestic discipline and sexual control. My pain and joy will be real; control will be hers alone. Unlike the theater, I don’t think we will know when we open. We’ll probably notice long after the actual opening. Changes are gradual and are only noticed when a specific event causes one or both of us to look around and realize we are on stage in front of a paying audience. How do you like the show so far?
Carbzzzzzz
We’ve been doing a lot of experimenting lately. Not all with sex, much to Lion’s disappointment. Earlier this week, our doctor told Lion he should cut out carbs. He told me the same thing weeks ago, too. Starting Tuesday, we tried to cut out as many carbs as possible. Last night, we had cheat night.
For months, we’ve both been falling asleep for no apparent reason. Weekends have been lost because we’ve had a hard time dragging our butts out of bed. True, we’ve both been sick off and on, but even when we’re not we keel over. Lion’s theory was that it was the carbs doing it to us. Once we started eating better, he managed to stay awake through Jeopardy and beyond. After last night’s cheating, he was snoozing away through a few television shows. Apparently his carb experiment came to a positive conclusion. Carbs equal snoozing.
Given the fact that he snoozed last night I assumed, apparently incorrectly, that he was too tired to play. We did snuggle for a bit, but that was all. Lion is working from home today and I only work half days on Friday so we’ll find a way to rectify the situation. I don’t know if we’ll play earlier but there shouldn’t be any issues with falling asleep. As long as we stay away from carbs, that is.
I think I might actually compare the new butt plugs we got to the nJoy to see what the real size difference is. They’re certainly squishier than the nJoy, which is made of metal. I don’t know what the new ones are made of. It seems to be silicone covering foam. I don’t know if I’ll do anything with this knowledge this weekend. I’m just trying to get back in the swing of things. It’s been a long time since we did any sort of real play. Enforced chastity and domestic discipline aren’t the only games in town.
