Been researching packers/pack n plays lately, and came across the Reel Magik site, which I remember looking at a long time ago before I had even started to transition. Going back to it (as well as blogs by trans guys that mention it), supposedly you could get the top-grade medical prosthetic and surgical adhesive and actually glue it to your body semi-permanently? Or am I misreading it?
If it IS possible, then why does it not seem to ever be mentioned as an alternative to bottom surgery? I know it's pricey (~$530, depends on what size, etc) but $530 is NOTHING compared to the cost most guys would pay for bottom surgery or even top surgery.
Has anyone actually tried this? It's so mysterious...I see guys mention it and the Reel Magik site mentions it, but it seems like no real person has actually done it...
I haven't tried such a prosthetic myself, but I've heard a bit about it. Yeah, reasonably you could wear it glued on for a somewhat long time at least, but eventually you do have to take it off to let the skin underneath breathe and wash it. I don't think it would be a good idea to keep it glued on for more than at most a few days but that's probably a very far stretch, as keeping anything glued onto skin for too long does damage the skin eventually. So no, it's not really more permanent than non-adhesive packers, but stays in place better and "blends in" more seamlessly with your own body better for the time you are wearing it.
I can only speak for myself and generalise from what I've heard around, but I and many other trans guys do feel that packers, no matter how realistic, can't quite replace being able to have one's own flesh and blood penis which bottom surgery does allow for. At least for me, having sensation in my penis is very important, which is something packers/prosthetics just can't provide me with.
So no, it could never replace bottom surgery for me cause it can't give me what I need to alleviate enough of my dysphoria to feel it's worth the effort or the price. But I'm sure that for others it could. Some can and do feel very connected to a prosthetic, but some of us don't/can't.
It depends on what your headspace is, what you get out of sex, how you have sex and who you have sex with...
I had my hysterectomy, I'm good. I'm not interested in surgery to "build" something that I wasn't born with - it's too uncanny valley to me and surgical options can't give me what I would actually want out of a penis anyways.
Not sure if it's because I'm not interested in vanilla sex at all or what, but the idea of using prostheses and toys for sex is not something that distresses me at all. And in fact, I enthusiastically prefer them to the surgical alternative, which is not something I have in common with a lot of trans guys. Sex toys come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and that versatility is very appealing to me. I'm also really sight and sound oriented when it comes to arousal, so it's very easy for me to get into the headspace of a sex toy being an extension of me. But kink is predominantly in the head anyways - that's just how I'm wired.
Quote from: BT04 on March 25, 2018, 04:27:27 PM
Not sure if it's because I'm not interested in vanilla sex at all or what, but the idea of using prostheses and toys for sex is not something that distresses me at all. And in fact, I enthusiastically prefer them to the surgical alternative, which is not something I have in common with a lot of trans guys. Sex toys come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and that versatility is very appealing to me.
Hey, I like sex toys too ;D! As for bottom surgery like phallo what bothers me is that... even if it's part of 'you' in a sense that you can sense it, it's quite not like a cis penis though...... I think meta would be more like a penis (the actual same organ), but then you can't penetrate with it :-\ I wish they could come up with a solution to grow your own dick from cells! Maybe they will. After all I just read an article about creating organs from your cells.
As for this question, yeah, like SeptagonScars said - you would have to take it off to wash and breath and such. Never heard of this before though. Or come to think of it, maybe I have actually ;D! But never considered it. I don't even have a packer so.