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Evotion Orion chastity device
This is the custom Orion chastity device. This is a sample image from their website. Click the image to go to the page where you can see the device and buy it if you want.

I briefly mentioned in an earlier post that I’m getting a new 3D-printed male chastity device. This one is truly unique. While I love the Cherry Keeper and kind of like the one made by Custom Chastity (has a sandpaper finish that took hours to smooth enough to wear. We don’t recommend that you get one.), this company reminds me of the amazingly beautiful chastity devices made by Steelwerks. Their male chastity devices are individually designed works of art that cost many thousands of dollars. Truly male chastity jewelry.

Evotion is a company that makes a line of incredible 3D-printed male chastity devices. Most of their products are designed for men who are pierced, primarily Prince Albert piercings. They have a new, ball-capture device called the Orion. What makes it unique is the amazing quality these people have gotten from 3D printing. Every other 3D-printed device I’ve seen or tried has a thick, clumsy look. The makers claim that in order for the plastic (medical-grade nylon) to have the needed strength to contain a feisty penis, the material has to be thicker than it would be if the device was made of stainless steel. This makes intuitive sense. Apparently, it’s not completely accurate.

I’m going to be reviewing this male chastity device. I’m getting an Orion in red-dyed nylon. As you can see in the image, the finish is good and the details are amazing. I will probably be getting mine close to New Year’s. There is a very long lag between ordering and actually receiving the device. Speaking of ordering, Evotion has the absolute best measuring and ordering process. Unlike every other custom-chastity device maker, Evotion provides meaningful instructions and gives you reasonable results you can compare to what you measure.

I will be photographing that process and will share it with you in the near future. All I can say is that the clear, detailed instructions make it very difficult to screw up your measurements. The only one that they don’t offer any particularly useful help is for the base ring. Their take on it is that you should order a base ring just big enough to get one ball through. I haven’t tested this but based on my experience it’s not an unreasonable way to figure out what size ring you need.

penis measuring with the caliper
This inexpensive digital caliper makes it easy to do accurate measurements of your penis. The blades are a bit sharp so be careful. Also avoid squeezing. By pressing a button, you can get the measurements in millimeters. This measurement is actually inaccurate. I inadvertently squeezed the soft shaft with the measuring blades. You can purchase a digital caliper for less than $10 on amazon.com.
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Because their male chastity devices are designed to work with pierced penises as well as un-pierced ones, like mine, and because 3D printing permits varying the size of everything, more measurements are needed than you would normally expect to make. They need the length of the glans (head), circumference (or diameter) of the penis shaft, as well as the length of the shaft along the top from the place where the glans joins the shaft to your abdomen. At a later date I will create an illustrated guide to this kind of measuring. I use a digital caliper for most of the measurements. The reason I like it is that I can adjust the caliper until it’s correctly measuring the specific spot, then remove it and look at the numbers on the readout to record the value. It saves a lot of tricky bending and moving to get measurements.

Evotion observed that the length of the glans (head of the penis) is almost exactly the same size as the diameter of the shaft. In circumcised men, the correlation is amazing. I measured my glans length to be 29 mm (1.14 in) and shaft diameter (completely flaccid) of 31 mm (1.22 inches). The difference is less than 2/10 of an inch. This is likely to be a measurement error on my part. The folks at Evotion prefer measurement in millimeters but will accept inches if that is more comfortable for you. The metric length measurement is generally more accurate than fractional inches.

After completing the order, I received a confirmation email. This is expected with e-commerce. What I didn’t expect was a very personal communication reviewing my measurements. Evotion likes to have a relationship with its customers. They want the measurements to be very carefully made so that the device will be a perfect fit. If there is a problem, remanufacturing a part of the device is relatively inexpensive. However, Evotion prefers to get it right the first time.

All this attention and care isn’t cheap. The base Orion costs $369. This is about the same price as a Mature Metal Jail Bird custom device. It’s unlikely that a first-time user will make this investment. In a way that’s good.. It takes a little time to get to know your penis well enough to supply accurate measurement information as well as developing the commitment to actually wear a male chastity device full-time. I’m sure that the Orion will prove to be completely comfortable and easy to wear for long periods.

I’ve always preferred steel. There’s something about the feeling of metal locked around my penis that gives me a strong sense of being controlled. Over the years, my viewpoint has changed a bit. I really like wearing a device that is so light I’m not even aware it’s there most of the time. If I try to get an erection, the lightweight device makes itself known.

Orion chastity device optional filigree
This is the filigree I selected. It’s called “Devotion”.

One interesting feature of Evotion male chastity devices is that the company offers some no-charge customization that I had no idea were available. For example, they offer a good selection of different kinds of filigrees for the device. I selected one which is composed of hearts. In addition, they can add text along the top of the device. I’ll surprise you with what mine says (though I’m pretty sure you can guess).

Another somewhat surprising feature of the Orion male chastity device is that it is in three pieces instead of the usual two. One reason for this is that it can be built to work with the Prince Albert piercing. The top of the device can be fixed in place with a pin and then joined to the rest of the shaft and finally, the base ring. The device has two locks. One secures the shaft to the base ring and the second secures the head (glans) to the shaft. It may make the device easier to put on and take off. I haven’t seen any comments about this. In any case, I’m sure Mrs. Lion won’t have any problem locking me up.

When I got my Cherry Keeper, I had a long, interesting dialogue with its maker that helped get the device designed explicitly for me. It’s absolutely perfect in terms of fitting me. I like wearing it and it keeps my urethra properly centered at all times. That’s very important to me. I really need to pee standing up. Getting up and down from a toilet seat is difficult for me since my spinal surgery. I know Mrs. Lion has been hesitant to lock me up again because she is concerned it will make using the bathroom that much more difficult for me.

Mrs. Lion informed me that by the time you read this post I’ll be securely locked into a chastity device. If she gives me a choice, I’m going ask for the Cherry Keeper. It’s a little more trouble for her to put on. She has to lubricate the head of my penis in order to slip it over the headlock* feature of the Cherry Keeper.

new custom cherry keeper chastity device
Notice the sharp taper. Also notice the wide headlock that will keep the head of my penis “locked” inside the cage.

*The headlock is a “shelf” that fits under the glans (the notch just under the head before the shaft of the penis). It’s narrower than the head so that once pushed up and over that shelf, the head of the penis is not going to move back without the device being unlocked and pulled off. The maker believes this is an effective anti-pullout feature. I don’t believe it really is. However, it does a great job of making sure the head of my penis is firmly pressing against the end of the cage. That assures that my urethra remains centered in the hole provided for it.

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It wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do. I was looking for some rope. Instead, I found Icy Hot. Lion’s been asking about the prickly jock strap, but the more he asks about it the less likely I am to use it. I know he’s not nagging but when he says we’ve never used it and we’ve only had it for a little over a week, it sounds like nagging.

It’s like waxing. I know he’s furry. I know he doesn’t like it. Yes, it would be great if I could get the waxing table set up. Yes, it would make him feel much better if he wasn’t furry. But you know what? I can’t find the damn toothpaste and most of the food.

Anyway, I made the best of the situation and put dots of Icy Hot on Lion’s balls. I know it hurts. I know he doesn’t like it. But at that point, it didn’t really matter. It was a form of play/foreplay and that’s what I was looking for. And he was hard while it was burning.

Unfortunately, he didn’t stay hard. While I moved around to give him oral ministrations, I told him I might have spoiled him with all the blow jobs recently. Except, he got hard and then lost it again before I could get him to the edge. I was even tickling his balls and inching a finger toward his ass.

Before he lost it, I’d already decided that tonight will be butt plug night. Once I saw his reaction to my finger prying his cheeks apart, I knew that would be a good idea. I did manage to uncover the small nJoy butt plug over the weekend. I think it was in a box with bathroom items since it had been on the bathroom counter when we moved. It’s the randomness of items in any given box that’s killing me.

I left the butt plug on the bed so he’d see it and know he’ll have some fun tonight. It’s also there to remind me that I want to use it on him. I do the same with paddles. If I remember I need to spank him but I’m not ready at that moment, I put the paddle on the bed to remind both of us. In the case of the butt plug, I want him to get a warm, fuzzy feeling when he thinks about it being in his ass. When he sees the paddle, he should feel a certain amount of dread at this point. I’ve been hitting very hard lately. But tonight is all about warm fuzzies.

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Now I know how Mrs. Lion felt when I asked her to learn to punish me. It was awkward for her and not very effective in the beginning. Since we’ve decided to try to jumpstart Mrs. Lion’s libido, I am struggling with how to initiate sex with her. As she said in her post yesterday, my attempts are clumsy. Actually, I think she was being kind. I’m a total lout at this point. I suppose it’s the lion in me that makes me so unromantic. The truth is I’ve never been good at the subtle approach. Mrs. Lion knows this and is wonderfully tolerant.

I realize that she doesn’t actually want sex. She is willing to endure it. I suppose she knows I really want to be able to please her and she remembers how good it was before. Since she can have orgasms, I think it’s not a bad idea that she get them. She may not anticipate them with excitement, but at least she enjoys them.

My approach so far has been to ask her flat out, “Are you interested in sex.” If she answers affirmatively, I commence some sexual touching of her legs and thighs, and I kiss her. She doesn’t react at this point. That means I don’t get any positive or negative feedback to help direct my attentions. This is very much like what happened in the beginning with our Female Led Relationship with Discipline. Mrs. Lion created relatively trivial rules and it then took time to learn to observe breaches and punish them. I provided as much feedback as I could.

Much of the feedback appeared in my posts. It seems that much of Mrs. Lion’s sexual feedback to me is also being transmitted via the blog. I’m fine with that. It’s effective and tried-and-true. My approach for initiation is almost identical in character to her enforcement of my spilling-food-on-my-shirt rule. When I do it, it’s greeted by a little grin from Mrs. Lion. That signals me that she’s noticed it and my bottom will be burning soon. I suppose we need to work out a similar sort of signal when I approach her in my clumsy way. Right now I ask her flat out. I think perhaps we could work on a more subtle approach. I guess I’ll ask her later.

She mentioned that recently when she jerks me off, I haven’t been able to reach the edge several times now. It’s true. I get excited and hard and enjoy the attention, but after a while I just stop feeling aroused. I can’t explain why this happens. Mrs. Lion suggested that it’s because the hour is late and I’m not particularly good much past 10 o’clock. I think it’s almost identical to the way Mrs. Lion feels when I start trying to give her an orgasm.

I just haven’t been anticipating being aroused and hard and brought to the edge. I don’t know why, but I just haven’t been thinking much about that. Maybe I need a little preliminary activity too. You know, some verbal teasing maybe a little sneaky weenie rubbing, it’s the sort of stuff that sets the mood. Lately, I ask Mrs. Lion if she wants to do anything, when it starts getting late and she hasn’t made a move toward me, which is about as romantic as what I do with her, or she’ll come over and just start playing with my penis. Either way, it doesn’t feel very exciting to me. It’s almost perfunctory. I think we have to be more aware of each other’s need for stimulation in advance of the sexual activity. We have to let each other know what would get our motors going.

Mrs. Lion still hasn’t put me into the prickly jockstrap. We were way too busy this weekend and I think it probably slipped her mind. Speaking of that, I think the secret of restoring me to my typical horny mode is to somehow avoid “forgetting” activities that may have been discussed. It also helps me a lot if Mrs. Lion surprises me. You know, out of the blue playing with me and getting me hard and then bringing out the clothespins or rope. Any sort of stuff that’s sexual, other than a direct “go for the gold” approach.

I will be getting a new 3D-printed chastity device in the next few weeks. If Mrs. Lion doesn’t decide to lock me up before then, I will need to be locked up in order to give the device a fair test. I kind of hope she will get me back into a chastity device sooner. It helps slow her down a bit when she decides to tease me. I think it might give her a little extra time to consider the kind of foreplay that would work for me. It also reinforces both of our feelings about her sexual control of me.

We both have to become more aware of each other sexually. It feels mechanical the way things are going now. I realize that my handling of restoring Mrs. Lion’s libido is horribly mechanical. I’m going to work on it, but I need her help. I guess I need verbal and nonverbal encouragement. It’s been a long time since I’ve initiated (actually, I don’t think I’ve ever been a good initiator), so I need to learn the same way Mrs. Lion learned to discipline me.

Speaking of that, it’s been more than two days since my last spanking and I still feel the one I got then. I still have leathery spots on my butt that hurt when I sit on them. I think we can say that Mrs. Lion is definitely an effective disciplinarian. Congratulations! Clearly, I’m going to have to take punishment much more seriously.

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Since we went out Saturday night, there was no fun in the Lion’s den. Lion offered to give me an orgasm because it was punishment day and that’s the agreement right now. I was tired. Not that I was any less tired last night, but it was earlier in the evening when he asked if I wanted attention.

My answer was no. I don’t want attention, in the sense that he wants attention. But I feel obligated to let him try. The question has never been if I can have an orgasm. I know I can. I just don’t care if I have one or not. Lion is determined to change that. He wants me to enjoy sex again. He feels bad that he gets all the attention.

Again, it’s not like I’m horny and he’s refusing to do anything about it. If that were the case, I could masturbate. I don’t have any restrictions on masturbation like he does. I could spend a little more time in the shower with the pulsating shower head. I could use the bidet to my advantage. I could make Lion wait for an orgasm of his own until he took care of my needs. I have options. What I don’t have is a libido.

It may seem strange but when Lion initiates now, it seems forced. I guess it is. It’s similar to my learning to punish him with silly little rules. But more than that, it sort of annoys me. He’s initiating when I don’t care about sex. Where was he when I did? There was no reciprocation when I actually wanted sex. That ship has sailed.

I want to make it clear that I don’t sabotage him when he’s trying to give me an orgasm. I’m all in. My mind is thinking happy, orgasm thoughts. The other night, it worked. Last night, it didn’t. You win some, you lose some. The past few times I’ve tried to edge Lion hasn’t worked out well. I’m surprised he hasn’t said he’s broken. So, as of last night, I’m 1-2 and Lion is 0-2.

Tonight I’ll try to get to him earlier in the night. Once I’m out of the shower I’ll start trying. I think it’s the time of night that does him in. I’d like to concentrate on him tonight. It’s been a while since he’s had an orgasm and even longer since he’s been edged. During Unlocktober, I went straight for orgasms. I’m also a little sore again. If you don’t use something in a long time and then go for a spin, there’s bound to be some rustiness. I should be ready for another try on Thursday, which is punishment day and Mrs. Lion fun night.

[Lion — Actually tonight is also lioness sex night. We did try on Sunday just because Mrs. Lion was sore on Saturday. It sounds like we are skipping today. That’s fine with me. I don’t want to force things too much.]