I’m a fan of Cherry Keepers. I have a couple rings and cages. As a grower, I like the headlock feature on some of the cages that prevents the glans/head from accidental pull-outs. The two main issues I have, which cause me to take the cage off for a break, are ring chafing on the underside of the balls, and the bottom of my glans/head being in too tight a space. I got a headless model thinking it’d help with the glans/head issue and because I thought I might be able to come with vibrator on my exposed glans/head, which I struggle to do through a cage.

I’m pretty happy with the headless cage I got (the black part; link).

The glans/head issue is significantly reduced but not gone all together - I noticed a little discomfort after about 6 hours of wear. Because there’s no cage constraining engorgement of the glans/head, erections cause more pulling in this than a standard cage. I had one painful morning experience. I might look into getting a strap to keep the ring close to my body. The headless cage fits better under clothing

  • K.K.@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Oooh, I didn’t know these existed! I’m very tempted, not gonna lie. Really appreciate the review and pic! I have a similar issue with the ring on the underside - I’m sure you’ve tried lotioning up that area before putting on the ring, but it does help me fwiw.

    Keep us posted on how the vibrator + exposed head works for you…

    • chloespanked@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Ah yes, ring chafing. I put lotion/lube around the ring after I’ve got the cage on. I haven’t bought any special products for this, I just use what I have around the house. One improvement I’ve found recently is a dual-layer method. I have a thick body butter (ie, dense cream) that’s my go-to and that I apply first, but I will sometimes put a water-based lube layer on top of that. I have yet to try to use sandpaper to further smoothen the plastic ring (that’s already pretty smooth from wear). And metals cages are probably better than plastic in terms of chafing.

      I succeeded to come on the first attempt with the exposed head and vibrator. I think it was easier than using a vibrator without wearing any cage because the cage is a turn-on for me and the head and frenulum (ie, targets) are conveniently held in place

  • K.K.@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Looks like you may be one of the last people to get that for a bit, Shapeways just went bankrupt. Hopefully JosieLynn/Cherry Keeper are able to move their products to another service. I was just about to make a new order that included one of these, too :(

    • chloespanked@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Sorry, I’ve been offline for a while. What a surprise about Shapeways. I’m sorry too you missed out on cherry keepers! 😤 I just checked and didn’t see an updates on https://cherrykeeper.com/Default. I appreciate you sharing the news. I hope JosieLynn’s back soon! I don’t know where I’d get my next cage from if not there. Cobra, perhaps

      • K.K.@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, it doesn’t help that the only way they list to contact them on their website is… through the Shapeways website, lol. I saw a post they made asking what was happening, so they’re at least aware of the issue. We’ll see what happens! If it’s not back up soon, I may go the Kink3D route. Cobra looks cool too, but I think Kink3D has more ring sizes/cage sizes and you can mix and match a little better. But I was really hoping for a headless cage 😥

        • chloespanked@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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          3 months ago

          If it’s any consolation, I wrote my review at the peak of the novelty of my headless cage. Two weeks after receiving it, a ‘regular’ cage is still my #1 cage by far. With the headless one, the penis could poke forward, and peeing often required lifting the glans/head a bit with 2 fingers to avoid urine stream on the balls. I’d love to be locked daily except for sleep and exercise (as a step towards maybe truly permalocked one day), and I’m trying to build up to it with a ‘regular’ cage one atm. I hope we see JosieLynn back again soon!

          • K.K.@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Ahhh, that’s disappointing! Sorry it hasn’t been perfect :(. When you say “could poke forward” do you mean when getting hard or something else?

            For what it’s worth, I dug around on Reddit (ugh) and found the woman who runs CherryKeeper talking about how she’s working on finding another printer. Doesn’t sound like it’s going amazing but at least it’s in the works!

            • chloespanked@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
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              3 months ago

              The poke forward is an issue when flaccid, not erect. I’m a grower vs a shower though. I have a small cherry keeper cage (my aforementioned #1 cage–although it’s not perfect for me). I got the same headlock size for the headless cage that I have for my small cage. Before I rule the headless cage out in theory as a cage fit for long-term wear, I’d like to try a smaller headlock. I haven’t yet investigated this enough, but I’m concerned there might be untenable rub of the headlock against the glans that’d cause irritation prohibiting long-term wear (again, not while erect, just while going about daily wear). With the caveats laid out, I tend to see it as more of a for show/ play/ sex/ masturbation cage for now, as opposed to one suited for long-term wear, but I have more research to do.

              Thanks for the update, I appreciate it :D (I’m not on reddit). Yeah, overall that sounds positive!