Male Chastity in the Future: So it begins!
The Chastity Tek Veru One is coming and maybe you aren't...
The Chastity Tek Veru One is forty days from launch!
It’s time to revisit my series on Future Chastity, because the Veru One is a cageless biometric male chastity device very close to what I predicted in my second article (though I can’t claim to be a prophet… chastity fetishists have been fantasising about this for years!)
According to the product website, the Veru One uses bluetooth to connect to a smartwatch or phone, and thence to your keyholder. Onboard machine learning detects both pull-out and orgasm (or near orgasm). The keyholder can in turn send you electric shocks or audio warnings. And there’s a log in case you lost connectivity or the keyholder wasn’t paying attention…
Convenience and Security
I think it’s useful to think about male chastity devices in terms of convenience and security.
The Veru One certainly promises to be convenient, offering both practicality and reversibility, but with some minor caveats. The absence of an actual cage means no telltale bumps or issues with using a public urinal and probably very few issues with long term wear. It also, of course, requires no permanent body modifications to install. However, it’s electronic, meaning it requires charging and will cause problems with security scanners. I also worry that it would be slightly top-heavy and tend to rotate under the weight of the magic box.
As for security, assuming the machine learning works, then the Veru One will be 100% effective at using accountability to implement neutering — preventing sexual function — and at sealing — preventing unlicensed removal. It’s however, not going to be remotely effective as a muzzle — in intimate situations, the erect penis is still free.
That’s an odd combination.
So who’s the Veru One really for?
The Veru One is clearly not for Locked Bois — locked gay men — because what they are really into is muzzling; they want to present with a nice caged package so that only their orifices are in play. (Yes, there really is an active gay chastity hookup subculture, and, yes, I’m envious.) It’s also no good for Virgos, women who prefer their men securely neutered and muzzled with a cage.
Chastecels — celibates into chastity devices — might like the Veru One because it’s a technical upgrade on the Cellmate for remote professional keyholding, and because it could potentially feed onto a website to display their progress so they could hold each other accountability without the need for paid “mistresses”. Given the absence of fetish trappings — which we’ll come to that — the “No Fap” community might actually get onboard as well.
Some Keyholders — women, mostly, who like to control a man’s orgasm — might miss the cage in the bedroom. Others might actually appreciate its absence as it throws more stress on their subject’s self-control. There’s also the promise of AI-driven games, and I wonder if the sensor system might bring a new precision to edging?
And then there are — new category! — Vanilla Keyholders, women who want to control their man’s orgasm, but don’t think of it as explicitly a kinky thing. The product is carefully pitched as a replacement for clunky old chastity cages, and at the same time as a tool of intimacy and faithfulness for stylish upmarket non-fetishy young couples.
Will the Veru One actually take off?
It’s entirely possible that Chastity Tek know exactly what they are doing and are tapping a carefully researched market. What follows is just my gut feeling.
The price — between $233 and $372 depending on model — suggests this is a serious purchase made by people who expect to use it, meaning Chastecels who are already prepared to spend money on remote keyholders, and couples in established Keyholder dynamics.
It think there are snags with this.
For most people involved in male chastity, the cage is a feature not a bug. We like the muzzling. Conversely, it would be almost impossible to establish a Vanilla Keyholder relationship without first purchasing one of these expensive devices, creating a bootstrapping problem. And I have a sense that most serious chastity couples pass from Keyholder to Virgo dynamics over time anyway, and this has nothing to offer Virgos.
So, though a few Keyholders might invest in a Veru One in preference to the cageless honour system, the main uptake is going to be from the Chastecells. We know there are roughly 40,000 cellmate users (as of 2020), maybe this new device can snag a significant portion of them? It’s hard to imagine this device being economically viable after the initial manufacturing run.
What about the Veru One but with a cage?
OMG! A Veru One integrated into a cage would be pretty much the Holy Grail of chastity devices!
Keyholders who like cages and Virgos who require them could both enjoy the accountability. Maybe the Virgo could even get improved muzzling from an option to have pull-out automatically trigger an electric shock?
Add a public accountability website, and single Locked Bois and Chastecels would have an imperative to respectively stay locked, and locked & actually chaste. Maybe some Virgos could enlist a friend to add social pressure to keep their man chaste?
Which makes me wonder why Chastity Tek didn’t go straight to the smart cage?
Are there patents in the way?
Or does somebody really, really want a Veru One, and the commercial project is their way of paying for its development?
Or maybe the cage is next? I hope so.
I’ll be watching this unfold with interest.
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Fascinating. And unintuitive, precisely because of what you say here: "For most people involved in male chastity, the cage is a feature not a bug".
I'm not 100% sure if "for most people" but likely for most male chastity fans and fetishists. In my Late Twitter Era, I once did a poll on whether chastity males would PREFER a "spell" of sorts that prevented orgasm but not erection, and iirc overwhelming (but for sure a majority) of answers were "hell no". In comments, the bondage aspect seemed important, as did the "phallus removal" aspect (for reasons varying from gender-adjacent to anxiety about "quality" of erections to masochistic reasons).
However. HOWEVER.
There is a whole niche of kinksters of both sexes who are into "orgasm control" and/or "orgasm denial", the latter adjacent to leaning towards chastity. And many of those people are NOT into chastity devices.
I'd hazard a guess that some form of orgasm control and often orgasm denial is present in most F/m dynamics. Maybe in most */m dynamics.
And iirc from my Fetlife Era, many LTR F/m relationships visible there seemed to explicitly involve "honour chastity".
I suspect this is a bigger (possibly MUCH bigger) niche than "caged dick" niche.
This device isn't necessarily a descendant of the Cellmate, but an enhancement of equipment-free orgasm control games and dynamics.
As an aside, as you know I am leery of cages, but if a potential playmate had one of those, I'd be very willing to give it a try.