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.
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.
Very interesting take. I suspect that would also tie in with an interest in edging - which an orgasm detector would be wonderful for.