April 18th, 2014 -- by Bacchus
More 3D-Printed Sex Toys
I was not the first to speculate about the future promise of 3D-printed sex toys. But I was a little bit surprised to find some printed sex toys actually being offered for sale, like this Mechanical Animal from Frisky Beast:
Sadly, there’s nothing on their site (that I could find in a fast search) about the material they are printing these toys with. If you’re fussy about what you stuff inside yourself and others (which you probably should be) you might want to ask them about it before placing an order.
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As someone with a background in the plastics industry, I can share a tip to those who may be more in the dark on phthalates etc.. If you don’t know what a plastic is, a “sniff-test” can be a helpful “rule of thumb”. If it smells “chemically” or somewhat offensive, chances are it is rather risky use internally as a sex toy. The more rigid a plastic material is, the less likely it is to be still outgassing.
Outgassing plastics are more dangerous, because they contain VOCs or plastisizers (“oils” and/or solvents and/or acids suspended inside of the material), to make it remain flexible. Not only can they cause allergic reactions such as hives, or possibly lead to cancer, but they can attack the dyes in your leather goods, and leave permanent purplish transfer stains on your flesh-colored dildos as they sit together in the box in your closet.
The chemicals in the plastics (usually polyvinyl chloride) which make up many automobile interior components and upholsteries are what give it that “new car smell”. You may have noticed the same smell driving you out of you bathroom when you hang a new plastic shower curtain. They’ll give me a raging sore throat for days!
You generally have no problem from hard plastics (such as acrylics), and these can even safely be used in artificial hearts or joints intended to be left permanently in the body, and was also the component of the old rigid contact lenses.
Also, just because you can’t still smell it (like in old cars), doesn’t mean it’s not still outgassing in small quantities. If your vinyl car seats are still flexible, they still have the chemicals in the “fabric” which enable them to be so. If the plastics are cracking in your auto interior, it’s getting closer to being safer to breathe inside.
Some silicone products can outgas cyanide as they cure, but that’s another story for another time…
Their FAQ page says:
What materials do you use?
Our toys are cast in medical-grade platinum silicone! This ensures a safe, durable, flexible toy available in a number of colors!
Scott, I saw the FAQ. But it only talks about their cast toys, not their 3D printed ones.
The original sculpture and mold masters are 3D printed, the salable toys are cast in silicone. Bad Dragon is producing toys in this manner as well.
Harry, that’s a plausible surmise, but I don’t see anywhere on their website that actually *says* that. Do you?
It makes an interesting mental exercise to attempt to imagine the interesting health and safety issues that will emerge when someone builds a 3D printer sufficiently sophisticated to make sex partners.
Yeah, but in the world where that printer is a consumer item, we’re going to have so many other interesting health and safety issues!
I just ran into some interesting technical information about plasticizers here: http://ec.gc.ca...D25-1 when I was checking into toxins found in automobile interior surface protectants and conditioner wipes, and thought it would be useful to ErosBlog readers who are researching phthalate dangers.
I also mentioned a bit about phthalates in my comment #6, here: http://www.eros...illz/