I was a skeptic.
Although there are a handful of “Pack n’ Play” dildos out there, I’m typically of the mind that if they’re hard enough to fuck they probably don’t make the best packers (unless you want the whole world seeing your boner, in that case more power to you) and if they’re small/soft enough to pack with, I probably don’t want to be fucked by it. It’s not often that a toy proves me wrong, but it has happened, and when I saw the NY Toy Collective Shilo I though it might be about to happen again.
Instead of just being soft, NYTC did something a little different in the world of safe toys, they added a firm and flexible inner core to the pliable silicone, this core will hold it’s shape when bent, like a pipe cleaner, which allows you to bend the silicone down for packing and up for play. Then a video showing how easy it is to pack discreetly with Shilo and the chance to squeeze one myself at Catalyst Con just proved it, I needed to get my hands on a Shilo of my own.
Silicone is such a fantastic material, and I love it all, but squishy silicone is my favorite, and the silicone on the Shilo is some of the squishiest ever! It’s comparable to the well loved Vixen Vixskin but the texture lacks the tacky quality that Vixskin can sometimes have.2 Instead the surface is a little more rubbery than totally skin like, my partner said it’s a lot like some stretchy Ninja Turtle toys he had as a kid, and, by the way, it is delightfully stretchy and malleable. It’s like my very own penis shaped stress toy, and you can rest assured that it is also quite durable. If it was going to tear from squishing, stretching, and general fondling mine would have been long broken by now.
Deciding on my Shilo was an interesting experience for me, I’ve obviously picked out dildos before, and even realistic ones, but since this is a toy that is designed specifically to be used for packing, I wasn’t picking out just any cock. I was picking out mycock. I’ll admit, I was a bit disappointed that there weren’t more style options, but the company is still fairly new and I’m sure the line will expand as the company grows. They’re already adding more skin tones, more whimsical colors, and have developed Mason, Shilo’s longer counterpart, so I’m sure there’s even more on the way. I’ll admit, I wasn’t even a big fan of Shilo’s shape when I first saw it, I figured the head would be great for G-spotting, but I thought it’s appearance was a little weird, I drawn to it for how it worked, not how it looked.
