The VDOM Penis Prosthetic Mixes Robotics with High Fashion
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The VDOM is not your basic brief. It’s also not your traditional strap-on.
Designed to be discreet, The VDOM is a realistic prosthetic penis that changes from flaccid to erect at the push of a button.
But its cutting-edge design has captured the attention of more than just those seeking a lifelike and wearable mechanical penis.
The VDOM has also garnered recognition within the fashion industry.
Glenise Kinard-Moore, the creator of the VDOM, participated in a mentorship workshop at Chanel’s New York offices earlier this year.
As second-place winner of the 2022 Black Ambition Prize, she brushed elbows with fashion entrepreneur Pharrell Williams and received a $250,000 cash award for her company SkiiMoo Tech.
Throughout her journey, Kinard-Moore has emerged as a trailblazer in the realm of high-fashion sex tech.
Along the way, The VDOM prosthetic penis has attracted attention from a diverse user base, thanks to its design focus on sexual accessibility.
How does the VDOM work?
The VDOM prosthetic penis offers versatile control options, including through The VDOM app for partnered play.
For manual control, a discreet button placed on the penis prosthetic activates its transformation from flaccid to erect. This feature provides wearers full control over their desired state of genital arousal.
For those seeking an interactive experience, the VDOM allows wearers to grant their partners control of the prosthetic penis using the dedicated VDOM app.
The app-controlled genital prosthetic supports smartwatches and smartphones on Android and iOS devices.
To grant control to a partner, the wearer’s partner needs to download the VDOM app onto their smartphone or smartwatch. Once installed, the wearer can assign permission settings to allow their partner to control the mechanical prosthetic penis.
The VDOM app offers various levels of control, empowering the primary user to enable or disable partner control and even set restrictions. This includes specifying the duration of access and setting custom blackout times during which the VDOM cannot be activated. The VDOM app also sends notifications, such as “ready” alerts between couples.
The VDOM penis prosthetic is available in three color options: light, medium, and dark. It costs US$675 and comes in two different sizes: 6 by 1.63 inches and 8 by 2 inches.
The company also sells companion VDOM underwear available in boxer briefs and jockstrap styles, ranging from size small to 4XL.
To power the robotic penis, the VDOM is equipped with a rechargeable battery pack that can hold its charge for up to 24 hours.
The first batch of preorders for the VDOM was shipped out in May 2023.
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Raising more than eyebrows
“The VDOM user doesn’t have a particular face— it is anybody that needs it,” Kinard-Moore told SexForEveryBody.com.
Beyond queer folks who may be considered traditional strap-on users, Kinard-Moore added that a wide range of individuals expressed interest and benefits from using the product. Among them are many young straight men and people with physical disabilities.
“We have had a lot of heterosexual men in their 30s as well. And I wasn’t expecting that to happen to be honest, because we focus our marketing and all of our communication mainly on the LGBT community,”
Glenise said The VDOM’s diverse customer base has been forthcoming about sharing their backgrounds in thank-you emails.
They include a young veteran who suffered a genital injury, another young man who broke his penis as a teenager and now experiences erectile dysfunction, and a lesbian woman with a spinal cord injury.
Although she has benefited as a recipient of the Black Ambition Prize Kinard-Moore acknowledges that a significant portion of the funding is coming from personal investments.
When Kinard-Moore previously conducted a round of fundraising among friends and family, initial investments came from two black women over 65 years old from the Southern United States.
One woman expressed particular interest in seeing the product come to market, wanting the option available as her partner experiences erectile dysfunction.
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The future of the robotic penis prosthetic
“The very first iteration of the device itself, it only sits on top of what you already have,” Kinard-Moore said. But The VDOM team is working on a sleeve design that could potentially appeal to users with erectile dysfunction.
The design already exists.
“We realized we could create sleeves very easily that would actually be just as automated, but would provide a more of a sensation for a person to do that.”
The plan for the future is also to add voice recognition to the VDOM app, so that you can speak to tell the prosthetic penis to change from flaccid to erect.
Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech industry expert. She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sex For Every Body®.
Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), haptics, immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.
A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.
