When I headed for the bedroom with the kettle (and its base) three tea towels, a glass chopping board and a rolling pin, my kid looked at me like I was having an episode. He was like, ‘are you doing some Frankenstein thing up there’ and the Fella told him, ‘she’s not scientifically minded, son…she’ll be doing voodoo’. And, he was kinda right. I was doing sex toy voodoo, and I was doing it with the awesome invention that is the Dodil Mouldable Dildo.
This thing fascinated me from the moment I first visited the Dodil website. Never have I seen a product that held so much potential to be either absolutely fantastic or utterly disastrous. I expressed my interest and was sent a review sample straight away. Such excite!
When it arrived, I was immediately smitten with the presentation. A gorgeous aqua flask with a screw on lid (that didn’t actually screw on) that’s more than it seems at first. It’s not just a funky presentation idea, nor is it just a permanent storage solution. Nope, that flask is part of the Dodil shaping system, and I really was impressed that the whole thing was so well thought out, right down to the last detail.
Inside the canister was what appeared to be a long stick of bluey-green, hardened modelling clay. But obviously, that’s not what it was. It was the Dodil in its natural form, waiting to be pulled and tugged into twisted shapes by yours truly. There was also a long black plastic string and an instruction booklet.
Now, I don’t have the foggiest idea what lurks inside the Dodil, but I do know that the outer coating is stretchy silicone. The base is sealed by a branded stamp, and I’ve had a good fiddle with it while it was both hard and soft (chuckle-chuckle) and it seems to be perfectly well sealed.
The idea is, you pop the Dodil in the canister and pour hot water over it. After about half an hour or so, you have one floppy fish on your hands! Whatever the core is made from melts like mozzarella, and it stretches like it, too. The silicone follows suit, adjusting to whatever thick or thin shape your mind comes up with. Magic!
Okay, first thing’s first; yes, I did use the Dodil while it was still a long, untouched lump of solid. That was fun enough in itself, I have to say. Just a little curve on the end so that it hits the g-spot would make it a pretty fine dildo.
But fun needed to be had, so shapes had to be made.
If you want something simple, like a curve, you’re flying. All you have to do is bend it to your desired curvage and then run it under cold water in short bursts until it hardens again. Voila, you have your own personally shaped dong.
Doing something like bumps requires a bit more time and patience. Oh, and it also requires that black plastic string I mentioned earlier. Wrapping that around sections of the Dodil goes a long way to preventing it from collapsing back into a wibbly lump. Use that and your hands until you find your desired shape, and then let it set. If you’re just using the string you might get away with letting it cool on its own, but if you’re using your hands too you’ll probably want things to chill a bit faster. I actually use my desk fan and it works quickly and perfectly.
As it stands, the Dodil isn’t anal safe. Whatever design you choose, you need to take the base into account if you want to pop it up your rear. I’ve found that a good – if more time consuming – way to do make the Dodil anal safe is to melt it and focus on the base first.
When it’s pliable, turn it upside down and grab the part that always stays solid. Wiggle and press down into the shaft, against your thumb and forefinger. This will create a bulb with a narrow neck. Run that under the tap, and once it hardens, you have your base. After that, you can soften the shaft above it with more hot water, and go about the shaping business knowing that you’ll have a butt safe dildo/plug/prostate massager when you’re done.
Now for the brilliant part…
If you make a shape, love it for three weeks and then think, fuck this, I’m bored with it now, don’t fret. The Dodil is re-mouldable! Yep, just whack it back in hot water and after half an hour you’ll have a floppy sausage that you can shape again and again.
So, my own personal perfect design.
Something I really love that I’ve been unable to mimic with a sex toy is the fast and furious stimulation of a good fingering. Ugh, digits hooked around my pubic bone, fingertips battering away at my g-spot and forcing the squirt out of me…damn, I love it and have long said I’d kill for a toy that gave me similar feels so I could properly ‘finger fuck’ myself when the Fella isn’t around.
The Dodil was a perfect opportunity to make that happen. I knew I needed something with a sharp curve, a few ‘knuckle joints’, and a tip with a small surface. That tip needed to be about as wide as two fingers, so that’s what I aimed for. I wanted to cheat a bit with the shaft, though. I made it thicker than fingers, giving myself something that would offer me my other fave type of vaginal stimulation; stretching.
Using just my hands (mouth, elbow & knee) and the desk fan, I pulled, curved and shaped my Dodil until my monster was created. Yep, Squidward’s Leg (as I now call) it was super easy to shape after I let the Dodil cool down a bit. I found that trying to shape it while it was hot was a pointless exercise. It wanted to do its own thing and clearly thought my idea was piss poor cos it just didn’t want to help. But once it cooled, I got it shaped without a problem.
I know some folks will look at this in horror. That’s fair enough, cos it is quite the ugly bastard. It looks like it’d be painful and uncomfortable, but for me, it isn’t. It’s perfectly shaped to grind into my g-spot, and all I have to do to make that happen is insert it, wiggle it with the tips of my fingers.
On the info leaflet, there’s a set of care instructions. The silicone skin of the Dodil must not be pierced, and there are stretch limitations, too. Cleaning with toy cleaners (or soap and water) is advised, and so is the use of water-based lubes only. It also says not to store touching other silicone products, and that makes me wonder. Silicone can be safely stored with silicone as a rule, but then not all silicone is this bendy, shapey stuff. Mine lives in its tin or in a cotton bag, just to be safe.
I really do think the Dodil is utter brilliance. It’s the most user-oriented, non-gendered toy I’ve come across to date, and it’s so much fun to play with. Those who dislike rigid toys won’t like it, but if rock hard dongs are your thing, you’ll probably love it. And I can see it being a chore to shape for those who have problems with their hands. It’s a very hands-on product, so if you have any issues with grip, you might want to avoid the Dodil. Well, unless you have a handy helper.
If you’d like to make your own masturbation masterpiece, click the banner below and go check the Dodil out. At €79 with free worldwide green shipping, you really can’t go wrong.
