Past - What happened until now? 

In 2002, I tested the one penis prosthesis everyone had been talking about…. it was much better than everything else available at the time, but it wasn't close to what I’d imagined.* 

I thought:  Making the prosthesis we want, can’t be all that complicated. 

That started years of experiments, research, and finding the medical industry insiders who would help. (Very hard to do at that time - many professionals - medical, lawyers, to tax advisors hung up, closed doors, asked me to leave - wanting nothing to do with 'this sort of thing’.)

Knowing what we need in terms of transparency, agency, privacy, and respect, I began collaborating with trans+ people all over the world. 

People sent me their support, ideas and insights, and placed orders. Each individual prosthesis good enough for purchase, was sent out for feedback. I’d take the comments and notes and re-design and alter my various forms and build the next prosthesis good enough to send out for feedback. 

Often changes failed, and I’d need to replace a prosthesis. People would wait for months while I figured things out before being able to repair or replace their prosthesis. Some gave up, others continued to give feedback and placed follow-up orders when it was time for a new one.

That went on for over 2 decades. 

I joined the softness of the basic packer, the professional materials and health care attention of anaplastology with the knowledge of what is wanted and needed for comfort and daily wear.  

2005, I began offering the Phase1:  A flaccid only prosthesis. The first ever packer that could be attached to the body with adhesive, stay in place and was comfortable to wear. (At the time, the other things avaialbe were basic sticky soft packers that couldn't be glued and the firm epithesis that couldn't stay glued.)  

Soon I was able to ad the erection function. 
I designed the pump system based on that used in phalloplasty (ie. pump in scrotum connected to a fill-able shaft in penis)**. Because its made of soft silicone and not grafted skin, unlike surgery, the skin of the prosthesis could stretch at erection and shrink back to shape when flaccid. 

2007, I introduced the Phase2 - the first penis prosthesis worldwide to include an erection pump. 

Later, I added internal lubrication - so the entire skin slides free and safe over the balls and penis core. After years of experimentation with various substances, a collaborator suggested we use coconut oil***. 

I got deeper into materials, form, sculpture and colour to bring in details for aesthetics. 

I consistently re-designed and refined to make the flaccid smaller and softer, the erection easier and more reliable, and everything more durable. 

Then, for ease of mind and longevity, I altered everything again to allow for simple to replace parts.

And we now have the Phase5 prosthesis. 

A more consistent design - simpler to use - with easy to replace parts.

The Phase5 is still far from perfect!! The project has lots to do. 

*The prosthesis made in the 90's by a prosthesticist was good compared to what we had available. This project owes a lot to his design. At the time, we also had the very basic packer;  so sticky it needed to be powdered, quickly rubbed down and old looking, no detail - penis and balls-like in basic shape only, and couldn't be attached to the body. And those packers were a new thing  - a big step up from the hair gel in a condom packed in a nylon stocking we all used just before. Before that was the sock... and whatever methods people used prior. 

**I got the idea of a prosthesis with a pump from the first person to greet me at my first ever info/ support meeting for trans+. He talked of the possibility of making a prosthesis with something like the phaloplasty pump system. 

***Coconut oil has since become the standard internal lubricant used by many packer/prosthesis companies. 

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