Most dudes dream of dick. By that I mean at one point or another most every trans guy has dreamt of having a dick of their own or having a bigger dick or having a dick in them. You get the point, guys like dick in someway or another. I myself spent the better part of my first years on T obsessing over it.

Alas, I am cash poor and don’t want to have anymore surgery. So I searched for a dick that made sense. I don’t love packing without purpose. Mostly because if I’m gonna “do it” at the end of the day, I never know how to casually slip off my stinky, sweaty limp packer without feeling humiliated and utterly turned off. If I am gonna pack, I want to be able to fuck with that dick too. But I’m short and I wear skinny jeans, so I can’t exactly shove a donkey dick down there without looking obscene.

Take it from me: if you go to get your penis scanned and turned into a dildo, try not to think about the fact that your cock is patiently throbbing at the intersection of chemistry, sculpting, laser photography, sex toy manufacturing, 3D printing, American-made goods, and LGBTQ concerns. It will make you flaccid, and that’s no way to pose for a picture.

Is your dick so glorious that you think it needs a twin-dick? Well then I have the event for you! Right now in New York City, 3Dea is happening, a popup store/printing lab that shines a light on the art of 3D printing. The gist of it: You can get pretty much anything printed in 3D, including your penis. Yay, technology! (And I really do mean that.)

Ottimo Massimo of Fleshbot went through the process, and it is so fascinating! They use lasers to scan your penis and then print out a dildo with your exact length, girth, curve, and vein structure. And is it just me, or is “vein structure” the grossest two words in the English language when combined? It’s that, or “making love”. Or possibly “Carrot Top”.

Adore your Shih Tzu? Now it’s possible to create a tiny replica of Fluffy in figurine form for your office. You could also create customized jewelry or an iPhone case. What might be called extreme personalization is moving closer to mainstream consumers who don’t want to invest in an industrial 3D printer themselves. This is all thanks to a number of companies whose mission is to give everyone access to high-end 3D technology normally used by large corporations to create product prototypes.

“A friend suggested that, to finish the evening off, we hire a Manhattan-based company that scans and makes 3-D replicas of your private parts. That’s where I drew the line.”

3DEA, a pop-up 3D printing store in New York City, is offering customized dildos formed from laser scans — and 3D print-outs — of customers’ penises.

The process is pretty simple: After a “quick tutorial on how to perfect your scan,” the excited buyer enters a scanning booth, where ShapeShot technology snaps some images of the patron’s manhood, then uses those images to print out a 3D model. They send the model to New York Toy Collective, where sex toy professionals use the print-out to create a one-of-a-kind dildo.

News: the rise of affordable 3D printers is sparking a boom in demand for personalised sex toys that can be ordered online or printed at home.

A raft of new companies are springing up to cater for the growing market for toys that can be customised according to taste and fabricated on domestic printers, preventing the potential awkwardness of receiving items in the post.

This Valentine’s Day, take that maxim to its logical and ridiculous extent when you enjoin 3DEA to make, yes, a personalized sex toy out of your manhood.

So. Ahem. Here’s the thrust of it: you book an appointment with the 3DEA team in a private Eventi suite reserved exclusively for you.

Maybe you consider yourself the best adult toy of all. There has long been ways of making a replica of certain body parts, usually involving long, uncomfortable sessions with a big bucket of “quick-drying” plaster that can just not harden fast enough. But now we live in the digital age, where laser scanning can make a 100-percent accurate digital model of your pertinent parts.

It’s not just Romney and Obama anymore! Thanks to dropping costs and the nagging sense of terrible shame that comes with entering a sex shop no matter how liberated you are, custom, 3D-printed sex toys are now officially a “phenomenon,” according to Dezeen. There’s MakerLove and Dongiverse, two alternate-universe versions of Thingiverse that specialize in the free sharing of dildo designs, Velv’Or, a “gentlemen’s jewelry” brand making 3D-printed products for men, and Cunicode, which plans to offer “luxury” ceramic models.

This idea that started off as a “wouldn’t it be silly if…” conversation while drinking with friends that became a reality for Kling when she came into contact with the owners of sex toy company the New York Toy Collective, who offered to make an almost exact mold of her penis—veins, creases and all—using the latest in 3D technology. A Minolta Vivid 910 laser scanner takes five to seven shots from different angles to composite a digital image, which is then sent to a 3D printer to create what is likely today’s closest attempt to an exact mold of a penis.

Not sure what to ask for from your guy for Christmas? Tell him you want a dildo modeled out of a 3D printout of his penis for those lonely nights when he’s out of town.

Yes, it’s a thing: 3DEA—a new pop-up (ha!) shop in NYC—is now offering the service. It’s pretty simple: Your guy gets a quick tutorial, then hops in the booth for a quick penis photo shoot. A 3D model is then created from the photos and shipped off to New York Toy Collective and the pros there create the one-of-a-kind dildo

One goal has long evaded sex toy engineers: an exact replica of a human penis. Not just any penis, but yours, with all the contours and skin tone that the good Lord gave you rather than those unnaturally smooth and luridly pink options.

Plaster molds and other attempts take too long and often leave the customer limp with disappointment.

Now, thanks to 3D printing, the era of the perfectly cloned mini-you has arrived; finally, you can be in two places at once, as it were.

3D printing is taking over the world one industry at a time – and sex toys are no different! At 3DEA we’re bringing back the Personalized Sex Toy Scanning just in time for Valentine’s Day <3. In collaboration with New York Toy Collective and Direct Dimension’s ShapeShot, Openhouse offers the newest technology to make civilization’s favorite hobby even more interesting.

“It all started because I wanted a silicone ‘pack and play,’” said Chelsea Downs, co-founder of the New York Toy Collective, a group that hand-makes affordable silicone dildos in Brooklyn. We were speaking over the phone about the Collective’s line of “adult” toys, which are gaining widespread praise for being the most realistic on the market — the enigmatic “pack and play” particularly.

Tech industry enthusiasts have called three-dimensional (3D) printing one of the hottest technological advancements expected to go mainstream in 2013.

At the forefront of the innovation for mobile devices is cell phone maker Nokia, who on Friday announced the release of the 3D-printing Development Kit (3DK) that will allow users to create their own customizable back shells for its new Lumia 820 handset.

orget buying sex toys — Tom Nardone wants you to print them.

Nardone runs MakerLove, a website where he posts sex toy designs for 3D printer owners to try out. An engineer-turned-vibrator salesman, Nardone’s toys include the Hello Kitty-inspired Hello Pussycat, the tongue-shaped Organic Communicator, and the strangely but aptly named Freaky Freud. His work combines art with science, technology with pleasure.

But while Nardone isn’t sure whether MakerLove will revolutionize the sex toy industry, he is sure of one thing: The 3D printer will undoubtedly become a sex machine.

New York Toy Collective and CrashPadSeries.com join forces to host “The Dream Scene” queer porn scriptwriting contest.

“The Dream Scene” Contest invites fans to submit their own porn script, using unique elements such as the CrashPad’s key motif and New York Toy Collective’s popular dildos as plot devices. One lucky winner will have the opportunity to visit the set of CrashPadSeries.com and watch their story come to life. Outside the San Francisco Bay Area? Contest collaborator New York Toy Collective will award the winner a travel stipend of up to $500 within the USA.

You know how us dames are always telling you that we wish we could cast your manhood in bronze and carry it with us in our purse, so we’d accidentally wrap our hands around it while we were looking for our keys and grin, mischievously? No? I’m sorry, that must be a sore spot for you.

Regardless, our days of wishin’ and hopin’ are over; a company called 3DEA has made it possible for you to create an exact replica of your junk, using 3D printing technology and some silicone. That’s right, the same material that sex toys are made out of. Now you’re with me.

Looks like our sexual culture is evolving and being altered by technology – companies are not only printing out prototypes sent by sex toy designers with desktop 3D printer, but also offering services to help you generate customized 3D sex toy.

3DEA, a Pop-Up store in New York featuring cutting-edge brands like Shapeways, Ultimaker, and UP! plus 3D printer, set up a very private 3DEA appointment on Monday December 10, 2012.