I don't like the Fleshlights which I have tried. I have owned and worn out a few Fleshlights, mostly of the standard variety (I frankly can't recall whether I got "trainer" or "starlet" or "anus" or "extravaganza" or whatever it was that I did get). I regret that I spent that much money.
I find the Fleshlight unreasonably high-priced for what you get. Furthermore, it's very difficult to operate, since the case is so bulky and does not have a ready handle. The sleeve sloshes or waggles around inside the box-case-handle as well, further reducing control.
For me, several cheaper sleeves and/or strokers are a better choice, because the stimulation is more along my preferred lines and the finish is equivalently as mind-bending or as matter-of-fact as with a Fleshlight. And, I find that the CHOICE of whether to finish or not is more in my own hands with a cheaper stroker than it would be with a Fleshlight, because the Fleshlight sort of "forces" excess unpleasant stimulation onto me. In other words, it's impossible to move that thing up or down without really CRAMMING maximum stimulus onto maximum nerves; whereas with more traditional strokers you can choose, by means of tightness of grip on the outside of the thing, whether to really over-stimulate or only minimally stimulate any given contact-point.
Thus, the Fleshlight for me feels kind of like a torture tool, a force-to-orgasm device which will cause ejaculation even if the orgasm is rather painful or unpleasant or simply unwanted. Ejaculation with a Fleshlight feels to me more like the constrained powerful but unwanted act of projectile vomiting and less like the pleasant release of voluntarily sneezing. I can see that it would be quite frustrating if it were in the hands of a hot female partner and my goal were to resist finishing, but with it in my own hands and my goal to finish when I wish and not before, it is really the wrong tool. I think they have rather elaborate marketing and that's why they own such a significant market share. The other manufacturers haven't been as careful as Fleshlight about either (a) the modification and customization potential of the internet age, or (b) the branding and brand-recognition of their own innovations.
In fact, Fleshlights aren't really much more than traditional strokers made out of one of the feels-like-skin products (Doc Johnson has "Realistic" and other manufacturers have "Real-Feel", "Cyberskin", and "Realskin" IIRC). But then they packed it into a flashlight-type tube. The tube is the innovation. A frickin' solid, cylindrical, hard-case tube. They put a case on a Fi-fi. Seriously, they put a case on it, THAT'S ALL THEY DID DIFFERENT. Wow, brilliant! If I could put a cumbersome and interfering case on an I-Phone, something that reduced its utility a bit (not too much, just enough that you notice it), and then market the new product as the Federation Communicator, complete with James Doohan and William Shatner endorsements, then I would be doing the Fleshlight to cellular communications.
I have done some comparison shopping ...
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nothing beats being with a real person, of course, even if the raw pleasure is lesser.
now that I'm "rehabilitated" though, I'm working on training myself to last longer.
