Fleshlight Girls Riley Reid Utopia: review

Fleshlight Girls Riley Reid Utopia at a glance — this is what you get

Fleshlight Girls Riley Reid Utopia is a full-size masturbator without electronics. There is no motor, no battery, and no app. The entire product consists of three parts: a molded sleeve in the manufacturer’s material Real Feel SuperSkin, a hard plastic housing that resembles a flashlight, and two screw caps. Utopia is the name of the sleeve’s internal texture, not the product as a whole — and that is the single most important thing to understand before you compare prices, since Riley Reid comes in three different textures under the same product name.

The specification is brief precisely because there is no technology to specify. The manufacturer states the material Real Feel Super Skin, an orifice molded directly from Riley Reid, a white Pearl Case type housing, and packaging that, in addition to the product, includes a free lubricant sample and care instructions. Full size class — the one that Fleshlight Girls belongs to — is stated by the manufacturer to fit 9 to 10 inches in length and up to 7.5 inches in circumference, i.e. about 22.9 to 25.4 centimeters, respectively, up to about 19.1 centimeters. In Sweden, the item is sold by nine stores at prices between 636 and 899 SEK, and seven of them had it in stock at the price check.

This review is exclusively about the complete product with housing, i.e. EAN 810476014636. Fleshlight also sells the sleeve separately under its own item number, and it costs less but it doesn’t work without the housing. Check the number if you compare prices between stores — it’s an easy mix-up to make.

What a Fleshlight actually is: sleeve, housing, and two caps

The construction is strikingly simple and has been the same for decades. The sleeve is a molded cylinder of soft material with a form-molded orifice at one end and a small outlet at the other. It is inserted into a hard plastic housing. A cap is screwed onto the front and covers the sleeve between uses, and a second cap is screwed onto the back.

The rear cap is the only movable part in the entire product, and the manufacturer explicitly describes it as adjustable: how tightly you screw it determines how much air can pass out, and therefore how much vacuum is built up inside the sleeve. That’s the suction mechanism. If you screw it all the way down, you get maximum suction and minimal air exchange. If you loosen it by half a turn, the pressure is released. What can be established is that it provides continuous adjustment rather than a number of fixed positions — unlike a motor-driven product, there is no scale and no steps to count.

The housing fulfills three functions at the same time. It gives structure to a sleeve that would otherwise be completely shapeless, it makes the product discreet when the lid is on, and it creates the enclosed air volume that the suction regulation assumes. The manufacturer also highlights that the sleeve can be removed from the housing, which is what makes it cleanable in the first place. Without the removable sleeve, the product would be impossible to maintain.

What’s the difference between Utopia, Euphoria, and Insomnia?

Riley Reid is available at Fleshlight in three textures, and the three are sold under the same product name with different article numbers. If you mix them up in a store, you’ll buy the wrong product, and since opened goods can’t be returned, it’s an expensive mix-up.

• Utopia (lady) — this product. The manufacturer describes the texture as a spiral-shaped construction with so-called pleasure pockets, a combination of ridged sections and narrower passages. The orifice is cast as a vagina.
• Euphoria (butt) — an anal cast with a texture the manufacturer describes as heavily ridged walls with sculpted chambers and tight transitions.
• Insomnia (mouth) — a mouth cast with a texture the manufacturer describes as suction-focused, with compression zones and smaller waves.

What can be established purely objectively is that the difference between the three lies in two independent things: on the one hand, which body part the orifice is cast from, and on the other hand, how the channel inside is shaped. The texture descriptions are the manufacturer’s own and are formulated as marketing, not as measured values. Fleshlight does not publish the channel length, its smallest or largest diameter, or the number of chambers for any of the textures, which means that a comparison between Utopia and Euphoria can’t be made using numbers. The only hard fact that distinguishes them is the article number.

With a housing—or just the sleeve? The EAN numbers that distinguish the variants

The manufacturer’s own variant table lists Riley Reid Utopia in two versions. The complete product with housing has EAN 810476014636 and is listed for 79.95 dollars, corresponding to 790 SEK in Swedish currency in Fleshlight’s own web store. Only the sleeve has EAN 810476014643 and is listed for 59.95 dollars, corresponding to 592 SEK. So the difference is 198 SEK for the housing and lids.

Here’s a detail worth knowing. In the manufacturer’s own product data, the barcode 810476014643 is listed for both Utopia without housing and Euphoria with housing. So two different articles share the same number in Fleshlight’s own register. It doesn’t matter for this product, though—810476014636 is uniquely linked to Utopia with housing, and it’s the number all nine Swedish stores sell under. But that explains why this particular product family is confusing to price-compare, and it’s an argument for checking the article number in the store instead of trusting the product name.

A practical tip follows from the price difference. The manufacturer explicitly sells Fleshlight Girl sleeves separately, while the smaller models and series like Ice, Stamina Training Unit, Turbo, and Boost—according to the same FAQ—have no sleeve option. If you already have a full-size Fleshlight housing at home, then the sleeve variant is the cheaper purchase. If you don’t have a housing, then the complete product is the only option that actually works, because the sleeve can neither be held in place nor suction-regulated on its own.

Material and build quality: Real Feel SuperSkin

The material issue is the only feature of an intimate product that you can’t compensate for through experience or care, and with a Fleshlight, it also determines how the product has to be cared for. With this product, things are different from almost everything else in the category, and the difference is bigger than the marketing suggests.

What Real Feel SuperSkin is made of—and what it isn’t

In its FAQ, Fleshlight states that the sleeves are made of a mineral-oil-based patented polymer manufactured with white, food-grade mineral oil, and that the material is 100 percent hypoallergenic and biodegradable. The same page says that the company’s dildos, however, are made of silicone. It’s an important distinction that often gets lost in store texts: Real Feel SuperSkin is not silicone.

The consequences are concrete. Silicone is non-porous, tolerates boiling, and can in practice be sterilized. The manufacturer has instead chosen a mineral-oil-based elastomer, and the entire argument for that choice is that the material should mimic skin—Fleshlight describes it as a patented polymer developed to reproduce the sensation of intercourse. The price for that feature is listed in the manufacturer’s own instructions: the material doesn’t tolerate high temperatures, it shouldn’t be washed with soap, and it needs a maintenance powder so it doesn’t become sticky. That the manufacturer sells a maintenance powder for this material in the first place, while no silicone manufacturer does, is the clearest indication of the difference.

What can be established, then, is a trade-off, not a shortcoming. The manufacturer has chosen a material whose entire raison d'être is realism, and pays for it with a maintenance requirement that a silicone product doesn’t have. Which is the right choice depends on whether you’re willing to follow a care routine after each use. If you’re not, you should buy something else, and that applies regardless of which Fleshlight Girl is printed on the packaging.

The designation “patented,” by the way, is not empty. Fleshlight publishes its own patent register where US 11 234 893, “Method And System Of Creating A Replica Of An Anatomical Structure,” is registered, with corresponding ones registered or filed in Australia, Canada, Russia, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. The patent covers the method of creating the cast, meaning the actual orifice—not the polymer’s composition. Which patent protects the material, and which polymer it involves chemically, the manufacturer does not publish.

Phthalates, mineral oil, and what the material declaration doesn’t say

Phthalates are a group of plasticizers used to make plastic—above all, flexible PVC—pliable. Kemikalieinspektionen describes them as substances that can affect the hormone system and make reproduction more difficult, and several of them are therefore restricted or banned within the EU in a large number of products. The category of soft masturbators is a recurring subject of supervision precisely because it relies on skin-contact flexible plastic.

Fleshlight are unequivocal on that point. In their FAQ, they define what phthalates are and then explicitly state that the Fleshlight material does not contain phthalates. It’s a clearer statement than the generic “body safe” that dominates the category, and it’s verifiable in the sense that it’s a written commitment from the manufacturer itself.

Two things should still be said plainly. The first concerns biodegradability: Fleshlight states that the material is biologically biodegradable without referring to any standard, test method, or time frame. Without a reference such as EN 13432, the claim is not verifiable, and it should be read as a property that the manufacturer attributes to the material rather than as a certificate. The second concerns what is actually stated: a declaration that phthalates are absent is not the same as a complete list of ingredients. Which other additives the polymer contains is not stated in the manufacturer’s material information, and therefore someone with known skin or mucous membrane sensitivity has nothing to go on beyond the information that the material is hypoallergenic.

Size and weight: what Fleshlight publishes and what they don’t publish

The walkthrough is shorter than it should be, and it’s the product’s clearest weakness on paper. Fleshlight does not publish the house’s length, its diameter, the sleeve’s insertion depth, or the orifice’s opening for Riley Reid Utopia. None of that information is found on the product page, in the packaging image, or in the FAQ.

The closest the manufacturer comes is a size chart in the FAQ that describes entire product classes instead of individual models. It states that the full-size product— which expressly includes the Fleshlight Girls sleeves—fits 9 to 10 inches in length and up to 7.5 inches in circumference. Converted, that’s about 22.9 to 25.4 centimeters in length and up to about 19.1 centimeters in circumference. The same table also says that the full-size products have the largest opening diameter at the insertion point of anything the manufacturer makes. It’s a useful piece of information for someone choosing a size class, but it says nothing about how the Utopia channel itself is shaped.

The weight information deserves a note. The only weight found in the manufacturer’s publicly available product data is 2.0 pounds for the version with the housing and 1.0 pound for the sleeve alone—so about 907 and 454 grams, respectively. These are shipping weights in the store system, not measured product weights, and the fact that they’re rounded to whole pounds makes them useless for comparison. And they’re also inconsistent between the variants—Insomnia without a housing is listed as 2.0 pounds, i.e. the same weight as a complete product—shows that the figures come from the shipping calculation and not from a scale. Treat them as an order of magnitude for the package and nothing more.

The consequence for you as a buyer is simple to put into words: you can’t choose this product by numbers. You can choose it by size class, by texture, and by price—but if you want an exact insertion depth or a specified inner diameter before buying, you don’t get that from the manufacturer, and the measurements that circulate on retailer pages are not supported by anything in Fleshlight’s own materials.

How it’s used: suction adjustment, lubricant, and heat

Since the product lacks electronics, the entire use comes down to three variables that you control manually: how tightly the back cap is screwed on, how much lubricant is used, and what temperature the sleeve has. There are fewer controls than on a motor-driven product, but the three affect the experience more than you’d think, and two of them also affect how long the product lasts.

How is the suction adjusted on a Fleshlight?

With the back cap. The manufacturer describes it as an adjustable cap that controls the amount of suction, and the principle is purely mechanical: the sleeve is enclosed in the housing, and the only way out for the displaced air is the gap at the back cap. If you screw the cap all the way shut, that path is sealed off and a vacuum builds up behind the sleeve when you pull it out. If you loosen the cap, air can pass through and the pressure equalizes.

What can be established is that the adjustment is stepless. There is no scale, no click positions, and no indicator, which means the setting is something you find by trying it and then remembering. The advantage compared with a motor-driven product is that the control can never break, require charging, or stop responding. The disadvantage is that it can’t be reproduced exactly, and that you can’t change it in the middle without moving your hand.

A practical consequence that rarely shows up in store texts: a fully unscrewed cap also makes the sleeve harder to push in, because the air inside has to go somewhere. Loosen it a bit before you start and screw it on once the product is in place, so you don’t have to pull on the material unnecessarily.

Which lube works with Fleshlight Utopia?

Only water-based. The manufacturer’s FAQ formulates it as meaning the products should never be used with anything other than water-based lubricant, and that other types can damage the sleeve over time. A trial lubricant from the manufacturer’s own brand is included in the package.

The manufacturer doesn’t specify what kind of damage occurs—only that it occurs. What can be said generally about oil-based elastomers is that oil- and silicone-based preparations tend to be absorbed into the material instead of staying on the surface, unlike water-based ones, which are rinsed away. Coconut oil, petroleum jelly, and massage oils therefore fall among the things that should be kept away, regardless of how well they work in other contexts. A split sleeve can’t be repaired, and microcracks are also exactly the environment where mold gets a foothold, according to the manufacturer’s own warning.

Expect the consumption to be high. A full-size sleeve has a significantly larger inner surface area than a clitoral stimulator or a compact stroker, and the lubricant is also what keeps the material from being pulled in. It’s the only recurring operating cost for a product without a battery, and you should factor that in when you compare it to a motor-driven product that requires power but uses less lubricant.

How do you heat a Fleshlight?

The manufacturer states there are two ways. The first is to soak the product in warm water, and the second is the manufacturer’s own sleeve warmer, which connects to a standard USB port and heats the sleeve from the inside in cycles. Fleshlight describes that the warmer heats up to its maximum temperature and then switches off for one to two minutes before the next cycle, and it recommends that you put a few drops of lubricant on before inserting the sleeve onto the heating rod to prevent the material from tearing apart.

Soaking in warm water is the cheap option and requires no extra equipment, but it has a practical catch: the sleeve gets wet, and water inside the channel dilutes the lubricant. Shake it out thoroughly first. The manufacturer states that it does not set an upper temperature limit in degrees for the sleeve, either for soaking or for the warmer, and in its care guide it explicitly recommends “warm” water and not scalding-hot water. Boiling water therefore doesn’t belong anywhere near this product.

Cleaning and drying — what determines how long it lasts

This is the chapter that sets a Fleshlight apart from almost every other product in the range. In its own care guide, the manufacturer writes plainly that mold can develop both inside and outside the sleeve if the product isn’t cared for, and it describes cleaning and drying after each use as an obligatory step. It’s unusually clear wording from a manufacturer, and it should be read as it’s written.

The manufacturer’s routine, in short

The guide consists of nine steps and can be summarized like this: Remove the sleeve from the housing. Rinse it with warm — not scalding-hot — running water for about 30 seconds through the entire channel. Block the outlet with a finger so the sleeve fills, cup your hand over the opening and shake for five to ten seconds, then let the water out. Rinse once more. Then wash the housing and the two caps separately.

This is the instruction that is most often missed, and it’s important enough that it should be written out: soap should only be used on the housing, never on the sleeve. The sleeve is cleaned with water and, if you want, with the manufacturer’s own antibacterial spray. Regular hand soap on SuperSkin breaks down the material.

The manufacturer also explicitly advises against turning the sleeve inside out to reach the inside. The reason they give is microcracks in the material, which in turn become places where mold can grow. It’s a common tip on forums, and according to the manufacturer, it’s wrong.

How long does it take to dry a Fleshlight?

Longer than most people expect. The manufacturer’s own drying unit has three time settings, and the recommendation for full-size products—which explicitly includes Fleshlight Girls—is 60 minutes. The Flight and Go models are stated to require 40 minutes, and Quickshot to 20 minutes. So it’s the manufacturer’s own claim about how much airflow a full-size sleeve needs, and it’s three times as long as for the smallest model.

Without the drying unit, the alternative is air-drying on a towel in a cool, dry, and ventilated area, with the option to pull a paper towel or microfiber cloth through the channel to speed it up. The manufacturer is categorical on one point: the sleeve should be completely dry before it’s put away, and the care powder should never be applied to a damp sleeve. Plan on the product needing to be left out overnight if you don’t buy drying equipment, and plan storage accordingly. It’s the most underrated practical aspect of owning a Fleshlight in a household with more than one person.

What does Renewing Powder do—and do you need it?

The care powder is the manufacturer’s answer to the material becoming tacky when the softeners migrate out to the surface over time. Fleshlight is unusually candid about the status: in the FAQ, it says the powder isn’t a requirement, but that they strongly recommend it because it preserves the skin feel and prevents the sleeve from feeling sticky. The care guide describes how it’s used—sprinkle a little around the outside of the sleeve after washing and drying, knead it in with your fingertips, and massage some of it into the orifice.

One important caveat is stated in the same text: the powder should not be used on the manufacturer’s transparent sleeves, because it affects the transparency. That doesn’t apply to this product—the Utopia sleeve is skin-colored, not clear—but it’s worth knowing if you later add a sleeve from the Ice series.

What you can conclude is that the powder is an ongoing cost that a silicone product doesn’t have. Add that to the amount of lubricant used and any drying equipment, and the total cost over a few years is noticeably higher than the purchase price that 636 SEK implies. This isn’t an argument against the product, but it is an argument for calculating total ownership instead of just looking at the price tag.

Lifespan: what actually breaks

In its FAQ, Fleshlight says that with proper use and care the product provides a lifetime of pleasure. It’s a marketing claim and not a warranty commitment, but it points to something real: a product without a battery, motor, or electronics lacks the three most common sources of failure in the category. There is no lithium-ion cell that loses capacity with the number of charge cycles, no charging contact that stops making contact, and no permanently soldered circuit board that makes the product unusable when it gives out.

What limits the lifespan instead is the material, and there the manufacturer’s own warnings are the best guidance. Mold after insufficient drying, micro-cracks after the sleeve is turned inside out and back in, swelling and stickiness after the wrong lubricant, and the material’s natural aging. The housing in hard plastic and the two covers will, with all likelihood, outlast the sleeve—which is exactly why the manufacturer sells sleeves separately.

In practice, that means this product has a different economic profile than a motor-driven competitor. An Arcwave Ion 2 is used up when the battery is, regardless of how well-cared-for the silicone sleeve is. A Fleshlight can be renewed for 592 SEK, the price of a new sleeve from the manufacturer, and you keep the housing. Over five or ten years, that’s a real difference, and it speaks in Fleshlight’s favor as long as you keep up the routine.

The opposite reading should also be said. A product that requires cleaning, drying, and dusting after every use is a product that fails quickly if the routine isn’t followed, and the manufacturer has written out the mold risk itself. There’s no tolerance for sloppiness here in the way there is with a silicone product that can be rinsed off and put away with moisture.

Riley Reid Utopia compared with the alternatives

Three comparisons are relevant: against the small model with the same cast, against another Fleshlight Girl in the same price range, and against a motor-driven alternative in a completely different price range. All the specifications below come from the respective manufacturers’ own information, and all the prices come from the shops’ product feeds on July 29, 2026.

Against Fleshlight Quickshot Riley Reid — 241 SEK less

Fleshlight Quickshot Riley Reid, EAN 810476010997, costs from 395 SEK. That’s 241 SEK less than Utopia at its cheapest, and the difference in format is big. According to the manufacturer’s own size chart, Quickshot is an open product at about 4 inches, roughly 10 centimeters, that holds up to 4.5 inches in circumference—versus full-size’s 9 to 10 inches and up to 7.5 inches.

What can be established is that the two are not the same product in different sizes. Quickshot is open at both ends, which means there’s no closed air volume and therefore no suction regulation—the back cap, which is Utopia’s only control, is simply missing. On the other hand, the open design makes it significantly faster to rinse through, and the manufacturer states a drying time of 20 minutes in its dryer, versus 60 minutes for the full-size model.

The conclusion is that the choice isn’t between cheap and expensive, but between two different things. If you want the full length, a closed housing, and a suction regulator, Quickshot isn’t an option. If you want a product that takes a third of the time to take care of, fits in a toiletry bag, and costs 241 SEK less, then it is.

Against Fleshlight Girls Stoya Destroya — the exact same price, different texture

Stoya Destroya, EAN 810476014667, also costs from 636 SEK and is sold by just as many stores. The pricing is identical, down to the kronor, and it’s no coincidence: the entire Fleshlight Girls series has the same list price from the manufacturer—79,95 dollars for the complete product—and the Swedish stores follow that structure.

So the difference isn’t price, format, or material—all of that is shared. Both are full size, both have a Pearl Case, both use Real Feel SuperSkin, both have an adjustable rear cap, and both have an orifice cast directly from each respective artist. The difference is the casting and the texture, and the manufacturer describes it with words rather than measurements.

That makes this comparison the most honest one in the entire review: there’s no data-driven basis to choose Utopia over Destroya—or vice versa. The price is the same, the specifications are the same, and the only thing that differs is how the manufacturer describes the channel’s shape—spiral with pleasure pockets against Destroya’s own texture name. The choice is aesthetic and personal, and any attempts to turn it into a technical ranking are based on information that neither Fleshlight nor any other company publishes.

Against Arcwave Ion 2 — 550 SEK more for electronics

Arcwave Ion 2, EAN 4251460631112, costs from 1 186 SEK. That’s 550 SEK more than Utopia, so it’s almost double the price, and it’s built using a completely different principle. Arcwave gives the dimensions as 153.5 × 51.98 × 83.19 millimeters, the package dimensions as 196 × 136.5 × 70 millimeters, the enclosure rating as IPX7, a USB-rechargeable lithium-ion battery with 90 minutes of operating time and 120 minutes of charging time, the materials as medical silicone and body-friendly ABS plastic, and a two-year warranty.

Notice how much more data there is. Arcwave publishes measurements down to hundredths of a millimeter, operating time, charging time, enclosure rating, and warranty duration. Fleshlight publishes none of that for Riley Reid Utopia—neither dimensions, weight, insertion depth, nor warranty duration in years. If you choose a product based on the stated specifications, Arcwave wins without any competition, and that’s a completely legitimate way to choose.

The arguments on the other side are also concrete. Ion 2 is shorter — Arcwave states 153.5 millimeters as the product length, while Fleshlights full-size class, according to the manufacturer, holds 9 to 10 inches, i.e. 22.9 to 25.4 centimeters. The two figures don’t measure the same thing, because Fleshlight states what the product holds, and Arcwave how long the product is, but the class difference is unambiguous. Ion 2 is also dependent on a battery that isn’t replaceable. It costs 550 SEK more, and when the battery cell is finished, the product is too. Utopia has no electronics that can break, can be refreshed by replacing the sleeve, and can be rinsed under water without there being a single seal to worry about. The silicone in Ion 2, in return, is easier to take care of than SuperSkin and requires no powder.

For the sake of completeness, Fleshlight Flight Pilot, EAN 810476019440, belongs in the same line of reasoning. It costs from 469 SEK, i.e. 167 SEK less than Utopia, and according to the manufacturer’s size chart it belongs to the Flight class that holds 7 to 8 inches in length and up to 5.5 inches in circumference. It’s therefore more compact and tighter, with the same material and the same care requirements, but with 40 minutes of drying time instead of 60.

Price range: 636 to 899 SEK at nine stores

Nine Swedish stores sell the item with EAN 810476014636. The cheapest is Vuxen at 636 SEK, and the most expensive is Vuxenkul at 899 SEK. That’s a difference of 263 SEK, or 41 percent, for exactly the same item number, the same texture, and the same packaging.

The inventory situation is unusually good in this category. Seven of nine stores had the product in stock at the time of the price check—only Lustly at 795 SEK and Vuxenkul at 899 SEK were missing it, meaning it’s those two of the more expensive listings that you can’t buy at all. That means the price range you can actually choose between is 636 to 795 SEK, and the cheapest available and the next-cheapest available differ by 40 SEK: Vuxen at 636 SEK and Joyland at 676 SEK.

A comparison that’s rarely made is the one against the manufacturer’s own price. Fleshlights own web store lists the complete product at 790 SEK in Swedish currency. So the cheapest Swedish store is 154 SEK, corresponding to just under 20 percent, below the manufacturer’s own price, while the five stores that charge 795 SEK in practice are at the manufacturer’s list price and Vuxenkul is 109 SEK above it. That makes the manufacturer price a useful reference: anything over 790 SEK, you pay without getting anything extra, and anything below is a real discount.

The price spread is not because any store sells the sleeve variant. All nine list the item under EAN 810476014636 or under their own item number, which is linked to that specific complete product with the housing. So it’s essentially the stores’ own markup on a product that has been in the range since Riley Reid debuted as Fleshlight Girl in 2016—and a product that’s that established is exactly the kind where that price comparison pays off the most, because no store can point to news value.

The prices in the table above are updated when the stores’ product feeds are updated, but always check the final price at checkout. Shipping costs are added at most stores under a certain order value, and in this price range, several stores are under the threshold for free shipping—which can eat up the entire difference between the two cheapest.

Who is Riley Reid Utopia for—and who is it not for?

It’s for you if you want the full-size format with a hard housing, an adjustable suction slider, and a sleeve that can be replaced when it’s worn out. It’s for you if you prefer a material that the manufacturer describes as skin-like rather than something that’s easy to care for, and you want a product without a battery, without a charging cable, and without electronics that can stop working. It’s also for you if you prioritize the purchase price being low compared to what the product is: 636 SEK is just under 20 percent below the manufacturer’s own Swedish price.

It’s not for you if you want to choose based on specifications. Fleshlight does not publish measurements, weight, insertion depth, or warranty period for this item, and anyone who requires numbers before buying can get them from Arcwave but not here. It’s not for you if you want a product that you can rinse off and put away—your care routine is nine steps long, and according to the manufacturer the drying time is 60 minutes with drying equipment, longer without. It’s not for you if you want something small and easy to store: the full-size class holds 9 to 10 inches according to the manufacturer, meaning about 23 to 25 centimeters, and the product also needs to be left out and dried after each use.

One more thing belongs in the decision. If you already own a full-size Fleshlight housing, you should look at the sleeve variant instead, EAN 810476014643, which costs 592 SEK with the manufacturer versus 790 for the complete product. And if you’re unsure whether the format will suit, you should consider the Quickshot variant with the same cast for 395 SEK, or Flight Pilot for 469 SEK, before spending the money on full size. Opened items are not accepted for return at the manufacturer, and the right of withdrawal is in practice limited for sealed hygiene products that have had the seal broken—that makes the pre-order choice more important here than in almost any other product category.

Warranty, complaint, and right of withdrawal

The answer here must be blunt: Fleshlight does not publish any manufacturer warranty this year for this product. There is no five-year warranty, no two-year warranty, and no warranty document on the manufacturer’s website. What there is instead is a returns policy with two time limits.

The first applies to unopened goods. Fleshlight accepts returns of unopened and unused products within 30 days from delivery, provided you first obtain an RMA number, and refunds the product value minus the original shipping cost. Opened or used goods are expressly not accepted—they are discarded and no refund is made.

The second applies to defective or incorrectly delivered goods. There, the manufacturer states that you must get in touch within 90 days from delivery, that the defect must be substantiated with photos, and that a replacement product will then be sent at the manufacturer’s expense. The defective product does not need to be sent back. Defective products are replaced but not refunded, and after 90 days the manufacturer does neither a replacement nor a refund. Note also that the terms apply to purchases in Fleshlights own store—if you buy from one of the nine Swedish retailers, it is the store’s terms that apply to you.

What always applies, however, are your statutory rights, and they are significantly stronger than the manufacturer’s 90 days. Under konsumentköplagen, you have a three-year right to make a complaint about defects in the goods, regardless of what the manufacturer promises. For distance purchases, you also have a right of withdrawal for fourteen days under lagen om distansavtal och avtal utanför affärslokaler. Be aware that, in practice, the right of withdrawal is limited for hygiene products that have been taken out of a sealed package—which in this category is the completely decisive point, and the reason why the choice of texture should be made carefully before purchase. The right to make a complaint about defects, however, always applies. If you have questions about what applies in your case, Konsumentverket guides you via Hallå konsument.