With a size that’s well designed for my transmasc anatomy and a design that combines texture, movement, and suction to excellent effect, Autumn from Lycantasy fills my oral fantasies perfectly.
Design & Specs
Lycantasy is a disabled- and trans-owned indie fantasy sex toy company producing toys that are creative, accessible, and inclusive. Their lineup includes plugs, grinders, penetrables, and dildos in all sorts of shapes and sizes—including their Ember the Dragonborn dildo, which I love—alongside adorable squishable friends.
Autumn the Ozark Howler is a stroker featuring a furry snout with a thin tongue sticking out and a bumpy internal texture. The nose is feline in design and the cheeks have whisker marks, while the nasal ridge is lined with ripples. It’s Lycantasy’s second stroker, after Robbie the Beast of Bray Road, which represents a werecreature with a t-dick and a fluffy tail.
The masturbator comes in two sizes: Full size, which goes all the way through, has a flexible jaw and longer, wider tunnel; and compact, which is only a couple inches deep, has a closed end, and has a static jaw. Mine is compact, which is designed to work for anatomy like mine as a trans man on T, sized so that it can stroke my t-dick effectively.
I have been less interested in mini penetrables for some time; while they may feel good, their total lack of heft makes the fantasy fall through. Fullsize penetrables with tight holes are much more to my taste.
Autumn’s compact size places it in a middle ground: The overall size is bulky enough to hold comfortably and fill a fantasy, while still having a tunnel designed to work with smaller anatomy. Plus, it’s smaller than a standard fullsize penetrable, which promises less of a workout.
From the start, I was hopeful that this would be a good fit.
I requested mine with Autumn’s orange and a dark shimmery brown. While the brown shows up under bright light, it’s almost black in person, giving the impression of tiger stripes.
Autumn is typically available made-to-order in the Ozark or Tigris signature colors, or Lycantasy’s standard black, purple, or blue options. They occasionally stock inventory items in various colors.
Autumn is available in extra soft 00-20 or soft 00-30, which are the two softest firmnesses regularly offered by fantasy shops. Mine is in extra soft, which is recommended on Lycantasy’s site, and I find it to be the best choice for me. The toy is dense enough to have a decent amount of resistance to squishing, and the softness keeps the texture from being overwhelming while remaining firm enough to feel the texture well. While I normally find 00-20 to be tacky to the touch, Autumn has only slight tackiness, which I appreciate.
Masturbators with oval-shaped entrances hold a risk of tearing at the thin edges. I haven’t tempted fate by trying to stretch Autumn’s mouth too wide, but from regular cleaning and use, I haven’t yet caused any tearing.
The edges of the mouth take extra care to clean since the indents around the teeth are deep. In addition, I would recommend inserting a finger into the mouth cavity while cleaning to wipe away any stubborn fluids, and either air-drying the internals or carefully drying with a thin cloth.
The best part of cleaning: Autumn can spit out a stream of water like a fountain. That’s as delightful as the fact that it has a permanent blep.
Alongside Autumn, I received a couple of stickers and business cards, plus a handful of squishies, including a tiny version of Autumn (which has a flexible jaw, but does not have a tunnel running through it). Compact Autumn starts at $69.
In Use
The size of the entrance is perfect for me. This may be dependent on my own size; I have an average amount of growth, and I can fit my foreskin inside Autumn’s mouth. This works best when I’m fully aroused and at full thickness, but it can still stroke me when starting from soft despite the relative looseness. (It doesn’t take me long to get hard when using Autumn.)
Autumn’s suction is unlike other strokers I’ve tried. On every stroke where I fill Autumn’s opening, the outstroke provides a small amount of suction and comes off with a quiet pop as the suction is broken. It doesn’t even feel like intentional suction, so I didn’t immediately realize there was any suction, but I notice the effects of it as it gets me harder and larger faster than without suction. Rather than being a primary feature, the mild suction enhances the experience.
From the beginning, I didn’t expect strong suction; Autumn’s oval-shaped entrance is unlike the rounded ones that work well for suction-oriented mini penetrables, so the design isn’t ideal for suction. I can get strong suction if I carefully squeeze out all the air and stroke very shallowly, but this is extremely loud and is not easy to maintain.
I was a little worried about the intensity of the tiny dotted texture on the tongue, but it’s a very reasonable level of texture. With a little bit of lube, it feels less like texture and more like increased friction in the way that a rough surface finish does. With a lot of lube, it becomes just about unnoticeable. Using a small amount of lube and making a licking motion is a fun way to use the toy, although holding it that way is a little awkward, and I don’t get enough out of it to do this for long. Most of what I feel from the tongue is it sliding against the underside of my cock as I stroke.
The texture on the upper side of the mouth is my favorite part, with the pronounced ridges very noticeable in use. Between the texture and the tightness, it tends to push back my foreskin and focus more stimulation on the head, which is great with enough lube and really feels like it’s actually stroking me. It can easily get overstimulating if the lube dries up, though.
Autumn is easy to fully grasp with one hand and keep hold of in use. If I use it for a particularly long time, I start to feel a strain in my wrist and fingers, but casual use is very comfortable, and it is far easier to handle than fullsize penetrables.
T-dicks bend away when pressed, so I find that a penetrable needs to be sturdy enough to provide structure so that it’s not just one soft bendy thing pressing against another soft bendy thing. Autumn has the bulk and leverage needed for this: Pressing it firmly against myself makes my cock push inside.
Once inside, I can stroke easily, leaning back and using one or both hands to control the toy. I enjoy both straightforward stroking back and forth (with easy reinsertion if I pop out, in part thanks to the tongue sticking out) and grinding it against myself (using both hands to press it against myself while taking my entire length). I can feel the texture well, even with only shallow penetration, and there’s a level of pressure from the light suction and the thick walls.
Normally, I can’t orgasm using penetrables, but Autumn is the exception. There’s a little too much pressure when I use fullsize penetrables and squeeze them with my thighs; suction from closed-ended mini penetrables is too strong; and even air pulse vibes are too much for me to come with them directly on my cock. They can get me close, but not over the edge. Autumn, on the other hand, has the right amount of textured friction, low-level suction, and low-to-moderate pressure to make me come easily within five to ten minutes (which is a pretty short session for me).
For best results, I use a little more lube than I think I need, and re-lube if I start to feel too sensitive. If it gets too dry, then I can’t come easily because the texture becomes too intense. More lube is better than less, and makes it feel more like oral.
Speaking of how close it seems to oral… I have long yearned to find a sex toy that feels like how I imagine oral sex to be. I don’t have any real-world experience here, so you’ll have to take this with a grain of salt, but with sufficient lube and a little bit of variation in how I move the toy, each stroke has just the right amount of texture, suction, and wetness to make it feel and sound like how I imagine a blowjob should be.
Aside from stroking, the top has texture that looks appealing for grinding. I find the texture to be surprisingly subtle in extra soft 00-20; it might work better for that purpose in soft 00-30. It’s very easy to hold for grinding, though and could easily be propped upon a folded towel to grind against hands-free.
My one annoyance with Autumn is the size of the cheeks. They press into my labia, and it’s a little annoying to insert my cock without my outer labia needing to be pushed out of the way. The overall size makes it just about impossible to ride a dildo vaginally at the same time, so plugs are a better choice. However, I can’t think of any design changes I would want to see for the cheeks, considering the thickness allows for the sensation of pressure in the first place.
Overall
Autumn the Ozark Howler is my new favorite fantasy stroker. The compact size is easy to hold and offers good pressure in use, the sensation makes for an amazing oral sex fantasy, and the tunnel has strong texture right at the entrance that I can feel without needing a lot of length.
As a mid-size masturbator, Autumn bridges the gap between mini and fullsize strokers, providing something designed for use with t-dicks while having the bulk to fill a fantasy, and this is exactly what I’ve been craving. I want to see a zillion more mid-size strokers like this.
While there isn’t much I’d want to change about Autumn, one thing that could be really cool would be to add a vibe slot to the flat end. It’s big enough that that could be viable, and my experience with air pulse vibes makes me wonder how similar this might be. It wouldn’t be the same sensation, but for a stroker to vibrate while it’s wrapped around my cock… that would be something.
I would highly recommend compact Autumn for anyone with a t-dick or similarly sized anatomy if you enjoy texture while stroking or the fantasy of oral sex. If you’re mainly interested in suction, however, I would instead suggest a penetrable with a rounded entrance.
Lycantasy Website
Autumn the Ozark Howler
I received the toy in exchange for an honest review.