Back in 2015, Will Eades set himself the task of crafting a set of artisanal dangly testicles for his best friend’s stag do; picture Jackass legend Bad Grandpa’s saggy sack, and then lower it by an inch or two. Eades was a 3D animator at the time, but “had a passion for make-up and sculpting,” he tells Dazed. “I made him wear the ballbag, and it went down really well. I realised I had stumbled upon a little niche, so I made more.” Within months, Eades had gathered enough momentum to quit his job and turn his garage into a makeshift workshop for a new novelty prop business, Billy’s Ball Bags.

It wasn’t until lockdown that Eades realised his business had found an unexpected audience in the form of trans guys, who praised the realism of his silicone scrotums and asked if he would consider making packers. These soft, squishy dicks are designed to be worn on an everyday basis – quite literally, they’re designed to be “packed” into your pants. Usually, they’re either fixed into place using adhesive, attached with a harness, or they’re nestled snugly into specially designed underwear. Here, a quick caveat: not all trans guys want to pack. But for those who do, the search for a perfect prosthesis can be arduous. Even as recently as a few years ago, the hunt required scouring through sex shops, shelling out hundreds of pounds, or opting for the cheap and cheerful Mr Limpy, destined to slide around and accumulate lint as the days got sweatier.

Eades wanted to do something different. He wanted to make the tab – the part designed to be attached with adhesive – smaller and more comfortable, as some packers require zero pubes in order to stick. He had other ideas, but while researching his debut dick, Eades met Billy Berrisford, a trans guy who loved the business proposal and was keen to bring his lived experience and organisational skills to the table. In May 2022, Eades founded MorMe Prosthetics, marking his transition into making prosthetic packers, although Billy’s Ball Bags is still operative. In September that year, Berrisford came on board as his right-hand man.

Fine-tuning MorMe’s first design was far from easy. “We did research into what other companies were doing already,” recalls Eades. “Emisil was the big one. I remember looking and thinking, ‘I can’t do this, they’re too good!’” His 3D animation background meant that his design process would look a little different to usual prosthetics. “I design everything on a computer using 3D sculpting software, and then I 3D print the moulds,” he explains. This makes it easy to make new iterations; all I do is go back to the computer, push it out, reprint it, and then it’s a new, tweaked version.”

As for research, Berrisford describes the ‘r/softies’ subreddit as “reference heaven; it’s full of cis guys uploading their soft penises. It’s never the case that we see one and think, ‘that is the penis,’ but it’s great for referencing, and also seeing that there are so many differences.” Most trans guys don’t want hugely noticeable 12-inch dicks, and as Berrisford points out, there’s no such thing as the perfect packer. “Someone might not like a packer, but it could be perfect for thousands of other people, who see the same thing and feel like it resonates with them.”

MorMe now sells a multitude of dicks in different sizes, foreskin options and skin tones, but it all began with the OG Packer in size medium, around 10 centimetres. “By the time we launched, we were maybe on prototype number seven,” Eades recalls. “We had some dark days in the office. The orders were piling in and it was just the two of us, but the moulds weren’t user-friendly. We were doing pour after pour after pour, and things were going wrong. Now, we’ve learned about new processes and materials, so our new moulds tend to be good – at least good – from the start.” 

Perfecting gender-affirming items is no easy feat, and while it’s now pretty simple to buy items like packers, binders and breast forms, as the industry is quickly growing, that wasn’t always the case.

“There wasn’t even binding tape when I grew up,” says Harry Nicholas, author of A Trans Man Walks Into A Gay Bar. “There were no clothing lines, packers, sex toys, binding options or pants with pockets to pack. You could just about get Underworks binders, but they shipped from America, and there weren’t many on Amazon, so you had to be quick!” Nicholas still isn’t a fan of packers, although he’s never tried the MorMe options. “They end up getting sticky or smelly, or they move around in my underwear, and it makes me feel more dysphoric. I just pack with socks these days, which are more comfortable and washable. I’m still needing something for swimming trunks though – I haven’t seen any for swimwear!”

The trusty companion of the packer is the STP, the “stand-to-pee.” It’s exactly what it sounds like: a prosthetic penis with a urethral opening, designed so you can pee standing up. These can be a logistical nightmare. “It’s so difficult just in terms of anatomy and positioning,” explains Berrisford. “You’re fighting gravity! We sell funnels separately, so if one size doesn’t fit, you can try another without having to buy the whole thing again. We try to help people by saying, ‘Look, this is going to be really awkward, but if you can spend some time trying to find where your urethra sits, that will make such a big difference to understanding which funnel size and shape you can get.”

Given these difficulties, it’s unsurprising that trans guys share plenty of tips online. The ‘r/ftm’ subreddit is a key guidance hub, and social media creators post regular reviews, sometimes as brand affiliates. Alex, who goes by his Instagram handle @aleyatez, became a MorMe affiliate back in January 2025, reviewing the products based on his own ideal packer. “In my opinion, it’s about sizing and comfort,” he tells Dazed. “You should be feeling gender euphoria, not embarrassed or uncomfortable.”

“They end up getting sticky or smelly, or they move around in my underwear, and it makes me feel more dysphoric. I just pack with socks these days”

Incidentally, ten inches used to be MorMe’s smallest size, until a friend of Will’s got in touch to request one for her 13-year-old son, who was newly out as trans. They quickly scaled down the design and gifted her the result, a story which he recounts tearfully. Just a few weeks later, they received a note saying it had saved his life.

Slowly, conversations around gender-affirming items are changing; Berrisford sees them unfold every time he tells a stranger about his job. “When I say I make prosthetics for trans people, people say, ‘Oh, dildos?’ You have to say, ‘No, that’s not quite it.’ It’s like hair dye, make-up, lipstick; these are gender-affirming things that make you feel good about yourself. When I explain it that way, people say, ‘That’s amazing, I love it!’” Prosthetics are still a niche market, but it’s growing quickly; in the near future, MorMe will offer breast forms and retractable foreskins, and other companies, like Emisil, are doing similarly valuable work.

As the UK government continues to restrict the freedoms of trans people, stripping our healthcare and repressing our rights to protest, something as simple as a packer can make a world of difference. “As a trans man, these gender-affirming items are a reason I can leave the house when I feel dysphoric,” concludes Alex. “Every day, we’re just fighting to feel at home in the body we were born in.”