There is no motor in this, and Aneros says you do not need your hands either. Its published explanation is that once the massager is inside, it is powered and controlled by the contractions only — you contract and the shaft levers, you release and it settles back. That is the whole engineering idea, and it is why the shape looks as odd as it does out of the box. Nothing here vibrates, charges, pairs or runs out of battery.
No motor — it is moved by your own contractions, with the front tab acting as a fulcrum.
Two tabs do the work outside the body. The front tab rests against the perineum and acts as a fulcrum — Aneros's own word — so each contraction pivots the whole body of the massager rather than simply squeezing it. The second tab sits further back against a point Aneros calls the K-spot, just below the tailbone. Neither tab is decoration. Remove them and the lever has nothing to push against.
The Trident revision changed the arms. Aneros redesigned the arm configuration so the massager can move laterally as well as up and down and in and out, and describes the body as specially balanced for responsiveness. This is the rigid version: 3.5 inches insertable, 0.80 inches across the head, 1.5 inches from stem to perineum tab. If you want the same shape in silicone that is the Helix Syn Trident, a different product with different measurements, and none of the figures above carry across to it.
Material is where we hold our own badges back. Aneros states across its range that its products are made of non-porous medical-grade silicone and body-safe thermoplastics. This is one of the thermoplastic ones, and Aneros neither names the specific polymer nor publishes a phthalate-free statement for it, so that badge is not on this listing. Non-porous is the part that matters most for anything used anally, because a non-porous surface can genuinely be cleaned rather than only wiped down. Use water-based lubricant, more of it than you think, and never hurry the insertion.
Two things in your favour on the warranty. Aneros warrants its non-vibrating products against defects for the life of the product, and this is a non-vibrating product. Separately it runs a 60-day performance guarantee, which is the more useful one here, because this is a device with a genuine learning curve and sixty days is roughly how long people report it taking before anything clicks. Buy it expecting to practise rather than expecting a result on the first evening.
