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Inside a sex toy factory's clever uses of tech and science, including cloning OnlyFans models and 3D printing penises

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Andrew Hansen

Published Sep 23, 2026

A LOOK inside a sex toy factory has revealed some intimate tech and science applications.

These pleasure device experts are part of the evolution making tomorrow's solo fun an even more personalized experience.

Chad Braverman got into the family sex toy business through his father Ron

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Chad Braverman got into the family sex toy business through his father Ron
This melted factory goo will be used to make sex toys

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This melted factory goo will be used to make sex toys

The U.S. Sun got an eyeful during a private tour at the Doc Johnson sex toy factory and headquarters, full of buzzing, bubbling, melting and rolling wonders, all in the name of orgasm.

Some of the headturning tactics included a sticky process for copying the best sides of OnlyFans models, and a digital means of creating a real dildo.

SEX IN 3D

Doc Johnson is toying with the idea of using a 3D printer in the future to make hot-selling items like their porn star-modeled dildos.

It works on a small scale for a custom design but arguably lacks the artistry and detail of human hands.

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Anjani Siddhartha is one such artist at the forefront of crafting such toys.

On the day of the visit, she sits in her own cozy studio corner of the factory, away from the chaos of loud, hot, fast-moving machinery.

In addition to tons of her own carefully-crafted models of sexual anatomy, her space displays one rather bland 3D-printed penis.

The artist explained that it was made with a program similar to ones that make prints of movie prosthetics.

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This process utilizing temperatures up to an ouch-hot 240 degrees can take "sometimes 24 hours to print," according to Siddhartha.

Running an entire business on such printers is still quite far down the line for the modest-but-mighty factory.

"I like to do the detail," Siddhartha specified, pointing out the vagueness of the model not made by human hands.

"Even in the movies, they still [use] clay, they still work," she said, disclosing the most important human ingredient that goes into anything: love.

"I'm very spiritual, so I think you transmit that energy into anything you touch."

FILLING IT UP

One by one, the copper molds in varying conditions are filled up by the touch of factory attendees on a loud, steamy factory line with hot, blue liquid that will harden into the exact size and shape of a porn star's penis.

Chad Braverman, 40, was just a young kid when his father Ron started Doc Johnson, but presently, he helps oversee the business.

"It's like a liquid silly putty," Braverman explained of the alginate that is used to artistically copy the bodies.

On a nude model, they will apply a papier mache-like mold of alginate and bandages to build it up into "something they can work with."

When it's hard enough, they "extract it from the body."

It's from here that the industrial silicone goes onto the likeness of OnlyFans models.

DRIP TOO HARD

The copper molds eventually made from the body casts are what allow the parts to be mass-produced.

Aware I was giving the molds a look, he said "I'm sure your question is going to be like why do some of them look weird?"

Then, Braverman revealed the culprit was the "electroplating process" where "when the actual mold is pulled out that copper continues to drip," resulting in the deformations of the faux phalluses.

He wrapped up the process perhaps more philosphically than he intended: "We don't care what it looks like outside. The only thing that matters is inside."

Similar to getting the veins of a penis or the creases of a vagina just right, vibration is an art.

GOOD ALGORITHM

Because Doc Johnson is a company that dates back to the days of 1970s obscenity charges, they must manipulate the algorithm to work for their benefit instead of their demise.

That means their social media behavior tiptoes a bit, lest they risk losing followers who don't want the algorithm bombarding their feed with sex toys.

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"It’s like you’re going to be scrolling and it’s like sex toys every time that company posts something, it’s gonna be sexual...

"So, we took the approach more…of just…being like a fun sex account, and that took our followers from like 15,000…to like 80,000."

This electric toothbrush vibrator operates on what Braverman calls 'high speed vibration'

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This electric toothbrush vibrator operates on what Braverman calls 'high speed vibration'
This copper mold is made from real porn testicles

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This copper mold is made from real porn testicles
The faux vaginas that these copper molds will produce have the potential to make one 'stroker' customer very happy

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The faux vaginas that these copper molds will produce have the potential to make one 'stroker' customer very happy