Interview with a First-Time GIDDI Customer

At a Glance

• What this article is: An honest interview with Marcus*, a 51-year-old first-time customer, about years of curiosity, a nervous first purchase, and the six-week journey to his first hands-free orgasm with Thor.
• The real first-time myth, busted: Hands-free, movie-moment orgasms rarely happen on night one — and that's completely normal. The first time is still great. It's just not always the time.
• What actually unlocks the experience: Relaxation, patience, and resisting the urge to overthink. The device is built to do the work; your job is to get out of its way and enjoy the ride.

Why We Ran This Interview

There's a quiet myth that every first-time prostate massager user has a movie-moment, hands-free orgasm the first time they try. It shows up in reviews, in marketing, in the "what to expect" chatter online.

It's not untrue–it happens–but for most people, it doesn't happen on night one. And when you're already nervous, that gap between expectation and reality can feel like failure.

But it isn't.

So we sat down with Marcus*, a 51-year-old married customer in the Midwest who bought the GIDDI Thor prostate massager as his first purchase, and asked him to walk us through how it actually went. What follows are his words, lightly edited for clarity.

A Quick Note on Privacy

Marcus is a pseudonym. The customer we spoke to is a very real person with a very real life — a wife, kids, a job, and a strong preference for keeping this part of his life private. We care about that. It's the same reason everything GIDDI ships shows up in plain, unbranded packaging, with no trace of what's inside on the label or the receipt. Privacy isn't a nice-to-have around here. It's the floor.

You Were Curious for a Long Time Before You Bought Anything. What Finally Changed?

"Honestly? Nothing dramatic. I'd been curious about prostate stuff for years. Literal years. I'd read a Reddit thread here, a blog post there, and then I'd close the tab and do nothing. At some point I was doom-scrolling one night and ended up in a thread where someone mentioned GIDDI. So I clicked over, looked around for five minutes, and just closed it again. [Laughs] I came back about a week later and took the quiz, though. That was the thing that did it."

Why the Quiz, Specifically?

"Every other time I'd tried to look at this stuff, the websites felt like I was supposed to be a different kind of person to be there. The quiz didn't do that. It just asked me questions: what was I hoping to experience, what did I want to feel, and I could answer without having to put myself in a box first. I'm a first-timer. I had no idea what rotation or come-hither even meant, and the quiz was fine with that. It just said, 'Here's what we'd recommend for someone like you.' That ended up being Thor."

What Got You From Adding to Cart to Actually Buying?

"Reviews got me to the cart. I probably spent too much time reading them, but I needed to see other guys–preferrably newbies like me–saying it was worth it. This isn’t something I’d just bring up around my friends IRL, so I looked at all the online reviews and there was a lot of them, thankfully. Once I'd read enough of those, the cart part was easy.

"Actually hitting buy was harder. I sat on it. I was nervous. I'd open the tab, stare at it, close the tab, come back later, do it again. A few times. And at some point I just went, 'You know what — hell with it. If this many people are into it, I don't want to miss out on something this good.' That, plus the 30-day guarantee in the back of my mind, is what finally got me over the line."

Let's Talk About the First Time. What Actually Happened?

"So I want to be really honest about this part, because I think it matters. I read the first-time guide twice. I was nervous. I had the place to myself, I did it solo, I went slow, and the first time was good. It was really good. Different than anything I'd tried before.

"But it wasn't the thing. You know what I mean? [Laughs] I'd seen people in reviews talking about hands-free orgasms, and that did not happen to me on night one. I want to say that out loud, because I don't want someone to try this, have a great time, and walk away thinking they did it wrong because fireworks didn't happen. It was enjoyable. It made me go, 'Okay, there's something here. I want to figure this out.' And that was enough."

And Then?

"I just kept at it. Not every day, obviously, but whenever I had time and space. Every session, I'd learn something. The angle, how much I needed to relax, what modes worked for me, that sort of thing. I guess I was just getting more comfortable with my own body, which sounds cheesy but it's true.

"Around six weeks in, it clicked. The hands-free thing actually happened. And it was… a lot [Laughs]. A different kind of intensity than anything I'd felt before. I'm almost embarrassed to say this, but I got a little emotional afterwards. I just kind of laid there and thought, 'Where has this been my whole life?'"

What Would You Tell Someone Who's Where You Were Two Years Ago?

"Take the quiz. That's it. The quiz doesn't mean anything. It doesn't make you anything. It just gives you information, and then you do what you want with it.”

“You're not going to regret trying this, but you’re definitely going to regret waiting."

The Takeaway

Marcus's story is the one we hear most often, and it's the one that rarely makes it into the marketing: the first time is great, but it's not always the time. Prostate pleasure is a learning curve, and it’s one that rewards curiosity, comfort, and a little patience.

Here's the part that often gets lost in the myth-busting, though: the journey itself is the good part. Every session between night one and the big hands-free moment is genuinely fun and deeply pleasurable in its own right. You're not grinding through boring reps waiting for a payoff. 

You're enjoying yourself the whole way there–and then one day, it opens up even further.

If you've been quietly curious for months or years, here's the part worth repeating: it isn't an identity decision. It's a body that's capable of something you haven't explored yet. The rest is practice.

Start Where Marcus Started

Take the GIDDI quiz–two minutes, a handful of questions, and you'll know which massager fits what you're actually looking for. No matter which one of our prostate massagers you land on, you'll be in very good company.