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Review of the Oxy-Shop Monthly Keyholder Service, a monitored chastity keyholding system for fee, managed by Mistress Elena.

I’ve finished my one-month subscription with the Oxy-Shop Monthly Keyholder Service and am ready to offer my honest review.

A while ago I was looking for a key safe and found my way to the Oxy-Shop website. Browsing the site, I not only found the key safe I was seeking but also discovered Oxy-Shop offered a for fee monthly keyholding service. What intrigued me was that the service is managed by an actual Pro Domme and the monthly fee started at only $35 per month.

Oxy-Shop also offers 3-month and 6-month keyholding subscriptions for $95 and $200 respectively that reduce the monthly cost even more. Having paid far more for professional monthly keyholding services, I decided to try the service even though my expectations for a personalized experience were quite low given the low monthly fee. Here’s what I discovered.

What You Need to Use the Service

A lockable chastity device suitable for long-term use
The Oxy-Shop keyholder service set (Included free with your first month of paid service)

A metal key safe and a generous supply of plastic number locks to use with the safe comprise the keyholder service set. The set alone is a $25 value, so essentially, you’re paying only $10 for the first month of keyholding when you buy a one-month subscription.

How the Oxy-Shop Keyholder Service Works

Once you receive your key safe and plastic numbered locks by mail, you email Oxy-Shop at tasks@oxy-shop.com once you are ready to start. You will then receive a welcome letter from Mistress Elena with her initial instructions. In my case, I received the welcome letter the day after I emailed to say I was ready to start.

Once you begin, each day you email a proof of lock photo and every other day a proof of lock video to Mistress Elena. Something I didn’t know and that wasn’t explained in the welcome letter is that you should send the daily emails as replies to the welcome letter. The first few days I sent original emails each time with the images and videos attached, so Mistress Elena had to email me a second time with instructions to use replies not original emails each day because that makes it more difficult for her to keep track. That’s understandable as I’m sure she is managing many locked men simultaneously. Once we ironed that out, I submitted the required photos and videos each day without further problems.

In addition to managing your chastity, Mistress Elena also sends task assignments periodically. My understanding was there would be only one task for the month, so I didn’t expect that to amount to much. But Mistress Elena provided a new task assignment each week, all of which I found quite enjoyable to do for her and that added interest to the experience and made it even more pleasant. Out of respect for Mistress Elena’s work product, I won’t share what the tasks entailed. But I will say each was a fun activity that didn’t require much time to complete and I generally had on hand whatever I needed to complete them. So, there was no real added expense involved.

From the moment she tells you to lock up, Mistress Elena is in control. She decides when and if you may unlock and whether you get any sexual pleasure or release. In my case, I remained locked for the first eight days of the month. Then Mistress Elena instructed me to unlock for a break, but warned me not to touch or play with her property while unlocked.

It surprised me that she left me unlocked for five days before telling me to lock up again. And that would have made the five days more like honor chastity than lockable device chastity had I followed those instructions. But I only used the opportunity to unlock to do a deep cleaning and locked my device back on after less than a half hour of freedom on the first day. Since I’m approaching two years of remaining locked continuously, I wasn’t willing to end the streak for the purposes of reviewing a keyholder service, so I admit I didn’t follow the instructions to remain unlocked for the five-day period.

Once Mistress Elena had locked me back up (officially), I remained locked for the duration of the month. During the month, Mistress Elena did not allow me any sexual release which was fine by me actually. So, if you decide to try this service, don’t automatically assume you will get permission for sex or masturbation during the month even though the information presented on the website mentions it as a possibility. Also, I expect Mistress Elena decides on a case-by-case basis how much time she will allow a person to remain locked and unlocked. So, your experience would likely differ from mine.

All communication with Mistress Elena is by email, so don’t expect anything more than that. In the past I have sometimes had phone, text, or Skype contact with professionals who have managed my chastity, but I found communicating only by email perfectly acceptable.

Mistress Elena notifies you two days before the month of service ends, I assume so that you have the chance to extend the service for another month or months if you choose.

What I Didn’t Like About the Service

There were several things I expected not to like about the service, but in the end, there is only one thing I can criticize. You don’t receive daily feedback on the proof photos and videos and after several days it feels as if you’re only submitting them to a black hole and no one even looks at them. But given the low monthly fee charged, that’s understandable. Even if Mistress Elena is only keyholding for twenty locked men at a time, sending daily emails would require a lot of her time. And for all I know, she may be keyholding for far more than only twenty men at a time. So, in the absence of feedback, all you can do is assume she found your photos and videos acceptable since I’m sure you would hear about it if she was displeased with your efforts.

Something I expected I wouldn’t like was the absence of a personalized experience. I’ve had several professional keyholders who have provided me exceptionally personalized services, but I paid anywhere between $100 and $200 per month for those services. For $35 per month, I certainly didn’t expect it to be as personal as my past experiences. I didn’t expect it to feel personal at all. But Mistress Elena surprised me and actually did an excellent job making the experience feel personal. Her emails were always brief, but personal enough it was easy to see she doesn’t just send out form emails and she is quick to praise you when she feels you’re deserving which lets you know she does review the photos and videos you send her each day. I could also sense she puts effort into creating the task assignments so that they are personalized for the individual.

In the beginning, I felt sending a daily proof photo and video every other day a somewhat onerous and needless requirement. But as time passed, I realized the requirement didn’t seem burdensome and actually helped keep me engaged. By the end of the month, I looked forward to taking the photos and making the videos each day knowing Mistress Elena was looking at them. So, I found myself trying my best to be creative in hopes of impressing and pleasing her. Based on the feedback I received, I feel I accomplished that.

Precautions When Using the Oxy-Shop Keyholding Service

In my opinion, this is a service for men who have a good basic understanding of how to safely wear a lockable chastity device. You are 100% responsible for your own safety while using the service. So, I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners who would be better served by finding an experienced keyholder offering a more personalized service tailored to experience level. But for someone who has some experience under his belt, doesn’t have a keyholder, and wants one, this service could be exactly what you’re looking for. It’s basic, but comes at a very reasonable and inexpensive price. And unlike many other affordable remote keyholding services you can find on the interwebs, a real person manages this one. In that regard, this service is truly one of a kind.

Also, I think this service is best for guys who wear open-style cages rather than closed tube devices. At one point I went more than two straight weeks locked with no opportunity to remove my device briefly for a deep cleaning. That wasn’t an issue because of the type devices I wear. But two weeks is too long to go between deep cleanings for guys wearing something like the Steelworxx Steelheart or any of the popular resin cages with mostly closed tubes. You need a device you can clean well in the shower without removing it.

Final Thoughts

On a scale of one to five, I rate the Oxy-Shop Monthly Keyholder Service a solid four and have no reservations recommending it to those with moderate experience wearing a lockable chastity device. The price is unbeatable for anything close to what this professional service provides. The experience isn’t as personal as other services I’ve used (which were significantly more expensive) but personal enough to give you an authentic feeling of chastity under the control of a professional keyholder who is legitimately in charge.

I liked the service well enough that I’ve already signed up for another month. And if the second month goes as well as the first, Mistress Elena may well become my permanent keyholder for the foreseeable future. The cost of the service is well within my budget, fulfills my basic needs for keyholding, and I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve tired of self-locking for now and had been considering engaging another full-time keyholder for a while. And having looked at all my options, the Oxy-Shop service seems the best available for now.

Disclaimer: I paid for my month of keyholding service using my own funds, and I have no relationship with Oxy-Shop beyond being a satisfied customer. All opinions expressed are my own.

I’ve completed the second week of the Oxy Shop Monthly Keyholder Service trial, and here are some early impressions.

After completing the second week of the Oxy Shop Monthly Keyholder Service, the jury is still out until I have benefited from the full month. But here are a few early impressions.

First, I believe this service fills a valuable niche, as I know there are many guys out there who don’t have anyone to act as their keyholder and want an inexpensive remote keyholding service option. So, I hope I’ll be able to give the service a positive review at the end of the month and feel I can recommend it without reservations. But expect an honest review, just like those I do for chastity devices. So far, there are things about the service I’ve liked and haven’t.

Proof of Lock System

One thing I don’t particularly like about the service is the proof of lock system Oxy Shop keyholder service employs. I mentioned a little about how it works in the previous post. But I’ll restate it here. Clients must send a proof of lock photo daily and proof of lock video every other day. So, fourteen days into it, I have sent heaps of photos and videos.

In and of itself, that may not sound completely unreasonable. And I’ve started to have a little fun with it by getting more creative with the videos and photos hoping it amuses the keyholder. But what I like least about the requirement is the keyholder provides no acknowledgment she has received any of the photos or the videos. So, pretty quickly, it can feel you’re only emailing stuff into a black hole, and no one looks at any of it. That’s not very motivating. In fact, it can feel quite like a “lock and forget” system, a very unsatisfying keyholding arrangement, to say the least.

Of course, I understand a $35 per month service isn’t going to offer daily interaction with the keyholder. But I’ve never had a remote keyholder who didn’t acknowledge receipt of required proof of lock photos.

The more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve come to believe the photo and video requirement isn’t about preventing cheating. I think it’s about giving chastity clients something to do every day to keep them engaged and to distract them from the lack of any real interaction with the keyholder. And there isn’t much of that. So far, I’ve received three emails from the keyholder. One was a task assignment, and the other two were instructional.

Let’s face it. Give me or any guy a remote keyholding system designed to prevent cheating, and we can think up at least a half dozen ways to defeat it without evening thinking that hard. To be fair, I can’t imagine why anyone would pay for a keyholding service and then cheat, but I’m sure some people do. Maybe it’s only a lack of willpower. Regardless, I don’t see a requirement for seven proof of lock photos and four videos a week being any more effective than a requirement for one photo per week. Does the keyholder need to know immediately if a guy cheated? I don’t think so. So, if she doesn’t find out until a week after the fact, I don’t see that as a big deal. The guy is the one who wasted the opportunity and his money when he cheats. It doesn’t really affect the keyholder, especially with this type of service that’s frankly, quite impersonal.

The Missing Personal Touch

To be fair, I wasn’t expecting loads of contact with the Mistress since the very nominal charge for the service is only $35 per month. And just acknowledging receipt of the photos and videos would require a lot of emails. And as I understand it, the Oxy-Shop has only one Pro-Domme supervising every guy who signs up for their keyholding service. And who knows how many guys that it is. Even if it is only fifty locked guys at any given time, that’s too many for one woman to give personal attention to.

What makes the service feel less than satisfactory is that I have engaged several Pro Dommes as keyholders, and while I’ve paid considerably more for their services than $35 per month, I’m accustomed to a more personalized experience. Someone who hasn’t had a professional as a keyholder previously might find the lack of the personal touch far less problematic.

The Positive

My purpose isn’t to throw shade on the Oxy Shop service but only to share my objective opinions about my experience with it. I’ve told you what I haven’t liked about it, but now I want to shift to the positive.

First, as with every time I’ve ever engaged a pay-to-play keyholder service, the Oxy Shop service accomplishes one thing very well. It has elevated my libido. As accustomed as I’ve grown to self-locking, it never compares to chastity under the control of a keyholder. I’ve only had remote keyholders, so that’s the limit of my experience. But even that is a game-changer.

Something you tend to forget when self-locking is like with any form of chastity, your arousal level remains consistently above whatever may have been your normal baseline before exploring chastity. But that soon becomes your new baseline, and you don’t really notice it. At least, that’s been my experience. So with time, chastity becomes easier because you grow so accustomed to continuously elevated arousal. But once it peaks, the curve flattens, and elevated arousal is just your normal state, and you don’t think about it.

But once you find yourself under the control of a keyholder, that all changes, and you become acutely aware of your arousal. I think it’s because suddenly unlocking if you wanted to is no longer an option. Instead, someone else decides when you can unlock, when you can touch yourself, and when or if you get to orgasm. The Oxy-Shop service accomplishes this as well as any remote keyholding service I’ve used in the past.

All in all, the Oxy-Shop Monthly Keyholder Service doesn’t suck, and the price is very reasonable. There are other services out there where you can send your keys in or buy a lock where they keep the keys for an agreed length of time, pay a keyholding fee, and surrender control of your keys that way. This service definitely beats that kind of an arrangement, hands down. And as said, if you’ve never engaged a Pro-Domme and received a more personal touch, you might find the Oxy-Shop service meets your needs for a keyholding service without breaking the bank.

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