Since I reviewed the original rodeoH harness they have come out with two additional styles- a boxer-brief and a femme panty. I’ve been told by many who work with rodeoH on a business-to-business level that they are very receptive to customer/reviewer feedback and opinions, so I thought maybe just maybe they had improved their product design. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Oh man was I wrong. So very wrong.

Things that haven’t changed: The harness still comes in a uselessly tiny microfibre bag, though this time the bag has a LOT more writing on it (so I wouldn’t recommend using it to clean your 90’s throwback UFO sunglasses, which I’m sure someone is going to bring back into style any day now). You still get a stupid dog-tag with your harness. The overall construction remains the same as well, it’s underpants, but the crotch lining comes up almost to the waistband in the front, so as to create the barrier between the toy and you. Again this is topped with a thin strip of elastic, for reasons that make no sense at all to me. The o-ring is the same size and rigidity as the original as well. While I didn’t have any issues with the stitching popping on this one, I also didn’t really try to put anything larger than a 1″ toy in it. There were a LOT of loose threads from manufacturing left on my harness, which I find rather inexcusable. It’s not that hard nor does it take long to go in and snip your threads. It’s part of finishing your product, and part of quality control.

So, basically, the rodeoH panty is just a swap out of materials to be femme? Well… sorta. I kinda wish that were the case actually. If they’d kept the same cut to the fabric and just swapped lace into the mix instead of the regular ol’ cotton, the panty would at least work as everyday underwear. But, and I’m sure you all saw THAT coming, they didn’t. Oh man did they not.

The folks at rodeoH seem to like low-rise things for some reason. Ok, that’s fine. I’m no fan of granny-panties myself either. Something that rides on my hips is nice, can be flattering, and with a harness I can understand maybe wanting to be a bit more scant than not. I’ll give ya that. The panty however is SO VERY low rise that it’s not even underwear. I’ve taken to calling it a “crotch-swatch”, because I like things that rhyme and well- it’s the best way to sum this thing up. I have the exact same size in both of the rodeoH harnesses. My background is in costuming, so I know my way around a tape measure and my body to make sure I get the right size of clothing. These things are cut SO low rise that I can lay them down atop the original and there’s almost a full two inches of material in height difference. What does this mean when worn? It means that my entire, yes ENTIRE, ass is hanging out of these. The waistband just barely clears the curve of the lower quarter of my butt. Crotch-swatch. There is no allowance in the cut of the fabric for any booty at all. It’s almost as if these were made for a paperdoll. Their sizing is based on your hip measurement, and I’ve got to wonder what person with a 41″ hip DOESN’T have some butt comprising part of that number?

I have noticed a trend in the marketing images from rodeoH, as well as their user-submitted images on FaceBook and Twitter. They are all small, slight, androgynous, and/or athletic tiny people. In fact, I think that Shine Louise is the “largest” person I’ve seen in any of their marketing images. So I have to wonder if these are being made for and tested on this demographic only? I know for sure a garment cut and designed like this would NEVER have made it out of the fitting room for me, because as soon as you even hand it to someone with what are supposedly the proper measurements, they will laugh in your face.

I have a hard time recommending this harness, and I feel a little bad about that. Not because I feel bad about disliking a product (I do that more than I like things), but because SheVibe was so kind as to let me review this for them. If this were the only femme harness on the market, I’d say that maybe if you can try one on first (over your undies please, let’s not be gross) or you have a very slight build with little to no butt, that this might be a good inexpensive entry point into the underwear styled harnesses. But it’s NOT the only femme harness on the market, and the others out there really do have the rodeoH panty beat by leaps and bounds (and bells and whistles).

I had wanted to try the boxer-brief version that rodeoH made between the original and the panty, but now that I’ve tried their stuff twice and both times been left laughing at the product so hard that I nearly peed myself, I think I’m done. Unless they finally figure out that people have curves and those curves need to fit into the garment.

The rodeoH comes in this little microfibre pouch which, I must admit, reminded me a bit of the 90’s. Remember Oakleys? Know anyone who had them? They came in, you guessed it, a small microfibre pouch. Now it makes sense to me for sunglasses to come in such a pouch. It protects the lenses, gives you something to clean them with, I get it. A harness on the other hand? If it’s gonna come in a pouch of some sort I need it to fit stuff. Yes, if I pay attention and fold the rodeoH up I can get it back into its little pouch. But if I’m in a hurry, packing up my toybag and headed off to a play party I don’t want to have to fuss over it. I’d also like to fit other things in alongside my harness. Things like, oh I don’t know, maybe the cock I’m going to use with it, condoms, lube… y’know, things that go hand-in-hand with strap-on use. Also, since the pouch is small, I promptly lost it. It’s buried somewhere in a pile of laundry I’m sure, or it ended up going through the wash and is stuck inside a trouser leg. I’ll find it eventually.

The rodeoH also comes with a dogtag. Yeah, I don’t know why either. There’s this trend right now of toys coming with silly accessories. PicoBong and their weird little D6. Lelo with their cufflinks and pins. Because that’s just what you want when you buy yourself a new dildo or vibrator- a new tie pin. WTF? Most of these are luxury toys at that, and priced rather highly. Cut the crap and drop the price y’all. Anyhow, back to the rodeoH and its silly dogtag. I have nothing against dogtags. I wear one every day (it’s from my Daddy), but why I would want to wear one branded with the harness/underpants I’m wearing is beyond me.

So, silly trinket and too-small storage pouch aside, I’m still not sure how I feel about the rodeoH as a harness but I do know that they rock as underwear. The other day I found myself to be out of clean underwear, sorely in need of doing laundry, but no time before work. I figured why not, and put on the rodeoH, afterall they are designed like underwear. Gotta say, these are probably one of the most comfortable pairs on underpants I’ve worn. Easy to forget that I even had them on, which is a feat of underpants engineering if you ask me. I’d love to go commando, it’s super comfy, but my self-cleaning oven is just a bit too efficient, so it’s not really feasible in my world. Oh well. I’ll gladly wear the rodeoH instead!

As a harness though, the rodeoH falls a bit flat for me. Literally. Putting a cock into the rodeoH, even a small cock, is just too weighty and causes the front of the harness to dip, and my penis to sag. It’s sad really, no one wants a saggy penis. I got the 39-41 inch size in the rodeoH, as I’ve got some hip and thigh, but it’s decently snug. Snugger than I’d normally wear underpants, but not so much that they’re uncomfortable. If I went any smaller I do know that I would have fit issues around the thigh. Also, despite the appearance of standard mens briefs, the rodeoH rides low. Lower than men’s low-rise briefs, and lower than my fancy gay-man underwear from the designer mens underwear store. Once you add the weight of a dipping cock to it, I certainly felt as if the harness was going to slide down my ass mid-fuck. Not cool.  The o-ring on the rodeoH is not as stretchy as I’d expected either. Having tried other integral-ring harnesses which can accommodate some serious dildo-age, I was rather disappointed. Even moreso when I noted that upon inserting (and removing) the first cock I tried with the rodeoH, which was a rather modest 1½” in diameter, the seaming on the o-ring split. Definitely doesn’t bode well for larger toys or rigorous fucking. Lastly, I tried using the rodeoH as a packing harness, but most packys are too soft and slender and slip out through the ring, or dangle most unappealingly as they slip through until the balls block the ring and barely keep the now even more flaccid soft-pack from hitting the floor. This is a place where an extended tab base like that of the Private would be ideal.

I hear that rodeoH has come out with a boxer-brief style harness, and wonder if the addition of legs would give more stability, and allow for getting a size down without being too restricting. I’m curious. As it stands, I liked the rodeoH in theory, but in execution it’s not quite there. Comfy undies though. I think for now I’ll stick to modifying a pair of snug briefs, if I want that look. It’s worked well enough for folk, including Little Brother (who turned me on to the idea). One final note, because it’s been bugging me through writing this whole review. What’s up with the name and the funny capitalisation anyway? I keep wanting to flip it around, hoping it’ll make some cutesey or sexy word, but no- Hoedor. Sounds like the name of a place in Middle Earth. Or a dwarven king. Or something.