Hey sex fans,
It’s Product Review Friday again and this is Week 3 of our 3rd annual Holiday Gift Giving Guide.
This week we welcome back two of our favorite retailers, who always send us delightful goodies to review.
First up, a uniquely shaped butt plug from Vibrator.com. They are the purveyors of fine sex toys. Dr Dick Review Crew member, Carlos, shows us around.
Tantus Dipper —— $31.00
Carlos
I’ve been following my fellow Review Crew member’s comments about the Tantus products we’ve received for review. I’ve been hoping to get a crack at one of these beauties myself. So when Dr Dick asked me if I wanted to review the Tantus Dipper I jumped at the opportunity.I am a huge fan of butt plugs and, over the years, I’ve collected a nice selection of prostate stimulators that I take for a ride at least a couple of times a week. Sometime I wear one or another of them for hours at a time. I love going shopping with one in my ass. The tedium of grocery shopping becomes a fun outing. I have huge smile on my face and everyone wonders why I’m so cheerful. If they only knew!
The Tantus Dipper is the perfect tool for your honey pot. And it’s a doubleheader too. You can use either end! One end is shaped like a honey dipper with loads of ridges. The other end is spherical and it pops into my ass like a single anal bead. Between the two ends is the traditional butt plug notch, a narrow neck, that allows my sphincter muscles to clap down on it, keeping whatever end I have in my hole safely in place. PERFECT!
The black Tantus Dipper has a lot of style, but it is a pretty modest size, actually — total length: 5.5″, insertable length: 4″ (the end with the ridges), diameter: 1.5″ (about the size of two fingers) and the neck is only .5” in diameter. It’s 100% premium silicone so it’s firm but flexible and oh so comfortable. It’s also nonporous, phthalate-free, hypoallergenic and latex-free. Silicone is the perfect material for an insertable toy.
Always use lube when you’re playing with your ass, because your butt doesn’t make any of its own lubrication. And in the case of the Tantus Dipper, because it’s silicone, you can only use only a water-based lube.
Quality silicone toys, like this one, clean up easily. Warm soapy water does the trick. It air dries too. And it never gets tacky or sticky. In fact, you can even sterilize the Tantus Dipper by boiling it; running it through a dishwasher; or wiping it down with a 10% bleach solution. So it’s shareable!
I liked the ridged end of the Tantus Dipper the best. If I take my time inserting it, I can feel each and every ridge. It’s my toy of choice for warming my ass for some of my bigger toys.
I highly recommend the Tantus Dipper for holiday giving. Anyone into anal pleasuring, boy or girl, will really love to find one of these beauties under the tree.
And now a couple toys from our friends at Adult Sex Toys .com. First, here’s Dr Dick Review Crew member, Denise.
Roulette High Roller —— $73.41
Denise
Damn, the Roulette High Roller is pink! Not your pastel pink either; more like your shockingly crazy day-glo-pink variety. Pink is not my favorite color, by a long shot, but I didn’t let the color of the Roulette High Roller get in the way of me enjoying this delightful vibe. You shouldn’t let the color get in the way either.The Roulette High Roller has just about everything I look for in a vibrator. There is a nice texture to the beautifully soft silicone shaft. It’s waterproof! And it has a pinwheel device that adjusts the variable vibration speed. There are no vibration patterns. But from my point of view, having a bunch of vibration modes is completely overrated. Give me a good strong steady vibration, and I’m a happy gal. And the more simple the controller the better. What gives with all the elaborate control panels on vibes these days? When I use a vibrator I want to get off, I don’t want to go to the moon!
The Roulette High Roller is mighty quite too.
Because the Roulette High Roller is silicone, it’s nonporous, phthalates-free, hypoallergenic and latex-free. It’s also brilliantly easy to clean — mild soap and water will do, or wipe it down with a 10% bleach solution, rubbing alcohol or peroxide. Because it’s waterproof, you don’t have to worry about submerging it in soapy water for a thorough cleaning. This is really important to me. I’m very leery about insertable toys you can’t thoroughly clean. The Roulette High Roller comes packaged in its own reusable plastic storage box too. Good thinking, Evolved Novelties!
This vibe is 8″ long total with 5′ being insertable. The girth starts off at a very manageable size and slowly increases to a little over 1.5″ in diameter. That’s not much bigger than my partner Ken’s cock.
The Roulette High Roller operates with two AA-batteries. They are not included in the package. Which is ok by me, since I switched to rechargeable batteries. Really cuts down on operating costs and there are no hazardous batteries to dispose of.
The battery compartment is very easy to open and close and, like I said, it creates a watertight seal.
All in all, this is a terrific dildo shaped vibe. I am of the mind that if you buy quality, for yourself or someone else, you save money in the long run. You can give the Roulette High Roller as a holiday gift with confidence.
Finally Dr Dick Review Crew member, Christa, has a Fun Factory vibe to show us.
Fun Factory’s Layaspot —— $57.53
Christa
This is the Layaspot by Fun Factory. It’s a sweet looking little vibe perfect for clit stimulation. It has a kick-ass ergonomic shape that straddles my mons for some hands-free pleasuring. The business end of the vibe is in the wider end, but I can feel the vibration throughout the whole vibe. This wider, flatter end fits up against my clit nicely and delivers a great full genital massage. And I don’t even have to move it around.There are two buttons on the spine of the vibe; one marked + and one marked —. These regulate the eight levels of vibration and three pulsation modes. I found operating these little buttons a problem. Turning it on and off isn’t particularly difficult, but it takes a lot of finger strength to keep the buttons depressed long enough to switch the vibrations modes. I didn’t like that.
The unit is only 4” long, made of a hard plastic with a softer skid-resistant coating. The package says it is phthalates free, hypoallergenic and latex free. The Layaspot is powered by a couple of AAA –batteries. But getting into the battery compartment is if bitch. Who designed this, some he-man? I wound up having to use my mother’s jar opener to open the Layaspot. Closing it properly is also a challenge. I thought I had it right till the plastic battery compartment top popped off during use. D’oh! Ok, so that was my fault.
The Layaspot is not waterproof; they say it’s splash proof. What exactly does splash proof really mean anyhow? It tells me the manufacturer couldn’t bother to make a watertight seal on the toy, that’s what it says to me. I figure a toy is either waterproof or it’s not. Splash proof shouldn’t be a selling point, IMHO. Listen, maybe this isn’t a big thing for others, but it is for me. Not just in terms of use, but also in terms of cleaning. A vibe that costs near $60 should, I think, be waterproof. That is if you ask me.
Like I said, I love the shape of the Layaspot; it’s comfortable in my hand and against my body. I just had a problem with the operation. I’m gonna suggest that the Layaspot would make a nice beginner vibe, particularly for someone who’s not interested in insertion.
ENJOY!