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Libido surge recently, so it's about to get all porny up in here.
So, before I tackle big long topics like trees and masturbation (no, really, that's a big long topic), I'm going to ease my brainmeats in and just rave about my new toy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007L5DK0O/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i00 -- it's an amazon link but it's transparently a big ol' sex-toy, so not safe for work, really.
Measurements: 6 inch overall length, 4 inch insertable length, 2.18 inch max insertable diameter. (don't forget your geometry; this is what high school math is really good for: sex toys are generally labeled by diameter, and the difference between 2" and 2.5" doesn't sound like much, but that's a difference of 3.14 x .5 -- more than an inch and a half extra circumference. And your body generally doesn't care about diameter anywhere near as much as it cares about circumference -- that's how much the tissue is going to have to be able to fit around!)
This one, in my opinion, is a really good example of "doesn't have to be pricey to be hella-fun". It's really cheap. Less than $20 cheap. Since I condomize my toys for play anyway (ease of cleanup, less worry about multiple orifice use, yadda-yadda), I don't mind buying the cheap ones sometimes, because when I windowshop insertables, I'm mostly looking at shapes, imagining what they'd feel like (why yes, I do find this a huge turn-on). Silicone is lovely, and a great investment, but sometimes a particular shape just calls out to you, or the budget says silicone will have to wait.
So, nice cheap toy. Yay. But (or butt) why this shape? I actually bought primarily as a vaginal toy (although I do have further aspirations). In fact, I own a number of gigantic fucking scary-ass butt plugs specifically for vaginal play. It's a shape I've loved since at least my early 20s that I can clearly recall.
I'm a big, big, big fan of my g-spot. I don't generally even like the feeling of orgasm anywhere near as much if there isn't simultaneous (and generally relatively substantial) penetration going on at the same time -- without something to squeeze around it can be almost crampy and painful if I orgasm too hard. Also, I can't take anywhere near as much direct clit stimulation without concurrent g-spot stimulation. And I definitely overload on clit stimulation and get painfully hypersensitive much faster without intense vaginal stimulation, which sort of cuts off the fun of pursuing strings of altered-state orgasms (I'd like to put that on my hobby list). It's a neat sort of feedback -- the more intense one is, the more I can handle of the other, and round and round we go, WHEEEEE!!!!
Are we all shocked at this point that I'm into fisting? Way into fisting? Yeah, didn't think so. Don't think too many jaws will drop to discover I'm a big fan of double penetration too, right?
So, yeah, I like penetration. Why these shapes, though? A few reasons. First and foremost, it's about getting a sensation similar to fisting when an appropriate fist is not *ahem* handy. Also, if I'm playing solo, I hate it when I shoot a more cylindrical toy across the damned room exactly when I most want it buried in me. I like being able to squeeze and rock around a toy without having to constantly battle to keep it in me. And often, I want solid presence more than active in/out fucking. And when I do want a real fucking motion, that extra-wide spot to get around (on this toy or any other somewhat similar butt plug) is a challenge, a turn-on, an extra stimulation. Since I'm primarily playing vaginally instead of anally, and there are some substantial anatomical differences between a closed pocked and an open tube, I tend to go for shorter toys with a nice smooth rounded top -- the ones that sort of point at the top hit my cervix wrong and ouchily. But those big fat round ones? Oh, hot damn. Vids over on xtube of me playing with my favorite one, fwiw, since I can't really search for an online image of it at the moment. It's about three inches in diameter, just solid _heavy_ roundness, and it's right at my limit, but also fits me just perfectly. The first time I tried it I triggered a string of orgasms just from it finally sliding into place right against my g-spot.
This new one, it's such an unusual shape, the biggest bit right at the top end, not as big as many of my others, but it just looked like it would be delicious on my g-spot, and allow for some damned fun play, and stay in place really well if I was otherwise occupied with additional sensations... Oh holy hell and hallelujah, does it! As I said to Chad after the first time we played with it, "this is SO totally on my Favorite Toys list!"
The diameter gradient is so dramatic that it lets me really squeeze back tight at the introitus (sorry, I'm a science geek, you're going to get science terms over here), and then every stroke in and out was a repeatedly "opening back up" in some lovely ways. Could really feel it crystal-clearly when the head of the toy pulled out and popped back in past the PC muscles on nice long slow strokes. And all the extra weight and size being right at that big rounded head mean it just pounded my g-spot. Did not let up. In all the best possible ways. Screaming orgasm sort of ways. Yeehaw!
And I think that's all I'm going to write for the moment, but I may come back later from home and add some additional comments or links (without preview images) to the comments.