Choosing a Vibrating Cock Ring: Which Design?

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Vibrating Cock RingMan oh man, have you seen how many vibrating ring designs are out there? If so, you might be a little intimidated by the variety of shapes and sizes available, and wondering which one works best. Well as with most things sexual, it all comes down to personal preference, but hopefully this will help.

Let’s start with the “single” vibrating rings, meaning, the ones that have only one vibrator. We’ll break these down further into 3 categories, which we’ll call “flat” rings, “protruding” rings, and “vertical” rings. In case you’re wondering, no those aren’t industry-standard terms; they’re just homespun labels we’re using here to simplify things. Flat rings are how we’ve chosen to describe cock rings which have the vibrator positioned horizontally… they lay more or less “flat” against you and your partner. Flat rings are best at delivering vibrations that are spread out over the labia/clit area in general.

These are often best for women who have sensitive clits, since they don’t usually provide overly intense stimulation directly on her clitoris. Sometimes they have little nubs on them that are supposed to do something for the woman, but in our experience you can’t feel those much unless they’re really pronounced.

By Protruding rings we mean the ones that have a seriously raised something on top, be it a tickler, a knob, or an abstract animal head.

Most protruding rings are designed in a way that will give some direct clitoral stimulation to her, at least from some part of that raised something. These are usually your best bet for women who like a lot of pressure on her clit too, because they give her something to grind against.

Now if you think about the mechanics of sex, you’ve probably realized that neither Flat rings nor Protruding rings maintain contact with a woman’s clit at all times unless you’re using more of a shallow bump-and-grind style of lovemaking. During any kind of serious thrusting, they tend to buzz her on thrust and pull away during the withdrawal, which can be either tantalizing or frustrating, depending on her needs. To find a cock ring that is more apt to stay in contact with her at all times (or at least more than the others) when thrusting, you’ll want to look at the Vertical rings.

They are just as our label implies: The vibrator is positioned in the vertical position.

Vertical rings tend to slide up and down between her labia so direct clit stimulation is easier and more continuous. However, if you plan to do any jungle-animal type rough thrusting you have to be careful with these. It’s possible for them to shift and poke her in an unpleasant way if you get to wild with them.

Alright, now that we’ve discussed the single vibrator cock rings, let’s move on to the dual-action ones. This just means that the male masturbation device has two vibrators placed at opposite ends which, depending on the style, can add extra fun for either partner. These are more suited to heterosexual partners. To give some examples, here are two styles that are meant more for her added pleasure.

When you use this type of ring, one vibrator pleasures her clitoris while the other vibrates anywhere from her vaginal opening to her anus, depending on the woman’s anatomy. Obviously, the man will feel some vibrations on the front of his testicles, but then there’s another style of dual-action vibrating rings which are meant to add even more to his pleasure.

These may look complicated at first, but they’re really very simple: You put the large ring on the penis, then stretch the two “trailer” strands apart and slip the resulting loop over the testicles so they rest around the base of the scrotum. That puts the lower vibrator behind the testicles to vibrate against his perineum, or “taint” as some people call it, which is the sensitive area of skin between the testicles and the anus. And of course, the other vibrator still pleasures the lady.

Now you might see a few rings out there that have other configurations or doo-dads on them, but knowing what you now know, you should be able to figure out their uses pretty easily.