“This weekend my parents were gone so it was special vibrator occasion.”
In which we discuss the wondrous world of sex toys! Rabbits and butt plugs and g-spots oh my!
Sex Toy References
In this fun episode we featured our favorite astral projection, Lucy, by taping her via phone onto the wall. It looked very janky and made us laugh.
We would like to begin this podcast by honoring our fallen warriors: The vibrators and sex toys that have perished in the line of duty. A moment for them. Rest in peace.
The impetus for this episode was Hannah’s recent loss of the most important part of her vibrator, the rabbit bit. Hannah was also a short lived but extremely successful Pure Romance consultant. For those who don’t know it’s a pyramid scheme, but it has some positives! Masturbation friendly, sex positive, and women only, so it’s a very comfortable experience for women to explore their sexuality!
Hannah was excited about being her own boss … until she realized how much work it was. She quit.
We are not sponsored by Pure Romance … but that doesn’t mean we would say no to an offer 😉
Hannah’s dearly departed vibrator was called The Daddy from the Natti (its demise was tragic, as was its name). So she looked at the new vibes from Pure Romance, and thought they looked too fancy. Based on her use of only the rabbit part she looked for a clit stimulating vibrator only. She took Kelly and Sissel’s recommendation and bought a clitoral suction vibrator, like the Womanizer or the Satisfiyer, and now everyone has opinions about clitoral suction vibes.
Now to do a bit of show and tell (without the show)
Kelly
Kelly has 3 vibrators! She fancy!
2 of them are Pure Romance, and the first one she actually won at Pure Romance party. Her first vibrator was a small bullet vibe! Similar to this one. And you definitely wouldn’t want to put that up your vagina. Difficult to get it out. Like a period cup!
We all have struggled with removing period cups and/or tampons. PSA (that Kelly learned the hard way): do not “practice” removing a tampon when you aren’t on your period. You need your blood for lube!
The Intima Collapsible Period Cup Sissel used this back before her IUD made her stop having periods!
The Diva Cup which is the original period cup for our millennial generation
There are tons of fun new and functional ones out there and we can’t recommend them enough! You will certainly have a learning curve, but they’ve gotten much better about making them extractable, but you will still probably get blood on your hands. But no Toxic Shock Syndrome and better for the environment!
Back to the Sex Toys
This isn’t just a podcast about things you can get up your vagina! Kelly is very worried about getting something stuck up her vagina, but like this is only sort of possible, like it can get stuck but it won’t get completely inside you!
Your vagina, unaroused, is only 4 inches long, so that’s as deep as your cervix will let things get!
But also, tell us your fears! They are reasonable to have. Lets talk about them! And anything else you want to talk about! We are here for you and also very lonely. We don’t even like each other anymore. We’ve been doing this so long. Speaking of….
HAPPY PODAVERSARY!!!! At the time of this recording we had been recording for a year and hadn’t released a single episode! At the time of this episodes release we will have been posting episodes for over a year! Yay!!!! We succeeded in making sure this somewhat makes sense to you listeners!
But back to sex toys…
Kelly also has a G-spot vibrator. We are all meh about G-spot vibrators. Kelly says hers is cute and has lasted awhile.
But her splurge vibrator was the Satisfyer! She loves it! Enjoy her ASMR sound effects of it!
Gina
Most of hers are broken… She really loved them 😉
Her remaining one is Take A Bow from Pure Romance. She likes it because it’s like full vulva stimulation. Gina also really needs legit silicone vibrators due to her sensitive skin & full stimulation to get off. She also likes G-spot vibrators, because she thinks she has a spot, regardless of the research, and it gets her off!
It’s a reoccurring theme on this podcast, but it bears repeating: people get off in lots of different ways! Some people need more clit, some need less, some like internal, some don’t! But to reiterate Sarah cannot recommend quality silicone enough. It feels very nice and silky.
Okay, Sissel coming in hot with some g-spot research:
The only fact is that the clitoris isn’t just a tiny spot on the outside of your body. It also extends back into your body via some “legs” which only when aroused would be large enough to create a “spot” inside your body which would lead to an orgasm! Fun Facts! Now here is some great research to read about it!
The O.School talking about the clit
Sissel
Her first vibrator was a streamlined rabbit (look at the middle vibrator) that she purchased via groupon. It’s pretty low power and she didn’t use if for a really long time because her fingers worked better. Then she started using it for slow build and once she’d orgasmed via clitoral stimulation she’d shove it inside her (her words).
Her second vibrator was something she found via a buzzfeed article about the vibrator that could make you orgasm so fast! She was convinced, and considered buying it for a friend who had never orgasmed but instead just bought it for herself. Lol. (She’ll eventually buy her friend a vibrator one day.) So she got the Womanizer. Questionable name, fast orgasms.
Clitoral Suction Vibrators
So Kelly, Sissel, and Hannah all have suction sex toys, because we were swayed by the internet. None of them think the orgasms are better than with other toys necessarily, but they are faster. Definitely faster.
Maisie asks a very good question: Can you keep going once you’ve gone? And Sissel says that it can go really fast, faster then you want, so you have to play with the intensity. Hannah is like yes you can you can manage the intensity to keep going for more. Kelly can be too sensitive sometimes and she will go back and forth with intensity.
Overall, we recommend!
Lucy
All of Lucy’s sex toys are pure romance vibrators. Her first one she got was the same bullet that Kelly won. Her second is a rabbit with a very fancy twisty dildo thing. (She’s not a fan). Her favorite is a standard rabbit like thing and it’s straightforward and has been with her for a long time.
She would like to upgrade to a rechargeable device, as currently all of hers are battery operated.
Should she use her family Amazon account? Hannah did once accidentally, and it was traumatic.
Maisie
Hannah actually bought Maisie’s first vibrator for her at 19, and she called it the Ginger Fuck (it was orange and from Spencers). It was so ubiquitous a part of her life that her brother even knew about it! Sadly Ginger Fuck died before too long.
It wasn’t the best vibrator, because Spencer’s has more joke sex toys anyway, and it was a dildo and she used it as a clitoral stimulator. Sadly most sex toys don’t come with like, explicit instructions…
When it died she got a Pure Romance Bullet, and now she’s actually on her second cause she killed the first. She likes them for a quick orgasm that isn’t messy. Because, let’s be real, a dildo vibrator requires a lot more work. You gotta lube em before, and wash them after, and it’s just a whole thing!
She also has a Pure Romance rabbit. It’s her special occasion vibrator! For when she’s home alone…
Now Sissel and Kelly plug their vibrators! (Not into their bodies. But seriously Pure Romance if you wanna sponsor us????)
Using Sex Toys in the Bath
In Kelly’s experience, and in our general experience, it’s weird and a bit too much work, despite the fact that lots of sex toys are waterproof.
Which isn’t to say it won’t work for you!
Issues with Sex Toys
Maisie’s issue with her bullet vibrator, or clit-only stimulation, is that her orgasms less satisfying. Kelly also brings up that she can’t have multiple orgasms and she ends up feeling really sensitive after one and she can’t keep going.
But maybe orgasms are all just part of the simulation! The Orgasm Matrix! (We’ve been saying “stimulation” a lot and this joke was inevitable.)
Maisie has had orgasms in her sleep, and Hannah gets cock blocked all her dreams.
Speaking of dreams…
Anyone heard of the Rooster vibrator? It’s a vibrating alarm clock you wear in your underwear. But is an orgasm really something that wakes you up? Or relaxes you? Maisie says a clit only orgasm does wake her up, while a internal one soothes her. Sissel finds that they might wake her up initially (you know for the second orgasm). Gina is the same.
Heads up, girls: Masturbating isn’t always a sexy affair. Like it’s sexual, and you might be into that, but it’s not like ladies put on sexy underwear and light some candles or anything. They just slip off the pants, get some shit done, and, boom, time for bed. But it still can be sexy! (Cause masturbation is a type of sex.)
Let’s talk timing. One of Maisie’s special occasion vibrator sessions was in her ranking of top 5 orgasms. (Impressive!) She thinks that it may have been because she was ovulating. Kelly finds that her best orgasms are when she’s about to start her period. Maisie and Kelly now discuss (somewhat incompetently) how progesterone affects your periods and orgasms. Here is some actual research to learn more. Part of the reason Maisie had a truly spectacular orgasm was she had a subtle clitoral stimulation orgasm and then used her rabbit to have an extremely quality g-spot orgasm!
Here Sissel interjects to brag about her sex knowledge, and talk about Pure Romance parties. The first time she went to one, there was a variety of women, at least half of whom were older than her. But very few of the women there knew the answers to the sex questions the host was asking! Sissel knew them all and aggressively volunteered her answers to all of them… but that’s just a very Sissel thing to do. Because she isn’t a sexpert per se but she was given that “award” in 7th grade by her health teacher after she aced the quiz on reproductive health! Boo ya! (Our tagline is a lie.)
But anyway, Sissel was very surprised by how little the women knew. Even the ones who lived with her for 4 years! Didn’t know! And that’s why this podcasts exists! So the Throbbers can circle jerk and talk to each other. Wait not that.
It’s so we can make this information easier to find, and available to people! And hopefully, so that people can feel like their experiences are a little less “weird.” Let’s talk it out, friends.
Gina PSA
If you’re having sex with a guy and he finishes first, get out your vibrator and finish yourself! No one decent is going to be upset, and if they are upset kick (clap) them (clap) out (clap).
Most people like watching other people orgasm if they don’t suck.
Maisie PSA
Use lube with penetrative sex toys! Or any sort of penetrative sex!
Kelly would like to reiterate that we are NOT sexperts, despite Sissel, and apparently Hannah, as well, with her college tv show! But Hannah and Sissel agree that our sexpert status is not from years of study. Lucy claims she has a PHD in sex. Let’s see those credentials, Lucy.
Gina takes this moment to show off her favorite clitoral/all over vibrator. We all agree it looks like a trilobite. Like a palm sized, and purple with a bit of gold. Also, she cute too.
Reminiscing on Sex Ed Past
Kelly is reminded of a funny little sex ed story, in which her class was doing a checklist type thing where they were comparing puberty things that happened in both sexes. One boy who was very obnoxious was like “GIRLS DON’T GET PUBIC HAIR OBVIOUSLY”. And the teacher calmly shut her down.
Lucy recalls one of her sex ed classmates had very distinct hand writing, and she and her friends mimicked his hand writing to ask “what are tampons?” and the teacher took him out of class to tell him. Sucks for him, but apparently he was a douche, so we don’t feel that bad. Maybe he learned something.
Sissel’s favorite memory of her sex ed class in middle school was the guy who defined ‘orgasm’. He was guy who mooned her entire bus in elementary school, and was (like most of us in middle school), generally unattractive and unpopular. But his definition was so spot on and textbook perfect that the whole class was a little stunned by the person they never wanted to think about having sex being able to describe it so well.
After our quick jog down memory lane, we return to sex toys.
Lucy wonders if there are sex toys we’d like to try, since we mostly all have the same ones.
Gina has tried butt plugs, and she likes them situationally. She thinks it’s a mood thing, and she only really barely uses them, just the tip. Lucy has used cock rings and loves them, as does Gina.
Group sex toys are a thing! Maisie has a friend who can’t orgasm without a vibrator so she and her partner got a magic wand to use together. Both Sissel and Kelly want to try it.
Sissel used a very thin thin finger-like vibrator during her threesome which was a nice asset. She calls the threesome the tricorner hat, because she’s weird.
There are lots of weird vibrators though: Ring ones, little lipstick ones, lots of fun things to try out!
Gina has tried these sort of penis sleeves that were nubby for her pleasure. She thought they were a nice treat.
Sissel wants to try (has at this point) a remote control vibrator. Which just reminds Maisie of The Ugly Truth. And how Gerald Butler has a sexy voice, a sexy Scottish voice. The scene with the vibrating underwear is burned into her memory and it sounds fun! The noise is a bit concerning. Maisie would be super into it at a place like a club, where you’re already horny because of the dancing and the alcohol. (And it’s loud enough that possible buzzing would be unnoticed.)
Male Sex Toys
Cock rings we’ve already discussed, but what else is there?
Lucy has been to a couple sex shops, and she endorses getting over the weirdness and checking them out. They’re often full of nice and helpful people.
Time for fleshlight talk.
Sissel remembers that there is a fascinating episode of Younger (great show) where a characters live-in boyfriend’s son leaves a used fleshlight on the couch and it grosses everyone out.
Which brings up some interesting social commentary, because male sex toys are a bit disdained. Is it because male pleasure is much more common place? And there’s so many different ways for people with penises to masturbate for cheap? It’s very interesting. Here is a grapefruit video.
It’s unclear whether there’s a stigma that prevents most men from buying sex toys, or if they’re just unnecessary. Sissel doesn’t know any guys who own sex toys, but Lucy knows lots of guys who have partner sex toys. Gina knows a guy who says that all the male sex toys suck.
Maisie brings up that anal toys are really common, so maybe that’s most of the sex toys men use.
Is it because the male orgasm is less complicated? Or at least it’s more well known how to make a guy orgasm? We are not men, and so we could not tell you. That’s a question for another episode.
Well Anyway…
Anyway, Sissell has a sex bell. We discuss christening our homes with sexy time.
At this point we’ve bummed ourselves out slightly with talk of rigid male gender roles and stigma around sex toys and such, so it’s time to end with a fun vibrator tidbit!
Back in high school, one of the Throbbers’ friends worked at a consignment shop where a lady dropped off a brochure for vibrators. The best vibrator was the small compact perfect for your glove compartment when you need an orgasm on the go!
Hannah was sufficiently aroused enough to close us out with a haiku! Yay!
So goodbye for now, Gina had to go study property law!
Thank You For Listening!
We are all able-bodied, cisgendered white women. We know our background and experiences only cover a percentage of those around us which is why we want to supplement this with guest speakers, research, and you. If you have opinions and experiences you’d like to share we would love to hear it! If, however, you just want to spew hate at us then we can’t stop you but instead we invite you to suck our collective clitorises. Hater. This podcast also contains mature sexual themes and swearing. No, clitoris isn’t a swear word.
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