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Sex toys empower you. You might not automatically associate sex toys with empowerment, but getting in touch with your sexual pleasure can be extremely empowering, not to mention enlightening! Once you’ve discovered these seven insightful ways sex toys empower you, you will be free to enjoy your sex toys guilt-free and confidently.
#1 – You’re Not Afraid of Expressing Yourself
Even though society routinely tells us to feel ashamed of our sexuality, as a sex toy owner, you’ve decided to forego the outdated social norm. You don’t ignore your instinctual naughty need to pleasure yourself and to discover what makes you tick south of the border. Good for you; sexpress yourself!
#2 – Sex Toys = Judgment-Free Orgasms
Here’s another benefit to having late booty calls with your vibe and another way sex toys empower you: no judgments.
That’s right, you can have sex with whichever sex toy you choose to – any way you want, whenever you want, without a single ounce of judgment because your toy doesn’t care. Once you’ve shed those fears of judgment through solo sex, you can incorporate your newly found awesomeness when having sex with partners!
Doesn’t that feel good? Mmmhmm, like really really good.
#3 – Sex Toys Eliminate the Bullsh*t
Try as we might, many of us can’t seem to have sex without catching feelings; so, what’s a lonely person to do when feeling frisky? Enter sex toys. They are the perfect option for orgasms without emotional baggage or complicated attachments that are associated with relationships. Sounds like a win, win for this single lady.
#4 – Sex Toys Help You Care About Others
As you build your toy collection, you’ll start to notice that specific novelty brands or companies donate a portion of their sale proceeds to charity groups. Some lines have been known to aid in breast cancer research and provide funding for the disabled and LGBTQIA community. Soon you’ll find yourself patronizing with those brands/companies to benefit others. Psst! When you shop at Vibrant, you’re supporting Planned Parenthood. Finally, you can do good and feel good at the same time!
#5 – You Become a Safe Sex Superhero
Once you become a sex toy Jedi, steering clear of sex toys made out of mystery materials that could compromise your health becomes second nature. You make it your mission to purchase only nontoxic, body-safe, sex toys and practice hygienic toy cleaning habits. And you’ve always got condoms, dental dams, and your favorite lube on hand.
You also take comfort in knowing an afternoon quickie with a powerful bullet vibe won’t result in an unwanted STD, STI, or pregnancy. OMG, you’re so damn responsible!
#6 – Sex Toys Make You Smarter
Once you delve into the world of sex toys, you’ll learn amazing things about the human body that didn’t even cross your mind before. For instance, sex toys such as Kegel exercisersare helping women rediscover the importance of having a strong pelvic floor for overall wellness. Wow, sex toys empower you and your health! You might want to try the Elvie Kegel Exerciser pictured below, which is high-tech, rechargeable, and body safe. The accompanying app helps you to engage with your pelvic floor and train your muscles through fun, quick, five-minute exercises that build the strength of your pelvic floor over time! It not only will help you to control your bladder better, but it will also help you to have stronger, more intense orgasms.
Just a decade ago this issue was mainly targeted towards pregnant women, but now, as a society, we’re starting to fully understand that a stable pelvic floor will also give you a more satisfying sexual experience and deter bladder incontinence problems later on in life. Check out this guide to kegel exercises if you’re curious how to work your pelvic floor muscles right now!
#7 – You Become an Authority on Self Pleasure
As mentioned before, sex toys permit freedom of self, which in turn shines a light on your own powers like never before.
Yes, it’s a beautiful thing to have a sexual partner, but you can still have an active and fantastic sex life without one! Sex toys will definitely prove that theory correct as you learn how to give yourself the best orgasms possible through solo play.
The debate about the fabled G spot’s existence is long and heated, and for good reason: women regularly put up with enough BS that if there is a certain kind of orgasm we are missing out on, we need to know about it. If you’re a vulva-having person, chances are, at some point in your life, your Google search history looked something like this:
Does everyone have a G spot?
How do I find my G spot?
How can my partner find my G spot?
I don’t have a G spot
Do I have a G spot?
Are you sure?
Are you sure you’re sure?
Siri, pull up directions to my G spot
But, lucky for me, I got to chat with Satisfyer’s Director of Education, Megwyn White, and she brought the answers. Not only answers, but she introduced me to a type of orgasm I’d never even heard of before: the hybrid orgasm (also referred to as the blended orgasm). And the best news of all? It can help you to find your G spot.
What Is the Hybrid Orgasm?
The hybrid orgasm is a pretty big deal and could be life-changing. The hybrid orgasm combines the sensations of vaginal penetration with clitoral stimulation for a heightened sense of orgasm. Bonus: a simple process can help you harness the hybrid orgasm. But what does this have to do with helping you find your G spot? Everything.
As Megwyn explained to me, the G spot is less of a spot, and more of a region. While biologists had been looking for something akin to a button or a physical structure, the G spot is nothing like that. The G spot is simply the juncture where the two bulbs (the internal body of the clitoris) meet. Megwyn called it a superhighway of nerves. But the reason you may have had trouble finding it is that often the clitoris needs to be stimulated for the G spot to be stimulated, since they are really two parts of the same nerve structure. Mind. Blown.
Let’s get technical for a minute. The G spot is where the separation of the internal body of the clitoris and the urethral sponge meet. The urethral sponge is teeming with nerves, and it surrounds the urethra and resides in the space between the clitoris and the vaginal canal. This urethral sponge is made up of erectile tissues which, when stimulated, engorge with blood. This pivotal juncture isn’t a sole anatomical structure, but a bridge between many.
Speaking of bridges, breath and the subsequent sensual embodiment are bridges between the sensual tissues of the G spot and the full-bodied, orgasmic potential of the vagus nerve. And, according to Megwyn, hybrid orgasms help stimulate more of the pelvic center through dual stimulation and play. Adding the depth of breath allows the body to facilitate a surge in arousal through the visceral body. Basically, to amplify your orgasmic expression, use slow, diaphragmatic pelvic floor breath (the same breath that vocalists use to improve volume and range). The slow breath aligns with the slow speed when using the Satisfyer Pro 2, and the wave pulse stimulation helps trigger the pelvic floor complex.
Hybrid orgasm is good for your physical health, sexual health, and mental health. It’s pelvic floor training meets sexual meditation meets masturbation. It’s basically super self-care.
How Can I Practice the Hybrid Orgasm and Find My G Spot?
This simple series of mindful exercises can help you find your G spot if you have not yet located it. You’re going to need three things: a chair, some Kegel balls, and a Satisfyer Pro-2.
For newbies to this practice, the seated posture is best. Once you’re a pro, you can try the advanced position: standing! Sit in a comfortable chair with your knees at 90-degree angles and feet flat on the floor. For better access to your vagus nerve (that handy little marvel that unites your mind to your body), place your hand on your heart. Slow breath can help this sexual meditation because connecting with your breath helps deepens the orgasmic experience by keeping you relaxed.
Next, insert the Kegel balls, which help train the vaginal canal muscles and lift the pelvic floor. If you haven’t done Kegel exercises before, starting with a single ball lying on your back is a great position. Once you can sit upright and hold the balls in with ease, it will be simpler to do Kegel training without contracting your glutes or abs (aka cheating). Once you can easily do three to five second contractions, then you can scale up. If the ball falls out, you need more practice.
Then, you’ll use the Satisfyer Pro-2 at its lowest settings. The Pro-2 will use suction to essentially wake up your clitoris both internally and externally, and the Kegel balls will be right up against your G spot, like a sexy little GPS. The pelvic floor exercise in combination with the stimulation from the Pro-2 will give you a real, live demo of where your G spot is, and before you know it, you’ll be in the midst of the hybrid orgasm.
Lots of suction devices are out there, but the Satisyfer Pro-2 is exceptional at accessing the vagus nerve, and with strong vagal tone comes better management of stress, along with a host of other benefits. The way that the Satisfyer Pro-2 works is through contactless pressure wave stimulation (read: suction). Plus, it has eleven intensity settings, is waterproof and whisper-quiet, and has a skin-friendly silicone head which is optimized for surrounding the clit more effectively and is removable for cleaning.
How Do I Choose Correctly-Sized Kegel Balls That Will Help Me Have a Blended Orgasm and Find My G Spot?
There’s a lot of different Kegel balls you can choose from, so don’t dive in at the deep end: instead, consider your experience.
The Mono Balls 3-piece Training Set by Satisfyer is made with velvety, body-safe silicone, and includes three different waterproof weights, with a retrieval loop on each weight for ease of use. The blue weight, at 2.18oz/61.9g, is a perfect starting point to begin Kegel strengthening. If you find the blue balls a breeze, you can move on to the medium pink weight at 2.89oz/82.1g. The red balls are the heaviest, at 3.45oz/97.9g.
If you want to scale up, the Duo Balls 3-piece Training Set by Satisfyer are a bit heavier, and each strand has a double ball.
Or, for a unique sensation, try out the Duo Moving Balls 3-Piece Set by Satisfyer. These balls oscillate, adding an additional layer of fun to your hybrid orgasm self-care routine.
No matter which set you choose, you can get all the body-safe, hybrid orgasm tools you need – the Kegel balls and the Pro-2 – for well under $100. That’s a pretty exciting price point for what could be some life-changing support in your quest to find your G spot, be more mindful while masturbating, create more pelvic floor strength, or whatever your goal may be.
Looking for some ways to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility and honor the trans folks in your life? Check out Vibrant's tips and trans-friendly sex toys.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Wait, hold my drink, let me make that a little more visible.
HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY!!!
Y’all in the back, did you get that? Okay, so we got a little trans visibility, some good pride going on here today, and a little bit of time to prepare before March 31 (the official Trans Day of Visibility). Cool. Now, why do you think all that matters?
YUP. That and more.
In other words, there’s a lot of active transphobia and transantagonism going on all over. The impact of (and often the impetus for) this kind of nastiness is the erasure of trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people from the public eye and the active removal of some of the few supportive structures for our trans communities. This has a huge impact on trans folks’ health, safety, and opportunities. Too often, the larger cisgender community is able to remain blind to this kind of thing because #privilege.
Let’s Celebrate Trans Brilliance and Trans Resilience
Trans Day of Visibility gives trans and gender nonconforming communities the occasion to collectively say to each other and to the world, “Look! There are so many of us here, and we matter!” Because we do. We matter. And we deserve lives that are not just safe and full of access and protection, but that are also joyful, loving, and abundant.
Which brings us to another reason to celebrate the heck out of today: trans brilliance and trans resilience.
Before 2009, the only national holiday celebrating trans communities was Transgender Day of Remembrance. Trans Day of Remembrance is a day that highlights the violence wrought on trans communities, particularly transfeminine people of color, and honors those whose lives have been taken. This is so important. This is a painful reality that we cannot gloss over or ignore. This deserves its own visibility.
And, it can’t be the only thing that brings us together.
Because look, so many TGNC humans are living big, juicy lives, making a difference for themselves and for TGNC communities.
Simply showing up in one’s full, authentic self, saying, “Here I am, world!” can be powerful. It can be an act of reclamation.
Asserting one’s visibility can also let others know they’re not alone. Lovebugs, we are everywhere. And there are innumerable ways to know and express one’s own gender! The visibility of other gender-blending humans helps us each know the nuances of ourselves better. Maybe we recognize terms another person used for themself that feel accurate and resonate for us, or maybe we see other ways a person is presenting that feel more authentic to who we are inside. Witnessing other people inhabiting their own various identity intersections can be especially healing, particularly if we haven’t seen those parts of ourselves represented together.
Now, let’s be clear: visibility is great, but there is no mandate to be “visible.” All the props and love to TGNC folks who keep their identities private. It often isn’t safe or doesn’t feel good for trans people to be out about their gender identities, or to be out to everyone. That is a personal decision. If you have a trans or gender nonconforming loved one in your life, maybe check in with them today about the nuances of their own visibility and “outness” so you can help honor those boundaries.
How to Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility
Looking for some other ways to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility? Check out some tips below:
Amplify Trans Day of Visibility events going on near you. Text your friends and fam, put it on social media blast, grab a megaphone and holler. Do you, friend. Then, actually attend those events yourself.
Educate yourself. We all benefit from deepening our understanding of gender and how to support each other better. So many good resources are on the interwebs. And if you want some super real talk? Try this.
Diversify your newsfeed. Whose images are you looking at? Who’s writing what you read? Do you follow many TGNC folks and organizations on social media? How about blogs? Put yourself on a TGNC social media diet: increase your daily intake of trans brilliance & hawtness.
Shoulder some of the labor. Being trans is an identity, not a professional occupation, yet many TGNC folks are pushed to become chronic activists and gender educators to those around them. It can be exhausting! If you are cisgender, check with your TGNC friend, family member, or partner about how they would like your support in this area. Then do it.
Make your space visibly affirming. Hanging a trans flag? Great. Supporting trans creators directly? Even better. There are so many talented TGNC artists to light up your world and increase empowering trans visibility. A few to start with: Micah Bazant, Amir Khadar, Shoog McDaniel, and Rae Senarighi.
Support TGNC-owned and TGNC-friendly companies. Vibrant prides itself on being a trans-affirming and gender-inclusive sex toy retailer. Pleasure is for every body.
And if you’re trans or gender nonconforming yourself? Happy holiday, cutie. Allow yourself to receive some real tenderness and affirmation today in whatever ways feel good for you. You deserve it.