$32.99Beginner ball gag Mouth gag by Tantus Material: Silicone Safety: Buy from EdenFantasys

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While I really enjoy the Ball Gag M and I have had for years, it is a little large.  Occasionally, when it comes out, I’ve got a cramp in my jaw.  Once I couldn’t close my mouth for some time.  I’ve been staring at the Beginner Ball Gag from Tantus for quite some time.  So I bought it.

What’d it come in?

It came in two pieces in a molded plastic shell that snapped shut.  Behind it was a cardboard insert with writing on it describing the toy.

How’s it made?

The ball gag is made of red silicone.  Real, hospital-grade silicone.  This is noteworthy because ages ago we bought a purple ball gag that claimed to be silicone and wasn’t.  After only one or two uses, it began to taste really bad and burn my lips and tongue.

It’s nonporous, phthalates and latex free and hypoallergenic.  It’s soft and squishy with a luxurious velvet surface.  And it’s shaped sort of like a pacifier.  The base is about three inches long by two inches wide at its widest point, and covers the lips when inserted.

M calls the part that goes in the mouth a “mouth plug” because it has a bulbous tip (about an inch and a half wide), then shrinks down to a smaller base (about an inch) like an anal plug.  It’s two inches long from the top of the base to the top of the ball.  The base is a half inch thick.

The straps are made of black leather with snaps on one end and velcro on the other.  They’re each sixteen inches long and slip through slits on either side of the “mouth plug”, then snap in place.  The leather is soft on both the inside and outside and a little stretchy.  Read more…

Our first riding crop is about twenty-two inches long.  The handle is rubber and the shaft is metal.  And the tip is two pieces of weak leather glued and sewn to the end.  It was one of those “This really sucks but we can’t afford the alternative.” buys.

And at first, we loved it! But eventually it began to fall apart, and the leather weakened even more.  Before too long, the tip of the metal shaft, which is ridiculously sharp and poky, started to come through the leather and began leaving cuts in my skin.

So when Babeland Toys offered me the Kookie Riding Crop I was ecstatic.  I mean, look at it! It looks hella better than the one we bought from one of the local sleaze joints we call “adult bookstores”.  And, even though I love crops, I had begun to hate the one we had.

The Kookie Riding Crop is eighteen inches of leather and nylon.  The handle is a rubbery material which prevents slipping.  The shaft is weaved nylon – which definitely beats metal in impact play! – and the tip is leather.  The tip is three and one half inches long and one and three quarters inches at its widest point.  It’s all one piece folded over and sewn to the tip.  Tightly wrapped around the bottom of the leather is nylon thread to be sure the tip doesn’t slide off.

Because the shaft is sort of flexible, the crop can be used by pulling back the tip and letting go, which is much more painful than just hitting someone with the tip.  It can be wielded as a cane or you can just flick the flesh with the leather tip.  It’s perfect for flicking nipples or pussy lips, with its narrow head.  And because of the way crops are made, they can be used for severe or light pain play, depending on your bottom’s pain tolerance and/or level of masochism.  Read more…

I love clamps.  You guys have got to know that by now.  They are, seriously, my absolute favorite part of being a masochist.  How many bazillions of clamps there are, how many different ways they can be used and how amazing they feel.

To say I’m into nipple torture would be an understatement.

So when our first set of clovers disappeared, I was kinda bummed.  Okay, I was a lot bummed.  I’m sure they’re around here somewhere and won’t it be awesome when we find them and have two pairs? But without them, every SM and mutual masturbation scene we’ve had lately was falling flat.

Especially since we lost one of the wood clamps, too!

So, I went over to Eden Fantasys with an idea of what I wanted and started hunting.  We decided to give these a try.  See how we like them without a chain.  And I think we both kind of miss it.

But these are a great product, otherwise! Check out my full review over on Eden Fantasys.

I’m not really a paddle enthusiast.  I mean, I love the Slut Paddle, but that’s more of a slapper than anything.  But often, I could totally do without the oak paddle Master bought.

It’s not that I hate paddles, per se.  Just that they’re not usually my favorite toy.

I mean, there was that one time, when M put me over His knee and made me love it.  And there have been times since.  But… not always.

That being said…

I love, Love, LOVE the Rainbow Nights Paddle by Ruff Doggie Styles.  Like… for serious.  No playing.  On the real.

It’s black leather on one side and black velvet with intricate beading and stitching on the other.  The pain to pleasure ratio fluctuates between just perfect and “OMG! Am I really taking this for you?” on Master’s command.

It feels like it might be a little flimsy, but I think that’s mostly because we’re used to the solid wood.  But let me tell you, if it is flimsy, it makes up for it in performance.

Can I just say again that I love this paddle?

Go check out my full review on Eden Fantasys.

Just forewarning any new readers, and old readers who have forgotten, that M and I are BDSM toy snobs and pretty heavy into S&M.  Any BDSM toy reviews we do are written from that perspective.

I was so excited when I put in the order for the Black and Blue Strap Whip by Spartacus from Eden Fantasys.  It’s been forever since we’ve been able to purchase a new flogger.

We love, Love, LOVE flogging toys.  Like, so much so that I didn’t even bat an eyelash, years ago, when M found a $300.00 kangaroo flogger that was absolutely gorgeous and decided to buy that instead of paying our car insurance.

Not that our car insurance was $300.00.  Just that we wouldn’t be able to pay it if we ordered the kangaroo flogger because we’d be out of money for two weeks or so.

I read the Strap Whip’s description and wrinkled my nose a little at the length.  Twenty inches, tip to tails.  Just barely longer than our handmade suede flogger.  Probably just as light.  But that shiny, stiff leather looks like it could do some damage.  It looks like it could be a nice edition to our toy box.

So I squeed all over the place and couldn’t wait for it to show up.

My enthusiasm dissipated when I opened the box.

The packaging for this toy, in a word, sucks.  It’s just a thin, folded, plastic sleeve about half the length of the whip.  The whip was folded in half inside, which left a rather disappointing crease in the falls.  I’ve hung it on the wall and smashed it between books and flat surfaces with the hopes of removing the crease, but I’m not holding my breath.

It smells absolutely fabulous.  Like my softball glove when I was a teenager, or the tack of the horses at the ranch I volunteered for.  If I could bottle that smell, I’d wear it all day.  If I was going to buy a product on smell alone, this would be it.  Read more…