Sex Toy Advice

Sex toy advice to help you choose safely, use confidently, and enjoy the toys that suit your body and pleasure best.

Welcome to my Sex Toy Advice hub. This is where I share practical, real-life guidance on choosing, using, and caring for sex toys in ways that feel safe, comfortable and genuinely enjoyable. Whether you’re brand new to toys or exploring something more advanced, you’ll find clear, judgement-free information to help you make confident decisions.

Sex toys can enhance solo pleasure, partner intimacy, exploration, and body confidence. But with so many options, materials and features available, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This section helps you understand what really matters, so you can choose what actually works for your body rather than guessing or wasting money.

If you want broader relationship or bedroom guidance, visit my Sex Advice hub. For practical techniques and everyday improvements, explore Sex Tips. For wider reflections on pleasure, desire and identity, browse Sexuality Articles.

Start Here Essentials

If you’re not sure where to begin, these are the guides I’d start with first, especially if you’re buying your first toy or want the basics done properly.

What You’ll Find In My Sex Toy Advice

This category gathers guides and articles covering how to choose toys, use them safely, and get the most pleasure from them, including:

  • How to choose the right toy for your body, preferences and experience level, including help for your first sex toy
  • Understanding materials, safety and hygiene, including how to use vibrators safely and glass toy safety
  • Cleaning, storage and care, including discreet toy storage options
  • Guides to specific toy types, including vibrators, anal toys, prostate massagers and strokers
  • Partner play, long-distance connection and app-controlled toys
  • Budget-friendly options and finding quality toys at different price points
  • Kink-aware and advanced toys, explored with safety and consent in mind

Where To Start

Not sure what you need yet? Start with what matches your situation right now.

My Approach

I don’t treat sex toys like gimmicks or quick fixes. I treat them as tools for pleasure, exploration, comfort and connection. The right toy should suit your body, your boundaries and your preferences, not trends or marketing hype.

I focus on realistic guidance you can actually use, including safety, comfort, accessibility and long-term enjoyment. Real life matters here. Budget, energy levels, privacy, disability, confidence and experience all shape what works best. This space makes room for all of that, without pressure to perform or upgrade constantly.

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Scroll down to explore the latest sex toy advice, expert guides, and practical help for choosing toys that truly work for your body, comfort and pleasure.

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Can I Put Ice in My Ass? Anal Play With Ice Cubes

Experimenting with hot and cold during sex & masturbation can help you discover new ways your body likes to be stimulated, and it’s so easy to do. It’s vital to stay safe in all your explorations though. Sliding ice over your erogenous zones is one thing. But using ice cubes for anal pleasure? I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s idly wondered, ‘Can I put ice in my ass?’

Best Discreet Sex Toys for Public Orgasms & Intimate Stimulation: Your Guide

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Bondage Furniture Guide: How to Create Your Own BDSM Dungeon

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Celebrating Women-Led Sex Toy Brands

Celebrating Women-Led Sex Toy Brands

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Best Cheap Sex Toys on a Small Budget: Top Quality, Low Price Tag

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Is It OK To Gift My Friend A Vibrator? Or Too Weird?

I declare my love of vibrators loud and proud for all to hear here at the Cara Sutra sex blog of course, but away from the web I find myself talking about them with open-minded, sex-positive friends, too. What about giving sex toys as gifts? Would a sex toy make a bold, empowering present, or an awkward, never-spoken-of-again mistake? In today’s feature, I’m exploring whether it’s OK to gift a friend a vibrator, or if it’s just too weird.

Are Glass Sex Toys Safe? Self-Pleasure Safety with Glass Dildos

I still come across people who are shocked to learn that glass is a material used to make sex toys. Today I want to explore the misunderstood realm of glass adult products, dispelling myths, revealing the facts behind the specific type of glass to make these products, and the dos and don’ts of self-pleasure safety with glass dildos.

Temperature Play in the Bedroom: Blow Hot and Cold for Pleasure

As the darker nights of autumn and the frosty chill of winter sets in, staying cosy at home and enjoying the romance of candles or fairy lights is extremely appealing. Today I want to share my guide to temperature play in the bedroom, advice which will help you blow hot & cold during sex no matter what the weather is like outside your bedroom window.

Nipple Play Toys Guide & Our Nipple Clamp Reviews

In today’s guide, I am exploring this intriguing area of sexuality, and the nipple play toys that can maximise your pleasure during solo or shared sexual playtimes. As well as discovering the various types of nipple stim toys (tickle, suck or pinch), you will find links to helpful nipple clamp reviews from the community and myself.

Guide to Prostate Massagers & P-Spot Toys

Although I spoke briefly about P-spot stimulation devices in my recent blog post, today I want to offer a deep delve into prostate toys. Welcome to my guide to prostate massagers, where I’ll outline what specifically makes a toy a prostate massager and the most effective P-spot toys available.

Velvet Thruster Thrusting Dildos Prime Silicone Tops Collection

The Velvet Thruster Thrusting Dildo is ingeniously modular, meaning you can buy the base toy and choose which of the silicone attachments/toppers you’d like to use with it. There’s a wide variety of silicone tops to choose from, and the generous team sent me the whole collection to try out. Welcome to my Velvet Thruster Thrusting Dildos Prime Silicone Tops Collection showcase!

Lovehoney Sex Toy Advent Calendars 2024 (12 & 24 Day Options Available)

Are you ready for the sexiest Christmas countdown ever? Lovehoney have launched their brand-new sex toy advent calendars for 2024, and I’m excited to share all the exquisitely erotic details with you! The star of the show this year is the Lovehoney 24-Day Womanizer Sex Toy Advent Calendar 2024.

Halloween Sex Toys & Spooky Pleasure Guide: The Best Kinky Treats for October

Halloween sex toys are the perfect excuse for spooky pleasure. In this updated guide I round up glow-in-the-dark treats, monster dildos, app-control thrills, BDSM and e-stim ideas, plus hands-free machines for a deliciously wicked night in.

Gay Sex Toys Guide: Adult Toys for Gay Lovers & Lesbian Couples

Love is love, and it deserves to be fully celebrated in all its forms. Read on to discover my gay sex toys guide, where I’ll be showcasing adult toys ideal for gay couples, to enhance your intimate and passionate private time together.

Penis Masturbators Guide: Cock Strokers That’ll Blow Your… Mind

Do you opt for a lubed up ‘hand solo’ or have you got a favourite penis stroker toy? If you’re here because you’re wondering if you can improve on what you’ve got, and enjoy spectacular orgasms by travelling a different route to usual, you’re in luck. Today I’m talking about cock strokers that’ll blow your mind, in a penis masturbators guide offering you the best toys whatever your budget.

G-Spot Toys Guide: How to Choose the Best Vibrators and Dildos for Targeted Pleasure

In the world of sexuality and intimate pleasure, there is a lot of talk about the G-spot. This may raise several questions for you, such as what is the G-spot? Why is it called that? Does it really exist? Where is the G-spot and how can you stimulate it effectively? What are the best G-stim vibrators & dildos to use? Welcome to my G-Spot Toys guide!

Bathmate Penis Pumps Guide: Hydro, HydroMax & HydroXtreme

Bathmate is undoubtedly the name when it comes to trusted and reliable penis pumps. Their pumps and phallic enhancement products are the result of constant research and development tweaks, alongside real user feedback. Bathmate penis pumps are hydrotherapy-based, hence the ‘bath’ part of the brand name. How do they work – and do they actually work?

Penis Pumps Guide: How To Get A Bigger Cock & Stronger Erections

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