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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Browse popular areas of Sex Toy Advice and go straight to what you need right now.

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.

Female Chastity and Orgasm Denial: Do Women Enjoy Locking Up Their Pleasure?

Female chastity is a BDSM topic very close to my Mistress heart, and one I've been thinking and writing about for well over a decade. I've covered male chastity at length over the years, written extensively about chastity cage reviews and keyholding, and explored just about every angle of locking a partner up. But the question I keep coming back to, and one I get asked often, is this: what about us? Does female chastity really exist as a kink in its own right, and how can women genuinely enjoy orgasm denial?

Bondage Toys Guide: Best Gear for Kinky Play

What can you use to restrain someone (or enjoy being restrained) in bondage? That's where bondage sex toys and bondage accessories come into their own. It helps having some background knowledge of just what's available in terms of bondage equipment, and why it's important to use items specifically designed for bondage rather than any old belt, strap or rope...

Spanking Toys Guide: Implements, Tools and Techniques

Does the mere thought of a raised Dominant hand, or a spanking toy whistling through the air, stir the tendrils of arousal? You might be wondering which spanking tools are best for effective corporal punishment. Welcome to my big spanking toys guide, in which you'll also find links to all our spanking toy reviews.

ElectraStim Sex Toys Guide: How to Use Electrosex Safely

Welcome to this ElectraStim Sex Toys Guide, brought to you by Joanne’s Reviews, an expert in electroplay and a trusted voice in the community. Whether you’re new to electrosex or curious about trying these unique toys, Joanne shares clear, practical advice regarding how to enjoy electrosex toys safely and confidently.

Strap-On Dildos Guide

You may remember my last 'big guide' - the Big Guide To Strap-On Sex Harnesses I published last month. Obviously you'll need a fantastic dildo to attach to your new strap-on harness, so here's the follow-up feature: my big guide to strap-on dildos!

Rethinking Vaginal Orgasms

Let's tackle the myth of vaginal orgasms. The myth isn't whether or not they're possible, but rather that everyone with a vagina must be able to climax from vaginal stimulation. If you don't orgasm from vaginal penetration, please don't panic. You're not alone. I don't orgasm that way either.

Strap-On Harnesses Guide

Strap-on sex (sometimes known as pegging) is enjoyed by many adults and within various types of relationship; for example, lesbian/bisexual sex, in BDSM as part of FemDom, or to help a penis-owner pleasure their partner in different ways. There are many types of harness available to help you achieve your sexual pleasure aims – welcome to my big guide to strap-on sex harnesses.

Penis Chastity Devices Guide: How to Choose and Use a Cage

Whether you’re looking for your first chastity device, or seeking to add a chastity cage to your *ahem* growing collection, it can be baffling when you realise just how many variants are available. This is particularly the case for lock-up fans who don’t have a Keyholder/Mistress/Top to guide them, and simply wish to explore chastity fetish by themselves. Welcome to my big guide to penis chastity devices!

Sex Machines & Fucking Machines: The Complete Buyer’s Guide

The sex machine market has shifted considerably since I first published this guide. New brands have entered, several older products have been discontinued, and the quality standard across motorised sex toys has risen. Whether you're researching a ride-on machine, a full thrusting machine, an automatic thrusting dildo, or a handheld thrusting toy that sits somewhere between a vibrator and a proper machine, this guide covers them all.

Jiggle Balls Guide (Love Eggs, Kegel Trainers & Ben Wa Balls)

Whether you call them jiggle balls, love eggs, kegel trainers or Ben Wa balls, it all amounts to pretty much the same thing. Rounded products you insert into the vagina for pleasure, health benefits, or both. Are you a jiggle ball fan? Have you considered buying a love egg but don’t know which one’s right for you? Welcome to my big guide to jiggle balls, love eggs, kegel trainers & Ben Wa balls!

Bullet Vibrators Guide

I’ve written previously about why I love bullet vibrators so much. They regularly appear in my top 3 favourite sex toys, which constantly evolves due to ongoing advances in pleasure tech. There are so many bullet vibrators to choose from – how can you be sure the one you’re buying from an online sex shop is going to be orgasmically effective? Welcome to my bullet vibrators guide! I’ll also be referencing the many bullet vibrator reviews here at the Cara Sutra sex blog.

Sex Toy Materials Guide: Porous v Non-Porous, Phthalates & More

How are you supposed to know which material is the best? Are there any you should specifically look for? And, more importantly, which ones should you actively avoid? My sex toy materials guide is here to help you choose a body safe sex toy you can enjoy all-encompassing pleasure from, every time. 

The Most Powerful Vibrators You Can Buy

Happy National Orgasm Day 2018! It's difficult to believe it's been a year already since the last National Orgasm Day – the year has just flown. In the past I've written about the sounds of an orgasm, the importance (or not) of simultaneous orgasms, about not being able to orgasm through oral sex and about having orgasms while I'm asleep. As many of my orgasms are helped along a little bit (OK, a lot) by sex toys, today I want to discuss some of my favourites. The toys which are, for me, the best powerful vibrators for extra strong orgasms.

Small Butt Plugs For Beginners & Tight Arses

I've written plenty of beginner's guides to anal toys and butt plugs in the past, and you can find plenty of sex toy advice throughout the Cara Sutra sex blog. Today, however, I wanted to present what I feel are the true top picks when it comes to easily insertable (yet still body safe) small butt plugs for tiny bums.
Big Guide To Magic Wand Vibrators and Our Magic Wand Vibrator Reviews

Wand Vibrators Guide

What’s the absolute best wand vibrator? Which is the most powerful wand vibrator? If you’re looking for a mighty toy which can deliver unforgettable orgasms, then sex toy connoisseurs know to head straight for the magic wand vibrators.

Can You Make Your Own Sex Toys At Home?

When the budget's stretched thin it's sensible to cut costs by cutting out luxuries. And I'd wager that most people view sex toys as a luxury. With the popularity of crafting, plus incentives to be eco-friendly wherever possible, it could be tempting to try and make your own sex toys at home.

Slim Vibrators For Small Vaginas

By Cara Sutra: I must admit that when I look at vibrator features, size doesn't really register. I'm one of those women who assumes that vaginal vibrators are made in, well, vagina size. If they're tiddly then they might be more of a clit stim for me.

How To Get Free Sex Toys

By Cara Sutra: We all do. Everyone loves freebies, and no matter really want it is, we all want that something for free. Why pay when you can get it for nothing?

Bondage Hogties Guide: How and Why to Hogtie Safely

The favourite bondage hogtie piece I have in my own collection is the Shots Media Ouch! Wrist and Legcuffs Restraints, which isn't readily available in the UK any more but you can take a look at my review here. There are definitely other, good quality bondage hogties you can purchase to give you the session you desire, however.

Anal Sex Toys Guide: Finding The Best Butt Plug For You

Bums. Everyone has one, and very useful they are too. Our undervalued derrières not only house the exit which keeps our bodies functioning healthily, but offer comfortable padding when we need to take the weight off our feet. Did you realise that your bottom also has the potential to give you incredible pleasure, as well as a mere sigh of relief any time you sit down?