So.  Um.  I.  It.  Uh.  Look, I have NO IDEA WHY I BOUGHT A PVC butt plug.  After three years of reviewing sex toys and more than 300 reviews I know better.

I bought it anyhow.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not normally a total material snob or anything.  PVC, jelly, rubber, cyberskin and elastomer toys have their place in the toyboxes of many people. They can be very nice so long as you understand that they are porous, cannot be sanitized and should be replaced – OFTEN.  They can harbor bacteria and leach chemicals so you need to either use a condom every time you use them or replace them every year or so, definitely at the first sign of any wear or degradation.

But despite not being a snob about it and knowing that they have their place, I haven’t purchased a toy that’s not silicone, metal, wood, glass, plastic or ceramic in well over a year – until now.

It was the shape that got me.  The Pixie Curve has an amazing shape!

This plug starts out with a wee little ball shaped tip that tapers down into a slender apostrophe shape that almost immediately bulges and curves into a nice, girthy, filling shaft.  I was a little iffy on the short neck, as those tend to like to pop out when least expected, turning into a butt to lamp missile, but so far so good.  The base is awesome, too.  Shaped for comfort in a rounded triangle and slightly larger than the largest part of the shaft, which means it’s quite safe.

The issue I have with this plug, unfortunately, does come down to the fact that it’s jelly-like PVC.  It’s squishy.  Really, really squishy and bendy.  Insertion is very difficult – in fact, I could not insert it myself.  The only times I’ve successfully used it Taylor had to stick it in for me and he cursed a lot.  The balled tip bends completely over with the least bit of pressure and, dude, nobodies ass magically opens up and says ahhhh on demand.  You have to press a little.  With each press, the tip bends over and you ram the rest of the plug against your ass crack and feel like an idiot, which sort of ruins the mood.

So.  Second person, two hands, careful manipulation, a bit of feeling like you’re at the doctor’s office and he’s examining your asshole and the plug goes in and, really, the tip and first part of the shaft are so small you hardly feel them.  To me it feels kind of like having a rectal temperature taken or inserting an enema tube; kind of boring and clinical. And then – WHAMO! – you get hit by the thick part of the plug and, man, even though it’s only 1.75″ in diameter (same as the Pure Plug 2.0) and squishy, to boot, it feels HUGE.  Huge, man.  Fucking huge.  Like, I’m laying there, having fallen off my knees, going, “ow ow ow ow ow ow ow take it out owwwwwwwwww.”

It was weird.

And then because the neck is so thin and I’m ample it kind of felt like my ass could not really close around it and was stretched wide, wide open.  You know how normally you insert a plug and it stretches then closes so you feel full inside but not right at the anus? This one keeps your anus feeling very stretched.  It did not, however, pop out, which I expected it to, even when we began having penetrative vaginal sex at the same time. And other than being very stretched, almost painfully so (though the discomfort eased as my body relaxed it didn’t totally go away), it’s sort of comfy in a “I’m a masochist so I’m sort of insane and sort of like this discomfort” sort of way.

I’m babbling, aren’t I?

I’m really undecided on this toy.  Insertion sucks.  PVC sucks.  The tip is unsatisfactory in terms of stimulation.  The shaft is almost too big and keeps you oddly held open even after insertion.

And yet, again, I’m a masochist and the sex we’ve had with this in has been freaking awesome.

How it will work for anyone else is impossible to day.  I haven’t been able to use it for extended wear because it’s too uncomfortable to be held open like that;  it only feels good to me during sex.  Every anatomy is different, though, so it may feel great to you.  It is not effective for g-spot (and, I’d assume, p-spot) stimulation because the tip and first part of the shaft are too bendy, you get no pressure from them at all.

Overall, the Pixie Curve is 4.75 inches long with an insertable length of 4.25 inches – so it is not pokey.  It has a total girth at it’s largest point of 1.75 inches with the neck tapering down to around 1 inch.    Water or silicone based lubes are fine with this but avoid oil based.  You can clean with soap and water and I would suggest cleaning very, very well.  PVC is porous and has a shower curtain or water wings sort of smell to it. Store it in a ziplock or other such plastic bag so it doesn’t rub against other toys as porous toys stored together can do funny melty things.  Replace it if it begins to retain odors, sting when used or look funky.

This is a $12 toy.  You’ll get that much value from it, for sure, but don’t expect it to last a lifetime.

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