A sex toy review this time and for a change its one from me. Mrs Dave usually gets to write the toy reviews because compared to the huge (and I mean sometimes literally huge) variety of sex toys available for women, the range of toys for guys is pretty small. By the time you have covered masturbators (like the Helmet Hugger) or anal toys (like the Jewel or Vixen beads) you have pretty much covered the entire spectrum of guy-toys. It was with great delight then that I unpacked a Christmas parcel from our good friend the Professor over in the US and found a set of wooden cock rings.
I have never used a cock ring before and really hadn't ever seen one used either. I knew that they went round the penis but that was that. While some of these rings looked like they were the right size to fit around my dick, others were almost big enough for Mrs Dave to use as a bangle. They were huge. I was starting to think the Prof had some weird ideas about the size of Australian men. There had to be something I was missing. I had to go look them up. It turns out there are two types of cock ring. One that fits around the penis; the other goes around both the testicles and penis. The idea in both cases being that they slightly restrict blood flow out of the penis and therefore produce a longer and harder erection which in turn gives a longer and harder orgasm. The sites that tell you how to put them on also tend to give dire warnings about causing permanent damage if you wear them for too long. Now I have never had a problem with my orgasms being short or soft. After all, I'm sleeping with Mrs Dave. Such a thing is not possible when you sleep with Mrs Dave. Nonetheless, in the spirit of true scientific enquiry, I gritted my teeth, pushed the warnings to the back of my mind and tried them.
First up I have 
to say that these things look fantastic. They were made by a real craftsman. The photos do not do them justice. They are made up of tiny pieces of different kinds of wood all inlaid together. These are works of art. If they were a little bigger, I would never have been allowed to put my dick in them. Mrs Dave would have worn them as jewellery. We tried the largest ring first. The technique for putting one on is to slip the testicles through first and then poke the flaccid penis through as well. Note the key word there - flaccid. Have you any idea how hard it is, lying in bed with a beautiful woman, naked, with the prospect of amazing sex just moments way, to maintain a state of flaccidity? Anyway. Through sheer willpower I managed it. Word of advice - no matter how large the ring looks, both testicles will not, repeat, WILL NOT, fit through at the same time. They are bigger than you think they are. Put one through then the other. The flaccid penis is then poked through and the whole thing is then settled at the base of the penis and around the back of the testicles. Mrs Dave tells me that the process of putting it on looked incredibly uncomfortable. It wasn't, once I had discovered the one at a time trick that is.
Once it was on, we got down to business. Like I said before, one look from Mrs Dave can make jelly stiff so I didn't notice any great improvement in the hardness of my erection. It did feel a little different though as the testicles are pulled kind of forward and tend to get more stimulation. They also get sat on when doing it cowgirl style which is a little uncomfortable. The ring did provide some extra sensation. Some good. Some not so good.
I have a deep, dark secret that I am going to reveal (readers of a sensitive nature should look away now) - I am an hirsute gentleman. That's right. I am a hairy guy. Arms, legs (gods be thanked fortunately not back) all generously haired. Groin, particularly generously haired. Some of the extra sensation the ring provided was my generous endowment of hair getting wound around the ring and pulled out.
I suspect the largest ring was a little too large as it really didn't seem to do much for me. Possibly one of the smaller sizes would have been better (though much scarier to put on). Next up we tried the smallest which was a penis-only type ring. This was more comfortable as it didn't pull any hair and Mrs Dave gave it a big thumbs up from a visual perspective. It looked really cool. It was just tight enough to be noticeable so I suppose it was doing something. Hard to tell though as Mrs Dave was working her magic and you could have used me to drill through walls, ring or no ring.
Anyway, these are fantastic looking rings and are fun to play with. I'll try some of the other sizes and see how they go.
