Sex Toys as Pelvic Toners - The Touch

A few weeks ago, I reviewed the Ann Summers Touch Shaft Vibrator but the day after I had tested it, Caroline Ann Summers Sharpe contacted me on Facebook to remind me of its possibilities in my quest for great Kegel exercisers and I am happy to add The Touch to my list of sex toys as pelvic toners.

So, on a very sunny spring Sunday morning, I retrieved it from the drawer under the bed and put it through its paces with a different goal in mind. I wasn’t looking for orgasms – although a surprise climax is always welcome – but for pelvic toning.

The thing about the touch is that it has three bands running across the length of its shaft at evenly spaced intervals. These bands are touch-sensitive so if you touch the lowest band with your fingers as you’re inserting the shaft, it starts to buzz. But just depressing the on switch in the base will produce a token buzz to show it’s on but no more. It’s up to you to activate your toy with your internal muscles.

At 7.5″ long in total, of which a maximum of 6 inches is insertable and with a circumference of 5″, it’s not a big toy and you only have to push it in a short way before the first of the vibrations begins. A sort of long slow vibration. An inch or so more and you get a pulse and, finally, an inch after that, and closest to the base, a faster, more insistent vibration.

As I have mentioned on so many occasions that you might feel the need to slap me, years of testing pelvic floor exercisers means that I have a very tight vagina. Just the action of inserting the device activates each of the bands and the top muscles are so strong that they have already successfully expelled two IUDs, so the Touch doesn’t really stand a chance of staying put – especially when made super slippery with lube for ease of insertion.

Reclining on pillows just added extra gravity to the downwards process, so, to truly test the process, I raised my butt up in the air on pillows to give the Touch a helping hand and at least point it in the right direction.

I have to say that it is an extremely entertaining method of going through your Kegel exercises. Squeezing the elevator up to the top floor and holding it there whilst trying to retain the pressure on that top fast band of vibrations.

Dr Kegel himself said that the exercises worked better for women who had some visible means of measuring the strength of their pelvic muscle contractions and, for me, this would seem to be a very effective example of such a device.

Whether you’re a new mum, dealing with the problems of sex and Menopause or just someone who wants to get the best out of their girly bits in the bedroom, this is a multi-tasking toy that combines the possibilities of orgasm with the effective results of pelvic muscle exercise.