The Different Types of Plugs, Explained

Searching "butt plugs" gets you a hundred product photos and no way to tell them apart. We stock three. Between them they cover the two things people are usually after: something that stays in place, and something angled at the prostate.

All three have a flared base. That's the part that stays outside the body, and it's how you get the toy back out. Don't buy a plug that doesn't have one.

plusOne Training Plug Set — $26

Three sizes in a box, smallest to largest. Silicone, waterproof.

Buying a single plug means guessing your size off a photo. A set means you don't have to guess. Start with the smallest and move up whenever you feel like it, or don't.

This is the one to get if you've never bought one before.

B-Yours Beads — $18

Ten rounded beads on a flexible shaft, each wider than the last, with a pull loop at the end. PVC, phthalate-free.

Beads aren't really a first purchase. The sensation comes from moving them, so they're less forgiving than something that just holds still. Get these if you already know that holding still isn't what you're after.

Aneros Helix Syn — $70

Not a plug in the usual sense. It's a prostate massager. The body is curved so the head sits against the prostate, and the arm on the outside presses on the perineum.

Four inches insertable, about an inch at the widest point. Silicone-coated.

Get it if prostate stimulation is specifically the goal. It doesn't do what the other two do.

Lube

Water-based, for all three.

Silicone lube degrades silicone toys, and two of these are silicone. The beads are PVC and would be fine with either, but there's no reason to keep two bottles around.

Use more than you think you need, and reapply.

Deluvery delivers all of this in DC the same night you order it. Toys, lubes, condoms, personal care. Plain packaging, forgettable name on the card statement. More on that in Privacy-First Adult Delivery.

For the external version of this guide, see types of vibrators.

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