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How To Use a Cock Ring
Find out how to fit a cock ring and discover the many sexy ways a cock ring will add to your love life.
What is a Cock Ring?
It’s a ring that goes around your cock. Next question, please.
What kind of Cock Ring?
One made of silicone or rubber, usually. It’s not a wedding ring, put it that way.
Why do I want one?
How about this Melbourne Cup trifecta of wonderful benefits? Increased stamina, enhanced erection size and delayed orgasm.
Says Lovehoney Medical Reviewer, Dr Armin Ariana: "Men with normal erectile function, penoscrotal rings can increase the reliability, rigidity and size of the erect penis, which can subsequently increase confidence and self-esteem."
Sound good?
These circular bliss bands are sometimes known as stamina rings, love rings or penis rings.
As small as these nifty little numbers are, they can boost your boner and promote your penis pleasure.
If you’re a pecker owner, read on to find out how to fit a cock ring and many other tips. Rocking a clit? You can enjoy these sexy circles, too.
How does a cock ring work?
When you get a stiffy, it’s because extra blood is filling up your wang, under orders from the Department of Arousal Downstairs.
Cock rings work by preventing that extra blood from leaving your manhood until you’re good and ready.
One lovely effect is your chub can stay harder for longer. Another benefit may be a slightly fatter donger. And some blokes reckon they last longer in between the sheets.
Who wouldn’t want that?
We can’t swear how a cock ring might affect you because they are too many individual variables. Results may vary.
But check out the customer feedback on our cock rings and make up your own mind about the many wonders of these magical mini-machines.
The correct way to wear a Cock Ring
Cock ring sizes are as variable as blokes and their bits.
Some cock rings are meant to be worn around the shaft of your wife’s best friend. Others are designed by scientists in lab coats to be worn around your tube steak and tea bags. What a job.
Do you like good vibrations? For a cheap thrill, you may want to try a vibrating cock ring. Oh yeah. These trembling toys send sensuous vibes all up and down and through your meat and two veg. Not to mention your bonk buddy, and that’s not to mention the benefits that extend to your sexual partner - lucky them.
Whether you prefer a silent but handsome cock ring, or one that jiggles like a Mexican jumping bean, here’s some good oil on fitting a cock ring and how tight should a cock ring be.
1. Try a Cock Ring on for size
Resist your impulse to surprise your kinky companion with your new cock ring before you’ve tested it out yourself. We recommend you try it on first in the privacy of your love shack. This will avoid any awkward moment in front of your better half if it doesn’t fit.
When it’s fitted correctly, your cock ring shouldn’t hurt, feel painful or uncomfortable at any stage.
How tight should a cock ring be? Your cock ring is too small if you notice visible narrowing of your wang where the ring sits, if you start to feel pain, or if your donger starts turning red or blue. Remove it immediately.
Your cock ring is too large if it slips off your willy. Or if it isn’t doing its job of keeping more blood in your full mongrel.
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What customers say:
‘They fit like a glove, are comfortable to use and work perfectly well to make my balls tighter and bigger, and the same with my cock. The different combinations used with the rings are great to experiment with. Wife loves the feel of my cock inside her too.’ - Verified-customer
2. How to fit a Cock Ring
It’s recommended to whack on your cock ring when you’re at semi-soft cock, not sporting a raging meat sword. Don’t try to force it on if you’ve got a full chub or you’ll really be choking the chook.
Use a dab of lube, because lube makes everything better. Go for a good quality water-based lubricant, like the Lovehoney Enjoy Water-Based Lubricant. It suits all cock rings, no matter what material they’re made from.
Then slide yourself into the round ring. Slide it over your knob and down your gearstick so that it sits happily at the base of your pecker.
If you’re fitting a double cock and ball ring, slip it around your plums one at a time first. Once it’s comfy around your balls, fold your penis up through the cock ring and slide it into position ready for sex.
Says Dr Armin suggests: “I would strongly recommend that you start wearing your double rings way earlier than when you're in a steamy mood. It can be very tricky to get the second loop around your hard shaft when the first one is already in place.”
What customers say:
‘The rings stretch quite far and are easy to put on. Just put a bit of lube on the inside of the ring and then on you, stretch it, then slide it over right to the base, and there you go, you're good to go.” - GooseJelly
3. Anytime, anywhere
Cock rings aren’t just for spicing up sexy time with your partner in crime. Try fitting a vibrating cock ring for your next solo sesh to add some toe-curling vibes while stroking the magic lamp.
A vibrating cock ring is a creative toy you can adapt. Use your sexi-magination. Try stretching it across your fingers and explore it as a clit, nip or anal stimulator.
Bored with your dildo? Wrap a vibrating cock ring over it and pimp it into your very own custom vibe.
Going away for a dirty weekend? Cock rings are terrific travel toys that pack a punch for their size.
Got a cock ring set? If the smallest cock ring is too small for your manhood, you can adapt it as a testicle ring instead by slipping your love spuds through it one at a time.
What customers say:
‘My partner did use this in solo play too. He had the cock ring on a different way with the bullet under his testicles. He said that this was simply amazing as the vibrations were concentrating on one of his more sensitive areas.’ - sexytime87
Are Cock Rings safe?
The answer is yes! They’re safe as houses, so long as you follow instructions.
Make sure you wear your cock ring correctly and don’t leave your wang in it for longer than recommended.
A cock ring should not hurt while you’re wearing it. Wearing a cock ring that’s too tight for too long can cause damage, so be sensible and don’t risk your tool - you’ve only got one.
If your cock ring gets stuck by any dumb accident, it’s best not to panic. Instead, Dr Armin suggests putting a cold bag of water on your penis and waiting for the paramedics to arrive. Oh and, never try using any sharp objects to cut the rubber band, as you may cut yourself too.
Another word for the wise: Stay clear of metal cock rings unless you really know what you’re doing. Although they’re kinky, metal cock rings can entrap penises and result in a trip to the emergency room if you’re not careful.
So, how long can you wear a Cock Ring?
Cock rings ca be worn for 20 to 30 minutes, but always check the packaging or chat to your GP if you’re unsure. That’s plenty of time to get your rocks off and the rocks of your better half.
If you wear it any longer than this you risk restricting the blood flow for too long.
Of course, since the design purpose of a cock ring is to restrict blood flow, it’s completely normal for your donger to look slightly engorged while wearing a cock ring. Your stiffy is probably going to have some pronounced veins and a reddish blush.
If you’re having a longer sesh, call a halftime break after 30 minutes and remove your cock ring. Let the blood flow return to normal while you suck on some quartered oranges or any other edible object that attracts your fancy. Have a Kit-Kat break before you return to the field of play.
Why wear a Cock Ring?
Hopefully, if you’ve read this far, you know how to use a cock ring and some of the glorious benefits they can offer. Cock rings can increase stamina and erection size, and delay orgasm, all while adding stimulation for a partner.
If you’re interested in trying a cock ring, the most important thing to remember is to always listen to your body and your sexual partner. If it feels right, go for it.
We love them and hope you will too, but if not, there are plenty more options where that came from! Check out our other male sex toys. Really, what have you got to lose except for your load? Give a cock ring a crack today and take you and your kinky companion’s pleasure to the next O-level.
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