I'm on the train, coming back home from the last visit to my Daddy Dom who lives and works in another city. What better way to spend those boring hours of travel, than writing a new sex toy review for my blog?
This time we had the opportunity to test a male masturbator from Maia Toys, kindly offered by the German shop MEO.de in exchange for our honest feedback. That's great because all we needed was a lot of sexy fun together!
You can see that as usual the original packaging of the item is branded with MEO's own logo, and that an advertising leaflet of the EZ2FUCK lube from the German brand is inside the packaging. However, I don't want you to think the box has been opened by the team to insert a promotional leaflet inside: my box arrived perfectly intact with an hygiene seal, as you can see from the
photo. i suppose MEO has made agreements with some manufacturers to include custom-branded promotional material to the products.
I think the packaging is cute and non intimidating, perfect to give as a gift to someone who doesn't like explicit pics on the boxes of his sex toys as my Daddy is.
But what's extremely cute is the toy itself: with its cartoon-like shape that resembles a kawaii ray fish, and the bold orange color.
It put immediately both of us in a good mood: it was love at first sight!
Will the Ray be as performant as it is, without doubt, pretty? At a first glance I was intrigued by the texture of its wings: I guessed that those soft but firm ribs, and the spikes on the top of the ray fish shape would have felt very stimulating on Daddy's glans and shaft. And I was curious to try it myself as an external vibrator: on the back of the box the instructions state clearly that it's great for both penises and vulvas.
I really admire the choice of Maia Toys to build a non-gendered product: with its non masculine design and its shape intended to please every kind of genitals, regardless of their form and size, I can see this as a perfect product for my trans and queer readers, especially for the MTF community that looks so underserved today. That's one of the main reasons that brought me to choose this vibrating masturbator for review.
The other reason that made me choose the Maia Ray for review is very personal and I ask in advance to my beloved readers to excuse me if I'm becoming emotional. Lately, due to medical reasons, my Daddy Dom is experiencing a mild, occasional form of erectile dysfunction that makes him uncomfortable at times. Our experience with the Tenga AirTech Vacuum Cup was great and we had a lot of fun with it, but there are days when his health is worse and using regular masturbation cups becomes difficult: it requires the same hardness needed for penis-in-vagina intercourse.
That's why we were really looking forward to test an open male masturbator: for those low-days, simply wrapping a vibrating toy around his shaft without worrying about being hard enough to enter a hole looks like a great option. And, on a side note, having a blog where I can openly talk about this kind of issues with a like-minded, sex positive audience, is something I value a lot. But let's come back to our in-depth test of the Maia Ray!
The firm yet soft wings, made from medical PU, are pliable: we bended them to resemble the design of an open male masturbator like the Hot Octopuss Pulse III Solo. Then we inserted the AAA battery required and we were ready to go!
The first thing I want to note, from a female partner's perspective, is that during midway erection letdowns the fun design of this bright coloured masturbator is a huge help to lighten the mood: picking up a cute vibrating ray fish didn't feel at all like 'I'm picking up the only sex toy you would be able to use without an actual erection'. Needless to say, using it was very intuitive: adjusting the tightness to your liking is as simple as bending the wings, and turning it upside-down you point the little spikes to the glans or to the shaft.
Daddy liked it both as a masturbator to wank with and as a vibrator to just put in place against the glans or frenulum: he said you can definitely feel the ribs and spikes, especially after lubricating the toy with few drops of AQUAMEO. Plus, the open end of the Ray allowed for great blow job fun!
He said that the vibrations were just OK, but I wasn't that convinced, since I usually find that battery-powered toys aren't as strong as the rechargeable ones.
So to give a proper test to the bullet's vibration strength, I had to try it myself: I'm a doubting Thomas when it comes to sex toys!
Daddy after all isn't that used to vibrations on his private parts, so I thought he may like a gentler kind of stimulation than I do.
The vibrations, as expected, weren't strong enough for my picky clitoris. The ribbed and spiked texture of the orange shell and the intriguing view of an unusual shape were pleasant, but not enough to give me my usual quite elusive orgasm, that appears only in presence of powerful stimulation on the right spots.
But, I could see a solution to this as soon as Daddy discovered that the bullet is removable: this means you can replace it with a stronger one! Looks like I will ask to MEO's customer service to suggest me a stronger, rechargeable bullet that could fit in Ray's orange shell and I will post an update as soon as I have news!
To be honest, it took a while to us to figure out if the bullet was removable or not: that's because taking it off the soft, tight PU sleeve is quite difficult. Inserting it back in too isn't so easy!
Usually I think it's a good thing getting a removable bullet with your toys but in this case, the mini-vibe alone didn't appeal to me so much because of the weak vibrations. It's made of ABS plastic that's hygienic and non-porous.
The Maia Ray costs 49€ (42.74£ and 60.60$ on 10/04/2018) at MEO's official shop: the amount is justified because of the quality of the safe, hygienical materials, but for this price I would have expected a rechargeable bullet.
Overall we recommend this sex toy to to everyone who needs a masturbator you can use even when you're not fully erect, to folks looking for a non-gendered product and to couples who like gentle vibrations.
For strong-vibration lovers, we recommend replacing the original bullet with another of your choice. I can't find the exact measurements of this mini vibe on the box neither on MEO's product page, but I'm pretty sure any bullet that requires a single AAA battery will fit.
If you fancy trying the Maia Ray for yourself, but yours at MEO here.
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