Review

I jerk off for a living. I am actually a pud-tugging, anal-stuffing professional. Testing gay sex toys wasn’t what I expected to be doing with my Temple U Art History degree, but I’ve risen through the TLA ranks and now take on all kinds of sex toys and it better than being a fucking over-educated museum guard.

All this leads me to my experience with the Hand Solo Masturbator. I have to say I was excited by the look of the toy. Instead of the conventional strokers/masturbators what all have you stick your cock into some sort of enclosed sleeve/cylinder, this toy promised something different – a hand job, only better! So will this toy deliver an intense cum or not? Not. It is actually ridiculous.

I took it home, lubed my cock and the interior of the toy and with the nice handle in one hand, grabbed by now hardened cock shaft. The toy is not big so it really only wraps around about 4.5 inches of the shaft but that was not the problem. No, it was just jerking off with this was so awkward! It could not get an effective stroking started since it only encases part of your cock. I needed to stroke with it pressed against my stomach. [Now I see why all the other toys are circular.] Even the vibrations were not much – fuck, I can create a lot more vibration simply by furiously stroking. No, I needed to be gentle – but gentle did not get me off. I needed to work this toy carefully and only then did I have a (relatively tepid) ejaculation. My bare dry hands would have produced better results!

Everyone wants to get into the sex toy business and they are coming up with new shapes, colors, vibrations to make a name for themselves. But while creative in design, the Hand Solo lacks the right shape to bring one off well.

 -- Marco Finocchio