Get Sprung - a SHAG Mini-Workshop - PART 2

April 21, 2022

Get Sprung - a SHAG Mini-Workshop - PART 2

Hosted by Dirty Lola
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If you haven’t checked out part 1 of this workshop, read the transcript here!

Next up, we're going to talk about our Tenga eggs. These fun little dudes are really cute, but their cuteness isn't just for the sake of packaging. The cute patterns on the packaging are actually indicative of the textures on the inside of the toy. If you flip the toy inside out, you can see that there's texture matching the package design for each color. Collect them all! Like pogs or pokemon! Tenga eggs were made to be masturbation sleeves or strokers, which means they were designed for penises. They are great for masturbation – learn more about masturbation in our workshop Hey Diddle Diddle! - but these eggs can also make for fun hand job tools. Although these toys were created with penises in mind, they have proved fun in so many other ways! If you keep the toy flipped inside out, you can stretch it over the head of a wand style vibrator, like a Magic Wand, which makes the egg a textured wand attachment! Tenga eggs are made of incredibly stretchy TPE material. These toys are semi-permanent, which means they are not meant to be kept forever. But if you wash the toy after each use and let it fully dry before putting it away, you can keep it for about a month, or longer, depending on how often you use it. There is, of course, no shame in making a Tenga egg a part of your nightly routine! But in that case you’ll probably want to replace it every week or two.

Now let’s talk yoni eggs next, since we're on the topic of eggs. These cuties are our egg-shaped vaginal weights. We carry them in three different sizes, with each size made from a different stone. The smallest eggs are made of shiny black obsidian. The medium eggs are carved from beautiful, opaque rose quartz. The largest eggs are made of luxurious jade. You can buy these separately or in a set of three. If you're doing any Kegel strengthening exercises, and if you are a fan of crystals or they hold special meaning to you, these could be just the perfect thing. Folks have a tendency to go for the smallest one, and this is actually the hardest one to use! Your Kegel strength has to be pretty high up there in order to hold on to a small, heavy object. You would actually want to start out with a larger object, because it will be easier for your muscles to clench and hold on to it. As you can see, these are lovely.

The only thing we try to tell folks when they buy these is that they do require a little more love and care than the average kegel weight. For one thing, they cannot be sterilized. If you have a tendency to get any UTIs or other vaginal infections, you want to make sure you're not using these during those infections, you will even want to leave a little buffer time after the infection, because you can't fully sterilize the yoni egg. You also will want to be careful not to drop these. Try to handle them with care, because once these fall, while they will likely not shatter, they will hit the ground really hard, resulting in micro-fractures inside the stone. That is not something you want to take a chance of putting inside your body! But, if you’re one to take good care of delicate, luxurious things, then these are truly lovely. If you are a crystal person, then you also know that many people find an energetic effect by “charging” their stones in the moonlight. I am not a crystal person, but I think, hearing from customers, that these become imbued with good karma and make your vagina happy. They do! Of course, if you are not a crystal person, or just want something a little bit easier to care for, we also carry other types of Kegel exercisers and weights, which you can sterilize fully.

Last, but not least, in our spring line up is this cute, little, adorable bunny butt plug. These are made by Crystal Delights and are so, so lovely. I especially love their thoughtful design; you can take the furry tail off, coat the plug with lube, get it comfortably inside your body, and then reattach the tail. This means that you can enjoy yourself rather than worrying about getting lube or body fluids all over the furry pouf. Unlike some glass plugs, you cannot boil these to sterilize them; they are shatterproof borosilicate glass, but the tail is attached via a small magnet, which would not survive boiling. We recommend a UV cleaner of some type to clean these. The pouf itself is faux fur, so there is no special care needed for that either; you can just brush the hair out and spot clean as needed. And! If you’re worried about a white tail getting stained, not to fret: we carry this plug in black, too.

**This text was transcribed from SHAG’s live Mini-Workshop on April 21, 2022 and edited for clarity. This opinion piece is not intended to constitute licensed expert advice; all content is for general informational purposes only.*