Xtreme Pack Mini G-Spot Bullet provided for review by Tabu Toys

Mimi

The Xtreme Pack Mimi G-spot Bullet is a brightly coloured green and purple with flashing red lights, a toy reminiscent of a handheld video game system, minus the PEW-PEW shooting noise. It really does seem like a toy.

But the Xtreme Pack means business. The 2.25″ x 1″ bullet vibrator plugs into a plastic and rubber controller with buttons to increase intensity, change the setting, or turn it off. As you increase the intensity, red lights appear or disappear in a crescent across the controller. The controller is pretty easy and straight-forward. You can handily rest it on your chest while masturbating, changing the settings periodically with ease. The bullet itself is designed with a curve at the end to stimulate the g-spot, but it also works well for stimulating the clit. It takes two AA batteries, which are not included.

I didn’t really enjoy it inside me, regardless of the setting or intensity. It just felt like my pelvis was vibrating and I really didn’t feel like it was assisting me in any way. Most of its use has been external, against my clit. I varied my use between the tip and the wider backside of the bullet. If you’ve never used a bullet vibrator before, you should know that as you are holding the bullet, you can feel all of the vibration in your fingers. As you make the bullet vibrate more intensely, the sensation may become distracting in your fingers. Some women experience this, some women don’t or they get used to it. At first it irritated me (as it does with every new bullet I try), but eventually I got used to it.

Although I did not reach orgasm on even the highest setting, I do believe that if I were not on medication at this time, it would have been more likely to happen. Or if I wasn’t so stressed out. In other words, if your body is not giving you the silent treatment like mine is, you’d probably get more out of the Xtreme Pack. Due to the fact that this vibrator takes AA batteries, its intensity and power can only reach so high. It does not compare to a plug-in or a rechargeable vibrator. So even though it calls itself “Xtreme”, it’s really not. The Xtreme Pack is kind of in a grey area for me, a middle ground where I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either and it therefore becomes best explained with a shrug.

What you can’t see is that those lights blink like an epileptic nightmare.

Joseph

I have no problem with the concept or actual use of this product. A G-spot bullet on a long cord attached to a very easy to use control panel. It has 5 speed and 7 settings. That’s cool. It is pretty powerful for what it is and the materials are not great but they are not awful.  There is not really anything inherently wrong with this product. However….

WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE COLOR CHOICES AND THE NAME? Xtreme Pack G-spot Bullet? Seriously? What makes it xtreme (extreme even) and why is it neon green and purple. Is the target market 12 year old boys?

The confounding color choices, the name, and the fact that the package claims that this product has a “soft rubber cote” leads me to believe that  the marketing people were drunk when they approved this one. Or maybe they had been watching too many Mountain Dew commercials…

Hey Joseph, what’s a cote?

That’s a very good question. I’ll tell ya what a cote is. A small shelter for domestic animals (as sheep or pigeons). Yep. Don’t believe me? Look.

I could understand this screw up if the producer was a Japanese sex toy company. They have a notioursly hard time translating. Guess who the manufacturer is. Freaking Cal Exotics. From California.

I’ll wrap this post up with a call to action.

Why not write Cal Exotics and ask them how they managed to cover your sex toy with a soft rubber shelter for domestic animals?

The Naked Truth

Aesthetics:

Intensity: 

Volume:

Ease of Cleaning:

Functionality:

Overall:

So EXTREME they had to remove the first E from Mimi & Joseph on Vimeo.

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The times they are a-changin. At least here at Undressed. I doubt that Dylan had a sex toy review website in mind when he wrote those words, but appropriation is what makes our culture great…right?

Thinly veiled social commentary aside, we will be rolling out several changes to Undressed over the course of the next couple of months. Almost all of these changes are intended to broaden our horizons, so to speak. We aim to make a place for free discussion of anything and everything to do with sex; not just sex toys. To that end, here are some of the things we are going to try to bring to the table:

• Guest Reviews – We’ve actually already started this one (yay, Z and V) but you
should see the amount of reviewers as well as the frequency increase. If you’re
interested in being a guest reviewer, send us a request.

• Sex in the News – This will be a weekly round up of sex that we’ve seen in the news
over the past week. Media runs the full range from progressive and positive to
bigoted and disgusting. We’ll try and catch as much of the relevant stuff as we can,
but if you see something please send it along.

• How-to articles and videos – How to clean your butt plug, how to tell your parents
that you are gay, how to not tell your parents that you are gay, how to properly
service a vagina, etc. Want us to research and write a column about a topic you are
curious about? Send it along.

• Interviews – There are lots of negative forces in the world giving us stupid or
ignorant messages about sex, but there are also a slew of great ones! We hope to
get some good ole Q and A time with some of the great ones. Know of someone
worthy of being interviewed? Send us a note about them.

• Columns – These are secret for now, but we think we’ve got some that will give you
a window into some very interesting perspectives. Got an idea for a column? Send it
along.

• Dear Mimi – You know…just like Dear Abby….yeah, ok. So, you send us in your
questions and Mimi will respond to them. We hope to get one of these up every
Sunday but that is really up to you, isn’t it? Got a question? Send it along.

Exciting, right?

I hope you noticed a theme there cause I was not subtle about it at all. For this to work, we really need your help. We need you to comment, send us emails, and become active in this safe and sex-positive community that we are trying to build because let’s face it; You are the community.

So one last time. Got a question? Want to share your perspective? Send it along.

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Astroglide Shooters Anal Lubricant provided for review by Tabu Toys

Joseph

While I don’t think I would ever purchase this product, it is pretty cool. It is just like it sounds; anal lubricant packaged in such a way as to “shoot” out the lube into the colon (even though the instructions only say “apply to anal area”) in order to thoroughly lubricate both sphincters and the colon.

That’s great since those things don’t lubricate themselves and not having enough lube on them can be uncomfortable at best and dangerous at worst. Pairing a thicker lube with an applicator that makes it easier to get the lube right where it needs to be could make the anal experience much more friendly for some people. And it is a thick lube. Quite thick, actually.

Now, onto why I probably would not buy it.

• The ingredients list: Purified Water (yes!), Glycerin (OK), Hydroxyethylcellulose (wtf?), Chlorhexidine (wtf?), Gluconate (not awful), Methylaparaben (wtf), Gludono Delta Lactone (wtf?), Sodium Hydroxide (meh) — Generally I like less than that many wtfs in something that goes on or in my body.

• All the effing packaging. These things come six to a box and are all individually wrapped in plastic. Each applicator is intended for single use. That’s a lot of waste for some good ole fashioned butt sex. I’ll probably just keep putting god fearing lube on sex toys and applying it that way.

So there ya have it. Cool product, wasteful and full of chemicals. Pros and Cons, yo.

Mimi

Astroglide Shooters sound like a drink some horndog frat guy would try to make me chug at a bar. If I went to bars like that. Ever.

Drink confusion aside, it’s actually anal lubricant specifically designed to be “shot” into your ass or the ass of someone else. If you’ve engaged in anal play, you already know that lubricant can make or break the experience. If you haven’t, then I’m telling you now. Lubricant is very important – what kind you use and how it’s applied.

The Shooters lubricant itself is very thick, which is helpful in the case of anal sex because it creates more of a buffer. It’s good friction, not go-curl-up-fetal-position-in-a-corner friction. The Shooter lubricant is also long lasting without uncomfortable residue. Not once did we need to re-lube. Including warm-up. (Be amazed!)

The downside is that one Shooter actually has a bit too much lube. After God only knows how long, Joseph deemed my ass “too slippery” and had to remove the condom and switch to my vagina. Using about half as much works very effectively without sacrificing ease of play.

For reasons that I won’t get into, anal play can be very difficult for me. The first time we used the Shooter lubricant wasn’t fireworks for Joseph, per se, but it certainly made me feel like I could enjoy anal sex much more easily. And I do. It’s been fantastic.

I just wish there was a product like this that was re-usable. Maybe made of silicone that I could fill with lubricant, insert, use, and then sanitize the way I do my sex toys. It would cost more initially, but it’d be worth it. In fact, my pretentious hippie nonsense will prevent me from wanting this product in the future, after we run out. We’ll have to apply thick, long-lasting lube the old fashioned way.

Thankfully, Astroglide has that down.

The Naked Truth

Scent:

Consistency:

Longevity:

Tackiness:

Taste:

Versatility:

Overall:

It’s better in the other end.

P.S.

Here is a Hot Anal Sex drink recipe (Joseph used to be a bar tender)

Fixins:

2 oz Cranberry Juice
.5 oz Brown Creme de Cacao
.5 oz Frangelico

Directions:

Mix together with crushed ice in a glass and garnish with mint leaves

Enjoy!

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