Meet the smart vibrator that wants to help you get better at getting off

If you’re intrigued by the idea of suction vibrators but don’t want to go over budget, there’s the Satisfyer Pro 2. Indigo Stray Conger, LMFT, a certified sex therapist, previously recommended this popular model to SELF for its lower price, waterproof design, and intense settings. The long handle and larger buttons make it easy to use, especially for beginners.

As a grown adult, hopefully viberator, you’ve found a few favorite standbys for your personal pleasure chest. (If not, allow us to recommend some favorites.) But if you typically only use your sex toys to go alone, it’s time to expand your horizon and consider some new possibilities. As it turns out, sex toys aren’t just for solo play — they can also make partnered adventures even more enthralling. Yes, you can grab your fave vibe and bring it to the coupled mix, but there’s a whole market full of toys designed to give both you and your boo pleasure , no jealousy required. Like most sex toys, you can use many of these sensual gadgets on a variety of erogenous zones. Dr. O’Reilly explains that even if the vibrator is designed for a specific part of your pleasure system, you don’t need to limit its focus to just one area.

But the Kiiroo’s claim to fame is the way it can integrate with VR porn. If you’ve already got a VR headset and want to really bring your fantasy to fruition, this could be a great investment. Mashable reporters stay up-to-date with the best sex toys, new and old alike, as part of our extensive sex and relationships coverage, which helps us provide you with finely curated lists of our top picks for vibrators. Read more from Mashable about the Maude Vibe in our guides to the best budget sex toys and the most popular vibrators. Vibrators come in all different shapes, sizes, and though they perform the same basic function, vary quite a bit in how they get you there. Finding the best vibrator for you can be a sometimes frustrating process, but is greatly helped by having an understanding of what you’re looking for in your sex toy.

It’s a really great toy, especially when you consider how inconspicuous it is. The Strawberry Emojibator is a little bigger, and a little more complex. Shaped like a strawberry, it’s an eight vibration, eight suction setting toy that is designed to work as a vibrator or rose toy for clitorial stimulation.

This type of vibrator can be more ergonomic for people who may find it challenging to grip the base of a toy like a dildo or a wand. But in partner lovemaking, vibrators don’t replace men any more than power tools replace carpenters. On the contrary, as the studies just mentioned demonstrate, vibes add new dimensions of pleasure and satisfaction to partner lovemaking. Vibrators don’t hug, kiss, converse, tell jokes, take women out, or whisper, “I love you.” They do just one thing, deliver more intense sensation than fingers or tongues can provide.

Movies were invented in 1890, and by 1891, pornography was being filmed. During the 1920s, vibrators began showing up in stag films, which stripped the devices of their disguise and quickly made them socially unacceptable. Vibrator advertisements disappeared from the consumer media, and vibrators were hard to find well into the 1970s. That changed when feminism emerged right around the time that Hitachi introduced its Magic Wand, still the world’s most popular vibrator.