HotKinkyJo Bulge Ball & Traffic Cone

Vendor: Mr Hankey’s Toys

When I review anal toys, they are usually elaborately shaped and delicately textured silicone sculptures. Their complex designs are the result of extensive research and frankly trail and error until the toy stimulates the nerve ending rich body regions like the anus and the prostate both inside the rectum and outside on the perineum just RIGHT. But as fun as these toys are, they come with two challenges:

1. The more textured and rugged a toy is, the harder it is to take. Even in smaller versions which size are close to an average dick, it takes considerably time, pre-stretching and training to take these toys stress- or worse pain free.
2. In order to get the maximum stimulation out of a toy, it needs to his the fun knobs in the nether regions just right. So when playing with complex toys, it takes some dexterity or even a second player to twist the toys just RIGHT when inserting it.

Because of this, I sometimes get questions asking for reviews of simple, matter of fact toys. And here are two of them! This will be a relatively short review, because their focussed simplicity limits what can be said about them.

Construction

Like most toy manufacturer founded in the middle of the last decade, Mr Hankey’s Toys only makes toys out of platinum silicone due to the manufacturing process. Previously, most anal toys were made out of rubber and PVC. In order to get an acceptable avarage cost degression, they had to be made in large numbers on an industrial scale. So there were high entry barriers into the market. With platinum silicone toys, once you have made the mold, each toys needs to be pured by hand. This of courses increases the price because every toys has to be made individually. But this opened the market for what silicone toys are famous for: That each toy can be customized.

Silicone toys quickly became famous their beautiful coloration. The material easily takes on color pigmants which can also have special effects like glow in the dark or being UV active. It also allows for elaborate coloration patterns like the marbles MHT offers for $39.95. Another customizing option MHT offers is adding a vac-u-lock hole to connect their toys to a wide range of accessories like grips and fuck machines or giving the top in front of your hole an anchoring point for his thumb to control the toy more easily. For just $5.95 it is a small premium I always advice spending! It makes handling the toy so much easier.

While PVC and rubber ususally are quite firm, platinum silicone comes in a wide range of firmness degrees from too soft to use to very firm. From this range MHT currently offers four degrees: 40% which according to their website is about 40% erectness of a human penis. Despite the trend towards softer toys, I can only recommend this for really girthy toys (especially knotty) and not too long toys. Otherwise the toy gets too hard to handle and flop around. Though it could work for the Bulge Ball when you use it with a partner. Accordingly 75% is firm like a ¾ firm dick and the sweet spot between ergonomics and if you like a soft and gentle massage. Med Firmness should be as hard as a fully erect dick (though I have been fucked by harder ones, believe me…) which makes all texture more noticeable and the toy less bendy which is important when you want to take it deep! Last year MHT added an Extra Firm option which is good if you want to put pressure on the prostate for milking.

If these arguments did not convince you to pay the premium for the more expensive material and manufacturing of silicone toys, hopefully this will: Both PVC and rubber emit plasticizers which for example can fuck with your hormones or be carcinogenic and are greedly absorbed directly into your bloodstream through your rectum’s mucosal. Platinum silicone on the other hand is a 100% body safe (silicone can also be cured with lead which is of course cheaper but introduces heavy metals into your body which causes a number of other issues!). Furthermore, its surface is supersmooth which not only makes it harder to bacteria to linger but also makes it easier for the toy to glide in – unlike the porous surface of PVC and rubber. Cleaning is equally easy as taking the toy: Throw them in warm soap water (I usually take a relaxing bath with my toys after a long play session), rub the lube away, rinse the soap water off and spray sanitizer on the toy. This easy cleaning makes silicone toys the perfect tools for group settings where multiple partners want to use the same toys after each others.

Silicone has one small (?) drawback: It must not be used with silicone lube. The silicone oil inside the lube solvates the surface, makes it sticky and will disintegrate the toy over time. In order to enjoy your high quality toys as long as possible, please stick to water or oil based lubes.

Playing with Traffic Cone

I often get questions about cone shape toys like the Traffic Cone if this shape is not the perfect toy to the anus because it gradually gets bigger. Technically yes. If you sit on a cone for an extended period of time, the pressure will open the anus over time. It is not a smooth relaxation but a mechanical forcing open and the anus giving in more and more over time. This of course carries the risk of tears  and other injuries.

Practially, no. Physically, the anus is not round but oval. So if you want to smooth your anus and train it to open up, a toy with a slightly oval intersection that you push in aligned with the anus and pull it out 90° turned is better. The training is also more effective if there is a stretch going in and out for what you need a plug with a neck. Speaking of plugs, there is also a large psychological moment when training your ass. When you have worked for weeks trying to take a pugs and your anus finally swallows the apex to close around the neck, you get a dopamine boost through the sense of accomplishment. You can literally feel that you have taken the plug. With the Traffic Cone there is little indication of progression. There are slightly recessed hexagonal textured bands which divide the cone in sections. But the texture is so shallow and light that you hardly notice them, especially when your anus is straining.

So, for whom is the Traffic Cone? There is a small subgroup in the anal stretching community who just like the feeling of their anus being dilated to the max. For them, this toy provides the best stretch for their buck. When I first posted pics of the Traffic Cone, I immediately got questions where the toy was from because sitting on a traffic cone was one of their fetishes. There are also a number of porn creator videos featuring this toys which got many likes and positive comments. So there is a very niche fetish market for the toy.

But for the average anal afficionade, for people who want to train their hole, there are dozens of more fun toys reviewed here.

One use of the Traffic Cone should not be overlooked: It is functional playroom decoration. The base has “Caution: Open Hole” embossed on its side. Especially in effect colors like glow in the dark of UV active, the Traffic Cone sets the mood. And if someone wants to pig out on a traffic cone, unlike the real deal made out of plastic with its sharp edges, it is ready to use.

Playing with HotKinkyJo Bulge Ball

As the name says, this toy was designed together with the female extreme anal stare HotKinkyJo who to probably nobody’s surprise I have never heard before getting this toy.

The toy is made out of slightly compressed spheres stacked upon each other. The spheres always have a diameter of 70,m but depending on the toy size you get between 4 (20cm insertable length) and 7 (34cm insertable length) of them. The neck where two spheres meet has a diameter of 52mm. The spheres are very slightly textured with the line drawings found on basket balls. But like on the traffic cone, the texture is almost unnoticeable and does not make taking the toy more difficult.

Depending in the chosen firmness, the Bulge Ball behave differently. Mine are in 75% which is soft enough for the toy to bend between the balls but the toy stands up right. In this configuration, it works a bit like anal beads with a series of stretching & opening and closing again. The toy can also curl a bit inside the rectum like beads do so if you are trained and your rectum is large, you will probably be able to take surprisingly much of this toy without having to go deep. Since the stretching is one of the most desired sensations in anal play and because the Bulge Balls are stiff enough to be controlled easily, you can really ride or punch with this toy, driving the bottom into bliss.

A friend has ordered his Bulge Ball in Extra Firm but went for the short 4 balls version. With tip being rather flat and dull, a loose and experienced hole is required. Once inside the body, the balls apply pressure onto the prostate. The space between the apexes is large enough to catch the prostate between them. Because of this, with a bit of practice, the Bulge Ball can be used for prostate milking.

Where to buy?

MHT has some retailers. But with highly particular toys like these two niche toys, I recommend ordering from their website and customizing it to your exact preferences.