How to Select the Right Dildo for Anal Play
Are you a beginner to anal play, a total newbie, looking to explore some fantastic and new sensations in the bedroom? Or maybe you’re a long-time anal sex enthusiast, but anal play toys haven’t made it into your boudoir repertoire just yet. Regardless of your experience level, anal play toys can be exciting and heighten intimacy in the bedroom, allowing you to explore all-new intense stimulation with yourself or a partner.
There are so many great options for anal play toys, so to narrow down what kind of anal sex toys would be best for you, here are the top anal sex toys and how to use them for utmost satisfaction.

Dildos
Dildos come in so many different shapes and sizes, it’s easy to choose the perfect dildo for the exact sensations you are looking for. Dildos can be made out of soft materials like jelly or cyberskin, middle firmness like PVC and dual density silicone, or hard materials like stainless steel or glass. You can choose ultra smooth dildos for easy penetration or textured and ribbed dildos for added stimulation. And when it comes to aesthetic, you have all the choice in the world. You can have realistic penis-shaped dildos, super-smooth peg dildos, swirled or ribbed dildos, and they can come in any colour combination your heart (and butt) desires! Additionally, dildos often have suction cup bases which are great to keep in place during solo play.
How to use a Dildo for Anal Play: When choosing a dildo for anal, if you’re new to anal stimulation, we suggest a dildo with a tapered tip for easy insertion. If you’re new to penetration with a dildo, try a smoother dildo that one with more friction or stimulus as it might make you a little sore. The length of a dildo for anal penetration isn’t usually a big factor, as it’s up to you how far you’d like to inset it. Having a little extra length is usually easier for insertion during solo play as you don’t have to bend your knees as far.
Once you have chosen your ideal dildo, lube it up with a longlasting lubricant made for toys, and lower yourself onto it slowly. If your dildo has a curve, angle the curve towards the belly button for the most comfortable and pleasurable placement. are great for anal as they usually have wide bases to ensure they are safe for anal play.
Hot Tips! Use your dildo while performing oral sex on your partner as it will stay in place and will pleasure you while you pleasure your partner. Or during solo play, suction the dildo to a wall so you can comfortably back into it and take penetration at your own speed.
Butt Plugs
Butt plugs are amazing tools for exploring anal stimulation and the satisfying feeling of fullness, but without the back and forth penetration sensation. As a result, they can be great anal sex toys for beginners who are just starting out with anal play and are working their way up towards penetration without over-stimulation. Butt plugs can come in a wide variety of materials, shapes, and sizes for all types of stimulation, and have tapered edges that flare out into a base, so they’re fantastic for solo anal exploration that will stay in place during other types of solo play or masturbation. The tapered end allows for your sphincter to hold onto the toy, and the large base ensures you will not lose the toy and that it will stay in place.
How to use a Butt Plug for Anal Play: When choosing a plug for the first time, we recommend one that is smoother and tapered at the tip for easy insertion. We also recommend choosing one with a significant base so you can feel at ease, and for easy removal. Once you have chosen your ideal butt plug, lube it up with a long lasting lubricant made for toys, and insert it slowly into the sphincter.
If you are using butt plugs to work towards anal penetration, get a kit of multiple sized butt plugs so you can go at your own pace towards taking larger anal stimulation.
Hot Tips! Try wearing a butt plug during masturbation to intensify your orgasms. If you’re a vagina-owner try wearing them during vaginal penetration for tighter fuller sensations, usually enhancing g-spot stimulation!
Prostate Toys
Prostate toys are anal sex toys that usually have a strong significant curve to stimulate the prostate or g-spot during use. They’re usually butt plugs with a strong curve, or they’re dildos with a firm curve. They’re great beginners toys as prostate angled toys fit pretty naturally into the body to match your body’s curvature, and they’re not usually too big. Prostate sex toys are amazing for prostate-owners who are hoping to achieve stronger orgasms during play, as well as possibly hands-free orgasms. They’re also amazing anal play toys for g-spot owners as the curve of prostate toys can often hit the g-spot from the rectum.
How to use Prostate Toys for Anal Play: Select an anal plug or dildo with a significant curve and enough stiffness to keep it’s curve during use. Once you have chosen your ideal prostate toy, lube it up with a long lasting lubricant made for toys, and insert it inside yourself with the angle of the curve curled towards the belly button. The prostate and g-spot are located towards the belly-button and up, so this placement will ensure their stimulation.
Hot Tips! When playing with prostate anal play toys, try them during petrative sex for twice the sensation, whether you’re the penetrator or being penetrated. Or, try these during solo-play to see if hip gyrating prostate stimulation is enough to draw an orgasm out of you without any other type of masturbation!
Anal Beads
Anal beads are anal sex toys that are a fun way to play with anal insertion and are great for beginners or advanced players. These are usually beads of increasing size on a string and are usually made of silicone or jelly type materials. There can also be beaded anal plugs, probes, or dildos which are excellent for added stimulous.
How to use Anal Beads for Anal Play: For beginners we suggest smaller and shorter beads if possible to start. Because of the varying size you can start out for beginners, and feel assured that they are safe for anal play as you will always be able to pull them out. Once you have chosen your ideal anal beads, lube them up with a long lasting lubricant made for toys, and insert as many beads as you’d like. Beginners can feel comfortable knowing that it’s up to you to choose how many beads you’d like to insert.
Hot Tips! When playing with anal beads, use them during masturbation and pull them out during climax to intensify and elongate your orgasm.
Vibration Anal Toys
Vibration anal play toys are a way to take anal stimulation to the next level! For beginners, the vibration can help relax the muscles and adjust to anal sensations easier, and for experienced players anal vibration can help stimulate having to change your favourite shapes and materials in a toy.
How to use Vibration in Anal Play: With all of the toy options we’ve armed you with, select your favourite type of anal toy in a vibration option. We recommend choosing an option with a remote to easily change vibration intensity and speed in any position, or even better, allow a partner to control it! Once ready, lube up your vibrating anal toy and insert it. Vibration can intensify orgasms and heighten sensations during use especially as anal vibration can transmit vibrations to other parts of your body. Have fun playing with varying patterns and intensities to match your rhythms during sex or self stimulation.
Hot Tips! Use vibrating butt plugs during penetration! If you’re a penis owner, a vibrating prostate plug can turn your penis into a vibrating sex toy for your partners pleasure, or if you’re a vagina owner, vibrating butt plugs can increase sensation during vaginal penetrative sex for you and your partner! Or, wear a vibrating butt toy out in public and give your partner the remote for the ultimate fun little secret!
