Jack’s Sack: The Doc Johnson Twink
Good day my lovely deviants, and welcome back to Jack’s Sack. Miss the last entry? You can read it here. Today, we’re talking tight twinks getting ruined. Let’s begin.
Marketing As Reality
It’s honestly insane how much a simple phrase can drastically alter your perception.
Type in “male stroker” on your preferred sex toy website, and you’ll find tons of toys shaped like vaginas. Maybe they take the Fleshlight approach, and turn them into something sleek and non-human. Function over form and all that. Type in “female adult toy”, and almost unanimously you’re going to find nothing but human-colored dildos and bullet vibes. There’s rabbits, sure.
But what if you’re gay? Trans? Lesbian? If you want to watch a shop algorithm have a fit, go looking for queer themed toys. They’re a hell of a lot more rare than their hetronormative counterparts. And yeah, you could just buy toys under those categories. Yet there’s an entire swath of the population (and thus potential customers) that absolutely would love to buy a queer inclusive toy. We are willing to give you money if you’re willing to use a thesaurus and pay your web designer slightly more.
By entrenching toys via marketing and category searches into gender binary equivalency, not only are you losing sales as a sex toy company-but it’s effectively queer erasure in order to appeal to hetronormativity. Marketing shapes perception of who that market appeals to-and thus the reality of who actually exists.
This sounds like a total galaxy-brain take, I know. But given the ongoing discussion around representation we’ve a responsibility to hold companies and communities accountable for not acknowledging our existence. In the sex toy market, it can be as little as making a new search query. Recent years have seen the rise of LGBT inclusive small-batch toy producers, but the responsibility of representation cannot and should not be the responsibility of the few. Ever.
So you can imagine my absolute and total shock when I saw a male-body styled anal stroker from, of all people, Doc Johnson! A mainstream company, on a major market front like Amazon! Holy crap. While very obviously not my first stroker, I opted to add this one to my wishlist out of sheer curiosity. It was the spectacle of it all that drew me towards this particular unit, and I’m happy to review it here for you. There aren’t a ton of items like this by Doc Johnson (or any mainstream toy producer), so we’re going to treat this slightly differently.
Of Twinks And Toys
Strokers, as mentioned, tend to come in two flavors: sci-fi or “human-ish”. At least, on the outside. In practice this doesn’t affect much more than the opening of the toy itself. Like, an “anal” stroker (sometimes called a “endurance trainer”) is going to usually have a tighter opening than a “vaginal” stroker (which is what we typically associate with Fleshlights and their clones). Ultimately however, this becomes a moot point as continued use gradually stretches the toy and accommodates it to your girth.
So why have either of these at all? Why not just make all strokers the sci-fi style without a trace of human parts? Because many people (myself included) need that little dose of realism to “sell” the experience. The feel of artificial lips parting to take me with vaginal strokers has me buck just a smidge deeper than I do with the sci-fi strokers. It’s all headgames, and it extends to the actual packaging of the toys themselves.
Doc Johnson styled this as a “twink” toy. If you follow through with that link, you can get a good look at the package. It features a thin guy in some too-tight boxers on the front. Doc Johnson could have featured anything on the front of the box, but they made a marketing choice.One they knew would cause people to pick this particular unit up.
Out of the box it features a rubberized matte finish on the shell, meaning it isn’t going to slip from your palm. There’s a magnetic platform that descends and snaps back into place once you stop applying pressure (more on that in a bit). But pop the cap off, and you’re met with two flesh-toned buttcheeks framing an anal hole. Complete with puckering. It is without a doubt one of the most detailed toys I have ever reviewed. And yes, I gave the tiny buttcheeks a smack. Because mindgames.
Mindgames perhaps are what lead to me testing the toy post workout, hot and sweaty. I was clad in nothing but a jock strap and making my way to the shower. I saw the toy sitting atop the counter, and paused a moment as I pulled back the curtain.
My brain was nothing but pumping blood to my muscles and dick.
So I grabbed my lube, and uncapped the toy.
Two things became very apparent: Doc Johnson toys out of the box are always too small for me. It takes a moment for me to work the head of my cock into them regardless of what kind of toy they are. Second, the magnetic platform I mentioned when originally describing the toy applies pressure directly to the inner sleeve, almost the entire length. By simply pressing down with my thumb the pressure increased. While this feature is by no means perfect (your grip strength doesn’t matter as you can’t fully throttle or apply pressure to anything but the platform), it was a really nice addition to an already wonderful experience.
Overall, I didn’t find much of a need for the squeeze feature/platform as I began to fuck the unit. I’m practically feral after I get done with weights and had little mercy for the thing. The chambers are all uniform save the one at the end, which is a nice open pocket to pump within. This is by no means a harsh critique-the toy felt great, and could take my entire length snugly. By the time I finally came, I didn’t want to pull out. I gave a final thrust as my balls tightened and I swore, absolutely coating the things walls.
Cleanup was very easy. Like many other strokers, simply pulling the sleeve out and using toy cleaner will work. This unit actually is a push-through, with a very generous draining hole at the bottom. I didn’t even have to flip it inside out! Apply cleaner inside the sleeve, turn warm water on and let it drain out. You’re done. Cleanup made me really appreciate the rubberized shell, as I didn’t have to worry about it slipping out of my hands.
When it comes to strokers, I’ve noticed recently that simply using the toy once isn’t enough. I’ve got to fuck it in a variety of positions to get a more thorough use-case understanding before signing off on my review. Sometimes I’m not so eager for that, but this unit was different. I fucked it laying on my back. I fucked it squeezed between some cushions. I fucked it in the shower the next morning. I very much wanted inside this thing whenever I was free, and I’m proud to report it did eventually open up readily to me.
Remember folks, gape your twinks. They’ll thank you for it.
Final Thoughts
At roughly thirty five dollars as of this writing, the Doc Johnson Twink is an anomaly in my reviews here.
That’s a very good thing.
While I wouldn’t necessarily say this is my only non-hetronormative toy, it’s by far the most outwardly marketed to gays I’ve reviewed. Thirty five dollars, considering both the build quality, cleanup ease and user experience is well worth it, and I’m incredibly happy to give this my stamp of approval.
Is it all marketing?
You know what, yeah. But it’s marketing and a quality toy to back it up. Doc Johnson put the work in and delivered, and I came buckets because of it.
-j