Sex & Kink: Start Here for Queer Sex Toys, Anal Play, BDSM & More

Sex & Kink is where we talk about the things mainstream lifestyle sites usually describe with the emotional range of an appliance manual.

This is the starting point for Queer In The World's guides to anal play, sex toys, masturbation, BDSM, fetish, power exchange and the wonderfully specific corners of queer sexual culture.

You do not need to know every term, own every toy or have a dungeon membership card. Pick the question you actually have and go from there.

Anal play, bottoming & prostate pleasure

• How to Choose Your First Butt Plug for size, shape, bases, lube and beginner-friendly anal play.
• Cat Tail Butt Plugs, Catboys & Why the Tail Goes There for the overlap between anal toys, pet play and character.
• Rotating Prostate Massagers and Why 360° Motion Hits Different for powered internal movement and prostate-focused design.
• Gay Sex Machines for Bottoms for automated anal play, depth, speed and positioning.
• Suction Cup Dildos and Why Hands-Free Changes Everything for mounting, positioning and hands-free penetration.

Powered toys & masturbation

• Automatic Male Masturbators Explained for strokers, suction, thrusting and hands-free devices.
• Sex Machines Explained for thrusting, positioning and what a motor changes.
• What the Fuck Is a Hammer Sex Toy? for one of the toy drawer's stranger pieces of engineering.
• What Is a Cock Ring? for fit, materials, use and safer constriction.

Fantasy, novelty & the weird shelf

• Fantasy Dildos Explained for alien, dragon, tentacle, monster and horse-inspired toys.
• Why Does the Corn Dildo Exist? for the point where novelty design becomes surprisingly functional.
• 12 Unusual Sex Toys Explained for the broader kinkier toy box.

BDSM, fetish & power exchange

• What Is Male Chastity? for cock cages, keyholding, denial and safer fit.
• What Is a Sensory Deprivation Hood? for hoods, loss of sight, communication and scene safety.
• What Is Pup Play? for pups, handlers, hoods, headspace and getting started.
• What Is Sissy Lingerie? for feminisation, submission and the distinction between kink and identity.
• Nipple Pasties, Chains & Chokers for chest styling that lives somewhere between fashion, clubwear and kink.

Queer slang & sexual culture

• What Does Throat Goat Mean? for the slang, the joke and the very specific compliment.

Browse the commercial side through Gay Sex Toys, Kink, BDSM & Fetish Gear and Gay Underwear. The guides exist to help you understand what the gear actually does before the product page starts flirting with you.