B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug – Sex Toy Review

What, what, in the butt?!?

Sorry, that song has been in my head pretty much from the moment this toy fell into my hands. Actually, its in my head pretty much any time I do any butt stuff. I now bequeath that ear-worm unto you. Enjoy. Never say I didn’t give you anything.

Anyway, it seems to me that up to this point there has been very little innovation when it comes to the humble yet mighty butt plug. A butt plug has just always been a butt plug. Something that could be stuck up the butt, maybe it would vibrate, maybe it had a tail, or some interesting shape or texture, but it is all pretty much the same. A hunk of metal, silicone, or plastic that gets shoved up the pooper and that’s that.

But then along comes this wunderkind, the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug. My anus quivers in delight!

Some of you may be asking “what is rimming?” If you don’t know, don’t be embarrassed, it was one of those things that my friends would snicker about in high school and I smiled and laughed along, even though I only had a very vague grasp of what this act could possibly be (in fact, I’m sure none of us actually knew what it meant, but no one was going to be the first to admit it). I knew it involved butts… somehow. Beyond that, the details were a bit fuzzy. Many years later, I now know that rimming is the oral stimulation of the anus. Or in laymen’s terms licking of the butt hole. And now that is a thing you know.

The B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug is another toy that I picked up from the Adult Novelty Expo (ANE) in Vegas. I tell ya, that place is a wonderland of sex toys, you can find just about any toy imaginable there. I ended up with an entire suitcase full of sex toys… because you know, you can never have too many. I wonder what the TSA thought of my bag as it rolled through security… “why would anyone travel with this many butt plugs?” Ahh, it gives me a good giggle just thinking about it.

Man, I’m getting off topic again. Okay, first off, the B-Vibe packaging feels pretty swanky. The outer sleeve is smooth and matte while the images are all glossy and shiny and I find the box incredibly tactilely pleasing. The inner box is a pretty shade of turquoise (which happens to match the color of the toy inside) and is very sturdy with a flip lid that latches closed WITH SCIENCE! Okay… with a pair of tiny magnets (SCIENCE!). It is the sort of packaging I’ll be keeping around to continue storing my toy in. I really appreciate sturdy packaging, square boxes stack better in my closet than a pile of oddly shaped butt plugs and dildos do. I also own the B-Vibe Triplet and the packaging for that is just as swanky, so B-Vibe’s packaging game is on point.

Once you have made it through all the fancy-schmancy outer packaging you’ll find MORE PACKAGING! Actually, it is the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug’s storage/travel case. This is a hard top plastic zippered case that can fit the plug, its remote, and the charging cable. Great for travel, but I still prefer to store the whole shebang in the sturdy box it all came in. The zippered case looks very similar to something I store makeup in, so if I were to throw this thing in my overnight bag, suitcase, or whatever I’m pretty sure the casual onlooker would have no idea this particular pouch held a butt plug, not makeup. Very discreet storage for travel or if you are one of those people who prefer to ditch the outer box in order to save space.

So how exactly does this thing work? Magic. It works via magic, probably. Or, alternatively, the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug has a handful of rotating beads encapsulated in its neck, much like the beads found in those shitty rotating rabbit vibrators, only this is SO much less shitty. Bonus, the Rimming Plug also has a separate vibrating motor located in the tip of the toy for a little extra kick.

Made from a smooth to the touch, firm, matte silicone, it would be wise to stick with something other than silicone lubes, which have the potential to ruin the toy. I recommend sticking to a thicker water-based lube, something good for anal sex like Sliquid Sassy or a hybrid lube. When it comes time for clean up, a little extra care is needed. The B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug is not waterproof or submersible, it is only splash-proof. I’ve been cleaning mine with a soapy wet rag and baby wipes… not quite as easy as dunking it in water or running it under the faucet, but I’m a big girl, I can deal. However, I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed that future models of the Rimming Butt Plug will be waterproof… I want to feel like my butt plug is actually getting a thorough cleaning!

For me, the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug wasn’t the easiest thing to insert. It seems to be a pretty wide plug, even with the tapered tip. It took quite a bit of lube and a couple of tries to get the plug in and situated comfortably. In the B-Vibe’s defense though, I am notoriously bad at actually warming myself up and I think my butt would have benefited from a quickie with a smaller plug or dildo. I actually ended up bruising my butt hole in the end, so… don’t be like me. This plug is a bigger plug, its probably not something you can/should just jam right in, be kind to your butt hole, take it slow…. warm up… buy it dinner and flowers before stuffing the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug in. Because I am an excellent sex toy reviewer and a stellar human being I just looked up the toys exact dimensions for you; the Rimming Butt Plug comes in at 6 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. Those numbers don’t seem all that big when I read them, but when I am actually holding the plug in my hand, it seems quite long and a bit chubby.

The B-Vibe plug was also a bit different from most of the plugs I’m used to in that it didn’t exactly ‘pop’ in. There doesn’t really seem to be a whole lot of size difference between the plug’s head and neck, so it felt like my butt hole never really closed tightly around the wide beaded neck. However, even with the wide neck, at no time did the plug feel like it was going to slide out and escape, once it was in, it stayed put, even when walking around the house. I know this because I started craving popcorn in the middle of testing the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug, so I decided to take a snack break and wandered butt naked, plug in place, into the kitchen to make popcorn. Don’t judge.

So, once I had the plug in I picked up the remote and started smashing buttons. Nothing happened. SMASH SMASH SMASH. Nothing. The toy was just sitting in my butt, dead in the water. I had forgot to charge it up before hand. Because I am amazing at what I do. SO…. after wrestling so hard to get the butt plug in, I had to slide it out, clean it up and plug it in. Thankfully it only takes about 2ish hours to charge the Rimming Butt Plug from dead to 100% and a couple episodes of Jane the Virgin later, I was ready for action… again. The B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug does have a nifty little battery indicator light that blinks when it is time to charge your toy, so be sure to check that to avoid any similar frustrations. While using my plug I swapped frequently through its various speeds, mostly utilizing its lower speeds and it seemed to last for about an hour and change before the indicator light started spazzing on me. So I am guessing you’ll get something like 1 1/2 to maaaaaaaaybe 2 hours (if you are exceedingly lucky) of playtime on a full battery charge. The B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug is rechargeable (duh) and charges via a magnetic ‘cap’ that rests on the bottom of the plug and plugs into a USB port. Easy enough to sort out. The magnetic hold is adequately strong, it stayed plugged in even when the table it was resting on was bumped (unlike my We-Vibe Tango that unplugs if you so much as breath on it). The remote portion of the toy runs off a funky little cr2032 battery… which is totally not a type of battery I ever have on hand, so heaven help me when it finally goes dead.

You have two options when it comes to operating the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug, you can use the button at the base of the plug, press it once to turn the toy on then press it again to start the vibrations. Continuing to press the button will increase the speed and once you have cycled through its constant speed settings pushing the button will cycle through the patterns. When controlling the toy solely with the button on the base you are unable to change the intensity of the toy while using the patterns, you are stuck using the top speed on everything. You will also not be able to use either the rotation or the vibration separately when using the only the base for control. But if you like it fast and you want everything at once, it is a great ‘quickie’ option.

Now, an arguably easier way to control the plug is via its included remote. First press the button on the base of the plug once, it should start flashing, next press the power button on the remote and the plug should spring to life. If you want to increase or decrease the intensity simply press the (+) and (-) buttons. The wavy looking button at the top of the remote will change the vibration patterns, press it to cycle through the various patterns. Press and hold the button down if you wish to turn off the vibrations while leaving the bead rotation on. The circle button near the bottom of the remote controls the plugs rotation. There is only one rotation setting (no patterns) so continuing to press the button doesn’t really do anything, but keep pressing if it makes you feel good, I won’t stop you. If you want to turn of the rotation and just enjoy the vibration, just hold down that button until the rotating turns off. Typing it out makes it all sound a lot more complicated than it really is. By my count there the Rimming Butt Plug is programmed with 6 vibration patterns and 6 intensity levels. However, unless I am missing something, you can not control the intensity level of the vibration and the rotation separately, which is too bad… that is a feature I would totally enjoy. The B-Vibe packaging claims the remote works up to 30 feet away, now I don’t know if it was exactly 30 feet but I can confirm it does work at quite a distance. I put the plug at one end of the hallway and walked down to the other end and I was able to cycle through the various settings, so it does have pretty impressive range. Something else worth noting about the remote is when you first remove it from the packaging you will need to open the back of the remote up and remove the little bit of plastic from underneath the battery, otherwise your remote will not work and you may throw an internal hissy fit about having a broken toy. I know from experience.

When inserted, the plug left me feeling pretty full. It is a big plug… maybe not Njoy Pure Plug 2.0 big, but there is some girth on this puppy. It was a pretty tight squeeze for me to insert anything substantial into my vagina while using this plug, most of my beloved Tantus dildos were to wide to squeeze in along side the plug. I didn’t even bother trying to have sex with a live human penis, I just couldn’t bare the possibility of disappointment. It wasn’t just that the plug itself is rather girthy, but the base of the plug is quite large and when positioned with the base laying vertically between my cheeks (which I found to be the most comfortable way) it kind of blocked access to my vagina. But, every body is different, so this may not be a problem for everyone, but is worth the mention. Thankfully, there is enough going on with the toy that it is perfectly fun and enjoyable for me to use it sans vagina penitration and still achieve orgasm (with a little help from my clit).

But I’m sure what you really want to know is “how does it feel?” It feels weird. And great. And bizarre. And awesome. And a little bit confusing. It gives me all of those feels all at the same time. It is a totally new sensation for my butt to be getting from a plug and I like it. I totally recommend starting the plug on its lowest rotational setting, because the slower the beads rotate the more pronounced the rimming sensation is. At first I went whole hog and had both the vibration and the rimming beads going full tilt, but it became too much and the sensations were confusing and my brain and butt didn’t know where to focus, so I turned off the vibration and backed the rotation speed down and really spent time enjoying just that. It was nice. I’m not 100% sure I would compare it exactly to what rimming feels like, but I don’t really have anything else to compare it with… it feels… rimming-esque? Deconstructed rimming? A subtle hint of rimming? Something like that. I mean… really it feels like tiny marbles tickling my anus… but there is something good about that.

The vibrations fall on the somewhat more buzzy end of the Kitten-vibration-enjoyment spectrum, they aren’t bad… but they don’t really knock my socks off and make me scream “wow”. If I am to turn off the rotation feature and just use the vibrations, the plug is nothing special, the vibrations and included patterns don’t really stand out in anyway, it just becomes your basic vibrating butt plug.

Once I got used to the rotation sensation I used both the vibrator and the rotator in tandem and it was pretty heavenly. My only real gripe is that I wish I could keep the rotation intensity low but the vibration intensity high. Instead I have to settle for one of the more medium speeds, too high and I lose out on the rotation sensation and everything just feels like its vibrating. Actually, I have a second gripe… like I said before, it is buzzy and I wish it was less so. I really wish it had the depth and rumble of a We-Vibe toy… my panties are wet just thinking about how orgasmic the combo of rotating beads and We-Vibe rumble would be…

Over all I think this a neat toy. If you are looking for a butt plug that does something new and want to try something different the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug is worth a shot. I think it is kind of fun, I like finding a toy that utilizes the whole rotating beads thing while also being made from a body safe material (unlike those nasty rotating jelly rabbits, booo, hissss) and I like that it is a butt plug and not a rabbit. It is quirky, I enjoy the whole concept! If size is an issue for you, I’m not sure how you will feel about this plug… personally, I don’t think it is a completely unreasonable or unmanageable size (especially it you warm up first)… but it is substantial. You’ll have to make your own grown-up decision there, I don’t know your body (but I’d like to… wink-wink, nudge-nudge, bow-chika-wow-wow). The B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug is currently available in two colors teal (which is pictured in this review) and black. The remote will be colored to match your chosen butt plug but the storage case will always be teal.

Excited to try the B-Vibe Rimming Butt Plug for yourself? You can pick one up at one of my favorite online retailers: Luvoqa, Lovehoney, Peepshow Toys or Good Vibrations!