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Back in the day, I used to get annoyed with sex toy companies who were obsessed with making their vibrators ‘cute’. I was pissed off with the assumption that I wouldn’t have a wank unless someone had completely desexualised a dildo by slapping a rabbit on the front of it. Or a dolphin. Or Hello Kitty. I think I was mostly annoyed because this masturbatory menagerie only seemed to gather around toys aimed at women: I’ve never seen Fleshlight slap an adorable squirrel or a pair of googly eyes onto one of their dick sheaths. You can read my 12-year-old cute sex toys rant here if you like, but only if you remember that I had a lot of anger back then, was wildly cisnormative, and on balance almost certainly wrong. Because today I am here to sing the praises of a sex toy that is a) capable of delivering some very impressive wanks and b) undeniably cute as all fuck. Allow me to introduce the Doxy Go.

Image taken by me, sorry

Doxy makes the best wands. There, I said it. You’re mature enough to recognise that this is only one woman’s opinion, but also probably perceptive enough to realise that I’m also a champion wanker: I wouldn’t tell you something was good unless it could withstand the eager, brutal pasting that I regularly give my own clit. Doxy sponsors my website and has done for many years, they send me toys for free so I can write them up here, which means I’m in a privileged position in that I basically own almost all of them.

I reviewed the Doxy Original back in 2014, and since then I have also written odes to the Doxy Number 3 (plus attachments), the Skittle (now known as the Don), these incredible Doxy butt plugs, and this gorgeous (and effective-as-fuck) brushed metal bullet vibe. Guest bloggers have tackled the Doxy Die Cast because frankly I feel like I need to share the ‘free awesome sex toy’ love around a bit. All this to say, I have many Doxy products, and not only do I think Doxy is always a solid bet if you’re after a quality wand toy, I also think it’s important to my personal brand to own every single one.

Unfortunately, their toys are very consistent when it comes to power and I pretty much love them all, so when I ‘review’ them I often struggle to think of what to say beyond ‘this one absolutely fucks, you should buy it.’

The Doxy Go

This toy absolutely fucks, you should buy it.

OK, gotta write more than that. Naturally, when a toy company comes out with a version of their classic that’s smaller (AND MUCH CUTER), the key concern is whether or not it will live up to the same power promises as the bigger version. The Doxy Go obviously doesn’t do that, because in order to get a proper VROOM of Doxy power, you need one of the meatier wands. Something hefty, which you could conceivably use to defend your neighbours against ICE agents. For this I’d recommend either the original Doxy or the Doxy Die Cast.

But the Doxy Go is designed for an entirely different purpose: it’s portable. Easy to carry. Quieter than the average wand. So we should not compare its power to the big Doxys, rather we should compare it to the average bullet vibe: that’s the dinky, cute little gap in the market that the Doxy Go is designed to fill, and honestly it fills it very well.

The power on this toy, for one that is so teeny and rechargeable, is hefty as fuck. And although the head is smaller and the weight much lighter, the sensations it delivers are still far more at the ‘rumble’ end of the spectrum rather than the ‘buzz’. What’s more, when I compare it to one of my favourite bullet vibes (the Hot Octopuss Amo, fact-fans) the difference seems to be mostly about targeted rather than broad stimulation. Amo, like Doxy, is a very rumbly vibe, which is why I love it, and the shape it has allows for precision targeting of the section of my clit that’s most sensitive.

I’m given to understand that most people who have clits have a dominant side: one side which is more responsive to sensation compared to the other. As with all body-related things, your mileage may vary, but I definitely have a dominant side so when I’m using a toy with precision targeting usually I’ll direct it to the left.

The Doxy Go, though, is so broad that not only do I not need to target the sensation so much, I actively enjoyed using it in a different way to how I’d use precision toys like Amo (or Zumio, or the Doxy bullet itself, come to that). Instead of just holding it against the left side of my clit and pressing there until I made embarrassing noises, instead I found myself circling my clit with it, trailing it around and down my vulva a bit, and even pressing the Doxy Go itself against the shaft of the dildo that I was using at the same time.

Rumble with range

Doxy vibrations don’t just rumble, they travel. That’s why when some people wank with a Doxy they use a barrier between them and the toy (a towel, knickers, jeans) because the rumbles are so powerful and they travel through your body, it’s occasionally a little too much for more sensitive clits to handle.

This obviously isn’t the case for me, because I have given my genitals such punishment over the years that my vulva is basically rhino hide by now, but the point stands. The Doxy Go delivers intense, rumbly vibrations that travel deep beneath the surface rather than just buzzing lightly on the epidermis and leaving you grinding hard against it because you need that little bit more.

My one tiny complaint about the Doxy Go is that it isn’t an exact copy of the larger wands, because the controls work differently. This confused me initially, because my muscle memory is so strong when it comes to Doxy that I instinctively pressed and held the power button to start it off in ‘pulse’ mode. You don’t do that with the Go, though, you press the power button and then click it to cycle through patterns and pulses. It does have a wider variety of patterns than my OG Doxy though, and exploring these was pretty fun. Plus, this tiny complaint is probably only a problem for people like me who are used to wanking with an OG Doxy roughly seven billion times per year.

It even comes with a cute little storage bag that I have already lost by the time of writing this post

We probably do have to talk about how cute it is

Maybe I’m ovulating or something, but honestly I cannot get over how adorable this dinky little toy is. Fuck my past self, she was a bellend. Although I stand by my general irritation at people slapping cute animals onto vibrators because they believe that all vibes are used by women and women must be tricked into wanking with fluffy rabbits and whatnot, I can actually really get behind how adorable this mini Doxy is. There is something pleasingly dollhouse-miniature about this perfect copy of a metal Doxy Die Cast that fits neatly in the palm of your hand.

Just look at it! Fuck yeah. I worry that Doxy might be cannibalising their own sales by releasing it, because they already have an exceptional bullet vibe on the market, but having pondered this (and wanked on it a few times), I think there are two key distinctions between the bullet and the Go:

1. The bullet is much better for precision stimulation, where the Doxy Go gives broader rumbles.
2. The bullet is slick and cool, a toy you’d want to pull out of your slut kit to impress some aloof cyberpunk-looking hottie, whereas the Doxy Go is cute like you want to show it off at a party to impress your Doxy-loving friends, who will all crowd around and squeal a little about the adorability of this teeny fucktoy.

Want to buy one for yourself? You can even stick googly eyes on it if you like, I won’t tell anyone.

• Buy the Doxy Go for £59.99 direct from Doxy, and use the code GOTN15 for 15% off and free shipping (in most countries).
• If you’re more of a bullet/cyberpunk/precision kinda person, grab the Doxy bullet for £49.99 (and use the code GOTN15 for blah blah etc you know the drill)
• If you’d prefer some butt plugs or one of the bigger wands, the code works for those too, and keep an eye out here for my upcoming drooling write-up of the fact that you can now customise your own Doxy and get one that’s specific and personal to you. Only for the biggest Doxy fans. When mine arrived and I unboxed it, I almost came in my pants.