The boyfriend and I were looking forward to checking out the Vibrating Nipple Clamps and when they arrived in the mail it wasn't more than ten minutes after they got here that I had batteries loaded into them and they were ready to go.

To say that I was disappointed would be a bit of an understatement since this toy has the unfortunate characteristic of actually detracting from the sex rather than enhancing the play.

The nipple clamps are of relatively high quality; nice and tight. The vibrators attached to each clamp provide some nice additional weight and heft to the nipple once firmly attached. The operation of the motorized vibrator, however, is another matter and I'm not sure which was more distracting, the weed whacker level noise it made or the annoying tickle that the nipple vibrator provides.

On several occasions I found myself wanting to laugh out loud - an unintended consequence of the vibrator's annoyingly ticklish action - and a consequence that one definitely does not need to experience during the throes of what should be hot and heavy sex. The boyfriend actually did find himself laughing out loud at one point during an afternoon session that was just getting interesting. After some very serious foreplay he hooked the Vibrating clamps up to my nipples and turned the unit up to high just as our next door neighbors fired up their lawnmower and the sound of the nipple vibrator's motor almost drowned out the noise from their John Deere.

Nipple play should be both a painful and pleasurable experience, and the Vibrating nipple clamps themselves provided for a nice, tight pinch - especially if you do what I did and remove the rubber tips from the alligator clamps. However, as I said previously, the vibrators attached to each clamp produced a vibrating action that's much more ticklish than erotic and, for me at least, more annoying.

With all that having been said, the motor control on the unit that increases and decreases the level of vibrations is of a fairly high quality. I found it very responsive and easy to use although once your hands get a good coating of lube on them, the plastic on the rheostat can be a bit tricky to turn up and down since it gets very slippery.

For my money I would stick with standard weighted nipple clamps and enjoy the sounds of sex that comes naturally from two people uninterrupted by the loud buzzing and annoying tickling produced by this product.