I went out searching for ben-wa balls because my boyfriend and I learned about them on a TV show. It was said to work out your vagina to make it tight and strong. I've always done kegels so my vagina has got some power to it already, but I wanted to see if there was a big difference using the balls.

I found these at my local toyshop where they were much pricier than here on Eden. The set comes in a nice box with a bag to store the balls in. There are two rubbery black silicone bits, one that holds one ball and another that holds two. They're stretchy so you can get the balls in and out with a string to help you pull it out of your vagina. The set comes with four balls with dots indicating how much weight they have - the lightest has one dot, the heaviest has four.

The instructions say to start with the lightest ball and work your way up but I was ambitious and started with the second ball. I had to take the lightest ball out of the stretchy black enclosure and it was very difficult - harder than I expected but at least they don't fall out easily. The next ball was extremely hard to put back in and I couldn't get it in straight. That might not make sense until you try it, but there are only two ways the balls fit perfectly - you can still use them if you don't get it straight but then vagina juices tend to seep under the black material. Basically, it's more to clean later.

When the balls are in you have to do kegel exercises. The balls are small enough that it doesn't feel uncomfortable in the vagina - in fact, if I left it in I could forget it was there. You can definitely feel the weight of the balls and I was worried that they would fall out at first, but that didn't happen at all.

After I used them for a few days, I can definitely tell that my vagina was a little tighter and now it definitely can hold stronger. My boyfriend hasn't said anything about my vagina, though recently I clenched hard and entirely pushed his penis out of me. So that's something!