My wife and I have never been much for the glass toys, both because they tended to be more expensive than their plastic counterparts and because we were not the kind of people who worried about how pretty our sex toys were. We live in the prudent South, and if our neighbors caught wind we were showing off our sex toys like they were centerpieces at dinner . . . well, let’s just say it wouldn’t be a good idea.

Although this vibrator is glass, it has had a texture added to it that makes it much more similar to a hard plastic, one that has been roughened to give it a bit more oomph. In all honestly, the toy has been textured to the point that it no longer feels like a glass toy at all. The tip is tapered and bent at an angle, kind of the way you’d imagine it would come out has someone just pulled it molten from a larger rod and let it cool in its natural form. It has 3 speeds of vibration cycled by a single button on the end, ranging from mostly gentle to more powerful. It runs off AA batteries, which you know I’m a huge stickler for.

Though the Glee is a g-spot vibrator, my wife is almost exclusively a clit orgasm girl. We did attempt a few sessions trying to use it in its natural habitat, where it performed admirably in finding and stimulating where it needed to. When used as a clit vibrator, which is where we were more comfortable, it had a strong enough buzz and was solid enough to be pressed into her clit with a good amount if force. The size, however, was a bit too unwieldy when compared to other vibrators, which made it difficult to position and hold in one place.

I believe the main problem with this vibrator is that it’s trying to be too many things at once. It’s a glass toy, but it’s textured to not really be a glass toy. It’s bigger to accommodate more power and batteries, but it’s bigger than other vibrators which are easier to maneuver. It tries so hard to please every demographic that it becomes lost in the endless stream of toys available. If I named my toys, this one would be named “Salieri,” a vibrator that would attempt to kill off my more popular vibrators and steal their motors, if in fact vibrators had opposable thumbs.

If you want a glass toy, go buy a more glassy glass toy. If you want a vibrator, go buy a more traditional vibrator. I cannot recommend using this toy unless you’re so pressed for storage space that you can’t house two vibrators at the same time.