The Vibrating Cinch Ring by California Exotic represents a pretty good idea. The overall concept is good. Take a stretchy lasso style cock ring and put a small (2) watch battery vibrator on top of it to provide vibration for your partner. They even give you four batteries, so you don’t need to make a battery run before starting to use it. The ring is made out of thermo-plastic rubber (TPR) which is a very stretchy material. The TPR material makes the ring easy to put on and comfortable while in place. Since it is lasso style, the ring is also easy to adjust and remove. The stretchiness of the material also means that there is not anything to hold the end of the lasso in place well. This is where the concept fails.

Following a completely failed experience with this ring, a re-design may be necessary. The main problem has to do with the hole that is holding the end of the lasso. It is so stretchy that it just can’t hold against any amount of movement. The entire ring was cast aside after trying to keep it in place four different times. Maybe if there was a second hole next to the first one the end of the lasso could be pulled through one hole and then tucked through the other hole. This would make putting it on, taking it off, and adjusting it more difficult, but at least it might stay in place better. Another solution might be to have a plastic core inside the piece with the hole so that the hole would hold its shape.

Regardless of the best way to re-design this toy, this toy does provide decent vibration with a high-pitched whine. If it would stay in place better, it might be possible to get the vibration in the right spot. The vibrator is easy to remove for cleaning. The ring material is better than jelly, but not as good as silicone. It can’t be sterilized, so no sharing. It’s okay to use any lube except petroleum based, so that’s nice as well. The only real regret is that there wasn't really a way to get the concept to work.

After my partner and I were playing and she had already worked my cock up to a pretty erect state, I put the Vibrating Cinch Ring on and turned it on. It came loose almost immediately. I put it back on and she proceeded to give me a blow job and said that it was interesting feeling my penis vibrating slightly inside her mouth. Once I was nice and hard, I asked her to climb on top for a classic cowgirl position. She said that that the vibration was pretty close to where it needed to be. We re-positioned a little and found that the ring had already slipped loose. I put it back on, we re-positioned again and it came loose again. By this time we were both pretty frustrated with it and tossed it aside to continue our session. It’s too bad because we were hoping for more.