When the package arrived I was rather excited for my first masturbator sleeve. I've never had one before so I was anxious to try out one. Sadly my reviewer rating led me to this. Hopefully I'll be able to get a Fleshlight one of these days.

The box is rectangular, white with Japanese text all over it. There's a bit of English on it, but nothing that would be useful. The pictures on the box show the sleeve with a part cut off, so you can see inside. The design is distinctly Japanese, you'd know it even if it was on an English product.

Opening the box, the sleeve came inside some plastic packaging. It slid out easily once tilted upside down. Included in this package was some "warm up gel" which I'll talk about a little later in the review. I personally discarded the plastic wrapping, but kept the box, you'll see why later.

The sleeve had a slight smell of something, I can only describe it as the same smell that comes from sticky hands out of those twenty-five cent crank machines in malls. The texture is just about the same, maybe a little softer on the inside and not as sticky or as sheer. Meaning it glides easy, with some effort. The outside is more sheer, which makes for easier gripping.

The gel included was a good bit of fun, extremely slippery with the consistency of semen, maybe a tad less thick. It did a good job of getting me ready for the sleeve. The sleeve slid on easy with both the gel and spit and water - without some sort of lubrication it's rather hard and painful. Once inside the product was accommodating, easily stretching and expanding for me. Lengthwise I wasn't filling it: a small part of it was unoccupied.

I wasn't sure at first whether I enjoyed the product or not, but now I know I didn't. When you get going, the sleeve starts to build suction and eventually hugs you a bit tighter then normal. This leads to the insides grinding against the head of your penis. This is a bit of pleasure and pain, sort of a sensory overload if you would. I found it annoying, so annoying I couldn't even get off with it when I started picking up speed, it hurt too much.

Cleaning the sleeve is a bit of a chore. Have your kids or yourself ever got dirt on those sticky hands? Not very easy to get hair or dirt or dust off them. I cleaned the sleeve by running steaming water over the outside, then turning it inside out and cleaning it that way. However there are still things that stick to it, without picking all of them off yourself you won't get it clean. I recommend storing it in its box.