I really wanted to like this toy. I long for a rabbit vibe, but so many are either way too big for me or are made of materials I'm uncomfortable putting inside me. So this seemed like a good substitution, being plastic and flexible in usage. Alas, when it arrived and I tried it out, the magic just didn't happen.

The Passion Double Play is pretty straightforward in design. You have a simple, smooth plastic vibrator attached to a bullet by a "telephone-style" cord. The whole ensemble operates on a simple turn-dial base, requiring two AA batteries to get going. The vibrations themselves are moderately powerful for a plastic vibe. You can use any lube, and it can easily be cleaned with soap and water or a toy cleaner.

Really, the whole design seems quite ingenious at first glance. The real trouble is that there's no way to control the bullet and the main vibe individually. Both run at equal speed and power, and this is why I just didn't get much out of it. I find that, when using a vaginal and a clitoral vibe together, I have the best experience if the clitoral vibrations are stronger than the vaginal, or sometimes vice versa. With both of these being equal in strength on this toy, and with no way to change things up, I end up with a numbing sensation that left me bored and staring off at the ceiling, trying to see if I could find any smudges that might be up there without my glasses on. I even attempted the reverse, using the bullet vaginally and the main vibe on my clit. This worked out a bit better, being able to give my clit more direct pressure, but it wasn't anything amazing. Individually, these pieces work fine, but it kind of defeats the purpose of the toy and leaves you with the other end either numbing your hand or buzzing around on the bed next to you (or, in my case, rattling loudly on the bathtub floor). It is possible to stretch the bullet up to your nipples while the other end is inside you, but it's definitely a stretch. I'm not a tall lady, and using it like this stretched the cord as far as it would go. Really, using the main vibe clitorally and the bullet on my nipples worked out the best, but nipple play only goes so far with me (I'm more of an all-breast girl, to be honest).

If you're not like me and don't mind having equal vibrations from both directions, you might enjoy this toy a lot more. If you need the variation, though, I'd say skip it.

And now, something even less pleasant: my toy may be defective or broken, or maybe nothing's wrong at all and I'm just being overly cautious, but I've only been able to give this toy one or two tries. The last time I went to use it, to see if my opinion changed at all, I turned it on to hear something inside crackling rather alarmingly. It's not a noise it made originally, and I've never heard any other vibe make this sound. It's not very loud, but it's noticeable enough that, after fiddling with it a few more times to see if it was a fluke, I removed the batteries and deposited it in my "Box of Shame"-- the place where my broken or unlovable toys go. I've put batteries back in once or twice since then just to see what happened, but it still crackles.

I'm loathe to return anything unless I've spent a buttload of money on it, so I still have my Passion Double Play despite it's crackle-cackle. It serves as a sad reminder of how sometimes your high hopes will ultimately fall flat.

I put batteries in the Passion Double Play one last time and switched it on, but it still made that odd sound, so I threw it away with some other duds and broken toys that I'd kept sitting around. It's such a shame. I wanted to give it a few more tries, just to see if I might have been able to find some way to enjoy it, but I was too afraid to use it again. Toys shouldn't "crackle."