Holy cow, I cleaned out my inbox and realized I have over fifty emails from Tiny Nibbles readers I have not responded to — I’m sorry! Get the paddle. I promise that soon I’ll lock myself in my office with a few delicious inebriants and my digital camera, and won’t come out until responses are sent. Until then, some questions take precedence — this one, for example:

> In a review of an adult film in an earlier book you
> mentioned that anal use
> of an egg shaped vibrator was an "unsafe practice".
> Why is that?

Hi (name withheld), this is an excellent question, and my apologies for taking so long to reply.
While the egg vibe (sometimes also called a bullet vibe) looks like a terrific butt toy, it’s actually one of the most common toys people go to the ER for. The bullet/egg is small and has a nice variable vibration to it, and the cord attached is a slim wire, so people who want vibration and are afraid of sphincter discomfort (read: pain) think it’s a great idea. Trouble is, these vibes, like almost every vibe out there, are "novelties" that are cheaply and poorly made. The way you’d remove a bullet/egg vibe from your anus would be to pull on the cord (like a tampon). And these things are so cheap, a few strong yanks on the cord and the cord comes out — leaving the egg vibe inside. What then? You can try to make it come out — beieve it or not, you can call SFSI and they will talk you through it, though understand that in all likelihood you will have to go to the hospital to have the cheap-ass toy stuck in your ass removed by an intern. (I have interviewed a few of these interns, and entertained myself at the Good Vibes store by tugging on the bullet/egg vibe cords and watching how easily they come unattached.)

One solution is to slide the vibe into a condom, then insert, and pull it out by the condom. Just know that condoms can break on rare occasions, and oils of any kind will make condoms break *every* time. Another solution is simply to buy a slim vibrating toy made specifically for anal use, or to use something slim and highly pleaurable like the Aneros — because of its hard material, holding a vibrator against the toy will transmit the vibration nicely.

Thanks for your email — in future editions I’ll make sure I include this detailed information as a sidebar.
Best wishes,
Violet