Whether you already own a cock ring or two, or you are thinking of buying one, this handy video guide will help you actually use your cock ring properly.
In what I consider a huge flaw in the Sex Toy industry, and not just the Men’s side of the market either, but the sex toy industry in general, your typical Cock Ring won’t come with instructions.
It’s like there is some unwritten rule out there – harking back to the School playground days – where Men are expected to know how to use a sex toy instinctively, because it’s to do with our willys, and we have had them since birth :/
Anyway, when you find a video like this on Youtube, and you see there are 18,000 other viewers just to this video alone, you realise that actually, not every man is born with the knowledge of how to do everything right first time.
Why Should You Wear a Cock Ring
There are two main reasons why you might want to wear a cock ring.
The first is that a cock ring, properly in place and tight around your balls, will keep you harder, longer.
The second reason is that, as a result of the first reason, your cock has a stronger and firmer appearance. Which helps with confidence, mood and everything else required for good sex.
How Does A Cock Ring Work?
Cock Ring’s work by trapping the blood that naturally flows into your penis during an erection.
Your body would normally trap this blood anyway, but the penis ring helps the muscle tighten further, letting less blood out than your body naturally would. This is additionally beneficial if you have a disfunction in this muscle which would normally allow the blood to escape more easily, keeping your penis from staying hard.
A cock ring applied properly to the base of an erect cock will help stop the blood that is keeping the penis hard from returning to the body. In this manner, the cock ring helps maintain a firmer erection.
What Types of Cock Ring are Available?
There are various different types of cock ring – from the beginners to the hardcore types.
You will notice that the cock ring’s aimed at beginners are usually pretty stretchy, made for getting on and taking off easily.
The more hardcore, metal cock rings for example, require a bit more planning and practice – a good idea for any new sex toy, especially one which you use with a partner – but in my opinion they not only look better but produce a much tighter fit that helps you last longer.
Best For Beginners
It’s hard to go wrong with the Big Daddy Cock Ring – available in a number of different colours to suit your tastes.
It’s simple, effective and very highly reviewed. Worth a look, for sure.
Another simple but very effective design is this 7 Function Vibrating Magic Cock Ring 2.0 from Lovehoney.
This cock ring features a removable, powerful bullet vibe – making the stretchy rubber ring / sleeve easy to wash without damaging the vibe, plus giving your Mrs something to play with.
The inner loop sits around your cock shaft, and the second bigger loop straddles your ball sack, making a tight, pleasing fit that’s sure to make you look good and feel even better.
If you’re unsure whether your new cock ring will fit, why not go for this pack of three BASIC Sex Toys Get Hard Cock Ring Set, featuring a size to fit all – and if you’re daring, maybe you can get more than one on 
Best For Hardcore Guys
This is the Heavy Metal Cock Ring in Medium, available at Lovehoney.
The thing with metal cock rings is you can basically forget about taking it off once your hard. And if you start freaking out at it’s tightness or whatever, you could be in for a rough ride.
Hence why I list them under the ‘hardcore’ section. I wouldn’t advise you try a metal ring until you have cut your teeth on a stretchy rubber ring.
Alternatively, whilst still looking very hardcore and coming from one of the leading brand in Men’s sex toys, you could try this Stretch to Fit Cock Ring from TitanMen.
You will definitely notice a difference in feel when using a thicker ring, and again, this makes the ‘hardcore’ list for that exact reason.
Returning to the heavy metal feel is this Tear Drop Heavy Metal Cock Ring.
The tear drop shape is probably my favourite looking cock ring to wear, but as a piece of pretty specialist engineering, unfortunately this awesome looking ring doesn’t come cheap. Being metal though, it will last forever.
And the orgasms you will have with this on blow anything else away.
Best For Couples
You might think that a cock ring would only ever really be used for couples, but some of the other cock rings in this guide can be used for solo pleasure as well.
This list focuses on those cock ring’s that are 100% designed for pleasuring your partner, but they don’t forget about you either.
You could try the Rocks Off 4 Us Vibrating Cock Ring.
Rock’s Off is a brand I have featured on SexToys4Men before. One thing worth noting is that whilst their products kick serious arse, the batteries they supply are pretty crappy, so make sure you pick up a replacement when purchasing (from Asda, Amazon or whatever) to avoid disappointment. The good news, these batteries work in all the Rocks Off products.
The vibrations you (the guy with the penis 
) get from this are a lot stronger than your partner’s clitty will receive. It’s kinda teasey, but it’s good fun all the same.
Turn your cock into a vibrating whirlygig with the Screaming O Propello Dual Stimulation Vibrating Ring.
The good news here – it’s a pretty cheeky introduction to anal stimulation for your Mrs, if that’s not something she would normally go for. You can buy this, pretending you had no idea
The only downside I see here is the requirement for two batteries, but twice the fun for all
Lastly for couples, as I already covered the 7 Speed Vibrating Cock Ring I’m not going to do so again, but you can read a more in depth review of it here.
Best For Gadget Lovers
At just £7.99, you could buy this as a sort of jokey present, a bit like a sexy stocking filler for xmas. Or perhaps something to break the ice for your first time with your new partner… on second thoughts, that’s a terrible idea.
Anyway, I love how the Sex Counter Cock Ring ambitiously goes into the tens of thousands.
There’s a really in depth review of this product over at Lovehoney, and it kinda restates the fact that this is more of a novelty item than a proper long term sex aid. Could be fun though?
Technically not so much of a cock ring as a lady-parts-vibrator that you just happen to strap your cock in too.
This gadgetty little number has touch sensors that activate the vibrator part as it rubs against her clit during sex. This makes it completely hands free, so you and your partner can get on with enjoying yourselves, rather than playing with the remote.
Unusually for a sex toy of this type, it’s pretty cheap too – at only £12.59 as I write this. Get the Pussy Arouser Vibrator cock ring at SexToys365.
However, if you are looking for a cock ring with a remote control, then the Hero Remote Control Wireless Cock Ring could very well be for you.
Again, fortunately the inventors of this cock ring had the foresight not to leave a nasty dangling wire coming from the cock ring to the remote. The vibrations are as much for you as they are for her, and as this is a relatively simple design, there’s little to go wrong.
Cheapest Cock Rings
At this price – just £1.99 – you could afford to use this BASIC Sex Toys Love Ring just once and then throw it away.
Which is actually exactly what you’re supposed to do. This is a one time use only device, with a non-rechargeable bullet vibrator built in.
Oh the huge-manatees, think of the environment!
Can you live with your cock contributing to global warming? Still, it’s proper cheap tho, innit?
Worth checking out is this alternative.
Cheap, cheerful and with bold claims of making your erection last up to 400% long, that’s an extra 45 second’s worth of rod on 
The imaginatively titled Love Ring is available at SexToys.co.uk for just £1.95 in ‘coloured’. How racist.
This is the RingO cock ring by Screaming O, at Lovehoney.
Strangely, they list three colours in the picture but I think it’s picked at random when you order. So you may end up with a colour you’re not happy with.
Still, at just £2.99 for a long lasting and effective cock ring, you can’t go too far wrong.
Most Expensive Cock Rings
When you think of expensive sex toys, you think of LELO, a company who sell Sex Toys to celebrities and the like. You know, rich people?
So it should come as no surprise to find two of the three most expensive cock rings available today are from LELO.
Oh, I should mention, they are expensive, but they are good. So like everything in life, you get what you pay for…. With one exception
This is the LELO Oden, which I believe is the most expensive ‘cock ring’ available today, at £109.99 from Lovehoney.
You might expect this to be the absolute perfect choice, if you’re rich and want the best. Not so.
Read the review, it’s problematic, and a bit like anything technological, you should probably hold on for version 2.0… or just grab the…
This is the LELO Tor.
It’s a rechargeable vibrating cock ring that features a microprocessor CPU to adapt the vibrations as you desire.
There’s 6 different vibration modes to choose from, and LELO reckon it should last you the lifespan equivalent of 10,000 disposable cock rings. Which is nice. Especially as I harped on about the environment earlier.
But with that said, are they expecting you to be handing down your cock ring as some sort of family heir loom? Can you imagine how rank it would be after 10,000 lifetimes? Blerrrghhh. Why yes, there’s your great grandads fossilized pubes :/
The Monkey Spanker Duo is the evolution of the original, highly popular Monkey Spanker.
As with these sorts of products where the company only appears to produce one item (or two in this case, the original and the ‘improved’), I can never tell if you are paying a premium because the device is good or because they need to pay for their expensive factory with just one (or two ) products.
Anyway, the Monkey Spanker is a regular feature in the adverts section of FHM and the like, so at least they aren’t keeping shy about their product.
With just one product review on the MS Duo at time of writing, it’s hard to say whether this is worth the £35.99 asking price.
Cumming Full Circle
And there we go, pretty much my ultimate guide to all things cock ring. I hope you have found this guide helpful, useful, or at the very least, mildly entertaining.
Let me know in the comments section if you have any questions, feedback, or want to share your opinion on which cock ring you think is best.
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them rocks off batterys don’t last 5 minutes proper rip off
I agree – don’t know where they get their default batteries from, but it’s almost like they have only 25% charge.
Still, the toys themselves rock – no pun intended