Review: Lovense Spinel

The Lovense Spinel has it all. This sex toy is actually a mini sex machine, and it had me oohing, aahing, and thanking my lucky stars that my job involves reviewing sex gadgets.

It’s not just about the multiple attachments—one for G-spot stimulation, one for clitoral stimulation, and a vibrating dildo long enough to reach the anterior fornix erogenous zone (A-spot). Its suction cup allows it to be used on a variety of surfaces. It even heats up to body temperature, making it feel like the real deal. In other words, if you love penetration, the Spinel is the whole kit and caboodle.

Extremely Powerful

I have never encountered a toy like the Spinel. It's crazy powerful, so much so that when you turn it on—before inserting it inside you—it’s intimidating. Each of the three attachments has a stimulation role to fill, and they take that job very seriously. The straight dildo, with a 5.29-inch insertable shaft, not only heats from 103.1 degrees Fahrenheit to 109.2 degrees during use, but it will literally take you to pound town, if that’s someplace you’d like to visit. It can go from 395 thrusts a minute to 1,460 when you activate turbo mode by holding down the button.

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It made the experience very realistic to my needs: start slow, work my way up, then, if I’m feeling it, go for turbo. Admittedly, when you have the Spinel on turbo, you’re likely to have flashbacks to when Carrie Bradshaw was subjected to such aggressive jack rabbit sex that she couldn’t stand up straight at Charlotte’s wedding. However, because the vaginal muscles create resistance when it’s inside, turbo mode was quite pleasurable, especially because I used a lot of lube. You absolutely want to lube up for Spinel.

What’s also great about this dildo is that you can slide on the clitoral stimulator, so while you’re enjoying proper thrusting, at the speed and intensity you like—there are three levels and four patterns—your clitoris is also getting its fair share of stimulation.

When you’re ready to swap out the heating dildo with its epic amount of thrusts per minute, you can then move on to the G-spot attachment. While some internal arms have a slight curve to stimulate the G-spot, this one has a far-reaching, deep curve to it, meaning if you’ve struggled to find your G-spot in the past, you can’t miss it with this attachment. You can also slide on the clitoral stimulator here, too, if you’re in the mood to hopefully score a blended orgasm.

Like all Lovense products, the Spinel comes with an app that isn't difficult to use, but with all the options, including speed, intensity, and temperature, it became a little project to explore the different features each time I opened it. I don't often use a sex toy's app all that much, but for this toy, it makes sense. It would be uncomfortable to control it entirely by hand, so the app feels necessary. Just be prepared to take some time to learn how it all works.

Not a Quick Romp

The Spinel takes time to put together, figure out, and decide on not just attachments, but how you want to use them. It can be a handheld device, placed on a flat and secure surface to make use of the suction cup feature, or its handle can literally turn it into a gun-shaped dildo that you can use on yourself, although it's not particularly comfortable to hold, so it’s best used with a partner.

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When you use the suction cup, you'll want to explore different flat surfaces to ensure it's super-secure, to avoid a precarious situation. If you have roommates and thin walls, and don’t want people hearing your sex toy doing its thing, that’s also something to consider. While there’s no shame here, you don’t want to make other people uncomfortable with the sounds that transpire.

If you love a sex toy that’s going to do the majority of the work for you, heats up, and has long battery life—it takes about 2.5 hours to charge, and offers about four hours of playtime—then the Spinel might be your next favorite toy. It's not cheap, but it's worth the splurge.