Marital Aid Test Kitchen: The OhMiBod Gets Nano

For all its bells and whistles, the OhMiBod vibrator never appealed to me. Sure, it was a fancy vibe that would turn my favorite hits into orgasm pumping jam sessions. But it also looked like a big white plastic Slimline—the kind of vibrator that has never appealed to me. I didn't care what kind of fancy pulsations that vibrator could get up to: it didn't look like something I wanted inside my cooch. And isn't that what we're all looking for? But then the Naughtinano landed on my desk, and I started to reconsider my OhMiBod ban. Unlike the original OhMiBod, the Naughtinano has a slight, curvy form that's both pleasing to the eye and the G-spot. This was all it needed to make me intrigued enough to ignore its cringeworthy name and hook it up to my iPod.As has been noted before, the OhMiBod vibrators respond differently to different types of songs: and they respond best to ones that are bass and percussion heavy. I turned my iPod on and set it to random. It jumped to Devo's "Are You Experienced?" That was a good choice. As the song wound to a close, though, I got a nasty surprise: any lag between songs leads to a lag in vibrator performance. You know how iPods will sometimes have several seconds of quiet during the song transition? Well, that's several seconds sans vibration. Not a good feature. But as I clicked through my song selection, I started to forget about that failing and more became interested in seeing which songs worked well with the vibe and which, well, didn't. A random sampling found that The Roots' "Swept Away," almost anything by The Chemical Brothers or Portishead, Fatboy Slim's "Love Life," and (somewhat surprisingly) Ne-Yo's "So Sick" all made my clit twitch. The Violent Femmes, on the other hand, were largely a failure. For many, the Naughtinano's utility may ultimately have more to do with your taste in music than anything else. If you prefer to masturbate to softspoken slow jams, you may find your sexy tunes leaving you in cold. Electrofiends, on the other hand, should be rather pleased with the experience. Of course, you can always switch out the iPod attachment and turn the Naughtinano into a standard vibe, but I have a hard time seeing why you'd want to. Stripped of the iPod, the Naughtinano is just a basic one-speed vibe. Now seriously, where's the fun in that?

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