Fleshlight vs Tenga: Choosing Your Masturbator
Which One Is The Best For You?
It’s mid-2021 and life is good: the world is opening up again, the weather is getting warmer, my partner and I are having a lot of enjoyable sex and whenever she isn’t around, the always booming sex toy industry has my back--or in this case, my front.
While there are so many unique and truly innovative ways to enhance your masturbating experience--there are partner simulators like sex dolls, masturbating milking machines, blowjob simulators, prostate massaging toys and the list goes on and on--you can never really go wrong in choosing what has become a two horse race by selecting either a Fleshlight or a Tenga masturbator.
On the one hand, there is the fleshlight, which has been around for around 20 years and has since become a household name for fellow horny sex toy enthusiasts like myself.
Fleshlights have completely dominated the sex toy market with the help of their signature product: pornstar modeled fleshlights, which all feature heavy marketing campaigns by the insanely hot models themselves, but which all have different sensation types on the fleshlight’s interiors (example: the “barracuda” or the “cougar” sensations.)
With sales pitches like Tori Black holding her own fleshlight in her hands, promoting her own vagina for your enjoyment, it’s not a surprise why fleshlights have sold so well.
However, on the other side of things is the fleshlight’s fearsome competitor: Tenga. Being around 15 years old and originating from the eastern world--specifically Japan--Tenga masturbators have lived up to their slogan of being “the future of masturbation.”
With their iconic Tenga Egg, this company has made a crash landing into the homes of many a horny man while the company itself continues to develop their already expansive list of products meant to satisfy all the different horndogs out there. At first glance, Tenga products look a little unorthodox, but have since become a familiar sight for lots of avid sex toy users.
You really can do no wrong in choosing either product--I’m sure that once you’ve finished unloading your tiny white army into the world, you’ll be so pleased, carefree and unfazed by anything to give any sort of critical thought to your options.
But, if you’re like me and you want to know the different strengths of each product to literally bring out the most in each jerk off session, then this article will definitely be worth your time.
I’ll examine the fleshlight and the Tenga in terms of their products, build quality and design, ease of use, feelings and sensations, purchasing experience and maintenance. At the end of the day, it’s important to note that each toy has different strengths--it’s understanding when to use them that’s the key takeaway here. Without further ado, let’s take a look!
Fleshlight Products vs Tenga Products
When it comes to variety, fleshlight has a significantly more diverse collection of toys--it is not afraid to deviate from its original design.
Each toy has at least two different versions and comes in different colors to cater to men whose penis compass leads them toward certain skin colors over others.
Because the idea of fleshlight is to literally look and feel like skin, this is a big deal for consumers. Also, because they have so many pornstar legends contributing their luscious lower lips to be used for different fleshlight product lines, there is no shortage of variety.
In addition to all of the pornstar fleshlights, there are fleshlight products like the Quickshot, Fleshlight Launch and the original Pink Lady, for potential shoppers to check out.
Tenga operates on a more “don’t mess with a winning formula” basis. While they lack variety, they make up for it by consistently giving you an amazing release every time.
Some Tenga products to consider are the Tenga Egg and the Tenga Cup, which can easily be expanded and shrunk in case you live with others and want to be more discreet. Tenga products are known to be very durable as well, which can be handy if you are a clumsy person.
Build Quality & Design
Fleshlight has one of the most iconic designs in all of the sex toy industry, almost as widely recognizable as its gendered counterpart: the dildo. It’s pretty obvious what it is as it clearly looks like a tight and open vagina, eagerly waiting to meet your lower half, or potentially your tongue if you need some time to get yourself warmed up.
It is made with TPE, which is a skin like material that is devoted to feeling realistic sensations. Fleshlight products also have you covered for very practical things like blocking out dust, adjusting the vagina’s tightness, grooves to place your fingers and hands-free masturbation. Fleshlight toys aim for realism and do a great job at it.
Tenga products are known to be some of the best disposable toys on the market, and their unique design and associated pleasurable memories almost make you feel guilty for throwing them out.
Tenga uses TPE, but instead of aiming for realistic skin, they use the TPE to provide a more synthetic feeling that wildly enhances your masturbation session. If you want to take away the attachment or imagination of a vagina during your jerk session, Tenga is the product for you because it simply feels like a hugely amazing toy, instead of feeling like a woman. In terms of durability and long lifespan, it falls short in comparison to fleshlight products.
Ease of Use
The key here is knowing the difference between the two: fleshlight wants to feel like a vagina substitute, while Tenga seeks to feel like an amazing masturbation toy. Both fleshlight and Tenga are very easy to use--us men are simple creatures in that all we have to do is stick our member in and let loose.
Fleshlight has mastered the little things that we don’t think about because we are too busy enjoying life while beating our meat. To use it, simply remove the protective cover, apply lube and get to work.
Changing the suction and tightness is ridiculously simple, each toy will have grooves for your fingers, and depending on which toy you get there will be different effects to the type of pressure you will feel on your schlong (more of that in the next section.) Fleshlights can be heavier than Tengas, but they are absurdly simple to use and you will not lose any momentum to your season by figuring out how to use it.
Tenga toys are ridiculously simple to use as well, as you would just add lube and go ham on your meat. Because they are disposable, you can feel free to get as messy as you want.
Tenga toys aren’t as practical as fleshlight in terms of finger grooves or anything like that, you will find that you have to your hand will be doing a lot of the work during your sessions, but as long as you have the masturbation vs human simulation difference in mind, Tenga will not let you down as it is made to enhance your masturbation, instead of acting like as a substitute for a vagina.
Feelings and Sensations
Fleshlights earn their wide popularity by using TPE to feel like a humanesque figure jerking you off.
With its skin like texture and uncanny resemblance to porn star vaginas, using a fleshlight dangerously feels like you’re banging the smoking hot woman in your naughtiest dreams.
Depending on which fleshlight product you purchase, you can have milking sensations on your cock, intense sucking feelings on your meat, alternating ribbed patterns to greet your member, blowjob and tickling simulators for your love limb, and the list goes on and on.
There are so many ways to customize your pleasure, all courtesy of TPE materials putting in work. Fleshlight will always leave you wanting more, and there will always be more products.
Tenga provides a consistent feeling of immense pleasure. Instead of playing with your expectations and anticipation, it gives you the same amazing texture and tightness that feels too good to be true.
Whether you are holding the Tenga still and thrusting toward it, or you’re moving the Tenga around you, you know what to expect and you can freely give it your entire effort.
If you are a master at your own angles, the Tenga is perfect to keep still once you’ve found your spot, and to just go hard until your big finish.
If you don’t want to get sucked in to the addictive world of sex toys, Tenga is great because once you’ve tried one, you’ve tried the entire product line.
Purchasing Experience
In terms of being modern and inviting, fleshlight takes the cake. Using extremely alluring, captivating and sexy models, you are much more tempted to explore the site’s many products and deals--there is much more attention given to the imagination and attachment that prospective customers will have to the models holding the toys. Being a North American company, shipping is standard, efficient, discreet and not complicated.
Tenga caters more to the product first and the satisfaction of men who have used it. Instead of enticing prospective customers with beautiful women, Tenga shows off the product and its happy users. I found ordering from their site to be a bit more complicated because of overseas shipping and whatnot, but I was happy to see how discreet their packaging was.
Maintenance
Fleshlight is very cumbersome to clean, but not unlike many other sex toys, which can be complicated and tiresome as well. You would have to extract the sleeve from the case, run warm water and gently but thoroughly soap through all the nooks and crannies to ensure that your leaves are gone. You would then have to pat dry or air dry until it is completely dry, which can feel like forever if you are still very much in heat and raring for a round two or three.
Tenga is great because the toys are just straight up disposable. Luckily, you would have bought in bulk and had more masturbators to get through. If you do want to clean your Tenga, it is not complicated at all as you don’t have to remove anything, you would just rinse it thoroughly with warm water and soap and then let it air dry.
Conclusion
Fleshlight and Tenga both provide amazing toys for any masturbation session. If you are aiming for a session that feels like another human, fleshlight is perfect because of its TPE material, heavy marketing involving real women, exact replicas of real vaginas and tightness control. In addition to customizable options like skin colour, types of sensation and appearance, you can really cater to your own fantasies on what your entire masturbation process should feel and look like.
If you are aiming for a session that just feels amazing--no thoughts, imaginary attachments to other people or emotional attachments to the toy--the Tenga is your best bet. It feels synthetic, but it works as a strength. They are easily disposable and cleanup is remarkably simple.
I hope this review helps for your next sessions. Have fun and enjoy these two great products!