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The Recommendation

August 6, 2025

The best vibrators

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We’ve been researching and testing vibrators for 11 years now — interviewing sex researchers, crowdsourcing opinions, and analyzing data from a panel of testers — to find the very best ones out there. And after our latest round of testing, we have some new recommendations, including a suction toy that one tester called “indescribably euphoric.”

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