Jimmyjane Hello Touch X with Electro Stimulation

This had a place reserved on my wishlist from the second I first laid my eyes on it, and, thanks to some incredibly welcome pieces of good luck, I was able to acquire it as a somewhat belated birthday gift to myself. Thank you, Me. You know me so well!

The Lovehoney delivery was as discreet and unassuming as always and, once it was out of the parcel, I was greeted with the simple, anti-tacky Jimmyjane packaging. Inside are all the pieces of kit, and an information booklet that is a couple of steps up from IKEA grade to help you on your way to getting it up and running.

I was upset by the fact that they ‘recommend’ an 8 hour charge before initial use. I was buzzing (Well, not yet… but I was pretty darn excited) about it and I wanted to use it immediately! Grr, delayed gratification.

The power source of the toy is a small black box, with three buttons on the front to turn it off, on and toggle power and settings. I made the mistake of not really reading the instructions at first, so it took me a lot longer to figure out how to switch it on than I care to admit. If you’re not an idiot like me, however, you shouldn’t have any problems. The box fits perfectly into the wrist strap, which is Velcro and could easily be adjusted to fit almost every hand size out there.

Attaching the vibrating pads and the E-Stim pads to the toy’s power source is a breeze; they just click in to place with no fuss. They aren’t the firmest hold, with my micro hands they did snag and get pulled off a few times, but this was a minor inconvenience at worst.

With the vibrating pads, when using them they leave your fingertips deliciously numb, but are comfortable and easy to use. When they’re being used on you, you’ll wish there was more than one vibration setting! This thing reaches everywhere (I mean everywhere!) that the fingers can, but add vibrations. Where is the downside? I defy you to find one!

The charge level in them seems quite erratic though, anything from forty minutes to ten dependant on the day.

That leads me nicely on to the attachment that bumps up the price - the E-Stim pads. You can tell the difference between the two pads by looking at them - E-Stim, silver metal, vibrator, black silicone.

The E-Stim ones are a lot more varied than the vibrating ones, with ten strength settings and six different pulse settings that never fail to keep you on your toes. If only the vibrating pads offered this level of diversity!

Before you even turn it on, the cool metal nubs feel amazing being run across the skin, and once you do put it to its intended use… whoa! This thing is perfect for sadism and foreplay! You can get anything from the mildest tickle to some pretty powerful shocks. It’s a mini violet wand! Well, maybe slightly less powerful… but it’s a lot quieter and can reach far more places without being hindered by size, shape or power cables. Also, you cannot match the intimacy of this toy with anything else I’ve seen on the market. Touch. It’s there, in the name.

I fell hard for this toy the second I saw it, and was madly in love by the end of my first session with it. It’s a perfect toy for anyone- E-Stim beginners, it’s completely non-threatening, a very gentle start with the option to build up as you go. More experienced couples will also likely enjoy the intimacy that cannot be matched with any other E-Stim device I’ve come across. Plus, vibrations. Vibrations wherever you want them… what more can I really say?

I think most of us can relate to having had shocking sex at some point in our lives, but there’s shockingly bad sex, and shockingly good sex - I’m definitely a fan of the later, I can tell you!

Testing the Jimmyjane Hello Touch X has been incredibly good fun, and if you read on, I’ll be happy to tell you why I really like this little box of tricks. :-)

There’s quite a bit to talk about, so I’ll break it down in to sections.

Packaging, charging and first impressions:

It arrives quite nicely boxed in very simple, understated packaging. I knew what to expect here, as this isn’t my first Jimmyjane product. There’s nothing cheap about it. Equally there’s not much to shout about either. Inside is your unit, wristband, charging cable, and two sets of pads, vibration and electro-stimulation.There’s some very basic written details, and a diagram sheet, that if you buy lots from that Swedish furniture store, you’ll feel right at home with.

Personally, I’d of liked a little more info, especially if this is going to be someone’s first venture into electro-stimulation, but to be honest it’s fairly straightforward. Just don’t try and charge it from the wrong end as I did - I didn’t realise there is an end cap to be removed to access the charging port, so I plugged the charging cable into the port for the electrodes initially... That’ll teach me to read instructions properly (no, it probably won’t). After a couple of hours on charge, we were good to go, so I popped the unit into the wristband and plugged the vibration pads in ready for round one...

Vibration pads:

Okay, so once on, the pads, attached by silicone bands, do feel quite snug and the tips of your fingers change colour slightly. In no way did we find them uncomfortable, and my OH has much chunkier fingers than I do. They need to fit snugly, because you’re going to be stimulating skin with them, any looser and they’d slip around and move. As they are, they do the job nicely and caused us no discomfort.

The vibration pads are the silicone ones, and once plugged in will allow you to pass vibrations through whichever body part you choose to stimulate. For me, they’re not faultless. Firstly, they only have one mode of constant vibration, you can’t adjust this at all, and I think that Jimmyjane have definitely missed an opportunity to make improvements here. Sadly, they’re also a little on the buzzy side for me.

They’re not super buzzy, but they don’t have that lovely depth of a rumbly vibration that I love. Would I grab these for a solo masturbation session? No, it’s likely that I wouldn’t, but that said, I did really enjoy using them as part of foreplay. They feel so much better when my OH is using them on me than when I use them on myself, and I genuinely think we will use them quite regularly in our sessions. You get about 35-40 minutes of play with these on one charge.

Electro-stimulation pads;

The exciting pads! These ones have metal studs on them, so you can’t get them confused. You need to use water based lube on the metal studs and your skin - trust me, you don’t want to try it without! I did, and at first I thought they weren’t working as I felt nothing, then there was this horrible sharp searing pain, like my flesh was being ripped into, not pleasant! The lube stops this, as it conducts the electricity properly and you feel the electro-stimulation as it should be felt.

These pads have six different pulsation modes (a variety of pulse lengths, a cycle through mode, a random mode and constant pulse) with ten levels of intensity, so I think there’ll be something for everybody. Each time you select a new mode, it reverts back to the lowest level of intensity, so you’re always in control, the unit will switch of after 12 minutes of constant use for safety, and you get over 2 hours play with these pads.

Both of the metal studs need to be touching skin for the pulses to be felt. I have to say, it feels amazing in use! You can start off with just a gentle tingle caressing your skin, like static electricity, and move up to levels which, if I’m totally honest, I can't always handle. It might be small, but it’s perfectly capable of delivering some powerful shocks on your skin! It’s quite amusing to test on the lower arms and watch the fingers contract and relax as the electric pulses stimulate the muscles. I’ll perhaps grow up one day!

Our experiences:

We’ve tested this out lots, all over the body as well as internally, to find out what works best for us. I enjoy trying the different modes, and I’ve found that I prefer different ones on different days and in different places - I’ve certainly not got bored!

Externally around my vulva and nipples, I really only like mild sensations, but that’s totally personal to me, and if that ever changes I have plenty of scope to move up with intensity levels. This is also true for internal stimulation, tingly and prickly is what I like, but elsewhere on the body, my back, neck, thighs etc, I can take much more and enjoy it immensely. I felt quite clumsy at first whilst using it on my OH, and like me, he only likes mild sensations around his sensitive area’s, but he does enjoy it, and I found it easier to use once I became comfortable with using the unit and pads.

Everyone will find a technique that works for them. For us, the pads worked better when the studs were on the pads of our fingers. It didn’t seem to work too well for us when we tried to use them so they were on top of our fingers, covering our nails. We played around with the amount of lube used too, and I do prefer to make sure that there is a good skin covering. This makes the pulses flow uninterruptedly. Using less can sometimes mean that it becomes a little jumpy, producing a more shock-like sensation which isn’t as nice. You might like that though!

For me, I find this to be a totally different experience than using the Neon wand. The wand never really touches the skin, you’re aiming to create that arc of electricity after all. You’re also holding a wand between yourself and your partner, which adds distance. The Hello Touch is direct contact, I can feel the warmth of my partners hands as he manipulates the pads over my bare skin.

He can reach places the Neon Wand can’t and I love that because the unit is so small and unassuming, it feels so much more intimate because of it. The wrist band is comfortable and easy to wear, and you don’t feel like you’re wielding some bulky equipment whilst you’re using it. I love to experience this at a pain level which is just under what I can actually handle, it’s almost like edging, I love to feel that craving of wanting more, it’s exhilarating!

Summary;

Honestly, I really do like this bit of kit and I’d recommend people try it. If you’re a beginner, you have the options to be able to build up gradually and having the vibration pads make it a dual purpose toy, so it’s a great, non-intimidating introduction to the sensations of electro-stimulation. If you’re already into this amazing way of playing, then I don’t think this will disappoint you either.

As I said previously, I can’t handle this turned up to it’s highest levels on most areas, it really does offer a high level of pain if you want it to. Its beauty lies in its simplicity in my opinion, no bulky pieces that need careful unpacking and repacking after play, this fits in a small space in a bedside drawer and can be grabbed and ready to use in seconds! Great for those passionate weekends away and for surprising your partner when you otherwise wouldn’t be able to, due to being restricted by equipment. It’s fairly easy to clean too, I carefully spray sex toy cleaner on the pads and wipe clean with a toy wipe. I do wish it came with a storage bag, though. I’ve got mine in an innocent looking small cosmetics pouch! It’s so quick and easy to use, no bulky props or messing around.

Don’t underestimate this, the power is literally at your fingertips!

I have been looking out for a toy that would allow me to play with estim on my own from time to time, and when I realized that Jimmyjane had made one combined with a finger vibe I simply had to try it.

First, the packaging looks smart and elegant. Certainly, if you are giving this as a gift, it looks the part. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite stand up to scrutiny.

Things start to fall apart when you've slipped the outer wrapper off and you go to open the box. It is stiff and doesn't even have indentations for your fingers. Superficially this isn't a big problem until you realize that with all the delicate small parts that you might want to use the box as the permanent home of your toy! The pieces are nicely laid out, and there's not an excess of packaging. It's just a shame for a more premium toy that they didn't think to make the packaging travel and storage friendly.

Then comes set up, I believed that this should be easy.

Charging is simple, using a Micro USB cable which arrives in the box though it assumes you have a USB port to plug it into and comes with no mains adaptor. It is, however, a long haul with a recommended eight hours before first use, so I plug it in straight away and see that there is a solid green light. It doesn't flash as would be normal on my other devices, nor is it perhaps amber or anything else that suggests anything other than a full charge. But I left it plugged in for a few hours and came back later. It is still a solid green, and so I decided to set up the Electro-stim and give it a whirl!

My first attempt had nothing happening at all. Checking the instructions it tells you that you will need to press the connector in very firmly, and it's not kidding. It has you pushing at that level that feels very unpleasant with your new expensive toy, leaving me worried about accidentally damaging the port or cable when inserting or removing it.

I get it in and yet still it's not clear if anything is happening. There's no indicator light, so you cannot get a visual feedback on if the toy is supposed to be doing anything, and after some fiddling about I notice that I seem to get the stim working just for it to stop functioning.

It turns out that this is because the power level appears to reset whenever you change program, which after some experimentation is sensible as some programs are significantly stronger than others even at their lowest power setting.

When I finally figured out that you need to turn it up each time everything else went wonderfully. There is a lot of interesting sensation, and it can provide a remarkably sharp feeling that should satisfy some masochistic cravings. It's possible those widely experienced with electric play might find it lacking, but for me, I could not possibly put it into the full settings without finding it simply too much in the more intimate areas, and I have quite a high resistance.

I even tried it before play on an electric fiend friend of mine, and she seemed very pleased with the level of shock.

The vibes. That it only has one power setting is a significant disadvantage, and I'm uncertain as to why the intensity is not controllable. For people who suffer from numbness or enjoy long play sessions, this makes them far less useful than they might be and makes them feel rather like an afterthought.

The straps that hold the devices to your fingers can be a bit too tight to begin with, but they did accommodate me more after a while of using. A little too well when they slipped up my fingers, but that was mostly because of the excess of lube I was using to aid conductivity.

As for the lube, cleaning is simple thanks to the water-resistant port covers, and you can even wash the wrist strap in a machine.

Overall, very happy with this purchase, but there's much they can improve in the future.

Do buy if you're looking for some good shock play, but perhaps look elsewhere if the vibration is the main event for you.