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This is my shameless product placement, endorsement, review, whatever of the Ohnut.

I had a copper IUD for 10 years (actually almost 11, because I waited until I got sterilized to have it removed so I didn't have to be awake for that drama). IUDs are great, and the non-hormonal ones take out all the problems that hormones can cause, but they're practically famous for making your periods painful and heavy and for making penetrative sex uncomfortable or painful in your cervix area. That actually wasns't a big problem for me until the last few years, but it did happen eventually.

One day my sister told me about how she had recommended this product to a friend. She hadn't used it herself but she'd heard about it and thought it was important. I had never even heard of such a thing as a bumper for sex!!! How is that possible?

Maybe people don't know this right off the bat *gestures at my art* but I have basically always been pretty interested in sex. Not just as a pasttime, but intellectually as well. I spent years through my teens and 20s reading about all the science and psychology I could find about sexuality and sexual health. I knew about female condoms, finger condoms, all manner of kink equipment, drug-resistant sexually transmitted infections, the dangers of douching (put the Summer's Eve down, bucko), but I had never once even seen a BUMPER for a PENIS mentioned in passing. Someone on instagram told me the technology has been there for decades, but if that's the case they have had a gigantic PR problem because they are a really great solution to a terrible problem. Pain during sex is so common, but there's been relatively little scientific or social attention paid to it until quite recently. (Hundreds of studies about erectile dysfunction by the way, but only dozens maybe about pain during sex among people with vaginas.)

So, several years into my IUD, sex is getting painful, I order the Ohnut. They are expensive. But by golly if it didn't get the job done. It was like night and day. It didn't always completely take the pain away, but it made pain significantly less likely and intense. Sex felt safe again. And they say money can't buy happiness. UwU

The product comes with 4 bumpers, and they are designed to neatly link together so they're not sliding around too much. We used two bumpers most of the time. One wasn't quite enough bumper and 3 was not enough penetration. My penised partner gave really good reviews as well. They described it as "not only not-uncomfortable, but in fact slightly stimulating." They're easy to clean and come with a little drawstring storage bag.

I can't recommend the product enough and was so jazzed after I started using it, I drew this. So there you have it. 5 out of 5 stars. 10 out of 10 thumbs up. Would buy again.