Can My Vibrator Damage Or Desensitize My Clitoris?

People sometimes worry that if they use their vibrator too much that they're going to damage their clitoris or their nerve endings.

The truth is, I have had patients who have told me that because they use a vibrator so frequently, they are absolutely unable to have an orgasm with their partner - whether it's male or female, whether it's vaginal or clitoral, whether it's penis and vagina, or whether it's oral sex. 

The good news is they have not caused any permanent damage, but they have changed their threshold for a short period of time. And they find that they need to continue to use that high intense vibration in order to achieve an orgasm. 

What we recommend is to just stop using the vibrator and have external stimulation. This is a great way to have external stimulation because the WaterSlyde will stimulate your clitoris, but mostly your labia as well, which contains fibers from the clitoris. 

So through gentle stimulation like this, you're really able to kind of allow those nerve endings to not feel like they need such a high intensity vibration. You haven't caused any damage - short or long term. But certainly if you find that you are unable to have an orgasm because you've been using a vibrator for so long, just lay off the vibrator for a couple of weeks and try something else.

Interestingly some people worry that there might not be enough pressure generated from the WaterSlyde to mount an orgasm. That tells me that they really haven't learned their own anatomy and they haven't explored themselves.

We know that the clitoris is not just a little area of tissue but comes down the labia... and so stimulation of that entire area really leads to an intense build up. And many people will say that their orgasms are much more explosive, much more intense when it's done over a slightly longer period of time and gentler.

I've even had patients who have said that when they've consistently used vibrators or for example, a shower head their ability to have an orgasm then with a partner even through oral sex was really minimized because their threshold of intensity needed to be so much stronger something that their partner couldn't generate. 

Whereas if you change it up and you have orgasms through the WaterSlyde as well where you're really enjoying it and you're languishing in it and you're allowing the water to stimulate all the parts of your clitoris not just that little part that we've been taught was the most important then you really can understand different sensations. So we really advocate for this not exclusively but certainly in addition to if not exclusively because it really appreciating your sexuality in a way that we were never really taught to do.