The Best Prostate Massagers Will Unlock the Back Door

A prostate massager is simply one of the most pleasurable sex toys for men there is. It will give you stronger, harder orgasms. And if that's enough of an endorsement for you, fantastic, keep scrolling—and enjoy yourself.

For everyone else, let's start with an anatomy lesson. The prostate gland is located just two or three inches past your anus. This walnut-sized gland is jam-packed with nerve endings. When properly stimulated, like during anal sex, it can lead to Earth-shattering, full-body orgasms. You know how when you typically ejaculate, it feels great—and localized to your genital area? That’s beginner’s stuff. When you get off with a prostate massager inside you, you feel it everywhere. We're talking left pinky toe and right eyeball.

Now, the best way to stimulate the p-spot (you know, basically the male g-spot) is with a dedicated prostate massager or similar prostate toys. They differ from some of the other best sex toys for men, like anal beads or Fleshlights and masturbators, because they are specifically designed to hit that button. That’s why most of them look similar, with slightly curved bulbous heads, yet despite this, there are differences. Most of them vibrate, but some don't. Some are small and friendly for first-timers, while others are slightly bigger. And some of them have a second part that hugs your perineum, that strip of skin between your anus and the base of your testicles. (You know, the taint.) This helps to keep the prostate massager in place so you can move around and do stuff like penetrate your partner while the massager remains firmly tucked away. (This also makes it one of the best sex toys for couples!)

If you’ve never dabbled in any anal play, we know this can all sound intimidating. But on the other hand, why not? Those nerve endings are already back in there, just waiting for a little stimulation. Let’s read up on the prostate massaging devices you can buy, shall we?

The Best Prostate Massagers, at a Glance

• The Best Prostate Massager, Overall: Lelo Hugo, $219
• The Best Budget Prostate Massager: Aneros Helix Trident, $70
• The Best Vibrating Prostate Massager: Lelo Loki Wave, $189
• The Best Luxury Prostate Massager: Njoy Pfun, $100
• The Best Long-Distance Prostate Massager: Lovense Edge 2, $140
• The Best Experts-Only Prostate Massager: Fun Factory Duke, $96
• The Best Rimming Stimulator: b-Vibe Rimming Plug, $160
• The Best Multi-Tasking Prostate Massager: Hueman Black Hole Galactic, $80
• The Best XL Prostate Massager: Tantus P-Spot, $50

The Best Prostate Massager, Overall: Lelo Hugo

Material: Non-porous silicone and ABS plastic
Battery Life: 2 hours
How to Use: Apply water-based lube liberally before inserting. Press the toy’s one button twice to turn it on; control it using the same button or the included remote.

The best massager on the market, bar none. It's expensive, but if you plan on using it more than a few times, then there's no reason not to splurge. The incredible precision of the vibrations separates the remote-controlled prostate massager Hugo from the pack. To control the speed and intensity, you tilt the circular remote. So if you tilt down and to the right, the vibrations will be stronger on the back right side. It's like laser-guided access to where you experience the most pleasure.

The Best Budget Prostate Massager: Aneros Helix Trident

Material: ABS plastic
How to Use: Apply water-based lube before inserting. Squeeze your anal muscles rhythmically to feel simultaneous internal and external stimulation.

Prostate massagers are often pricey, which makes a certain amount of sense. (You don't want to stick just anything up there.) But the Helix Trident is on the cheaper side. Unlike most other toys on the list, this one doesn't vibrate, but it still works great, particularly if you're a newbie to anal play and prostate stimulation—the Helix is a great starter toy. If you determine you love the sensation of something inside you, then you can upgrade to a more expensive vibrating model like the Aneros Vice 2, which packs a powerful motor into a discreet device.

The Best Luxury Prostate Massager: Njoy Pfun

Material: Stainless steel
How to Use: Apply lube before inserting.

Feel like spoiling yourself? It's hard to beat stainless steel in terms of pure luxury and beauty. This non-vibrating plug presses firmly against your prostate every time you squeeze your muscles around it, making it a super pleasurable addition to intercourse or oral sex. Its ergonomic design makes this a pleasure to use in more ways than one.

The Best Vibrating Prostate Massager: Lelo Loki Wave

Material: Silicone and ABS plastic
Battery Life: 2 hours
How to Use: Apply water-based lube liberally before inserting the larger arm. Position the smaller, external arm on your perineum. Hold down the middle button to turn the toy on or off. Use the “+” and “–” buttons to adjust the vibration intensity and the arrow buttons to cycle through vibration modes.

If you've ever enjoyed the "scooping" or "come hither" motion of a partner's fingers (or your own) on your prostate, you'd probably love this toy. In addition to vibrating, it "waves" up and down in a massaging motion, creating ultra-intense orgasms. The Loki Wave has 10 vibration patterns, and its dual motors combine prostate and perineum stimulation.

The Best Long-Distance Prostate Massager: Lovense Edge 2

Material: Silicone
Battery Life: Up to 90 minutes
How to Use: Apply water-based lube before inserting. Hold down the button on the toy for 3 seconds to turn it on or off. You can control the toy’s vibrations using that same button or by connecting it to the Lovense app.

Lovense blew up during the pandemic because they are the premier long-distance sex toy company. You can connect every Lovense toy to an app and, using Bluetooth connectivity, your partner can control the device from hundreds of miles away. This hands-free fun will bring new highs to your sex life. The app-controlled Edge 2 is a fantastic prostate massager to use during FaceTime sex. The rechargeable massager has a little less than two hours of battery life, and you can create custom vibration settings for over 100,000 unique combinations, far surpassing the dozen or so vibration modes that other devices are tied down to. If you're feeling particularly kinky and want to keep it in, your partner can surprise you with little zaps throughout the day.

The Best Experts-Only Prostate Massager: Fun Factory Duke

Material: Silicone
Battery Life: 90 minutes
How to Use: Apply water-based lube before inserting. Use the toy’s one button to control its vibrations.

The Duke isn't messing around—it should only be used by anal pros and experienced users. It goes much further inside your rectum than any other massager on this list: it has three components that stimulate various highly sensitive erogenous zones. The first part extends far past your prostate, hitting the deep inner walls of your rectum. The second section directly nuzzles against your prostate, and the third and final section hugs your perineum to help keep the toy in place. Given how much area it covers, the Duke leads to incredibly powerful orgasms.

The Best Rimming Stimulator: b-Vibe Rimming Plug

Material: Silicone
Battery Life: 90 minutes
How to Use: Apply water-based lubricant to the toy before inserting anally. Use the power button on the toy's base to turn it on or off. Change the toy’s settings using the same button or the included remote.

Technically, the Rimming Plug from b-Vibe is a butt plug, but it's worth considering because it is one of the only anal toys on the market that all simulates the feeling of a tongue—it uses these cool rotating beads. Usually, when you're getting rimmed, you don't have anything inside of you because if you did, your partner wouldn’t be able to get in there. So even if you're not new to butt stuff, it's an incredibly novel sensation to have something penetrating you while also feeling something on the outside.

The Best Multi-Tasking Prostate Massager: Hueman Black Hole Galactic

Material: Silicone
Battery Life: 50 minutes
How to Use: Apply water-based lube to both parts of the toy before using. Insert the butt plug part anally and then stretch the cock ring part down to the base of your flaccid or half-erect shaft behind your balls (if comfortable). Control the toy using its included remote.

This nifty invention is essentially two toys at once: a gently textured vibrating butt plug, and a stretchy silicone cock ring. Since the two are attached, you'll feel the ring tugging on your shaft with every squeeze of your butt muscles. Whether you use it solo or with a partner, this two-for-one toy can intensify any activity.

The Best XL Prostate Massager: Tantus P-Spot

Material: Silicone
How to Use: Apply water-based lube liberally before inserting. The toy’s vibrations can be controlled with one button on its base.

If you're up for a challenge, a big, thick toy like this can be wildly stimulating. There's a bullet vibrator in the base, but you can also use it sans vibrations—its curve is so deep that it'll leave you breathless regardless. As always, go slow and use a lot of lube!

The Best Inflatable Prostate Massager: Dorcel Ultimate Expand

Material: Silicone and ABS plastic
Battery Life: 1 hour
How to Use: Apply water-based lube before inserting. Hold down the toy’s one button to turn it on. Use that same button to cycle through different modes. Hold down the button again to deflate the toy and turn it off.

Inflatable toys are great for beginners or for anyone who wants to push their butt's boundaries. This one can expand from a manageable diameter of 1.4 inches to an impressive 2.2 inches to find the exact amount of fullness for your mood. It also has two vibration motors, one for the prostate and one for the perineum. Isn't that just swell?

The Most Overwhelming Prostate Massager: Fun Factory Miss Bi

Material: Silicone and ABS plastic
Battery Life: 30 to 60 minutes
How to Use: Apply water-based lube liberally before inserting the larger arm. Position the smaller, external arm on your perineum. Hold down the “Fun” button to turn the toy on or off; short-press that same button to change vibration settings. Use the other two buttons to adjust the vibration intensity.

Beginners may struggle with this toy's chunky 1.7-inch diameter, but if you want a lot of stimulation, you might just love this one. While technically designed as a rabbit vibrator for G-spot and clitoral stimulation, the Miss Bi works just as well when inserted anally, with the flexible "clitoral" arm resting on your perineum or balls. Each arm of the toy has its own rumbly motor, and there are six vibration speeds and six patterns to experiment with. The looped handle makes it easy to thrust this toy in and out, too.

The Best Glass Prostate Massager: Icicles No. 87

Material: Glass and silicone
How to Use: Apply lube before inserting.

Glass can feel wonderful on the prostate because it applies firm, unyielding pressure to the area. This toy has a gentle curve to hit your prostate, and comes with an optional silicone suction-cup base that you'll enjoy if you want to be able to back up onto the toy or lower yourself down onto it—just press the base against a smooth, flat surface like a wall, tile floor, or mirror, and you're good to go.

The Best Rotating Anal Beads: Lovense Ridge

Material: Silicone
Battery Life: 2.5 hours
How to Use: Apply water-based lube before inserting. Turn the toy on by holding down its one button. Control its vibrations and rotation using the Lovense app.

The undulating texture of anal beads is uniquely pleasurable when sliding across the sensitive nerve endings of the anus, and this Lovense toy is a terrific example of that. Not only does it vibrate, but the tip also rotates 360 degrees, mimicking the feeling of a partner's finger stroking the right spot. It's a beginner-friendly toy that more experienced users can enjoy, too!

The Best Manual Prostate Massager: PlusOne

Material: Silicone
How to Use: Apply water-based lube before inserting. Squeeze your anal muscles rhythmically to feel simultaneous internal and external stimulation.

Trying to explore prostate play on a budget? This massager is ultra-affordable, easy to use, and high quality. Like the Aneros Helix Trident above, this one doesn't vibrate—all the movement and pleasure comes from your own muscles clenching around it. It pairs well with masturbation, oral sex, or whatever else you want to do while your prostate is being gently rubbed.

The Best Dildo for Prostate Massage: Uberrime Astro Ruby

Material: Silicone
How to Use: Apply water-based lube liberally before inserting.

Whether you want to use it for solo play or pegging, this petite dildo hits the prostate effectively with its angled, tapered head. It's made of firm silicone, so you'll feel the impact of its curved shape. Thrusting a dildo in and out may be more labor-intensive than using some of the other toys on this list, but the trade-off is you get more precise control over where you want to aim the toy during use and how fast and hard you want to thrust it.

The Best Anal Dilator Kit: Future Method Glass Anal Dilator Set

Material: Borosilicate glass
Battery Life: n/a

If you're hoping to work your way up to larger penetration—whether your goal is to be the receptive partner during anal sex or just to be able to handle a girthy prostate massager—then an anal dilator kit is a great starting point. Dr. Goldstein's company, Future Method, created this three-piece set, which helps acclimatize the skin and muscles around your butthole to bigger penetration. “The glass is super smooth and can be used with silicone lube, which is ideal for anal play,” Dr. Goldstein says. “They come with a solid heft that feels great inside.”

The Best Perineum Massager: Butter Personal Massager

Material: Silicone
Battery Life: Not listed
How to Use: Hold down the power button to turn the toy on or off. Short-press the same button to cycle through the toy’s vibration settings.

"For people who want external prostate stimulation, Butter makes a great vibrating massager that can send good vibes in all the right places," Dr. Goldstein says. Yep, you can pleasure your prostate without involving any penetration at all – just apply vibration to your taint, and your P-spot will get some indirect stimulation. The shape of this particular massager gives you some control over whether you want broad pressure or more pinpointed sensations, depending on how you hold it.

The prostate is located on the anterior (front) wall of the rectum, the one that’s closest to your belly button. So, much like the G-spot, it’s easiest to access and stimulate if you’ve got a toy that curves upward, right into the zone you’re hoping to stroke. You’ll probably want something on the firmer side, too, or else that curve will flatten out inside you and may not give you as much sensation.

Since the prostate is somewhat buried in the rectal wall, powerful vibrations are super helpful when trying to stimulate it. Vibrations described as “rumbly”—i.e., low-pitched and more deeply resonant—may work better than those described as “buzzy,” which tend to be more surface-level and may feel more irritating than pleasurable.

Finally, any toy that’s going in your butt needs to have a flared base, by which we mean: A base that is wider than any other part of the toy. This prevents it from getting lost inside you because prostate orgasms are lovely but aren’t worth going to the emergency room over.

A mini prostate health lesson: The organ is a walnut-sized gland between your bladder and rectum. It plays an important role in the reproductive system, producing and expelling prostatic fluid, which is a component of semen.

Massaging your prostate has some potential health benefits, but more importantly, for the purposes of this article, it can be wildly pleasurable. You can combine prostate stimulation with other stuff that works for you, like stroking your dick, receiving oral sex, or penetrating a partner. Or you can touch it all on its own, which is intense enough that some people can reach orgasm from prostate play alone. If you’re intrigued by the idea, it’s worth exploring—it could massively increase your sexual pleasure potential!

“Simply put: prostate massaging can produce the best orgasms of your life,” explains Dr. Evan Goldstein, an anal surgeon and the co-founder of Future Method. “When you’re able to focus on this exact pleasure and how it impacts your sexual game and ultimately your orgasms, you will probably wonder how you ever went without prostate massaging before.”

There is debate in the medical community about whether prostate massage has any tangible health benefits, but what we know for sure is that it feels really, really good for many people, which is reason enough to give it a try.

First off: lube, lube, lube! The butt isn’t self-lubricating like the vagina, so whenever you’re doing any kind of anal play, make sure everything is well-lubricated before you start. If you’re using a silicone toy, you’ll want to go with a water-based lube, as the silicone-based kind could damage the toy—but if you’re using fingers or a toy made out of metal, glass or ceramic, then you can use any lube you like.

Dr. Goldstein says the prostate consists of two lobes, one on the left and one on the right, separated by the tube leading to your urethra. “The goal is gentle massage from outside inward for both lobes,” he explains. “What I mean by that is: start on the left side and then go to the center of the prostate, with slow, monitored pressure—gentle, please! Then, palpate the right side using the same steps and moving to the center of the gland.” This inward-moving motion helps move the fluids in the prostate toward the center so it can be ejaculated out more easily.

Remember to keep things soft and sensual: “Too much pressure or pounding, or incorrect techniques, will cause the gland to get irritated and inflamed, which is known as prostatitis,” Dr. Goldstein warns.

“If someone is going to use an internal prostate vibrator, please make sure you’re properly pre-dilated and pre-lubricated,” Dr. Goldstein says. There are dilator kits available to help with this (including some made by Dr. Goldstein’s own company, Future Method), but even just warming up with a well-lubed finger or two can be helpful prep for larger penetration.

Once you’re ready, you can insert your prostate massager, moving slowly so you can pause if you encounter any discomfort or pain. With proper warm-up and lubrication, anal play shouldn’t hurt – pain is a warning sign from your body that you need to adjust your technique.

Once the massager is inserted, Dr. Goldstein recommends that you “start super slow and with low vibrations (if your toy has different settings), and for the first few sessions, don’t use it for too long, so that you can learn how the gland reacts to these new sensations.” Once you’re more familiar with the sensations that prostate play brings up, you can ramp up the intensity.

This piece was co-authored by two writers, one who has a prostate and one who doesn’t. Between the two of us, we have over 20 years of experience writing about sexuality and sex products and have tested hundreds upon hundreds of sex toys, both on ourselves and our partners.

The criteria we’ve prioritized in choosing prostate massagers include comfort, ease of use, vibration strength (for products that indeed vibrate), build quality, and a prostate-targeting shape. For toys we weren’t able to test firsthand (or first-butt, as the case may be), we relied on expert recommendations, customer reviews, and our accrued knowledge of which sex toy companies consistently go above and beyond to make great products.