A question we get a lot is: What is a Fleshlight?

People have heard of the term but they don’t know exactly what it is. Wonder no more, because I’m here to tell you all about Fleshlights.

Put in the simplest terms, the Fleshlight is a brand of artificial vulva or artificial anus sex toy. It’s a masturbator – you insert your penis inside for pleasure.

Fleshlights are named Fleshlights because they look like flashlights.

The Fleshlight was designed by Steve Shubin, who was granted a patent in July 1998 for his invention. It first started as as a “device for discreet sperm collection”.

The inner sleeve feels like flesh and is available with a vulva, anus or mouth. You can buy them in colours representing a variety of ethnicities as well as see-through, and 48 different internal textures.

The Fleshlight Girls brand consists of masturbation sleeves moulded from the bodies of pornographic actresses. A device called the Fleshjack is a spinoff marketed to gay men. The Fleshjack Boys brand consists of masturbation sleeves and dildos molded from the bodies of gay pornographic actors.