Complete Harness Buying Guide

A harness is five decisions: size, style, O-ring, rise, and whether you're buying to play or to pack.

Get all five right and you'll forget you're wearing it. Get one wrong and you won't, and it's rarely the one people expect.

1. Size

Take a pair of comfy fitting jeans, lay them flat, measure the waistband. That number goes against the size chart for the style you're buying. Not your usual underwear size.

Harness fabric is a much heavier weight than underwear, so it doesn't give or stretch nearly as much, which means it won't quietly forgive a size that's off. This is the number one reason a harness doesn't fit. Full sizing guide.

2. Style

Boxer, brief, panty, or jock. All unisex, all the same core construction. What changes is coverage, silhouette, and whether the O-ring sits hidden or not.

Jocks and crotchless styles run less structured than the rest, which makes them very wearable and best with smaller toys. Style breakdown here.

3. O-ring

Measure the widest part of your toy. Pick a ring slightly larger. Never the same size, never smaller.

Too tight and the silicone tears through the fabric around the ring, or the squeeze wears on the toy itself. This is the second most common thing people get wrong, right after sizing.

The O-ring guide covers every size we make, plus what to do when your toy is narrower than your ring. (A Stabilizer Insert, not a new harness.)

4. Rise

Classic is mid-rise. Rise gives more room through the body and carries most of our plus sizes. High Rise gives a higher rise and more room through the body. Low Rise and Biker run slimmer.

Rise and style are independent, so a boxer cut in a High Rise fit is a perfectly normal thing to want. And Rise and High Rise are separate lines with separate size charts, so check the chart on the product you're actually buying.

5. Play or pack

Different garments, not two versions of one. A harness is heavy and layered so it holds a toy steady. Packer underwear is lighter and stretchier so you can forget about it for twelve hours.

Want both without changing clothes? Duo styles have two O-rings. Pack in the lower one, move up to the top ring for play. Works with any toy 1.65" or under. More on play versus packing.

Why underwear instead of straps

A traditional strap-on is a belt. To hold a dildo steady it has to be cinched tight, and tight belts dig in. Loose ones don't hold anything. That's the whole problem, and it's why plenty of people try a harness once and decide the category isn't for them.

An underwear harness builds the O-ring into the garment, so the pressure spreads across a full waistband instead of a thin strap. That's the entire reason this category exists, and it's what we've been building since 2012.

What they're made of

95% cotton and 5% spandex, the same blend as good underwear, but a much heavier weight and layered. Closer to two pairs of underwear in one.

That weight is what keeps the O-ring from shifting under load. It's also why our harnesses run firm, and why sizing has to be closer to exact than you're used to.

If it hurts, it's the wrong size

Snug and steady is right. Pinching, numbness, and marks you're still finding an hour later are not.

Go up a size, try a different rise, or write to us and we'll swap it. Exchanging a harness is easy. Wearing one that hurts is not.

The whole guide

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