Review: Empowered Queen Tongue-Flicking Vibrator by Cal Exotics

It’s official: pussy pumps are mainstream.

Clitoral suc­tion toys have been around for a hot minute, but it’s only in recent years that they’ve gained main­stream hype — out­side the con­text of fetish.

Around 2019, Pipedream’s Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure went viral on Twitter. There’s clear­ly demand for a vul­va suc­tion toy with a flick­er­ing tongue.

External suc­tion increas­es blood flow to the vul­va and vagi­na to increase sen­si­tiv­i­ty, while the mov­ing tongue’s broad­er move­ments attempt to sim­u­late cun­nilin­gus. On paper, the Her Ultimate Pleasure’s stroke rate of 100 licks per minute on high sounds quite impressive.

Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure vs. Empowered Smart Pleasure Queen

Now, there’s a contender: the Empowered Smart Pleasure Queen Vibrator by Cal Exotics.

Its tongue moves even faster, with about 125 licks per minute on low and 150 on the high­est speed. What’s more, its tongue move­ment has a way big­ger range of motion.

That quick­ly puts the Empowered Queen among my top 3 best sex toys to sim­u­late cun­nilin­gus, espe­cial­ly since I love the firm, point­ed tongue’s focus.

The oth­er oral sex sim­u­la­tor mech­a­nisms? Lora DiCarlo Filare’s spin­ning beads and the Womanizer series’ air puls­es. This post about the Cal Exotics Empowered Queen focus­es on a back-​and-​forth tongue move­ment, though.

The Empowered Queen’s 150 licks per minute is quite entic­ing on its own.

The Empowered Queen vibra­tor hasn’t got­ten near­ly the same lev­el of hype as the Her Ultimate Pleasure, and that’s a dis­ser­vice to sex toy shoppers.

Frankly, I think the Queen’s con­trols and func­tions are far supe­ri­or. The down­side? It may not be the best fit for petite peo­ple like me. Overall, though, the Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure is a gen­er­al­ist that lets you explore more, while the Empowered Queen is a lick­ing and suck­ing specialist.

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Best Tongue-Flicking Vibrators and Their Similarities

Let’s start with what these two toys have in common.

Both of these licking, sucking sex toys:

• Deliver true one-​way suc­tion rather than thrum­ming air puls­es
• Have tiny tongues that both flick (fast!) and vibrate
• Include 2 different-​sized cup attachments
• Have sil­i­cone rims on the plas­tic suc­tion cups for easy clean­ing and hygiene
• Have long-​ass names, due to how the BIG big man­u­fac­tur­ers go about branding

As such, I’ll occa­sion­al­ly call them the Empowered Queen and Her Ultimate Pleasure for short. They offer sim­i­lar func­tions, but their audi­ences do slight­ly diverge.

Also worth noting: Nu sensuelle trinitii XLR8

I used to rec­om­mend the NU Sensuelle Trinitii instead of the Her Ultimate Pleasure for some users. Why?

• Its noz­zle is more focused for cli­toral stimulation
• The tongue is sharp­er and more pinpoint
• The handle’s vibra­tions are way stronger and rumblier

For those who want to zoom in on a small area, you’ll like­ly enjoy the Trinitii XLR8 more than the Her Ultimate Pleasure or the Empowered Queen.

For full-​vulva pussy pump­ing and flick­ing, though, read on.

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Where the Empowered Queen and Her Ultimate Pleasure Differ

There’s more to it than how fast they lick —

— though the Empowered Queen’s 150 licks per minute are quite entic­ing on their own.

Upon turn­ing both toys on, the Her Ultimate Pleasure might look like it has an edge in move­ment speed, but that’s only until you apply pres­sure. The Empowered Queen holds up a lot bet­ter when, you know, actu­al­ly in use and shoved up against a clitoris.

The Cal Exotics Empowered Smart Pleasure Queen vibra­tor offers the fol­low­ing functions:

• 3 steady rates and 3 pat­terns of licking
• Continuous steady suction
• 6 pat­terns of suction

But also con­sid­er the han­dle shape, suc­tion set­tings, and user interface.

Beyond Clitoral Suction and Licking

Perhaps to oth­er peo­ple, the most strik­ing dif­fer­ence is that the Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure has an insertable and vibrat­ing handle.

The Her Ultimate Pleasure’s han­dle mea­sure­ments are fine for those who want a basic, moderate-​size insertable vibrator:

• 5.4” insertable length
• 1.5” max­i­mum diameter

However, I nev­er gave a shit about that; I found that part of it use­less. Its vibra­tions were too buzzy, the shaft too short, and the curve too slight and non-​committal. It adds noth­ing to the expe­ri­ence for me.

That’s my bias as a fiend for deep pen­e­tra­tion and hard thrust­ing, though. And I find the Cal Exotics Empowered Queen’s egg-​shaped body super easy to cup in my palm.

Suction Settings

Both of these toys have powerful aspirating motors, and both can make me damn near insta-​cum. But how they feel in use is quite different.

The Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure’s suc­tion set­tings are all pat­terns with waves of suck-​release times (for exam­ple, 4 sec­tions of suc­tion, 1 sec­ond of rest). It’s a tease.

In con­trast, the Empowered Queen allows the user to keep the suc­tion steady until they “freeze” it in place or quick-​release it. Once they’re hap­py with the “base­line” vac­u­um inten­si­ty, they can add a pat­tern on top of that if they wish.

If that’s not their thang, the Empowered Smart Pleasure Queen’s suc­tion rhythms and waves are quar­an­tined to a sep­a­rate but­ton. On the flip side, if you do want rapid-​pulsing suc­tion rhythms to approx­i­mate a person’s mouth move­ments, there are plen­ty of set­tings for that, too.

The Her Ultimate Pleasure’s slooooow suck-​release pat­terns meant that my junk wasn’t always pulled into the cup or in con­tact with the flick­er­ing tongue. There is a workaround: “freeze” the suc­tion at the peak of each wave. However, I wish that option wasn’t mere­ly an afterthought.

Control Panel

A vibrator’s buttons and patterns (or lack thereof) can make or break it.

To me, the con­trol pan­el is one of the most notable dif­fer­ences between the Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure and Empowered Queen.

These lick­ing sex toys have four but­tons each, but what the con­trols do is quite dif­fer­ent. Here’s what the but­tons do.

Suction Cup Shape and Size

Both the Empowered Queen and Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure come with two suc­tion cups of dif­fer­ent sizes. I’ll go into the detailed mea­sure­ments in the next section’s table.

The Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure’s attach­ments cov­er a much small­er area. One is an ellipse, con­toured to fit over a vul­va, while the oth­er is cir­cu­lar with a flat rim. You can use the lat­ter for dif­fer­ent eroge­nous zones, such as nipples.

In con­trast, the Empowered Queen’s suc­tion cups are both ovals with curved rims designed for vul­var use. And they’re sub­stan­tial­ly big­ger than the Her Ultimate Pleasure’s attachments.

I’m on the petite side (5’1” and 110 lbs), and the Empowered Queen’s small­er suc­tion cup isn’t per­fect for me, but it works. If you’re even dain­tier than me, the Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure would be a bet­ter fit for you.

Consider also whether you’d occa­sion­al­ly want to use the lick­ing vibra­tor func­tion with­out the suc­tion. In such cas­es, I’d steer some­one towards the Empowered Queen. Why? Because the Empowered Queen’s tongue can with­stand more pres­sure before it starts to stall.

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Clitoral Suction and Tongue-Flicking Vibrator Comparison Table

Here’s a quick sum­ma­ry of the dif­fer­ences between the Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure and Empowered Queen lick­ing vibrators.

	Empowered Smart Pleasure Queen	Her Ultimate Pleasure
Strokes per minute	Up to 150	Up to 100
Tongue size	4.5 cm x 2.3 cm	3.5 cm x 1.8 cm
Flicking range of motion	2.1 cm	1.5 cm
Suction settings	Continuous steady suction, 6 patterns	3 patterns
Flicking settings	3 steady, 3 patterns	3 steady, 4 patterns
Suction cup opening sizes	6.0 x 8.5 cm 6.5 x 9.4 cm	5 x 5 cm 4.5 x 6.8 cm
Handle shape	Egg-shaped	Slightly curved, phallic
Charger head	Pin	Magnetic
Price	CHECK PRICE	CHECK PRICE

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Suction Vibrator Safety and Hygiene

Please listen to your body.

Once you’ve estab­lished a tight enough seal to make use of the tongue vibra­tor, don’t go any fur­ther than that.

Whichever pussy pump you end up get­ting, be atten­tive and ready to acti­vate the release at a moment’s notice. FYI, pry­ing it off with­out let­ting some air puff out first may make the suc­tion pull even harder!

Don’t use intense suc­tion on bro­ken skin or if you have a his­to­ry of blood ves­sel issues. Watch for signs of bruis­ing and dis­col­oration and, of course, dis­con­tin­ue use if irri­ta­tion occurs.

For hygiene purposes and cleaning, you can:

• Detach the plas­tic cups from the unit
• Get into the nooks and crannies
• Take the sil­i­cone con­tact rims off the plas­tic cups

The sil­i­cone is super easy to clean by boil­ing in water for 5 min­utes. As for the “tongue,” your best bet for dis­in­fect­ing is wip­ing it down with a mild bleach solu­tion, then wash­ing with soap and water and rins­ing well.

Use only water-​based per­son­al lubri­cants with sil­i­cone toys such as the Empowered Queen. Liquid sil­i­cone can degrade the sol­id sil­i­cone, and oil-​based lubes tend to be dif­fi­cult AF to wash off.

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Which One Should You Get?

Who Is the Cal Exotics Empowered Queen Vibrator’s Ideal User?

I’d recommend the Empowered Queen to someone who:

• Cares a lot about tight con­trol of the suc­tion function
• Prefers short, quick pat­terns rather than long, teas­ing ones
• Mostly wants to use the suc­tion cup attach­ments over their whole vulva
• Wants the flick­ing tongue vibra­tor to deliv­er more pressure
• Just wants great cli­toral suc­tion and licking

For a vibra­tor more flut­tery and less flicky, con­sid­er the Fun Factory Volta.

But if you adamant­ly want a tongue vibra­tor, chances are, it’s the promi­nent range of motion you’re look­ing for, any­way. The Empowered Queen’s 150 licks per minute are still plen­ty fast, and the push is sub­stan­tial, as far as flick­er­ing vibra­tors go.

The Empowered Queen’s stac­ca­to pat­terns rhyth­mi­cal­ly pull air in one way. Puff, puf, puf, puf, puf, puf. Like a mouth might.

Who Is the Pipedream Fantasy for Her Ultimate Pleasure Licking Vibrator For?

The Fantasy For Her Ultimate Pleasure is more for gen­er­al explo­ration. You may like it more if you:

• Intend to use the suc­tion and lick­ing on many dif­fer­ent body parts
• Enjoy slow teas­ing with the suc­tion patterns
• Are down for shal­low pen­e­tra­tion with a no-​frill insertable vibe

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Closing Thoughts

Amazing orgasms, one after anoth­er after another.

Toys aren’t replace­ments for peo­ple, and I don’t think we’re any­where near replac­ing the human dimen­sion of cun­nilin­gus. However, when it comes to oral sex sim­u­la­tors, the Empowered Queen is the cream of the crop so far.

While rather robot-​sounding and… well, mechan­i­cal, its mech­a­nism feels more real­is­tic than oth­er flick­ing vibra­tors I’ve tried in the past. The beefi­er tongue and wider move­ments help.

Plus, rather than puls­ing like a pres­sure wave stim­u­la­tor, or suu­u­u­u­u­u­u­u­u­u­u­u­uck­ing in con­tin­u­ous­ly like a vac­u­um, the Empowered Queen’s stac­ca­to pat­terns rhyth­mi­cal­ly pull air in one way. Puff, puf, puf, puf, puf, puf. Like a mouth might.

If you don’t enjoy that, there’s still the steady seal to increase blood flow to the vul­va and vagi­na while the tongue works its mag­ic. The California Exotics Empowered Queen is decid­ed­ly an exter­nal cli­toral stimulator.

While it’s not the most ver­sa­tile, it’s stel­lar at what the mak­ers chose to focus on: latch­ing on and deliv­er­ing amaz­ing, near­ly hands-​free orgasms, one after anoth­er after another.

Further reading

Looking for a cheap knockoff?

See fur­ther com­par­i­son in this oth­er post: YoYoLemon Licking Pussy Pump vs. Her Ultimate Pleasure vs. Cal Ex

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