A few quick additional notes before I hit the sack.
The key to drying it with a cloth and your fingers is to tackle the job when the Hip is freshly rinsed and is still wet! Cover your fingers with the lint free cloth and shove it in there as deep as you can. Once you've hit the deepest point, wriggle your fingers around to dry out all the nooks and crannies. Keep wriggling around as you slowly withdraw, getting the whole canal dry.
Now here's just my personal experience: don't use the anus. Seriously. I didn't use it, but I got water into it and MAN... getting that thing dry is a total pain in the ass! (haha..pun not intended) Next time I plan on covering the hole with something while washing the Hip so no water gets in there. I mean, you can see from the cutaway cross-section photo that the ass entry is convoluted as hell. That makes it more difficult to dry than the vaginal entry. Just my two cents.
I was thinking of using Whitewolf's paper towel ball method on drying the vaginal entry, but.. what if you accidentally lose grip of the paper towel ball in there? What if part of it tears off way deep inside? I dunno. I'm gonna stick with super-absorbent lint-free cloths that I can easily retrieve. I'm gonna swing by Home Depot tomorrow to pick up a 1/2" dowel rod and see if wrapping the cloth over that and using that as a drying tool is easy or not.
Quick bit on psychology..and this is just what I've experienced, as well as talking to a couple other guys that I can talk to about this kinda stuff. I think when we get so used to sitting in front of a computer/TV wanking off to porn (in between girlfriends or what have you), we get very accustomed to that, then there's a period of adjustment getting into a relationship again. I think the Hip is good because it can get you off your ass and away from your visual material, and into the bed, switching positions, and not relying on visual aids (except the Hip itself, which is pretty attractive). This might be a good thing. I think I'm going to slowly wean myself off porn and eventually get to where it's just me and the Hip in bed, then I'll pay attention to how that affects my sexual performance in my next relationship.
A couple other quick notes. It's not quite life-sized. It seems like it is in the photos, but it's not. Well, it could be life-sized and you're just fucking a petite woman.
Again, the Hip is a REALLY nice and pleasurable (although a bit high maintenance) toy, don't get me wrong. But it's just a tad under life-sized, in my opinion. Or, compared to the hips & asses of women I've slept with (PS: always slept with thin to average sized women).
If anyone has any questions, I'm glad to answer. Photos coming this weekend some time.
