21 Best Nipple Clamps [Actual Reviews]

Nipple clamps aren’t only for those who indulge in BDSM and enjoy pain. They can be used by anyone with nipples and an interest in nipple stimulation. That being said, everyone’s nipples are unique and nipple sensitivity varies greatly from person to person and at different times, for example during menstruation. Some lucky people can even orgasm from nipple stimulation alone.

Nipple clamps stimulate by providing a feeling of pressure or pinching during use. They also restrict the blood flow to the nipple. When the clamp is removed, the blood rushes back causing increased sensation in the moment and for some time after, making your nipples extra sensitive to any other stimulation.

The nipples and surrounding areolas are jam-packed with nerve endings, making this a hot spot for stimulation of all types, and stimulation even releases ‘the love hormone oxytocin. Nipple clamps or nipple clips are just one of many ways to put all those nerve endings to good use.
And while not all nipple clamping is for the purpose of pain, that can definitely be one of the main attractions. Pain and pleasure activate similar pathways in the brain and the feel-good context of love, sex and intimacy can make this an oh so delicious pairing, something along the lines of salty and sweet.

Nipple clamps can be used during foreplay or sex, and alone or with a partner. You can even wear inconspicuous ones under your clothes as a naughty secret while they go about your everyday activities to get yourself in the mood.

If you choose a nipple clamp with a thin or small tip it will focus the pressure, making it more intense on your erogenous zone. The same amount of pressure will feel less intense if you choose a bigger or wider tip for your nipple clamp.

There is no real formula to choosing the correct nipple clamp depending on your nipple size. But it can be a good idea to take it into consideration. For example, if you have very small nipples, you will need clamps that can be tightened to get enough grip around your nipples.

Stimulation is a broad term and your nipples may have a preference for a particular type of touch. You can experiment with ice, pinching, tickling, biting, licking, vibrations, and more to find out what gets your love buds going.

If you have tried nipple play before but it didn’t tickle your pickle, the more intense pressure of nipple clamps might be just what your nips desire. Each time you apply and remove the nipple clamps, the blood flowing back into the nipple increases the sensitivity. Start with clamps made for beginners and build on this by increasing the strength of your clamps. Over time, you may notice your nipple sensitivity increase as well as the strength of the clamp you enjoy.

Nipple suckers are also a great way to increase sensitivity. Unlike nipple clamps, they don’t restrict the blood flow first but go straight to increasing the blood flow to your nipples and upping their sensitivity. These teeny tiny vacuums can turn nipple play from a disappointing oh to an exciting ooh.

As well as toys, there is a whole world of gels and creams to give your nips a helping hand with some tingling titillation. Any lube that is advertised as stimulating, cooling, tingling, warming can add some extra sensitivity to your nipples. While ingredients vary, they commonly include things like mint or menthol to get that tasty tingle.

What is different: Typically soft tips, and shaped like small tweezers. The nipple clamps in the image are from fifty shades of grey and got a great review.

Who is it for: Typically a very good type of nipple clamp for beginners. Great for a soft pinch, just be sure to pick a tweezer nipple clamp with rubber tips.

Pros: Soft pinch. Easy to put on and take off.

Cons: Can be hard to regulate the exact pressure.

What is different: This type of nipple clamp only have one movable part of the clamp. In other words its “mouth” opens lige an aligator. They are very common and super popular. The mechanic parts are intuitive and very easy to use. Typically come with a tightening screw as well.

Who is it for: Good for both beginners (if the tips padded with rubber), and experienced if the locking mechanism is harder or the tips are metal.

Pros: Simple to attach, and offer a good pinch. the pain can be enhanced by tightening the screw.

Cons: If you use the screw to tighten the pinch, it can be difficult to remove and cause pain.

What is different: These are often reffered to as japanese nipple clamps, butterfly clamps, or clover clamps. They imitate old torture devices and look very complicated. They are less so. But they do hurt like a MF. They often come with chains.

Who is it for: Those that are looking for more hurting nipple clamps.

Pros: Look super nice. Hurt bad, so perfect to punish.

Cons: Be sure you like pain, and make sure never to pull them without releasing the tension.

What is different: The locking mechanism works with magnatism. Magnetic nipple clamps have a negative pole and a positive pole that is attracted to each other (in the literal sense). They will therefore lock around the nipples and sit there.

Who is it for: If you prefer a nipple clamp that is super quick to place, and that you don’t have to worry about adjusting the pressure of.

Pros: Easy to use. Fast attachement.

Cons: Can fall of easily. No adjustability. Typically only good for larger nipples.

While not exactly classed as clamps, nipple suckers are a great way to break into the world of nipple toy play. Nipple suckers and nipple pumps create a vacuum around the nipple, encouraging blood flow to the area and adding some sweet sensitivity.

What is different: You have added weight to the nipple clamps. The locking mechanism can be both the aligator, butterfly, tweezer, magnetic or any other type. The main different is that they come very heavy. Some even come with adjustable weights.

Who is it for: For those, that like to feel like their nipples are being pulled, just without needing anyone to do it for them.

Pros: Adds pain, and during sex it can increase pleasure even without touching as the movement will cause the weights to pull more that normal clamps.

Cons: The fact that the weights pull more during movement can make it hard to control the amount of pain it causes.

What is different: The vibrator. So, on nipple clamps that have a vibrator it is hard to find a product that gives you the best of both worlds. But it does add the extra excitement of vibrating stimulation for the nipples.

Who is it for: Anyone who wants to add a new layer to the pinching sensation of wearing nipple clamps. If you have a hard time keeping normal nipple clamps on consider that added the weight of a vibrator will make it harder.

Pros: New dimension to the sensation, and can help achieve a nipple orgasm.

Cons: The nipple clamps typically becomes weighted, and can be harder to keep on. The same type of stimulation can be achieved with a better vibrator used manually.

What is different: The size.

Who is it for: People with smaller nipples, as these attach easilier.

Pros: Will give very light pinching sensation. Will more easily stay on.

Cons: If you want a hard and powerful sensation the smaller you go typically means the lighter pinch you are getting.

What is different: The added Ball gag, typically attached to the nipple clamps with a chain. Some have tight enough chains that looking up will stretch the chain to the full and pull on the nipple clamps.

Who is it for: People into gagging, and/or BDSM. Would like the nipple clamping a bit more extreme.

Pros: Added twist and dimension to nipple stimulation.

Cons: Can be annoying that they are connected, and the dual stimulation of both gagging and clamping can just be achieved with a ball gag and a nipple clamp seperatly.

What is different: You are basically wearing a collar with two chains or strings that is attached to two nipple clamps. The sexual collar can have a leash that can even be attached to the clamps.

Who is it for: Anyone with a lust for a bit more hardcore BDSM vibe to the average joe nipple clamps.

Pros: You won’t loose the clamps if they fall of – or at least, they won’t be out of reach.

Cons: This option is more expensive than normal nipple clamps.

What is different: AS with both the ball gang and collar type nipple clamps, these have chains attached that link the two nipple clamps together. Which can then be pulled and used as you like.

Who is it for: Those that would like to utilize holding or pulling the chain for extra pleasure. Especially good for couples play.

Pros: Added weight. The option to pull on the chain for added pleasure.

Cons: Adds more weight to the clamps, which then becomes a little more difficult to keep on.

What is different: These types of nipple clamps are made for smaller nipples, as normal nipple clamps are less effective for male nipples. A type of mini nipple clamps.

Who is it for: For men, that have smaller and less pronounced nipples.

Pros: Easilier attachable and stays better on.

Cons: None, really.

What is different: The have a lighter pinch. They are often covered with a soft material such as rubber. And are easy to handle.

Who is it for: Beginners that are either new to nipple clamps or have very sensitive nipples.

Pros: Light pinch because of soft tips and light closing mechanism. Easy to use.

Cons: It is hard to get that extra stimulation.

You can find the best nipple clamps for beginners here.

What is different: A broad nipple clamp category, that actually covers both the ball gag, and collar nipple clamps. As well as some fo the more painful nipple clamps. Typically, they can also be reffered to as extreme nipple clamps if they are super painful and only for the truly hardcore.

Who is it for: BDSM fans, and hardcore users. You should have tried at least some type of nipple toy before adventouring out into this type of clamp.

Pros: Hardcore and painful. Adds very intense stimulation.

Cons: If you have sensitive nipples these types of clamps can hurt a lot.

What is different: Most nipple clamps are actually adjustable. So, what does that mean? Well, it means that how hard the pinch is can be adjusted. The exception is for example clover clamps and in part aligator clamps, as they are very hard to adjust.

Who is it for: People who like to start of easy and get a harder and harder pinch as you keep playing.

Pros: Good for warming up. Can be hard to find nipple clamps that you find easily adjustable.

Cons: Can loose the grip over time if the mechanism isn’t that effective.

What is different: These fall within the BDSM category, as they are nipple clamps that can give electric shock. Similar to the vibrating nipple clamps, these provide an additional layer of stimulation and also belongs in the category with other electro sex toys.

Who is it for: Those BDSM and electro play lovers, that enjoy a good round of nipple stimulation. If you haven’t played aroound in either the electro world or the BDSM world maybe this isn’t for you.

Pros: Electricity, fun and different nipple stimulation. Can also be used on other areas.

Cons: Can be hurtful. Especially if done wrong.

What is different: You can easily make you own, and even though we don’t recommend it, we have made a guide for how to make nipple clamps DIY style.

Who is it for: We don’t really recommend you make your own sex toys at any point, despite making guides for doing so.

Pros: Cheap.

Cons: Potentially dangerous.

Nipple suckers – Sucking mechanism that attaches to you nipple and sucks. Can be found both as smaller ones and larger ones resembling more breast pumps.

Nipple vibrators – Different from nipple clamp vibrators, these are vibrators that is entintially not “pinching” your nipples, but either just gently sits and vibrators.

Pussy clamps – If you enjoy nipple clamping, and the pinching feeling, maybe a pussy clamp is something for you?

Probably the most common type of nipple clamp available, alligator (or crocodile) clamps adjust with a single screw that loosens or tightens the clamp’s grip.

When you adjust the screw, you are adjusting how tight the clamp will be once you’re wearing it. You will still be able to open the clamp to put it on by squeezing the handles at the bottom.

Another type of adjustable nipple clamp that uses screws is called the 4-point clamp, sometimes also known as nipple grips.

These have four separate screws that you can adjust, and your nipple sits in the middle of them. This allows for a more personalized fit, but can be a bit more fiddly to put on than an alligator-style clamp.

I often recommend tweezer-style clamps for beginners because they’re incredible easy to use and adjust.

Tweezer clamps have a small metal ring or loop that can be moved up or down to adjust how close the tweezer arms are to each other. Once the ring is where you need it to be, you can’t open it more without moving the ring, so it’s best to place these on your nipples before adjusting the tightness.

Sometimes you are just looking for something lightweight, soft, and cute, if that’s the case then there are some adjustable nipple clamps made out of string or elastic.

Often styled as ‘nipple jewellery’, these adjustable nipple clamps have loops of string or elastic that go around the nipple. You then tighten or loosen them by moving the bead up or down to make the loop bigger or smaller.

And, finally, we have some slightly less common varieties of adjustable nipple clamps.

Some clamps have mechanisms that allow you to adjust them by twisting the clamp itself or by pulling on the chain attached to it. You can see a pair of the former kind in the image, and an example of the latter kind is clover (or butterfly) clamps.

There is some debate as to whether clover clamps are truly adjustable, as it is difficult to loosen them once you’re wearing them. However, pulling on the chain will make them tighter and more intense.

Apply the clamp during foreplay, intercourse or masturbation and enjoy the pinch and pressure as you play. When you are on the edge of orgasming, release and remove the clamp, allowing the blood to rush back into the nipple. This technique can lead to a more powerful orgasm that echoes through the body.

The aim of this game is to slowly increase the pushing the power of your nipple clamps. This is great if you have adjustable clamps and want to test the limits of the pleasure you can get from nipple clamping. Just remember to listen to your body and only continue if its the hurts so good kind of pain.

By placing and removing your nipple clamps focus on and off, you can experience pleasure and pain over and over again. This also makes your nips super sensitive to any licks, sucks and flicks that are lavished on them as blood flow increases. Using tweezer clamps for this is recommended as they are quicker to apply and take off again.

This took less than a minute to put together. All you need is two chopsticks and two elastic bands (or four of each if you want to make a set). Wrap the elastic bands around both of the chopsticks at either end and you are done! The nipple sits in the middle (where the finger is in the photo). You can adjust you DIY nipple clamp by tightening or loosening the elastic bands.

There isn’t much ‘do’ in this DIY simple find a couple of pegs, this can be the clothespin type or the smaller ones you can find in craft shops and you have some ready to go nipple clamps. It’s clean clothes, dirty mind kind of situation! Some even have soft rubber on the inside to protect your clothes. The best option for bigger nipples.

Perfect for an office fantasy! Again, these don’t require too much effort and can be adjusted by squeezing the metal closer together.

These little pins aren’t only for losing all over your house and holding up your hair. If you bend them open slightly, you can use them in way similar to tweezer clamps. Once in position, you can press the two pins together to give your nips a satisfying squeeze. Not as good for larger nipples.