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Review: All Black Anal Beads 41,5 cm
The longer chain in solid PVC — another material and another weight category.
29 July 2026

Review · Anal beads · Silicone
ORION’s beaded chain in silicone reviewed against the manufacturer’s own specifications and price data from three Swedish stores. Six beads, 40 centimeters total length, diameter 2.3 to 3.9 centimeters, a recovery ring, and a material field that contains only one word: silicone. Manufacturer, all stores and an independent distributor list identical dimensions — but none of them publishes a product weight.
A stripped-down ball chain where all the value lies in the material and construction: pure silicone in the material field, six balls on 40 centimeters, a retrieval ring at the end, and no electronics that can break. The dimensions are unusually well-documented — the manufacturer, all three stores, and an independent distributor all state exactly the same figures. What you don’t get is a beginner-friendly entry: the smallest ball is 2.3 centimeters, larger than on both sibling items. The manufacturer does not publish product weight, country of origin, or warranty.
Black Velvets Anal Beads is a silicone ball chain with six balls of increasing size, finished with a ring at one end. The manufacturer is ORION, which sells it under its own brand Black Velvets with item number 05192000000 and barcode 4024144526055. The specification is short but unambiguous: total length 40 centimeters, ball diameters between 2.3 and 3.9 centimeters, the color black, and the material silicone. The manufacturer’s approximate price is 24.95 euro, and in Sweden the item is sold by three shops for between 249 and 279 SEK.
What sets this product apart from most others in the category is how little it tries to be. It has no motor, no battery, no charging cable, and no program. The manufacturer’s item data for this article includes neither battery type, vibration settings, nor charging cable—unlike the sister item Black Velvets Rechargeable Anal Beads, where ten vibration settings, a rechargeable battery, and a USB cable are all listed. So Anal Beads is completely manual, and that means the specification in practice comes down to four things: material, length, diameter, and construction.
This review is exclusively about the item with EAN 4024144526055. The number is checked against the manufacturer’s own product page, where it appears in the Barcode field, and it is also listed directly as an item number on Vuxenkul’s product page. Vuxenkul’s internal item number 30337-0519200 includes the manufacturer’s short item number 0519200. So all three Swedish shops sell the same item, even though they call it three different things: Anal Beads, Anal Beads Black Velvets, and Black Velvets Anal Beads.
An anal plug is designed to stay in place. It has a narrow neck and a wide base, and the whole point is that it can be worn without anyone holding it. A ball chain is designed for the opposite: it’s meant to move. The balls are inserted one at a time and removed one at a time, and the stimulation comes from the actual passage through the sphincter rather than from something staying still in place.
That has two concrete consequences for how this product should be read. The first is that the spacing between the balls is a real design parameter, not a detail. The manufacturer lists six balls with a total length of 40 centimeters, which means the chain is significantly longer than the sum of the balls’ own widths—so there are clear gaps, and it’s those gaps that make each ball pass through the sphincter on its own instead of the entire chain gliding through as one single body.
The second consequence is that a ball chain in principle always needs something to hold onto. What’s inserted also has to be taken out, and unlike a plug there’s no wide base that holds against it. The manufacturer solves this with a ring at the end — in the English product text called retraction loop, in Swedish just “ring” — and it’s the single most important safety detail on the entire product. The packaging also has it as its own printed symbol, which says something about how the manufacturer values it themselves.
Black Velvets is not a product family but an entire brand line from ORION, with plugs, rings, cages, and vibrators in the same range. Three of the items have something with “beads” in the name, and are therefore easy to mix up. The differences are significant enough that it’s worth clarifying them before ordering.
Three things follow from the comparison. Anal Beads is the only one of the three that is a continuous chain. It’s also the only one whose material is listed as pure silicone without a PU layer. And it starts at 2.3 centimeters, which is the thickest entry diameter of the three — Rechargeable Anal Beads starts at 0.7 centimeters and Heavy Beads at 1.7 centimeters. It’s a detail that has disproportionately major importance, and it comes up again further down.
The material question is the only characteristic of an anal product that can’t be compensated for with experience, technique, or care. It determines whether the product can be kept clean, and it determines whether it’s still hygienic after five years. The manufacturer states a single material for this item: silicone. The Material field on the product page contains the word Silikon and nothing else, and the same information is printed on the packaging, where the word SILICONE is printed along the bottom edge.
Silicone is non-porous. A non-porous surface can be cleaned, because there are no microscopic pores where residue can get trapped and where bacteria can survive a rinse. On a product that is meant to be inserted into the body, it’s not a nice bonus—it’s the entire basis for being able to use it more than once.
ORION describes the material in its own material guide, and the description is unusually specific for something coming from a manufacturer. There, silicone is listed as the most commonly used and one of the safest materials for products of this kind, as extremely skin-friendly even on sensitive skin, as odorless and phthalate-free, and as easy to clean with warm water and soap. The guide adds that silicone neither absorbs foreign odors nor reacts with soap, alcohol-based cleaning agents, or water-based lubricants.
The same guide spells out the only downside without any rewording: silicone is not compatible with silicone-based lubricants. It’s a property of the material and not a matter of care—silicone lubricant attacks the silicone surface over time and makes it sticky and, eventually, porous, and a porous surface can no longer be cleaned—only thrown away. It’s worth noting that the manufacturer itself publishes this limitation instead of letting the stores discover it.
Phthalates are a group of plasticizers used to make plastic—above all, flexible PVC—pliable. Kemikalieinspektionen describes them as substances that can affect the hormone system and make reproduction more difficult, and several of them are therefore restricted or banned within the EU in a large number of product groups. Anal products are one of the product groups where the issue is most relevant, because the material sits against the mucous membrane for a relatively long time.
The point of silicone in that context is principled rather than incremental. Silicone doesn’t need phthalate plasticizers to become soft—the softness comes from the polymer’s own structure. The material specification “silikon” is therefore, in itself, a better sign than a long list of other wording, and far better than vague terms like “jellygummi” or “kroppsvänlig plast,” which say nothing at all about which plasticizers are included. The manufacturer’s material guide expressly states silicone as odorless and phthalate-free.
Here, it’s worth distinguishing between what the manufacturer writes and what the store writes. The retailer Vuxen labels the product with “Kroppsäker & Fri från Ftalater” and “Hudvänligt silikonmaterial” directly on the product page. That’s a store claim, not a commitment from ORION about this specific item, and it should be read as a store label. However, it’s not contradicted by anything: the manufacturer’s material guide makes the same statement about silicone as a material category.
A detail in the manufacturer’s data deserves its own note, because it affects how the product should be cared for. In the bullet list of features, it says "Soft Touch surface", and the packaging bears a symbol labeled "soft touch". At the same time, the Material field contains only the word Silicone.
Comparing it with the sister item Heavy Beads makes the difference clear. There the manufacturer states the material as "Silikon mit PU-Überzug" — silicone with PU coating — and simultaneously describes the surface as Soft Touch. On Anal Beads, only silicone is listed. The manufacturer does not specify whether the Soft Touch surface on Anal Beads is a separate PU layer or simply the matte surface of the silicone, and that difference cannot be determined from the published data.
Why it matters: ORION’s own materials guide states that PU coating can be damaged by strong cleaning agents and massage oil, and that the coating can be worn away if it’s cleaned too aggressively. Pure silicone products do not have that limitation. Since the material field only indicates silicone, while the feature list indicates Soft Touch, it’s safest to care for the product according to the more cautious of the two instructions—lukewarm water and mild soap, no scrubbing, no strong agents, and no oil. It’s the same routine that is already recommended for pure silicone, so the cost of guarding against the risk is zero.
The manufacturer states the total length as 40 centimeters and the diameter range as 2.3–3.9 centimeters. The dimension graphic in the product gallery repeats both figures, given as approximately 40 centimeters and a maximum of approximately 3.9 centimeters. All three Swedish shops list exactly the same values: Vuxen states total length 40 centimeters with the smallest ball 2.3 and the largest 3.9, Intima states length 40 centimeters and the width of the balls 2.3–3.9, and Vuxenkul states six anal balls, diameter minimum 2.3 and maximum 3.9 centimeters, total length 40 centimeters. The independent distributor Wasserman states the same thing for the same EAN.
That’s unusual. In this product category, it’s rather the rule than the exception that the shops contradict each other about the length—often because someone measures the inserted part and someone else measures the entire product. Here all five sources agree, and that makes the dimension information unusually reliable.
Six balls between 2.3 and 3.9 centimeters means that the smallest ball is already 2.3 centimeters in diameter. That is the single most important number in the entire specification, and the one that’s most often misunderstood.
Compare with the manufacturer’s own sister products. Rechargeable Anal Beads start at 0.7 centimeters and work their way up to 3.5. Heavy Beads start at 1.7 and end at 3.2. This chain starts at 2.3—so more than three times the narrowest ball on the Rechargeable model—and ends at 3.9, the coarsest of the three. That means that the product that looks the simplest in the picture is, in fact, the one that places the highest demands on the user of the three.
What can be established geometrically is that the difference between the smallest and largest ball is 1.6 centimeters spread across six balls—so, on average, a little over three millimeters per step if the progression is even. The manufacturer does not publish the individual ball diameters, only the range, so it is not clear exactly how the steps are distributed—but the manufacturer’s own product images suggest that the size order is not strictly increasing and varies along the chain. What is clear, however, is that there is no entry-level ball in the sense that a beginner product usually has.
Practically, that means this chain is for the person who already knows that 2.3 centimeters works. For someone completely new to the category, a product with a really narrow entry section is a more reasonable first purchase, and the manufacturer’s own Rechargeable Anal Beads is an example of exactly that—not because it vibrates, but because it starts at 0.7 centimeters.
The manufacturer’s information field states 165 grams. That figure should be handled with caution, and the reason can be backed up directly from the manufacturer’s own material.
On Heavy Beads, the product text says 145 grams and the information field says 167 grams. On Rechargeable Anal Beads, the product text says 129 grams and the information field says 210 grams. In both cases, the value in the field is higher than the value in the text, and the difference is greatest on the product with the most packaging and accessories—which points to the information field stating the packaged weight, while the product text states the weight of the product itself.
For Anal Beads, there is no weight in the product text at all. So the manufacturer does not publish a separate product weight for this item—only the 165 grams in the information field. None of the three Swedish stores publish any weight either. Expect the chain in hand to weigh less than 165 grams, but treat the number as packaged weight until the manufacturer specifies it. That the weight can’t be determined is relevant here in itself: on a ball chain, the heft is part of the feel, and Intima describes the balls in its product text as having "a hint of weight in them"—but that is a store phrasing, not a measured value.
The packaging, however, is well documented. The manufacturer states that it is 17.5 centimeters long, 7.5 centimeters wide, and 4 centimeters high, and that there are 48 units per carton. It is a small hanging cardboard display, which indicates how the product is intended to be displayed in the store, and also that the 40-centimeter-long chain is delivered rolled up rather than extended.
There are no buttons to go through here, no positions to list, and no app to install. What determines how this product works comes down to three things: the design at the end, the choice of lubricant, and how quickly the balls move. All three can be described using the manufacturer’s own information.
The manufacturer specifies a ring at the end of the chain, referred to in the English product text as a retraction loop and in the Swedish text simply as “ring.” The symbol is also printed on the packaging as one of two highlighted features, along with the symbol indicating that the product is flexible.
The ring’s function is not primarily comfort but control. An anal product without an external stop can, in principle, slide farther in than intended, because the ring muscle pulls inward. A 40-centimeter chain with six balls has a lot of material outside the body, but the ring is what provides a defined grip—an easy-to-hold handle without having to pull on the balls themselves, and which therefore also distributes pulling force along the chain instead of overloading a single joint.
It is also a design detail that directly affects how safe the product is. Compare it with the manufacturer’s Heavy Beads, which instead have a wide anchor foot: they are made to stay in place and are stopped by the base. Anal Beads are made to move and are stopped by someone holding the ring. Those are two different safety principles, and the latter requires that the user actually uses the ring.
The manufacturer also states that the chain is slightly elastic and specifies “Bendable”—bendable—as a feature in its feature list. Elasticity is a trade-off: a chain that gives a little follows the body’s movements better, but it also stretches under pull, which means that the distance between the balls increases when you pull. Practically, this means that retraction happens more gradually than with a rigid chain.
Water-based, and nothing else. The answer comes from the manufacturer itself: ORION’s material guide states that silicone is not compatible with silicone-based lubricants and expressly recommends water-based instead. Both Intima and Vuxenkul repeat the instruction about using water-based lubricant on their product pages.
The reason is chemical, not a matter of being careful. A silicone-based lubricant consists of silicone polymers that dissolve and swell the silicone surface over time. The result is first a sticky surface and then a surface that has become porous at the micron level — and a porous surface can no longer be cleaned properly; it can only be replaced. The damage also isn’t visible until it has gone quite far.
Oil-based products — coconut oil, massage oil, petroleum jelly — also don’t belong on this product. The manufacturer’s material guide specifically states that massage oil can damage the PU coating, and since it isn’t possible to determine whether the Anal Beads Soft Touch surface contains a PU layer, oil is an unnecessary risk. Oil also leaves behind a film that’s difficult to remove and that binds dirt.
A practical note that applies to anal use in general: you need more lubricant than most people think, and it needs to be topped up during use. The intestine produces no moisture of its own, and friction against the mucous membrane is precisely what should be avoided. A thicker, anal-specific water-based lubricant dries more slowly than a thin one.
Six beads over 40 centimeters doesn’t mean that six beads should go in. The chain length is primarily a possibility, not a goal, and the person who stops at three beads uses the product just as correctly as the one who takes all six. The diameter progression from 2.3 to 3.9 centimeters also means that the last beads are significantly thicker than the first — it’s a gradually increasing scale, not six identical beads.
What’s specific about a bead chain is that the stimulation comes from the movement. What this means in practice is that the tempo during pulling matters more than how many beads have been inserted, and that the chain length of 40 centimeters primarily gives you room to work slowly with a steady grip on the ring. Pulling quickly on a chain with 3.9-centimeter thick beads isn’t a technique — it’s a way to hurt yourself.
Because the product is completely manual, there’s also no built-in limit that shuts it off after a while, no timer, and no battery that runs out. In its own way, that’s an advantage — nothing can stop working mid-use — but it also means that all responsibility for tempo and duration lies with the user.
Here, a manual silicone product has a systematic advantage over everything that contains electronics: there are no seams around buttons, no charging contact, and no battery compartment where water or residue can be left behind. The entire product is one single molded piece.
The manufacturer’s material guide states the instructions straight out: silicone is cleaned with warm water and soap, or with a cleaning agent intended for products of this type. The guide also says that silicone does not react with soap or alcohol-based cleaning agents, which makes the material choice unusually forgiving.
The routine for an anal product is stricter than for other categories, and it’s worth printing out. Rinse the chain immediately after use, wash the entire length including the seams between the beads with lukewarm water and unscented soap, rinse thoroughly, and let it dry completely before putting the product away. The seams between the beads are the only place where the design creates a tighter point, and they therefore deserve an extra pass.
Two things should be avoided. The first is harsh scrubbing: if the Soft Touch surface contains a PU layer, the lacquer can, according to the manufacturer’s own material guide, be worn away with too aggressive cleaning. The second is strong cleaning agents and agents that contain oil—this same guide says that both strong agents and massage oil can damage PU. Lukewarm water and mild soap are enough.
Boiling water and a dishwasher don’t belong here. The manufacturer publishes no temperature limit for this item, and without a published limit there’s no reason to test where it goes. This is especially true if the surface is lacquered.
Silicone products should be stored dry and preferably not in direct contact with other silicone products. The reason is that different silicone qualities can react with each other over time and leave sticky spots where they’ve been pressed against each other. A separate bag or a dedicated box solves the problem. The manufacturer does not indicate any included storage pouch for this item, and the packaging is a hanging cardboard display that measures 17,5 × 7,5 × 4 centimeters, which is not intended for long-term storage.
The lifespan of a product without electronics is determined almost exclusively by the material. There is no battery that loses capacity, no motor that wears out, and no charging contact that comes loose. What can break in practice are two things: the surface, if it’s exposed to silicone lubricant or oil, and the seams between the beads, if the chain is pulled hard again and again. If you care for the product according to the manufacturer’s material guide, it’s reasonable to expect many years of use—which is a completely different situation than with a rechargeable product, where the battery sets the limit.
The manufacturer does not publish an IP rating for Black Velvets Anal Beads, and none of the three Swedish shops does either. In this case, it is not a shortcoming but a consequence of the design. IP ratings according to IEC 60529 indicate how well an enclosure protects electrical equipment against dust and water. A cast silicone chain without electronics has no enclosure to be rated and no electrical equipment to be protected.
The difference versus the manufacturer’s own Rechargeable Anal Beads is instructive. Here, ORION explicitly states that the product is waterproof—precisely because it contains a battery and a motor, and because that information matters. For Anal Beads, nothing equivalent is stated—and it doesn’t have to be, because the manufacturer’s material guide instead says that silicone is cleaned with warm water and soap.
So what can be established is that the entire product can be rinsed off without any precautionary measures, but that there is no published rating you can refer to. If an electrical product is missing IP information, it should always be treated as not waterproof—the absence of a rating is never a message that the product would be approved. This rule doesn’t apply here, since there’s no electronics to protect.
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The product that looks the simplest of the three is actually the one with the coarsest opening: 2.3 centimeters versus the sibling model’s 0.7.
Three comparisons are relevant: versus the manufacturer’s two sibling items in the same brand, and versus the most common cheap anal chain in another material. All the information below comes from each manufacturer’s own specifications, and all Swedish prices come from the shops’ product feeds on July 29, 2026.
Heavy Beads has the same approximate price from the manufacturer—24,95 euro—and the same brand, but it’s a different product type. It is 13,3 centimeters long versus 40, and has a diameter range of 1,7–3,2 centimeters versus 2,3–3,9. It weighs 145 grams according to the product text and has a wide anchoring foot instead of a ring. The material is listed as silicone with PU coating, while the Anal Beads material field only includes silicone.
The difference in use follows directly from the design. Heavy Beads is made to stay in place—the manufacturer describes it as suitable for stretching games before anal intercourse—while Anal Beads is made to be pulled through. Anyone who wants something that can be worn for a while should buy Heavy Beads. Anyone who wants the stimulation that occurs when the beads pass the anal sphincter ring should buy Anal Beads. It’s not a question of which is better, but of two different things.
One detail that’s different as well: Heavy Beads starts at 1,7 centimeters versus Anal Beads at 2,3. So the entry is softer on the plug, even though it’s the heavier product.
Rechargeable Anal Beads costs 44.95 euro in the manufacturer’s suggested retail price, meaning 20 euro more than Anal Beads. For that difference, you get ten vibration modes, a rechargeable battery with the included USB cable, and an explicitly waterproof design. The material is listed as silicone and PU. The measurements are total length 20 centimeters, insertion length 16.5 centimeters, and diameter 0.7–3.5 centimeters.
The most important difference, however, is not the motor but the inlet. The Rechargeable model starts at 0.7 centimeter—less than one third of Anal Beads 2.3 centimeters—and works its way up to 3.5. That makes it the significantly more accessible product for someone who is new to the category, regardless of the vibration. It also has a wide base with a recovery ring, meaning the safety principle of both the plug and the chain in the same product.
What Anal Beads has in return is length and simplicity. Forty centimeters versus twenty means twice as much chain to work with, and the lack of a battery means there is no cell that loses capacity, no cable to misplace, and nothing that can stop working. The manufacturer’s data for the Rechargeable model also lists the country of origin CN, while the corresponding field is completely missing on Anal Beads—so the manufacturer does not publish any country of origin for the item this text is about.
The most common competitor in Swedish stores is an anal chain in another material: All Black AB70, which Belgo Toys lists as PVC with barcode 5420044216666, a weight of 616 grams, and an insertion class of 15 to 20 inches. It is therefore both longer and almost four times heavier than what Black Velvet’s 165 grams suggests.
The material difference is the one that matters most. PVC is itself non-porous in solid form, but PVC in a soft design is the material where plasticizers are most relevant, and the Kemikalieinspektionen (Swedish Chemicals Agency) specifically points out plasticized PVC as the typical area of use for phthalates. Silicone requires no plasticizers at all. If the material declaration is what determines your purchase, the choice is simple—and that applies regardless of what the two products cost.
The size difference goes the other way. All Black AB70 is classified by the manufacturer in the insertion range 15–20 inches, meaning roughly 38 to 51 centimeters of insertable length, while Black Velvet’s 40 centimeters is the full product length including the ring and spacing. AB70 is therefore a substantially more comprehensive product, aimed at a significantly more experienced user. Black Velvet’s Anal Beads sits in a middle ground: too rough for the beginner, but far from the extreme category.
Three Swedish stores sell the item with EAN 4024144526055. Vuxen and Vuxenkul both list it at 249 SEK, and Intima at 279 SEK. That’s a difference of 30 SEK, or 12 percent, for the exact same item number, the same color, and the same packaging — a strikingly narrow spread compared with most products in this category, where the difference between the cheapest and the most expensive store often exceeds fifty percent.
The inventory situation is what actually determines things here. Two of the three stores had the product in stock at the price check on July 29, 2026: Vuxen at 249 SEK and Intima at 279 SEK. Vuxenkul listed the same price as Vuxen, 249 SEK, but without stock. So the difference between the cheapest and the second-cheapest available store is 30 SEK. Stores that list a product as sold out may keep an old price in the feed, and that price is rarely the one that applies when the item comes in again.
The price spread isn’t due to any store selling a different variant. Vuxenkul outright lists 4024144526055 as the article number; Vuxen’s article number 30337-0519200 includes the manufacturer’s article number 0519200; and Intima states the same dimensions and material as the manufacturer under article number 15630. So this is about the stores’ own margin setting on a product with a low purchase price — the manufacturer’s suggested retail price is 24.95 euro.
The prices in the table above are updated when the stores’ product feeds are updated, but always check the final price at checkout. Shipping costs are added by all three stores under a certain order value, and in this price range they are clearly all below the threshold for free shipping — which in practice can make the shipping fee larger than the price difference between the stores.
It’s for you if you already know that a diameter of 2.3 centimeters works, and you want a long chain to work with slowly. It’s for you if you want silicone and no other material in the specification. It’s for you if you prefer a product without electronics — no battery that loses capacity, no charging cable to misplace, and nothing that can stop working at the wrong time. And it’s for you if you want a product that can be rinsed off completely, without having to think about where the charging connector sits.
It’s not for you if you’re completely new to the category. The entry diameter of 2.3 centimeters is thicker than both of the manufacturer’s sibling products, and there’s no narrow entry ramp to start with. It’s not for you if you want vibration — then Rechargeable Anal Beads is the way to go within the same brand. It’s also not for you if you want to be able to carry the product for a longer time, because it lacks the wide base that a plug has and instead builds all of its safety on the fact that you keep holding the ring.
One last thing belongs in the decision. This is a product with very little published data — four measurements, one material, one color. There’s no manual, no EU declaration of conformity to read, no country of origin, and no product weight. For a completely manual silicone product, that isn’t surprising, since there is no electrical safety documentation to record. But anyone who wants a complete data sheet before buying won’t find one here, and that’s something you should know in advance.
ORION does not publish a manufacturer warranty for Black Velvets Anal Beads on the product page of the item. That sets the product apart from brands like Satisfyer and Womanizer, which provide fifteen and five years of voluntary warranty, respectively, and print out the terms. There is no such commitment to lean on here, and it’s a statement rather than an accusation: a molded silicone product without moving parts does not have the same failure patterns as a product with a motor and battery.
What applies, on the other hand, is your statutory rights, and in practice they are the only protection you have here. Under the Swedish Sale of Goods Act (konsumentköplagen), you have three years of right to complain about defects in the goods, regardless of what the manufacturer promises or does not promise. A material defect — a seam that fails during normal use, a surface that comes loose — is a defect in the meaning of the law and should be reported to the store you bought from, not to ORION.
With purchases made at a distance, you also have a right of withdrawal for fourteen days under the Act on Distance Contracts and Contracts Outside Business Premises. Be aware that in practice the right of withdrawal is strongly limited for hygiene products that have been taken out of a sealed package — and an anal product is precisely such an item. The package here is a hanging display card, so assess the product based on the measurements before you open it: a total length of 40 centimeters and beads measuring between 2.3 and 3.9 centimeters are details that all five sources agree on, and you can rely on them without breaking the seal. The right to complain about defects, however, always applies. If you have questions about what applies in your case, Konsumentverket guides you via Hallå konsument.
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