What Is a Sex Essential?

Sex essentials are the practical basics across the store's Essentials aisle: toy cleaners, condoms, orgasm delay gels for him, stimulation gels for her, oral sex enhancers, enhancement creams, grooming, and sex toy storage. None of it is the main event, and all of it decides how the main event goes.

It is the aisle you restock rather than browse. Our essentials range spans ten sub-categories and several hundred products, and the top sellers are the ones on this page.

Are Sex Essentials Right for You?

If you own toys, you need a cleaner and somewhere to keep them. If you have sex, you need condoms and probably a gel of some kind. Essentials are not aspirational; they are the things that make the rest of the drawer work and the things you run out of at the wrong moment.

It suits every customer of the store, which is the point: new toy owners, couples restocking, blokes who want to last longer, and anyone whose collection has outgrown the bedside drawer. The toy cleaner guide and the condom guide go deeper on the two biggest sub-categories.

The honest trade-off is that enhancement creams and delay gels work differently for everyone and need a patch test, bulk condoms are a commitment to one size, and a good storage box costs more than the toys it holds when you start out.

Types of Sex Essentials: Which One Suits You?

Sex essentials come in four types, and the job decides the pick: care and storage, protection, performance products for him, and pleasure products for both.

Care and storage

Toy cleaner and a place to keep things. The Premium Toy & Body Cleaner Spray is the cleaner spray that outsells every other product in the store; the Large Sex Toy Storage Box is a large lockable storage box for a serious collection.

Protection

Condoms, bought in bulk by blokes who have stopped paying chemist prices. The 49Mm Naked Condoms X144 is a box of 144 Four Seasons Naked in the 49mm fit.

Performance for him

Delay gels and enhancement creams. The Edge Orgasm Delay Gel is Sensuous Edge, the delay gel that sells thousands a year; the Max Size Erection Cream 148ml is Swiss Navy's Max Size cream, a topical marketed for firmness and sensation.

Pleasure for both

Stimulation gels for her and oral enhancers. The Orgie Orgasm Drops - Vibe! 15 ml is Orgie's orgasm drops; the Strawberry Deep Throat Spray is Good Head's strawberry deep throat spray; the Shiatsu Pheromone Eau De Parfum Men Pheromone Fragrance For Men 50ml is the pheromone fragrance from the grooming aisle.

How to Choose Your First Sex Essential

Choose in this order: what protects what you own, then what you run out of, then what changes the night. Buy the boring ones first.

1. Care: cleaner first, storage when it is needed

Every toy owner needs the Premium Toy & Body Cleaner Spray on day one. The Large Sex Toy Storage Box storage box is for when the drawer stops closing; it locks, and it keeps silicone toys apart.

2. Protection: bulk if the size is right

The 49Mm Naked Condoms X144 is 144 condoms at a fraction of the chemist price, in a 49mm fit. Buy a small box of the same size first if you have not worn that fit before.

3. Performance: gel before cream

The Edge Orgasm Delay Gel delay gel is the gentler, cheaper first step. The Max Size Erection Cream 148ml enhancement cream is a topical for blokes who want more firmness and sensation; patch test both.

4. Pleasure: pick one and try it

The Orgie Orgasm Drops - Vibe! 15 ml drops for her and the Strawberry Deep Throat Spray spray for oral are each under $40 and each change a night. Add one to the next order rather than three at once.

Materials & Body-Safety

Toy cleaner is a water-based, alcohol-free antibacterial spray safe on silicone, TPE, glass and steel. Condoms here are natural latex, so pair them with water-based or silicone lube and never oil. Delay gels use a mild benzocaine formula; the enhancement cream and stimulation drops use botanical blends with menthol or L-arginine; all are for external use and all want a patch test.

The storage box is a lockable hard case with a soft lining. The oral spray is a flavoured water-based mist. Everything here lists its ingredients, and nothing here is anything more than a cosmetic or a personal care product.

How to Use a Sex Essential

Cleaner: spray the toy, wait thirty seconds, rinse or wipe, dry fully. Storage: silicone toys in their own pouches, apart from each other, cables coiled in the lid. Condoms: check the date, pinch the tip, roll down, water-based lube only.

Delay gel: a small amount on the head ten minutes before, wash off any excess so it does not transfer. Enhancement cream and stimulation drops: patch test, then a small amount as directed and give it a few minutes.

Deep throat spray: two sprays to the back of the throat a minute before. Fragrance: neck and chest, not below the belt.

Care, Cleaning & Storage

Keep gels, creams and sprays capped and out of the sun, and use them within a year of opening. Store condoms cool and dry, never in a wallet for weeks, and check the date.

Wipe the storage box out occasionally and let toys dry fully before they go in. A cleaner bottle lasts months; keep a spare when it drops below a quarter.

Our Top 8 Sex Essentials for 2026

These eight are the most re-ordered essentials in the store, drawn from across the essentials range, from the cleaner everyone buys to the storage box serious collectors settle on. All in stock and shipped discreetly Australia-wide.

Sex Essentials FAQ

Why Trust Naughty Boy

We are an Australian store built for blokes, and the essentials are what our customers re-order most. Every product here is one we stock, test and ship ourselves; the picks are the top sellers by a wide margin, not whichever brand is pushing stock this month.