What Makes A Nipple Clamp Unique?
Clamps, clips, pinchers, and pegs...
When people ask about our nipple clamps, we usually break it down to a few factors that contribute the most to the overall sensory experience. Whether you’re entirely new to the world of nipple clamps or a hardened veteran, these are the characteristics that you should look for when choosing the right pair for you!
Surface Area
How much skin is the force of the clamp bearing down on? Clamps that contact nipples with a small surface area will tend to have a sharper, more biting pain profile. Clamps that distribute the force will produce more of a blunt, throbbing pain.
Teeth & Texture
Once a nipple clamp starts to bite into flesh, the surface of the skin will stretch around the teeth or texture on the surface of the clamp. Clamps with sharper, finer teeth tend to have a stronger grip and will produce a stingy feeling as they bite in. Clamps with broader and deeper teeth will produce a deeper, achy feeling as they are tightened down.
Power & Leverage
Not every nipple clamp is capable of keeping up with the hardest players. At Terrible Toyshop, we generally gravitate toward heavy duty, highly capable nipple clamps. That being said, some clamps will serve you better than others if you're looking to apply some serious pressure.
Taken together, these three attributes can tell you pretty much everything you need to understand how nipple clamps will feel when applied to someone’s nipples. The rest of this article will discuss each of the nipple clamps we sell at Terrible Toyshop. We extend each discussion to consider the weight of each clamp as well as any special features that are unique to a particular design.
Before we get into the good stuff, one thing worth mentioning is that all of Terrible Toyshop’s original nipple clamps are highly adjustable. We are often disappointed by clamps that are limited in one way or another in the amount of force they can deliver. While we avoid spring loaded nipple clamps in our own designs, we do still have a few of the more interesting clamps offered by other manufacturers.
Nipple Traps
The Nipple Traps were the first set of nipple clamps that Terrible Toyshop created. These clamps were designed to bring the harsh, utilitarian form of bear traps into the bedroom with a colourful splash. Now available in two sizes, the Nipple Traps are truly a force to be reckoned with!
Surface Area: Small
The thin jaws on these clamps apply force on a very small area, which produces a sharper, more biting pain than other clamps we offer.
Teeth & Texture: Fine & Shallow
The Nipple Traps feature V-shaped interlocking teeth but the teeth are not sharp. The texture enhances grip, but they do not add much to the sensation.
Power & Leverage: High
Both sizes of Nipple Trap offer lots of leverage. Although they can be used with light pressure, these clamps will definitely not disappoint heavy players.
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Yellow/Pink
Black/Red (limited quantities)
Nipple Traps (Pair)
C$24.00 – C$36.00With the standard size weighing in at ⅜oz (10g) per clamp and the XL model at ¾oz (20g), the Nipple Traps are our lightest nipple clamps. Although they do not weigh you down on their own, these clamps have an extremely secure grip and are ideal for adding weight as your needs may require.
Overall, the Nipple Traps are extremely versatile, able to provide sensations from a light pinch to a relentless grip, as the occasion requires. Although they have an eye-catching design, they’re not just a pretty face. The Nipple Traps are a powerhouse when you need a rugged clamp for nipple stretching and predicament bondage.
Whichever size you choose, the Nipple Traps are simple yet versatile, with a form factor that is sure to bring a smile to your partner’s face… a smile which will soon disappear if they’re the one about to get trapped.
Pro Tip: If the bear trap aesthetic tickles your fancy, definitely go check out the matching Pussy Trap and Breast Traps. The Nipple Traps also make an excellent pairing with Terrible Toyshop’s Rigger’s Delight Nipple Stretcher. If you are a nipple torture aficionado, these are a must-have combination.
Meat Hammer Nipple Clamps
The Meat Hammer Nipple Clamps are Terrible Toyshop’s most popular nipple clamp. These clamps were designed to emulate the texture of a meat tenderizing hammer. With a broad hinge spanning the full width of the clamp, this utilitarian design delivers a deep, throbbing bite.
Surface Area: Large
The square clamping platforms on the Meat Hammer Nipple Clamps bear down on a full square inch of flesh. The clamps deliver an intense, deep, throbbing pain.
Teeth & Texture: Coarse & Deep
The interlocking pyramid-shaped teeth create an aching feeling at many points. The clamps leave a distinct checker board pattern on the skin after they are removed.
Power & Leverage: Medium-High
These clamps perform well under high levels of pressure. At higher forces, each side of the clamp will flex slightly, which keeps pressure evenly spread across the clamping platforms.
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Black/Blue
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Blue/Yellow
Yellow/Pink
Black/Red (limited quantities)
Meat Hammer Nipple Clamps (Pair)
C$35.00Weighing in at ¾oz (20g) per clamp, the Meat Hammer Nipple Clamp is a fairly lightweight nipple clamp, allowing you to focus on the sensation of the clamp without much added pull.
Overall, the Meat Hammer Nipple Clamp is a highly capable nipple clamp that distinguishes itself from most commercially available products on the market. The broad and deep teeth press deep into the flesh and produce an urgent, achy feeling over a fairly broad area. When they are removed after a hard session, these clamps can leave a beautiful checker board impression on the freshly tenderized skin, leaving you with more than just a memory. 😉
Pro Tip: If the idea of meat tenderizing gear gets you excited, be sure to check out our legendary Clit Tenderizer.
Para-hell-ogram Nipple Clamps
The Para-hell-ogram Nipple Clamps are Terrible Toyshop’s flagship luxury nipple clamp. These clamps use a unique cantilevered mechanism to both twist and squeeze the nipple at the same time. Coupled with sharp triangular teeth, there is just nothing else that quite compares to these beauties. Available in two sizes, the Para-hell-ograms are a must-have sensory experience for the nipple clamping connoisseur.
Surface Area: Medium-Large
The rectangular toothed platforms generously spread force over a fairly large area, although the clamps are best suited to focus on the areola (as opposed to the nub of the nipple).
Teeth & Texture: Medium-Fine & Sharp
The triangular teeth are angled the clamp's lateral motion and really bite when the clamp is tightened. The teeth produce an intense stinging sensation over the whole clamped area.
Power & Leverage: High
The Para-hell-ogram's robust cantilever mechanism strikes a perfect balance between its unique twisting motion and raw clamping power. These clamps are suitable for hard players.
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Black/Blue
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Blue/Pink
Blue/Yellow
Yellow/Pink
Black/Red (limited quantities)
Para-hell-ogram Nipple Clamps (Pair)
C$48.00 – C$60.00 Overall, the Para-hell-ogram is the number one staff favourite among all of the nipple clamps that we offer. As keen connoisseurs of painful sensory experiences, we love this clamp because of the sheer intensity and wide variety of sensations that it delivers. The angled teeth and the Para-hell-ogram’s unique lateral motion bite into the skin to create an acute stinging feeling that spreads across the entire clamped area, and the overall squeeze is second to none. Honestly, we just can’t recommend this clamp enough!
With respect to sizing, the standard size of Para-hell-ogram should be suitable for most users and applications. Because this clamp tends to focus on the areola, we recommend going with the XL model only if you’re looking for something appropriate for the very largest nipples.
The Devil's Lotus Nipple Clamps
In an an unholy marriage of form and function, the Devil’s Lotus Nipple Clamps are possibly the most eye-catching nipple clamp design on the market today. Unlike virtually all other nipple clamps you’re likely to encounter, the Devil’s Lotus uses a rotating knob to close its petals, tightening the five points down on the nipple. Because of the wide range of motion of each petal, the Lotus can be used to do anything from enclosing and clamping just the nub of the nipple to ruthlessly grabbing the entire areola like a claw.
Surface Area: Medium-Small
The tip of each petal clamps down on a small surface area, but altogether, the clamp has a more moderate effect because the force is spread around the nipple at five points.
Teeth & Texture: Thin & Sharp
When the Devil's Lotus is used like a claw on the entire areola, the teeth feel quite sharp. When used on the nub of the nipple, the pressure around the nipple is the dominant sensation.
Power & Leverage: Medium
The Devil's Lotus is as capable of hard play as any of Terrible Toyshop's nipple clamps, however it is a bit more difficult to fine tune the tension at high levels of pressure.
Weighing in at 1oz (30g) per clamp, the Devil’s Lotus provides a satisfying weight when it is in use. When the lotus is applied to just the nub of the nipple, the clamp tends to hang off the nipple and its round shape will naturally roll as it swings back and forth against the rib cage, which provides some extra twisting stimulation. When the Lotus is applied to the entire areola, the clamp tends to feel less heavy and does not move around on its own.
Overall, the Devil’s Lotus is a highly versatile clamp and will add a new palette of sensations to your toy bag. For scenes that allow the sub to move around, the Lotus can be applied to the nub of the nipple and the clamp can be left to dangle like a pendant, bouncing and rolling off their body with every motion. For a more brutal aesthetic, the Devil’s Lotus can be used to gather the entire areola in it’s claw-like petals, biting into a more substantial volume of flesh. Whatever your sensory preferences may be, the Devil’s Lotus will deliver in style. The Lotus’s attractive design looks great both when it is in use as well as displayed in full blossom among your toy collection.
Pro Tip: We also sell single Devil’s Lotuses as clit clamps because the clamp’s five petals are well suited to navigate the inner labia and clitoral hood when clamping the clitoris. Pick up a third Lotus with your pair of nipple clamps to complete the unholy trinity!
Bad Princess Nipple Clamps
Featuring ornamentation inspired by tiaras and sceptres, the Bad Princess Nipple Clamps are designed to showcase its elegant lines and traditionally feminine detailing. These clamps offer an excellent entry point for beginners, an adorable accoutrement for DDLG enthusiasts, and a wonderfully effeminate accessory for sissies.
For beginners, the Bad Princess Nipple Clamps provide a straightforward clamping sensation without the more aggressive teeth featured in Terrible Toyshop’s other nipple clamps. From an aesthetic perspective, DDLG folks and sissies will be delighted with the Bad Princess Nipple Clamps’ cute yet seductive styling.
Surface Area: Medium
The clamping platform offers a medium sized functional area that can be applied to the nub of the nipple or even a bit of the areola to create a blunt squeezing pain.
Teeth & Texture: Flat & textured
The clamping platform does not feature teeth, however the grain of the 3D printed surface adds some grip to help keep the clamp from slipping off.
Power & Leverage: Medium
The Bad Princess Nipple Clamp delivers solid pressure, but it tops out when the bottom of the frame starts to flex. This clamp may leave the hardest players wanting more.
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Bad Princess Nipple Clamps (Pair)
C$34.00Weighing in at ¾oz (20g) per clamp, the Bad Princess Nipple Clamps are among the lighter nipple clamps that we offer (and are certainly lighter than they look). The lightweight design sits nicely against the body, and its weight is distributed to balance in a natural vertical orientation.
Overall, the Bad Princess Nipple Clamps offer an attractive yet functional option for beginners, DDLG enthusiasts, and sissies. Although its moderate power may leave the hardest players wanting, the clamp is certainly strong enough to challenge the pain tolerance for all but the most battle hardened sadomasochists. All said, the Bad Princess Nipple Clamp is a cute and seductive accessory that will bring a unique aesthetic to your next play date!
Pro Tip: Terrible Toyshop also offers the matching Bad Princess Labia Clamp, the perfect accessory to complete your Bad Princess ensemble.
Lockable Nipple Clamps
There is literally nothing like the feelings that rush over you when you hear the lock snap shut. In yet another revolutionary stride forward in nipple clamp technology, Terrible Toyshop brings you the Lockable Nipple Clamp. This clamp, more than any other that we offer, caters to hard BDSM players who like to take bondage to extremes.
The Lockable Nipple Clamp is the most powerful nipple clamp in our selection, and possibly anywhere. Using the brutal pyramid-shaped teeth first introduced on the Meat Hammer Nipple Clamps, we cut down the size of the clamping platform so that the force would be more concentrated on a small area. Once you dial in the pressure, apply a lock to one of the holes on the knob, and that clamp is going nowhere.
When the locks come off, the highly leveraged mechanism in the Lockable Nipple Clamps only allows them to be removed very slowly and smoothly – as a result, one of the most appealing features of the Lockable Nipple Clamps is that they do not cause the acute pain usually associated with taking nipple clamps off.
Surface Area: Medium-Small
The precision clamping platforms on the Lockable Nipple Clamps are intended to focus on the nub of the nipple. The small surface area delivers a deep, searing pain.
Teeth & Texture: Coarse & Deep
The interlocking pyramid-shaped teeth create an intense aching feeling at several points. These clamps leave a small checker board pattern on the skin after they are removed.
Power & Leverage: High
The Lockable Nipple Clamps perform extremely well under high levels of pressure. These are the most powerful nipple clamps that we offer at Terrible Toyshop.
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Black/Blue
Pink/Black
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Blue/Yellow
Yellow/Pink
Black/Red (limited quantities)
Lockable Nipple Clamps (Pair)
C$38.00Weighing in at 1½oz (45g) per clamp (without locks), the Lockable Nipple Clamps offer a considerable heft as they dangle from the nipples. For harder players, padlocks can be connected to chains and other added sources of weight. With sufficient pressure, these clamps also perform well in scenes that involve nipple stretching and predicament bondage. Note that the coarse and deep teeth require more pressure to resist slipping (compared with clamps that feature finer and sharper teeth), so these clamps will be most appreciated by people with a relatively high pain tolerance for nipple play.
Overall, the Lockable Nipple Clamps are Terrible Toyshop’s best offering for heavy BDSM players looking for new and interesting ways to test their limits. The Lockable Nipple Clamps are capable of delivering an immense level of pressure concentrated on a fairly small area, and the pyramid shaped teeth are the most brutal design that we offer. If you are intrigued by the idea of having an unbearable, deep, searing pain delivered by a weighty apparatus locked onto your nipples, there really is no better choice you could make. 😉
Pro Tip: We at Terrible Toyshop love lockable toys! Check out our selection of restraints to explore all of the ways that you can experience bondage under lock and key. The Lockable Nipple Clamps also make an excellent pairing with Terrible Toyshop’s Rigger’s Delight Nipple Stretcher. If you are a nipple torture aficionado, these are a must-have combination.
Master Series Monarch Clover Clamps
Coming from the folks who started a company specialized in making adjustable and brutal nipple clamps, consider it high praise that we wholeheartedly recommend any design from another manufacturer. Apart from our own designs, the Master Series Monarch Clover Clamps are the only nipple clamps we’ve ever truly loved.
Although we do not normally approve of spring loaded nipple clamps (these clamps do not have a gentle setting), the Monarch Clover Clamps are just so deliciously brutal that we couldn’t help but have our hearts won over. As with all clover style nipple clamps, the Master Series Monarch Clover Clamps clamp down more tightly when you pull on the chain, and the grip of these clamps is second to none, should you want to add some weight to the equation… we often do. 😉
Surface Area: Small
The tiny clamping pads on the Monarch Clover Clamps concentrate all of the clamp's force on a small area, delivering a high amount of pain on a very focused point.
Teeth & Texture: Fine & Deep
The clamping pads feature Lego-like nubs, offering the best grip that we've ever come across in a set of clover clamps. The concentrated, searing pain is top notch.
Power & Leverage: High
After giving the teeth a few minutes to set into flesh, these clamps will withstand an extraordinary amount of tugging and pulling. We haven't found a limit to the amount of force that these clamps can deliver.
Weighing in at 2oz (55g), the Monarch Clover Clamp is lightweight, yet it boasts a sturdy build that can take even the most extreme added weight in stride.
Overall, in a marketplace saturated with similar looking clover clamp designs, the Master Series Monarch Clover Clamps rise to the surface as the cream of the crop. These clamps are, hands down, the best clamps we’ve ever found for nipple stretching and predicament bondage applications.
Pro Tip: The Master Series Monarch Clover Clamps make a deadly pairing with Terrible Toyshop’s Rigger’s Delight Nipple Stretcher. If you are a nipple torture aficionado, these are a must-have combination.
Stainless Steel Nipple Pegs
As the only other exception to our preference about spring loaded clamps, we really like Rouge’s Stainless Steel Nipple Pegs. In addition to being perfect for temperature play, these clamps offer a striking visual contrast between no-nonsense stainless steel and an adorably small form factor.
Surface Area: Small
The small clamping pads on the Stainless Steel Nipple Pegs make them perfect to target the nub of the nipple.
Teeth & Texture: Smooth
With a polished stainless steel finish, these clamps do not add additional sensations to distract from the pressure.
Power & Leverage: Medium
These clamps may apply too much pressure for the most sensitive nipples but will likely be satisfying for most.
Weighing in at 1oz (30g) for the pair, Rouge’s Stainless Steel Nipple Pegs feel heavy in the hand because of their dense metal construction. That said, the clamps themselves are quite small, so they’re don’t feel as heavy once they’re attached to your nipples.
Overall, the Stainless Steel Nipple Pegs deserve a place on your bedside table. Although these clamps’ main source of appeal is their potential for temperature play, we love that they’re quick and easy to use, and they look super cute in photos (you know, the type you might snap to tease a partner while they’re at work).
Fetish Fantasy Barrel Nipple Clamps
Although these clamps don’t appeal to our more extreme sadomasochistic preferences, this interesting design from Pipedream caught our eye and we decided to give them a try. All said, this is possibly the best option we’ve seen for sensitive nipples. The barrel mechanism screws in to adjust the level of force, and the rubber tips provide excellent grip, even at lower pressure. With a nice amount of weight, these clamps will allow people with sensitive nipples to get the chained clover clamp experience without the base level of pain required by spring loaded clamps.
Surface Area: Small
The small clamping pads on the Barrel Nipple Clamps concentrate all of the clamp's force on a small area.
Teeth & Texture: Smooth
Although the rubber pads are smooth, these clamps offer a surprisingly good grip at lower levels of pressure.
Power & Leverage: Low-Medium
We like these clamps' adjustable mechanism, but it's not going to provide enough force for harder players.
Weighing in at 2.5oz (70g), the Fetish Fantasy Barrel Nipple Clamps offer an experience similar to clover clamps for people with sensitive nipples.
Overall, the Fetish Fantasy Barrel Nipple Clamps offer top-notch functionality with an interesting mechanical design. While they don’t deliver the level of pain that we usually shoot for, they’re a solid option if everything else on this list might be a little too much for your taste. 😉
Final Words
We hope that this showdown has helped you narrow down the selection of our awful nipple clamping creations. If you still have any questions, feel free to contact us – we love to chat! 🙂
