Nope, not pokey at all. That part is soft enough plastic and it's "big" enough that it's not like a tiny hard thing jabbing at you.

*ahem*

So I gave the link to one of my supervisors (who's cool, I wouldn't have sent this link to say the head of the department or my male boss), and she said that the founder of Good Vibrations went to her college (Oberlin). Heh.