Eat Me

Great sex, like a great meal, is bursting with ways to delight your senses. Incorporating tastes, textures, and smells from the kitchen into your sex life is not only delicious, but it can make sex incredibly exotic and exciting as well. Think about how sexy it is to watch the object of your desire seductively lick, suck, or nibble on their food; now imagine them licking, sucking, or nibbling that tasty morsel off you.

The kitchen is ripe with props to use for a delicious romp. Use items with especially appealing smells, tastes, textures, or temperatures. One particularly delectable treat to try is nutella. It's sticky (less runny than chocolate sauce), and ever so tasty. Try spreading it on your partner's armpits, nipples, loins, toes, wrists etc. Then lap away and watch your partner go wild while you enjoy a yummy treat. A fun game, I learned about recently involves blindfolding your partner then spreading things on their erogenous zones and have them guess what it is as you lick, suck, or gnaw it off them. You can give them hints by kissing them after licking it off or slipping one of your treat-laden fingers into their mouth. You can also give them some tasty hints to your own pleasure trail by smearing a little pathway along your body that you'd like them to follow with their tongue. Another game is to paint pictures or messages on your partner and have them guess what you're drawing. Some caveats here: people are often tempted to heat things like marshmallows and hot fudge sauce. Please do remember that one's naughty bits are especially sensitive so checking the temperature before application is imperative. Also feel free to spread food over the body, but inserting food into the vagina is a no-no. If you like the thought of new tastes in the bedroom, but don't want the mess, try flavored condoms or lubes (a nice one to try is the new "Good Head" minty lube at www.intimategifts.com).

Hot and cold sensations are also very stimulating. Tracing an ice cube or Popsicle over your partner's body (preferably once you've gotten them a little hot and bothered) will drive your partner wild. Drive them even crazier by alternating between hot and cold by kissing or licking them after taking sips of ice water and then hot water or tea (again I don't mean scorching hot here).

You can also appeal to sensation by using carbonation like champagne bubbles. Pour a little bubbly on to your partner's nipples and then allow it to bubble a little before you slurp it up, for extra pleasure blow on the bubbles as they fizz. Another sensational trick is using mentholatum or minty product to thrill your partner. Brush your teeth, or pop a mint or lozenge in your mouth before going down on your man or before kissing your lady's nipples. There is an extra exhilarating sensation both from the freshness, but also the extra texture as you move it around in your mouth against the skin. There is a heated internal debate among the Naughty Girl Collective over which is more effective here altoids or halls. Not sure who you agree with? Only one way to find out …