5 Ways To Step Up Your Sex Game In 2025
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Hoping to spice up your sex life in 2025? Author and podcaster, Dr. Jessica O’Reilly, has listed the five hottest sex tips that may help boost your intimacy to the next level in the new year.
1. Light things up with multisensory integration.
In a Nov. 26 article for Astroglide, Dr. O’Reilly recommended that couples try a tantalizing technique known as multisensory integration. This approach involves creating the perfect mood by incorporating ambiance, visual stimulation, tactile exploration, and other sensory elements to elevate and intensify sexy time with your partner.
According to Dr. O’Reilly, multisensory integration begins with visual stimulation. You can achieve this by creating a sensual ambiance in the bedroom by dimming the lamps or using colored light bulbs and candles to create an intimate and relaxing environment.
“Consider hanging erotic art or playing sexy videos in the background,” for an added touch, wrote Dr. O’Reilly.
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Take things up a notch with auditory stimulation. Dr. O’Reilly recommended curating a playlist of your favorite love songs—music that can guide the rhythm of your movements or evoke powerful emotions with symphonic crescendos. To further set the mood, incorporate tactile and olfactory elements into your space. Choose luxurious silk sheets or textured blindfolds to provide new sensations and light-scented candles, diffuse essential oils, or burn incense known to enhance arousal.
Dr. O’Reilly suggested using fragrances like vanilla, jasmine, peppermint, and sandalwood, which are particularly linked to heightened sensuality. Finally, wrap up your multisensory experience with some gustatory indulgence to truly engage all five senses.
“Incorporate flavored lubricants (like Astroglide Strawberry), edible body paints, and aphrodisiac foods into your routine to engage the sense of taste,” the sex expert penned.
2. Explore your partner with Irrumatio.
Irrumatio is the act of combining oral intimacy with dominance and submission. You can practice this spicy technique with your partner by adopting a submissive role. Offer yourself up by helping them to achieve total pleasure. Irrumatio can be achieved by kneeling or positioning yourself at their feet, creating the illusion that you are at their beck and call. On the other hand, you can explore dominance by exercising control over their most sensitive and vulnerable areas, perhaps using the symbolic power of your teeth’s sharpness to emphasize your authority.
“For the receiver, oral pleasure involves surrendering a degree of control while also holding a subtle form of power, with the proximity of their phallus to their partner’s throat symbolizing vulnerability and dominance,” Dr. O’Reilly wrote of the irrumatio technique.
3. Edging can help to intensify the climax.
Edging is the act of bringing yourself or your partner to the brink of an orgasm, controlling when you or they hit a total climax. This can help to intensify and light up physical sensations in the body along with emotional intimacy during sex, creating a stronger connection between you and your partner.
4. Lube can heighten sensations during sex.
Lube can help intensify sensations in the body when applied to the right erogenous zones. Practice this by applying a small amount of lube to your partner’s inner arms, lower back, or thighs, using your hands to massage and caress them.
5. Try the JOYSTICK Technique.
You can finish things off with the Joystick Technique, which Dr. O’Reilly said can help to create a surrender and control dynamic between you and your partner. Don’t be shy, get nasty with it by using your face, lips, and tongue to provide oral pleasure to your partner during sex. Allow them to place their hands on your head and move you around like a joystick “directing the pace, rhythm, and intensity to align with their desires,” the sex guru said.
The joystick technique sounds fun! Will you be trying any of these steamy techniques with your partner in the new year?
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