4 Tips To Make Sex Romantic

Want to make your sexperience more than just a deed-between-the sheets? These expert tips will help you keep it sweet and spicy.

- Jill Hamilton

No doubt about it: fast, hot, rip-your-clothes-off sex can add plenty of excitement to a relationship. But when it comes to overall coupled-up bliss, slow, sweet, sensual nights in bed have the biggest impact. These sexperiences capitalise on the power of bonding hormones to make you both feel more physically and emotionally intertwined.

Try the following (scientifically proven!) moves to max out on loveydovey feelings.

HAVE A TANTRIC KISS

During positions in which you’re face-to-face, bring your lips in super close so that you’re almost (but not quite) kissing, then inhale when your partner exhales. “The sensation that you’re almost breathing for each other is extremely potent and quite erotic,” says US-based tantra educator Xanet Pailet, author of Living An Orgasmic Life.

USE YOUR WORDS

Speaking up as the action intensifies can boost the happy chemicals serotonin and dopamine in your brain, says US-based sex and relationship therapist and boardcertified psychiatrist Dion Metzger, MD. Here are three intimate-AF ways to express yourself.