Sex Tips

Whether you’re a newbie to the world of sexuality and sexual pleasure, or enjoy a regular and active sex life, I’m sure you’d agree we can all benefit from a few extra sex tips from time to time. Excuse the pun, but it’s so easy to get into a rut where your sex life is concerned. Have a look through these sex tips articles here at the Cara Sutra sex blog for advice on how to improve sex for both you and your lucky partner(s).

Which area of sex would you like to improve? Perhaps you’re wondering how to build more excitement during your masturbation sessions and self-pleasure times. Whether you prefer to use sex toys or explore new routes to that orgasmic destination with your fingertips and some lube, there’s helpful advice here for you. Or maybe you’ve been curious about how to enhance the intimacy and create more of a passionate build-up during foreplay with your partner? Or wondering what foreplay is, and if it really matters anyway.

How about during the act of sex itself? Sex covers much more than simply PiV, hetero sex which is all too often portrayed as the default type by the media. Although PiV sex is incredibly enjoyable for a lot of people, other couples enjoy anal sex, strap-on sex, oral sex and physical intimacy which may or may not include penetration and/or orgasm. Enjoy browsing my sex tips articles and learning more about the world of sexual pleasure, whether solo or shared.

Gay Sex Toys Guide: Adult Toys for Gay Lovers & Lesbian Couples

Love is love, and it deserves to be fully celebrated in all its forms. Read on to discover my gay sex toys guide, where I’ll be showcasing adult toys ideal for gay couples, to enhance your intimate and passionate private time together.

Post-Sex Clean-Up: How to Avoid the Wet Patch

What do you use to clean up after sex? Whether it's PiV sex (penis in vagina) or other types of sexual pleasure, the wet patch isn’t often talked about in sex advice columns, sexy stories or other erotic media. Bodily fluids, lube and other liquids are part and parcel of sexy fun, however – so finding a neat solution for post-sex clean-up is a great idea.

Dirty Talk: The Expert Guide to Talking Filth During Sex

How do you do great dirty talk? If you're feeling tongue-tied in the bad way during sex chat, you're in the right place. Today I'm sharing a long read; an expert guide to talking filth during sex. And I mean sex whether that's in person or long distance, via phone sex, video messaging or even good old text chats.

How To Be Dominant Outside the Bedroom: 12 Lifestyle BDSM Tips

What if you and your partner would like a more 'everyday' style of Dom and sub relationship? A consensual power exchange which isn’t limited to kinky play sessions in the bedroom, but enhances every part of your life together? In today’s article I will explore lifestyle BDSM from the Dom’s point of view, revealing how to be Dominant outside the bedroom.

How To Be Dominant In The Bedroom: 12 Kinky Sex Tips

How can you exude confidence, assertiveness, and that irresistible Dominant streak? What are some handy ways to tap into consensual cruelty and punish your eager partner? And how do you overcome shyness and nervous giggles? In today’s article I’m sharing my 12 tips on how to be Dominant in the bedroom.

Bathmate Penis Pumps Guide: Hydro, HydroMax & HydroXtreme

Bathmate is undoubtedly the name when it comes to trusted and reliable penis pumps. Their pumps and phallic enhancement products are the result of constant research and development tweaks, alongside real user feedback. Bathmate penis pumps are hydrotherapy-based, hence the ‘bath’ part of the brand name. How do they work – and do they actually work?

5 Kinky Uses for Christmas Tinsel

As I’m focusing on ‘sexing up’ Christmas across a few blog features this year, my mind turned to how tinsel could be used in a sensual and erotic way. In this feature I’ll be sharing my ideas for 5 kinky uses for Christmas tinsel – perhaps changing how you look at this seemingly innocent festive adornment forever!

Festive Foreplay Ideas: Gift Yourselves A More Exciting Sex Life This Christmas

Elsewhere on the blog you can find tips on how to sex up your Christmas, but today I want to focus on an oft-forgotten area of a couple’s sex life – foreplay. Sex is so much better once you’re both properly in the mood, and with the 10 festive foreplay ideas I’m sharing here today you can gift yourselves a more exciting sex life this Christmas and through the years to come.

12 Days of Festive Romance: How Couples Can Sex Up Christmas

I’ve given some thought to how couples can sex up Christmas and enjoy unparalleled erotic intimacy through what can otherwise be a dark season. Light up your libido, hold on to your Santa hats and let’s get those erogenous zones tingling with my tasty tips for 12 days of festive romance!

What Is Fisting? How To Fist Your Partner Safely

Heard of fisting? This sexual activity isn’t talked about much in the mainstream, but plenty of partners enjoy fisting. You can fist someone vaginally or anally. Because of the shape and size of our hands, even as a closed fist, fisting can seem like a terrifying prospect - something only done by fetishists into sadism and masochism. Today I’m going to thrust into this intriguing and often mysterious activity with both hands...

Ruined Orgasms: How To Ruin An Orgasm (& Why You’d Want To)

While orgasms are not the goal of sex with a partner, they’re often a highlight. Then there are all the orgasms enjoyed by people during solo pleasure sessions – masturbation. Why then, do some people pursue and enjoy a ruined orgasm? What are ruined orgasms? How do you ruin an orgasm, and why on earth would you want to?

What Is A Violet Wand? History of Violet Wands & Kinky Uses

Violet wands are commonly used stimulation tools in the realm of BDSM & Electrosex. They provide a uniquely thrilling experience for those exploring kinky pleasure and consensual power exchange. Read on as I delve into the history of violet wands, explain what they are & how they work, and reveal their kinky uses.

Could Labiaplasty Fix Your Sex Life? Personal Experience of Vulva Surgery

What is labiaplasty? Labiaplasty is a form of vulva surgery by vaginoplasty surgeons which changes the size, shape and look of the labia majora and/or labia minora. This may be done for increased physical comfort, self-confidence or sexual enhancement reasons.

The Folded Deckchair Sex Position (& Why We Love It)

Have you ever heard of the Folded Deckchair sex position? I was surprised to find out that one of my husband and I’s favourite sex positions had a name. To be honest, it shouldn’t have surprised me that much as the Internet is full of sexual position listicles with such titles as "69 Sex Positions You Never Knew Existed!" and "100 New Sex Positions You Need To Try Right NOW!".

Tips For Spring Cleaning Your Sex Life

In a long-term relationship, it’s easy to fall into the trap of comfortable but ultimately monotonous sex with each other. That’s why I wanted to share my top tips for spring cleaning your sex life. While everything else is getting a spring clean, don’t neglect your personal and shared sexual pleasure!

What Happens At A Smear Test? My Cervical Screening Exam

It can be easy to 'stick your head in the sand' when it comes to those 3-yearly cervical smear tests. I know, because I’ve been there and done it myself. The reminder letter arrives... I open it, groan, and shove it into a drawer and try to forget about it. Eventually I force myself to put my big girl pants on and march myself down to the doctor’s surgery, before taking them off again for the nurse.

Masturbation in a Sex-Positive World (3 Trends)

If you’re reading this, you’re most likely a sex-positive person. But shall we talk about Masturbation Positivity? Despite an ongoing shift in sex culture and education, the self-pleasure taboo remains. Let’s break it! 
How To Give A Sexy Webcam Show

How To Give A Sexy Webcam Show

Treating your partner to a sexy show via video call is an easy & imaginative way to reignite the spark in your sex life, or to keep the passion stoked in a long-distance relationship. However, I know how easy it is to feel apprehensive about anything involving cameras, never mind during intensely vulnerable moments of shared intimacy. In this feature I will be sharing my top tips & advice on how to give a sexy webcam show where you will seduce your partner with confidence, creativity & sensuality.

The Best Products For Sexual Relief In A Heatwave

Sex and related intimacy is obviously a very close quarters and usually quite frenetic activity. Even if both the bedroom and your bodies start off as cool as physically possible in the hot weather, you’ll soon become hot, sticky and sweaty once desire is allowed to run rampant and you’re both lost in carnal pleasures.

How To Cool Down Hot Summer Sex

If only there was a way to still enjoy sizzling sex and masturbation during a heatwave, without melting into a distinctly unsexy, sticky mess. In this feature I’ll be revealing how to cool down hot summer sex with some tried & tested techniques, so you can still enjoy intense intimacy whatever the weather.