Sex Tips

Practical sex tips you can actually use in real life, for more pleasure, better intimacy and less second-guessing.

Welcome to my Sex Tips hub. This is where I keep practical, real-life advice for improving sex, deepening connection, and feeling more confident in your body and desires. Some tips are tiny and immediate. Others quietly change how you experience sex over time. Either way, this isn’t performance-based “do it perfectly” content. It’s sex-positive guidance for real people, real bodies and real relationships. No performance required. This category focuses on practical, everyday tips rather than deep guides or broader sexuality discussions. This archive brings together years of practical tips, experiments and real-life learning about what actually improves sex.

If you want broader guidance beyond tips, head to my main Sex Advice hub. If you’re in a more reflective mood and want wider sexuality topics, you might prefer Sexuality Articles. For right now, this page is all about practical improvements you can try, keep, tweak, or ditch as you learn what works for you.

What You’ll Find In My Sex Tips

This category gathers tips and guides across pleasure, confidence and connection, including:

  • Everyday bedroom tips that make sex feel better, not just look better
  • Pleasure-focused ideas for foreplay, arousal and getting out of autopilot
  • Communication tips that make consent, boundaries and desire easier to talk about
  • Solo sex tips for confidence, exploration and learning what you like, with routes into masturbation guides
  • Tips for couples and long-term relationships, with routes into relationship advice
  • Toy-friendly tips and ways to use toys as part of exploration, with routes into sex toy advice and sex toy guides, including practical help like my G-spot toys guide
  • Kink-aware tips when you want to explore something new safely, with routes into kinky sex advice

Where To Start

Not sure what you need yet? Start anywhere that feels relevant.

  • Want better sex fast? Look for posts with simple, practical steps you can try tonight, and keep the ones that genuinely work for you
  • Feeling a bit disconnected? Start with intimacy and communication tips, then explore my relationship advice archive
  • Trying to boost pleasure? Begin with arousal and foreplay tips, then explore solo confidence via my masturbation guides
  • Curious about toys? Start with my sex toy advice posts, then browse sex toy guides
  • Want something a bit kinkier? Explore consent-forward routes into kinky sex advice

My Approach

I write sex tips from lived experience, curiosity, and a deep dislike of shame. I’m not here to tell you what you “should” want. I’m here to offer options, perspective and practical ideas, so you can build a sex life that feels good to you, not one you’re performing for anyone else. If your reality includes stress, illness, disability, trauma history, ageing, hormones, parenting, or shifting desire, you’re not alone. This space makes room for all of that.

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Mile High Club: How to Have Sex on an Aeroplane

The Mile High Club is a source of endless fascination and speculation. How do people join this exclusive 'club'? More to the point, how do you join the mile-high club and get away with it? Does it even really exist, or are these airborne amorous adventures the stuff of myth and legend?

Silicone Lubes Guide

Recently, I wrote about the various types of sex lubes in my recent big guide to sexual lubricants. Today, I'd like to delve a little deeper into one of those types in particular, silicone lubricants. Why would you choose a lube which is silicone based? What can you use them for – and what are the pros and cons? Welcome to my silicone lubes 101: your complete guide!

Water-Based Lubes Guide

Water-based lubes are sexual lubricants with a formulation that has water as its main or 'base' ingredient. There may be various other components to the formulation, but water is the main one. As well as a descriptor of the main ingredient of these lubricants, the label 'water-based' helps to quickly and easily differentiate them from the various other types of lubes: silicone, oil-based, hybrid etc.

Complete Guide To Sex Lubes

LUBE. What is it? Who uses it? What are the different types? What is it used for? How and why is it used? Welcome to my big guide to sex lubes!

The Periodic Table of Kink: Explore the Fetish Poster

The Periodic Table of Kink turns a huge world of BDSM ideas into a clear visual poster. Below I explain what it is, how it is organised, smart ways to use it for exploration and education, and where to buy it.

Complete List of BDSM Fetishes and Kinks

For those who would like a handy list of BDSM fetishes and kinks, I believe I've found a fantastic resource. The UberKinky Periodic Table of Kink provides an easy to understand, visual representation of the majority of the recognised BDSM activities.

STIs List & Sexually Transmitted Infections Symptoms Checker

There's just no way to discuss sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and make it sound sexy, but adult sex education is undoubtedly a necessity. If even the thought of having an STI makes you feel ill, then it's best to be in possession of all the facts so you can make sure you're sexually cleaner than a t-shirt at the end of a laundry detergent ad.

What Are SSC and RACK? BDSM Safety Principles Explained

Two of the biggest consensual play templates in BDSM are SSC and RACK. What are SSC and RACK exactly, what are the main differences, how do they relate to general BDSM safety principles - and which one do you feel most comfortable with?

Sexual Foreplay Guide: Hot Pre-Sex Arousal Tips & Ideas

Brilliant sexual foreplay can mean the difference between a stagnant, monotonous sex life and keeping the spice and magic of a relationship alive. Are you stuck for ideas for fantastic before sex arousal and supremely arousing foreplay? Welcome to my comprehensive guide to lovers' arousal techniques: my sexual foreplay 101.
Big guide to lesbian sex toys - best sex toys for lesbians

Lesbian Sex Toys Guide

Our heteronormative, phallocentric society loves to promote the myth that sex begins and ends with penis-in-vagina. That the only true definition of sex is thrusting a penis into a vagina which then ejaculates at some point, which signals the End Of The Sex. I'm here to tell you that such a view is wrong on so many levels.

Female Chastity: How Women Can Explore Orgasm Denial and Erotic Control

Curious about female chastity? This guide explores orgasm denial for women, the appeal of restrictive devices and belts, and how the kink can be enjoyed alone or with a partner.

Bondage Toys Guide: Best Gear for Kinky Play

What can you use to restrain someone (or enjoy being restrained) in bondage? That's where bondage sex toys and bondage accessories come into their own. It helps having some background knowledge of just what's available in terms of bondage equipment, and why it's important to use items specifically designed for bondage rather than any old belt, strap or rope...

Spanking Toys Guide: Implements, Tools and Techniques

Does the mere thought of a raised Dominant hand, or a spanking toy whistling through the air, stir the tendrils of arousal? You might be wondering which spanking tools are best for effective corporal punishment. Welcome to my big spanking toys guide, in which you'll also find links to all our spanking toy reviews.

Bondage Beginner’s Guide: Safe, Sexy Rope Play Tips

Despite Fifty Shades of Grey helping to spotlight the joys of BDSM in the mainstream in recent years, plenty of people have been enjoying the physical, psychological and emotional liberation that the power exchange in D/s role-play offers. Due to the recent sharp rise in mainstream interest, I wanted to share my bondage top tips and advice in this beginner's guide to bondage today. Welcome to my complete bondage 101!

BDSM Beginner’s Guide: How Curious Minds Can Explore Safe, Kinky Fun

The enduring popularity of BDSM cannot be attributed in its entirety to the relatively recent appearance of Fifty Shades Of Grey, no matter how much the media would love for that to be the case. Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, Sadism and Masochism are all power exchange activities, either including sex or entirely and deliberately absent of it, which have been practiced for centuries.

Kinky Punishment: Spanking, Whips, Crops and Canes

I'd like to talk a little more about why we love sexy corporal punishment here today, and how it really hits our spot. Perhaps this intimate revelation will prompt more people out there to accept spanking and similar as being just as 'acceptable' as 'regular' sex antics, instead of mentally filing such habits as perverted, deviant and downright weird.

ElectraStim Sex Toys Guide: How to Use Electrosex Safely

Welcome to this ElectraStim Sex Toys Guide, brought to you by Joanne’s Reviews, an expert in electroplay and a trusted voice in the community. Whether you’re new to electrosex or curious about trying these unique toys, Joanne shares clear, practical advice regarding how to enjoy electrosex toys safely and confidently.

Rethinking Vaginal Orgasms

Let's tackle the myth of vaginal orgasms. The myth isn't whether or not they're possible, but rather that everyone with a vagina must be able to climax from vaginal stimulation. If you don't orgasm from vaginal penetration, please don't panic. You're not alone. I don't orgasm that way either.

Forced Orgasms in BDSM: What They Are and Why People Enjoy Them

I love the freedom to touch myself whenever I want –and I make the most of that freedom, as you can see by the thousands of sex toy reviews and erotic articles here on the blog. Chastity is definitely not for me, when I'm the one locked up I mean. How about the flip side of chastity: forced orgasms? There's still the element of external control -but rather than orgasm denial, I would be (consensually, of course) forced to orgasm over and over.

Imaginative Sexual Role Play Ideas

The world of sex advice is awash with tips in this regard, with ‘trying out role-play with your partner’ being a popular one. But what sort of role-play situation is sexy? And what type of role-play suits your sort of relationship, in particular? Today, I’d like to share with you 10 steamy role-play ideas to try with your partner.