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Sex Positions Game
Discover New Sex Positions with the Sex Positions Game

By Cory Silverberg, About.com

Updated October 12, 2008

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Once you’ve got at least six different option cards in each envelope, you’re ready to play the game. I suggest you put the cards away at least for a few days before playing the game. Be sure to mix up the sheets of paper in the envelopes so they aren’t in the same order you wrote them down in.

How to Play the Sex Positions Game

This part is simple. There aren’t any hard and fast rules, and the key here is to have a great sense of humor and an equal sense of adventure. The game is as much about taking sex a bit less seriously as it is about finding some ideal sex position.

Start by fooling around however you feel like it. Lots of kissing and touching, maybe in a hot bath, maybe as part of a sensual massage, but end up in a private and comfortable room, either on the bed or the floor, and preferably naked.

One of you then takes an “option card” out of envelope #1, the other takes one out of envelope #2, and so on, until you have six pieces of paper, that give all the elements you need for trying a sexual position. So you might have:

  • Sitting cross-legged
  • Moving my hips side to side
  • 45 degrees
  • arms, straight out
  • running for dear life
  • samba

    The first thing you’ll probably do is laugh! This is very good! Then you should start to have intercourse in whatever position you are used to and is comfortable for both of you.

    Once you’re both feeling into it, but before either of you climaxes, you need to try and work out a sexual position that includes all the elements you picked from the envelope. It won’t always make sense, but have fun and do your best. Even if it feels a bit silly at first, give it a try.

    You might find that having your hands up in the air, or crossed across your chest, or having one knee up, actually changes the way that intercourse feels for the better.

    If you’re really enterprising, you can try more than one position in a single sexual encounter. But pulling cards out of envelopes doesn’t always feel like the right thing to do in the middle of sex, so you might want to just try this now and again.

    Hopefully you’ll have a bit of fun making the option cards, and then trying to figure out how to act them out in an actual sexual position. The important part of the game is to get you to try different things, and try to think about your body and movement not in terms of right and wrong, but in terms of options that will feel good, and ones that won’t.

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