

Those are key components of all good sex, of course. When it comes to trying new kinks (or BDSM, and some people consider wax play to fall under that umbrella), preparation, communication, and consent is everything. Wax play isn’t something you want to happen spontaneously, trust me.

Mixing the joy of sex with candle wax is bound to turn up the heat. Learning and experiencing something new with a partner is an intimate act in its own right. "Wax play stimulates so many of our senses, elevating the pleasure we usually get from sex to new heights."Īnd, if you needed another reason to think about wax play, or a new sexual act (whether it’s of the candle variety or something else entirely), doing it brings partners - long term and casual - closer together. What’s more, putting all of that pleasure and control into someone else’s hands can be really, really sexy. A hand brushing up against a thigh can feel like a thousand alarms going off in your brain (in a sexy way) when a bit of hot candle wax is involved. It also increases our sensitivity, giving us a lot more intensity as we touch one another. The physical reaction to heat, liquid - and pain if you’re including it - grounds us and helps us stay present in sex. Wax play stimulates so many of our senses, elevating the pleasure we usually get from sex to new heights. It’s by no means uncommon or unusual." In fact, (Opens in a new tab) shared that among the 10,000 couples using the site, 36 percent of couples want to give it a go. He tells Mashable: "Wax play remains consistently popular among couples and has strong connections to intimate power and control dynamics. Back then, I thought I was a little weird to want to try wax play, but Derek Newton, founder of (Opens in a new tab), a site that helps couples find their mutual sex interests, says differently. It falls under "temperature play" in the kink world, which is exactly what it sounds like: Using hot and/or cold objects or liquids to create fun sensations during sex. We didn’t end up doing it, which was probably for the best.įor those who don’t know, wax play is a type of kink activity in which hot wax, usually from a candle, is dripped or poured onto a partner. He was an older guy, and I think I was trying to embody the same sexiness you’d see in random Tumblr gifs on your feed, but what I actually did was spring BDSM into the conversation when neither of us were expecting it. I had a random candle I’d found in the house - probably a Pumpkin Spice Yankee Candle - and I asked a partner in the middle of a different sex act if he’d ever wanted to try messing around with wax. I went about it all wrong, in a very teenage, expectedly naive sort of way. The first time I ever attempted wax play was about six or seven years ago.
