How To Have Incredible Oral Sex

However, performing oral sex on your partner can be stressful - as can receiving oral sex - and at Lovehoney we often receive questions asking how to have better oral sex.

From enjoying receiving to improving the taste of your orgasm, here are our top 10 tips for giving and receiving better oral sex.

10 Top Tips For Amazing Oral Sex

1. Relax into receiving

and blindfolds remove your sense of responsibility so any embarrassment or shame will melt away, leaving you to enjoy your partner’s oral skills.

2. Keep it clean

Fears about personal smell and taste are the biggest inhibitors when it comes to enjoying oral sex. To ensure your partner is their most relaxed, perform oral sex after they have a bath or shower. They’ll feel much more confident and will enjoy your efforts more.

Better yet, run your lover a bath with some Lovehoney Apothecary Bubble Bath or a waterproof sex toy to help get them in the mood. If you do leave a toy for them, let them know you have a treat for them after their bath so they don't get too carried away and tire themselves out before you've even had a chance to work your magic.

3. You are what you eat

There is some scientific debate as to whether your diet affects the way your sexual fluids taste. Some studies would suggest that there is a correlation, but these tests are based on short-term diets and a simple ‘taste test’. Many argue that sexual fluid taste-tests produce psychosomatic effects and scientists are quick to point out that as environmental factors and lifestyle are excluded from these tests, the results have little to no merit. Whether or not you can change your sexual flavour is still very much open for debate.

Within the hotbed of speculation, advice appears to be fairly consistent with the same consumables accredited as being good or bad for sexual fluids in both men and women. The best way to find out is to conduct your own experiments with your partner.

Things that make you taste better

Drinking two litres of water a day; pineapple, cranberries and sugary fruit; parsley; celery; cinnamon; cardamom; peppermint.

Things that make you taste worse

Smoking; caffeine; alcohol; cauliflower, broccoli and asparagus; processed foods and ready meals; strong spicy food; too much dairy, meat and fish.

For people with penises, it’s also worth remembering that regular ejaculation will help your semen taste better. Both the testicles and prostate accumulate fluids, so ejaculate after a period of abstinence will taste less pleasing.

The likelihood is that unless your partner has mentioned your taste is unpalatable to them, you really have nothing to worry about. Even then, flavoured lube can easily fix that.

4. Try Flavoured Lubes and Flavoured Condoms

Wet sex is better sex, so every bedside table should come equipped with a selection of sexual lubricants to match the sex acts you enjoy. Lots of lube tastes a little odd, so to avoid a mid-romp rush to the bathroom it’s worth investing in a tasty bottle of flavoured lube.

Applying your flavoured lube during early foreplay is the sexiest way to make oral sex better without offending your partner. Apply some to your fingers, drizzle it along your partner’s body and lick your way to action or apply it directly to your tongue.

For safer oral sex, use flavoured condoms or flavoured dental dams which come pre-loaded with tasty flavoured lube and can be topped up during oral.

5. Direct the action

The best way to find out what feels good for your partner is for them to tell you. Feedback is vital if you want to receive and give the best possible oral sex, so open up and learn to direct your partner so they spend more time doing what feels good and less time doing what feels not so good. If you pretend you’re enjoying oral sex when you’re not or give no feedback at all, your partner won’t know how best to please you, making oral sex less satisfying for you both.

If you're in need of a little assistance when it comes to talking about sex with your partner, try incorporating a hot board game or kinky set of cards into date night. The Oral Fun Board Game encourages you to go downtown with your partner by talking about it and doing it.

6. Don’t just concentrate on the obvious parts

frenulum to increase sensitivity - these two spots are particularly alert to the sensations your tongue can create.

Use your hands and fingers to cradle the testicles, gently massage the perineum, massage the lower shaft or circle the anus while you lick and suck the penis. Alternatively, if they are up for more anal exploration, a butt plug or prostate massager can stimulate the P-spot and take their orgasms to a whole new level.

A wearable vibe which sits on your fingers like the Lovehoney Ignite G-Spot Vibrator can do wonders to stimulation for both penises and vulvas.

When performing oral sex on a vulva, be sure to include the inner labia, the length of the clitoris and clitoral hood, and the vagina. Only a very small amount of the clitoris is exposed - this area is the equivalent to the whole head of a penis with the clitoral hood acting like a foreskin.

The clitoral nerves extend back into the hood and when a person has a clitoral erection, you will be able to feel that the clitoris extends much further back than you imagined by placing your finger on the clitoris and tracing along the clitoral hood toward the body. Gently licking the length of the clitoris can be much more pleasurable than only concentrating on the tip. The clitoral nerves also extend into the inner labia, so spend some time licking her sensitive inner lips.

Penetration during oral can be one of the most intensely satisfying sexual experiences for a person with a clitoris. Slide a couple of fingers gently in and out of their vagina as you lick their clitoral areas or use a classic vibrator, dildo or other insertable sex toy to stimulate their sensitive internal spots. For prime G-spot stimulation, make a 'come hither' motion with your fingers pointing towards the front wall of the vagina to massage their hidden gem.

7. Control the suction

Lots of oral sex guides talk about the merits of sucking on the penis or clitoris during oral sex, but there is a fine line between pleasure and discomfort.

People with penises tend to enjoy suction whereas many people with clitorises prefer no suction at all, finding their clitoris is too sensitive, but the same can also be true in reverse with sucking on the glans feeling too intense to be pleasurable and a good clitoral vacuum being just what your partner ordered.

When experimenting with suction during oral, start off very gently and gauge your partner’s reaction so as not to ruin the moment.

8. Vary your technique… but don’t ruin the moment

It’s good to vary your oral sex technique to keep things interesting, but a deviation can spell disaster on the approach to climax. Take a tactical approach to variation by starting slowly and spending longer kissing and massaging your partner with your tongue and lips. Treating oral like a long, sensual kiss will increase anticipation and improve sensitivity, resulting in a better orgasm. When it comes to that climactic moment though, follow your lover's cues and "don't stop, don't stop, don't stop!".

9. Perfect your position

When most of us go to give oral, we opt for our partners on their backs while we nestle between their open legs. Shake things up to improve your oral angles.

Have your partner stand while you drop to your knees to pleasure them. This is great for those who enjoy a little power play and also offers some great angles for lavishing attention on the testicles and vagina. It’s often wise to have a wall nearby to fall against when things hot up.

The 69 sexual position is great for mutual oral sex but can be hard work for the partner on top or cause things to be a little warm and humid for the partner on bottom. Lie side by side while you 69 to make the experience more comfortable for both of you.

Kneel down and place your hands onto the wall or hold onto the bedstead while your partner lays beneath you or crouches in front of you. Using your arms to support your weight during oral will help you in the best position for your partner without suffocating them or giving them neck ache.

10. Use a sex toy to boost oral sex sensations

both the shaft and the testicles are receiving some attention while you concentrate on lavishing their penis with attention.

For vulvas you can use a bullet vibrator to tease the area while you dart your tongue in and out.

You can also use a dildo or vibrator to penetrate while you concentrate your oral action around the clitoris.