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Because you don’t have to put anything in to get it on.
For many people, 'good sex' is synonymous with penetration – whether it’s vaginal or anal. Heck, some people don’t even define it as ‘sex’ unless penetration is involved, thanks to the heteronormative, ableist and one-size-fits-all attitudes to sex that we’ve been fed through the media and subpar sex education.
But there are so many reasons why we might want to skip the penetration and focus on many, many, many other aspects of sex out there to be enjoyed. Some individuals experience vaginismus which might make penetration difficult and painful, then there’s also the fact that around 80% of women and people with vulvas can’t orgasm via penetration alone and will need clitoral stimulation in order to get there. And then, of course, there's simply the fact that you might not fancy penetration at any given time – it’s up to you to define what constitutes good sex to you.
So, to celebrate the fact that sex comes in lots of different shapes and forms, we’ve rounded up a selection of non-penetrative sex ideas to get you started.
“‘Kunyaza’ is a practice that’s been exercised for hundreds of years between heterosexual couples in central Africa,” says owner of the Whores of Yore sexual history hub, Dr. Kate Lister. “During kunyaza, the man rhythmically and firmly strikes the clitoral glands with his erect penis,” she explains.
“As the woman [or vagina-having person] becomes more aroused and the vulva starts to swell, their partner rubs their penis from the top to the bottom of the vulva, then left to right, and then in a zigzagging motion – always returning to strike the clitoris after each rotation. Finally, as the woman or vulva-haver is brought close to orgasm, their partner simultaneously stimulates the whole vulva area using long strokes... but never penetrating. The technique itself may sound deceptively simple, but kunyaza literally means ‘to make urinate’, or ‘to make squirt ’."
Tenga eggs are soft, stretchy, squishy hollow ovals with a hole at the bottom. You pour a little lube into the hole, pop them over the end of a penis, then use them to give your partner a hella good hand job – each one has a different texture inside it, to caress them in different ways. The ‘hard boiled’ varieties give stronger sensations than the classic editions, and you can also use different lubricants (warming, cooling, or extra helpings for a sloppier, slippier, more blow-job-esque feel and sound).
These aren’t just toys for the boys and penis-having people, either. Try flipping one inside out over your fingers, and using it to stroke the clitoris and labia , again with lashings of lube.
Alternatively, you can use sex toys to stimulate parts of your partner's body other than their genitals, says Kate Moyle, a psychosexual and relationship therapist and host of The Sexual Wellness Sessions podcast .
"Try incorporating a vibrator into a sensual massage by running it up and down your partner's spine," Kate suggests. Or if you do want to go down below you can use a vibrator to externally stimulate yours or your partner's genitals, without actually penetrating.
Clit sucker sex toys are also non-penetrative and provide a totally new sensation. Instead of vibrating, they send out pressure waves that attempt to replicate the feeling of oral sex.
The perineum is the fleshy part between a guy or penis-haver's balls and anus, and it’s chokka with nerve endings. “It also hardens as he does,” explains Topher Taylor of Clonezone sex shop. “The perineum graduates from soft, to firm and back – which gives you a plump area to rub, tug and massage. I find that stimulation using your tongue and your knuckles works well.”
With your partner lying on their back, try holding the first and middle fingers of your dominant hand as though you’re flicking the Vs at their genitals, then pushing those knuckles either side of their perineum, gripping against the firm flesh and rubbing up and down while licking the surrounding areas.
The perineum responds well to moisture, pressure and temperature. Try pressing against it with a heavy, ribbed stainless steel dildo, like the Lovehoney 7 inch beaded glass dildo , that’s been chilled in the fridge or submerged in warm water.
Massage can be a great way to get intimate with your partner without your genitals even getting close to touching each other. Focus on massaging your partner's upper body, their back and shoulders, and making them feel relaxed; the skin-to-skin contact will still help to release oxytocin, the same chemical released during sex.
You can take your massage to the next level by introducing some temperature play, suggests Kate Moyle. "Try something like the Lelo massage candle to mix things up," she says. "As the candle burns it turns into a massage oil which can be used on the skin."
Introducing temperature can also be a simple way to create an element of power play, especially when one partner is in control of the different temperatures. "You can combine the massage with ice cubes to mix up hot and cold temperatures," Kate explains, "and it can be a great way of introducing teasing and giving up control to your partner."
If you usually have penetrative sex with a partner, try setting yourselves the challenge of not doing so for a week or two, suggests Kate Moyle. The time off from penetration will not only build up a tonne of tension, but touching each other outside of penetration might mean that you discover whole new sensations or erogenous zones that you'd never tapped into before.
"Anticipation is one of the best aphrodisiacs that we have, and teasing and sensual touch can play a big part of that," explains Kate. "It will help you to be more playful and imaginative - and it can really revamp your sex life to discover different parts of each other's bodies where you or they like to be touched."
"Plus, it's also important to remember that pleasure is not all about penetration," Kate adds. "In fact, most women [and people with vaginas] orgasm through direct clitoral stimulation, rather than penetrative sex alone," she explains. Try having your partner just massage your clit without actually putting anything inside - and see where else on your body feels good to be touched.
They say that the brain is the most important sex organ - and using your imagination holds endless power when it comes to sex.
Kate Moyle suggests using a prompt like the Pillow Talk card deck from The School of Life to ask each other questions about what you want during sex, whether it's asking what kind of power dynamics you find exciting, or an unusual location you've always wanted to have sex in. And there's no touching required!
"Many of us can find opening up the conversation about sex really challenging," says Kate, "but opening up communication can actually really help with intimacy."
You can also try learning more about sex and exploring different sexual subjects together, Kate adds. After all, knowledge is power!
Try listening to a podcast like The Sexual Wellness Sessions to open up a conversation about sex with your partner, says Kate. You can talk about what you enjoy, what you'd like to try, or any fantasies you might have.
And if you're done with conversation then try listening to some audio porn together. "Apps like Ferly have sensual stories and audio erotica for you to listen to, which can help to spark your erotic imagination," says Kate.
Sarah Berry is a sex and relationships therapist who often works with women and people with vaginas who suffer from dyspareunia, vaginismus and vulvodynia : conditions that make penetration or just touching the external genitals uncomfortable, even excruciating. For such clients who want to enjoy play without pain, she suggests a variety of exercises that don’t focus on the foof – but says they’re also beneficial for couples who find it hard to pause in their busy lives, or who are struggling to get aroused, especially if they feel pressure to perform sexually. They’re spot on for simply switching up your routine, too.
She recommends enjoying a lighthearted, indoor ‘Nil Penetration Playtime Picnic’ on a lazy, loungy Sunday afternoon: it’s a less tense and intense time than the night, when you might be tired, or worried about what’s coming up the next day.
“Get some finger food – no pun intended! – and some booze or decadent non-alcoholic fizz, put on some music and sit opposite each other on the bed in comfy undies or robes,” Sarah says. “Mix up chatting and snacking with touching, stroking, kissing , and masturbating if the mood takes you.” If your bedroom has accidentally become a place that’s centred around frantic fucking and insomniac fretting, this helps rebrand it as a space for chilled thrills too.
“We’re big fans of ‘outercourse’ here,” say The Vaginismus Network . “Pain-free penetration (if you want it) may be the physical end goal of vaginismus treatment, but in the meantime, if you want to have a sex life, you have to embrace other options. Vaginismus forces you to be creative in the bedroom, and actually has the potential to deepen the connection between you and your partner because you can’t just ‘have a quickie’ - you have to put a bit of effort in. Also, because vaginismus is often rooted in anxiety , fear and shame, it’s important to keep your sex life fun and interesting, to reduce the sense of humiliation and worry and the feeling of being ‘second best’ to people without genital issues.
“People with vaginismus usually have fully stocked lubricant collections , as it’s invaluable when attempting to insert dilators (slim dildos that start teeny weeny and increase in size, designed to gradually get the vagina used to accommodating an object). However, it’s also great to use for slickly stroking and massaging the labia and clitoris.”
For ultimate sensuousness during an extended massage sesh, try first smoothing on a layer of long-lasting silicone lube, like Durex Play Perfect Glide - then adding a ‘cushion’ of thick water-based lube on top, like KY Jelly Water-Based Lubricant .
“ Blindfold your partner, then stroke or press on the skin all over their body using household items you’ve gathered that have different textures: a feather duster; a leather glove; a foamy sponge; a blusher brush; satin knickers; a wooden spoon for spanking; a silicone spatula and a chilly metal fork,” suggests Kim Loliya, editor of Sex+ zine and host of sex positive debates and workshops .
Even a - fresh! - metal scourer can feel tantalising squeezed against the soles of the feet, and because your partner’s eyes are covered, they can’t see the deeply unsexy/hilarious visual of you creaming their butt cheeks with a potato masher or rolling one of those little spiky tumble drier balls down their spine – they can only feel the deliciousness.
Renee Denyer, from Sh! Women’s Erotic Emporium , has a hack to amp up the sensuality even further: “Use a light, floaty scarf you’ve been wearing as an eye mask, so your lover is enveloped in your scent.”
Lydia Bowers coaches couples on non-penetrative sexual techniques as part of her online workshops, presented as livestreams on sex ed platform O.School . “Be mindful of the pleasure you experience while you’re touching your partner, too,” she reminds us. “How does the object feel in your hand? How does your love’s skin feel, taste, smell? What are the different sensations in stroking an arm, a collarbone, a belly?”
Ain’t nothing wrong with period sex , but it isn’t everyone’s (menstrual) cuppa. Thinx make blood-absorbing period pants (which are smashing, BTW - their thongs can get me through an entire week without a leak) and it’s totally possible to get it on while leaving them on.
“Frottage, aka dry humping, has a rather ‘year seven' reputation, but it can genuinely feel great,” says Thinx’ CJ Frogozo - and challenging one another to provoke pleasure through fabric forces you to think outside that ‘bung yourself balls deep in my box’, erm, box.
Plus, hefty vibrators with real va-va-voom like the Doxy wand work wonderfully through clothes.
If your partner is intimidated by larger toys like this, telling them that wielding a wand could make them the kinda genius that can make you orgasm through your jeans might help them see it as less of a humongous, horrifying monstrosity, and more of a magical power tool.
This article was originally published in 2018 and has been updated.
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To many straight men, sex is penis-in-vagina penetration. Granted, some allow for the existence of anal sex, while oral sex counts to some as sex just as much, but rarely do we ever acknowledge what sex truly is: fluid.
No, not the exchange of fluids, but rather the idea that there’s more to sex than P-in-V penetration, and what that means can be different for any given person, couple or polyamorous arrangement.
There’s a wealth of sex that can occur without your penis penetrating a vagina or an anus, and guys do themselves a disservice by ignoring that. Not only is a laser-like focus on penetrative sex narrow-minded and exclusionary (for instance, classic penetrative sex isn’t feasible for all people), it can also lead to bad sex when you actually do get to penetration.
People who need more warm-up time to be in the right mood, as well as those who struggle to orgasm from penetrative sex, benefit greatly when things don’t focus on penetration to the exclusion of all else. Being able to make penetrative sex just a part of your sexual buffet (sorry, not sorry) will make you so much better a sexual partner.
To help you make that switch, here’s some expert advice on how to do non-penetrative sex right — along with an explanation of why it gets so little love.
The notion of sex focusing on penetration and nothing else is a very culturally entrenched one.
Some of that likely stems from the way we conceptualize sex. If you imagine that sex is first and foremost for reproduction, it makes sense to think of it only as a penis entering a vagina. But very few people have sex only when they’re trying to reproduce. In fact, lots of people never do.
Even accounting for the existence of sex for pleasure, you can get tons of really great sex education that teaches you about consent, infection transmission and the general functioning of various private parts ... and still never really be taught about non-penetrative sex.
“Sex as penetration is so 'common’ that most of us don’t think about how it could be any different,” says Kayla Lords, sexpert for JackAndJillAdult.com . “Phrases like 'hit it and quit it' or 'pounding' a partner are so ubiquitous. We all know what it means, and it’s nothing but penetration.”
Jess O’Reilly, host of the “@SexWithDrJess” podcast , agrees, calling out the way we speak and write about sex and its focus on penetration in that sense.
“We separate foreplay, oral sex, toys and other types of sex and consider one act sex itself,” she says. “But foreplay is sex to many people. Oral sex is sex to others. There is no universal definition of sex — especially when you consider all the combinations of bodies and genitals that might be involved in a sexual encounter.”
That conceptualization of sex slowly bleeds over into our creative visions, along with our language, too.
“Representations of sex in popular media tend to focus on kissing for a brief moment and then moving on to P-in-V sex within a matter of seconds,” adds O’Reilly. “Sex is almost always depicted as complete when the man has an orgasm and representations of simultaneous orgasm are the norm (on screen, but not in real life).”
That’s a problem, in part, because depictions of sex (whether in movies, TV or in porn) do function as a kind of sex education for us.
“You might think that fictional representations on-screen do not matter, but in the absence of other opportunities to observe and learn from sex in real life, popular culture and porn become our points of reference for sex,” notes O’Reilly. “And though sex scenes or porn can be entertaining and titillating, they’re not produced with education in mind.”
Meaning, if the only sex you ever witness or hear about prior to losing your virginity is unrealistically penetration-focused, that dynamic will likely play itself out in your own sexual experiences — and it might continue to indefinitely if no one ever stops and suggests you try something else.
If your mentality is “sex is about having an orgasm, penetration is what makes me orgasm, therefore I will focus on penetration,” you are, in a way, thinking logically. It’s a very “If A, then B” mentality.
Unfortunately, that’s a very short-sighted way to approach sex. For starters, it completely elides your partne
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