SENSUAL TOUCH

Giving your partner a full sensual body massage is almost an extension of the movements with which you will now be familiar. A sensual massage incorporates the strokes used for relaxation with caresses to arouse and stimu¬late. While you relax your partner's body, you arouse and heighten the senses through your movements. As you use your hands, your finger¬tips play over your partner, making contact, releasing slowly, and promising more. Allow the movements of the massage to draw your part¬ner's senses to your hands as they move in gen¬tle, flowing erotic rhythms.

The quality of your touch, the way you use your hands, changes when you give a sensual massage. It is a powerful combination. Soft, releasing strokes, firm pressure strokes to pene¬trate the muscles, together with light, tantalizing touches. The changes go in cycles, the move¬ments rhythmic and flowing, blending from one into the next. To relax your partner use soft, soothing strokes to explore the body and ease away any immediate tension. The pressure, while gentle, is definite and firm. Deep pressure strokes go right into the body, reducing any build-up of tension in the muscles. The relief of being touched so deeply is almost tangible. To enhance your sensual strokes, use a lighter touch that is less defined, releasing slowly, and lingering as you finish. For example, after squeezing up a muscle, gently release your band, then trail your fingers delicately along the skin. The final moments of the movement become almost imper¬ceptible. As you massage, use your hands to build the excitement for your partner, then through stillness discharge the feelings you have aroused throughout the body.

When you give a massage for relaxation, your body movements are unobtrusive, the focus being the therapeutic benefits for your partner. As you give a sensual massage, try to involve your body more and your enjoyment and whole-heartedness will be communicated to your part¬ner. Sensual brushes and full skin contact will enhance your partner's experience, adding to the sensual pleasure. During massage, pay attention to the nuances of touch, exploring and making contact creatively. Every stroke should be a source of pleasure for your partner, so it is important to listen to the reponses of the body. you will very quickly feel or sense if something is not quite tight. Ask your partner to provide feedback as you go along. Far from detracting from the massage this enhances your communi¬cation. The beauty comes when you are so finely toned to each other that needs and responses are completely automatic. At first you will need to practice a little. While the hands learn surprisingly fast, the most important factor is the flow of feelings from your heart. If you are massaging simply to give to your partner, your partner's body will trust your hands. Trust is a viral ingredient of the massage and Increases as the experience progresses. The massage should be an affirmation of your partner. As you will discover, there is nothing so deeply erotic. As you perform the movements, use the sounds of your breathing, your own unique noises, to please and arouse your partner. There can be nothing more enjoy¬able for your partner than to know that you are receiving pleasure from giving massage. This applies equally as you receive. Express your appreciation and satisfaction.

Through sensual massage, each area of the body is brought to life, in a process of continuing discovery. The soft, inner parts of the body are extremely sensual and erotic. For example, the crook of the elbow, the throat or the back of the knee will all tingle with sensuality when touched. While special areas of the body stimulate more than Others, arousing massage makes the whole body an erogenous zone. Take time to touch and explore, deriving pleasure from each new discovery. Use the process of the massage to create and be inventive, developing the eroticism of the body. Touching sensually and sensi¬tively, you can electrify your partner increasing the intensify between you.

In the following pages you have a step-by step guide to a full, flowing sensual massage. Each stage and movement follows on from the next, covering both the back and the front of the body. The movements from the relaxation massage are also included. Use the sequence to guide you, incorporating your own experience and ideas, and of course your own unique knowledge of your partner. Also included is more general information to give you further insights into the body and more especially into your partner. Everything is there simply to be used. Enjoy bringing the strokes to life.

kneading

After you have effleuraged the whole back, you gently knead the top of the shoulder with your thumbs, squeezing the little rolls of flesh with your fingertips. Beginning at the outer edge, continue the movement to the neck, ending with longer teasing squeezes to draw your partner's senses. You should always work on the shoulder facing away from you, where the muscle is exposed. As you knead the shoulder, brush the arms or knead the neck, play with your partner's senses, varying the intensity of your touch.

circling

After the kneading motion, press your thumb in along the muscle, making small half-circling movements from the edge of the shoulder inwards. Press firmly to begin the circle, easing the pressure as the thumb moves round. Draw your thumb away from each circle lightly and slowly. Tin's continues the easing effect that you began with the kneading. After easing, let the pressure trail away, continuing contact and arousal with your fingertips. Easing the muscles is much more effective than using hard pressure.time, as your hands caress and feel out the body in the first effleurage, note the sensations your partners skin produces in your hands. Feel the texture, any changes in roughness or smooth¬ness, look at the color, the elasticity and the warmth. Depending on her mood, health, or the day's experience, the skin will have changed subtly from your last remembrance of it. Pay attention to your own feelings as you massage in the oil, allowing your hands to (low over the skin. Allow the invitation of your partner's skin to draw your hands into contact with the back.