The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus by Violet Blue Page A

speak, when the chips are down. First, find out what you can do with your mouth, then learn the different strokes and combinations.
     
The smell and the taste and feel on my tongue and lips are hot. I’m tuned right into my lover’s turn-on, you know?

     
    The tongue is the body’s greatest unsung hero. It is a muscle with a life of its own, within the watery moat of our mouth. It speaks, eats, tastes, swallows, kisses, forms a concave groove for sucking ginger ale from straws, and occasionally pokes from our lips for a comic insult. Without the tongue, we primates would be up the proverbial creek without our little pink paddles.
     
    An organ of speech, digestion, and recreation, the tongue is a cleverly encased little package of muscle tissue, glands, fatty cells, and sensitive nerves. A mucous membrane, or mucosa, covers it, while the top surface, or dorsum, contains taste buds sensitive to touch and food flavors, plus serous glands that secrete some of the fluids in saliva—saliva that we create and swallow at the rate of ten thousand gallons in a lifetime, according to The Guide to Getting It On! by Paul Joannides. Nerves leading from the tongue are stimulated by taste buds that react with chemicals in anything moist. The brain interprets these nerve impulses as sensations of feeling and taste. The total flavor of anything we put in our mouths comes from the combination of taste, smell, texture, consistency, and temperature sensations. The tongue, with its thousands of nerve endings, talks of sweet chocolate pleasures, shouts pain when we bite it, and quietly whispers messages of erotic impulses to our big brain, all on its own.
     
    Going down on your lover means getting in touch with your tongue—literally. You already have an intimate understanding of what your tongue likes, appreciates, lusts for, even curls up in disdain about, but now we’re talking about the other side of the equation. If she’s going to be shouting, “Harder, right there!” and using your ears as handlebars, you’re going to need to know what “harder” feels like.
     
     
What About Tongue Piercings?

Some body piercings are just for sexy decoration, but many can enhance sex play—especially a tongue piercing, in which a metal ball (they come in various sizes) is placed in the center of the tip of the tongue. Cunning linguists and their partners rave about how the ball can give extra-firm stimulation right when—and where—it’s needed. If you have a tongue piercing, practice using it on your hand so you can learn to control the type of sensation and pressure it delivers.

 
     
    First, wash your hands.
     
    Now, lick the palm of your hand, in the most sensitive, ticklish hollow part. Try long, soft, ice-cream cone strokes; then try firm, short, rapid strokes. You’ll notice that your tongue dries out, then magically rewets itself. This is desirable, because during oral sex your saliva will coat your tongue and flow onto your lover’s vulva, creating a delightful lubrication. Sometimes it makes a lot of lubrication, in which case you might consider placing a towel under her buttocks. (Occasionally, the drips will cool on their way down, making an uncomfortable wet, drippy sensation between her cheeks—avoid this by bunching the towel slightly.) Get yourself accustomed to the way you can adjust the pressure of your strokes; trying them on your hand will give you a good idea of how they translate to your lover.
     
After all the buildup, when he first puts his mouth right on me the heat is so intense I could come right away. But I don’t let myself.

     

What Your Mouth Can Do
     
I like it when my boyfriend sucks on my clit so it kind of pops across his teeth.

     
    Let’s take a moment to appreciate that talkative, expressive, delicious sex organ, the mouth. The term oral fixation isn’t just for smokers, and even when used in polite circles it brings images of oral sex to everyone’s mind. That’s because we’re oral