Your man doesn’t want you to put on some fancy lingerie if you dread the whole process and then lie there looking at the ceiling as he makes love to you minutes later. He wants you to put on something that makes you feel like a goddess. He wants you to put on something that makes you feel turned on and ready to go. He wants you to put on something that makes you feel fabulous, regardless of how much attention he gives you for wearing it.
He doesn’t want you to spend too long in the bathroom while he’s naked in bed and waiting, then walk out wearing a half-smile, trip over the carpet in too-high heels, and awkwardly grab the scratchy undies out of your bum as you approach the bedside.
He also doesn’t want to see you looking robotically stiff and self-consciously terrified in the outfit. That kills the mood completely for him.
Men like lingerie because it makes them feel that you take the time to be beautiful for them and enjoy the process. They like lingerie because they like the idea that you are so turned on by them that you have to get all dressed up and make sex a special occasion.
So, if you don’t enjoy the process and lingerie makes you less turned on for hot sex, what’s the point? It’s not helping his pleasure or yours.
Next time you buy lingerie, don’t worry about how it looks: worry about how it makes you feel inside to see yourself in it and to wear it. Enjoy the process. Take note of lingerie you see in films that you think is beautiful and go try on similar styles. Or maybe you think girls in cowboy hats and boots are sexy—go to the local western store and pick some up. Make it about you and how you can celebrate your body and set the mood for your fun and passion.
Now, some women have a really hard time ever thinking of themselves as sexy and enticing in any outfit. If you are really hard on yourself about your looks, no amount of work on the outside (i.e., weight loss and muscle toning) will completely fix this. Yes, you may look at yourself and say, “Okay, I look fit and kinda sexy,” but you still may not feel comfortable with being fully in your body during sex and will most likely lie there motionless, or start screaming and yelling as a performance for him, instead of truly enjoying his touch.
If you have harsh voices in your head about your body, I suggest completely avoiding the idea of having to be pretty and sexy for him. Instead, think about how to wear lingerie as a way to have POWER as a SENSUAL GODDESS, meaning your power to give and receive pleasure during sex. This includes both physical pleasure and emotional pleasure (laughing together, for example).
Find confidence in your ability to enjoy sex and enjoy feeling physically, spiritually, and emotionally close to your man during sex. Then find a way to use lingerie to help in this process! Find power in your ability to dress in a way that makes you feel sensual—wear soft silks and clingy materials that caress your sensitive skin. Find power in your ability to make yourself feel pampered and 100% soft, silky, and female—shave your vulva smooth, use sweet-smelling shampoos, and rub perfume oils on your wrists and behind your ears. Find power in your ability to make yourself feel like a sexual Hollywood glamazon—use lotions with shimmer and faint tanning body makeup (Sally Hansen makes a great one called Airbrush Legs). Find power in your ability to get playful and creative about your lingerie—create a theme and go with it, like wearing a little nurse’s uniform and turning up Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing” on the iPod. Find power in your ability to be playfully dominating—exit the bathroom and straddle a chair, wearing his Oxford and one of his ties and nothing else. Every woman has at least one thing she can do when prepping for special sex that will make her feel more feminine, sensuous, imaginative, and ready to have a blast under the sheets. Again, it’s not about feeling beautiful—just about feeling sexually hungry and powerful in your ability to be a great lover! Find your inner sex goddess (whether she’s sensual, feisty, dominating, or sweet).
And don’t wait to have that perfect gym-body. Do it now. If you pamper your body and enjoy sex, weight will come off so much easier.