Threesome game: tasks for three

Turn him onto his stomach and drag the cool edge of a cotton bedsheet up the backs of his legs. Then trade it for tongues: one at the small of his back, one behind his knee, moving toward each other.

Hover your lips an inch from her neck, breathing warmly, while the other partner does the same behind her ear. Plan the route aloud: "collarbone, shoulder, nape." Then kiss it point by point, each of you racing slowly toward the same spot at the back of her neck.

Hover your mouths an inch above his bare back before anything touches. He lies face down on the rug while each of you starts at one shoulder blade and kisses downward in a zigzag, meeting at his lower back. Whoever arrives second bites softly just above his waistband.

Watch how her hips lift on their own, that is your signal to slow down even more. She lies on her stomach across the bed, and one of you sets the rhythm as the only tool: count slowly out loud while stroking a single fingertip from the back of her knee up her inner thigh, one stroke per count, and stop dead on every fifth count with the finger resting high and still. The second of you holds her ankles apart so she cannot close her legs. Ten counts slow, then ten twice as fast, then a full fifteen-second freeze where nobody touches her at all, just watching her squirm on the sheets.