Imagine this. You send your partner a short message like this, and they react like that…
In today’s newsletter, we’re talking about.
Having better dates with a sex menu
Why sex menus work (the science)
We’ll finish with a powerful dear Kelsey that one of you submitted anonymously and gave me permission to share.
Resources
Pick one or send all five. Ask them to choose the one that gets their curiosity piqued.
1. The “Don’t Leave the Bed” Date
Start and end in bed. Food delivered. Phones off. Clothes optional.
Great for: rainy nights, introverts, or when you just need to melt into each other.
2. The Five-Senses Date
Each of you brings something for one of the senses—taste, touch, sound, smell, sight.
Great for: couples needing reconnection, playful exploration, or sensual beginners.
3. The “Sexy Stranger” Bar Date
You meet out in public. You pretend you don’t know each other. Flirt. Then go home together.
Great for: role-play lovers, couples needing spark, or bold souls.
4. The “Massage First, Fuck Later” Date
Light candles, oil up, and take turns giving 15-minute massages. That’s the only rule to start.
Great for: couples who need slower buildup and better body awareness.
5. The “Yes, No, Maybe” Night
Each partner writes 3 sexy things: one hard yes, one hard no, one maybe. Then you read and play.
Great for: building trust, curiosity, and healthy boundary setting.
Skin Melt Glide – Use the backs of your fingers across their chest, ribs, hips. Follow with your whole palm
Spiral Touch to Thighs – Tease in slow spirals, stopping just before genitals.
Gaze & Cradle – Hold their face or head gently and just look. Let it simmer.
Breath Mapping – Hover your mouth over their body and breathe slowly without touching.
The Mirror Game – They touch you, you mirror it on them.
Eye-Contact Kiss Hold – Kiss slowly, pull back, hold eye contact, go again.
Clit Elongation Stroke – Stroke along the clitoral shaft, not just the tip.
Breath Play Blowjob – Slow exhale between strokes for warmth and tease.
Lick Line, Not Circles – Long tongue strokes from vaginal opening to clit.
Undress Me Show – One person undresses themselves while the other just watches
The Rock & Grind (Chair Sit) – You face each other seated, and you move slow.
Pillow Tilt (Doggy Style Upgrade) – Use a pillow under the belly to angle for better G-spot contact.
The Clench & Fingertip Game – Squeeze pelvic muscles while using just fingertips elsewhere.
Spooning Reach Around – Reach back mid-spoon and take control of the tempo.
Stay-Deep Stillness – Penetration with stillness. Breath synced. Touch elsewhere only.
Your Turn
You can send this menu as a text, a handwritten card, or even a voice note.
Give your partner agency and anticipation. And then create a night where you both win.
Try this script and have a great night:
I’ve been craving something fun. Sexy. Connected.
Here’s my custom menu. You get to choose our night.
Pick 1 from each category and text me back your order.
Are you trying this? |
Sex & Psychology - Let's bring the data in. Because this isn't just a “you” thing.
When couples intentionally create playful rituals (like choosing from a “touch / foreplay / intercourse” menu), research shows they feel closer, more turned on, and more satisfied. Here’s why:
Novelty = Arousal. Newness activates the brain’s dopaminergic reward system, heightening attraction and excitement. Even small variations in sexual routines increase desire.
Ritual = Trust. Predictable, intentional connection (like weekly “sex dates”) improves emotional safety and relationship quality, especially in long-term couples.
Play = Communication. Playful exploration increases oxytocin and reduces anxiety, helping couples ask for what they want—and hear what their partner loves.
Midlife Desire Can Rise, Not Fall. When women explore sexually on their own terms, especially post-35, they report higher libido and orgasmic confidence.
So when you give them your “menu” you're not just being flirty. You’re feeding your connection, your confidence, and your chemistry. Science says so.
If you’d like to write to me (completely anonymous) here is a form you can fill out to write thoughts, frustrations, curiosities, or experiences, even ask a question. Ask me anything!
DEAR KELSEY…
Why is it that when someone makes a mistake in a relationship (an affair, a relapse, a betrayal) we throw the whole thing away? Have we always been this quick to call it quits? What’s actually going on in modern love?
Dear Wondering,
This question strikes bone.
Because you’re not really asking about affairs or addiction, you’re asking about forgiveness, endurance, and what we expect of love today.
Here’s the truth: we’ve changed the job description of relationships, and most of us didn’t get the memo.
Then vs. Now: A Shift in Relationship Purpose
Historically, relationships were economic arrangements and social contracts. People stayed because they had to. Love was a bonus, not the baseline.
Now we ask our partners to be our best friend, hottest lover, co-parent, therapist, spiritual mirror, and lifelong adventure partner.
That’s a big fucking ask.
We expect more emotional and sexual fulfillment than ever, and when it’s not there, we’re more likely to leave.
Two main reasons, backed by research:
We confuse rupture with failure.
Modern love is fragile because we believe pain means it's broken. But relationships aren’t meant to be conflict-free—they’re meant to be resilient.
The Gottman Institute found that it’s not the presence of conflict that predicts divorce—it’s the inability to repair after rupture.
An affair or addiction doesn’t mean a relationship is doomed. But without tools for truth-telling, nervous system regulation, and mutual rebuilding, it often becomes a breaking point instead of a turning point.
We’ve de-stigmatized divorce… but not failure.
Leaving is no longer taboo. But being the one who stayed and tried to rebuild? That still gets side-eye. Especially for women.
There’s this hidden script that says: “If you were really empowered, you’d leave.”
But real power is knowing your own threshold for repair—and deciding from wholeness, not fear or pride.
So… what now?
Modern relationships require a different kind of wisdom:
That rupture is inevitable.
That repair is learnable.
And that commitment isn’t about perfection—it’s about growth through friction.
Affairs, addiction, dishonesty. They’re not the end. They’re invitations.
The couples who survive them? They don’t do it with blind forgiveness. They do it with brutal honesty, boundaries, therapy, and a shared desire to grow.
And for some, leaving is the most loving thing they can do. That’s real too.
But let’s stop pretending the relationship is only “successful” if it was spotless.
Love is messy.
Healing is hard.
But some bonds can hold the weight, when both people show up to carry it.
In truth and tenderness,
~ Kelsey
Over 1,000 women & men read this letter last week.
Dozens forwarded it to their sisters, lovers, best friends.
Not because they had it all figured out—
but because something in them whispered: “She needs this too.” “This is required reading for my husband, about the female orgasm - even I didn’t know half of this!!”
So if someone came to mind while reading…
Maybe it’s your friend who jokes about “just getting it over with.”
Your sister who hasn’t climaxed since the 2000s.
Your guy who wants to please you, but doesn’t know how or the new things you are curious about.
Or your younger self—the one who still thought asking for more was too much.
Forward this.
Not to fix them.
To free them. It’s a liberation my friends.
This is how the revolution spreads:
Hand to hand. DM to DM. Whisper to whisper.
Let them know it’s okay to want more.
Let them know they’re not the only one.
Let them know we’re all coming home to our bodies, together.
Go ahead.
Be the woman who sends the good stuff.
No shame.
Just truth, turned on.
In love,
~ Kelsey
I write Liberation Letters to help other women just like me, to live the life we know we want but don’t know how or where to start. I’ve lived the checking-boxes life, felt like I had carried the world and still gone to bed wondering where my joyful soul had gone. Despite having amazing friends and the best three kids in the world, why I felt alone.
My path back wasn’t linear—it was a holy undoing. Heartbreak. Reinvention. Sex that woke me up. Moving at the speed of soul. I trained in psychedelics, studied at the Kinsey Institute and am becoming a certified sex & relationship coach—not to learn, but to live it. And now? I love myself so hard, it’s tough to compete. Life is a wonder and the sex, well ladies (& gentlemen), stick around and find out.