Written by Isabel Schley

Winter Break, But Make It Sexy

Five intimate ideas to try between Christmas and New Year’s

This week lives in limbo. Emails are unanswered. Routine is totally off. Pants are optional. Time feels fake. 

Usually, this week sort of feels like the twilight zone. This year, we’re making it sexy.

These ideas are less about doing more and more about doing things differently. Slower. Hotter. With intention, curiosity, and just enough mischief.

Take advantage of a week that's out of routine. Let it interrupt your day to day and stir something new. Prioritize each other’s pleasure for five days straight. Trust me, you’ll be amazed at the connection you feel. 

5 Intimate Ideas to Try During Your Holiday

1. The Massage That's Better than Dessert

After cooking a delicious meal together, skip dessert. Or at least, the usual kind. 

Have one partner sit between the other’s legs. Scoop your Massage Butter in between your fingers and touch. Start at the chest. Move to the stomach. These areas are wildly underrated and incredibly responsive. 

Touch slowly. Like you have nowhere else to be. Because you don’t. 

Switch it up and lean your back against your partner’s chest while they slowly massage your neck and shoulders.  

Feel the stress leave your muscles while you relax into your partner. Or enjoy giving that relaxation to your partner. 

This isn’t meant to be rushed or overlooked. It’s meant to be enjoyed. Let conversation drift. Or don’t talk at all. Move slowly, see where touch takes you. 

2. Do Something Ordinary. But Naked.

Make coffee. Fold laundry. Read a book. Stretch on the living room floor.

Whatever lay-around-the-house activity you love to do together, do it with your clothes off.  Cozy up in your Intimate Blanket. Let skin touch skin without any other expectations. 

Invite an erotic presence into your everyday moments. There is something quietly intimate about shared routines without clothing. 

Not everything has to lead somewhere. Sometimes pleasure lives in looking, feeling seen, comfortable, and close in the most ordinary moments. 

3. Role Swap Night

Switch it up. Who initiates. Who leads. Who receives. Who sets the pace.

Don’t overthink it. Simply decide that tonight, you are stepping out of your usual roles. Let the shift be subtle but intentional. It can feel playful, empowering, and surprisingly connective. 

You’ll see your partner in a new light and maybe even discover something new about what you like. 

Sometimes desire reignites when the dynamic changes just enough to wake up your senses.

4. Somewhere in the Kitchen

Restaurants are never open at normal times during this twilight zone week. So go where you can stand a little closer. 

Let hips press against counters. Arms wrap around their waist from behind. Kiss longer than necessary. This is not rushed or sneaky. It is slow, adult, and indulgent.

Once the temperature gets good and warm, turn it up. The kitchen counter, dining room table, butcher block bar top. 

Where have you not explored? Go there. And then go there again. 

5. The Almost Touch Game

Sit close. Very close. Trace fingers just beside erogenous zones without fully touching them. Hover. Graze. Tease. Let anticipation do the heavy lifting.

Move slowly around the body. Neck. Waist. Inner arm. Lower back. When the tension feels delicious enough, introduce Massage Butter and deepen the pressure bit by bit.

This game is about restraint and just how powerful it can be.

The twilight zone between Christmas and New Year’s is a week of no rules. So why not let these days be totally indulgent? Forget productivity. Choose pleasure and connection. Let touch be the thing you prioritize before the year turns over. 

Stay stocked with your Intimacy Essentials. Keep Massage Butter within reach and your Intimate Blanket ready for anything. 

Turn the lights down low, and let winter break interrupt you in all the right ways.

Additional Resources:

• Our holiday gift guide had some great ideas for ways to fill your holiday time off
• Listen to Life Notes Podcast to get inspired for the New Year