4 Erotic Ways to Pleasure Chests and Breasts
Are chests, breasts and nipples a hot spot for you? For some people, chest pleasure is an important erogenous zone and for other people, they can take it or leave it. It’s okay to stimulate erogenous zones that don’t lead you to orgasm, but exploring new erogenous areas might open up more relaxation in the body or connection with a partner.
Chests have a complicated connection with body shame. Some people might experience body dysphoria with their chests, or shame about the size or shape of their breasts, or have no erotic connection to chests. If you have experienced changes to your chest, like chestfeeding/breastfeeding or surgery, you might be rediscovering your relationship to your body.
If you’re curious about exploring this potential erogenous zone, here are four things you can try for erotic breast and chest pleasure:
Nipple Play
It’s possible for all nipples to enjoy sensation, but many factors go into pleasure preferences and arousal. Nipplegasms are orgasms that happen by stimulating the nipples on their own or as a focused part of sexual pleasure.
The anatomy of nipple pleasure helps us understand why the nipples can be such a sensation rich area. There are hundreds of nerve endings on each nipple — which means there is a lot of potential for gentle or intense stimulation. Some people have nipplegasms through nipple stimulation alone or through intense nipple stimulation combined with genital stimulation.
- Soft touch - try circles around the areola making your way to the nipple and keep the touch light, adding more fingers or your palm as you increase to bigger strokes or stronger massage.
- Try variations - explore pressure, speed, direction of touch. Some nipples enjoy pinching, twisting or pulling. Tune into what sensations intensify arousal.
- Try vibrators - explore nipple clamps or use vibrators like the We-vibe Touch — it’s easy to hold in your palm and has powerful vibrations.
- Try Nipple Suckers - like these.
Chest Massage
Chest and breast massages can feel amazing especially if paired with a massage bar or a cannabis massage oil. Here are some ideas to get started with chest and breast massages:
- Create a silky texture between your hands and chest with a body massage bar that melts as it warms from body heat.
- Consider trying a massage roller glove for a more intense massage
- When massaging, explore direction, speed and pressure.
- Check in with the receiving partner about what feels good and where. Circular motions can feel amazing in the chest area.
- You can take turns focusing on one side/breast at a time.
- Put on a sexy playlist and give/receive a sensual chest/breast massage!
Oral chest play
Try kissing, sucking, licking and nibbling the chest area. Explore which spots are sensitive and which spots enjoy more intensity.
You can add some playfulness to oral chest play using things like edible body paints or flavoured lubes to give yourself something to lick off.
Chest Bondage
Chest bondage can be pleasurable from its decorative beauty, or symbolism or the feeling of restraint around the chest area. Breast and nipple bondage can also be about pain or creating marks like bruises or imprints. Cotton rope is great for beginners.
If you’re new to rope, read our Bringing Bondage into the Bedroom and Shopping Tips for Rope Bondage blog posts for tips on getting started.
Do you find chest harnesses sexy? Chest harnesses like this one, can be a way of adding sexy outfits, textures or vibes. You might enjoy how it feels on your chest or the mood it puts you in.
Getting curious about how to give and receive chest area pleasure can open up opportunities for different sensations, roleplay and paths to arousal. Take your time and observe how your arousal responds to chest and breast play. You might discover a new hot spot!
