Sexual Fantasies

Shock Value

The element of surprise: it's the most important tool you have. Remind your man that you're still a spontaneous vixen, and he'll be all over you. Try these on for size:

• Leave a message on his cell phone when he's on the way home from work -- informing him that the kids are at the sitter's, and you're upstairs in the bathtub.
• Create coupons for "one long, luscious kiss," "a below-the-belt treat," and other sexy gifts, and give them to him in a book. Let him redeem him whenever he wants!
• Rent a movie -- but instead of 2 Fast 2 Furious, make a more daring choice, like Belle Epoque (Penelope Cruz and a bevy of Spanish hotties), Femme Fatale (Antonio Banderas and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos get steamy), or Henry & June (naughty memoir of Anais Nin). These mainstream movies with sensuous scenes should give him ideas!
• Have some photos taken of you -- the boudoir kind! (If there are no nearby studios that do that, try snapping some bold Polaroids.) Slip them into his pocket, and await his response.
• Tell him he's getting a massage. Rub him down with handfuls of moisturizer -- back and front.
• Transform your bedroom into a boudoir with the help of satin sheets, velvety pillows, and bits of fur and feathers for tickling and touching.
• When he's leaving for work, whisper that you can't wait for him to come home, because he looks so hot in those chinos -- and let his imagination go into all-day overdrive.
• Lingerie, lingerie, lingerie.
• Get a clear shower curtain (get rid of that silly old flowered thing) so he can catch a blurry image of you, slick with soap.
• Skip the pajamas -- slip into bed wearing nothing but your skin and a drop of perfume.