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Dressing up gives you permission to ditch your inhibitions and take on the character of someone else, and it’s becoming more and more popular as the taboo around it dissolves. No longer restricted to porn films and professional strippers, your bus driver, hairdresser or even lecturer may transform into a sexy fireman or kinky French maid when they’re behind closed doors. However, if you are thinking about donning a costume you might just want to make sure you stick within a few guidelines: Firstly, don’t pick something elaborate that takes 2 hours to put on, it probably takes a few hours to take off too, unless of course its designed to rip… It’s probably also best to stay away from anything with long spikes, armour, or tentacles. Once you’re all dressed up the setting isn’t so important, just make sure that if you pick an outfit you can think of a role play to go with it – a friend of mine recently bought an army girl outfit and had to take it back because she just couldn’t think of what to do with it.
Basically just make sure its stays sexual, and you might want to check it turns your partner on too…you don’t want to stroll in dressed as a nun unless you’ve checked you’ll be well received first. In the wise words of Askmen.com, your best bet is to start off with something simple – in other words, don't show up at your girlfriend's house dressed like a woman and expect her to start spanking your butt for being a "naughty girl" - she won't just slam the door in your face, she'll change the locks and have you arrested!
On a related note, for those of you who like to live on the edge, there’s always the option of dressing up as an animal for a bit of human-animal roleplay. Wikipedia is surprisingly informative on this subject, apparently also called petplay, ponyplay, ponyism or pup-play, and gives the top three animal roles adopted as dogs, cats and horses. My flatmate, who apparently sees nothing weird about this, also suggests rabbits as a possible alternative.
So there we go, seamlessly from sex with Trekkies to dressing up as rabbits, the possibilities are obviously endless and if there is a moral this week it’d have to be: If everybody looked the same, we’d get tired of looking at each other.
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