Notes for the Post-It Tango

In the summer I had written on the erotic potential of office supplies. I apologise to anyone who’s been holding their breath in the meantime.

Of course, a tango...

Ah, taking one's time, such a treat. Let's face it, you’re both worth it and just jumping into bed like a pair of crazed raccoons is boring, anyway. Here follow some suggestions for joining up the dots in your minds, before you join up the ones in your bodies.

The tango. Not just a dance for a couple of people but a dance for a couple. She can drive him as much as he can drive her, but for it to work, the dancers need to know each other. So we have a couple, a block of notes and the play of their imaginations. Your lover writes out the message - perhaps only a single word - and reaches out to place it on you. Think of the delight of the weight of their fingers as they press onto you, gliding over you to leave their notes.

What are the varieties of Post-Its? Well, colour and size: the bigger the note, the greater the space for the heavy marker pen, the more emphatic the message? Small notes are by comparison whispered hints. What does repositioning mean? ‘You don‘t know me well enough, here is where you should have put it.’ ‘You’re being too timid, I want to feel you closer.’ Consider the significance of location: kiss me here/pay attention to this part of me. It’s a brilliantly simple idea. The following are some modest suggestions as to how you might take the idea for a long walk in the woods...

Exchange
Passing the same note back and forward, if the note is big enough, annotating it as you go. Each passsage of the note is accompanied by... kisses, caresses, licks and nips.

Palimpsest
The body’s own messages gradually superimposed by words. Spaces reused, time and again, gradually accumulating a meaning richer beyond the single messages that they once hosted. Writing on each other, tracing round the note before peeling it off again and passing it back?

Seduction shortcut
You write what you want your lover to do, and fix the note to yourself where you want it done. Simple.

Storytelling
Sentences and idea are attached at random. Once you’re quite covered with the notes, your take turns to read the story off each other. Perhaps a well-organised orgy could feature a couple of models who wander among the guests, inviting each to leave their own message. Each participant has their own colour of note, the messages on the notes themselves are enriched by the knowledge of who left them.

Retro-BDSM
Partcipants are pierced with rings, all over their bodies. Instead of sticking self-adhesive notes, they take turns to tie those classic reinforced cardboard luggage labels onto each other. Of course, the messages themselves are written with a fountain pen. Bodies are gradually clothed by a hand-tied suit of card; think of the growing teasing sensations as the notes gradually accumulate with every movement matched to a note, slyly pulling at your skin.

Wedding anniversary
A couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a tando Each shaved smooth, they tango.... at the end, they’re photographed, festooned by the notes: an anniversary double portrait.

Well, that's the ideas that have occurred to far; new idea swill appear as and when they suggest themselves.