"Sensuality"

by Lianne Olive Hennig

I'm a sensualist at heart.  I love textures, smells, tastes and sights.  It's one of the reasons why I enjoy living in this world so much, even in the toughest times. 

When it comes to sex, I love the kissing, the feeling, the sliding of skin on skin...
well, I suppose, doesn't everyone?  But I'm not keen on 'quickies.'  I like to take my time, luxuriate, let all my senses awaken to the experience.  I want to feel sex all over, not just in my genitals.  I want to feel body warmth and closeness, so close that you could almost
melt into the other person.  I want to look at every nook and cranny, and feel and smell them, too...  I want to feel the slithering of soft lips kissing and sucking and nibbling... 

Food's like that for me, too.  I love food.  I love to eat.  I love to savour the flavour and examine the texture.  I don't just eat, I play with my food.  I nibble at biscuits and bread, making new shapes.  I scrape my teeth over bananas till their tangy gooiness is exposed and then slip, and suck and nibble till the last piece is finally gone.  I nibble at blocks of chocolate, letting them melt on my hot tongue, and letting the chocolate mix with my saliva and ease it's way down my throat.  It's not just food, it's an experience. 

And all life is like that for me.  I can't sit on a lawn without running my fingers through it,
without breathing deeply of the musty smell of grass.  Even though I have allergic and sensitive reactions to some foods and smells,  I still enjoy this playful contact with life, 
this sensualism. 

When my children were babies and small, I luxuriated in their soft cuddly bodies, their delicious smells, their hugs and kisses, and even listening to their darling voices. 

Part of my natural tendency to observe people and things, and to observe life arises from the sensuality that is inherent in me.  I just love to experience things, even voyeuristically, it seems, and to get inside people and things, even just with my mind or my imagination. 

This is not sexual.  I'm not in it for a quick fix.  Orgasmic pleasure is not my aim - though as a by-product it ain't half bad... I just love to feel alive and, in this physical world we live in, this arena of the senses, the best way to feel alive is through the use of those senses and yes, even through the use of psychic senses.