17 Next-Level Oral Sex Tips That Real People Actually Use

The only thing more satisfying than being on the receiving end of great oral sex is knowing that you did a great job performing it on your partner. To give is to receive, if you will. Every sexual partner has a different taste — literally and figuratively — and when you figure out exactly what your partner likes, it can be intensely gratifying.

Having a few go-to tips in your back pocket will make oral sex speed along for those times when you feel like you've been underwater for hours. No shade, but giving oral sex is work, and it doesn't make you any less altruistic if you wish it would go by quicker sometimes.

Watching porn can be helpful to research new techniques, but porn is aspirational, so you can't always copy and paste what you see into your own sex life. So we asked people in the R29 community to share their best tips for performing oral on both vaginas and penises that totally work IRL. These innovative strategies might be just the thing to push your partner's buttons. Feel free to go to town and claim all the bragging rights, you cunning linguist.