Sexting! You’re probably doing it wrong. Your smartphone is a delicate instrument of seduction, but odds are you’re using it as a crude tool to spew poorly spelled filth. Up your game, up your chances, and up your sex life with the MakeAGif guide to sexting.

Start Slow & Flirty

Don’t rush in. Don’t make the first text in the conversation a sext. Don’t start off with a dick pic. Get a back and forth going and slowly heat up the exchange.

No Abbreviations, LOLs, or Teen Slang

You are a grown up. So flirt like it. Nothing ruins the mood more than “Ur bewbz r 2 die 4 txt me pix”.

Make It All About Them

Do not text over a list of your needs and selfish fantasies. Don’t talk about how horny you are, or how badly you need to get off, or what you want them to do to you. Fill your sexts with compliments, and talk about all the ways you’re going to pleasure them and make their night.

Be Smart With the Pics

Controversial advice here fellas. Don’t send a below the belt pic unless it’s asked for or heavily hinted at. Chicks don’t dig them. Nobody digs them. If you’re in shape, send over some ab or flex pics. Women don’t go straight to the naughty photos. Be suggestive and send over some hot fully clothed pictures and build up to the XXX pics.

Feel Free to Be Witty, But Don’t Go Overboard

Survey after survey says both men and women look for a good sense humor in a partner. But a little humor goes a long way, but don’t overdo it, and don’t start cracking jokes where the punchline is “all seven-inches”. Too much clowning makes you sound cheesy, or even sleazy.

Leave Them Wanting More

Sexting is the appetizer, not the main course. Use sexting as foreplay to excite and stimulate your lucky partner for when you’re in person. Plus, you need to save your best dirty talk for the bedroom, nobody wants to hear the same lines they just read an hour ago.

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