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These instructions are written with partners of opposite genders in mind. For other variants, please write for different instruction.

Segment One: Coitus as a Ladder

In this first segment, the designated team will perform each of the four “rungs” at least once, before advancing to the Ballroom Segment. They are encouraged to meticulously practice each rung in order to be fully prepared for the next phase, and to ensure completeness of notes.

Rung One: Kissing (closed mouth, open mouth, short duration, long duration)

Rung Two: Oral coitus (must be performed both female to male and male to female)

Rung Three: Digital penetration (male to female)

Rung Four: Vaginal penetration with male completion

Segment Two: Coitus as a Ballroom

In the former segment, the team “climbed” a ladder of natural advancement to reach this point. They may think of this as the experimental segment. Similar to a grand ball, the couple can explore different variations on what they have already done, to learn whether these activities enhance or degrade the overall experience.

Acceptable activities include coitus at different phases of the female’s moon cycle, delayed or denied release, increased frequency, adjustments in diet (to monitor for changes in taste or sensation), variable locations, introducing outside stimuli, tandem self-pleasure, coitus while under the influence of inebriation, and anal penetration.

Segment Three: Coitus as a Battlefield

Not all teams will advance to the Battlefield Segment. No formal documentation exists on any of these activities, so any provided by the team will be appreciated, and their efforts lauded and rewarded accordingly.

Acceptable activities include coitus while bound and in submission, questionable consent, paraphilia, and multiple sexual partners in the same act. Should the researchers have additional ideas for this segment, please proceed and include the details and results with your notes.

We unintentionally skipped ahead to the ballroom last night, Rahn thought, wondering if she was thinking it too. If she remembered the creaks coming from his bed... the sounds he’d tried to strangle in his throat. He couldn’t stop thinking about hers.

Aesylt finished reading and straightened. “Can I ask you something, Scholar?”

“Of course.”

“Have you kissed many women?”

The question surprised him enough to look up. “Many would be an overstatement.”

Aesylt nodded, processing. “This isn’t a scientific question. I’m only curious, as I’ve never thought to ask Val or Nik. You can be honest. In fact, I would be hurt if you weren’t.”

“What was the question?”

“Would you say I’m a competent kisser?”

Rahn sputtered through his first attempt at a response. He didn’t know what qualified someone as a competent kisser, but the few he’d had with her were certainly the most memorable. “I wouldn’t change anything in your technique.”

Aesylt nibbled at her lip. “I have a technique?”

“My turn to ask a question.”

She stepped behind him and leaned over his shoulder again, but this time, her arms dropped over his chest, her face resting against his. “Go on.”

“For the record, and also because I care about you, I would like to know the extent of your experience in these matters before we go further.”

Aesylt hesitated before answering. “Kissing. Might have been more had Nik and I... But everything we do from here will be new for me.”

Rahn swallowed the dueling waves of illicit desire and guilt. “And this is still what you want? Still the way you want to experience these things for the first time, as an experiment?”

Aesylt withdrew slightly. “What better way to experience something so intimate than with someone you trust implicitly? I’m fortunate to have someone in my life who fits that description perfectly, though I have a feeling he’s going to ask me this question every day, isn’t he?”

He grinned at the desk, shaking his head. “You know me well.”

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