Keep exploring until you find what feels good for you.” 1. “Enjoy it, get acclimated, and then take a few more baby steps. 'Having a game plan and setting up a safe word is important,” she says.įrom there,“take baby steps,” says Skyler. The biggest rule: If you and your partner are both interested in kinky sex, have an open conversation about what it is about kink that's a turn-on, and what you're comfortable trying, says Jenni Skyler, Ph.D., a certified sex therapist and sexologist, and director of The Intimacy Institute in Colorado.