Women love lingerie and high heels
Women line up to tell us why they love high heels, stockings, thigh highs, sexy bras and panties. It's all about looking and feeling great, for yourself and your partner.
Women adore the feel of lingerie on their skin
Japanese gravure idol Emi Kobayashi
Model in lingerie
Dita von Teese in classic lingerie
Black stockings, thong, and bodice ... yummy!
All in black: heels, thigh highs, panties, and bodice
Perfect combination: high heels and beautiful thigh highs
South African lingerie model Minki Visser
High heels, red and black lingerie. A timeless combo
Boys, you need to behave!
Lisa: Lingerie made my marriage come alive. Men are visual and tactile. They love to look at and touch their woman. Sure, they'll do romantic, candlelit dinners if they have to, but they do that for the woman. What they really want is their woman looking sexy and inviting.
I asked my husband, Tell me what to do for you, baby?
He said he wanted me to buy some black stockings, black high heel shoes, some sexy bras and panties, some thongs, and he wanted me to wear those at home for him. So that's what I did and it never fails. A home is a man's castle and his wife or woman should be his queen. If you give him what he needs, he will deliver for you.
Josette: There's a really dumb idea out there that once you're married you don't have to work at sex, you can relax, and it'll just happen. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you're dating, that's when you don't have to spice things up because you're still finding out about each other. You think it's exciting to find out your man or woman has a favorite color or a favorite movie director.
That doesn't cut it when you're married. You have to keep the marriage and your sex life alive. You don't do that by sitting back and expecting things to happen. How does a business or a sports franchise become and stay succuessful? By innovation and hard work! Same with marriage.
One of the easiest ways to reinject some passion back into your marriage is to make the effort to be sexy for each other. My husband comes to Victoria Secret with me and we deliberately take time to choose the items I'll wear for him.
At first it was embarrassing for him, but now he gets a big kick out of it. Like most guys, he loves hs woman to wear black stockings and high heels. What could be simpler? And he's got a thing about thongs. He just loves me to wear a thong in bed. Of course I can give him that because I get so much out of it. He takes his time with me, he feast his eyes all over my body, and he loves to stroke and touch me. That's what every woman wants.
Carla: My man and I are into blindfolds and restraints, nothing heavy, very gentle stuff. It's a game we both enjoy. We buy these silk restraints and I have this very soft blindfold. I lie back as my husband explores, strokes, and kisses my body. It's exquisite.
Men have this thing about wanting to rush love-making. They want to get to the main event. Anything, believe me anything, that can make them hold up and enjoy the build-up has to be good for the woman.
I really believe marriages begin and end in the bedroom. That's where problems are solved, but it's also where resentment and dissatisfaction can creep in and take over.
So many marriages would be alive and well if men and women could just give each other what they really want and need. Sex needs to be an exciting dance of give and take. Dress up for each other, make the effort. You will not regret it.
Linda: My marriage was getting routine. It had reached that place where all the practical stuff was in place. We both had good jobs, we had a great home, the kids were doing well. And my husband and I were like brother and sister, or partners in a business.
We loved and trusted each other, but there was no spark anymore. We slept with each other maybe twice a month. It was rushed, never romantic, never satisfying. Neither of us wanted it that way.
My husband isn't so comfortable talking about his feelings, especially not his sexual feelings, so I took the matter into my own hands. We were at the mall and I went into Victoria's Secret. Of course, he wouldn't come in. He stood outside all embarrassed. But I told him, Wait till I show you what I just bought.
He was like a little kid, all intrigued and excited. I bought a sexy bra and panty set, and a pair of white thigh highs. I put them on for him that evening and it transformed our love-making. It was like he was hungry for me again.
Rosie: Lingerie makes me feel attractive and powerful. I am transformed from suburban homemaker into a sexual tiger. And that's who I really am, a sexual tiger. As a woman you want your husband to focus on you, pay attention, really see you as a woman.
I don't like marriage when it becomes ordinary with no surprises, you know, Hi honey!
and a peck on the cheek in the morning, then he's off to work. Marriage is a huge commitment; you've promised to build a life together. But you have also promised to please and satisfy each other.
I wear lingerie and high heels to shake my husband out of seeing me as this woman who just keeps house and cooks. That's one of the things I do, but I have deep sexual needs as well and they have to be satisfied.
When I make the effort to dress up and look sexy, I won't accept excuses like Baby, I'm tired
or Baby, some other time
. He has to give me what I want. Lingerie, sexy outfits are a way of helping me get what I need.
Robin: To me. it's about being feminine, really feeling that I am a woman with sexual power over my man. I want to be irresistible. Men cannot resist a woman who dresses up for them, who makes an effort to look attractive.
Some guys want a woman to look trampy. I can see the excitement in that. But I like a really classy look. I buy exclusive lingerie online. It might be expensive silk stockings, or a really pretty bodice, designer bra and panties. I love shoes by Louboutin and Jimmy Choo.
Yes, it all costs money. But happiness, sexual satisfaction, they don't arrive out of nowhere. You have to tantalize your man, entice him, turn him on so he loses his inhibitions. That's when a woman gets what she needs.
Interviews by Tiffers van Tien