Turning a love story into a work of art. It was the wish of Mélanie and Robin, thirty-somethings from Strasbourg who created a little over three years ago, Blash, “Be Love Art Sensual & Human”. This sexy concept with slick packaging offers a kit with all the necessary equipment to “multiply the pleasures”. “A sensory, sexual experience, an artistic performance”, assures Mélanie. The principle ? Put paint on a cotton canvas or on parts of his body before letting go while making love. Result, a unique work to hang at home. Decoration, but also something to intrigue your guests, to titillate an evening… For 20 minutessome adventurers of this part of legs in the air and in painting confided to us, on the occasion of Valentine’s Day, their experience.
Like Céline*, a Strasbourg resident, who “immediately” fell in love with this concept that she discovered via social networks. “It was impulsive. I wanted to do that with my friend at the time, says the forties. But in the end, we parted ways and the kit stayed in my drawer for quite a long time. So suddenly, I told myself that I was going to do it with a c ** plan (laughter)”. An experience she still enjoys. “It’s great, the feeling of the two bodies with the paint on the skin, I liked it too much. » Painting, a plus? “Ah yes, it gives a carnal side when the skins slip”. No need for naughty scenarios, like those offered in the kit. For this occasion, she preferred the surprise effect, spontaneity. “I took out the box and asked him if he was tempted. There you go… He was overwhelmed and wanted to do it right away, Céline recalls. We distributed the colors on the canvas and then afterwards…” In the end, an abstract work in red and black, the colors chosen by Céline. “But we didn’t want it to be too spread out, so we didn’t make love for three hours,” says the Strasbourgeoise.
A downside however, some users of the Blash kit regret the speed with which the paint dries on the skin. “Better to be a premature ejaculator!” jokes Céline. Another small inconvenience, if they are “without risk for the skin and easily washable”, the paints are not however made for the mucous membranes. “I really made love, explains Céline, but it’s better not to use the penis as a paintbrush!” »
“Another way to discover sexuality”
An experience encouraged by Chloé, a young thirty-year-old sexologist and couples therapist, established in La Rochelle. The kit is “a very successful project”, she says, who regularly offers it to her patients after having experienced it herself. A clientele mainly made up of young people under 30 with whom she often works in video. “It’s another way of discovering sexuality. It’s not just penetration, says the sexologist. This allows you to make love differently. Some people tell him that they have experienced “a sensual and funny moment because they spent time caressing each other, rubbing each other with the paint”. Others “are more accepting of certain things on their skin that can bother them like stretch marks, etc., she explains. To be covered in paint is to be both naked but also covered, to respect a certain intimacy. The opportunity also to find themselves naked against each other because some explain that they have lost this reflex. This allows you to take the time, the thing in the most playful way possible, to discover the body of the other in another way”.
An adventure also shared by Marie*, 40, and Louis*, 43, living in Île-de-France. Lovers for five years, they discreetly decided to put their love on canvas. “I wanted to share something strong with him, and be able to keep it, says Marie. Paintings, colors are my thing and there I was going to be able to have both while having fun! “Also, she offered him” this colored sex session “, for his birthday. “Obviously he loved the idea”. After carefully preparing this ephemeral painting workshop in her living room, the two lovers had a blast. “It was incredible even if we had to take breaks to sometimes rinse our eyes or our breasts… or our sexes,” confides Marie. Sometimes I also put a stop because I saw the sheets slipping, it was out of the question to put paint on the walls, I am renting. I admit that we broke a lamp and a few glasses on the way. “If some drops of paint have hit the ground, “to be honest, a year later, when I see them on my floor or on a flowerpot, I smile thinking of him”.
The canvas has replaced the “Ikea painting” in the living room
Later, their affair having become friendly, Marie chose a piece of canvas, “where I guess a piece of his hand under my buttock”, she explains, before hanging it in her room. “She reminds me of the good times […] and allowed me to be very comfortable with my lover and my body. I find us beautiful there. “As for Louis, the ex-lover, he chose a very colorful piece, a bit rough on which we do not understand much and framed it in his entrance hall. “I love knowing that,” confesses Marie. “This painting day was grandiose, explains Louis. When I close my eyes, I have her colorful body in mind, this pink nipple that I never wanted to clean. […] I believe that Marie had never been so liberated and ready to test everything. »
An exhibition that does not always remain secret, on the contrary. Chloé, the sexologist from La Rochelle, hung the canvas in her office. As for Céline, the Strasbourgeoise, the work quickly replaced her “Ikea painting hung” in her living room. A work on which, however, its visitors wonder and to which it does not necessarily explain how it was painted. “I tell my best friends, or my close friends yes, but my parents don’t need to know what it is! she smiles. Still, the exhibited work is a subject of discussion and a successful experience that she “intends to do again”, as soon as she has found a soul mate to immortalize this moment. “For the moment, it is my temporary passion that is exposed. »
* Inames have been changed