Need to get closer to your boyfriend than just cuddling and cooing on the couch? Want to have fun with soap and water doing more than just blowing bubbles?

Why not jump in the shower with your lover-boy and wash your way to a new intimacy?

I am assuming in this piece, that married couples already do this, at times, so there is no need to refer to the conjugal-couples...but for the girl and guy who are already dating in a way that is more than bowling night and movies, this might be just the thing to expand your horizons and get to know one another.

After all, water-park play isn't just for kids!

The question of who's in first, you or the He-man, is best answered by saying YOU should get in first.

In my experience men are not great at getting the right water temperature for a shower, at least not right for me!

I like my showers hot but not hot enough to boil a lobster, and often men prefer the temperatures so that they can burn away all that grease and oil or whatever it may be they have dripping from them after a day of their favourite (often dirty) activities.

It's best to get in first ladies, if you want to control the course the shower-fun takes, and the first thing you need to do is get the water flowing the way you like it before Mr. Wonderful parts the shower curtain and makes his entrance.

If you have a shower with one of those hose-extensions you can use it to spray your Honey with a nice jet of water, making sure he turns around a few times, and giving special attention to his back-end and other 'hidden' crevices...whatever you can find, get it good and wet.

Then ask him to do the same for you, but remember to ask him to take his time (men are notorious for rushing showers and baths, often finding them a necessary evil, as opposed to women, who find them a necessary luxury.)

Once you are both good and water-logged you can go on to step two.

A word of caution--don't use your favourite bath gel on your Hunky because men rarely like women's soaps. They are largely manual-animals and like to hold tools whenever they can, and that applies to a bar of soap as much as it does to many other things.

Get him a nice, strong deodorant soap and then lather him up like a snowman in a blizzard. Get him good and slippery. Get him all frothy and then use hands to give him a nice, thorough going- over. Take your time. You may just enjoy this step more than you imagine.

Then ask your little Love-Joy to do the same for you, using your own preference of bath gel/body wash. Don't expect him to do a good job...men are easily distracted you know.

At this point, without going into too much detail, let's say you are having a rather 'amusing' time!

You and Mr. Funtime are really finding out things about each other that you might not have known before--like what it feels like to touch your Heavy-lifter when he is squeeky clean as opposed to sweaty n' stinky (heaven forbid!) ?

Finally, find your way out of the shower, after you are quite certain you have exhausted all 'possibilities' and grab a nice big towel for your personal version of Brad Pitt/Daniel Craig/Antonio Banderas and get rubbing!

Give his hair a nice fluffing and proceed down his bod with all the vigour of a nun scrubbing a cloister floor. Get him dry and then let him copy your example with another towel, but watch out...he might just think you are as fond of rough-rubbing as he is. You probably aren't. Don't be afraid to tell him to be gentle. Men are funniest when they try hard to do something they are not very good at.

In any event, the revelations you experience I will leave to you to discover, but I can say for a fact that there is nothing quite so refreshing and so certain to bring a smile and a laugh to a relationship as just 'getting clean together' in the shower.