Make the party season work for you
December is full of excuses to meet someone new: the work party, the pub on Christmas Eve, a friend's open house, the countdown at midnight. It also fills up fast, because everyone's diary goes to family and friends at once. A plan made on the twentieth is a plan made late, so start in the first week. Tidy your profile, choose your nearest town and write to the people you'd like to see before the rush.
Work parties need a rule of their own. If your hookup is a colleague, you'll be sitting across from them on the first Monday back, so decide before the second drink whether you can live with that. Keep the office for dancing and save the flirting for someone who doesn't work on your floor.
Midnight on New Year's Eve deserves a plan too. Work out what you want from it, whether that's a kiss, a night together or a proper date in January, and say so early in the evening rather than at one in the morning. For the groundwork, how to hook up in the winter months is the post to read: say yes when you're invited, and be the one who makes the plan when everyone else goes quiet.
Make the night in worth staying for
A good Christmas hookup ends somewhere warm. Put the heating on early, keep the lights low and have a decent bottle in. Sort the music before anyone arrives, so nobody's hunting for a song with a phone in their hand. The sound post is a reminder that what you hear matters as much as what you see, from a playlist to a whisper, and that choosing quiet is a decision too.
For something more playful, the post on great winter sex suggests festive underwear, a pair of fluffy cuffs for anyone curious and, for the practical, a pair of socks. Anything involving cuffs needs a conversation beforehand and an easy way to stop.
Then there's getting home. Trains thin out over the holidays, taxis get booked up on party nights and nobody enjoys the walk from the station in sleet, so sort your way back before you leave and let a friend know your plan. Our hookup safety tips go further on that. For the whole cold season, winter sex has more, and finding a hook up helps if you're starting from scratch.
Make it a merry one
- The importance of sound when hooking up
- How to hook up in the winter months
- Hook-up this winter and have great winter sex
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