Body Worship: Get On Your Knees For This Versatile Kink

What is body worship? This devout and sexy practice can be explored whether you’re a pro or a newbie. Why is it so popular? Because it’s romance, kink, and ritual all in one.

What is the body worship kink?

Body worship is a practice where one partner expresses adoration and subservience for the other partner’s body or a specific body part. It can be a part of or preamble to sexual activity.

It often manifests physically through reverent acts like stroking, kissing, and praising, but it is also a spiritual and emotional ritual that expresses true affection and connection.

What is body worship? Body worship is commonly part of BDSM play, with the partner doing the worshipping taking on the role of the sub at their dom’s mercy, and the worshipped partner taking on the role of the dom, controlling the session, and telling the sub exactly how and where to touch them.

In this context, it can be considered a form of role-play.

However, body worship can and is a frequent part of vanilla play. Paying close attention to and pleasuring your lover’s body are forms of worship. Assigning a label to the act means you’re taking it to the next level and doing it consciously.

The BDSM body worship kink is also related to partialism, a type of fetish that centers on a specific body part other than the genitals, like a foot fetish.

Cock worship, ass worship, foot worship, and more

Normal or BDSM Body worship can involve worshipping the whole body. But it more typically manifests as worship of specific body parts.

Common examples include: Cock worship, pussy worship, ass worship, foot worship, muscle worship, belly worship, armpit worship… The list goes on.

The body worship kink and BDSM

There is inherent submission involved in worshipping, so of course, forms of body worship are widely practiced between doms and subs in the BDSM community. It can be a form of erotic humiliation.

Positions, dirty talk, toys, and punishments can emphasize this sexy power dynamic. A sub is often on their knees or being “face-sat” by their dom.

A sub might wear submissive gear like restraints or a chastity device, and give elaborate praise to the body part and express their unworthiness to touch it. A dom could reinforce this by telling their sub to worship better or give a spanking as punishment for inadequate subservience.

Why is body worship so popular?

Firstly, being worshipped feels undeniably great. And worshipping something you love about your partner in an unshackled way is a satisfying release of emotions we often suppress.

The body worship kink is so widely practiced because of its versatility. It can be part of hardcore BDSM play, but it can also be a soft and emotional way for any lovers to connect because it doesn’t require loads of tools and is an extension of what naturally occurs between people during sex.

What is the body worship kink good for? While it’s a great way to delve into kinky dominance and submission, it’s also a loving, honest, and unrestrained way of expressing genuine adoration. On top of this, it’s a useful way to slow sex down and explore our bodies' complexity, beauty, and uniqueness.

Start enjoying body worship

How you begin exploring body worship depends on which role you want to take and which body part you really adore (or the whole thing!). How kinky you want to make body worship depends on your desires.

However you practice body worship should feel comfortable and natural to you. Actions can include praising, cleaning, grooming, bathing, massaging, kissing, licking, stroking, and direct sexual pleasure.

Foot worship often entails a sub sitting at a dom’s feet, cutting and painting the toenails, rubbing them, kissing them sucking them, or even acting as a human footrest.

Ass worship, which is very popular (watch a movie or a music video!) can include massaging, gazing, kissing around and inside, rimming, sniffing, penetrating…

Anyone can try the body worship kink. Have a conversation with your lover, figure out what you’re curious about and what turns you both on and give it a go.

You’ll be surprised at how much enjoyment you can get from enthusiastically tending to your lover’s body. What’s sexier than expressing love?