When it comes to sex the only limit to one's sexuality is the imagination and one's willingness to experiment. Are you a girlfriend, a boyfriend, husband, wife, sex partner, casual lover, naughty nurse, hot cop, dangerous seductress, or subservient slave?

Sexual role relates over a spectrum of behaviours and acts from talking dirty to assuming and dressing another character are a means of exploring fantasy and broadening one's ideas of eroticism.

Many people are afraid of their fantasies, worried that they may be too weird or too kinky or too private to express. A powerful facet of role play deviance is the way in which it often flirts with taboo boundaries, strutting into realms of cross-dressing, bondage, or ideas of sex between typically unaccepted pairings such as teachers and students or doctors and patients. This is fantasy-not reality-and it is an exchange between knowing and consenting adults.

Insecurity has little room in good sex and no room in sex games and fantasy play, so experimenting with roles can help raise confidence and thus deepen intimacy in a relationship.

Most role play scenarios involve a dominant and a submissive character: the teacher and the student, the doctor and the patient, the kidnapper and hostage. The master and slave scenario encompasses all elements of fantasy role play; sex, costume, character, props and power create this scene.

One of the exciting elements of sex games is the switching of control, of allowing oneself to be more aggressive than usual or having the opportunity surrender oneself to the pleasure of a partner.

Playing with roles and sex, however, does not necessarily have to get all tied up with whips and chains and costumes and strap-ons. From talking dirty or donning a special piece of lingerie, to simply tweaking the power exchange in sexual encounters, one can subtly introduce role playing to a relationship and then take it as far as she and her partner desire.

Establishing a means of spoken and unspoken communication is critical to this process and includes the implementation of "safewords" that mean stop or slow down. While role play is fun, liberating and hot, it can be alienating or harming if boundaries are not respected and communication is cut off.

Challenging oneself to let a fantasy loose in the bedroom through role play is an exciting and edifying departure from the sexual norm. An avenue for exploring desires, developing intimacy and avoiding routine, playing with roles means respecting one's partner enough to share and satisfy sexual dreams.

So get naughty. Get nice. Get dressed up or stripped down and get in bed. The show is about to begin.