There’s something about casinos. Just watch how they’re portrayed in any movie. They’re this mecca of opulence and luck with this surprising undertone of eroticism. The well-dressed man gambles at the high-roller’s table, an enchanting woman leans over to encourage his choices. The couple who discover one another over a squabble at a table, and they spend the rest of the night locked in a game of sexual tension and increasing bets, only heightened by the spending.
The reality is a little less over-the-top (especially if you’re near the penny slot machines), but even so, your average, everyday casino still offers that getaway oasis that’s so appealing to all of us. If you live in an area where casinos can be attached to hotels, these hotels are always a bit on the sexy side. With their adults-only set-up, casinos don’t worry much about kid-friendly rooms in their King suites, and you can find gorgeous glass showers and sex-friendly interiors for the same price as your everyday room in the same city.
Plus, there’s something just hot about the unknown. Games of chance leave the results up to chance, building anticipation without really trying too hard to do so. This can feed into your BDSM scenes, making it feel like there’s always the potential for something “unexpected” to happen.
With enough exposure, some of those common things we see in casinos may still trigger erotic feelings when we get home.
So today, let’s talk about some common casino gear, how to get ahold of it without spending a casino’s budget, and how to add it into some kinky sex play.
Author’s Note: Gambling, and an addiction to gambling, are real, life-changing issues for many people. If you know that gambling and games of chance are triggering or potentially destructive for you, this type of play is not for you. If you know this is part of yourself, at a minimum, I’d recommend disclosing this to your partner during negotiations before play. Ideally, avoid this type of play altogether.
Poker Chips
One of the cheapest and most iconic casino accessories, poker chips can be used as game pieces or to signify money. Cheap pieces of plastic, they’re plentiful (and you won’t care if you lose one), giving you a fun casino play prop you don’t have to worry much about.
You can usually pick up poker chips cheap AF right after December. For some weird reason, most “gifts for men” gift displays will have a poker set in there somewhere. Once it goes on clearance after Christmas, you can pick up a large set (usually with a case) without the expense.
These poker chips can be used like usual poker chips in your kinky games, signifying monetary amounts. You can also use them as part of an overarching “casino” vibe, letting someone “cash in” for chosen rewards when they hit a certain number of poker chips.
For long-term play, you can utilize these poker chips as a reward system, providing your lover with a poker chip when they go above-and-beyond your expectations on a day-to-day basis. Think of them as a physical “rewards” chart with a monetary system.
(i.e. A 5-minute kiss “costs” 5 poker chips or doing your favorite sex position to orgasm “costs” 25.)
Fun idea: Tossing poker chips all over the bed like rose petals, letting you fuck on top of your “wealth”. If that’s your thing.
If you’re primarily an online casino player, you might have to get a bit creative. When you can get 500 no deposit bonus, you may not have the same arousal triggers to the physical poker chips. But hey – if you want to come up with some sexy text notifications that signify you “loaded” your account with tokens that gives you the same erotic thrill, have at it.
Dice and Dice Cups
A set of nice dice is the forefront of many table games. You probably already have a dice set you can kidnap from an unrelated board game, making this an easy one to add into bedroom play on a budget.
If you really want to emulate that sexy casino experience, though, add a dice cup along with it. You probably don’t use dice cups at home, and having that (surprisingly cheap) but new addition can help elevate a set of dice into something that feels more erotic.
Craps is one of the most common casino dice games, but you can also run with Hazard, Chuck-a-Luck, Sic Bo, or others. Or, y’know, just invent your own.
(Bonus points: If you want to purchase a set of sex dice from an adult store, you can use these as “game dice” as well. If you use your sex dice like they’re supposed to be used, you roll them and you do the actions indicated on the roll results. You can use it “like usual”, or you can play Craps or other games by swapping out what the iconography on the sex dice means.)
Deck of Cards
A simple deck of cards is the basis of so many different games of chance at a casino.
There’s no reason you can’t do them at home.
You can play some of your standard casino games (blackjack, gin rummy, poker, etc.) and add sensual bets to the outcome of the game.
Since these games can run through pretty quickly, I’d recommend a simple bet for each round. Some examples can be:
- Give me a kiss.
- Let me massage your shoulders.
- Sit on my lap for the next game.
- Take off your top for our next games.
- Come let me stroke your hair.
- Take off your boxers for the next game.
- Stroke yourself hard before the next game.
If you want to streamline the prizes (as you might start going “ummmm” after the 4th game), you can both come up with a list of things you’d enjoy ahead of time. Before each round, you can reference the list and pick a prize off of it. Not only does this build anticipation for your sexy casino night, but it also speeds the game along day-of.
Cash
While most casinos intentionally avoid the literal view of money being thrown onto the table by “disguising” amounts as chips, we all know what pushing chips onto a game table means. Lots of money gets thrown around at casinos.
You can use that same idea in your play. If you want to hassle with heading to the bank, you can pull out a stack of small bills (like dollars or fives) to toss around. If heading to the bank sounds aggravating (or if you have any reason you don’t want to get near a money kink experience), you can pick up faux money in most children’s toy sections.
If you’re the nerd variety, you could technically also use a video game’s currency system like bottle caps. It might be hard to take it seriously as an everyday currency, but it could be a great tie-in if there’s roleplay involved.
Scratch-Offs
Not quite “in a casino”, but if you want to spend the money, there are quite a few “DIY scratch-off” sets out there. You simply buy the stickers, write the different “results” on a piece of paper, and place a sticker on top of the results. Your partner can then scratch off the film on top of the sticker, revealing the result you wrote underneath.
If you’d rather go for something cheaper, you can head to your local scratch-off vendor and purchase a scratch-off game. You and your lover can then decide what sexy rewards you get if you happen to get a certain result on the non-sexualized scratch-off cards you bought.
Accessories for Your Favorite Casino Game
So far, we’ve focused on adding general “games” to your bedroom play.
But if there’s a special game you hold near and dear to your orgasms, why not focus on that instead?
For example, if the sight of Craps always gets you going, you can buy a Craps rubber mat kit with curved chip rails for a genuine casino-looking play space. If Poker is my jam, I might pick up a poker table or save some space by having a roll of green felt I can lay out on my existing table when I want something more realistic. If I love Blackjack, I might purchase a roll-out mat I can put on my table with Blackjack detailing on it.
What Is It That Makes a Sexy Casino?
If you find a casino visit to be sexy, pay attention to what “does it” for you next time. What are the small details that come together to really bring out that arousal? Whatever they are, you can try to emulate them at home in your play.
If you’re turned on by the fact that tensions and money run high before taking that energy straight back to your hotel room, consider playing your casino games in the living room – potentially with “high stakes” – before heading back to the hotel room (your bedroom) to release that tension.
If you really love how laid-back and “away from it all” you get to be when you’re at a casino, you might consider looking at other sexy experiences that let you escape everyday life like spas or hotels specializing in relaxation.
If it turns out that you’re turned on by everybody in formal wear, you might also enjoy high-protocol dinner parties or non-kinky galas.
Maybe you’re into the fact that most casinos let you smoke, and something about being handed that branded matchbook and smoking as you enjoy yourself does it for you. If that’s the case, you can always DIY your own unique matchbooks to help replicate some of that at home.
When thinking about it, you might discover that you actually just enjoy that you get to sit there while service staff provides everything you need (like drinks or food). If that’s the case, you might want to consider a service night at home to see if you can replicate some of those same feelings.
Finding your local casino visit to be kinky and arousing is just fine, but exploring why those things feel arousing to you can help you replicate everything at home (and avoid paying the big bucks at the casino at the same time!)
