What Is the Sexiest {Favor} to Ask?

“Would you zip me up?”

It’s still one of the sexiest things that a woman can ask, and we know it, too.

You’ve seen it a dozen times. Picture Angelina Jolie, circa 2007, baring her uncovered back to the camera while a hand gravitates toward her to clutch the world’s tiniest zipper. There’s a steamy connotation to the question, but it’s still unspoken by request of a simple favor.

“I’m having trouble reaching, and this dress is just a little tighter than I thought…” she might say.

…And you could feel that in a second, if you wanted to. she might be thinking.

Isn’t there a certain vulnerability about asking for this favor?

You’re knowingly semi-exposing yourself to somebody, facing away from them, and then trusting them to stand inches behind you to help you solve your most pressing situation, by pulling a zipper up your back. It’s sort of a gesture; returning a piece of modesty back to a lady in a delicate position.

You’d have to be pretty insensitive to let a woman walk out the door with her dress unzipped.

There are two things that can happen if you say yes to the dress request:

1. You zip up the dress and nothing transpires. You have since gained the satisfaction of helping somebody out of a jam, and now they can walk away with relief, looking and feeling better. Everyone wins.

2. You zip up the dress while addressing some other feeling, like breaking a touch barrier and attentively watching a metal zipper slide all the way up from the small of her back to her neckline. Hoping that they want you to touch them, while wondering if they’re thinking the same thing.

Better to do it slowly, you know, so that you don’t get the zipper caught.

Better to hold your breath, too, as your heart will start racing the moment that you break the space between her spine, your thumb, and forefinger.

You’ve been pulling zippers your entire life, and it’s all led up to this amorous five second window with a lady in red, colored both from the dazzle-me dress and the rush of blood to her cheeks.

It’s hot stuff, and one little favor can light the fire. Nevertheless, a ‘thank you’ is always due, and maybe a compliment to the person underneath the well-fitted dress.

It can’t be fate, can it?

That our arms weren’t meant to bend backwards for this exact reason, to create some carnal tension, a lust-filled proposal in the form of a wholesome appeal. All of this being said, there is still one other favor that sounds even sexier than this one:

“Can you do me a favor? …Would you unzip me?”