A good dirty text is a tease you can send from across the room — or across the city. It plants a thought and lets it grow all day, so by the time you’re actually together, half the work is already done. The best part: this stuff works for absolutely everyone. No gendered anatomy required, no particular dynamic assumed — just wanting, waiting, and saying so.
Below are 30 ready-to-send lines, sorted by mood. Steal them wholesale, or use them as training wheels until your own voice kicks in. (Shy about it? Totally normal — start soft and build.)
Planting the seed
Low-stakes openers that get the day humming.
- “I keep getting distracted thinking about last night.”
- “Fair warning: I have plans for you later.”
- “Wore something today just because I knew you’d want to take it off me.”
- “Every time my phone buzzes I’m hoping it’s you telling me something filthy.”
- “Come home. That’s the whole text.”
The tease
For building anticipation and leaving them hanging — our specialty.
- “I’ll tell you exactly what I want to do to you… when you get here.”
- “Thinking about how good it feels to almost let you have what you want.”
- “You’re not allowed to touch yourself until I say so. Just so we’re clear.”
- “I could get you right to the edge tonight and then just… stop. Maybe I will.”
- “Keep being this cute and I might actually let you finish.”
Taking charge
For when you’re the one running the show tonight.
- “Be ready when I get there. That’s an instruction, not a suggestion.”
- “Tonight you don’t get to rush. We go at my pace.”
- “I want you thinking about me all afternoon. Report back.”
- “Good things happen to people who behave. Are you behaving?”
- “Clothes off by the time I’m through the door. Let’s not waste time.”
Handing it over
For when you’d rather be told what to do.
- “Tell me what you want and I’ll be exactly that tonight.”
- “I’ve been so good all day. I think I’ve earned something.”
- “Whatever you’re planning, the answer is yes.”
- “I can’t stop thinking about the last time you took control.”
- “Just tell me when I’m allowed. I’ll wait as long as you make me.”
Sweet and filthy
Because tenderness and heat are not opposites.
- “I want to take my time with you until you forget your own name.”
- “Missing your mouth. And a few other things.”
- “I love how you sound right before you lose it.”
- “Half of me wants to spoil you rotten and the other half wants to make you beg.”
- “Come here and let me ruin your evening in the best way.”
The morning after
Keep the glow going — and tee up the next round.
- “Still thinking about last night. Genuinely useless at work today.”
- “You have no idea what you do to me.”
- “Round two is already scheduled in my head. Clear your evening.”
- “I keep smiling at my screen and my coworkers are getting suspicious.”
- “Last night was a warm-up. Just so you know.”
A few rules of thumb
Match their energy — if they send a shy toe-in-the-water line, don’t fire back with a novel. Escalate together. Specifics beat vagueness; “I keep thinking about the way you…” lands harder than “you’re hot.” And read the room: make sure they’re somewhere they can actually enjoy the text, and that filthy messages are welcome before you send the really good ones. Enthusiastic consent applies to sexting too.
Want more where these came from? We’ve got a whole set of dirty text examples and a guide to dirty talking during sex for when you’re finally in the same room.
18+ only. Send these only to a consenting adult who wants to receive them.