Tuesday, May 15, 2012

e[lust] #36


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The Cheshire Cat - Alice felt whiskers tickle her skin and was wracked with sobs of fear. "Oh, little girl, don't cry. You can stand much more than you think you can."

Vaginal Overexposure? - I see a lot of vaginas. A lot. One of my favorite things to tell Vincent and his friends is, "I see more vagina that you ever will!"

Marionette - "I'm writing out a fantasy of mine, but I'm not sure what to do with some of it. I'm hoping you can help me figure it out." "Yes Ma'am."

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Journeys - These insecurities are at the root of my fears. I don't know how to combat them, how to turn those tapes off in my head.

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I've found a new secret to my G-spot - This g-spot thing might be hard to find since it can't be mapped, but believe me it is real and with time, exploration, a good clitoral orgasm and a willing set of fingers and/or dildos you CAN find it.

 

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Kink & Fetish

A Pixie Calls Me Daddy
Afterwards, kissing
Another Try at Topping
Bent Over and Exposed
Female Orgasm: Where Do You Get Off?
Hurts
Letting the Sadist Out to Play
more con-slut...
pain & sadism: how they intertwine
Tied Up and Tossed in a Corner
Waiting My Turn
Warm Up

Sex News, Interviews, Politics & Humor

Fifty Shades Of Me

Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationships

Buying a Toy: What You Need to Know
Bring on the wanks
I want your sex
My Mother, The Whore
Poly Fallacies #4
Q&A # 3: Childhood BDSM Fantasies
Sticks and Stones...
Small World of Swinging
The Gauge
Us Lately
White and Nerdy

Erotic Writing

Around and 'round
Down
Golden girl
Hard Love
Hot sunny sex on a rainy day
It Ain't Sex
I Want to be Watched
I made him watch me masturbate
Jealous
Lazy Day
Lost in Submission
Making out
On Display
Pussy Doctor
Perfect Cover
Pussy Eating- The Fun Way
Rack and Ruin part II
Shower Scene
The Third Date
Tickle Monster
Waiting for It
Watching Skylarks

Friday, April 27, 2012

Watching Herself Give a Blowjob


            Editors Note:  This is a guest post from Yvonne.  She is the one giving the blowjob in this story.  Afterwards her assignment was to write about it as if she was a third party watching it happen.  This is the result and she agreed to let me publish it here on the blog.  Delicious.  Hopefully we’ll see more from her in the future. 

 



She entered the room, hesitant but knowing what she wants.  He is on the couch shirtless and from the bulge in his jeans, ready for her.   His eyes heat as he looks her over; damn she was hot even wrapped in her insecurities.  Long hair piled loosely in an attempt to tame, but not quite succeeding.  Her soft shapely body encased in a tight cleavage enhancing purple and black lace corset attached to sheer black stockings.  As she passed I watched her full rounded ass sway, enticingly pink from earlier play, and I could hear her shallow breathing, panting with anticipation.  Her approach was slow, knowing what he wanted, wishing she could exude the confidence he believed she should have.  Head down, hands behind her she stopped in front of him, a brief conversation as he stood, continuing when she kneeled between his spread thighs.  After whispered moments, she nods her head and he smiles and leans back into the couch.  He is satisfied with the outcome of their conversation.

Her demeanor begins to change subtly at first, but more noticeable as I watched.  As her hands caress his thighs, slowly moving toward the buckle of his belt she began to transform.  Shoulders pull back thrusting her breasts over the top of her corset making him lean forward for a taste of tempting flesh.  Neck arching as he nears, I hear her soft moan of desire turn to a hiss as his tongue travels over the tops of her breasts.  Hands move from his thighs, to chest, over his shoulders, finally into his hair, holding him at her breasts while he kisses and licks the sensitive flesh.  Running his fingers up her arms and over her shoulders he nibbles her collar and she groans.  Her uninhibited sounds make me shiver; I can't wait to hear what she sounds like when she is cumming.  When he pulls back a small whimper escapes her lips. Mmmm, delicious.

Her hands immediately return to his belt and makes quick work of removing his pants.  As he sits back her hands slide into the legs of his boxers, and he begins to moan, breath quickening.  A small smile crosses her face, she is getting ready to enjoy herself, you can see it in her eyes.  Looking up through her lashes she licks her lips as her hands move beneath the cloth as he begins to writhe, eyes closing, head back.  He loves the way she is touching him and she is reveling in the knowledge.  Her eyes close slightly and you can see a mischievous glimmer in their depths as the smile widens. 

The boxes are the next thing to hit the floor, even as her hands run lightly over his balls.  He is moaning, eyes closing as he settles back to the couch, thighs spread hips forward.  Her hands continue moving as she lowers her head and runs her tongue over his balls, licking and suckling as he begins to thrust.  He reaches for his cock as she continues playing, occasionally looking in his eyes as her tongue circles his balls.  A smile creeps into her eyes and onto her lips when he pushes his cock towards her waiting mouth.  He enjoys her talents when it comes to sucking his cock, the anticipation is written on his face.   

Eyes locked she licks slowly from base to tip, circling the crown with her tongue, with a tilt of her chin she sucks the head into her mouth, both moan with pleasure.  Her knees part and her ass lifts from her feet as she picks up the rhythm, her wet panties cling to her pussy and the outline of her full lips makes me wet.  The absolute pleasure on his face makes my nipples hard and breast full with need. They are both completely into the moment, enjoying the sensations of each movement.  The sounds of sucking lips around a hard cock as they begin to moan and pant and the scent of sex begins to fill the air. 

I breathe deeply and watch the show.     

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Letting the Sadist Out to Play


I’ve always said that I wasn’t really into pain, or maybe just a little in small doses, but that’s not true at all.  Really, in retrospect, the giant bag of spanking toys should have been a good clue. 

                This is the story of the first time I let my inner sadist out to play.  Yes, it turns out that I have an inner sadist, who knew?  It’s been fun exploring, letting that sadistic part of me out.  

Let me introduce Yvonne, she and I have been exploring pain together, among other things, and she’s been encouraging my inner sadist to come out and play.  She’s gorgeous, although she would vehemently deny the fact, long reddish blond hair down to her lower back, deliciously naughty grey eyes, lovely legs up to a fantastic ass, bubble butt as she calls it.  The sort of ass you can’t help but want to spank.  She’s older than I, early 40’s which makes for an interesting, and delicious dynamic, especially in the spanking.  

                We’ve been pushing all sorts of boundaries, she and I, but more to come on the rest of it later; this is a post about my sadist.  It’s like there’s a part of me that I’ve kept locked up.  Partially I’ve kept him locked away because I didn’t know that he was there, partially because I did have an inkling that he was there and he made/makes me a little nervous, and partially because up until now I didn’t have a really good opportunity to let him out.  Yvonne is the first one I’ve played with that wants more than just a little bit of pain.  The idea that I enjoy causing pain makes me just a little uncomfortable.  I’m also discovering that I enjoy receiving more pain than I thought I did, although I can’t take nearly so much pain as I enjoy dishing out.  Maybe I’ll write a post exploring my thoughts and reactions to some of these things; there’s a lot there to think about.  The bottom line (pun intended) is that she loves receiving it; it pushes her buttons in a delicious (if painful way).  I really get off on giving pleasure, in whatever form that takes, more than anything else I love that.  It works out nicely that my sadist is really giving pleasure, that’s what makes it work. 
                  This was the second time we played, the first time I held back, we explored slowly (not that slowly, but slow-ish).  It was also her first time exploring her kinkiness, neither of knew what would be good for her.  She wanted more, more intense, harder, more pain and the second time I let the sadist out to play a little. 


                We had a nice dinner, talking about everything from kinky to not.  We talked about safewords.  She expressed her desire to be able to say ‘stop’, ‘no’, ‘please no more’, and for me not to stop, for it to be part of her play, and she decided on a safeword.  This was new and different.  Before this I’ve never played with anyone who really wanted that; it’s been that way a little bit with the tickling play in the past, but that’s always been a little different thing.  For Yvonne it’s an important part of the play, it turns her on to be able to beg like that and for things to continue.  Having tried it, I like it too, pushes my buttons (turns out that I have a lot of buttons. . . .)  

Kissing on the couch.

Arms held down above her head, dress bunching up.  Creamy thighs revealed, hungry lips.
The dress that had showed delicious cleavage all evening slipped off over her head, bra slipping down off of her shoulders.  Eye contact as this happens, she’s standing there, in submissive mode, letting me do as I please.  It’s in her eyes; she slips into this submissive state of mind as we play.  I fastened wrist and ankle cuffs onto her, clipping her wrists together behind her back.  

“Take your panties off.” 

                She pouted, breasts pushed forward from her cuffed wrists, struggling a bit to get the panties off with her wrists cuffed.  She blushed as I watched her struggle to slide the panties down and then shimmy out of them. 

                I added the tweezer style nipple clips to her nipples after she stepped out of her panties.  As I finished clipping her second nipple she made a smart-ass comment.  I was holding the chain and ripped the clips off of her nipples.  She yelped and jumped back.  She apologized as I put the clips back on.  

                Ankles cuffed to the spreader bar.  Standing naked in her living room, cuffed, legs forced apart exposing her pussy.  Her eyes burning with arousal, watching my every move.  I started flogging her breasts; she stands there, only able to balance, unable to bring her hands around to cover herself, unable to close her legs.  She watches me swing the flogger; the suede momentarily flattening her breasts, flicking it to catch her nipples with the tips of the tails, over and over.    

                When I asked her how she felt, she responded with a single word answer, starting a trend for the evening (one which has continued) of forcing her to answer me in complete sentences.  I made her ask me to flog her pussy.  I took one of her floggers; she told me that she’d had them for years and that they’d never been used.  Seemed like an appropriate first use to me.  

I moved her to the couch, hands still cuffed behind her, legs forced apart.  I continued the flogging, my flogger to her breasts, hers to her pussy, making her ask for it.  The asking only making her hotter, knowing that she couldn’t close her legs no matter how much it hurt or how long I continued and she continued to ask for it.  

                I left her there for a moment and retrieved a candle from my bag.  I thoroughly enjoyed watching her face and the emotions crossing it as I prepared the candle.  I took my time, finding the matches, a place to put the dead matches and later the wax droplets, lighting the candle, and pausing for a long moment looking into her eyes before I let the first drop fall to her breast.  Nipples, breasts, trailing down her stomach, up along her collar bones, back to her breasts, covering her torso in droplets.  She’s writhing, squirming, hands struggling to come forward, legs jerking, moaning and gasping as the drops land one after the other.  Unable to do anything to protect herself from the wax raining down.

  Back to the flogger.

                One of the many nice things about wax is that it’s also fun to take off, after dripping it on.  Most of the wax off I put a blindfold on and let her stew for a few minutes.  I walked back into the room and watched her for a few moments, blindfolded not know where I was or what I was doing, finally surprising her with an ice cube.  Trailing it around her helpless body, following it with my tongue.  Then it was back to the flogging, back to the wax, her wondering what would come next.  

                Up to that point things had evolved organically without any real plan; I hadn’t planned on the spreader bar, or the wax, or really any of it, it just happened that way.  I knew though, that we were eventually going to get to the next part.  I unclipped her wrists from each other and her ankles from the spreader bar.  I made her stand and bend over the couch still blindfolded, holding on to the back of the couch.  I gave her a taste of each toy in my bag before settling on the wooden paddle, the one I made out of Cherry.  I hadn’t had much chance to use it before now.  It’s intense.  I fell into a rhythm with that paddle.  Her fabulous ass quivering under each swat.  

                “Do not let go!”

                I fully intended to paddle her until she did let go, and then tie her down and keep going.  I just told her that there would be consequences if she let go.  Finally after a harder one she yelped and jumped, her hands going back to rub her ass.  She lasted a long time, longer than I thought she would before she finally let go.  Her ass was already bright red, hot to the touch.  I led her into the bedroom, still blindfolded, clipped her cuffs together in the front and made her bend over in front of one of her bedposts.  She has a giant four poster bed with huge turned posts, excellent for bondage.  She was tied standing, bent at the waist, cuffs tied to one of the posts.  I stood back and admired the view for a moment; her ass stretched tight, breasts hanging down, long hair hanging down over her face.  I move it to the other side so that I could see her face, and instruct her to ask for another swat after each one.  

                I continued with the Cherry paddle, nearly ¾” thick, it’s feels solid and packs a wallop.  One swat after another, and after each,

                “Please may I have another.”  

                Another swat promptly making her ass redder,

                “Please may I have another.” 

                Over and over again.  I didn’t count, but it was a lot.  Her ass getting redder and places starting to bruise purple.  She squirming and writhing with each swat.  When she hesitated to ask for another I would gently tap the paddle where the next swat was going to go until she asked,

                “Please may I have another.”  

                It got harder for her to ask, hopping around, moaning, forcing it out,

                “Please may I have another.”

                Tapping her ass with the paddle, 

“Ask me for anther swat.”

Nothing, until finally she gasped out, 

                “I can’t.”  

                I promptly gave her anther hard swat, and then another, laying into her without stopping.  I held her against the bed, bent over like she was.  Swat after swat.  She cried out and her knees buckled after an especially hard one and I pulled her back into position.  I held her up with an around her waist, forcing stay standing and bent over while I rained the swats down.  I unlocked the door and let the sadist come out and play.  I took pleasure in wielding that paddle, over and over again.  She begs me to stop.

                “Please no more.”

                “I can’t take it.”

                “You’ll take it until I decide you’re done.”

                She tries to stand and I force her back down with a hand between her shoulder blades.  She tries to get away from the relentless paddle, yelping, squealing, but I continue regardless.

                Finally stopping, I decide that she’s had enough.  Her ass is bright red all over from her thighs, completely covering both cheeks, spots are a deep purple already.  I untied her and helped her to stand, holding her for a few moments.     

                We moved to the bed.  She groans when her ass makes contact with the bed,

“Lance it hurts.”

  I reattached the spreader bar to her ankle cuffs and tied it to the footboard, wrists to the corner posts.  I brought out the crop, tapping her inner thighs, breasts; keeping it lights.  Her pussy is soaked, the paddling had only made her hornier.  I started using a feather on her pussy and it drove her crazy.  Stroking up and down, back and forth across her clit.  Almost instantly she was begging to cum.  I didn’t tease her too long.  I did briefly test out some tickling, couldn’t resist.  She didn’t think she would like it at all.  She is ticklish, mostly under her arms; she told me afterwards that she didn’t enjoy the tickling itself, but liked the domination factor of it.  It was delicious, tickling her, making her watch my fingers get closer and closer, making her lose control and start laughing as soon as my fingers touched her.  Trying to resist and failure, laughing trying to get away, my fingers following her.  She liked that it made her lose control, liked that it stripped away any vestiges of control that remained, despite being tied naked to the bed.  The tickling takes it that one step further, completely and totally out of control and unable to do anything about it.  

I gave her a taste of the Magic Wand on her nipple; this was her first time with any of this and had only seen the Hitachi in pictures.  She moaned, squirming as I switched nipples the powerful vibrator working its magic, and she wondered nervously how it would feel on her clit.  I assured her that I would be ruthless with it.  Then I switched back to the feather for a few minutes and let her think about it. 

When I finally brought the vibrator down to her pussy I told her that she had to ask before she came.  I trailed the vibrating head up both thighs before putting it forcefully on her clit.  It was pure pleasure to watch the look on her face as she experienced it for the first time.  It only took a few moments before she was asking me for permission to cum.  I teased her a bit, telling her she couldn’t cum, and taking the vibe away before she did.  I didn’t keep her on the edge long; this time I was more interested in seeing what happened after she came the first time.  

I gave her permission to cum and her first orgasm overtook her, squirming and writhing against the ropes, moaning with the pleasure.  I left the vibrator in place on her clit as she rode the orgasm and started coming down.  The vibrator wouldn’t let her come down though.  She was definitely more sensitive afterwards, but not in the almost painful ‘Please, please, take it off, I can’t take it, take it off before I go insane’ way.  It was still pleasurable for her and it simply didn’t let her come down, the next orgasm started building almost immediately.  It took her to the edge again and a few moments later she was asking my permission to cum again.  I gave her permission and she came again and another one started building.  She came five times, each time asking permission, each one seemingly more intense than the last.  The vibrator buzzed relentlessly against her clit, muscles pulsing under her skin, tightened and remarkably tightening even more as the orgasms overtook her, over and over again. 

                After five she was gone, beyond talking, beyond asking for permission.  Things got extra intense after that.  She was writhing uncontrollably, arching her back with her orgasms, stomach and legs shaking, hair everywhere, holding onto the wrist ropes for dear life.  Now she was writhing trying to get away from the vibe, too intense.  I was relentless, following her every move, keeping the vibe pressed tightly to her clit. 

                Afterwards she told me that she lost count after 5, but thought maybe she came twice more after that, but that it was like one big one.  Until it got so intense that she started begging me to take it off.  I tormented her, pressing harder and then taking it away, turning it off, letting her relax for a moment, muscles releasing, flipping the switch and watching the shock go through her body, watching her arch even farther when I switch it to high.  Off again, then back on.  Reveling in watching the sensations roll through her, unable to make it stop, only able to writhe and take it.  

                I untied her and held her, she was gone, buzzing, high off the energy that comes from that sort of play.  We laid there for awhile, both of us coming down.  It was a long drawn out session, I buzzing from the energy too, and I hadn’t even cum yet.  I did later, although I think I’m going to end the story here.  Delicious stuff. 

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Follow-up Links on Consent and Communication


                Now that I’ve written about my thoughts on Consent and Communication I thought I would link to some folks who I think do a good job writing about these issues.
                I’ve also included several links that have the topic of submission and feminism.  I’ve included these in the consent and communication post because I think they’re relevant to the topic.  Specifically because all the articles talk about safewords, communication, the giving of control; they talk about how ‘consent’, and ‘submission’ aren’t taken, they are given.  I think that is a huge point that everyone needs to recognize.  I think the basic principles also extend to submission in general rather than just women.  The same principles apply to me as a man who enjoys being dominated.  So good reads for everyone, whether man, women, regardless of who’s dominated or being dominated.   

The first is from Pandora Blake’s blog, home page:  Pandora Blake – Spanked, not Silenced.  She has a very interesting blog, definitely worth a read beyond this link.  She has a lot of interesting things to say from an interesting perspective because she’s a spanking model, misc nude/kink model, she’s kinky in her personal life, she’s an activist on sex, sex-positive, and kinky topics, and she’s a good writer.  What a combination.
I really like this article and the video in the beginning; she has a lot of good things to say.  I will warn you that video revolves around the ‘pissing’ fetish.  Let me first say, that fetish as a rule turns me off, nothing about it turns me on.  However, I kinda like it as the subject of the video on communication because it’s fairly far out there as fetishes go, and it illustrates that anything can be ok as long as you and your partner are on the same page.  So don’t let that stop you, it’s not gross, even for me who doesn’t enjoy that particular thing; read on. 
The next is also from Pandora Blake.  Minou and I talked some about how kink and the desire to be dominated related to being an empowered, intelligent, powerful woman.  I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive at all.  I love strong, intelligent, empowered women and wouldn’t have it any other way.  As I said above, many of the same principles written about here apply to anyone who is being ‘dominated’.  I’m going to write some posts on why I enjoy being dominated and also enjoy dominating.  But here is one good article.


This one is from Adele Haze, also a spanking model.  Sassy, to the point; she speaks to the point that someone identifying as ‘submissive’ (regardless of how long they adopt that label) doesn’t and shouldn’t just roll over for whatever someone else wants. 

I found this article from a link on another blog, I haven’t spent much time on the home blog.  This is a guest post written by a Mizz Honey J.  Lot of good things to say in the article.

This one comes from alternet.org.  A lot of interesting articles there, the Sex and Relationships section is all very sex positive.  The rest of the articles come from sort-of an ‘alternative’ bent, some of it good; I’m not endorsing everything here.  

       This one is very sobering.  I’ve never played in ‘public’ or attended any sort ‘play party’.  I would like to though at some point.  I think this sort of thing needs to be read, sort of in the same way that people need to read up on STD’s.  More knowledge is better.  Reality can’t be ignored, only dealt with.  The home site is salon.com.

Communication and Consent

I’ve been thinking for awhile of writing some posts that are more like essays on misc topics relating to Sex, Kink, and Life. These are all my own opinions here in this blog, although I plan to link to a number of different authors who have written some good essays on these topics. My disclaimer is that what you get here is Life and Kink according to Lance. Second disclaimer, this post has turned into a lengthy beast.

I’m going to start with some thoughts on Consent and Communication. It seems like it’s been a hot topic among bloggers and discussion contributors lately. I’ve had the opportunity to play a lot over the last few years, not with many partners, but a lot of time spent with a couple of partners. I haven’t ever played in ‘public’ or at a ‘play party’, although I would like to at some point, so my experience comes from private play between partners. Some of things that I read online bother me, because there are a lot of people out there with what I consider to be a screwed up view of the way things ought to be regarding play, kinky play, sex, consent, communication. I thought I would add my two cents to the confusing mess that is the internet.

I consider myself a ‘Switch’, I’m not too fond of labels, but that fits best I think among the kinkster labels. I enjoy both dominating and submitting, tying up and being tied up; I actually think it’s pretty essential to know both sides. I’m not judging anyone who is purely into one or the other, but I will throw a question out there. If you’ve never been on the receiving end of that paddle, or those ropes, or so on and so forth, how do you know how to use it? The knowledge that I gain ‘on the bottom’ undeniably helps me do a better job when I’m the one dominating, and vice-a-versa. There’s no substitute for knowing exactly how something feels, for knowing exactly how much that paddle hurts.

For me there are a few things that are pretty clear, everyone is different so some things do change, but I do think there are some basic tenets that are, for all intents and purposes, always true. I feel like some of what I’m going to write about is obvious, but given some of the things I’ve run across online, maybe it’s not always obvious. The more I read and experience, the more I realize that I was lucky in the people and environments that I had not just my first kinky experiences, but also my first sexual experiences. So, the more safe, sane, consensual guidelines and posts there are out there for people to read the better. Not to mention writing and guidelines that are solidly based in reality, rather than someone’s fantasy world. Again Life and Kink according to Lance.

We’ll start with a list:
1) Communication is key, if my partner and I are communicating well and
clearly (whether verbally or non-verbally, usually a combination of both)
then things will probably go well and we’ll likely both have a good time.
2) For things to be fun for me both of us need to be having a good time.
3) I always have a safeword in place.
4) Ego needs to be checked at the door

Communication is key; if there were to be one overriding tenet, this would be it. I’ve been lucky enough to not have had any really bad experiences resulting from kink, or even from vanilla sex for that matter. Some experiences were not as good as others, but because in those cases there were good lines of communication going, it made it easier to navigate when things began to move in a bad direction for one of us.
Minou and I explored our kinkiness together; we were each other’s first kinky experiences. So, it that way it made it easier to grow and experiment together. Our communication was good inside the bedroom and outside the bedroom; we could talk about anything. We talked about sex a lot, about fantasies, about what turned us on, and what turned us off, about what we wanted, about what we thought we might want but weren’t sure, about the things that made us nervous. As we got know each other those discussions got deeper, more intimate, we divulged our ‘dark’ fantasies, and we started making our play harder, rougher, more intense. We could do that because we trusted each other and we communicated constantly.

I want to talk about several levels of communication; I just mentioned talking about fantasies and desires. Discussing things beforehand would be one level. That way everybody knows what to expect, at least in a general way. You both have a feeling of the things that the other likes and dislikes, and what turns them on (and off).

Communicating while things are going on would be another level. A lot of it for me is non-verbal, especially with Minou; she and I knew each other well enough that we could usually tell what the other was feeling. Oftentimes we didn’t need to talk, I could see when I was about to cross the line between what was ok and what would be too much, and I could see when I should push her harder. Even times when I did nudge over that line, often I could tell and correct the tone/intensity before she felt the need to say something. The other side of communication during the play is actually verbal communication. A lot of things I’ve found online irritate me because apparently there are a lot of people out there very against actual communication while they’re playing. To me that is just stupid. If you know each other well enough to not need it, that’s great, but even with someone you know that’s not always the case. Minou and I got very good at the nonverbal communication, but we still checked in verbally sometimes. If I wasn’t really sure where she was at, I would check in. If you’re not sure, ask. If Minou was tied up she would say something to me if something was wrong, uncomfortable in a bad way, or she felt like things were going somewhere she didn’t want to go. To me it’s a no-brainer to decide between taking the time to make sure that everyone is having a good time and risking ‘breaking the mood’ for a moment, especially if you and your partner don’t know each other very well.

With Minou I would often ask her, “How are you feeling?” Sometimes, often, I would ask that when I knew things were good, because I wanted her to tell me how much something was turning her on or how badly she wanted something, just as a part of our play. We also used it as a way to check in, if things were good then the response would be in line with what we were doing. If things were beginning to go poorly then it was an opportunity to comment before things got worse. She and I explored together and when we first started we were learning, and we made mistakes. I tied her wrists too tight the first time we played (it took me a few tries to get the techniques right), she said something and we paused long enough to fix it and that was fine. There’s no reason not to check in, and plenty of ways things can go wrong if you don’t.

With MH, she and I checked in a lot more often. We didn’t know each as well as Minou and I did; we never got to that level of nonverbal communication, and checking in was essential. I introduced her to kinky things and it was my responsibility to make sure that she was having a good time. It was a tricky situation because having never experienced it before, even she wasn’t sure what she wanted. It turned out that she enjoyed being ‘forced’, pinned down, spanked, dominated; obviously this was a very tricky situation. I didn’t always do the right thing, but the communication was good and when we needed to pause we paused, and when we just needed to stop we stopped. I took things slow and made sure that when we explored the ‘forcing her’ aspect it was in a pleasurable way and not really forcing anything. Even knowing that was a turn-on for her, diving headfirst into that would have been the wrong way to approach it. We worked it out because we trusted each other; she knew that when she talked I was listening.

Eventually Minou and I had years worth of conversation about sex and kink to draw on, and the non-verbal communication got better and better. MH and I never reached that level of communication, but that was ok because we checked in more often and talked about what was wrong (and right).

That brings us to the last level of communication, which is talking about things afterward. Doesn’t have to be immediately afterwards, sometimes it’s better to wait awhile, but that’s often for me where the best source of information comes from. Talk about what was good, what was really good, what was not as good, where lines were crossed (hopefully not), or nearly crossed.

I wrote about an instance where Minou and I played rough, played with what people sometimes call ‘consensual-nonconsent’; I wrote about it here. It was great experience for both of us, I loved it and so did she. I want to touch on a couple of points. We talked about it beforehand, about what she wanted, and what about the idea turned her on. I gathered a few very specific ideas about what she wanted, enough so that I felt that I could safely extrapolate from there. I also gathered some info about what she didn’t want, for example she didn’t want to be called a ‘bitch’, ‘slut’ was ok and even desired, but ‘bitch’ pushed the wrong buttons for her. That’s an important detail. One that I would never have known if we hadn’t talked very specifically, and given what she’d already told me about wanting ‘dirty’, ‘nasty’ name calling I probably would have used ‘bitch’ if I hadn’t asked that question. We had already been sleeping together for a long time at that point, our nonverbal communication was very good, and that’s what we relied on during the ‘scene’, but still the talking beforehand was essential. It worked well, I pushed hard, harder than ever before, but I also paid really close attention to where she was at, making things very intense, but backing off before it crossed a line into being truly unpleasant. Afterwards, not immediately, but a bit afterwards we talked about the good and less good points so that we could learn from it and do it again better.

In my opinion consent needs to be explicit. More communication, at worst makes things take a little longer, maybe the ‘mood’ suffers some, but then nobody gets hurt, nobody has an unpleasant experience. Then, given the knowledge that you’ve gained, the next time will better. Once you know someone well perhaps there can be wiggle room in the sense that once consent has been given for a general class of activity you can play within that. However I think it’s fairly obvious, consent needs to be explicit. Err, on the side of more communication.





Point number two, for things to be fun for me both of us need to be having a good time. This one seems obvious to me. If both people aren’t having fun then something is wrong. If I’m paying attention to whether both of us are having fun, and making sure that we’re communicating then things are probably going to go well. It does get a little more complicated, for instance with spanking and pain. The swats with my nice wooden paddle or the leather paddle hurt, and that’s where the communication is really important. Is it good pain or bad pain? It depends on the mental state/headspace of the person on the receiving end, what is good one day might not be good the next. So, again with the paying attention.

It also gets more complicated when I like things that my partner doesn’t necessarily like. Communication. Two examples, the first is that I really like tickling. Minou doesn’t particularly like it. She enjoys it during sex, and has a love/hate relationship with the domination aspect of it while she’s tied up. We did sometimes play with tickling, but we talked about it. I never did anything that she was seriously against. We played lightly, because that was ok (I knew that because we talked), and I didn’t do it all the time. A few times I tickled her harder, but we had talked about it beforehand and she ok’d it. On the flip side she enjoys anal play (receiving) and I wasn’t so into that (it is growing on me as time goes on). We talked about it, and sometimes she would ask for it and I would do it. I did it because she really likes it, same thing with the tickling for her. There can be give and take, that’s part of a relationship; it worked because we talked about it, a lot. Probably not things that we would have done if we hadn’t know each other so well. We worked up to that. We did things we weren’t necessarily too into ourselves because we adored pleasuring the other person, and that was ok and good for both of us. Neither of us felt like we ‘had’ to do anything, we did it because we wanted to, and that I think is the crux of the issue. All comes back to the communication.



Safewords. I always play with a safeword. I think it’s silly and stupid not to. I like two levels of safewords, I’ve used ‘red’ and ‘yellow’. ‘Red’ meaning things are not good, we need to stop now. ‘Yellow’ meaning things are beginning to go in a bad direction, we don’t have to stop, but change it up. For me it’s a safety net, I’m going to do everything in power to make things fun for my partner, but I’m not perfect. A safeword gives a level of communication that is unmistakable in its meaning. I don’t want to make my partners safeword, if things have gotten to that point then I have probably done something wrong. I try to communicate with my partners in such a way that using the safeword is not necessary. It gives you that safety net if you need it, and I think especially in the beginning as you are getting to know someone when there is a higher likelihood of a misunderstanding that it’s important to have that net. People aren’t perfect, they get tired, headspace changes, nonverbal communication is misread, etc. In the last few years that I’ve been doing kinky things very rarely have I or my partner safeworded, but it has happened and it was very important that the groundwork was laid for that.

I think it was the 2nd time that MH and I delved into kinky things; I was using a leather paddle on her. We hadn’t played much; this was basically her 2nd time ever doing anything even remotely kinky. We didn’t know each very well. I gave her a swat that was too hard for her and she safeworded. I stopped immediately, apologized and checked in to see where she was at. There are a number of things going on here. We had talked about the safeword before we did anything kinky, I also explained that I was focused on her pleasure and would try not to take things to the point where she felt like she needed to safeword. My response to the safeword was a question of trust too; I gave her a swat that was too hard, crossing a pain limit that I didn’t know was there. She probably didn’t know where that limit was herself. She safeworded and I stopped; I’m sure that she was waiting to see what was going to happen when she safeworded. Yes, I crossed her pain threshold and that was unfortunate, but our communication was good, the safeword was in place, and I respected that. I did what I said I was going to do, I stopped. We checked in, and then we kept going in a different direction, and that experience built trust between us. We both learned things. One thing to take note here is that I hadn’t tied her up yet. We were playing with spankings, and blindfolds, and rougher sex, but she wasn’t sure she was ready to be tied up. I didn’t push it, and she got there in her own time. I can guess though that a lot of the reason she decided that she wanted to be tied up had to do with us taking it slow in the beginning. We built that trust; she knew that if she safeworded I would stop, and that things would be ok.




My last point is about ego. My guess is that a lot of the trouble that comes about in these sorts of situations is because ego got in the way. I hate machismo, absolutely hate it. Few things get under my skin quite so much. I think machismo has its roots in ego, and in insecurity. Nobody’s perfect, people make mistakes. It’s stupid to assume that you can know ahead of time everything about someone or how they’re going to react or about a situation, no matter how experienced someone is. If I’m dominating it’s definitely a power-trip and part of that type play is my being in control, seeming like I’m in control, but I think it’s essential to balance that with a strong dose of reality. Not letting that take precedence over safety or failing ensuring that things are going well for my partner. If I need to take a step back, check in, or admit that things aren’t going quite right then that should be ok. I think ego should pretty much be checked at the door, best case scenario it gets in the way and things are not as pleasurable as they could be. Worst-case scenario somebody gets hurt. In between there are plenty of opportunities for unpleasantness.




I’m going to make some generalizations here. Someone who is purely a ‘Top’ or ‘Dominant’ who’s never been on the receiving end of that paddle has let their ego get in the way. Refusing to check in, discuss something beforehand, or not laying the groundwork for a safeword, is ego or machismo getting in the way. I know there are people who would disagree, but that is my opinion.

I think the bottom line is to be absolutely sure that you and your partner are really communicating in whatever way works for the two of you to make sure that you’re both on the same page. That’s a good bottom line whether we’re talking kinky or vanilla.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Advanced 69

On her back, head hanging down, legs up on the wall in a v. Looking up at me standing over her; her fingers reaching towards my balls. Cuffs already on her wrists and ankles, pulling me into her mouth. Standing over her, full access to her body. At first just the feather, stroking down her thighs, veering away from where she really wanted me to go. Tracing the outline of her breasts, teasing the tips of her nipples. Over and over. Her mouth licking, sucking, making me groan in pleasure. Pulling me completely into her mouth, into her throat, fingers working, nearly pushing me over the edge. Switching to my fingers, tracing the same path. Finally dipping, ever so gently into her wetness. Feeling her response, gasping around me in her mouth. Bending slowly, bringing my mouth down to her skin; hers still working magic on my cock pulled deep inside her. My tongue teasing her stomach, hips, fingers tracing thighs. Finally taking a long lick across her clit. She jerks and we groan together, locked together, tongues continuing.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

e[lust] #32

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Welcome to e[lust], the sex blog round-up- The best posts from the hottest and smartest sex bloggers all in one place! This edition highlights topics such as libido, fake orgasms, teenage lust, voyeurism, BDSM consent and so much more. Want to be included in e[lust] #33? Start with the rules, come back in February to submit something and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates!

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Assent Matters by SherynB - Find your emotional power to recognize and say “no” to what you don’t want BEFORE you get naked and tied up and give up your actual physical power to walk away to anybody.

Forever The Night - ‘Why the hell shouldn’t I listen? This is my home, my bedroom after all’. So I do listen and I do feel myself twitch at every minute sound on the other side of that fucking wall.

Hands. Fingers. Pleasure. - This was the first time a boy's fingers had such unfettered access to my pussy. Prior gropings under and through clothes had never been like this.

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The Fake Orgasm: You think you know, but you have no idea - I am 34 and I have faked orgasms. There ya have it. But I have never and will never qualify doing so as “I did it for him”.

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Sadie Says... Awake - In the haze of my missing libido I also lost myself. I began to wonder if I remembered who the hell I was?

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Kink & Fetish

Connection, Intimacy & Trust
DQ Earns a Pass from Chasity
Five Little Words
Naked and kinky in a busy sex shop
Sharp Tongues and Good Pain
Sexual violence
The Duke Story
'Twas the Night Before Kinky
The Pink Elephant
Who I Am
Who Are You to Change Us?
Waking You

Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationships

Busy Writing
Help! My Vibrator Won't Work
Men and Visual Stimulation
Slippery and sticky and covered in lube
The Safe Zone - Giving Yourself Permission To Screw Up in Non-Monogamy
Until Death Do Us Part

Sex News, Interviews, Politics & Humor

Interview With Senior Sexuality Advocate Joan Price

Erotic Writing

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A Read to Remember
Aurelia (A Dirty Kind Of Grace part 1)
A Fistful
banana bread
Christmas Day
Last night in Cap D'Adge
Later On In The Evening
Meat Hooks & Butcher's Twine
Reside
Sugarbutch Star: blckndblue, The Pink Dress
she and he and me...
Surprise Orgasm
wind