In Case You Still Don't Think He's a Diiiirty Ol' Man

McCain's VP Choice

[Someone made a cute little comment on Twitter, about how amusing it is that Canadians care so much about the American election. Why do we? Because anything America does tends to affect Canada, that's why. Protectionist folks want Bush, err, McSame, to win so our trade policies don't get negatively impacted. People like me, however, are tired of the conservative climate that contagiously caught to Canada during the Bush era. My life has notably changed, my freedoms have notably changed, as a result of the oppressive climate down south. Our policies don't affect Americans day-to-day so they never care about our votes. Americans affect us daily, ergo, many of us live vicariously through your happenings, because we know the tumble-down effect will hit us shortly. And how.]

Why should McCain's Vice-President pick offend any thinking, smart women in the world?

He met Palin once, then decided she was the one. Just like that. Shazam. Experience? Pshaw! She's cute!

But who is she really? Just a hockey mom with five kids who decides to be a toughie on finance in office as governor of Alaska, a state with around 300,000 people... after her illustrious career as a mayor of a town with 9,000 people? Is she just a gimmicky leader, like her stunt of selling the Alaskan governor's airplane on eBay, then stuffing the proceeds into the state coffers and opting to fly coach?

She's a woman so given to petty politics and favour-making that she's under ethical investigation for trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from a high-paying state job in Alaska after the ink on the divorce with her sister has died. I mean, she's UNDER investigation. It has not been resolved, she has not been cleared, and yet she's nominated as a running mate? Yeah, way to vet her, guys.

If you're a feminist and you're sitting around thinking, "Oh, yes, but she's a woman. She strings whole sentences together! Yay, women! Women rock!" then give your head a fucking shake, would you? Yeah, sorry, there's no argument praising Palin you can make because the facts speak for themselves. She's under investigation, has never done foreign policy, hasn't even been in charge of a town of more then 50,000 people, or a state with half a million folks, yet if Mr. I-Had-Cancer-Four-Times and Will-Be-Oldest-Prez-Ever should kick the bucket in office, SHE takes over as leader of the free world? Well, at least we know she can get a good price for Airforce One.

When smart, powerful, deserving women get appointed to positions of power, it's a compliment to women across the board. McCain could've picked Christine Todd Whitman, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Kaye Bailey Hutchinson, or any number of other smart, established women on the American scene. He could have. Hell, he should have.

Instead, he's arrogantly picked someone who's cute as a button, has barely any experience, and who's an easy-to-sell all-American hockey mom. Unfortunately, she's supposed to be pandering to the disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters... yet not one of her policies is compatible with Hillary's. Oh, but she's in the pocket of oil and gas, and I guess that's always helpful if you want to be a Republican vice-prez.

I think it's high time women be included more frequently in top level politics. We've shown we're as smart, as innovative, as communicative, and as ambitious.

But choosing the cuter girl over the more experienced, more established, more credential-heavy, more proven women out there who might just be over 45?

That's not the change we need. That's the same old misogyny, just dressed up prettier for 6:00 sound-bites.

Obama's right. McCain just doesn't get it. Do you?

The Bi-Monthly Friday-NightBottle-of-Red Requisite Posting

In vino veritas.

The price of truth, it seems, runs $9.99 per 750 mils. Yum.

I've recently cut out my crack-like addiction to the tasty, chewy, buttery, vanilla-y Rice Krispie squares from the market down the street. That, coupled with yoga and a few more veggies in my diet as well as weight-lifting, and I'm noticing (just as of tonight) some new toning in my midsection. Like, what? I have rib bones? Who knew?

I'm guessing I've passed 50 pounds lost now; I was 47 a couple weeks back. I've had a couple rough weeks and I've given myself a break from the scale. Who needs that shit? I suspect I've beaten the 50-pound mark, though. It feels promising.

I decided not to go to this big scooter thing tonight. Yeah, I know, scooter-girl geek. What can I say? Those guys are just whack enough to be a good time any time. But tomorrow night's the big party thang and I'll just show up there lookin' cute in my cutest duds. Truth be told? In vino veritas? There's a limit to how much nice clothing I have right now. I shouldn't press my luck with trying to look cute for the same crowd more than twice in a weekend.

I just haven't the money to dress me up. Lord knows I'm tryin', but it's a slow go. I hope to pick up a few more things later this month. But I have a few nice things.

Tonight, for the hell of it, when running up to the store I actually dressed up instead of down. I wore these cute floral camo rolled-up crop pants with sandals and this brown tropics-linen shirt striped with gold, left it mainly unbuttoned and threw a hot-pink cami under it to punch things up, wore sandals, and carried my lime green shoulder bag.

I have no idea what the hell it was, but I got a whole lot of boy eye contact as I tried to figure out a different meal-on-the-cheap after seeing the ludicrous $3.49 cans of coconut milk at Safeway. (What?!) Is it the brazen clashing colours with a pastel camo pant? Or unbuttoning enough for bouncing boobs under a cami? What?

Honestly, I checked once to ensure my pants zipper was up. It was just a little daunting.

You have to understand something here. I may have lost 50 pounds, but I still have clothes I've been able to wear before, size 18 stuff from my halcyon days 3-4 years ago, when I was busting out of them yet proudly claimed they were my size. I still feel like the Steff of old... even though everything I own is at least one size (nearly two) too big (and I've thrown out the stuff that was any larger than that, two garbage bags full so far.)

When I actually have a whole new wardrobe, I'll feel like a whole new me. Fortunately for me, I'm combining the right things of old with the right new ones, and having a little success. But tonight? Fucking surreal.

Like I say, I feel like my old self still. Not this 50-pounds lighter version. Eye contact from half the semi-cute to cute guys in the store? What the hell?

I didn't mind it, not a bit. I just got taken off-guard by the third or fourth guy, since I'm used to one or two, you know? Let's face it, everybody's somebody's type. You dress nice, look happy, someone's bound to dig something about ya. It's just about putting it out there. I find that easier now, though.

It's not like the store was full, either, by the way. And I happen to know from living in this hood for 9 years that the store is most packed with cute-ish single-ish guys at 8ish on a Friday. That was just coincidence that I happened to go there then, when it was such a lovely visit.

But...

I felt, and feel, fucking awesome. What a wonderful experience to go from noticed now and then to just plain noticed. Even if it's only tonight, it was just so unexpected and felt so nice.

I've always been cute. I doubt I'm hot. And I don't care; I'm cute. That works. But I was always cute and really heavy. Now I'm cute and comfortable in my body. That's a world of difference.

But I'm not mentally there yet. I don't compute the difference between 16 and 22. I'm still shocked when I have enough room in the movie theatre seats to wiggle myself into a reclined position. Slumping? Blah! Wiggling? Fabulous!

Psychologically, topping 50 pounds is one of those thresholds most of us just don't think we can hit. Once we do, well, why not name our fucking number? I feel empowered.

So, to have tonight's little surreal shopping trip in which I noticed getting noticed, and enjoyed returning some gazes, around the same time I'm cracking the Holy Grail of weight loss, 50 pounds, having never joined a weight loss group, bought a gym pass, had a dietician, or used any supplements...

Blows my fucking mind. What a happy convergence of milestones. I needed that. Seriously. I'm flattered. I feel warm and fuzzy.

Yet I'm really glad I'm having a night away from the madding crowd, a night in which I get to quietly appreciate this changing of the aesthetic guard.

My mindset, though, seems to have some serious catching up to do with my reality.

Maybe that's the fun part. 'Cause I'm sure having fun so far. ;)

Obama by Way of a Detour or Two

I wrote this back in March. I don't have the time, really, to write in the morning, got home late tonight after dinner out. A thing or two to say of that at another time, probably.

But in honour of the awesome happenstance down south today, when Obama officially accepted the nomination and made what was one of the greatest political stump speeches I've ever heard, I'm gonna throw this posting up. Since, like, the opening goes double for tonight's fucking phenom of a speech. But bear with it, it takes a couple detours. You know me.

Feeling political hope? New. I like this.

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I've now both read Obama's entire speech on racism in America today and watched it, and, boy, I like this guy, man. I like him a lot. I think he's the politician I've waited a lifetime for. I don't think anyone could run on a platform of complete change and not achieve any. I don't think you can articulate what's so wrong with a country today and not have had ideas for a lifetime on what to do to fix them if a chance ever comes.

I have, for a while now, believed that Obama is, in some respects, a master manipulator, but I believe he does it for the right reasons -- to make himself a viable candidate. By not polarizing people too greatly earlier in his career, he can stomp his feet a little louder now and achieve more through it.

He's far from perfect and I have no illusions, but you gotta understand where I'm coming from.

I never pursued my journalism career for any number of reasons, but mostly because of what Stevie Cameron said to me over drinks after a conference she spoke at. (And I mean "said to me", it was a private chat.) Stevie Cameron's the journalist who exposed Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to be a duplicitous thieving hack back in the day and blew open the Airbus scandal. She's up there with Barbara Frum when it comes to awesome female Canadian journalists, man.

So, she says to me I seem like a nice kid (I was 22). She had recently quit the mainstream political journalism beat and was now editing a women's lifestyle magazine instead. She began to speak about how a career in journalism means committing to a life of finding fault in everything and everyone. It's about finding problems and covering tragedies and wars and more often reporting on the worst of mankind than the best of it.

And I mentioned how I wanted to be the kind of old-school journalist that lasts out the ages, you know? Mencken, Murrow. Men of meaning and agenda. I wanted to call the world on what was going wrong, point it out, and be a part of the change that ensues. I was then and am now the sort of journalist that believes neutrality is overrated. I'm objective, not neutral. Then, I was an idealist, totally. I wanted to help change the world.

So she says, "And when it doesn't change on your watch? What then?"

She pointed out the rates of addiction and alcoholism amongst the journalists she knew, and said that was often "what then", so if change was my mandate, I should be prepared for stagnation and cycnicism.

Wasn't the most heartwarming bit of encouragement I've ever received, no.

And I thought about it. I knew the writer I wanted to be, the kinds of things I wanted to do, but what if I fell short and I was some chick on a beat in the city, constantly exposed to the same shit all the time, never seeing change... who would I become then? Would I like myself? Would I like my life? Or, would I, as I suspect, feel vapid and empty inside?

Ironically, I've yet to become that writer I wanted to be, but I guess I'm working towards it.

When it came to shaping the writer I am, I was a huge Hunter Thompson fan, early Hunter, you know. Sharp as a tack politically. Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 stands as one of the best political books last century. Hell, he was the only writer on the campaign to call every single primary in the '72 election, nailed 'em all. Whatever that tells you about his political skills, it should really tell you how well he knew his country.

He loved America but hated what was happening to it. Thompson, more than anyone alive, wanted to believe the American Dream. He spent his life waiting for the next voice that would cry out that a change would be a-comin'. He wanted to believe that someone else not only believed in the American Dream but would fight for it with the fight it deserved.

And Carter tried, but pretty much failed, but beyond Carter, that change never did materialize. Clinton looked like the next great white hope, but that ended in a disaster of cigars, blue dresses, and denials. More business as usual, more corruption, more disappointment.

The greatest tragedy of this race to lead the Democrats is that, man, Hunter woulda loved this one. God, how I wish he hadn't put a bullet in his head that February day two years ago. I suspect he figured "Superbowl's over, and Bush has two fuckin' years to go, AND it's February. Fuck, I'm done." Pow. Tragic.

And here comes this guy who says America's really, really broke, but if we all pull together, we can fix it again. He's preaching change. He's raising money on the web, running a clean campaign, chanting words like "we can" and "change".

Business as usual ain't going to fix America. Voting outside the box, though, just might. Obama ain't perfect, but he's different enough to be promising.

...And in a life filled with business as usual and disappointing politicians, I'm being given a few short months to believe that, yeah, maybe things can be different after all. I'm enjoying it. If he wins, it'd be incredible to see an optimistic America again. I don't think Americans realize that the America of the American Dream is the nation the rest of the world really does long to see. We wanna see a country with its "best" at its forefront. It's been a long, long time since we've seen that. America was built on dreams... having a few more right now certainly might not hurt.

I don't think I'm an idealist to believe in a platform of change. I think of myself as a realist... I know we have it in us to have a better world. I prefer to believe in that part of us that finds cures for diseases, sends men to the moon, and creates global vehicles like the internet to unite us all through the miles that would appear to separate us. I believe that everything great about who we are, the world we have, and the people we can be, all begin with a single dream by a single person at a single moment in time.

If we waited for perfect people and perfect opportunities, we'd never achieve anything. Instead, we look for the best people of those available and the best opportunity that avails itself to us; that is how success is found and had.

So I'm going to go on the record here and now as just another irrelevant Canadian's opinion that it's Obama I want on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Struggles Between Sexuality and the Self

A reader, Dp, just happened to ask me to maybe touch on the difference between a person's sexuality and the person. He and I sort of look at the equation differently, I suppose, but it's something I've been considering a lot.

I've placed a sexual encounters personal of late, trying to find that elusive friends-with-benefit situation that encapsulates someone brilliant, someone my style, and someone who nurtures both the same high libido I do while still being a passionate and creative lover who's not afraid to cross a few proverbial lines in the sand.

I have a tall order to be met. I know it will be a frustrating search. I'm already frustrated, but I'm resolved. I've had responses accusing me of being a "shopping list" woman who's out there for a trophy man rather than reality guy. That's so not the case. I'm a reciprocal woman. I bring to the table everything I'm seeking in a partner. Absofuckinglutely. I deplore hypocrisy, and I do not ask for anything I'm not willing to provide, or that I haven't provided in the past.

I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who are comfortable separating the sex they have with the people they are, but I'm not. The sex I have is as much a part of who I am as the girl who loves to bake for her office coworkers. I mean, it's part of my identity. As much as I am a generous woman, I am a sexual one with a big love for intimacy and passion. I'm given to doting on partners, and I love selfishly receiving. I'm keen on orgasms. But I'm also keen on taking all night to get there sometimes. I seek power almost only in sexual exchanges, though sometimes in my life; but certainly there's a part of me that does seek that power. To deny that she exists, or to wrongly assert she's just a "mode" I operate under, would be to blatantly ignore a core part of who I can be, and often am.

But just because I enjoy power exchanges as part of sex doesn't mean I can do without the smothering, doting affection of old-school intimacy. Because I can't. Affection and intimacy are as important to me as any other facet of sex, whether it's taking a good hard shagging or practicing an evening of switchery.

Born and raised Catholic, much of my life has been spent trying to get past the "Satan is waiting for you if you engage in sex" bullshit taught by a church who seeks to shame practitioners away from sex. It's taken my whole life to realize that who I am when I am a sexual being, someone who's getting shagged frequently, is a better person than the moral, abstaining girl that life sometimes induces me to be. I'm better all the way around when I'm getting laid. Simple.

The hardest thing I've had to learn to be in my lifetime is that woman I am when I'm having sex. Realizing that she's not a bad person just because she likes to take it the way she does, or domme a fellow when the urge strikes, or tease and taunt a fella to the brink.

I've learned slowly over the years that I need to get past that mind-body connection. Past that place that distinguishes the mind over the body, or vice versa, and instead uses them both together to transcend mind/matter, which some of us believe has to happen for real "sexual union" to occur between lovers. Complicated, huh?

It's one of the reasons that getting vocal about sex wound up being a huge turning point for me in taking my sexual experience to another level. By being less concerned about my volume, just allowing that natural reaction to occur, I somehow got past another level of hang-ups, got more into the now, less into the thought side of it all. It was, and is, such a struggle to override the person I was raised to be as I try to embrace the person I've discovered I am, all the while trying not judging the latter just because I was raised as the former.

How each of us gets to that point where we stop segregating who we are sexually with who we think we are morally, and realizing they don't have to be separate people, that we can (and often are) both, is a struggle I think some of us will be fighting for our whole lives. There will be no easy answer to how you get to that point of accepting the coexistence of your sexuality and your morality, and the realization that one need not cancel out the other.

But the only way I know to do it? Stop stopping at our comfort zones. Stop assuming that just because you've always thought one way about sexuality that your mindset is correct. Stop assuming you know how a sexual act will or will not make you feel. Don't presuppose things like bondage will never appeal to you, because the odds are mighty strong that, like the majority of people out there, who you truly are sexually is something that will be shifting and changing with the rest of you throughout your life. Embrace it. Most importantly, explore it.

Of Dates, Diets, And Me

So, I've been dating more of late. Averaging one date a week these days, and it's all right. Nobody has yet made me pitter-patter, but we're getting better on the averages here.

My big sexual misadventure of a couple of weeks was the classic case of pulling the trigger way too soon (in more ways than one) largely because I stupidly gave in when instinct said "Stick to the script, girlie. Use the door." Ultimately the blame lies with me because I'm the person who probably had better perspective that night, but hormones said "Get thee LAID." Not what I had in mind, but.

Now, though, that's not the problem. I'm not "going there" for the hell of it. Getting laid is nice, but I'm not doing it if anyone's getting hurt, or if it's just flat-out dishonest. And I just don't feel taking advantage of situations for my hormones, either. It needs to be genuine, and the right thing for right then. As it turns out, I seem to be doing all the rejecting these days, which is new, which is good, but the guilt sort of sucks sometimes.

Like, Monday I had a date. To be brutally honest, I was disappointed to see he has a bigger weight problem than I thought, and that's a big problem for me at this point in my life.

Here's where I have to clarify: Hard bodies don't interest me. Never have. Some are hot but in that "I'd fuck you but I'd never, ever trust you" kind of way. Is that bigoted toward excessively pretty people? Sure, but it's going on the averages I've come to see in my own life. There are always exceptions, of course.

But like I told my date tonight, it's about health and strength. I'm not strong enough to be around someone who loves food, and all the wrong kinds. I can't. I've lost 50 pounds, gone from a 22 to a 16, and I can't go back. Won't. Dad almost died of diabetes. I was heading toward a future of heart disease and diabetes and premature death. I had the "This isn't good" chat with the doc. I was filled with self-loathing and felt like I was out of the loop with life. I'm so much better than that now. I like this girl. I like her a lot.

And why wouldn't I? I have changed everything.

So I had the decency to say I'd keep an open mind and if I saw him trending toward health and fitness, I'd develop an interest... most likely.* Which is true. He's certainly of the "type" I gravitate toward. Very much so. But not at the price of putting myself around a life of excess, not anymore.

Bodywise, that "type" however tends to be guys just carrying a literal few extra pounds. Maybe 30, 40, 50 pounds overweight, depending on height and frame, just of the mildly "doughy" and comfy but nothing more than that. Kind of maybe at a max to the extent that I myself am presently overweight.

Cushion for the pushin' and a little extra to soften the blow? Works for me.

But you got to know, I'm not keen on bones gnashing into me during sex. I dig madly the slap-slap-slap sound of flesh hitting flesh in the act. Thin-people sex doesn't sound as fun. They need a little more slappin'. I really love skin, but more importantly, flesh. I'm all about the meat of it. Good firm meat, of course. Like firmness. Excessively jiggling meat, not so good.

But when I say "doughy", I'm talking more in a Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies, not Jack Black. Geeky and softish but in proportion. What can I say? I'm that type, and I like that type. Says a lot about the light I see myself in, if anything, I guess.

Now, me, personally, I ain't aiming to be slim and trim. Not in my goals at all, whatever you think of this weightloss quest. I see my ass being perfect at about a size 10-ish. Face it, in life and on this blog, my personality's larger than life. "Slim" doesn't compute when one throws it up against "Steff". I mean, really? Foodie-sensualist-scooter-riding-feminist-geeky-sex-fiend girl? Thin? No.

I like myself a little on the soft side. Just not as much as I was. :) That problem's solved anyhow. Like I wrote yesterday, waxing about the new loveliness of my thighs. Smooth, firm. Lovely! I like this. Shaving is so much more fun. Yet, my ass is amply grabbable. S'all right.

If my proportion stays as good as it is, but I just slim up a little more, then I'll have what I think is the perfect body. Fuck the media, fuck size two, fuck DDs, fuck it all. I'm cool with a B-cup 10. The ever-perfect 10.

But I'd feel like shit if I just slammed the door of possibility on this guy, who has a lot to offer, but lives a different lifestyle than me right now. I've been that person. A little faith would have done me some good.

And it's like that bumper sticker. "I may be fat, but you're ugly, and I can diet." Exactly. He's cute.

Good people are good people, whatever their size. But they say your social situation dictates your fitness. Hang with overweight folk? You'll be overweight. Why? They eat fat food, don't exercise. Hang with thin people? You'll lose weight. Why? Because they tend to eat better, exercise. Nature, nurture?

It ain't science, it's just environment. And given how much a glutton I am when the lovin's good, given my foodie-sensualist bent, I need to be a very careful girl these days. Let's nibble wee bits of wonderful cheese and lots of fruit, maybe a crumb of excellent dark chocolate, but nix the pizza. Choice is a wonderful thing.

And that's the way that low-fat cookie crumbles. As did my date. With whom I've vowed to stay in touch with, and get to know, either way, with an open mind. Since he aims to "prove it". Because good people are good people.

*Steff note: I should add he says he's up to my challenge and says I should stick around. I said sure. We'll see.

Overreacting, or Right On The Money?TWITTER SPAT!

A Twitterer I was following, who has hundreds of followers, made a couple comments in the last couple days in which he's using homosexual terms to insult others, like "gay" and "faggot".

Strikes me as a very grade-five thing to say, and I call him on it. Publically. He called me politically correct and blocked me.

Here's my Twitter feed's archive. Now here's the exchange.

Greg Scott's initial comments:

Professional soccer players are such faggots.

When I call pro soccer players faggots I am referring to their repeated dramatic displays of injury, the most disgraceful in all of sport.

And, the next day:

Pink tie against a pink dress shirt with a grey blazer. Good gravy. The CBC National weather guy has every right to dress gay but why?

So, I said:

First some athletes are "faggots" now this guy dresses "gay"? Wanna get a 21st century vocab and ditch the homophobia?

To which he wittily retorted:

Your fear of language and over reaction to words evokes a stifling political correctness I'd prefer you not share with me.

And I got blocked. Dang, Hilda, when am I gonna learn to play nicely with others?

Mm. Yes. I'm just SO politically correct. That's all this blog smacks of, all day long. Political correctedness. Its predecessor was called The Cunting Linguist but when I got interviewed on San Francisco radio and they couldn't say the blog name, I thought, "Well, that's no good." So here we are at Smut and Steff. Politically correct? My fucking ass.

Wanker. In the world's largest language, with more than a million words, you have to use "faggot" and "gay" as your adjectives? Your definition of "faggot" as it pertains to the soccer players, for instance, sounds more like a word I know as "actors" or some would even say "hams", and I'm not opposed to insulting pigs.

Also, I think the fashion-challenged meteorologist sounds more "effeminate" or even "sissy" than gay, since most of the gay men I know can kick most straight mens' asses. As Jon Stewart says, "Gay goes to the gym."

But, really, as long as we're living in a world where people are still carrying placards that reads "God hates fags" and are dressing their kids in shirts like these? Yeah, I'm going to make a comment when fuckwits banter about words that sound a little laced with hate and judgment and 1960s mentality, thinking they're all witty and cute. Somebody should. And I fucking VOLUNTEER.

When you're using it as an insult, pal, you're saying it's a bad thing, you're judging. And itmakes you an ass, even if it's just you in your smug urban-hipster posturing.

But hey. I'm just a politically correct cunt with an itchy Twitter-finger. So what do I know?

Are You Stalking Me Yet?

You too can follow me on Twitter.com, where once in a while I might say something spontaneous, like:

house: 95% clean. floors: 85% clean. laundry: 100% clean. mind: 95% dirty. some situations of filth just can't be helped.

Think of it as nibblie crumbs of my blog. And my otherwise ordinary life.

Get to Know Yer Blogger #2:The Sex Edition

I did the first Get to Know Yer Blogger because I was too exhausted to think in linear fashion. But then I had fun doing it.

I figure, what the hell, let's keep this wagon wheel rolling. I don't live the wildest of lives, but it's interesting enough. And writing these sorts of snippets all hodge-podged together is pretty fun for me.

Keep in mind, of course, of my sort-of policy of not revealing intimate particulars about my encounters. So, these are all very allusory -- skimming the surfaces. You just don't need to know, although I know you want to. But that's the stuff I like to keep all secret to myself. What can I say?

The most recent stuff in my life is all variations of themes begun in the earlier years, so most of this is pretty distant from my world of now.

Without ado, skimming the surface of my sexual life...

• The best outdoor sex I've ever had? In the absolute pouring rain, middle of a stormy November night. My trench coat was lain down over a muddy patch (but the least wet in the area) under a gigantic elm tree by a river. It was after midnight, no one was around, we got soaked, somewhat dirty but mostly just really wet, and got through it in record time, but it was fucking fantastic. Or fantastic fucking. Both, really.

• One of the best nights ever with a lover was when we went out on a cliff, at the end of a forest path in the North Shore mountains, to catch the sunset... and when we tried to get back, it was too dark to find our way. We stayed until the sunrise, huddling together on a small jutting bit of cliff, conveniently flat, but barely larger than our two reclined bodies. Overlooking the Pacific, surrounded by rainforest. Got home six the next morning, snuck in before Mom awoke. Blissed right out. Until she "woke me up" at 7 to say Grandma had died. Weird. Highly memorable night on both counts. Really sore back. Great night.

• Longest ever stay-in-and-fuck "weekend" in which pretty much nothing else was accomplished? Five days. And thinking about it still makes me grin. I need me a chance to break that record sometime. Best thing ever, all-sex weekends.

• Most sex in a night? I don't typically count. Six times that I know of, maybe more? Once is just wrong. Besides, it's not about the number. It's, can you handle more? Are you at the point where no amount of lube in the world is going to make this easy on ya? Then it's probably a good time for a break.

• What ever happened to sex outdoors? Now that I have an apartment, I just never get around to outdoors sex anymore. Sex on floors, however. Shit, it's been a decade. That totally sucks. Holy to-do list item, Batman.

• Sex under the stars. A lover had a rooftop patio in an apartment that was taller than the other buildings around. We'd pull the mattress out and shag ourselves silly out there, under meteor showers and anything else you can think of. If you've never had sex on top of an apartment building? That's your to-do list item, then. Highly recommended. I should put a personal ad out for penthouse owners, seriously. I love the heavens.

• First time I ever had casual sex or, rather, sex I knew would be a fling at best? I was 27. He was a fella I'd met travelling in California. He'd had a girlfriend, but we spent the whole night talking at the Sacramento youth hostel. We wandered around the whole town, talking until five a.m., even happening upon the band Cake rehearsing for a show at 3 a.m. and we sat in the deserted street and listened to 'em and kept chatting. Awesome chemistry, but even though he was away from his gal, he wouldn't cheat on her -- which made me think he was even hotter. Kept in touch by emails after our travels, and when he became single, he booked the world's fastest plane ticket. He was Mr. Five-Days-Indoors. Then I showed him a little of the town, then we shagged more. His visit was for 10 days. Never spoke again, for whatever reason. But no regrets. Not a one. Had a nasty UTI after all that sex, but like I say, not a regret.

• The older I get, the more aggressive a lover I become. Not sure why that is, but it is. I don't mind, but the younger guys seem to. Silly.

• That said, my biggest fumble in bed? Just assuming everyone likes variety in sex. The men who can't handle any agression at all make me want to bitchslap them and kick them out of my home. I'll show you some fucking aggression, boy-o. Happens a little too often. My screening is becoming more intense. Men need to be fucking be honest when they say they're looking for a woman unafraid to say or do what she likes, 'cos I'm that woman. Such as the guy featured in my rant The Kid and the Long, Long Night.

• First time I ever played You-Show-Me-Yours-- I was seven or eight and had no idea nudity was bad, since, as hung up about sex as my folks were, we always saw them naked. It was a neighbourhood boy and we were suitably in the forest before we dropped our drawers. He wanted to see how girls peed, too, but I took a pass on that. Thank goodness. I'm so not the golden showers type.

• My eyes get me noticed on here, I guess, 'cos they're that feisty green us Irish girls play off so well. But I think my lips are my best attribute. They're full and soft. And strong. And they serve me well. My teeth have a gap in them, not in the centre, though, off to the side. But they're clean and white. I wrote about what my face "means" in the art of "face-reading."

• I'm deceptively shy when I meet a new guy the first time. Shy, but kind of confident. But once we've become acquainted, the hesitation and shyness goes right out the window.

• Sexiest thing a man has ever said? Probably "Thank you." Lots of sexy things get said in the moment, and most of them are just "said in the moment". But it's geneuine appreciation or after-the-fact conversations that really stick in my mind. Once every blue moon there's that sex that's so awesome it feels like an out-of-the-world gift to you both? And a "thank you" after that, laying spent with each other, just blows my mind. Genuine gratitude and appreciation is so fucking hot. Sexiest thing I've ever said? Couldn't tell you. Not a clue. I say a lot in the moment, and remember little of it after.

• I chipped my tooth. I was blindfolded and bound. A lover decided an ice cube of his really wanted to meet my clit. I spazzed and shot up in shock -- unfortunately he was leaning in for a kiss. Our teeth collided. Mine chipped. We made sure we were both okay, and the sex took off from there. One of the top three sexual encounters in my life, but probably greatly romanticized because it was 15 years ago. I don't mind. I love the memory.

• I'm an outted blogger working in an office where everyone knows I write about sex. In fact, every single person in my life knows I write this blog. Most of the reason I wanted to write it was to get past my sexual hang-ups. What better way to do that than being honest about your identity? So, yeah. It's cost me a job or two in the past, but that's not an issue anymore. Fuck 'em. I won't work where it'll be a problem. My life's too short.

• Now, violence-free! I've never been assaulted, and have never hit anyone, in a relationship -- or in life. I consider myself blessed. And intuitive about when to get the fuck out. Complacency kills, baby. Besides, I tend to take an even split in wrestling matches with lovers. I'm a strong, strong, tough gal. Just try me. No, really. ;)

• Most erogenous zones? A reader asked. My neck and inner thighs. Having kept my hair short for several years now, I think of it as an unwitting gift to men. I used to have really long hair and it annoyed me that, while men loved the hair, they focused on it and not my neck. My neck's where the focus belongs, boys, believe me. Problem solved. But they now pass "go" that much quicker as a result. Inner thighs? Need I say more? Oh, well, let's say this: I was on the couch last night in short shorts, and it occured to me that my thighs have never been this smooth and firm. They don't even rub together when I walk anymore. I love these thighs! I want to show them off more.

• When I think of you, I touch myself. The first time I ever masturbated, George Michael was my inspiration. I wrote about it, too. You can read that here.

• I still have my Catholic school kilt. Better yet, I'm one or two sizes away from fitting it for the first time since ballooning up since I was 13. How exciting. In other sexual stereotypes: Along with being a former Catholic school girl, I've also been a leader in Guides, a bookseller, a candy-striper, and a librarian. Christ, I even sang in the choir. That said, I'm good enough to bring home to Mom, but bad enough to keep it all very, very interesting. Plus, that penchant for voyeur sex might just make Mom's hall closet a good place to try playing. Just be very, very quiet.

• The older I get, the more my mind opens. Things I nixed only a couple years ago are now proving more and more intriguing to me. And this is why I judge nothing. Well, except golden showers and scat and stuff. Never going to happen. More thinking along the lines of advancing into BDSM and areas like that, really. Depends entirely on partners from here on out. Will they inspire exploration? That'd be nice. I'm sure you'll hear, either way. (Here's my Bondage for Beginners, if you're interested.)

stop the world! lemme off!

today's a mental health saturday. two solid weeks of insomnia finally broke for me last night at 9 when exhaustion washed over me like november rain. every part of my body collectively sighed and said "we give up" and i fell asleep on the couch at 9:30. on a friday night. i know, eh?

but my god was it great.

right before i crashed, i had been writing about how horrible the insomnia had been. i estimated my total sleep over the course of 14 nights to be in the neighbourhood of 50 hours. i wrote about how dark a place insomnia becomes as you pass the tenth night. every hour after that tenth night becomes a bleak kaleidoscope of doubt, confusion, fatigue, frustration, and even angst.

when you're constantly deprived of the ability to completely reset yourself after your day, yet you can't slow your life down, it just stops being fun in a hurry. every night that continues, the damage becomes exponential.

as an official Smart Cookie, i take my mental faculties pretty seriously. worse yet, i have one of those jobs that, while totally flexible and fun and stress-free, requires a great deal of mental acumen to navigate the course of my day. girl has got to be on the ball.

and i doubt there's anyone out there who takes greater pride in doing a good job, doing it on time, and doing it to the best of her ability more than me. i love my job, i love the people i work for. so, when i feel like a mental loser, well, it's just a hit on more levels than i care to experience.

couple into that the fact that writing, for me, is like breathing. even if none of you people were reading me, i'd write. it ain't about you. i just love the feeling of writing. it's quick and organic and fun for me.

i have a quote framed, kicking around on this desk somewhere, that sums it up for me. "writing for a living is a privilege, not a god-given right, as the opportunities are few though sought after by many. there are years of rejection that serve as a crude winnowing process, after which those left standing are those who simply must write." that's the novelist richard ford in an interview with writer's digest.

back in my 20s, i had six long years of writers' block. that's the world's longest story to get into, but suffice to say i felt like a fraud and a lie for about six years. writing, since then, is the single most important thing in my life. and i don't care that i don't make money from it. i'm not trying to, i guess. i suspect i will. i've had other priorities. [shrug]

this week, i've just felt somewhat dead writing-wise, thanks to the insomnia. and there's nothing i loathe more than feeling apathetic towards writing, or feeling that the notions fail to connect to page. when you're failing at what you really and truly are, it's pretty hard to feel good about the day-to-day. i don't really know what else i am, but i know i'm a writer.

that just is part of what the whole dirty beast of insomnia is. the robbing of self, the robbing of clarity.

there's a reason sleep deprivation is used as a tool in torture and interrogation.

and there's a reason why most people will probably list a great sleep as being one of the great joys in life.

last night was one of the greats in mine. a nap soon looms, too. operation sleep-in continues. perhaps a spa afternoon... a nice oily bath, facial, shaven legs. today, it's all about me. :)

Encore Steff: Ejaculation Ethics: It's a Gusher!

This blog turned three years old in July. It was really good the first year, then the second year I kinda just walked away a while. But I'm back. :)

It's, like, the world's slowest week for traffic and comments because everyone's going back to school and I don't care to go through the effort of a big-ass posting when I'm getting 40% fewer hits this week. All those college-age readers of mine. But it's also the third anniversary (Aug. 22, 2005) of when I posted my most commented-on, most discussed posting, so I thought I'd repost it for some more discussion, because it's still one of those things that doesn't get talked about a lot.

If you want to read the original comments (all 50+ of them, many very heated), go to the archived posting and check them out here. I want to start a new debate though, so I'm not pasting them here.

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My Reader's Qestion:

I'm involved in a long-term relationship and we have a fantastic sex life.

That often involves me coming on her breasts and neck. Occassionally I have accidentally (and I genuinely mean accidentally) shot too far and it's landed on her face. She is never offended by this, and the thought of giving her a 'proper' facial turns me on massively. It's not a denigrating thing at all in this instance, although I can see why some women and men think like that. But in this situation, in our relationship, it's just another bit of sexual fun I'd like to try.

But I'm cringeing with embarrassment at the thought of asking her.

Any tips on how I can raise this? And any thoughts on general that you have about come ending up anywhere other than inside you (or a condom)?

My Thoughts:
Facials are a huge topic, in my view, when it comes to the difference between man/woman and man/man relationships.

GayBoy told me how seeing cum on the face of a lover is very, very arousing, and that it’s quite popular in the gay community. I sort of understood this and I can even kind of see the male mentality as to why it’s hot.

But then it becomes a man/woman issue, and I think there’s groundwork I need to lay down before I can really get to the heart of Anon’s Q.

I don’t talk about feminism on either of my blogs. I don’t feel I should have to talk about it. I’m a strong, sassy chick filled with independence and verve. I don’t “need” a man, never have. I’m not interested in marriage, I don’t want kids, and I’ll never, ever allow myself to depend financially on the dick in my life. Period.

That said, there’s no reason why that should impede my love for men, my appreciation of all they bring to my life. Most of my friends are male, in fact.

I don’t think gender needs to complicate matters, and I’m never vindictive or mean towards men just because they’ve got cocks and a different minset than me. Women who do behave in that manner are bitches, not feminists, and I resent being lumped in with them.

I’m not an “equality” seeker because I think there are definitely things men do better than women and vice versa. I’d rather have my life saved by a male firefighter than a female, and I don’t give a fuck what that may or may not make me seem in the eyes of certain females. That said, I absolutely feel equal in the bedroom, if not superior.

As a woman, sex can be very, very empowering. Knowing more about what to do and how to do it, how to elicit the reactions I want, and how to leave a man gasping, all these things have given me power, not stripped it from me. It has given me more respect in my relationships, regardless of what the media seems to think about sexy women, because the men in my life have loved that I’m willing to do what it takes to bring them incredible pleasure.

But given that I have such strong opinions about being respected and appreciated and having my boundaries known and adhered to by my lovers means I also have strong opinions on things like facials.

First, though, is the issue of equality. Again, I’ve said I’m not interested in equality per se, but when it comes to facials and cumming on your female lover’s body, there IS NO EQUALIZER.

There is nothing -- NOTHING -- a woman can do to a man that will be on that level. There is nothing we can do to “mark” you, to display our ownership of you. The most we can do is leave a lipstick ring on your cock, and that simply adds to your sensation of dominating and conquering, instead of giving us some semblance of that ownership -- which is what the psychological payback is for a man when they cum on a lover’s face.

“That’s my cum. Her face. Mine. All mine.”

You can justify it or idealize it any way you want, but that’s essentially how it boils down. It’s simply more objectification. It’s more of us females being under the male thumb, in theory.

(Bear with me, you might be surprised what I have to say in the end. I’ll get there soon.)

As women, we’re constantly objectified. Whether it’s a car advertisement or in porn, here in North America, we’re constantly made to feel as though we’re sex objects and seldom anything but. Maybe it’s because you can’t stop looking at our tits when you talk to us, or the leering glances we get wandering the streets. Maybe it’s that we’re always on our knees sucking your cock in porn videos when the reality is that we’re usually at your level, lying on a bed, or even hovering over you as we perform fellatio.

When I do my posts for this dirty little bloggie, I often scan through endless pathetically stereotypical porn shots in my quest for the classy fine art nudes you see before you. It works out to maybe one photo found for every 100-200 I see. So much of the porn I see has women almost being victimized and seeming to enjoy it. How fucking ludicrous. I love watching people have sex. I hate porn. Do the math.

Many of the shots I find in my quest for images include women looking thrilled that some huge glob of spunk is streaming down her face, like she just won the fucking lottery or something. “Oh, for me?! You shouldn’t have, you sweetie!”

The reality is the opposite. Yeah, there are women who dig it, absolutely. And power to you, babe, if that’s what you’re into. Whatever. I’m down with kinks. But there are also chicks and guys who want to be pissed on, people who want to literally eat shit as part of the sexual experience, people who are into degradation as a means of heightening the experience. And that cup of tea just ain’t right for a large segment of people. Straight up.

It bothers me -- profoundly -- that there’s still so much stereotypical degradation and filth attached to sex. It bothers me that my site with these tasteful nude shots and this graduation towards the sensual and the erotic is somehow “exceptional” and not the norm. Why the fuck not? Why can’t THIS be hot? Why can’t THIS be the norm?

So you need to understand that ME, my personal reluctance to having a man cum on my face is NOT preceded by hangups and weaknesses. It’s because I’m just not wanting to feel that way -- to feel owned. I don’t want to be consciously reminded that there is no equalizer for me when you cum on my face. I’m not interested in being further objectified in the bedroom.

BUT...

That said... in a relationship with a man I dig, a man I love, a man I want to please to no end, yes, I might let it happen. (Although I'd rather not.)

It is something that should be discussed, I think. But when that moment arises, when he's about to cum, he doesn’t really need to ask my permission before he does it. However, he better fucking well understand that it’s for him, that it’s something I do because I want him to feel like I’m willing to go to any length to see him pleasured. Because I am willing.

I will not point it out and say, “Look what I’m willing to do for you.” That sort of self-martyrizing is bullshit and it’s manipulation. It has no business in the bedroom or in any relationship in your life. PERIOD.

He’s a man, an adult, and he should just understand it. Most will.

A casual one-night stand and he cums on my face? I’m glad he came, because now he’s gone. Done like dinner, man. You don’t get that privilege if you’re some fuck-n-go contributor to my evening’s hijinks. Like I say, I’m not promiscuous, I’m not a casual sex fan, but that’s not to say it hasn’t happened. It sure as hell has, but my boundaries are different in casual sex. In a relationship, there’s so much more I’m willing to do for him.

In YOUR relationship, Mr. Anonymous, I say go for it. Have the conversation. But your question is, how?

With great difficulty, that’s how. There’s no way you’re going to ever feel comfortable or at ease asking about such a complex sexual favour, not being the liberated and caring man you clearly sound like you are. But in a good relationship, you need to take those risks. It’s those risks that lead you to that higher sexual consciousness that really brings home the thrill of connecting deeply with your lover.

But you knew that. It’s why you’ve asked.

You state that you have previously accidentally shot your load on her face and it’s made you feel horrible yet aroused. I suspect that part of the arousal for men is the knowledge, deep down, that there’s absolutely no fucking need to shoot cum on a face. We love the forbidden, and that’s not a trait exclusive to either sex, so I can understand that mentality. It’s why I’m willing to indulge a man I care for.

But you’ve done it already, like I just stated. So do it again, “accidentally,” but next time, follow it with conversation. Apologize. Tell her you’re sorry it landed where it did. Tell her to wait there. Go get a nice, warm, wet handtowel and a dry towel, and gently, lovingly clean her face as you tell her again that it was unintentional. Wash her face, dry it off, but continue the conversation as you do.

Be on your knees, bedside, eye-level as you speak with her. Being on your knees is like a psychological act of submission, it will speak louder than you can imagine.

Ask her to forgive you. She may stop you then and there and say it’s okay. Problem solved. Maybe she doesn’t speak because she wants to see what you say next -- which is probably how I’d respond -- not at all, yet.

So, then, you want to lower your voice as if confessing and just tell her that although it fills you with shame and strangeness, that the sight of your spunk on her face did something primal to you, but that the shame and guilt almost negate that arousal. Then you just simply ask. There’s no way to really word it or phrase it so it’s easy to say.

What I’d maybe try to say is something along the lines of, “Look, I feel awful about just doing that, but it really turned me on. I don’t ever want to subject you to feeling like you’re just some plaything of mine, but if you’d ever indulge me and just let me do that to you without all this emotional baggage I’m feeling right now, I don’t think I could even tell you how amazingly turned on and indebted I’d feel to you. You don’t have to answer me now, but think about it, and if you’d be willing... my god. I can’t imagine the pleasure you would give me... I’d be putty in your hands.”

If a guy said something like that to me, and I understood that he realized what he was asking of me, I’d never say no.

Conversely, “Honey, you’re so hot with my spunk chunks on your face. Can I do that again next Friday?” is probably going to kill your chances. But you knew that. ;)

In summary? I’m not a fan of ever getting cummed on. Period. I understand that in the give-and-take world of sex, it’s to be expected. I understand what it does to my lovers when they’re able to see their secretions on me.

As fucked up as I sort of think it is, I just make my peace with the fact that it’s one of those male things that I, as an open-minded but middle-of-the-road chick, will probably always be slightly baffled by.

But that’s all right. Both sexes have their mysteries and intrigues, but it’s communication and reaching understandings that close those gaps between us. Sometimes, it requires doing something you think is out of your safety zone. Sometimes, the things we think are depowering us and leaving us cloaked in filth or what have you will actually wind up strengthening the relationship in ways nothing else could.

Sometimes, allowing your partner to “violate” your boundaries is the kindest, most loving thing to do.

And I understand that and accept it. That’s what sex is.

Maybe I’m the exception, maybe I’m the feminist chick who just doesn’t want to be cummed on, but I suspect there are other chicks out there who feel the same and that they are a majority. I’d love to hear the female POV on this -- and I know the male readers are probably thrilled to have this discussion opened up.

So, chicks, what page are you on? How does it make you feel? Is it a respect thing? Is it a disgusting thing? Does it turn you on? Do you think I’ve overthought it? Have I missed anything? How could a guy convince you it’s something you should do? Or CAN he convince you?

My Reader, Oraless-For-25-Years, is Getting Oral!

So, remember the reader who wrote me a couple weeks back to say that her hubby sucked ass at oral, and had for 25 years?

Now, a bunch of guys wrote comments, saying, "Well, maybe it's not all his fault", but what I'd neglected to say was that we'd exchanged about a half-dozen emails or so about the topic before I posted. I don't like commenting when I don't know the shit, 'cos it's so easy to hear 12 facts and think you can offer a solution. I actually like dialogues, so when people email me a question, they can expect that I'll clarify points, and to respect people's privacy and my blog space, I truncate in posts.

Well, the dear reader wrote me back today! Good news! We LOVES good news!

Turns out, she decided everything else in the relationship was fine but she was fed up with the bullshit. She told him his rules were stupid and that he completely sucked at it and it wasn't worth the hassle and emotional turmoil it put her through to ask for it. She said, "I told him I never, ever wanted it again."

I guess that was the reality-check he needed -- he shaved his facial hair to show her that he wanted to try harder, and went down on her, breaking his own rules about how long since intercourse -- and it was apparently fantastic! He said it became a matter of pride, and now he's proud of himself for reducing her to orgasmic puddle of bliss. She says he's strutting around like a peacock, going, "I knew I could do it!"

As she says:

He told me that I smelled clean, and also KISSED me afterward. I think there's an alien in my hubby's body, but he can stay!

And, you know, I'm just over the moon that it worked out. I'm thrilled she got back to me and filled me in. I've asked her to let me know a few weeks down the line if he's keeping up with it.

This is why I love getting emails back afterward, though. Because it goes to show you that, there's only so far all this nice, polite, please-and-thank-you shit goes. Life's too fucking short. Sometimes, you just have to say bluntly that they ain't getting the job done. If you've tried and tried, but you've always been nice, it's time to get rid of the tact and diplomacy, and throw down.

Like Jack commented last week on a posting about the guilt after disappointing sex, he was surprised I didn't call out the fuckhead who failed to give me the knee-quaking sex I so richly deserve.

Yeah, I was totally surprised too. What a total lack of character for me. I figger it's only because I'd gone so long without a good shagging that I had this surreal, "Did I imagine all that good sex?" But I also confused the issue -- I thought, "Well, he's a nice guy, just..." But then it clued in the next day. No, he's a selfish lover.

And it was a good learning lesson. But if I'd said something, I might've stuck with that fellow, and I'm hoping this Quest For Good Sex can be much, much better than I think he'd have mustered anytime soon, even with all my willingness to help.

(I'm tired of edumacatin' the boys. I want me a good sexual equal. So, I'm holding out and scoping still, dates loom. I am NOT settling.)

Be blunt. Embrace the power of speech. Say what you really, really want.

Hell, you might just get it.

Image found on Chagrin/Tumblr.

Get to Know Yer Blogger

I feel like telling you random things about me, mostly because I'm too fucking tired to string coherent thoughts together, so "abstract" works spiff for me. And I'm not writing about sex today, so, y'know. Mental break. :)

So, in no particular order, some of the things you probably don't know about me and my life.

• When I was six years old, my family and I were in Tijuana, Mexico, for a day of shopping away from Disneyland. Somehow, I wandered off. My folks thought I'd been kidnapped and sold into slavery or something horrid, because I was gone for a whole three hours.

Then they found me. Much to their surprise, I'd managed to barter with a street vendor for a cowhide cowgirl's vest, then also a watch, with some of my candy money, and had bought candies and was hanging out with a bunch of Mexican kids on the street, sharing my goods. Me, I had a great time. My folks, though, got robbed of $500 in cash while waiting to talk to the cops in the police station, so they were pretty mad at me. Impressed with my loot, though, and my shrewd six-year-old negotiation skillz, and hugely relieved, they let it go pretty quickly.

I still remember the smile the vendor had, being so amused at me bartering for my cowhide vest, that I loved for the next two years.

• I moved to the Yukon when I was 21 for a year. Because I was a Northern Exposure fan, and because "seeing the Northern lights" was high on my to-do list for life. The first time I ever saw 'em? Blew. My. Mind. Still do, when I luck out and catch 'em every few years.

• I ran the election campaign for a guy in my college who was running for the position of Women's Issues Liaison. He won. How's that for being a feminist? (Favourite conversation with him ever: Reaching the conclusion that the old looped "holy shit handles" hanging from the ceiling of his '71 VW Beetle were "fuck straps". Good for feet or hands, depending what part of you should be suspended, he figured.)

• I was the youngest person in my college class, 17 years old, journalism. 18 when I ran Mike's campaign. We made the BC evening news.

• I won a car once. It was a 1979 Chevy Monza. Covered in doghair. Broke down on a bridge. But that's just the beginning of the long winding story that you'll find here.

• I have officially ridden so long, and so far on my scooter... (Yamaha Vino 49cc, pictured here, but now has camouflage-duct tape for a seat cover. Heh. I'm a pragmatist.) ...that my 41,000+ kilometres is the equivalent of riding around the world at the Equator. Cool! Let's do it again!

• I've fallen down a flight of stairs, have been thrown off a horse mid-jump over a fence, have had a scooter accident... (that hurled me off my bike, destroying mine and my friend's, and sent me sprawling into an intersection. My friends all thought I was dead. The story is here, on my "journal" blog, The Last Ditch.) ...have had three cars totalled with me in them... and I have only one scar on my body, it's on my right nostril but I got it in grade 2, not in any of those incidents. And I've never, ever broken a bone. My body alignment, though, heh, is a whole 'nother story. But I'm tough!

• I'm a decent public speaker, dare I say even good? And it doesn't terrify me. Dentists, however, do.

• When I plan my roadtrips, I take special care to figure out where I can be for a great sunrise. I don't know what it is, but something about driving somewhere new, great music on the radio, and a sunrise looming in an exotic new spot, why, that's one of the best things in life.

• When I was nine and mad at a boy in my neighbourhood, I took my cowgirl boot off (loooved my cowgirl boots!) and hurled it across the yard at him, and hit him smack in the head. I was so proud. My mother heard me screaming that he was an "ASSHOLE!" and came running out as the boot met head. That went over well.

• The sex fantasy I've had since 16 is that of shagging in an anti-gravity chamber (think NASA). I have that filed under "unlikely". But it's probably my biggest sex-geek factoid. "Ooh, sex at NASA! Lift off!"

• My dream vacation I want to take when I get some more weight off and really adopt the physical lifestyle I want? Learning to surf in Morocco. Can't help it, love the idea of a feminist sex-writing chick from Canada learning to surf in an Islamic country. And, Morocco? Ohhh. Oh!

• In keeping with the cowgirl boots and cowhide vest, as I type, to the left above my bed is the caricature/cartoon drawing of me done in Disneyland that summer of my misadventure in Tijuana -- me as a six-year-old cowgirl, rodeoing on an electric riding horse.

• I sold Michael Hutchence of INXS a bunch of wooden toys for his kid when I worked on Granville Island. Three weeks later he was found dead of auto-erotic asphyxiation. (Other celebrities I've "served" in the retail industry are a pretty insane list, since this is MovieTown -- David Duchovny, Tim Robbins, Malcolm McDowell, and way many more. But I've never been starstruck, so. Whatever. Malcolm McDowell though? COOL as can be.)

• I had the uncanny luck of totalling one of my cars on a snow day, on a mountain -- and was caught on camera by a news cameraman. The story's probably one of the best things I've ever written, about 5,000 words, in two parts, on my journal blog. Part one here, part two here.

• I'm fabulous at throwing dinner parties. But I never throw them anymore. Hmm. Oh, right, got tired of being broke off my ass after feeding everyone all the time. Broke sucks. But if I had the money? I'd be doing it weekly. Love that. Love, love, love. Bistro Chez Steff.

• I kinda always wrote a bit now and then as a kid, but it was because I wanted to be friends with a particular chick in Grade 11 that I joined my first creative writing class. My teacher, upon reading my journals I'd write while working nights in a laundromat, describing the paradoxical characters on a quest for cleanliness, and she encouraged me to start writing, and suggested I look into journalism for school. I blame this blog on her. Ms. Phelan rocks my world, even now, almost 20 years later.

Unprotected Sex: What if Condoms Make the Guy "Soft"

I am militant now, in my "old" age, about protection during sex. The question is, why isn't everyone?

The images, albeit creepy and disturbing, are some very effective AIDS-awareness posters from France. I thought they illustrated this posting well.

A reader named Helen left a great comment today on a posting I think everyone should read, personally, called Getting Laid, Getting Tested, Getting AIDS,* that I wrote two years ago.

(Proof that I see every single comment I get, so start commenting more, peeples!)

Helen wrote:

What really irritates me is that guys still ask for [sex] 'without a condom'. As soon as I hear that now, it's such a big turn-off, as I know they've done that before, and probably don't give it the concern I do. Even if we use condoms, yes there's still a risk of herpes, warts, there's still contact. And I end up thinking about that too much. Why do they ask?

Of course, the worst is the guys I know who seem to lose it as soon as the condom is on. You're all turned on, gasping for it, and it's gone. It's like being held to ransom. He's feeling bad, you want sex, it's all too easy to give in and make it alright. Do you have any tips for this? Because it drives me crazy. I know it sounds weird, but can't they try to masturbate with them, or somehow try to associate them with sex? I know it doesn't feel as good, but there's clearly a mental element too that they could work on.

I just wish they found the prospect of HIV as much of a turn-off as me.

And condoms can break, so even then you're not guaranteed protection, which is why I "sleep around" very, very objectively, even with condoms. 99% ain't 100%.

I had a sexual "professional" in the escort biz email me once to say she'd used a condom EVERY SINGLE TIME she had ever had sex, and somehow wound up pregnant. This development left her absolutely terrified to continue in her profession.

As for Helen's example, I've had that happen, that when a guy puts a condom on, he suddenly deflates. He tried to use the "Yeah, well, I've been in a relationship for the last 11 years, so I just can't get used to it" bullshit excuse.

And that's MY problem, how? "Wear the fucking condom, or we don't fuck. You can't wear it? Your loss. I have vibrators. I'm better off without fucking someone like you, anyhow, because now I can't trust you," was my response to him, and the night came to a very premature close.

My advice, Helen? Stay the course. If men want to argue against wearing condoms, then fine, let them. But don't give in. Never, ever give in. It takes ONCE. Just once. See my addendum at the end, because my friend who knows the night he was infected, he's dying as a result. From once, just once.

You're absolutely right -- the ones who ask for bareback ARE the ones who've done it with others. They're the ones to be concerned about. Just because they're charming and got that far with you doesn't mean they're safe. It's the excessively charming guys that worry me more, to be frank.

I have a male friend who just recently decided a couple months of seeing this chick meant it was a nice, committed relationship, and he felt he could trust her. They had unprotected sex, and the next day, literally, he happened to see a text message on her cellphone in which a guy texted her "BTW I think I came in you the other night. Too late for a morning-after pill?"

My friend told me he ran to the washroom and vomitted, since he's never been a promiscuous guy and only recently got out of his 12-year marriage, and has been just gutted with worry the last month.

The day BEFORE he told me that, I'd been to my doctor and was talking about getting tested again, for my bi-annual test, whether I'm sexually active or not. Doc told me rather darkly that he'd just finished testifying in a court case in which a FEMALE patient of his KNOWINGLY infected a male patient of his with HIV.

We want to believe everyone's as ethical as we are. We want to believe they're not fucking with skanky people who use no safe practices. But that's just naivety at its finest.

There are untrustworthy people out there. There are mean people out there. There are people with no scruples nor standards. There are destructive people out there.

Vigilance is the only thing we have to protect ourselves with, aside from condoms, and neither are 100%.

God, since the late '80s we've heard the slogan "No glove, no love" and you'd think people would get it by now. Particularly these men who want to keep asking for bareback sex.

You think condomless sex doesn't feel better for women, too? Of COURSE it feels better. I LOVE BAREBACK SEX. Love, love, LOVE. I just never have it. Why? Because it's so fucking 1970, man. Jesus.

Women have more at risk than our random male shags might. We could get pregnant -- which often is a greater motivation than protecting oneself against AIDS and other STDs, and is stupid, but there you have it. If that's what it takes for women -- who are the fastest-growing demographic for new AIDS & HIV infections -- to start forcing partners to wear condoms religiously, then I'll take it.

Guys, if you're one of these selfish pricks who has a fucking problem wearing a condom, THEN GET OVER IT. Whiners.

It's a MENTAL problem and YOU need to deal with it, not US. If it means jacking off with condoms as practice, then do that. I don't know what you but-I-can't-wear-a-condom, you-can-trust-me men need to do, but you got to fucking figure it out. We're your lovers, not your mothers, so figure your shit out without burdening us with the hassle.

And to all the men who are religious about wearing condoms: We love you men for making this easier for us. You have no idea the bullshit every single woman has dealt with over the years from those ignorant, dumb-ass men who are selfishly thinking only of getting off, and not taking our well-being (or theirs) into consideration.

AIDS isn't over. In fact, the picture is even less rosy than it was just weeks ago. Why? The CDC in America has released a study in which they report that they think their estimates for new annual AIDS/HIV infections are a whopping 40% TOO LOW. Instead of 40,000 new cases a year, it's 56,000, and growing.

In fact, Ronald Johnson, the AIDS Action Deputy Director, says, "This is not just another set of statistics. There are people behind these numbers. People are becoming infected with a disease that is preventable. We know how to prevent HIV, but we have been fighting this epidemic with one hand tied behind our back, reflecting a disturbing dismissal of HIV-prevention as a public health priority. The new, higher estimate is yet one more wake-up call to our national leaders that they need to do more, starting with developing and implementing a real national AIDS strategy."

I'm gonna guess that strategy is that of educating ignorant people about wearing condoms.

Personally, I think that, even if you're in a longterm committed relationship, and you even THINK your partner is cheating on you, you should demand condoms be used. Ain't a conversation I'd be keen to initiate, but when your life's literally at stake and trust isn't what it used to be, that's a conversation that needs having.

What can I say? The lack of sexual responsibility used by some segments of society leave me absolutely paranoid about who it is I should or should not sleep with, and as much as I trust my instinct... I'm no fool.

Neither should any of you be. Why chance it?

*NB: The friend I've mentioned that contracted AIDS from a night he could pinpoint is not doing as well as he was in the posting I originally mentioned. He's now made a will, has become incredibly depressed, has isolated himself, and his health is spiralling downwards, filling fear in us all, because we think he doesn't want to fight. While life can be sustained longer than ever with the drug cocktails now prescribed for AIDS, the quality of life is often difficult.

As I wrote in that original posting, a little too presciently for my comfort, "The virus is not the same in everyone. It is a living, breathing thing, and like all evolutionary beings, it can – and will – adapt to new and different environments. Some people will be to HIV like a match is to a stick of dynamite. You really think you’re invulnerable? Go ahead. Roll that dice. But every risk you take, you subject another to, and, that, you have no right to do."

sleepless thoughts

insomnia... when you're alone, you feel more alone. when you're not, embracing a little mischief goes a long way. some thoughts of mine just now:

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3:59am. insomnia. and i'm thinking of you.

a distraction. that's what you'd be. plain and simple. a way for me to take my mind of what i'm really wanting, sleep.

if i can't have that, maybe i could have you. you'd do. but you're sleeping.

still. you could just lie there. i entertain myself well, a body at my disposal.

where to start? i have notions, but i'm open to suggestion.

Sex & Food: Together Again?

I'm a foodie. Yes, I am.

And I got to tell ya, he prospect of regular sex has begun to loom, and this excites me considerably. Sets me all a-flutter, truth be told. But, you know, for all those strenuous hours of fun that potentially loom, one requires fuel. Enter food.

So I'm not sure what excites me more at this point -- the prospect of regular sex, or the possibility of having someone to cook for again.

I'm a sensualist in every way. For example, my apartment is great and comfortable and is geared to stimulate every sense and look good whilst doing it. Loves me some music and candles. My food tastes run from down-home to exotic. I have a sophisticated palate, technical skill, and can invent food on a whim that'd blow your mind. I came damn close to going to culinary school back in the day but realized I didn't want to work THAT hard for a living.

I'm also a Slow Food fan. I believe life moves quickly, and that food is important to us. I think we lose soul when we stop valuing food. I think we lose passion when we stop eating things that excite us.

I love the notion of Slow in all aspects of life -- from sex to food to living. I'm present here and now in all areas of my life. I want my food to be of my time, I want to eat fresher, eat more clean food that I know I've prepared from scratch. I want local produce, quality meats and fish. I want artisan treats. That's Slow.

But... when I'm single for too long, then a nice meal becomes the exception. I take shortcuts. I embrace things like Hamburger Helper and Sidekicks or sandwiches/panini or soups I eat for six days. I mean, it's flavourful-functional, at best.

When I'm involved, however, I'm both a sensualist and a show-off. Perhaps a Moroccan chicken pie with organic greens? Maybe risotto and lamb? And while the lover of mine gets to enjoy the dividends... my life is richer for it, too.

Even better yet is when said lover is similarly a skilled foodie, because then we can tool around in the kitchen and spend the night nibbling fantastic things along with each other, and savouring good drinks. My god, does that titillate me.

There is absolutely nothing in the world I enjoy better than staying home with a lover and locking the door for a weekend, cooking fantastic food at lazy intervals between real-frequent and varied sex, napping when necessary, and catching up on movies during meals and lulls. The original rinse-and-repeat experience. And repeat, and repeat.

With the right company? Fuck, there's no better time to be had. At home, anyhow. It's the poor person's vacation.

People who don't think sex and food are intricately linked... y'all are doin' it wrong.

It's not a matter of taste. You're just wrong. Flat-out. Inarguable.

(Sex + food) is like (peanut butter + chocolate). It seems like it's always been a winning combination, and always will be.

Whether it's Cleopatra feeding Anthony grapes from a silver platter in ancient Egypt, Adam enticing Eve with an apple, or you slipping your lover chocolate-dipped strawberries in the here and now with a champagne kicker, food hits a different kind of erogenous zone, but it hits, baby.

Besides, it's fuel. Fill me up and watch me go-go. Sigh. Oh, the possibilities.

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*PS: Yes, I've lost about 50 pounds. I don't feel like I've been dieting. I work out a lot. I could lose more weight faster by eating less and pretending cheese and alcohol don't exist. But why would I do that? Fucking hell. Diets are for people who like to take pain. Just silly. Instead, make healthier choices and be aware of calories burned v taken in. Simple. I'm better at math than I thought. :)

If it takes me another year to lose the other 50 pounds (this 50 took 8 months) but I'm eating cheese, pizza, sausages, and drinking booze regularly, then fucking A. All the power to me. I'd much rather health-fully indulge (my choices are better and when I do go off the hook, it's in moderation) and feel like I'm alive than feel like I'm cutting myself off from life with deprivation. I don't do deprivation well. So, eat? I will. Might even have seconds. But I'll deal with it the next day. See? Work ethic! :)

What's He Building in There?

It's laundry day. Unfortunate. I need something cute and adorable to wear to the beach party tonight, and right now "cute and adorable" is filthy.

But my terrorist neighbour -- which is just a term of affection conjured by GayBoy and I -- beat me to the washing machine and now it'll be a challenge to get my cuteness cleaned in time for being cute.

My "terrorist neighbour" is just the exotic-looking Eastern guy on the first floor who has the most spartan of furnishings and is always building something strange in his living room, very high-tech weird stuff that has the rest of us a little curious. Word on the street is that he's inventing a new kind of weaving machine. Weaving? Really?

This is the guy that Tom Waits wrote his awesome track "What's He Building in There?" about. But he's a nice guy... apart from being an alcholic who staggers quizzically up empty alleys at midnight for seemingly no reason. And building strange things that confuse us all.

But, after nine years of living in the same building, we've never really chatted. Now that I'm 50 pounds lighter, dude's giving me the eye as we almost collide in the halls.

Maybe I should. Then I could see what he's building in there. You know, be all Mata Hari and seduce it out. I could get in touch with my inner Encyclopedia Brown fan and solve the mystery.

But it'd mean hanging out with a drunk who has a hairy back and serious anti-social tendencies. Hmm.

Or I could just listen to Tom Waits. And stop reading so much fiction.

A Frank Posting about Giving Head

Hey, wow! Just noticed as I was adding the comments to my archive postings on how to give GREAT head [starts here] that it was three years ago today I published that posting that defined this blog. Aww! Let's hear it for nostalgia.

So, it's fitting then, we should have a little chat about blowjobs today. Something about head and heatwaves belong together. (Oral's always best in hot weather, huh? You lie there and get off? Lovely.)

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I refused to give my "partner" head last weekend. This came as a shock. Having been somewhat drunk on good red wine, I had a good excuse. Truth is, it was an excuse.

Somehow, in all my writing, I've apparently made it sound like sitting around with a penis in my mouth is about the best thing I could imagine doing. Like my thoughts are along the lines, always, of "Oh, GOLLY! A cock in my mouth! I'll take two!"

While some people are that type, and I wish 'em all the power, I'm not. I'm unaware of how this perception that I am has come to be, so let's clear that up for a second.

[But I am penis-positive. It's not the penis, it's me. More on that after.]

Here's the deal. There seems to be more or less three schools of thought out there on giving head. One is that it's the best thing ever and having a penis in the mouth is like life coming up all sunshine and roses albeit on the salty side of it all. The second is that it's a necessary evil, and something one partner does for the other, because that's just how things are done. The third is that it's an icky-icky thing to do, and not gonna happen on some people's watch. (Silly people.)

I don't fit in any of those categories.

I'm not crazy about a penis in my mouth. Honestly, I'm not. I'm not adverse to it, either. (Well, sometimes.) It's just not one of those things for me.

However...

My "aversion" is physiological. I mean, I've always been one of those people who's not crazy about taking pills and has to fight the gag reflex at the dentist, so sometimes a blowjob just isn't that fun... other than what I get out of it -- providing that little something for a partner that you just can't get out of any other sex act. And it's worth it, for that. Absolutely, without a doubt. Even if it means fighting the gag reflex.

That said...

I really, really enjoy giving one of those detail-focused, drawn-out blowjobs to a guy I'm genuinely into. I do. But it's not about the blowjob as much it's about what I'm doing to HIM. It's about the pleasuring and teasing and taunting, taking to the edge and backing off, and doing it again and again until I'm through with him. That's quite fun. Yes, it is. It's power and generosity and control and gift-giving and dominance and wickedness and affection and play, all bundled up into one awesome thing.

I know that blowjobs are something I'm really, really good at. Like, really. There's a reason my three-year-old Good Girl's Guide to Giving Great Head [part 1 is here, part 2 is here] is a hugely plagiarized blowjob-giving sex-tip writing on the web, you know. [I'm puffing up my chest and doing this silly, dirty little grin as I boast about that, too.]

I believe, if you're going to do something, you better goddamned do it well. Being a Brownie, Girl Guide, going to Catholic school, and being a librarian and bookseller* has served me well. I'm a keener to perform my services to the best of my abilities, I have a powerful work ethic, overwhelming guilt when I fail, but I'm well-read enough to get it done right the first time.

Having said that? I'm not keen to bring out my number one trick, something I consider the most intimate thing I can do to a man, for any old shag. I'm liable to casually sleep with a man before I'll give him head, if that makes any sense to you at all.

Nothing like keeping some surprises around about just how far you'll go to please someone. Always be improving, right? Never stagnate.

Or at least that's my motto, as old-fashioned as this lay-first, head-later mentality of mine sort of seems.

But I think it's important to distinguish that, for some of us, it's not about the penis, it's about the act and the gift of the action. Maybe that's not ideal in some mens' minds, I don't know, but it's certainly worked all right in my endeavours.

Any thoughts you'd like to share, dear reader? Femmes, you relate at all, or...?

And, don't forget, I really am all a-twitter on Twitter. You can follow me here. The image was found on the atom feed for Chagrin on Tumblr.

Heatwave Tip!

Vancouver's caught in a beautiful sexy beast of a heatwave that has me dreading cyclerides to work... but loving it at the same time.

GayBoy taught me this trick a year or two on a barbecue of a day, and it's awesome to use at times.

Just put 5-6 inches of cooold water in the bathtub and stand in it in your bare feet for a few minutes. Bliss! Cools you down completely. Without wasting a lot of water. (Think green, people!)

Better yet? Bring a beer and a book and take a seat on the side of the tub. (Naked works.) I'm saving this trick for before bed. Sans beer, sadly.

The Day-After Blogging Shame

You know, this whole recovering-Catholic thing plays so badly with writing any kind of exposés about my own sex life.

I feel horribly guilty, like a first-class cunt, for having posted my thingie about my "underwhelming weekend sex" yesterday. But then I got to thinking about it.

First, I placed an ad for sex. I made it very, very plain that I was looking for someone who was a talented, attentive lover with brains. But the sex, I said, was the whole point. I was very, very clear about this. Not about having a relationship, having a boyfriend, bringing someone to staff parties, or being a couple. Sex, sex, sex. And not even one-time sex. Someone who wanted a good shagging and often, that's what I wanted. And I mentioned I had two very key things: ample libido, and killer endurance.

Second, the guy read my blog. He knew I wasn't just some average chick who was happy to play around for five minutes. I mean, I write a sex blog! If a guy's going to bring his "A" game out to play with anyone, wouldn't that someone compute to be someone they knew to be into quality shagging, someone who ran an ad seeking quality shagging?

Third, if it was underwhelming sex but he'd tried in ANY OTHER AREA -- intimacy, cudding, conversation -- afterwards, I'd have given him a pass. Because he was cute and nice and I'm a sucker that way. But, nothing.

Fourth, if you're going to take the risk of having casual sex, shouldn't you really indulge in the experience? I mean, you're taking a shot at the whole "possible transmission of STDs" gamble, so HAVE SEX, right?

Fifth, it really is for the greater good. I would like to think that, if I've stopped one guy from doing the foreplay-only-as-long-as-necessary, get-off, and-forget-about-her kind of sex I had on the weekend, then I feel I've done a good service.

Because, whether it's initiating what's hoped to be an ongoing casual sex relationship, just a here-and-now shag, or something more, one of the most important things about sex is to feel appreciated -- and spent.

If you don't even feel appreciated at the end, not spent, and just used, and not even in a good way, then why even go there?

Honestly, I've probably felt more used out of this experience than I have since I was in my early 20s. Used, absolutely. And that, friends, just isn't fair.

So perhaps we're at a more honest place about why I'm so pissed about that experience. Because whatever else my ad might've said I wanted, getting used wasn't one of them.

(Now, had I been used for great sex... Well, y'know, that's something I might make an allowance for. )

Don't forget, I'm on Twitter now. Come have a boo.

Further Notes on My Underwhelming Weekend Sex

Yesterday, I made rather not-so-subtle reference to the fact that I finally got laid last weekend in this posting. I wasn't going to say anything, really, because I was decidedly underwhelmed by the experience.

But then, you know, I thought, "It's for the greater good! People must know!" So, without getting into detail here, let's talk about it again.

I was quite looking forward to this particular fellow and thought it would be great because he made it sound like "play" was something he enjoyed.

For a number of reasons, that wasn't the case. DP commented on yesterday's posting to kind of defend the honour of men all over this fair planet. He said, more or less, that men invariably suck the first time they're sleeping with someone new.

Not a newsflash. Every guy I've been with has been pretty disappointing penetration-wise on the first try. I generally try to tell myself it's a compliment, they're just so EAGER that they have no control. Which, of course, is pretty often the case.

So I'll never judge a guy on the sex itself, not the first time. No, I take other things into consideration. Does the kissing wow me? How was foreplay? Was it rushed and done only as a means of instigating sex, or was foreplay itself enjoyed for what it is -- play? Was it fun? Was he as thoughtful of me as he should have been? And when it came to AFTER sex -- was one orgasm all that mattered to the guy? Did any other affection and after-play take place? Was there even a conversation? Was it fun? Was it about intimacy and play, not just orgasms?

Unfortunately, my weekend encounter failed in every single department.

Here's a tip, men. When it's your first time with a woman, do not be a fucking twit and get completely drunk. Why? A), It's offensive. Let's see. Fucking me, or getting a hangover, and you choose? B) Your performance when fucking is going to SUCK anyhow, so why are you impeding your performance even more? C) Booze you can buy any day of the week, but these legs opening for you? Priceless.

Now, since I've been around the block enough to know that men obviously don't perform well the first time, I should be able to compare this time to all my other "first time" encounters, right?

Right, and this is the first time I've ever, ever been left anywhere near as frustrated as I was when this fella left. And it's too bad. I wanted to like him. But if all I've got to go on is that he got drunk, barely got me off, got himself off as quick as possible, and then never touched me again?

Yeah, failed that mission, pal. And, besides, when it's the first few times I've usually got to push the fellas out the door and fend off a few more kisses and gropes and groans on the way. This was just... so not that. I thought I was being Punk'd.

And you, dear male readers, need to learn not to make the same mistakes. Foreplay and afterplay are where you compensate for your performance. If I'm kissed like there's no tomorrow, and toyed with in any number of ways that arouses me and/or satisfies me, and inspires me to see the fella again, then I'll completely forget about the first encounter's disappointments and only remember how much it set to stage for playtimes to come.

Except this encounter, of course. Pity.

And, believe me, I am disappointed. I wanted to like this fella, but I just haven't got it in me for drunken fratboy lovers when I'm pushing 35, even if they're cute, smart, and fun. No. I want men.

Women, what say you? Men, how do you feel like when fellas like this are doing the representin' for your race?

AFTER THE FACT: So, upon thinking about this this morning, I realize this posting might sound sexist, as if it's only men who underwhelm on the first encounter. I, of course, know this isn't true. So, tomorrow (or Friday) I plan to write about how *I* might underwhelm (and possibly other women) on the first encounter, and why that can't be expected to accurately reflect the lover I am after that first night. So, check back later this week for that little ditty.

And don't forget, you can follow me on Twitter now.

[Note: So I did a Google search for "unsatisfying sex" images, and after scouring 17 pages of results, nothing represents "unsatisfying sex" but god knows if I search for "hard cocks" it'll be thousands of pages of results. Is this somehow suggestive of the fact that unsatisfying sex is a myth, and hard cocks are over-abundant? Hmm. Yeah, I don't think so.]