My boyfriend and I are straight college students, and he’s always wanting to try new things. Recently, he asked to put a finger in my ass while we were having sex. Someone did that to me before, but it felt uncomfortable and it kinda hurt. I told my boyfriend that he could do it once and then I would decide whether to let it continue. So we tried it. It still felt uncomfortable and still kinda hurt. But I never came so hard in my life!
Now the question: If it’s uncomfortable, but it made me feel amazing and come really hard, what should I do? Continue with it? Or tell him to find some other way of getting me to that point again?
Presently Obsessing Over Totally Extreme Reaction
You could ask the boyfriend to stick a finger in one of your armpits—or in an eye, a nostril, your toaster—but unless your pit/eye/nostril/toaster is wired the way your butt appears to be, POOTER, no amount of pit/eye/nostril/toaster fingering is gonna jack up your orgasms quite the way that finger in your butt did.
So here’s what you’re gonna do, POOTER: You’re gonna breathe deep, you’re gonna take things slow, you’re gonna use more lube, and you’re gonna spend more time warming up the outside of your butt before anything goes in. (Tell the boyfriend he can finger your butt for 10 minutes after he rims it for 20.) Do it right, POOTER, and pretty soon you won’t be able to look at those 10 fingers of his without thinking about the kick-ass, anal-enhanced orgasms you’ll be having when you can only see nine.
I am a 30-year-old woman with a strange problem. I recently started lifting weights, and every time I use the arm machines, I have an orgasm. It is not obvious to anyone else (I think), and my sex life is great outside of the gym. I don’t know if I should stop using the machines, because it’s rude and kind of weird to have that happening, but it just seems to be a physical reaction to using those muscles. What should I do?
Fitness Freaking
Another 20 reps.
I’m a bi 18 year old female. I can’t cum during sex, I never have. Boys or girls it doesnt matter. I can get off by myself but with other people its just uncomfterable. Vagional penatration feels good but head or finger fucking is Not fun. I thought that it was just the people I was sleeping with. You know, age and a small town bla bla bla. I’m off to collage now and in a much biger city and nothing is better.
I Can’t Cum
Off to collage, are we?
Here’s something you may not know about vaginal penetration—besides how to spell “vaginal” and “penetration”—because it’s not something that’s typically covered in small-town high-school sex-ed classes: You can touch yourself during vaginal intercourse. Whatever you’re doing that’s getting you off when you’re alone, ICC, do that thing—touch yourself that way—whenever a sex partner is penistrating you vaginotionally.
And when you’re enjoying sex without penistration—when someone is eating your pussy or fingering your pussy—give that person direction, i.e., put your hand over his hand, place a hand on the back of her head, and show them just how to touch you and/or eat you to create the sensations that are intense or focused enough to get you off.
I am a 24-year-old straight girl. My boyfriend is 31. We have great sex—until the last two minutes. He can’t get off without jackhammering me, so I grab something and hold on for dear life until he comes. I’m happy to do it to satisfy him, but it also means he never gets off when I’m on top, and we can’t have slow, sappy sex every now and then, and it can be painful sometimes. I’ve brought it up a couple of times, but he doesn’t seem to be able to finish any other way. Has it just been too long with a bad habit, or is there a way to bring his dick back?
Holding On Tight
There may not be anything wrong with your boyfriend’s dick, HOT. Just as some women require intense, focused stimulation in order to get off (read: vibrators cranked up high), some guys gotta jackhammer to get off. If your boyfriend is one of those guys, HOT, then there’s no bad habit to break. It’s just something you’ll have to accommodate.
But he needs to accommodate your desire for some slow, sappy sex now and then. And here’s how he can do that: The boyfriend fucks you, long and hard, nice and slow, you get on top if you like, and after you’ve gotten off once or twice or three times… he pulls out… and doesn’t come, at least not inside you. If he’s aching to come, or you want to see him come, then let him finish himself off by jackhammering away at his own clenched fist.
I am a woman in a relationship with a woman. There’s someone else. I haven’t cheated. I’m not a cheater. But I cannot get them out of my head. They are directly in my life. And yes, by “they” I mean “him.” What the F, Dan! I dream about him, think about him. I try not to. I talk about my girlfriend and how much I love her in front of him. But inside I know the truth. It’s becoming hard to be in the same room with him.
So my question: What would Dan do? What would Dan do if he were mind-cheating constantly and experiencing intense feelings of attraction to someone else?!?
What Would Dan Do?
Dan would go to his boyfriend and say, “Hey, honey, it’s been ages since we’ve had a three-way…”
But that’s easy for Dan to say because Dan’s a man and so is his boyfriend, and anyone Dan couldn’t get out of his head would be a man, too. That makes any hypothetical mind- and/or body-cheating on my part less threatening to my boyfriend and less destabilizing to our relationship.
So you probably shouldn’t do what I would do, WWDD. Instead, you should masturbate furiously, avoid being alone with this man whenever possible, and don’t take the wife to see The Kids Are All Right.
Some women like porn and some women don’t mind it. For us women who are otherwise GGG but feel like vomiting at the thought of porn, telling us to use porn—or eat cupcakes—will neither relieve the pain caused by our partners’ use of porn nor meet our emotional and sexual needs if we decide to opt out of relationships with men entirely. I’ve tried my whole life to feel okay about porn. I don’t. I feel betrayed just the same as if the cheating were “real.”
Never Okaying Porn Ever
Porn isn’t cheating, NOPE—but let’s not argue about that.
Instead, let me just say this: You shouldn’t give up on men, NOPE, because I occasionally get letters from men who think a fag sex columnist is interested in hearing them repeat what the insecure, controlling women in their lives have trained them to say (“There are men out there who don’t use porn, and I am one of them!”). If you hang in there long enough, PORN, you’ll meet either a guy who honestly doesn’t watch porn or a guy who says all the right things (“There are men out there who don’t use porn, and I am one of them!”) and is conscientious about clearing his browser history.
Easy solution for women like NOPE: If porn feels
like cheating because it involves other women: MAKE HIM SOME PORN OF YOU. After just finishing two years of a long distance relationship, I
credit the homemade porn I made with keeping our sexual connection alive when we were thousands of miles apart. (Now that we live together, I still surprise him with additions to his collection sometimes.) Sure, it was awkward to make at first at first, but I got more comfortable with it over time. I loved the idea of him watching me when he was horny, he loved having a large and continually updated stash of personalized porn, it was super hot and made our sex life even better, and if I had felt like watching other women was “cheating”, well, he wasn’t watching anyone else most of the time. Wouldn’t this be a win-win for women who are insecure/uncomfortable/upset about their boyfriends’ porn watching? Seems like a no-brainer to me. Although I have no problem with my
boyfriend watching as much porn as he likes, as long has he still wants me, so maybe I just don’t get it.
Holding on tight,
Of course there is something wrong with your boyfriend’s dick–it is circumcised. He has lost the majority of his penile nerves.
The O’Hara study showed that cut men have to thrust and pound away to get off.
The only remedy for this, and it is only a partial remedy for his damaged penis, is to restore–Google foreskin restoration.
I rley cna’t beeilve the wnie on slleping form a 18 yaer old it coems dwon to clel pnohe key braods LOL. Super job as alwyss Dan.
@103: Bullshit.
I’ve heard two simultaneously contradictory things from rabid anti-circumcisionists: that circumsized men lose sensation and have difficulty ejaculating; and that circumsized men are more prone to premature ejaculation. It all seems to boil down to “if you are cut, your sexuality has been permanently damaged.”
I call bullshit on that. My experience, and I bet it is the experience of the vast majority of circumcized men, is that I have a healthy and satisfying sex life, as does my partner.
Does this mean I support routine circumcision? Not at all. Times have changed, medical knowledge has advanced, and the supposed benefits that were touted to support routine circumcision have, I believe, been debunked. That is why I chose not to have my son circumcized. So before you get all huffy, remember that as far as doing away with routine circumcision goes, I am on your side.
Where I am not on your side is with your contention that I – and every other circumcized male – must have been terribly damaged by my own circumcision.
Remember that a common justification for circumcision today is people wanting their son to “be like his father.” I believe that it is important to persuade these parents – all those circumcized fathers out there – that this isn’t important, that circumcision is an unnecessary medical procedure. Calling people who you need on your side damaged and dysfunctional is a pretty poor way to persuade them.
You upped your game this week, Dan.
When I don’t have a lover, I watch porn. There was quite a stretch there for a while, so when I met a hot man interested in getting naked with me I gasped gleefully while he fucked me, “This is so much better than watching porn!”
“Fuck porn,” he grumbled softly but very distinctly, pulling harder. Sexiest thing I’ve ever heard.
Hey Backyard Bombardier,
Glad your sexual experience is satisfying. And kudos to you for not circumcising your son! It takes a big, big man to keep his son intact when he himself has been circumcised. However, circumcision does indeed damage and cause varying degrees of dysfunction. (Note: I said varying degrees. Not everyone is as affected as others. But every circumcised man has lost something, at least the self-lubricating gliding action and the 20,000 stretch and fine-touch receptors. See Adrian Colesberry for description of why even a mutilated cock can give unimaginable pleasure.) Sorry if it makes you feel bad, but I call a spade a spade. Sexual dysfunction, especially of the type HOT describes, is an incredibly common side effect of circumcision. What good would it do to pretend it is not?
Hey, people have lost legs and gone on to win marathons. Do we say that because they are such amazing athletes, losing a leg is actually not damaging at all? No, we admit that losing a leg is damage. Many people can do amazing things in spite of that, but that doesn’t make it okay to go around cutting people’s legs off.
Porn makes me uncomfortable. I understand where this person is coming from… why should she have to conform herself to something that innately makes her so upset? Porn can be very discriminatory. I wish her the best in trying to deal with her problem. I think some comments here are really insensitive.
Zelda @107: Thanks, but… sigh. “Mutilated cock?” Sorry, I reject that characterization of my anatomy. And I dispute the “incredibly common side effect” claim.
Interesting and pertinent analogy regarding athletes with physical disabilities. That is something I have thought of myself around this, as I do a lot of volunteer work in that area, particularly with people who have had spinal cord injuries.
While none of them would consider themselves physically “whole”, none of them would take kindly to it if I called them “mutilated”, or “crippled”, or any of the other loaded terms that people sling around in circumcision debates. And this is a group of people who have lost a lot more, physically, than any man who has merely been circumcized.
Seriously; I know lots of guys without legs, and lots of guys without foreskins (and even a few with neither). And I am pretty sure there is a big difference.
” why should she have to conform herself to something that innately makes her so upset?”
Because the alternative is that she makes SOMEBODY ELSE conform to something so she won’t be so upset — when the real answer is, mind your own damned business. It’s not like her boyfriends are making her look at their porn.
Either that, or she gets to find somebody who already feels the same way she does about it. But, given the topic, good luck with that. Maybe she should start her search for that guy (or, as she suggests, that girl – but it’s not like girls don’t like porn too) in a monastery.
@108: “Porn makes me uncomfortable. I understand where this person is coming from… why should she have to conform herself to something that innately makes her so upset?”
She doesn’t have to be comfortable with porn, or enjoy it, or view it. But that isn’t what she wants: she insists that any man in her life also not enjoy it, or view it.
Liver makes me uncomfortable. So do canned peas. I don’t enjoy them, I don’t use them. But my wife does. I occasionally have to leave the kitchen if she’s cooking them. But I would never insist she not enjoy something she enjoys.
My preference: my problem.
Okay, circumcision does no harm and there are no sexual problems or loss of function or sensitivity whatsoever. So then what the heck is wrong with fathers wanting to cut their sons to “look like them”? After all, it is harmless. Doesn’t really matter one way or the other, so why not?
Sure, “mutilated” is a loaded word, but accurate. Especially accurate given that it doesn’t happen by accident, it is INFLICTED on the non-consenting person. There is a a person wielding the tools, pre-meditated and systematically clamping, crushing, and cutting at the baby’s penis. If you’ve ever got reason to be in a hospital nursery, watch a circumcision (they do them right out in the open at the hospital where I had my daughter.)Or watch a video. Watch what they are doing, look at the penis when they are done, then tell me it is not mutilation. It certainly doesn’t feel flattering, but they aren’t just “doing a little snip” on babies. They are mutilating them. Pretending it is hunky-dory means allowing to continue.
P.S. Please understand that I mean no disrespect or insult to circumcised men. It is more that I want to highlight the harm that is done and put that on those who DO the harm. I mean no disrespect toward those who were harmed.
For instance, if a U.S. soldier were captured by Taliban operatives, and was held down while body parts were cut off him, the media would report that he had been “mutilated” by his attackers. If a woman was walking down the street and attackers hit her knees with a tire-iron such that she couldn’t walk again, we would say that her attackers “crippled” her. Now, no one wants to call themselves “crippled” or “mutilated,” but is indeed an accurate description of what their attackers did to them. Also, while they will no doubt go on to overcome their injuries and have a full and satisfying life, there is no denying that something was taken from them and that the way they function afterward will be different.
http://www.adriancolesberry.com/life/?55…
I’m in the same boat as HOT, dating a man who can’t get off unless he pounds my pussy, but luckily my man does what Dan suggests: he lets me have my moments of sweet sex, he lets me on top and ride and ride until I’m sopping wet, and I in return have learned to LOVE the two minutes he spends jackhammering. I say, HOT, learn to love and treasure the experience. Do your Kiegles (or however you fucking spell it). I’ve found that if I’ve come first, I’m usually more loose and it hurts less. Good luck!
Apparently for every belief, there are fundamentalists. And discussion with any of them is equally unproductive.
“Some women like porn and some women don’t mind it.” Yes, and some women LOVE it!
#111: your wife enjoys liver and canned peas?
Oh boy. I applaud your tolerance, but couldn’t she at least switch to fresh produce?
@117: I ask myself that every time she busts out the can opener. But hey, love is blind.
Hey Bombadier!
Your comment in #115 is way off target. Fundamentalists don’t deal with facts, they deal with belief, and pretend it is is a fact.
Intactivists deal in facts, and the facts are on our side. We don’t have to get all wiggy about it. Typical American circumcision does remove 15 sq inches of sexual tissue from an adult male. That tissue is has highly concentrated amounts of touch and stretch receptors. (For touch receptors compare the fingertips and pads with the back of the hand for an idea of what a difference this can make. – Stroke each of them slowly and lightly.) For men, this sensitive nervous tissue is about 3/4 of the sexual nerve receptors, some 20,000 or more, about 2.5 times the number of nerves in the clitorus.
Nearly all the stretch receptors are in the foreskin. The majority are Meissner’s corpuscles.
Definition: Meissner’s corpuscles (or tactile corpuscles) are a type of mechanoreceptor. They are a type of nerve ending in the skin that is responsible for sensitivity to light touch. In particular, they have highest sensitivity (lowest threshold) when sensing vibrations lower than 50 Hertz. They are rapidly adaptive receptors.
So, that is what they are medically and anatomically. It is not about our beliefs. YES there are people opposed to forced amputation of sexual organs, yes, this is properly called a mutilation. We are an informed, vocal group with the facts on our side and we have the high moral ground. We do think individuals should have the right do decide for -themselves- how they wish to have their body altered. Pretty Fundamental idea, -Human Rights for Everyone.
We are fundamentalists, but in a “back to fundamentals” sort of way, based on the facts of the procedure, and the (lack of) ethics that usually surround it.
Not many folks know the specific anatomy and structure and function of their genitals, it is quite impressive to discover. If you do take the time do research it, I think you’ll find it productive. And you can thank a “Fundamentalist” for pointing you in that direction.
Lastly recognize that “medical knowledge” is fairly conservative and limited about our sexual organs. Examples? The anatomy of the male prepuce or foreskin was only described in ~1976 and again in ~1996. Similarly, the existence of the female G-spot is still debated by medical doctors. I have to laugh at this, -but I feel sorry for their female partners! That damn thing is real!
@ B.B.
Thanks for your feed back..it’s fair enough and made me laugh, although I wouldn’t necessarily compare liver and peas to porn! I just feel that there is room for everyone’s feelings..I know that if something were to be so upsetting to my partner, I’d have to look at what is more important to me.. my partner, or that something that makes them upset. If porn is just a casual part of your life, what’s wrong with giving it a miss or making a compromise? I don’t believe this is a black and white issue. Just sayin’.
Just callin’ a spade a spade, dude. Sorry it makes you feel uncomfortable.
There are lots of straight men who agree with NOPE’s
opinion about porn and we are not all religious
fanatics who live in the Bible Belt. I’m a straight
male who thinks looking at porn is cheating and I’m an
agnostic who lives in California. It doesn’t bother
me one bit that different people have different
feelings about this issue.
-Prudes Really Understand Dan’s Exaggerations
I can get SO mad at women who say they feel cheated on if their guy watches porn. Everytime we chicks watch a romantic movie, and think of how great it would be to meet Prince Charming who will make our lives happily ever after, we do basically the same thing men do when they watch porn. We enjoy the fantasy, but realize it will never be like that in real life, because even Prince Charming always throws his smelly socks next to the laundry basket and expects us to pick it up. Men like to fantasize about being THA MAN all the ladies go for, having the biggest cock in the world and being adored for it. And after the movie ended, we all go back to our not so Charming or not so slutty partners, and not care any less for them. So suck it up, don’t feel threatened, it’s just a movie for fuck’s sake.
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To Fitness Freak: The Presidential Commission on Physical Fitness gave me my first orgasm – the Flex Arm Hang in 9th grade. You hold yourself with your chin above the bar for as many seconds as you can. I started coming at 17 seconds. Got an “A”. Later found push ups work. Re porn – just doesn’t do it for me, ok for my men to watch without me, I prefer to vibrate without them.
NOPE – To say that porn is not okay is to say that you will fill that role in your man’s life. That means being available sexually 100% of the time and/or making porn for/with him for when you can’t. If you can’t do that, then you are asking begging for disappointment.
two- short comments- One to the lady (73) that the “hammering problem” come from damage from circumcision – Come on! Millions of happily circed men have perfectly wonderful sex! We are not damaged goods! Also- (Totally different subject)
No one has commented that some women and men (ny no means all, or even most) like to be “hammered” at least once in a while. Let’s just say aggressive sex instead of the loaded term “hammered”. Maybe the woman and her BF, are just somewhat sexually incompatible and may be better with off with more compatible partners. Just a small maybe, but the BF has been considered “bad” in most responses, MAYBE he’s not really so bad
wow, FUCK the straight-woman romantic-comedy analogy that’s getting tossed around like a hot potato. i don’t know a single girl who reads pulpy romances “by the box” or even thinks romantic comedies are any good, with the exception of my mom. All these miserable dudes who cant get it up without fake tits and calling the girl an evil slut in their minds and wimpy ladies who fantasize about “Prince Charming” and which of their 700 fantasy wedding dresses theyll wear (who, by the way, sound totally celibate) can have eachother.
I’m KIDDING, sort of, but in my opinion tastes in erotic/romantic/sexual material are kind of like music (which can of course be its own aphrodisiac). Yeah you can each put in your headdphones and secretly sit in seperate corners and pretend you dont listen to shit eachother loathes, and a lot of couples do that, but it’s probably a better sexual match if you feel good about what the other gets off to. This macho attitude of SHE DOESNT HAVE TO WATCH IT SHE CAN STICK TO HER LADYNOVELS HEUH HEUH HEUH is really fucking annoying. of course people fantasize about different things, but very mainstream porn, the facial of porn if you will, is sort of designed to be repugnant to the girly “subjects” in the same way that chick lit is designed to be repulsive to anybody with good taste. Femmey girls have to do a lot more mental somersaulting to feel comfortable with it than dudes do, fact, and that just doesn’t have to be the way it is.
sure men like porn, eaaaasy statement, but it’s not so easy to make the flip side, women like romance novels, which are a very specific aesthetic and fantasy. the earlier definition of pornography is truer for both sexes. people are incredibly complex. your typical erotic story site online (geared towards the ladies amirite?) has shitloads of snuff, pedophilia, bestiality and incest on it, stuff that makes me feel like puking when i stumble across it, sorry. similarly, there’s a lot of men who like quite softcore porn that would probably be a lot easier to imagine yourself the subject of as the chicky counterpart ( i think that’s a lot of womens’ problem – do my partners all secretly want to viooooolate me? shitty feeling)
i know women fantasize about being raped, objectified, treated like filthy sluts, “violated” as well etc to whatever degree (as men do), but the point is that a lot of porn denies women the agency in that fantasy, and that makes them feel weird about their partners regularly taking pleasure in it. there are ways to make those fantasies available to both parties while making them clearly fantasies. there are ways to be sexy where everybody can feel sexy about everyone’s sexuality. it isn’t necessary to polarize and compartmentalize, and women are as freakin visual as men, just as men could probably get off to a more “total experience” kind of deal.
EVEN within a personal, private realm, people can be sensitive to the desires and feelings of the people theyre fucking (or even people they wish to fuck). that doesn’t mean sexual material has to be all wuvvvy-dovey, just that it could go a long way to be appealing rather than apalling to everybody. women and men are closer in sexual mindset than people believe. i regularly fantasize about violating as well as being violated, about making out, about watching people, about getting hurt, about sensuous threesomes, about fucking hard, about things where people aren’t even naked, about past experiences, about potential ones, while bearing in mind that the subjects are total fucking people and catering to their particular sexual aesthetics. ive gotten off to images, text, listening, feeling, smelling… fuck… people need to compromise and not have so much insistence about WHAT I LIKE IS MY OWN BUSINESS AND DOESNT AFFECT ANYBODY BUT ME. who thinks that about anything they consume? and who can be so nutso cavalier about something so emotionally crazy as sexuality. some women make up a character for men who watch porn, that theyre these unfeeling maniacs who want to nut all over the biggest tits and then spit on the girls’ face, and porn plays this up. but it’s equally unfair for men to make up this virginal girl who just wants a guy with a big wallet who will tell them nice things and ravish them. maybe these extreme characters exist, and like i said earlier, they deserve eachother.
it’s not innate, and you can be sensitive about what you masturbate to. you can adapt your basic fantasies to be kinder, sexually. you can be sweet and tender even if your thing is hard nasty rape. you can analyze why youre into hard nasty rape, or even why youre into brunettes, for that matter, and it might be a worthwhile activity for everyone. just saying. deconstruct and try to be empathetic.
The narrowness of the view that any man who says that he doesn’t look at pornography and/or doesn’t wish to MUST be parrotting the views of a woman, and that that woman must be controlling and insecure is astounding. It is on the order of saying that any woman who helps create pornography is either being coerced thereto or has been brainwashed into some man’s dogma.
One of the few things to like about people is the sheer variety of their natures; neither the Tory’s nor the libertine’s assumption of a single, human, nature is accurate: name any combination of common traits and their absence, and I feel safe to say that there is at least one example of it walking (or rolling, or lying in a pitiful heap) around.
To be otherwise is to be blinkered.
Having test ridden, played with, tugged and titillated quite a few circumcised and uncircumcised penises in my life, I find that experience only backs up a few of the assertions of the “circumcision is mutilation” crowd. I say this even though I prefer a guy with an uncircumcised penis.
It is true that a lot more uncircumcised guys get used to the masturbatory movement of skin vs. shaft, and the foreskin allows enough “play” in the skin to allow for that sort of movement. This means, among other things, that as I get a bit older and dryer, some gentle tucking allows a comfortable and stimulating level of “tug” between vagina and penile skin, and a comfortable and stimulating level of “rub” between skin and shaft. Having figured this out when there was no lube around, I now do this on purpose–it’s good fun. Without the extra skin, there’s less movement for the guy. To get reasonable equivalent stimulation for an uncircumcised guy, I’d probably have to do a fair amount of vaginal clamping and unclamping (think Kegels).
But I’ve played with enough foreskins to know that they are not necessarily, in practical terms, strikingly stretch receptive (though the frenum often is). Nor does possession of an intact foreskin stop guys from getting extra stimulation from thrusting before orgasm. (Clamping your legs together and thrusting works on women too, BTW–try it sometime–or go do those gym exercises.)
Nor could I find any strong correlation between foreskin status and overall sensitivity to stimulation. Both groups have some guys who are slow to arouse, and some who are in the “jizz in my pants” crowd. It’s easy to blame all your perceived sexual inadequacies on a few square centimeters of flesh. But really, for the time and effort and pain that goes into surgical foreskin restoration, you could do a lot of retraining on habits and technique, and probably come out ahead (pun intended).
Best suggestions I have are a) tie him down with you on top, so that you can rise up as he thrusts. You should be able to get enough resistance on his pelvis that he gets that “exercise orgasm” effect, but you can rise up so he doesn’t hit too deep. Or b) practice your kegels and do it doggie style with him standing, but a bit precariously, so that he can’t thrust (WARNING: it REALLY hurts if he pounds at an angle that presses your ovaries) and instead “pull” him off with vaginal squeezing. Or c) get a leash on his balls, so that you have good control on his “out of control” movements. This may take practice, but it may actually enhance the overall experience.
Oh, and “mind porn” isn’t porn because no people are involved except your own brain. Duh.
Oh, and if someone has a hangup about porn, the LAST thing they should do is make porn, for anyone–especially someone whom they don’t trust to make his own decisions, and whose life they are trying to run. Because when he busts loose, if not sooner, that porn is going right to the internet.
I consider porn to be cheating. I am a happily married straight male. I enjoyed porn when I was single and without a girlfriend. After I got married, I have never looked at porn and I have no desire to do so. My wife is wonderful. During our entire 16 year marriage, she has NEVER turned me down for sex, even when I wanted it every night. My wife is a bit overweight but her enthusiasm for sex puts any porn star to shame. Porn is just a poor substitute for sex with a real woman you are madly in love with. I feel sorry for the guys whose wives or girlfriends are turning them down for sex so they have to rely on porn to get some relief. People who treat their partner’s needs like a chore that they will get to when they feel like it end up with crappy relationships. If a woman makes sure her man’s sexual needs are met, the man isn’t going to have any interest in lusting for other women, either in real-life or with porn. NOPE just needs to find a normal guy and treat him well so porn will not be an issue. A small percentage of men (I’d guess under 10 percent) are incapable of being faithful to one partner. NOPE needs to learn to identify these men and avoid them.
@91
I’m one of the “progressive” guys you mention, who thinks that prostitution should be legal, but wouldn’t want a girlfriend who was in it, or in porn. It’s not about how society views sex for me, but about my own feelings about it.
But I don’t think it’s a contradiction: I would like to be monogamous with the person I sleep with, but I wouldn’t suggest everyone has to be. In a similar way, I find the idea of threesomes or open relationships totally fine for others, but I probably wouldn’t want to be in one myself.
In all of these cases, it’s up to the individual(s) to decide for themselves. But of course this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight exploitation – that’s quite a different thing.
Wow, there are clearly some very wounded people out there, lashing out at the world because of feelings of inadequacy.
On one hand, you have anti-circumcision activists insisting that every circumcised man is a mutilated, crippled freak. I don’t support routine circumcision, but good God, it’s hard to envision a more pathological reaction to the practice. Especially considering the considerable number of men who have been circumcised after puberty and claimed that the difference in sensation was either minimal or non-existent. (And while there are some who say it was significant, there aren’t very many claiming their sex life was ruined by it.)
It certainly sounds to me like someone was made fun of in the locker room for his turtleneck, and is now trying to “get even” with every circumcised man on the planet.
And then we have 131, who – if he isn’t a troll (the part about the overweight wife certainly makes it sound that way) – is apparently horrified at the prospect of being in the minority among men in his claim that watching porn does nothing for him, and somehow finds this emasculating. So now he’s now insisting that every man who watches porn must not be getting any from his significant other. Sad.
Regarding Fitness Freaking’s letter (and Schmooze’s post) it seems best to manage the phenomenon so the gym is not a disaster but also integrate into the sex-life as well. Why give up a healthful orgasm trigger? Why not find ways to do the same thing with a partner? Not every time (like anything) but repeatedly lifting your partner small amounts for arm freaks, pushing ankle against ankle (like leg lifts is they resist the right amount.) Maybe elastic cords around the bed for pulling against…
A fortune to be made here in the self-help book market with tasteful illustrations of the many positions and techniques which spring to mind. Even for those who don’t get off, many might find it arousing. “Sexometrics for increased pleasure and muscle tone at the same time!” Charles Atlas eat your heart out…
if looking at porn as bad as cheating then
cheating is only as bad cheating as looking at porn.
Is that what you want your boyfriend to think?
(“Might as well get hung for a sheep as a lamb”)
I will say one thing about 131’s comment: while I don’t agree that porn is cheating, and I’m a fan of porn, my man hardly looks at the stuff because, in his own words, “I’ve got my hands full with you.” I want to have sex so often, he just doesn’t have much energy or desire left for porn. Looks at it for about a minute every 2 or 3 weeks. I’d say that’s nothing to feel threatened by. A lot of the women who complain about porn are the same women who think that they can only have sex with their man once every two weeks, and he should be happy with that. I’m with Dan when he says that when you’re in a relationship with a man, you have a responsibility to make sure he’s milked–and if you’re not going to do it your damn self, he’s going to take care of business himself.
NOT ALL PORN IS CREATED EQUAL
I have to admit, the idea of watching some skinny, big-boobed bottle blond half-heartedly fake an orgasm while bouncing up and down on the cock of a man who has no respect for her is pretty repulsive to me. As a female, most porn really is a total turn-off. But GOOD porn… That’s another story.
Dan, how about some suggestions for some good couple-porn? I think women are far more likely to enjoy a video if they feel some kind of connection between the performers, and if the women genuinely look like they’re enjoying themselves.
FF: In a similar vein, Radiolab recently had a show called “Magic Tumors” with one story covering a man who had a benign tumor that triggered orgasms every time he saw a safety pin. The story: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episo…
Hey Dan and tech savvy youth. Awesome job as always! Below are the videos Dan mentioned in his podcast…the bigots getting taken to the carpet.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracy…
As for porn…Simon Louis Lajeunesse is the professor who could not complete a study about men and porn because he could not find a control group of porn free men. He ran another porn study mentioned here.
http://index.truman.edu/pdf/2009-2010/fe…
It would be cool if Dan or his youth staff got an account for bookmarks. Dan mentions a lot of great stuff, but not all of it is easy to find with google.
Networked bookmarks are anonymous, great for research, and great for finding porn.
http://www.delicious.com/tag/porn+peggin…
@131
Oh, really? I heavily doubt this. My boyfriend and I are madly in love and screw whenever we get the chance, but we both watch porn. We both feel it caters to fantasies that we wouldn’t really care to act on in real life but are hot to watch, and we don’t consider it cheating in the slightest. And how does your significant other being overweight have any bearing on porn? Answer: it doesn’t.
Are there men who don’t watch porn? Probably. It’s a big world out there, and there’s a bit of everything in it. Unfortunately for the parroting minority of all these “good” guys, most men watch porn. And these men aren’t wrong for it, as long as they aren’t neglecting their partner’s needs.
@133 What is sad is thinking that any man with an opinion about porn different from yours must be wounded and emasculated. I consider porn to be like junk food. It’s better than nothing but it’s not very satisfying. Sex with someone you love is gourmet food. I see no reason to eat junk food when I have a partner who is happy to give me gourmet food. People that use porn without their partner’s permission are junk food junkies and cheaters in my opinion.
@135 There are different degrees of cheating. Having sex with someone who is not your spouse or significant other is obviously much worse than looking at porn, even though both are cheating in my opinion.
@140 I just meant that my wife does not look like a porn star. I am happy for you and your boyfriend. It would be a very boring world if everyone had the same opinion about everything.
As an uncut man, I can’t speak on the inadequacies that may or may not be caused by having a circumcised penis. On the whole, let’s say that the majority of men who are circumcised don’t have to “hammer” to get off. Great. Kudos. Backyard, as you state, you are not one of these men. But that doesn’t mean there AREN’T men whose circumcisions (I imagine those of the high and tight variety) have impaired their sex lives in some way. You can’t dismiss other people’s experiences simply because they don’t mirror your own.
Just like it would be foolish of me to say that it’s impossible for a man’s foreskin to be so tight as to cause pain during sex, just because I’ve never experienced that.
As an argument in and of itself, sexual deficiencies tied to circ are muddied because everything with sex is so personal and subjective. But that doesn’t mean you can poo-poo the whole thing away. It means EVERYONE’S stories count, even the ones you may not agree with.
And yeah. Pretty much all men look at porn and I have to agree with Dan here: Guys who say otherwise are lying and good at clearing their browser history.
Don’t believe it? Even science couldn’t find guys who hadn’t checked out porn before: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/02/S…
I love this column already and have only read the first page.
You perform an important civil service here, helping the sexually clueless of the world!! And also: very entertaining, so win-win!
Can we please talk cunnilingus at some point and how you do NOT use your tongue as if it were a blender all over that very, very sensitive bundle of nerves? Or use your fingers as if you were ringing a doorbell?
Thanks and you rule!
HOT’s boyfriend can ONLY get off with jackhammer sex? While not every person (male OR female) who has had parts of their genitals removed experienced that degree of sensation reduction, HOT’s boyfriend is definitely damaged goods.
Restoration may help him achieve more sensitivity.
And not circ’ing baby boys may help prevent this kind of damage for tomorrow’s boyfriends.
(If you want your OWN dick to undergo surgical reduction, that’s fine. But there’s no justification for doing that to someone ELSE who can’t consent.)
To all cut men in denial, they, and their partners might wish to read the O’Hara study on cut Vs normal sex:
http://www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohar…
I think one of the problems we have when talking about circumcision is that we use one single word to describe the procedure when really how much that gets cut off can vary substantially. So not surprisingly, guys experiences with being circumcised can also vary substantially. I know there are plenty of cut guys out there who don’t have any difficulties with sensation, however in my own case I was cut really tightly with no frenulum left and with my scar line pretty much right below the head. Not only have I had problems with being able to get enough sensation to cum just like the guy in the original question, but I also have really awkwardly tight erections where my scrotum gets pulled far onto the shaft making a “turkey neck” like appearance.
So that is great your circumcision didn’t detract anything from your own experience, but it isn’t accurate to conclude that no circumcised guy can have sexual problems stemming from the particular way they were cut.
@148: “So that is great your circumcision didn’t detract anything from your own experience, but it isn’t accurate to conclude that no circumcised guy can have sexual problems stemming from the particular way they were cut.”
And if I had claimed that, you’d have a point. But I am not the one claiming that every man who is circumsized has the same result – good or bad. That claim would be from those who describe all men who have been circumsized as “mutilated”, and those of us whose subjective experience is different as being “in denial”.
@131: anecdote does not equal evidence. Being madly in love with someone does NOT make other people unattractive. I’ve had my sexual needs perfectly met by a partner and still fantasized about people I found on the street that day. Congratulations for finding someone you’re so happy with, but you are not the norm. I don’t need porn when I have a partner, but I do love it.
Holding On Tight should advise her BF to hold his breath as long as he can. It can encourage orgasm, perhaps even when he’s not pounding away.