I’m a straight man married to a bisexual lady, which is something I would recommend to all other straight men in the world. We’re in our late 20s, have been together for eight years, married four. (I know: too young and too soon, but we’ll see how it turns out.)
My wife has a much higher sex drive than I do, and she’s also into kink, as a domme. My fantasies are vanilla, but I’m GGG.
The problem, as I see it, is that she doesn’t initiate. She’s tied me up and spanked me a handful of times, and it was fine.
Could I have done something wrong? How do you get spanked wrong? When I’ve asked her, she says that it takes a lot of energy to top, which makes sense, but we’ve done plenty of other high-energy activities. Communication is excellent between us. How do we get past this?
Beaten Up Not
Nearly Enough
The issue, BUNNE, can be summed up in three little words: “it was fine.” For you, it was fine. Not great, not mind-blowing, not something you love and can’t live without. It was fine.
Some people into BDSM are content just to be indulged by their vanilla partners. But others are only interested in doing BDSM with other folks who are into BDSM. That’s because there’s a huge difference between tying up and spanking someone who’s into it—really into it—and tying up and spanking someone who is doing it for you, for love, and for GGG chits. If your wife has experienced the rush of dominating a simpatico submissive—the thrill of finding someone’s limits and pushing them, the charge that comes from knowing you’re making someone’s deepest, darkest fantasies a reality—then being indulged by her loving husband, who is more than willing to endure the odd spanking to maintain his GGG bona fides, simply isn’t going to cut it.
I’m a 50-year-old gay guy and I’ve always found anal to be painful. After trying it about six times over the past 30-plus years (only once to “completion”), I gave up. Recently I met a great guy who would like to try it, and though I love the body contact, the sweaty, panting excitement, and the idea of being penetrated, I’ve resisted. Are some guys not capable of standing the pain? The guys I’ve screwed over the years have enjoyed it. Any suggestions?
Gentleman Asking You, Anal Sex Sage
P.S. The library computers block Buck Angel.
Buttsex: Some folks just can’t take it, GAYASS, and you may be one of them. But you can have all the sweat, pants, and excitement of anal without the penetration. Just grease up his dick, grease up your inner thighs, clamp your thighs around his dick, and let him pound away. Extra credit: Reach down between your legs and cup your greasy hands together on the opposite side as he pseudofucks you from behind so that his dick, once it pokes through your thighs, still feels as though it’s “inside” something, even if that something isn’t your spun-glass ass.
My daughter is 14 years old and she has been searching on the internet for “sneezing fetish” information. She reads articles about it every day. She reads stories about sneezing (some with sexual acts in them!) and watches YouTube videos of people sneezing every day! Yes, she might be curious if she heard the term “sneezing fetish” from someone, but no normal person would search about it on the internet every day! How can anyone actually associate sneezing with sex—and she’s only 14! It makes me uncomfortable reading this stuff! Is this normal? I am so worried!
Worried Mom
Kinky people aren’t assigned their kinks during their freshman orientation sessions at university, WM, and no one has ever contracted a fetish—like a cold?—just because someone uttered the name of it aloud. (And no fetishist has ever been cured by Mom freaking out.) People tend to become aware of their kinks, and start scouring the web in search of information about them, right around puberty. Which means your daughter is perfectly normal—a perfectly normal, perfectly kinky kid.
Like lots of young kinksters, she may be consumed by her kink now; she’s just realized that she’s not alone, and she’s busily reading and viewing everything she can about it. It’s unlikely that her kink will remain so all-consuming, WM. Sooner or later she’ll relax about it, and relax into it, and one day she’ll have a very nice boyfriend—or girlfriend—who loves her enough to indulge her harmless kink or, better still, she’ll meet someone online she clicks with emotionally and intellectually who also shares her kink.
In the meantime, WM, if it makes you uncomfortable to read what your daughter is reading online, stop reading it.
I’m a 19-year-old heterosexual female. When I get a boyfriend, I get so nervous that I get physically sick. It makes dating very stressful and it feels like I can’t have a normal relationship because I have to think about not throwing up when I really just want to enjoy his company. I feel particularly sick when things start to heat up with a boy. Now I try to stay out of relationships because I don’t think anyone will want to deal with this problem. How can I help condition my way out of it? Should I see another shrink?
Nervous In Candlelight
Yes, NIC, see a shrink—and a pot dealer/medical marijuana provider.
I’ve been married to my amazing husband for 11 years. I’m straight and love being with two men at once and he’s bi so that makes for crazy-hot-fun times. We have all the kids we want, so he’s had a vasectomy. I’m still fertile but don’t want to end up pregnant by one of our thirds, so we’re taking every conceivable precaution. (See what I did there?) My question is this—if we’re performing oral on our third and he comes in my husband’s mouth and then my husband goes down on me, could I get pregnant via oral transfer?
Baby Shop Is Closed
There’s a famous case of a 15-year-old girl who was born without a vagina—but with everything else—who managed to get pregnant via oral sex. Well, via oral sex and a knife fight and a life-threatening wound that allowed the spermatozoa in the girl’s gut to swim into her uterus. This—according to a friend of a friend who knows someone who was there—is not an urban legend. In fact, the story appeared in a 1988 issue of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and bounced around the blogs for a few weeks last winter after a blogger at Discover unearthed it.
Anyway, BSIC, the moral of the story: Never say never. But provided your husband swallows and doesn’t gargle, and provided there isn’t any semen dribbling down his chin, I’d put your chances of getting pregnant under the circumstances you’ve described at pretty darn close to zero. (And not to ruin your day/three-way or anything, but you do know that vasectomies have a 1-in-2,000 failure rate, right? If you do get knocked up after one of those three-ways, BSIC, the bonus baby could still be your husband’s.)
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NIC, you are not alone. I am a 48 year old man and I have struggled with relationship/sex anxiety my entire life. When I was young I would have bad anxiety attacks on dates. When I finally managed to lose my virginity at age 29, I was physically sick afterward (humiliating to say the least). Over time I slowly learned to relax enough to go on dates without having anxiety attacks and even have sex, but I have not managed to resolve my fundamental anxiety issue. I have only had sex about 7 times in my entire life with 4 different women, and while I am able to “perform” I am never able to relax enough to have an orgasm during sex or experience the joy that it should be. Clearly, I have some deep psychological blocks in this area, and I have spent time with a shrink seeking to understand it. Dan’s advice is good – consider finding a good shrink to talk to – it can often be very helpful.
Why on earth WOULDN’T Buck Angel’s site be blocked on the library computer? It’s sexual content, they block all sexual content at libraries. Thank god. Those are public computers, in a public place, go look at hot mangina somewhere else. Fuck.
“See a shrink” is such shitty advice, especially to a 19 year old girl. Q: “I’m poor and flat-broke. What should I do?” A: “Be rich!”
What 19 year old girl can afford a shrink? Unless she’s fortunate enough to have parents who’ll pay for it.
209 — If she’s at a university/college, a lot of them have very low-cost or no-cost mental health services. And dealing with social anxiety and the social pressures of that age are very common issues.
Even if she’s not at college, there are a lot of low-cost and no-cost mental health services in large-ish cities. She should look online and see if she can find anything reasonable in her area. Getting a hold of this issue will allow her to live her life more fully and be well worth the money in the long run.
I just want to add something about the sneeze fetish kid. At 14 she’s in the early stages of discovering sexuality, and might just be seizing upon some ‘way in’ – something that gives some insight into the irrationality and intensity of sexual desire. Sneezing is also an involuntary action, and might be analogous for her to her new understandings of the involuntary nature of desire. Doesn’t mean she’s going to be a sneeze-fetishist for life. (and of course, so what if she is)
@207 – have you considered a sexual surrogate? Seems like that kind of thing might help.
Aw man…no column this week?
the link’s not working, but the column has gone up. take an old URL and replace the number with 8742121 and that gives you today’s column
dan doesn’t seem to realise that putting a website address for the column title means that it redirects to that website and not to his column. he’s done this before. sort it out, dan
It’s not out of line for a mother to be looking at her 14 year old daughter’s online activities. She may not like what she’s seeing but it’s better then being surprised one day when her daughter vanishes because she snuck out to meet some pedophile exploiting her kink.
Dan, you were very logical, straightforward, and gentle with Worried Mom. It made me smile. There are so many more things a teenager can search on the internet that are far worse. Maybe you “freed” her to explore her own kinks, you never know.
My son is 19 now, but when he was 14 he left his MySpace page open on my computer. It had music, his friends, some older cousins (who would tell on him in a minute if there was anything dangerous!), so I told him, “take down the booze pix and half-naked women”. He did, and that was where we left it.
I like to think that I was reasonable, and didn’t turn it into a culture clash between us and he used the computer responsibly.
Oh Dan, would you really advise the mother of a 14 year old to stop reading things that made her uncomfortable about her daughters activities? You did! Were you asleep when you wrote that? Good grief, that is that woman’s job, seriously! My mother would have benefited from the knowledge of what I was doing with boys at 14, and thank goodness I didn’t get fucking pregnant. This response from you really disappointed me, it is her fucking JOB to be concerned about her CHILDS sexual life. Looking at the internet for that shit often leads to some sort of predatory behavior, often by someone older, and more cunning than the minor.
my advise to her would be to cut off all private internet privaleges, put the computer with internet access in a family room and make sure the child knows that not only does her mom support her individuality, she does not support the secrecy.
p.s. sounds kinda like a bullshit scenario anyway…but not completely unlikely.
To GAYASS: Cherry Flavored Anal Ease. Works likes a charm, and then your Santorum tastes like cherries! Win, win. Oh and, breathe deep. You can take it, I just know you can.
To Worried Mom: One thing Dan may have overlooked is that sneezing releases a lot of endorphins quickly, much like an orgasm does. So, I can see how someone may be curious about the correlation; possibly getting “turned on” by sneezing, and wondering why. Since she’s young and experiencing her new-found sexuality, I wouldn’t be overly concerned.
Here’s an aggressive female: http://mysexlifewithlola.wordpress.com/