re: Can't get off during sex.

When my wife and I started dating I took her to Babeland (Seattle) and got her a selection of vibrators and now she loveLoveLOVES the Pocket Rocket/Water Dancer during sex. It is always helpful and always ALWAYS hot.

A woman who enjoys herself is very hot. Go for it.

Dan - In your intro about same-sex marriage ballot issues, you neglected to mention Maryland. Our state legislature enacted a marriage-equality law, and the opponents have petitioned it to referendum. The opinion polls show a slight majority in favor of gay-marriage, but the opponents seem to be more energized. So please use your bully-pulpit of a podcast to get your listeners in Maryland energized in favor of the law.

I really wanted to ask the woman who can't come if she fantasizes during sex. A lot of women need the extra boost of fantasy to push them over the edge from "this feels good, I'm almost there" to "I'm coming now!" I feel like this subject gets short shrift in the Lovecast.

I think it's unfair to say that someone's childish and judgmental if they don't want to be with someone who's HIV+. People weigh their own risks, and it may be too much of a risk for a lot of people to be comfortable with, even using condoms.
That doesn't mean it's okay for people to lose their shit when they're told, though.

Is the cunnilingus expert a Pacific islander? Mango is a euphemism for pussy for a lot of folks in that part of the world.
Which makes me think this is a joke.

@6: I should say Northwestern Pacific islander, lest I fall guilty of over-bracketing.

@7: North=north of the equator. West = west of, say, Hawaii. So Philippines, Micronesia, etc.

Not islands in Puget Sound.

OK. I'm stopping now.

Great advice for the first caller, Dan! I would add though..I often hear you advise that the girl who can't get off without toys/toothbrush/fingers during penetration (which is practically ALL women EVERYWHERE--so glad you always emphasize that), I would not suggest that she hand her toothbrush to the guy and say "here! you do it! so you can feel like you did it!" It's just further stroking of the male ego, and while it might work (it might it might!), in my experience, the pressure of said toy/toothbrush/finger when someone else (especially someone who's humping me at the same time) is applied, it's never quite the right tempo as it would be if I were doing it myself. It COULD work, it certainly could. But I think it has the potential of turning into another long, awkward wait for this woman who is obviously very insecure and in her own head about her orgasm. I think it's very much a mental thing with you, babes. Try for the first couple of times briging in the toy, doggy style so you are facing the other way, and IGNORING this guy. Just literally ignore him. Focus on your own pleasure, fantasize, masturbate while he fucks you and stop thinking about how long it's taking. Also have a couple of drinks first. That's my advice! Good luck!

@4 Yes, totally

You missed one p-r-e-t-t-y important scenario in your response to the straight guy who wanted to know why a gay guy would be interested in learning how to eat pussy. For all we know, this gay guy could be interested (genuinely or fetishistically) in a really hot guy who was born with a hole / vagina i.e. a trans guy.

That this was not on your radar really concerns me, p.s.

@ 5 Dan did not say that it is childish for a person to choose NOT to have sex with an HIV+ person. In fact, he specifically stated that they have the right to know their sex partner's status and make an informed decision, which obviously could go either way. It would be childish, however, if a potential sex partner upon hearing this news were to freak the fuck out and act like a total jerk about it rather than calmly and graciously saying no (or yes).

Don't listen to the audiobook version of 50 shades of gray. The narrator's voice is very wrong for the story and makes it miserable. The narrator is a very childish female who has zero talent for male voices. It is like listening to a 12 girl tell this story. Don't waste your time or credits.

Regarding the caller asking about why his gay friend might be interested in learning cunnilinguistics, as a gay man myself, I naturally presumed that he wanted these skills to apply them to rimming. Regardless of his motives, I give him props for continued interests in learning.

To the woman who uses an electric toothbrush...

I've masturbated with an electric toothbrush since the age of 11. It's the only way I can actually have an orgasm.

So here's what my boyfriend and I do:

We touch each other, we go down on each other, we fuck, we spank each other, and whatever else we feel like- and when I want to come, I just start using my toothbrush on myself! Sometimes while we're fucking!
He's even been able to give me an orgasm by using my toothbrush on me!

Yes, it took him a while to get over the "my dick can't get you off, I feel emasculated, etc." but once he got over himself our sex life has been amazing.

Woman here. Back when I was a kid, I discovered masturbating by grinding on objects. Usually a pillow, but that was my wanking routine up until I was 30. I would vary objects and pressure and such.. but always me face-down and grinding on something. Partners could never get me off, other than by letting me grinding against their pubic bone while I was riding them.

Around 30 years old, the same ole grinding routine was not working. Couldn't get off. Eventually with encouragement from my boyfriend at the time (and still) I started playing around with my fingers in a more 'traditional' sense. I had a couple sessions of just playing around, seeing what felt good, with no intention to cum. After a time or two of this, I figured out how to get myself off quite surprisingly one day (I had figured it would take longer).

Fast forward a couple of years, and now I can get myself off with fingers or a vibrator. And my boyfriend can get me off with his fingers or tongue or vibrator. It took us quite a few practice/playing sessions before all this started getting figured out.. but we've gotten there.

He has been awesome about it and very low pressure (he also love toys for single and partner play). If I don't cum, it doesn't bring him down. We both have our times of 'we just can't get off no matter how good this feels'. Even now that we've come so far in figuring out each other, sometimes we're just too wound up to pop. And I never come by him fucking me alone. I always need some sort of direct clit stimulation to get off.

Though that reminds me of another sort of orgasm I discovered with him. During anal sex, I have come just from him thrusting. And it's a very deep-seated and different sort of orgasm from the clit-brought ones, but very awesome. Doesn't happen that often, but often enough. Amazing.

some great comments here - does anyone use a massager like this http://vibes4u.co.nz/Miracle-Massager/sk…

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/05…
This entry on the timeline from 200 AD is especially interesting:
The 2nd century Roman physician Galen believed hysteria was caused by sexual deprivation. A good roll in the hay was a suitable cure for married women, but for widows, unmarried women, or religious women, he prescribed pelvic massage. His technique would be cited by physicians for centuries to come: "Following the remedies and arising from the touch of the genital organs required by the treatment, there followed twitchings accompanied at the same time by pain and pleasure after which she emitted turbid and abundant sperm. From that time on she was free of all the evil she felt.”
And yet some people still don't think female ejaculation exists - or at least they call / write into savage love to say they don't

@22 (Punkystewster) "Pain" and "abundant sperm"? Thank god for modern gynecology, jeez!

This podcast was just about female orgasm. Ejaculation is the next level. They're mutually exclusive, speaking as someone who has lost the ability to "female ejaculate", but still has a damn good time. Personally, I don't miss soaking my sheets and matttress multiple times every week.

Dan,

I'm a 44-year old gay guy from the midwest who came out 24 years ago, and am HIV negative.

Before today, I was pretty sure that I was your biggest fan. Now I'm still a huge fan, but pretty disappointed with how you reacted to the person who was asking about when to tell someone you're HIV +.

I listened to your response twice, just to make sure I wasn't over-reacting or misunderstanding what you'd said. I was left with the impression of you being an extraordinarily judgmental d-bag towards a gay men who might not want to date someone who is HIV+.

According to you -- "The way he reacts tells you a great deal about him. If he freaks the fuck out. If he acts like a child and an infant. If he sero-shames you....He's an immature, selfish, thoughtless child."

Wow Dave. Aren't you just acting like the biggest dick ever.

As if it's no big deal to date someone who is HIV+.

What if you don't have great insurance and if you become Positive -- IT COULD KILL YOU?
What if you don't want to use condoms the rest of your life with a partner?
What if you don't want to have to live in fear of contracting it in a loving situation?
What if you want to have kids, and surrogacy services won't do it for HIV+ people?
What if the drugs stop working in the future?
What if you don't want to have to be exposed to a life-long medical condition?

I know more than 5 people who dated people long-term and did everything right and they came up positive. And they were stunned, because they quote "did everything right."

You reacted to him like anyone who doesn't want to be with a positive person is a douche, and frankly, you should be ashamed of yourself for acting like such an asshole.

Can you please figure out how to give advice to men like him in the future where you don't make it seem like he's a victim if someone doesn't want to absorb those risks with him -- and if they don't, they're terrible people -- because I think you blew it on this one, and in a sad irony, you sounded like a republican to me.

And in case you're wondering, that's about the nastiest thing I can say to anyone.

Kirk