"And just because I love you, here's Fosse and Verdon dancing together in Damn Yankees..."

Let's hear it for the musical/theater queens. I had a roommate who hated musicals so much I threatened to take away his gay card. My funniest memory of him is when he came home from seeing "Evita" -he got a free ticket--and asked me in a voice filled with outrage "Did you know they SING through the whole movie?"
And yet, he was crazy for "Mary Poppins" and could sing every song in the movie. His favorite was the "Sister Suffragettes" song.

You know the best thing about those old musicals? They held the damn camera still and took wide shots with few cuts so we could actually WATCH THE DANCERS! Modern film musicals (like “Chicago,” yuck) have about ten cuts a minute, close ups, unnecessary fancy cameras angles, and every other imaginable distraction, making it almost impossible to see what the dancers are doing. Dancers these days may be as talented as Gwen Verdon (maybe!) but how can we tell when we can’t see what they’re doing?

The only time I ever truly cried in my life was when I was cast in my high school's production of Damn Yankees. I was cast as Meg. A week after the casting, I saw my teacher's notes. It said, "Homeliest of homely girls needed for role of Meg."

I loved musical movies as a child and the last threatre I went to with my dad, he took us to see Fiddler on the Roof. Tradition! Tradition!
And after my father died, when I was 15, songs and the story line from my favourite filmed musical, Carousel, helped me with my grief. Music is therapy.

There was a bestiality court case recently,
I think it was Australia. And the defendant claimed the horse gave consent, because the horse winked at him.

"Who's Got the Pain When They Do the Mambo?" is one of my all-time Fosse favorites. Tied with "Steam Heat," from "The Pajama Game:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdyDlSie0Q

Nothing about the letter
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/07/18/29352397/no-headline
from the woman Dan advised to text her gaslighting husband.

I'm dealing with chronically poor internet access in Germany, but I wanted to give this advice to Skype about phone sex, and I hope she will find it here:

Skype, don't worry too much about saying the wrong thing when you're talking dirty. The worst thing that happens is that your partner tells you later they weren't into something that you said, or your use of a particular word.

Focus on what you're feeling sexually and psychologically as you are writing or speaking. Is your pussy getting wet? Is your clitoris feeling sensitive to the touch? Where are you touching yourself while you write or speak? Where to do you want your partner to be touching himself at that moment?

What would you like your partner to be doing if he were there with you? Where would his hands go? Or his mouth? Or cock? Where would you be touching him? What positions would you be having sex in? Why those positions? What do you enjoy and love about sex in those positions? How would the scene unfold?

What sexual things have you been fantasizing about while you've been apart? Sex in particular place? Something kinky that you would like to experience?

What would you be feeling psychologically or emotionally if you were doing those things at that moment instead of writing or talking about them? In love? Slutty? Dominant? How would you imagine your partner to be feeling?

What about the physical stimuli? The smell of his body. Or yours. Your saliva falling out of your mouth and onto your breasts or his semen landing on you skin. The fragrance of the air. The weight of his body against yours. The strength of his hands. The feeling of his cock inside your body. How your orgasm feels like to you. How you perceive his orgasm.

Where are you doing these things? Back home with him? In the place you're at for the summer? A fantasy location?

Tell him what would you be saying to him if you were having sex. Describe would you want him to be saying when he was touching you? Make him say it.

Remember, the more detail the better, be descriptive, and practice.

@8 - As someone who has a lot of phone sex, I would say your advice is quite accurate. I hope she heeds it.

Musicals get a FTWL. I occasionally enjoyed performing Gilbert and Sullivan, but modern musicals leave me cold - way too gynocentric. But I accept that for others, such as Mr Savage, that's the feature and not a bug.

@5 - My friend did a study abroad year in England back in the mid-1980s. While he was there, there was a court case where a man was arrested for sodomizing a sheep. His defense was that he went into the field to pee and the sheep backed up on him.

We use that as the example of the quintessential active or bossy bottom.

@5 - was the horse blind?