The Rise and Fall of Hipster Dave, Part Two

We got naked together at my place, and the part I most vividly remember is how precummy his cock was: His boxers were slicked to it and it begged to be unpeeled from constraint. Normally I don’t suck strangers’ cocks without protection, but his was like a trophy and I was oh so turned on. My enthusiasm overcame me. I didn’t mean to continue until completion; I meant to prepare him for sex. But too late. Saline solutiony semen seeped into my mouth, and I pulled him out immediately. I was disgusted. There was no warning. Normally I don’t require verbal warning because I can tell when it is going to happen. But with him there was no indication. Orgasm wasn’t qualitatively different from the stages before it. I was annoyed that he didn’t warn me, annoyed that he let himself cum without asking whether I wanted to have sex (which was quite obviously my game plan). I don’t collect hipsters to blow them, as fun as the blowjob was until the unexpected cum part. Seldom am I surprised by semen. He got hard again almost immediately, redeeming himself. He had an attractive and high-functioning penis.

His penis, however, was the only impressive thing about him. I fucked him and it was good, so good that he came again, which left me at his disposal. Hipster Dave seemed to think that the sex was over; I indicated otherwise by touching myself. He got the point. But when I asked him to help me out, I was accosted by his uncut nails. Hipster Dave seemed to think that since he plays the guitar it is acceptable for him not to cut his nails. Well let me tell you something, Hipster Dave: I have dated many a guy who plays the guitar and they cut their nails on one hand, so I don’t buy your fucking excuse. Get a fucking nail clipper and nail file, if you don’t want to be a useless hipster, or go home and enjoy the smooth palm of your supple hand.

Because Hipster Dave’s hands had rendered themselves unfit for my vagina (unfit for society, I mean, Jesus, he might as well wipe his ass with leaves), I resigned and asked him to use his mouth. He indicated agreement but didn’t follow through. I tried once more with his hand, and I yelped! He apologized. I told him to use his mouth. He kissed my body, inching closer and closer to my vagina, but never got quite there. Oh no, never have I ever confused my stomach or my inner thigh for my vagina. Even after getting off a stupid amount of times and drinking too much, I can always tell my vagina from any other body part. It’s this neat talent I have.

I pushed his head between my legs. I don’t mean to sound rapey about it, but if your hands are useless by your own fault your own fault and nothing but your fault, you are kind of obligated to lick my vagina. And besides, I sucked your dick. If you weren’t going to reciprocate, you shouldn’t have let me. You are at my apartment in my flowery bed and you will lick my vagina whether you like it or not. It’s like the “you break it, you buy it” rule, only “you stick it, you lick it.” He could have left if he thought I was being too rapey, and I was just holding his head down, not his body. I made it seem all romantical, pretending to play with is hair. A few gropes of encouragements. Firm grips. Your pick! Hipster Dave, I like you so much I will pet you like a pet and maybe even reward you with a treat if you are a good boy. Attaboy, Dave!

But he was so fucking useless because ultimately if you don’t want to do something sexually you are going to suck at it and only do it for a second then pretend like you forgot what you were doing in the first place.

I gave up. The most annoying thing about the situation being that I didn’t even really need to get off because I had gotten off so many fucking times that morning. Or not so many times, but twice in a row in such a way that I didn’t know if I would be good for another one.

Hipster Dave was a useless, useless hipster, but he was cooperative about watching me fuck my dildos, so I found him to be generally agreeable. Just kidding; I didn’t. I felt very antagonistic toward him. I blamed him for the fact that he had gotten me aroused and insisted upon being useless and I didn’t even need the sex in the first place because I was already done for the day and I only agreed to wrap him up in tissue paper and carry him home in my purse under the tacit assumption that he would do more than lie there and get his dick sucked.

I decided to degrade Dave as much as possible because what could be more insulting than letting a girl suck and fuck you knowing that you are going to give nothing in return Not that the sex wasn’t fun for me, but still. I got an impulse that I have never gotten before: the impulse to call him the wrong name on purpose. Dan was my name of choice. Pick your poison.

If you purposely pretend that you are going to lick my vagina, indicating false agreement with my request, and get closer and closer gradually, while doing everything you can to avoid following through, you are no longer a person and you become interchangeable with all other non-people, namely those named ‘Dan.’ That only applies if your name is Dave. If you are a non-person named ‘Brian,’ for example, perhaps the other non-people with whom you become most appropriately interchangeable are those named ‘Ryan.’ I refrained from going out of my way to call him by the wrong name, but nonetheless arranged him as I pleased and got off in front of him as if he weren’t even there except as a visual tool. At the last minute, I needed his general attention/responsiveness services, and I incorporated him, saying his real name. Emphatically. I never say people’s names during sex, nevertheless during dildofucking. Not a natural impulse. Nor is the one to intentionally mislabel people.

When I was done, I pet Dave and told him he was a pretty, pretty hipster. All demeaning-like. Delish. I told him I couldn’t believe he was from Iowa, I mean Idaho, because he has the perfect hipster body (seriously, I said this). As if he were born to be a deadbeat in Brooklyn with a body like that (I did not say this).

Hipster Dave got up to leave and realized he forgot his keys. This could be the beginning of a Jack-and-Jill-style nursery rhyme. To review: Hipster Dave had long nails, would not use his mouth, and could not remember to leave home with his keys. Well, great; even more useless than I initially thought: a fuck toy that needs to be taken care of. If you are going to go to a strange girl’s expensive apartment (on what you consider to be the Upper East Side) to get blown for free, you should really consider remembering your keys so when she inevitably gets annoyed and starts to feel a tad bit antagonistic, you can leave. But I told him it was no big deal and he could sleep in my flowery bed in my expensive apartment in Midtown East. Because I am a nice girl, really I am, sexual angst aside.

Maybe I would have felt differently about the situation had I not fucked dildos to orgasm number three of the day.

My overall assessment of the situation:

A) Hipster Dave was a lazy, lazy hipster. Unsurprising considering he didn’t have a real job. You ain’t no longer in Iowa, kid. People here snort cocaine and lick vagina.

B) As indexed by the highly reliable Likert scale I developed in order to rate sexual experiences in terms of their value as compared to that of masturbation, the experience was easily “better than masturbation,” making it worthwhile. Hey, I got standards. Hipster Dave was a pretty, pretty hipster and made for good masturbatory material despite his uselessness as a sexual agent. If only I hadn’t gotten off irresponsibly that morning. Even so, I was way more turned on than I would have been alone. When it’s all said and done (I mean, few words were said), I’d rather have masturbatory company than masturbate alone.

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The Rise and Fall of Hipster Dave, Part One

Hipster Dave was a pretty, pretty hipster. I met him the night of my best friend’s birthday, the night after I fucked Danny. I must admit that I did a terrible job orgasm budgeting because I erroneously assumed it was a fuck-free night. As if my doing a terrible job orgasm budgeting is worthy of confessional status.

But this time it really wasn’t my fault!

Fucking Danny after actively postponing getting off all day was such a disappointment that the next day, at the faintest sign of horniness, I vowed not to put myself through that delayed gratification bullshit again. Not only did I get off immediately upon wanting to, I got off again with no regard for my refractory period. I know you’re thinking girls don’t have refractory periods, but I do. I have to wait a minute until my arousal level abates or else it’s just uncomfortable and I get sore but can’t orgasm. It seriously only takes a minute at most for me to get back to the plateau phase of arousal—the point at which I can start up again—if it’s only after orgasm number one. It’s thereby ridiculous that I abuse my refractory period. But I’m impatient. Especially when it comes to orgasms.

When I abuse my refractory period, I have to forcibly get myself off. Since my vaginal tension doesn’t increase itself without time to refuel, my whole body must be implicated in the process. I tense every muscle in the surrounding region. When I’m finally done, I’m down for the count—wiped out. For the next few days, every muscle in my legs is sore, and I’m incapable of walking like a normal person. Obviously not worth it in exchange for not having to wait an entire minute to start up again. But, like I said, I’m impatient, and sometimes I like getting it over with for a while. Preventing the possibility of persistence. Like sewing one’s pockets together but for compulsive masturbators.

I knew I had done myself a disservice, but I didn’t think it was super maladaptive because I didn’t realize I would have the opportunity or desire to get laid that night. It was my best friend’s birthday; I thought we would hang out, stay up super late, etc.

But we go to this bar and eventually most of our friends leave. It is just the two of us and our friend Hans. From across the room I see this guy who is sitting alone and he’s super cute. We smile at each other and every few minutes I glance back and check him out. I have my friends verify that he’s cute and I decide to approach him. He’s alone which makes this task much easier. It’s not like I have to interrupt a conversation. I don’t have his friends evaluating me. There is no easy way out. The best part of approaching a guy who is at a bar alone is you have an automatic conversation starter.

He was at the bar alone because he knows the bartender. They are both from Idaho. He was with other friends earlier in the evening but they went home. I told him he looked lonely and asked him if he wanted to join me and my friends at our table. He said yes, he would join us after he got a drink. I shot him a killer smile and walked back to my table. When he approached our table, I knew it was a done deal. I barely talked to him all night. I asked him a few basic questions about himself and attempted to incorporate him into our conversation every so often out of sheer politeness. Days later, Hans told me he was impressed by the pick-up: the fact that I barely talked to the guy, that there was no overt communication about where the night was ending yet it was mutually understood.

Picking up guys is easy. Guys are easy. Practically all you have to do is point and indicate that you want a guy, and he is yours. I rarely get rejected. On the rare occasion that I do, who cares? Not I. It’s barely even rejection; simply a lack of interest. I don’t take it personally because he isn’t even a person to me at that point.

Here is the thing about talking to strangers before you have sex with them: I like to keep the conversation minimal as talking is often a deal breaker but almost never a deal maker. There are plenty of times I’ve discovered people are so repulsive or dumb that I can’t stomach having sex with them regardless of how good looking they are. How many times has someone wowed me with their wit and charm to the point where it successfully increased their value as a short-term mate? Such qualities matter little in terms of short-term mate value.

By the time I bedded Hipster Dave, here is the sum total of information I had acquired about him: Hipster Dave is from Idaho, moved to New York a few months ago after graduating from state college, lives in a converted warehouse (which he calls a loft) in Bushwick (which he calls East Williamsburg), plays the guitar (which he calls a guitar, duh), and has a temporary job working at a temporary stand (which he calls a market).

Hipster Dave was a pretty, pretty hipster. From the minute I laid eyes upon him, I wanted to wrap him up in tissue paper and carry him home in my purse. In fact, I wanted to carry him home in my pocket, but I did not have a pocket. So I settled.

I left at the same time as my friends, and he followed us out. There was no conversation. He kissed me as we were walking to the subway station and it was understood that he was going to be mine for the night. Captive. This was confirmed when my best friend and we decided to share a taxi and I indicated two stops.

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sexual shame, part four

Alec: uh, “self esteem”?

me: uh, too shy?

Alec: yeah. you’re not sexually shy. that’s funny.

me: alec, in your humble opinion, am i too shy to fuck toys in front of guys or, god forbid, touch myself?

Alec: No. No, you are not. In any way. Ever.

me: so, the thing that i find hilarious about this article, besides the fact that i am going to utterly defile self magazine and the writer online as i expose them as frauds, is the usage of the word “mortified.”

because i always wanted to submit an embarrassing sex story to YM that ended in “I was mortified.”

so, thank you, self magazine, for granting me the adult version of this honor.

“one day i was walking around school and my pantiliner fell out of my skirt and just then my crush passed me by in the hallway… and i was mortified!”

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I think my male friends, especially the ones I’ve slept with, misjudge me. Because I act sexually uninhibited, more so than any other girls they know, they believe I am entirely sexually unself-conscious. I am not more immune to societal expectations or scrutiny than others, and I am not less perceptive. We all have our hang-ups, well-founded or not. What makes me different from other girls is that I have strong beliefs about how things should be sexually—what should and shouldn’t feel wrong—and I don’t let fleeting, labile feelings get in the way of my logical aspirations.

I suppress feelings in anticipation of better ones, physical ones. I like getting off way too much for it to be any other way. Sure, it’s awkward to take matters into your own hands and to bring up the prospect of incorporating toys with an unsuspecting partner. Usually, the brief emotional discomfort of revealing oneself is swiftly wiped out by the tactile experience as well as the rush attained from captivating an attentive audience. Of course, I always feel a little coy afterwards—coy and smug. Unless a guy likes himself more than he likes vagina, there is joint gratification in complacency.

There is nothing quite as affirming as having a partner enjoy watching you masturbate. I masturbate regularly with no reinforcement, and I don’t exactly consider it applaudable. The whole prospect of spellbound spectatorship is a little funny; it’s like all the hoopla parents go through when they potty train their children. They treat it as if a little poo in a toilet is the most marvelous of sights, cause for celebration. But this is because it was a hard-fought battle to avoid getting poo all over the house.

Oftentimes when I masturbate in front of a new partner, it is treated like a boutique act because female sexuality is still so taboo. Honestly, I wish it would go unnoticed. Sex drive and striving to satisfy it are nothing spectacular. Not that I don’t enjoy adoration, but I feel a little fetishized. And it feels a little gross that a woman being comfortable with her body, or set on sex enough to go out of her way to enjoy it optimally regardless of judgment, is reason to make note.

It’s true that I don’t care about what you say about me sexually because, even though I might make myself a spectacle, I think that that which is spectacular about me is laudable. But I do care that such openness and entitlement is uncommon—that it is noteworthy when women make sexual claims. I am judged more on my presentation than my requests, anyway. What I want isn’t so unusual; the fact that I indicate my preferences is.

Perhaps the esteem in which I hold myself is more akin to relentless grandiosity than self-confidence. It isn’t that I’m smitten with myself or find myself special, so much as that I delight in certain things, which I wholeheartedly and unapologetically allow myself. To everyone who is unable or unwilling to do the same, I say, “Get over yourself.”

If ever I am stricken by shyness or apprehension and consider talking myself down, I draw my inspiration from my orange-semened friend, Allister, whose words are as wise as his semen was aged: “Genie, every time you masturbate in front of a guy, consider it a public service.” Prior to his pronouncement, I had already fucked dildos in front of two of his friends, who affectionately refer to me as “dildo girl,” and I was minutes away from fucking my fingers in front of him. So he, if anyone, would know what a public service I provide. Hey, what can I say: I’m a “generous” girl.

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EBF: I have to admit, after reading your article I poked around at Self’s website, and I don’t honestly know what you expected, it’s perhaps the most vapid publication I’ve ever seen

me: ha ha, vapid doesn’t mean fraudulent

i mean, you could think they would be able to find plenty of real, vapid people to interview and not egregiously misquote

i just think it’s funny that they used me as an example of low sexual self-confidence and women failing to be pleased because they do not assert what they want

EBF: very true

generally, I’d think you would need more content than they have to lie

me: yeah or more creativity

not just “oh no, i’m a woman so i find it embarrassing to admit to being sexual”

i wonder about the other two people interviewed

whether that one was really mortified by the thought of admitting to getting really wet

EBF: I get the impression of their general reader as the kind of woman who doesn’t like it when her gynecologist uses the word vagina

me: “omg, my vagina works, so mortifying! what will my husband think!”

ha ha ha

i guess you eat well, exercise a lot, and wear the right makeup, you can get away with being the kind of woman can avoid saying the word vagina

if only i ate well, exercised, and wore make up, i could get laid without ever mentioning the body parts involved

i could reclaim my sexual self-confidence!

EBF: And if I worked out regularly, followed sports, and wore cardigans while I played with our lab, I’d secretly think you were a slut because you get wet “down there” without help

haha, I just got that last bit

me: ha ha ha

EBF: Be careful, if you tell me what you want, I might think that my extensive porn-based research has left me with the inability to please my partner

so be sure to phrase what you want me to do in a confidence-boosting compliment, such as, “honey, I love it and have multiple orgasms when you quickly and aggressively rub my general clit area, but can we try this tonight?”

me: ha ha, aggressively, gross, i am thinking about rubbing a clit like a lab

EBF: If there’s one thing I’ve learned about rubbing clits, it’s that you should never scratch them as if they were a good, good dog.

me: down boy!

me: okay, so now i must nap

because i am a cat, not a lab with an owner who wears a cardigan and drools at women whose pussies don’t drip

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I read the article in its entirety and I realized that the woman who reported embarrassment over her dripping pussy is Deanna, herself. And I quote, “Even though I became sexually active long ago and I’m happily married now, many things still make me feel sexually insecure:…I think I become too lubricated during sex, which I find deeply embarrassing. So embarrassing that writing it down here makes me cringe. (I hope I get points for bravey—or idiocy, I can’t decide which.)”

Idiocy points, indeed. A married woman who is embarrassed by how aroused she gets with her very own husband. Fucking absurd! Could you imagine a guy being like, “Honey, I really love you, but I am just embarrassed by this one minor detail: how rock hard I get when I am around you. I can barely control myself. Do you think I’m gross?” Um, yeah. Get a life. Who would even marry a woman who didn’t feel her wetness and think of it as a barebottomed announcement: Game on! As a compliment to her husband. As a testament to their marriage. As a sign of physical vitality and functionality.

I can think of few things hotter than that moment of mutual acknowledgment when I slip my hands between a girl’s legs and feel how wet she is. Maybe even hotter than feeling a cock through pants, because it is a well-concealed secret until the moment of revelation.

I think of teasing guys the morning after and that devilish glean I get in my eyes when the moment of truth rings slippery and clear: When they realize that, with my resistance, I am torturing myself just as much as, if not more than, I am torturing them. That is the most satisfaction they can get. Other than the satisfaction of knowing how wet they make me.

I would like to announce to the world (okay, to those few members of the world who haven’t been lucky enough to touch my vagina) that I get wetter than average. “Says who?” you ask. A sizeable proportion of the guys I’ve been with have noted how wet I get—they seem visibly surprised—and two out of three of the girls I’ve been with have noted the same. I’d say the later is almost a more reliable indication. And this is only accounting for my regular wetness, not the g-spot fluid I sometimes gush with gusto.

I am proud of my vaginal slip-‘n-slide. I consider it the female equivalent of propelling power. And we all know how I feel about the power of propulsion.

It can, however, be inconvenient sometimes. There is such a thing as “too lubricated.” It comes in the form of body parts slipping and sliding two much, detracting from the friction. But it is nothing a towel, or even soggy underwear, can’t cure. And besides, I like leaving my snail trail on legs and sheets. It’s a charming thank you note.

My favorite sexual magic trick is humping a guy’s legs while I am sucking his dick. The thought of his feeling my wetness on his thigh while his penis is submerged in my mouth is absolutely divine. I make it seem like it is accidental. As if the humping motion is a byproduct of the bobbing motion—evidence of a full-body effort.

Which brings me to concrete form of evidence: One thing I am sexually self-conscious about is that people will think I am a fraud. I do not lack sexual self-confidence so much as fear that unseasoned imbeciles have the inability to recognize it and might mistake it for desperation. So if I announce that I love giving blow jobs, people might consider that I am just a dumb slut looking to get attention and that I don’t love blow jobs so much as I love the praise from men.

Ah, but then there is my vaginal lubrication that I have to thank for making its timely and abundant appearances. No one whose dick I have sucked and have enjoyed sucking would ever dare make a claim that I’m not into it. Because, if he did, I would call to the stand my prime witness: yes folks, my very own vaginal lubrication. On the issue of semen, the jury is not out; once again, my vaginal lubrication would testify that it appears in direct proportion to amount of semen or anticipation of semen release. Let there be no ambiguity on occasions where vaginal secretions speak louder than detractors.

“I do a cool thing when I’m meeting a boy and want to fuck him. To prove that I’m the one who initiated the fuck that night. To show that what happens later on is no coincidence. A night like that always starts out uncertain. You know how it is. Do you both want the same thing? Will you manage to have sex at the end of the night? Or was the date all for nothing? To make totally clear what I wanted from the get-go, I cut a big hole in my underwear so you can see the hair and the lips. Basically, the whole peach should peek out. Obviously I wear a skirt. I start to make out with him and we grab at each other. After he’s stroked my breasts for long enough, at some point his finger wanders down to my thigh. He thinks he has to painstakingly work his way into my underwear and is worrying whether I want to go that far. You’re not going to discuss that kind of thing when you haven’t known each other long. Then, with no warning, his finger comes into direct contact with my dripping wet pussy.”

– Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, Pg. 100

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sexual shame, part three

Re: Self Magazine, October 2009

Cover Story on Pg. 172, “Sexual Confidence” by Deanna Kizis

 

Referred to in the table of contents as “10 Simple Sex-Life Improvers: Shed sexual hang-ups and savor more satisfaction…”

Self magazine, now is when I expose you as frauds. Enjoy my unintentional investigative journalism, idiots.

You only publish “real stories from real women.” HA!

After the fact checker e-mailed me to “make sure that the information [they’re] attributing to [me] (actually, [my] pseudonym) accurately reflects [my] thoughts and opinions,” I sent back an e-mail exposing all the glaring inaccuracies along with the butchered sentiment. Deanna Kizis (to whom I refer as “Yvette” in my former blog posts about the “sexual shame” article) responded with a reassuring e-mail: “Thanks, Genie. [The fact checker] told me this afternoon that you said that there were some inaccuracies. I looked over what [she] sent you, and I also saw some mistakes that [she] included which weren’t actually in the article I wrote! Hopefully your revisions will help her figure things out. Sorry about the confusion.”

Oh, good, so Deanna won’t misrepresent what I said because she simply omitted that which was inaccurate.

Luckily, I am not so naïve as she might have thought. I published our extensive e-mail correspondence on my blog well before the magazine hit newsstands, so if I were to later make a claim of being misquoted, it would be deemed credible and hold some clout.

Oh Deanna, when I said I wrote sexual health articles, you should have guessed that I have a sex blog, too, and that I don’t play nicely with liars. I don’t need to because my real life is interesting enough as-is so that I don’t need to fabricate it or use a magazine with national name recognition as personal leverage. I am quite happy with my widely read and at least somewhat respected sex blog. If nothing else, it contains real stories from a real woman, which is more than you will ever be. Didn’t your mommy ever tell you not to put anything you don’t want repeated in writing? If only you interviewed me over the phone and left it at that. But, no, you and your colleagues sent follow-up e-mails.

What Self magazine published was abominable. Not a disgrace to me because my real name does not appear and I did all that I could to make it accurate (for ethical and political reasons). But hopefully, it will become a disgrace to Deanna Kizis and the Self magazine fact-checking team when the whole wide world gets wind of the FACT (as captured in our e-mail correspondence) that a purportedly reputable (albeit shallow and superficial) magazine fakes the content of articles that they claim to be “real stories from real women.”

And now I will juxtapose the facts I repudiated in my response to the fact checker with that which appeared in the article, itself.

Response to the fact checker (which originally appeared in my September 3rd blog post, “sexual shame, part two”):

Excerpt from exhaustive elaboration of my story and my interview: “I do, indeed consider myself to be a very sexual person both insofar as my self-identity and what I express to guys. However, I do have trouble orgasming with guys and I even sometimes have difficulty getting myself off, despite a high level of comfort and familiarity with my own body. Sometimes sex is sexually frustrating, sometimes I get bored or worn out, and sometimes I feel comfortable enough getting off in front of a guy. I am extremely upfront about giving instructions and I have had many guys tell me that they like the direction. However, I know some guys feel like it is nearly impossible to please me because I really know what I want. Usually I end up touching myself and even use toys to help out, and although some guys are turned on by this and others are indifferent or treat it like a practical matter, others feel inadequate.”

Fact: “You said that you are embarrassed that you have trouble having an orgasm with your current partner, but you’re too ashamed to ask him to do what you think you’d need to reach that climax.”

Response: “I do not have a current partner, nor did I at the time of interview. I have numerous casual partners, some repeats but no one whom I could call a regular partner. I am definitely never too ashamed to ask guys what I think I need to orgasm and guys are always relieved when I give them directions because it is easier for them if they aren’t kept in the dark. Sometimes I just can’t figure out how to make myself orgasm. If I knew, it would certainly be no secret. The reason I am ashamed is that I ask for everything I know to ask for and I have a very good sense of my body, but often I still come up short and my body doesn’t cooperate as I want it to.”

Fact: “You said that when you feel very close to having an orgasm, you feel like you could do it if you had one more thing, such as sex toys, touching yourself, etc., but you feel too embarrassed to actually do it.”

Response: “Once again, not embarrassed to touch myself or use toys. I am willing to do whatever it takes, but sometimes I still fail and that is what is the hardest.”

The paragraph about me in the article:

Karla Page, a 25-year-old graduate student, says she feels mortified when she doesn’t climax with a partner. “I’ll be close to having an orgasm, but then there’s one thing I need, like a toy or touching myself, and I’m too shy to do it. With each experience my self-esteem suffers,” she says.

Of course my self-esteem would suffer if I were stupid and vain enough to sacrifice sexual pleasure in the name of protecting psychological hang-ups.

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on demand, part four

Something about the introduction and the conclusion of the night somewhat horrified me: It was my first meta sexual experience: He asked me if I could squirt before we hooked up—as if he were preparing to order something off the menu of my blog—I squirted for him in person, and then he suggested that I blog about it. It turns out that he hadn’t read my blog beforehand. It turns out that in Montana “squirting” is small talk and “you made me leak, you freak” is something that a dexterous poet might come up with impromptu. But, what if?

Soon thereafter I watched Empire Records with my best friend, and we speculated about what it would be like to be Rex Manning—the man, himself, or the actor who plays him. We searched for “Rex Manning” on imdb and discovered that it was Maxwell Caulfield’s most significant role as an actor. A close second is his one-episode appearance on “The Nanny.” Do the women he sleeps with request that he does moves out of the “Say No More, Mon Amour!” music video? Are they disappointed if he doesn’t comply? At what point does the novelty wear off? If I slept with Maxwell Caulfield, I don’t think I would be able to control myself from screaming, “Ohhh Rexy, you’re sooo sexy!!!”

When porn stars fuck, do they have to do it like they do it in their videos, as to not disappoint their real-life partners? Does Tony Danza always have to pull out The Danza?

What is my trademark move? And, more importantly, should I plant it in my blog?

I considered the things that are awesome to do, but hard to bring up: Squirting, ass fingering, etc. Essentially, I could make a list of acts that I like and hope that guys take note. I’m sure they would. It would be both convenient and flattering if they wanted to do something on my list. As a sexual narcissist, I would feel like they were preparing for me.

I think of how I felt when a friend told me that he went out of his way to jerk off before we hung out so he could last longer for me: flattered. I thought, “Aw, so sweet! He took the time to think about fucking me before we actually fucked. He mentally prepared FOR me and touched his penis FOR me. Even if his attempt at lasting long failed, I applaud him for his consideration. What a thoughtful guy.” As a sexual narcissist, knowing that people think about me on their own time  is almost a greater thrill than knowing that people want to fuck me in real life. The former is more deliberate and less explicitly rewarding; it’s all about me.

Which brings me to the sad alternative reality of planting suggestions in my blog for prospective partners. What if people sleep with me to become immortalized in writing? Danny might not have approached me because he read that I am a squirter—oddly enough, that appears to have been a coincidence—but he did sleep with me expecting to be written about. He was enthusiastic about that prospect, even suggesting it himself. It would be devastating for me, as a narcissist, if someone else’s narcissistic desire to be blogged about becomes a primary motivation in his or her decision to sleep with me.

Lack of enthusiasm about serving others’ ego needs aside, having people request acts that I mention on my blog could make sex seem scripted and could lose its novelty quickly. Even Rex Manning must have a more diverse repertoire than that displayed in his one music video.

Dear Boys and Girls,

If you touch my asshole at the right time, I might orgasm. And if you cum on me, I will most likely cum all over myself. But there is no formula and I don’t want it the same way every time. Sometimes I want it slow and careful, and sometimes I want it a little rapey.

XOXO,

Genie

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on demand, part three

After he came, I thought, “Really, that’s it?” Then I thought, “Oh well, now that that’s over.”

It was boring, anyway.

Imagine if it was routine for sex to only last two minutes. I could have accumulated a total of an hour of fucking time this year. Mindblowing. I mean, mindboggling.

He stated matter-of-factly, “Okay, it’s going to be another twenty minutes. Then he rolled over onto his back, staring at the ceiling and ignoring me. He acted as if we were in a doctor’s office and he planned to transition from staring at his shoes to pulling out a magazine, as a way to carry himself through the extended waiting period. I looked at him quizzically and asked, “Really?” He looked at me like I was dumb and said, “Uh, yeah,” as if I hadn’t heard him the first time. He might as well have exclaimed, “DUH!”

The confusion seemed to lie in what specifically I was referring to as the subject of my disbelief. He figured I was too ignorant to comprehend the mechanics of penises. In reality, I wasn’t expressing surprise at the mechanical implausibility so much as his assumption that my clock was on his time because things revolve around guys sexually. As if I would be ready to go again when he was because life ceases to exist post-penis. Not that it would be outlandish for me to be surprised by his particular penis’ time frame; most guys our age do not have a twenty-minute refractory period, especially ones who come in two minutes. Flat. But what does he know? Apparently, very little.

Once again, I thought I would teach by example. I wasn’t that horny because the situation wasn’t that hot and the sex wasn’t that good, but I thought I might as well start touching myself because we weren’t in a doctor’s office so I didn’t have a magazine stash to occupy my time, nor did I expect to comply with his impending request for a round two. What a throwaway that would be.

Also, I thought of how horny I was all day and thought I might as well finish up before I was too tired. Didn’t want to reach that doomed state of being too tired to get off but too horny to fall asleep. Really, I could have just gone to sleep, though. If I wasn’t such a disaster at sleeping.

I started touching myself and mounted him, and he finally got the point. He asked if he could watch me squirt, and I said, “Sure.” But he turned on the light and focused all his attention on me as if he was inspecting me, and it all became so clinical. Not that I was really turned on before, but this was a huge turn off to the point where continuing would feel like a performance. I turned the light back off and had him get on the floor, so when I straddled him he was not so much watching me as he was integrated into the experience.

I knew the squirt show would have to take place on the floor because I didn’t exactly want to pour buckets of cum onto my friend’s bed, but what I didn’t know is that the rug we would end up on was not so much a rug as it was a mesh, plastic tarp. Imagine weaving together those green strawberry bins, only in many colors. That’s roughly what her floor covering was made of. We might as well have been at somebody’s grandma’s house on a couch coated in plastic. I guessed the puddle would be easy to clean up.

But there was no puddle. I was afraid I couldn’t deliver. I have never been subject to squirting on demand. No one has ever requested it before, although many past parishioners have been prepared hastily. Most are shocked and in awe. There is little forethought that goes into it other than scrambling for towels when I can tell the floodgates are about to open. This is more complicated in other people’s apartments.

At the beginning of the summer, after hooking up with Josh for the second time, I mentioned squirting and he asked a particularly astute question that called for a neatly delineated answer. He wondered if it is a point I get to or the way I do it? In other words, is ability to squirt dependent on the level of arousal or the method of approach?

Although I figured his intent was mostly to satisfy curiosity, and it was a thoughtfully asked question, I accepted it to mean “Can I get you to squirt?” in which case the answer would have been a definitive “Yes.” He seemed coordinated, discerning, and cooperative enough to be trained. I answered that it was the method, which would explain why I hadn’t squirted with him despite far exceeding the necessary threshold of arousal and despite being thoroughly aroused by the prospect of cumming all over him. The other explanation is that I would find it embarrassing to squirt on someone without forewarning him, as there is the WTF factor. That was partially the purpose of my bringing it up post-sex: in order to gauge his reaction in hopes of incorporating it next time.

With Josh, indeed, the method was the deciding factor, as I could unhesitatingly grant him the baseline level of arousal needed for squirting. With Danny, the very sad truth was that reaching the same threshold was not a given, and I had to calculatedly manipulate my body to get to that point. There was also the additional burden of performance anxiety: He requested something that came more than naturally to me, but I’m not used to or equipped to squirt on demand.

It was a combination of being caught off guard—causing me to overthink the situation—and just not being that into it. I got three solid squirts in and felt like I could call it a night.

The thing people don’t realize about squirting is that squirting is unrelated to orgasm. They both feel good and relieving, they are both attainable at high levels of arousal, and occasionally I squirt while I orgasm. But sometimes and can gush buckets without ever orgasming, and often I dry up before I orgasm.

So, despite my three good squirts, I got to the point of diminishing returns and thought, “Shit, I am too drunk. All of this and it might be for naught.” My clit needed to be a little harder, so I asked Danny to go down on me more and the situation was salvageable once he reprepared me for myself. I was even a little turned on by the fact that he was on his knees lapping me, as I wrapped my legs around his head, after his incompetence pre-sex. I pushed him back against the bed and straddled him, our bodies wedged in the corner between the bed and bookshelf. I fucked my hands as I humped his stomach. Desperately squeezed my legs around him as I rubbed my body against his.

Sweaty and effortful, my orgasm finally fell upon me with no more incidence than a sneeze. Not even relief to be realized, as there was little to relieve beyond boredom and expectation. I thought, “Ughhh. I blew my load on this? If only I got off earlier today when I was oh so horny, it would have been soooo good. Fuck orgasm budgeting. Fuckkk. Every day is yet another prospective opportunity for orgasms to be wasted after painstaking, deliberate deferment.” After a minute of silence and slowing breath, Danny asked, “Did you reach your climax?” Ha ha ha, if you could call it that. Ummm, DUH! Didn’t you feel the distinction between my effortful humping and involuntary tensing?

We showered together and I spanked his happy slappy ass tattoo, as per frat boy post-sex showering protocol. Back in bed we smoked another bowl. Overall, it wasn’t a bad experience. He was nice and amicable, and at the end of the night, that’s what counts. In two words, I would describe him as “sweet” but “feeble.” He was in good spirits, just clueless. I could stand to indulge him.

As I leaned over him with my bowl in hand, he started getting hard again, and it was apparent that he was ready for his round two. After some contemplation, I thought, “Eh, if he wants to go again, why not? The first time only took two minutes; the next should take four at most.” Indeed, it did. It’s not like I had anything better to do with the end of my night, anyway.

Done for the night, he proclaimed, “It’s nice to be with a girl who’s in touch with her shit; most girls aren’t.” Aw, that’s kinda sweet, after adjusting for his tainting the sentiment by replacing the word ‘vagina’ with ‘shit.’ Usually I refer to my partners’ body parts in more flattering terms. For example, ‘the smallest penis ever to be seen.’

For good measure, he threw in, “If you want to blog about this, I just ask that you don’t use my real name.”

Whaaa? He wanted me to blog about this?

I assured him that I always change names, except for my own. Instead, I should have assured him that the experience was too mediocre to be blog-worthy. Because, seriously, who blogs about boring, inconsequential, and poorly-orchestrated sex.

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on demand, part two

I would say he threw me down into the bed, but it was more like we fell into the bed together, made out klutzily, and generally fumbled around with one another. I’ve really gone out of my way to avoid drunken fucks all year, and now I remember why.

 

After five-to-ten minutes of our fumbley make out sesh, he grinned at me wide-toothed, got up unassumingly to fumble for a condom (um, I have one that I could slickly pull out of my purse because I’m a slut), and inquired, “Ready to fuck?” In intent and effect, more of an announcement than a question. Which puzzled me, because he had managed to take my pants off without really touching me. And when I asked for him to touch me, he didn’t seem to get that I wanted him to do it, didn’t know what to do, or thought he could get away with not doing it. It seemed like obvious enough protocol to me, part of the sexual routine, but I guess he gets girls to fuck him anyway. I mean, I guess if I couldn’t get him to touch me, I would still have sex with him; it would be boring otherwise.

 

Ill prepared for sex, I thought I would model good behavior by sucking his dick. It was not spectacular. Nothing about him was. His body was generally a disappointment. He wasn’t definitively fat in a way that you would categorize him as a fat person, but he could have stood to lose the pounds he had packed on since his collegiate glory days. Let’s refer to him as “corn-fed.” He was past his prime, which is how frat fucks generally go. I suddenly wished he were my friend’s younger brother, which would explain his upcoming sexual ineptitude.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn-fed

 

I sucked his dick for a few minutes, until he started to get softer. A sexual opportunist, my solution was to straddle his face. If all else failed, at least I could force the idea that I wanted to be touched and simultaneously distract from his temporary sexual incapacity. As I waved my vagina over his face and gripped his upside-down half-staff, he requested, “Keep my shit hard.” What romantical instructions. Oh baby, how I want to make soft, sweet love to thee.

 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=romantical

 

I deemed myself “ready to fuck” because it didn’t seem like it was going to get much better than that, and it didn’t. I mounted him and was unable to get our bodies to move together. I mean, they did move together; that was the problem. We flip-flopped back and forth in the same direction, so we were both expending energy but our body parts never moved relative to one another’s. I tried to step it up half a notch in the interest of achieving the in-and-out motion, but he sped up with me, synchronizing our movements once again. Okay, so we could be in a dance troupe together, but we could not fuck. I thought, maybe if only one of us moved, we could achieve the friction integral to normal sex where people manage to get their bodies to alternate directions. I felt like I was at a fifth grade dance where a guy kept bumping into me, stepping on my shoes.

 

I hate being stationary during sex, because the humping motion is half of it, getting your vagina to collapse automatically, but I gave up and let him climb on top of me. I felt a little more while only he was moving, but then it was over just as quickly as it began. Like, finished. Done. In two minutes flat. I could not attribute the slight increase in sensation to newfound coordination so much as the fact that he was ready to come. He should have announced, “ready to come” to complement “ready to fuck.”

 

But, instead, he called it after the shot: “You made me leak, you freak.” No, seriously; that’s what he said. I wondered: Is this a pop culture catch phrase that I’m not hip to? A lyric from a gangsta rap song? The sexual equivalent of “You’ve been punked”?

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 Days later, I searched for an answer to life’s burning question on the interweb. After perusing Urban Dictionary to no avail, I figured I had to search a website that is more culturally inclusive. The closest match I could find on google was Pablo Petey’s “Freak-a-leak.” Repulsive and nonsensical, but no dice. That settles it: Danny is a poet. I am in utter disbelief that this catchy phrase isn’t already in heavy rotation all over this great nation of ours. It is a cute way to say, “Oops, I came too soon,” while deflecting the responsibility onto the girl.

 

Danny coined a righteous and pragmatic phrase. It is up to you, readers, to popularize it. If nothing else, it will puzzle girls to the point of their being compelled to google your dialect, exotifying you. Imagine speaking in such absurd terms that girls investigate your unintentional ingenuities for origin and attribution. I wonder if this was an impromptu invention for him or whether it is a premeditated stock admission he saves for romantical moments. Everyone should pre-compose rap-like poetry for potential sexual mishaps.

 

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/petey+pablo/freakaleak_10205094.html

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on demand, part one

Upon meeting him my first thought was, “How do I fuck him?” My friend’s brother, Danny. He was visiting for a week. It seemed doable. My deadline was August 1st. My glimmer of hope was when we were discussing HUMP!, Seattle’s disposable porn screening, and he seemed down to make a disposable porno. Granted, this was after a group discussion about how the new era of gangbang should feature multiple guys fucking fatties’ folds, so I’m not sure how seriously I could take his dedication to my cause (Call Japan).

 

My glimmer of hope coincided with the highlights in his hair. I could swear that he had a little red in him. Strawberry blonde. He even winked at me when I said something about red heads. I wondered: Is this really my friend’s brother? I thought: If only I could make a disposable porno with a partial expression of a red gene.

 

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/hump5/page

 

But I sort of forgot about it. Because there are many people to fuck in this expansive and dispersed world of ours. Until we met again. At which point I had approximately twelve hours to seal the deal. Until he was ready to be shipped off the Anytown, USA, back to cornfields and corndogs. At least that’s how I’d like to picture it.

 

Recently I stopped in for a last-drink-of-the-night at a bar I remember fondly from my collegiate days, and I thought, “God, I might be too old to fuck anyone here. For me, this is just, like, fun: It’s the end of the night and people are paired up. If pick up a guy, I don’t even have to talk to him. He doesn’t even have to buy me a drink. We can just cut to the chase and pretend like it had been a night. For them, this is their real lives.”

 

With Danny, I felt like, “Get it, get it while I still can.” The novelty fuck of my old age. When else would I ever have the opportunity for this to appeal to me again? When I’m old and a cougar I doubt I’ll be into fucking a guy with a Midwestern drawl and a side of beer.

 

And then there was the progression of the day. The actively not getting off because what a fucking chore, and can’t I just go out and fuck?

 

It was slated to be the dumbest, frattiest fuck of the post-collegiate era. Maybe my last chance. Except he wasn’t even dumb. Just a victim of Middle America and the fratboy thirty. At some point during the evening I found out he was 27 years old and making arrangements for when he graduates from law school, and I was shocked. All this time I had assumed he was my friend’s younger brother, in town for his last hurrah after graduating, before being whisked away into the real world of Blue Collar America and complacency.

 

It’s not that he seemed dumb or unmotivated; it’s just that he is so unsophisticated, such a ubiquitous prototype—a jolly good ‘ol boy. And I’m too ignorant to recognize what form ambition would take in a world without blatant, unrepentant, materialism. I don’t want to sound like a snob like Jessie from NYC prep, but you can tell when someone’s not from New York, and he is so authentically Montana. I bet he drives drunk and shoots squirrels. That’s what people from Montana do for fun, right? Oh, god, what a novelty. I felt like such a tourist in my own town. I was giddy; it was too easy. But I let the night take its natural course. The one that ends in attractive people fucking.

 

I was telling Danny and my best friend this random college hook up story, trying to prove some point about how once upon a time I hooked up with a guy and was legitimately concerned that he was too drunk for it to be consensual or at least too drunk to not regret it and I never want to be anyone’s mistake. My best friend replied with some story about how two of her male friends in college would talk about how they should make shirts saying “I consent,” in case there was ever any ambiguity. Signed and dated.

 

Danny cut in with something entirely off topic: “Can you squirt?” Shock. Disbelief. Doubletake. Um, does he read my blog? That could be the only plausible explanation. Squirting isn’t exactly a common topic of small talk, an allusion to the weather, the hip new alternative to “Do you come here often?” And he directed the question only at me, not my friend, not that she is exactly sexually riveting. But if he had gleaned this information from my blog, he would have to be a devoted scholar, not a mere dilettante.

 

On the walk between the first and second bar, I stealthily whispered to my best friend, “What’s her brother’s name?” as to avoid any miscommunication in the event that he were to request, “Say my name, bitch!” And, besides, I think you should know people’s names before you have sex with them. That’s my one official prerequisite.

 

In the second bar, he disclosed that he had stupid tattoos, which he got drunkenly on two separate international vacations in countries where the natives are apparently barbarians who allow foreigners to be stabbed with needles while drunk. I suppose stupid tattoos are to Montanans what architectural coffee table books are to New Yorkers: conversation pieces. He obliged my contrived request to sneak a peak, although one was on his ass, we were in a bar, and I specifically asked to see them later in private (wink, wink).

 

Upon ordering more beer, we started making out and he let it slip that he had keys to his sister’s apartment to which we could sneak off. I’m not sure how sneaky we were, considering we had to walk by his sister and friends to exit the bar, but we left nevertheless and made way for The Promised Land.

 

The trek consisted of bouts of stumbling, touristy small talk, and uncoordinated making out.

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sexual shame, part two

I received a reply from Yvette, the writer of the sexual shame article: “I found your answers to be so moving, interesting — and relatable. I know a lot of people have similar stuff going on! I wanted to know if I could interview you more formally for the piece on the phone.”

 

Glad that my answers resonated with her, I scheduled a phone interview. Two weeks later at 1pm, I was on the phone with a stranger in California, discussing the details of that which leads up to my failed orgasm attempts. It was 10am her time.

 

She acted sympathetic, as if I had presented myself as a combination of self-deprecating and modest. She told me not to be so hard on myself: I’m not a failure; many people have expressed similar problems. She was sweet if not ingratiating. I thought she genuinely related to and understood my story, although she seemed to dwell on what exactly happened during the moments pre-failed orgasm, a time period which I was not able to account for in as much detail as I think she expected. Not for lack of willingness to be forthcoming.

 

In case her editor requested follow-up questions to make the article more cohesive, she asked if it was okay to contact me again. I happily obliged. Months later she followed up: “Would you be comfortable with a fact checker emailing you just to verify some information for the story on sex and shame?” Of course I would be comfortable, but I was a little confused about what she meant by “fact checking,” as I didn’t remember providing many veritable facts.

 

I was shocked by the gross inaccuracies in the “facts” that the fact-checker sent me. Were I not to complain, not only would I be egregiously misquoted—the sentiment would be butchered. I would become an inadvertent addition to the canon of literature about women who are left unsatisfied because they are unable or unwilling to express or assert themselves sexually. A classic misinterpretation of a woman’s story that does not lend itself to my sympathy.

 

Refusing to validate the vernacular of women who are sexually stifled and deservedly so, I sent the fact-checker my corrections along with regrets about the writer’s glaring misinterpretations. My shame had a different genesis from that which Yvette claimed, and was more based on my own expectations than those of others—more self-perpetuating than self-conscious. 

 

We’ll see what happens with the actual article; it will be published in the October issue of a major magazine. I’m not sure how substantial my contribution is, but since I refer to myself by my real nickname on my blog, I expectantly accept the pseudonym of “Karla Page.” It sounds like the name of a reporter, perhaps a relative of April from TMNT. 

 

My exchange with the fact-checker follows: 

 

HER MESSAGE TO ME:

 

We are planning to anonymously quote you (we’re using a pseudonym) in an upcoming magazine article about women who experience sex-related shame. I’m fact-checking the article and need to make sure that the information we’re attributing to you (actually, your pseudonym) accurately reflects your thoughts and opinions. I know this is a bit odd, since we’re not using your real name, but we only publish real stories from real women in our articles, so I need to verify these details with you. The subject matter is sensitive in nature, but hopefully you’ll recall the sex-related details that you provided to magazine writer Yvette for this article. Please review the following information for accuracy:

 

* We refer to you as Karla Page — we do not use your real name.

* We say that you are 24. (Will you still be 24 in October, the month when the article is scheduled to be published?)

* We say that you are a graduate student.

* You said that you consider yourself to be extremely sexual.

* You said that you are embarrassed that you have trouble having an orgasm with your current partner, but you’re too ashamed to ask him to do what you think you’d need to reach that climax.

* You said that when you feel very close to having an orgasm, you feel like you could do it if you had one more thing, such as sex toys, touching yourself, etc., but you feel too embarrassed to actually do it.

* You said that you think that if you had an orgasm, your current partner would take that as a sign that he’s good, sexually, so you feel extra pressure from him to have an orgasm.

* You said that it can be more difficult for you to have an orgasm when you’re feeling a lot of pressure about it.

* You said that after sex, you feel inadequate sexually and also feel like you may have made your partner feel inadequate.

* You said that each additional time that you have sex without having an orgasm, your self-esteem drops.

 

Please let me know if this information is accurate as written or if changes should be incorporated. 

 

MY INITIAL MESSAGE TO HER:

 

I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you right away; I’ve had a very busy week. The following facts are grossly inaccurate:

 

* You said that you are embarrassed that you have trouble having an orgasm with your current partner, but you’re too ashamed to ask him to do what you think you’d need to reach that climax.

* You said that when you feel very close to having an orgasm, you feel like you could do it if you had one more thing, such as sex toys, touching yourself, etc., but you feel too embarrassed to actually do it.

* You said that you think that if you had an orgasm, your current partner would take that as a sign that he’s good, sexually, so you feel extra pressure from him to have an orgasm.

 

I think I need to re-explain my story, because the way you articulated it has almost nothing to do with me and I’m somewhat shocked that this is what was written down. I promise I will send you a detailed explanation later today.

 

MY EXHAUSTIVE CLARIFICATION/ELABORATION:

 

Here is an elaboration of my story and my interview:

 

I do, indeed consider myself to be a very sexual person both insofar as my self-identity and what I express to guys. However, I do have trouble orgasming with guys and I even sometimes have difficulty getting myself off, despite a high level of comfort and familiarity with my own body. Sometimes sex is sexually frustrating, sometimes I get bored or worn out, and sometimes I feel comfortable enough getting off in front of a guy. I am extremely upfront about giving instructions and I have had many guys tell me that they like the direction. However, I know some guys feel like it is nearly impossible to please me because I really know what I want.

 

Usually I end up touching myself and even use toys to help out, and although some guys are turned on by this and others are indifferent or treat it like a practical matter, others feel inadequate. I try to emphasize that I am really difficult to get off and I tell them they’ve done a good job if they have. I also try to incorporate them in helping me to make them feel appreciated, useful, and wanted. I try to convince them that I put little investment in how it happened and I am just glad that it happened and that they could be part of it. Honestly, I don’t care who has their hands on me when I orgasm and clearly I do enjoy being with men, otherwise I would skip men and just sit around and masturbate. It is hard to convince them of this, though. I get disgusted if I know a guy wants to get me off to inflate his ego and he doesn’t really care about my pleasure. I hate when guys selfishly put pressure on me to orgasm and, ironically, the added pressure makes it more difficult for me because I feel like I am accountable to another person in addition to myself. Some guys legitimately want to help me orgasm and genuinely enjoy my pleasure. It is in these instances that I feel the most sexual shame and guilt when I am unable to orgasm, because in addition to wanting to orgasm for myself, I sincerely want to please those who deserve it.

 

Yvette asked me about the specifics of my orgasm troubles and what happens when I get close but can’t. Basically, I get myself really close, but I can’t quite get over the hurdle. It seems like if one more thing was a little more intense, I would be about to come, but I can never figure out what that thing is. I think, maybe if I just squeezed my legs together a little tighter, maybe if I just arranged the guy differently for maximal visuals and contact. Sometimes I change my position so I can finger myself at a better angle, sometimes I think of what visually I would like to see if I were watching porn and I try to stage things as such, sometimes I try to get the guy to play with my breasts a little. Whatever the specifics, often I come up short and it is extremely frustrating both emotionally and physically. Here is where my shame lies: I try so hard and unselfconsciously play with myself in front of guys, I am so comfortable with my body and so open about what I want, I am considered by most who know me to be a very sexual and sexually knowledgeable person, yet I often still come up short. It makes me feel inadequate because people have high expectations of me sexually and I have high aspirations for myself, yet I often cannot achieve them and disappoint well-intentioned and dedicated guys in the process.

 

Yvette also asked me about why I don’t fake orgasms. I explained that I think sex should be about pleasure, not performance. If a guy does a bad job, he doesn’t deserve to be commended and I wouldn’t want to reward him because then he would continue to do the same wrong thing over and over. If a guy does a good job and still can’t get me off, I hope that he can understand that I appreciate his effort and skill, whether or not I orgasm has little relationship to how good the sex was, and being with him is satisfying even if he does not have a direct hand in the orgasm sequence. Another reason I wouldn’t fake orgasms is that then the bar would be raised higher for me and other girls and there would be additional pressure that goes along with unrealistic expectations. I wish guys would trust me and trust that I like being with them regardless of my orgasm outcome. Then I would feel less inadequate, because I would know that I was pleasing them by making them feel appreciated. There is one time I faked an orgasm, but it was for me not the guy. I had amazing sex with a casual partner whom I had slept with before, I tried vigorously to get myself off in front of him, but I couldn’t quite get there. I had put so much effort in, was so responsive, and was so close for so long that it almost would have seemed like everything leading up to it was a performance if I suddenly stopped without orgasming. I was embarrassed because who is too stupid to be able to get themselves off despite an extended effort with no self-consciousness.

 

Since my interview, I have had a little more success. I’ve found that it helps if I focus on the spreading and swelling sensation rather than a list of ways in which to manipulate my body to attain the desired result. In other words, I have to consider it a holistic process instead of compartmentalizing body parts with individual functions. I have to let the sensation take over rather than consciously controlling the functionality.

 

Here are the specific facts you listed that are incorrect with a brief explanation of what is incorrect:

 

* We say that you are 24. (Will you still be 24 in October, the month when the article is scheduled to be published?)

 

I am currently 25 and will still be 25 in October (although I was 24 at time of interview).

 

* You said that you are embarrassed that you have trouble having an orgasm with your current partner, but you’re too ashamed to ask him to do what you think you’d need to reach that climax.

 

I do not have a current partner, nor did I at the time of interview. I have numerous casual partners, some repeats but no one whom I could call a regular partner. I am definitely never too ashamed to ask guys what I think I need to orgasm and guys are always relieved when I give them directions because it is easier for them if they aren’t kept in the dark. Sometimes I just can’t figure out how to make myself orgasm. If I knew, it would certainly be no secret. The reason I am ashamed is that I ask for everything I know to ask for and I have a very good sense of my body, but often I still come up short and my body doesn’t cooperate as I want it to.

 

* You said that when you feel very close to having an orgasm, you feel like you could do it if you had one more thing, such as sex toys, touching yourself, etc., but you feel too embarrassed to actually do it.

 

Once again, not embarrassed to touch myself or use toys. I am willing to do whatever it takes, but sometimes I still fail and that is what is the hardest.

 

* You said that you think that if you had an orgasm, your current partner would take that as a sign that he’s good, sexually, so you feel extra pressure from him to have an orgasm.

 

I do not like rewarding guys who only want to make me orgasm to boost their egos. If guys legitimately care about having me experience pleasure, I feel extra internal pressure to orgasm because I want to please them and I feel guilty if I am unable to. If a guy puts pressure on me, however, I am less inclined to care about pleasing him because that is selfish and my pleasure should be about what I want, not what a guy projects onto or expects of me.

 

* You said that after sex, you feel inadequate sexually and also feel like you may have made your partner feel inadequate.

 

Only if a guy makes me feel like I’ve disappointed him or hurt his feelings by making him feel useless.

 

Tristan Taormino provides articulate and relevant commentary on the subject of masturbating with partners: “I know that people have a lot of expectations when it comes to sex. But there is nothing wrong with you touching yourself during partner sex or helping things come to a conclusion. If you both ultimately had a good time together and you both came, I encourage you to try to be less invested in how each event happened and more in that it *did* happen. Then, collapse in a pile of sweat and enjoy yourselves!”

 

Agreed. Logistical details aside, I really like getting off and I really like being post-orgasmic with attentive partners. 

 

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a very scientific experiment, part four

The next day I had drinks with my environmental biologist friend, and I explained the situation in detail to him. He mentioned bacteria in semen and I was like, yeah, I know semen and rubber smell fucking awful after a while and I’m sure there are all sorts of gross chemical decompositions that take place, but never have I ever had semen turn orange on me. He suggested that it could be the reaction between the semen and the new condom material. Never had I ever left semen to decompose in a polyisoprene condom. He had a point.

I vaguely forgot about the situation until over a month later when I slept with some fucking hipster named Dave and threw the condom out in my trash can. Days later I got a whiff of that fucking awful fermenting-semen smell, and I considered emptying my practically empty trash can. Until I realized what a useful specimen I had inadvertently acquired. It wasn’t a perfect specimen, because the semen had already been sitting in a latex condom for a few days, so latex-specific chemical reactions could have already occurred. But I figured if I acted fast, I could approximately recreate the semen situation. If I could start a punk band, for sure, I would name it The Semen Situation.

I went to CVS and bought a box of Skyn condoms. A very scientific experiment is illustrated in the following series of step-by-step photographs. Enjoy my photo diary.

The process of semen transfer:

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The results after two and a half weeks:

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juxtaposition

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latex condom

As you can see from my conclusive results, polisoprene turns semen orange. After my first, unintentional foray into semen science—when semen was deployed directly into a polisoprene condom without preceding latex interference—the orangeness was more pronounced and it was apparent that the semen, itself, rather than its receptacle, turned orange.

Dear World,
Please accept this as my public service: From this day forward, if ever you encounter orange semen, heed my warning that certain condom materials can turn otherwise normal semen into that which could wreak horror into the heart of even the most exuberant cum-o-phile. The allure of semen is trumped only by the sheer magic of semen transformation. Voila: orangeness! I am eternally enchanted.
Love Always,
Genie, The Most Courageous Experimentalist of Our Time

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