“When I was blowing you?”

“Mmmm?”

“And when I had my finger in your bottom?”

“Mmmmmm?”

“And when you were coming?”

“Ohhh yes.  That felt amazing.”

“I’m glad.  But when you were coming, something was fluttering against my finger.”

“Go figure.  My whole body was fluttering.”

“Sure.  But this was different.”

“Different good?”

“Oh definitely different good.”

“Wonder what it was?”

“Oh I know what it was.”

“What?”

“It was your Orgasm Hamster of course.”

*pause*

“My Orgasm Hamster?”

“Don’t you know about your Orgasm Hamster?”

“Um.  No?”

“Silly.  He runs around faster and faster in his little wheel, and when he’s reached maximum velocity, that’s when you come.”

*pause*

“I see.  Well.  Thank you for making my Orgasm Hamster very very happy.”

“You do the same for mine honey.”

“Yes, but your Orgasm Hamster never takes a break.  He gets right back up on that wheel and starts running again immediately.”

“He is pretty frisky, isn’t he?”

“I love your Orgasm Hamster, baby.”

“I’m so glad.”

–later–

“How you doing, honey?”

*pause*

“Honey?  You ok?”

*pause*

“XXXXXX.  Are you all right?”

“My Orgasm Hamster just collapsed into some shredded paper and fell asleep.”

“I wore out your Orgasm Hamster?”

“Yes Daddy.  He’s never going to run again.”

“Oh baby.  I seriously doubt that.”

——

The project mentioned below is coming along nicely.  Go check it out, will you?  I’m open to any and all comments or suggestions on usability and the like.

Also, I believe we have a working submissions form, so if you’d like to be among the first to send in your tale, I’d love it.

Erm.  The main page won’t always be in Latin.

May 152009
 

The end of my pregnancy marked the first time I used the internet to gather information.  Before that it had been books.  It’s long been my method at any point of crisis to research obsessively both facts and the experiences of others, and impending delivery then represented the biggest crisis I’d ever faced.

During lunch and breaks from teaching I’d hunch over my huge belly and read everything I could find about giving birth. One site in particular listed hundreds upon hundreds of labor and delivery stories ranging from easy to excruciating, happy to heartbreaking, joyously reported to furiously spat out.  Over a period of several weeks I believe I read them all.  They proved invaluable not because I modeled my delivery on any of them, but instead because they showed me the enormous range of what was possible.

For over a year now it’s been on my mind to create a similar resource for stories about a topic that currently occupies a great deal of my thought.  Finally yesterday I took the plunge and purchased a domain.   Beyond the Birds and the Bees will be an online resource where people can share accounts of conversations between parents and children on the topic of sexuality. We’ll explore how people have taught their children about sexuality, how they’ve been taught, what’s effective, what’s not, and what’s downright funny.

Eventually I hope the site can represent thousands of experiences as diverse as naming body parts, coming out to family members, learning about the mechanics and the emotions of sex, dealing with abuse, teaching methods of birth control, disclosing assault, celebrating puberty, handling sex as it relates to disability and even discussing menopause with our mothers and daughters.   I want it to be a place where folks can go for information, shared experiences both wonderful and horrifying, and of course laughter.

With the help of the very patient folks at AN Hosting and some kind readers of this blog, who never once called me a n00b despite extreme provocation, I managed to get the bare-bones basics of this site running.  It needs loads more work before it will be ready to accept submissions, but for now will you please add it to your feed reader or bookmark it?  You can be sure that I’ll let you know when we’re closer to an official launch.

I’d also like to invite my readers to get in on the first wave of submissions to the site.  Start thinking now about the ways that you have educated and been educated about sexuality.  I’ll post some guidelines soon, but for now start cogitating.

Thoughts?  Suggestions?  Criticisms?  Ideas?  Please share below.

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May 142009
 

An extraordinary image came across my screen not long ago; it is one that begs to be shared with as large an audience as possible.   I’ve altered it slightly to make it both anonymous and mostly work-safe — or at least as work-safe as anything else on this blog.  Nevertheless, I’ve placed it behind the cut to shield any delicate eyes or sensibilities.

Click the link and read on, below. Continue reading »

May 132009
 

I should know better than to talk to Zealously Vanilla people in any context these days.  Since my set of metaphorical balls began sprouting in earnest somewhere around two years ago, I’ve found my tolerance for small-mindedness of any variety to be growing at a near-exponential rate with each passing month.

Even bearing this in mind, it seemed fine to discuss a topic as seemingly innocuous (more so than dating, for example) as American Idol in a vanilla context.  Yes, I proudly admit to watching — and mostly loving — the past few seasons of that show; its current cycle particularly thrills me because of one contestant whose talent and personality blew me away from the very beginning.

Who we’re rooting for comes up on Facebook and within a certain subset of my vanilla friends quite frequently.  When they learn of my Adam-adoration they say, “You do realize that he’s…”   This is followed by a pause and significantly raised eyebrows intended to pass on information without requiring the speaker to sully her precious mouth with the actual word.

I have no such compunctions.  “Gay?” I inquire coolly.  “Do I realize that he’s gay?  He might be.  I don’t much care.  Does it matter?”  This conversation isn’t limited to my admittedly insulated group of vanilla friends.  Questions about Adam Lambert’s orientation have shown up throughout the competition, yet every time I hear it mentioned my irritation increases.

“But if he’s gay how can you find him hot?” one particularly vanilla friend asked, perplexed.  I used all my powers of restraint to ignore her question, as it seemed that Facebook was not the proper venue to discuss any deeply-ingrained lusts I cherish for men who like other men, especially if those men at least occasionally dress in drag, rrowr.

Buck up, I want to tell those Zealously Vanilla folks.  It’s 2009.  Are we still so narrow-minded that we think gay and straight are the only two distinct possibilities, each of which will never under any circumstances come into contact with the other?  Must we still assume for everyone a default orientation of wholehearted straightness?  And even amongst the straightest of the straight, why couldn’t they find one so talented, so enthusiastic, so overwhelmingly passionate to be sexy, no matter who he might want as a partner?  Is it really all that strange that someone from a different orientation might want to see Adam’s admirable characteristics demonstrated in another context beside singing?

(Now I must pause to take several deep breaths to stop myself from imagining the existence of an Adam Lambert sex-tape which someday might be unearthed and shared across the interwebs.  Oh how I wish that I had the freedom right this very moment to dream more on this topic, preferably with Hitachi in hand.  But I do not, and I cannot, so I will halt and point you in the direction of his performance videos should you require any further convincing of his extreme sexiness.)

One day perhaps I’ll have arranged my life such that I come into contact with the Zealously Vanilla only rarely and only in situations where talking can be kept to an absolute minimum.  The Zealously Vanilla can ring up my purchases at the grocery store, for example, but they will instantly sense the foreboding presence of anti-Zealously Vanilla feelings and will keep their small opinions to themselves.

I can hope, can’t I?

 

Last week this message landed in the mail box of my favorite pervy dating site:

hi there

am visiting XXXXXXXXX for a week on a business trip – can we get together tonight at my hotel?  sure would love to meet someone – send me your face pics plz

regards

‘Twas such a struggle not to respond.  I have an automatic response set up to answer all emails; it states kindly that I’m quite happy with the relationships I’m already in and suggests (gently, really) that reading a profile before firing off a fuck-me-now request might be a great choice in the future.  I knew my correspondent had already received this, and yet I was sorely tempted.  So tempted in fact that I allowed myself to draft a response with the promise that I would not hit send.

Wanna read it?

Dear XXXX,

Yes!  Yes indeed, I would absolutely love to drive 200+ miles tonight to meet you, a perfect stranger, for an evening of awesome sex.  I’m sure it will be extra steamy hot considering that we’ve never met each other before and have in fact no clue what the other’s likes and dislikes might be.  And I’m absolutely certain that I’ll feel so very safe with you considering that we’ve exchanged one email and I’ve not even seen a single picture of your face, only one of your entirely average penis.  It did look like a safe little fellow!  What a brilliant idea this all is.  Please send me the name of your hotel and your room number.  I’ll be there at 8, lubed and ready to go.

I didn’t send it.  But perhaps I should have.

In two-plus years on that pervy dating site I think I’ve got it figured out.  A sizable majority of the men can be grouped into one of two categories.  First you have the men like the sender of the email above.  They ask in short, “Are you living?  Do you breathe?”  If the answer is in the affirmative, then you’re good enough for them.  These men are The Desperate.

Polar opposites of the first, the second type sets out tediously detailed lists of characteristics that must be met before sexual congress can take place.  The Dreamers want a girl of winsome appearance who is also thin, young, full-breasted and blond.  And bisexual.  Available at a moment’s notice too.  When I read ads like this I want to create some mathematical model illustrating the statistical improbability of finding this woman in any average city, and the even smaller chance of finding such a woman who wants to get naked with the kind of vapid man who would post this ad.  No doubt math wouldn’t take the starch out of our dating site Dreamer, so then I might remind him that the chances of a profound sexual connection springing up between himself and a random (yet gorgeous!) woman would be about the same as a parasitic twin erupting from his lover’s belly button at the point of orgasm.  And wouldn’t that put him off his feed?

Given the prevalence of these extremes in asshattery is it any wonder that I feel undeservedly blessed to have such wonderful friends and lovers in my life?  I am blessed indeed.

May 112009
 

“Why are you letting her buy water now?”  The ex poked his head into the car as he waited for the final click of the gas nozzle.  “Aren’t we going straight home?”

“It’s not about the water,” I said.  “Watch.”

Gas tank full again, he sat next to me in the driver’s seat.  Our firstborn crossed the station parking lot and heaved open the heavy convenience store door.  We caught periodic glimpses of her past the signs advertising beer and milk as she peered into the refrigerated cases lining the back of the store.

You must understand that this child has been prone since her earliest days to fits of frustration-prompted temper.  Historically her approach to any setback has tended toward the dramatic:  kicking screaming meltdowns as opposed to the calm inhalation of deep breaths which I’ve long counseled.  And demonstrated.  Usually.

From my vantage point in the car I worried that she wouldn’t be able to locate the water, which surely would be either above or below her field of vision.  I feared that she’d cry, that she’d dissolve, that she’d require rescue.  This is why I’d never before conducted this experiment.  How quickly could I have bailed her out with two toddlers in tow?  But this opportunity was perfect.  Her father and I had accompanied her to an end-of-the-year school program, leaving the little ones happily at home with a sitter.  This time if she needed help negotiating this difficult situation, one of us could spring into action directly.

I fully expected to see her exit the store empty-handed and crying for help.  Instead I watched her locate the drink without any fuss at all, then carry it coolly to the counter.  Looking as relaxed as if she mastered such milestones daily, she skipped back to the car.  “Here’s your change, Mom,” she said, dropping a few coins into my hand.

The future spread out before me as we drove home, child and ex chattering about the program with little need for my input.  Soon, I imagined, I’ll be able to send her on increasingly challenging errands.  Today a bottle of water.  Tomorrow milk and a loaf of bread.  Soon enough the requests for shuttle service to and from the mall will start rolling in, although at that point I expect she’ll wish to be dropped a block away while I wear the disguise of a loyal chauffeur.  Because chauffeurs don’t kiss their charges goodbye.  Nor do they wipe off food smudges with spit, or push locks of hair off the face.  It’s coming; it’s been coming, in a clear line which began the moment she was yanked from my belly bloody and fiercely clutching some bit of umbilical goo.  Independence is upon us, demonstrated this time by a bottle of water.

“Carry water with you,” others might say.  “Or wait ’til you get home to get a drink.  Must you spend money on something that is essentially free from the tap and whose packaging will stay in a landfill for hundreds of years?”  But when a bottle of water is so much more than just a bottle of water, the price is more than worth it.

 

This time he paid the bill while I returned a phone call, so I did not hear anything that might have transpired between my partner and the restaurant’s owner.   So engrossed was I in my own conversation that when the owner walked past, tossing a smirk in my direction, I barely noticed.

Then the call ended; I made my way toward my pal waiting by the door.  “He asked what we were up to today,” he murmured into my ear.  “I told him we were going home to have more hot wet sex.”

I pulled away.  “You did not.”

“Yes, I did,” He answered with such calm assurance that I had no doubt.

And yet I couldn’t let it go without absolute confirmation.  “What did he tell you we were doing today?” I asked as the owner passed.

He leered at me.  “He said that you were going home to have more hot wet sex.”  And once again I was left utterly speechless.

“You turned every shade of red,” my partner told me when we were safely on the way home.

I’m sure I did, but honestly?  His response was what I should have said the last time we were asked.

 

Him, on the phone:  I’m so sorry I forgot to call you on the way into work.   It completely slipped my mind.

Me, faux-petulant:  Do you mean to tell me that for even a moment you were focused on something other than my awesome wonderfulness and the amazingness of my vagina?

Him:  There are a few moments in each day when I’m not thinking about your vagina, love.

Me:  I see.  Guess I’ll have to work harder next time.

Him:  If it’s any comfort to you, I was focused on something almost as wonderful as your vagina.

Me:  Oh really.  And what would that have been?

Him:  Donuts.

Me:  Donuts. *pause* I guess I can understand that.  Especially if they were bacon donuts.

Him:  Honey, if someone could make a bacon donut that wasn’t flavored with maple*, I wouldn’t need sex anymore.

Me:  I think my vagina is safe then for the time being.
——

*The idea of breakfast meat drenched in syrupy flavoring horrifies him.  If anyone finds a bacon donut not polluted by tree sap, please let me remain blissfully ignorant of it. I want to keep having sex with this man.

May 062009
 

Last night twenty-seven collective years’ worth of little girls tumbled down the stairs screeching with glee.  “Look mom,” demanded my eldest, shoving a Polly Pocket doll so close to my nose that I couldn’t tell what I was meant to be seeing.  Her friends cleared up my confusion.  “It’s a boy doll!” they giggled.  “But we dressed him up like a girl!”

A combination of leaning back and pushing away their hands allowed me to see Mr. Polly Doll’s attire.  He was indeed dressed in the girl Pollys’ clothes, and a quite fabulous ones at that.  On his feet were platform boots.  A pink gown encased his torso.  Around his neck was a lavender sparkly boa.  “That’s quite an outfit,” I said, but before I could come up with anything more cogent on the topic of gender expression (and acceptance of its various modes) they were off to clothe the rest of the boy Pollys in more resplendently girly attire.

The opportunity to discuss this in more detail unfortunately didn’t come until long after my daughter’s riotous cohorts returned home.  I hold the theory that if something happens in my house, yard or minivan when I am the only adult present, I reserve the right to use it as a teaching moment in any way I see fit.  Under this rule I had no problem treating my little carpool members to a short discourse on how boys really can love other boys; nor did I pause even momentarily when my daughter’s friend began taunting his brother with the age-old affront “You throw like a girl.”

“Sometimes boys like to wear girls’ clothes,” I pointed out to my eldest the next day as everyone was dressing for the day.  “And sometimes girls like to wear boys’ clothes.  It can be fun to dress up in unexpected things.”

“Like we do on Halloween?” she asked doubtfully.

“Kind of.  We don’t make fun of people for what they wear, right?”  But she was already off to find her favorite ratty sneakers and the same unisex blue bucket hat she’s steadfastly refused to give up even though for the past three years of its six-year life it’s only perched upon her head.

“You’re enforcing political correctness?” asked my ex when I recounted some of the above.

“Enforcing?  No, I can’t enforce it in someone else’s kids. But I can make it clear that I don’t want nasty sexist crap in my own backyard.”

Is this reasonable, do you think?  How do you handle comments of this nature when they come from your children’s unaccompanied acquaintences?

——

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May 052009
 

Where other men might beg off for fear of appearing foolish, my partner is perpetually willing to indulge for me any sexual whim no matter how bizarre, astonishing or random.

“Can you helicopter it?” I asked not long ago as he dressed while I watched from the bed, rapt.  He said nothing but grabbed the base of his cock and began twirling it around so rapidly that my eyes blurred and I had to hold an enthralled cat back from taking a swipe.

Deprived of a toy the cat zipped away.  My partner flew himself directly in front of my nose and let his spinning dick beat me about the face.  I giggled and pushed him away; in retaliation he flipped his t-shirt over my head.  This is how it came to pass that even now his shirt is tucked beneath my pillow where if I so choose I can inhale its scent as I fall asleep.  And I have, so far before each nap and every bedtime I have.

There’s no rational explanation for why he smells so good to me.  It’s not been my habit to date men who smoke; in general I find it a huge turn-off.  While I fear what smoke may eventually do to the body I so love, the mild spice of it makes me weak.  Even on someone else.  Even in the grocery store.  I inhale that scent and no matter where I am I want him in my bed and in my body.

Considering how severe is the addiction, the smell of smoke doesn’t come close to covering his natural body odor, which could only be described as clean.  Working, playing, fucking — no matter what he’s been doing the clean fragrance stays.  I love it.  His shirt holds the mixture of smoke and clean; I breathe it and feel my chest squeeze with longing to have him and not just his clothing.

Once I’ve edited this and hit the link to send it off into the world it will be well past time for bed.  Will I fall asleep, shirt clutched beneath my chin, enjoying the smell of him in my bed?  You know I will.

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