I want to tell you about a super cool kickstarter project by bestie Jessica Leigh is doing.
To watch the (super funny and hilarious) video and check out the campaign and all their lovely (love leigh?) prizes, go here.
They have 9 days left to fund what will surely be a world class amazing production. They are giving away a ton of cool prizes, but I’m adding one here.
For every $25 you donate, you’ll get an email coaching session with me for free! That’s some serious bang (bang bang bang!) for your buck, so don’t pass it up!
Finally for your viewing (and other kinds of) pleasure; the second half of the story I co-authored with Alex Sturman.
Before you start, make sure to read Beauty, Part 1.
Beauty, Part 2
I always know how to make you lose control. In the bedroom at least. I am a fairly confident bitch most of the time, but there’s something about the way you saunter, and the stories you tell, and the way I always talk a little too loud in public that makes me fidget, makes me feel like a little girl when I’m with you. Often when I’m talking to you, I end up leaning over the table, my head in my hands like an adoring fan. This pisses me off. With most men I am an elusive vixen, a siren. With most men, I walk all over them. Then again, there’s a reason I’m not with most men.
Anyway, in the bedroom it’s different. Don’t get me wrong, by the end of the night I am always the one shivering, shaking, my eyes glazed over and a stunned smile plastered across my face while you snicker quietly to yourself. But usually I can level the playing field.. if only for a little while. I just have to get my tongue on your cock.
It took me a while to learn to swallow you. It was only after many nights of practice, patiently on your end and impatiently on my end, that I learned to open my mouth and throat completely to you. The first time I took you all the way into my throat, and I felt my nose against your stomach, my tongue licking your balls, I came immediately.
Tonight wasn’t much different. The combination of physical exertion, lack of air, the thrill of having your hand on my head still holding me against you and your slowly shrinking sticky cock in the back of my throat was making me so wet and throbbing I knew the instant you touched me I would cry out.
Eventually you begin to pull out of my mouth. Slowly, slowly, and just as I feel the head of your shaft slide up to the opening at the back of my mouth I feel a twitch and you stop. I look up at your eyes, my mouth and jaw slack, still full with you, the taste of your cum coating my lips and tongue. Your eyes twinkle and suddenly I know why. You begin growing hard again, still in my throat. I can’t believe it and the thrill of your rapidly growing erection as you grab my head and resume throat fucking me, coupled with the fear and excitement that you might fuck my mouth for hour upon hour without stopping makes me cum instantly. I am trembling, a pool between my knees and my mouth full of you ramming into me as the tremors overtake my body.
You pull out suddenly, leaving my mouth empty and a look of confusion and shock on my face as my orgasm shudders to an abrupt halt. You laugh. “You wanted to cum didn’t you?” You ask me, smiling and wiping a drop of cum from the side of my mouth. “You wanted me to fuck you rough, right?” you smile more softly and kiss a tear from my cheek. I’m so turned on I can’t speak, but only nod. The yes means more than just “yes I wanted that.” You know it also means “yes” to whatever you have planned for tonight. “Ok,” I think, “ you caught my attention. What the hell are we doing next?”
“Lay down,” you command me gently. I flop forward on the bed as you get up to clean yourself off and grab some water. You come back to the room and laugh gently at me. “No no,” you command, “on your back.” I flip over, aroused and surprised. “Ah, here we go,” I think. Despite our incredibly kinky sex life, you often like to finish in missionary. It gives you the most control and lets you watch my face. Plus usually by the end I can’t hold myself up anymore. This is a little quicker than normal, but you already came once so I’m not disappointed. You spread my legs but instead of climbing on top of me you kneel between my them. I’m a little surprised when you slip two fingers in me, but this is quickly overtaken by the orgasms you bring, one right after another. I love your hands – they are strong and confident and steady. Having them inside me makes me feel safe and held by a strong man. God, I love your hands.
Three fingers now and I am beginning to buck against you. Four fingers and I sit up in surprise. You grin and push me back against the bed. “Relax,” you say, fucking me with four fingers until I cum against you. When I stop contracting, you say “now don’t cum, no matter how much you want to. You’ve cum plenty tonight, so this shouldn’t be too torturous, just relax and don’t cum until I say so, ok?” “uh-huh” I moan back, trying to breath steady and staring at the ceiling so I don’t cum.
You pull out the four fingers you have in me slightly. There is a pop and I feel you coat your hand in lube and then reposition your hand and slowly begin inserting your thumb. “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,” I think to myself. Fisting has been a fantasy of mine for a long time and I can’t believe we are doing this now. “Don’t cum,” you remind me. “ok, ok, ok,” I rattle off in rapid response. There is a pull, almost burning, but not bad, almost tearing but not quite, just an intense stretching that I never thought my cunt could do and then with one final push, you are in me. I can feel your knuckles against the wall of my cunt like a studded dildo, but it’s different because it’s your bones, your skin, your flesh I have taken into me. You look at my face, frozen, I’m unable to move and afraid any motion will hurt. You lean your face over mine, searching my eyes. “It’s ok baby, shhh” you smile at me and bring me back to you. “Just stay with me, ok?” your voice is so calm and so gentle, the perfect soothing counterweight to the mind bending sensation happening between my legs.
You smile and twist your wrist slightly inside me. I try not to, but I can’t help arching my back. You grab me, an arm around my waist and kiss the notch of my sternum. “Relax, baby, relax. I’ve got you,” you whisper to me and I feel my body surrender to you.
You feel it too and you smile with a tenderness I haven’t seen often. You like it when I trust you this much. You are exceedingly trustworthy, but so many women have had so many bad experiences with men, most can’t let go all the way. You can push most women farther than they’ve ever gone, but there is always a moment where they fight you for control – as if they didn’t have it. Most women don’t realize the way to control is through surrender. Then again, there’s a reason you aren’t with most women.
We lock eyes and I begin to give myself over to you. You turn your hand slowly inside me, pausing when you see a minute flash of pain cross my face. You breathe slowly and intentionally, a reminder to me to follow suit. Slowly, microscopicly, glacially, you begin to move your now clenched fist back and forth, bumping up against my cervix and pressing against the flesh on the inside of my opening, flesh that never gets pushed from this angle. You can feel me getting wetter as I open to you.
My eyes start to roll back in my head with the pleasure. “No, no – stay with me,” you say. I turn my eyes back to you searching. This isn’t how it normally goes with us. We are present yes, but we let ourselves surrender to the heat and passion of the moment. Rarely is there this unbreaking connection. I look at you, a little confused, vulnerable, uncertain.
“Tonight I want all of you,” you say. “Even the piece you hide when you close your eyes in the moment of orgasm.” I am shocked you know this. “Yes,” you smile. “Even that piece. Tonight I want to see you – the real you and all of you.” You look at me, asking without asking if that’s ok, if I’m ready for what would be a fairly monumental step in our relationship. “Can I let go that much with this man?” I wonder to myself. “Does he really know what he’s asking of me?”
Still a little uncertain, but intrigued and captivated and caught completely off guard I go slack in your embrace. You are pumping your arm with more confidence, taking my opening to you as your cue to push a little farther. “I know what I’m asking,” you smile at me. “I told you when we met I would ruin you for other men. You thought I meant with my cock, or my stamina, or my skilled hands,” you say flashing a grin as you twist your hand a little to make a point. I groan in response. “And while that has certainly done it for a number of women,” you continue, “I always knew that wouldn’t be enough for you.” We both smile, knowing that my insatiable sexual appetite, whisper trigger orgasms, and adventurous nature means that I will find a way to get what I want, one way or another – be it cock, dildo, hand or as my friend and ex-lover Julie was fond of – baseball bat. Your cock, glorious as it is, would never be enough to keep me all by itself.
“The thing you want most,” you say, “ is to be seen. You perform, you even tell all your dirty secrets on stage, in public, but, you don’t think anyone really sees you. Oh, you show yourself, but you distract from it with sparkles and your dirty mouth and your too loud laugh. No one notices those off center moments. The lines of poetry that don’t sit well, that don’t match the rest of the poem. Those are the real you. And I want you to know that I. See. You. And that I want that you. The real you. All of you.” I can hardly feel my body as you say these things to me, my brain is buzzing, and my body is fighting what you are saying. “Come back,” you say. “Stay with me.”
My eyes are big with terror and worry and a flood of affection I won’t call love. Words choke in my throat and you are fucking me with your hand and a wave of sensation sweeps across my body. We start to find a rhythm, me pressing into you, my mouth open in an unconscious pout. You kiss me and ride me, gently letting go of my waist and stroking your still hard cock with your free hand. I feel a huge orgasm starting to build, waves of pleasure overtaking each other and crashing on the shore of my body. You feel it too and move slightly faster and faster until I am on the edge. “Breath and push,” you whisper in my ear, you are almost laying on top of me. I push and with a gasp I feel your hand slip out of me and in the same sharp inhale your hard cock slip in. All the way to the hilt.
You are propped up on your elbows, millimeters above me. My skin goosepimpling with the sweat and heat, as if it is trying to get closer to you. Slowly you move in and out, stroking my face, kissing my eyelids, and then my mouth – fully. Your tongue is warm and wet and full, and you pull out a “oh!” from my mouth that I had been holding on to. The orgasm that has been building continues and begins to crest. You thrust all the way in, wrap an arm around my waist and pull me down on to you so I can’t escape.
“Cum on me,” you say, your voice raspy and deep. “Only if you cum too,” I manage to whisper back in between gasps of air. You grunt and kiss me again, your cock throbbing as cum pumps from your tight balls up the shaft and as your head engorges, and you fill me completely, I feel a full body spasm over take me. You look at me and I cum harder than I ever remember cuming. I don’t break eye contact for a second and I see you cumming in me and watching me cum and you are momentarily surprised with the intensity of what I am giving you, of what you asked for.
Afterwards we lie there, cum and sweat and spit drying on our bodies. You run your hand along one rib and smooth the hair back from my face. “It’s ok,” you say. “I’ll be careful with your heart. You aren’t the first woman to fall in love with me.” You smile, perhaps a little too knowingly and kiss me.
I sigh and smile too, rolling into your chest, your strong arms around me. You are right of course. I crave realness above all else, the real you, the real me, the real connection. And I crave being really seen, really known. Of the handful of men I’ve been in love with, this has been a consistent theme. I wonder if you know the other half of the story though, and debate about whether or not to warn you, though you’ve already set the wheels in motion, so it’s too late. A warning would be useless, I decide. So I hold my tongue. We have been locked in some half playful, half serious chess match. You smile a checkmate to yourself, not realizing that my Queen comes with a deadman switch. Boom! I hear the explosion in the distance.
Most people don’t believe in sirens, seductresses, vixens. They think we are mythical creatures, out of date, even sexist. Those that do believe in us think we are dangerous, or in a few rare cases, think the challenge of taming us is exciting. For most men, I can wink and smile and get inside their heads in a matter of minutes. For men like you, though, I have to use my ultimate weapon – my heart. Because here’s the thing with us sirens. It’s not that I don’t fall in love, it’s that it’s impossible to make me fall in love with you without falling in love with me too. No one can hold two hearts in their chest. When you reach for my heart, you have to let go of yours. The thing that makes me so damn dangerous, and so damn powerful is that I can surrender my heart completely.
You didn’t even notice the switch, you were so busy watching for my surrender, and though it feels a little different in your chest, there is the same familiar beat and warmth of a heart there. “Soon enough you will discover it,” I think. “Soon enough,” and I sigh blissfully and sink into you as you stroke my head, comforting me, holding me to you as I nuzzle my head against your tender, tender chest.
Ok, so maybe I shouldn’t blog late at night, a little drunk, tired and moody, but TOO BAD! I’m doing it anyway. (A girl has to live on the edge somehow, right?)
This article seems OB.VI.OUS. but since it is sort of the whole premise of everything I do, I’m posting it, because I was riiiiiiiight and now science is on my side!
Turns out feminists DO fuck better, and more often when their parity is greatest. What more self-interest do you need to invest fully in feminism? I’m just saying….
I’ve often said that learning to communicate with someone is like learning a foreign language. After 7 years together I got pretty good at speaking the archaic language known as John (my ex-husband). I speak Jessica fluently (that’s my best friend of 13 years). And while I am pretty good at speaking Dad, I still struggle with speaking Mom.
With every person in my life, I try to tailor my word choice, speaking patterns, metaphors, flow, etc. to be as effective as possible with that person. I also translate things they say to me into Harmony – my native tongue.
For example, when one of my friends asks me “what are you doing later tonight?” that means “I’m having a rough time and I need you.” Whereas for another friend it might mean, “I’m bored, know of any cool parties?” or just as legitimately “I haven’t seen you in a while, let’s hang out, but I don’t care what we do.”
For some people – like my dad – less is more. He listens to each word carefully before he speaks and remembers what you say to him. I’m a lot like my dad in this regard – though I tend to talk MORE than him – it’s just as carefully. So with my dad I let there be long pauses. He will think and reflect and then respond to something I said with a lot of careful consideration, and often times a really great quote from Shakespeare (My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…) or Whitman (I sing the body electric…), or Janis Joplin (It’s all the same fucking day man…) or Kahlil Gibran (Your children are not your children…). [Those are all actual things my dad has quoted at me, by the way.] I love talking to my dad. We weave in poetry and politics and rock and roll and we quote and ponder and deliberate. It’s slow and deep and thoughtful, like honey dripping or molassas, or maple syrup.
With Jessica, more is more. We laugh and hoot and hollar. If I can say anything in a Southern accent, slap my ass, mention whiskey, or bitches or fucking or shooting or riding horses, that’s the winner. We belch and laugh – lord do we laugh. I honestly don’t think any two people ever had as much fun as she and I do. We talk over each other, finish each other’s sentences and start new thoughts half way through old ones. It’s like a wild west saloon between us. Even though there are only two people, it’s like there is a bar keep, a show down, a sheriff and a couple of call girls all fighting to speak, drink, dance, fight and fuck. Jessica is a straight shooter. I don’t sugar coat things, I don’t mess around, I’m not subtle or delicate or polite. She likes it best when everyone’s cards are face up and so that’s how I am with her.
With each person it’s a little different. And it’s worth taking the time to watch how someone speaks, how they listen and how you can frame what you say so that they hear it the way you want them to. And sometimes, being effective is really unsatisfying. When I talk to my exhusband, I almost always want to spend more time explaining something than he wants to spend listening to it. And because this is a really common difference in the way men and women are socialized to communicate, I thought I would give some tips for men and women on how to be more effective in communicating with each other. But that will be part 2. For now, I’m really curious – how do YOU like to be communicated with? What makes you feel really well known, and what drives you crazy?
Denise, of Philosophy with Fries, was one of the glorious people at my Erotic Writing Workshop Yesterday (the house is still littered with dirty books and lots of leaky pens).
She writes some about her experience here. One of my favorite parts is:
Yesterday we talked about having a responsibility to speak, if one is an artist. I feel as though I have a responsibility to love and to speak about it; since I have a capacity in my heart to do so.
Yesterday was a very full, up-and-down day. Still processing.
~Denise
10 years ago I took a writing workshop with Shailja Patel. She told us that if you have the ability to write (either because you live in a country with free speech or because you have a talent with words, literacy, and time to write), then you have a duty to speak for those who cannot.
Now, us good feminists know there is something problematic about speaking for others. (Thank you Linda Alcoff, who, by the way, I’m excited is one of the plenary speakers for this year’s NWSA conference). But one really good way to interpret this that avoids the problem of speaking for others, and yet gets at this same duty, is to look within yourself at the voices you have silenced, and begin to write their stories.
This is a sure fire way to:
- make a difference in the world,
- write things that are compelling, immediate and universal,
- get a really good rush and remember why you are alive.
That is the philosophy that guides my writing, and has for the last decade.
Thanks again Denise, can’t wait to hear more from you.
Where should I go?
Want to meet up?
What should I write about?
I lived there for a few years nearly 5 years ago, but I worked a lot and didn’t get out much. Now I’m going for a couple weeks of vacation and I can’t wait to see the city anew! And escape the brutal 107 degree Texas heat.
I’ll be blogging on the road and would love to hear all about the best places to check out, so hit me up!
I just read a wonderful article in Bitch Magazine by GarlandGrey on dating and body image titled Sexual Inadequacy: Body Shame and Sexy Fat. He points out that every online dating site forces you to categorize yourself by body type and he shares about his experience trying to both down-play and exaggerate his weight.
But the nefarious thing about body shame is that it drives you away from healthy sexual interactions that might lessen it and allow you to see yourself from another person’s perspective, to see love or affection or lust in response to your body.
I think it can be easy to forget that men deal with body image issues too, and that we are all uncomfortable with the weird mix of selling your personality and your looks with online dating. I think it is even easier to forget (or never learn in the first place) that no matter what we look like, there ARE people (who we find attractive) who also find us attractive. No really.
- substantiation
a poem
_____ – a latin noun or prefix meaning: “across,” “beyond,” “through,” “changing thoroughly,” in combination with elements of any origin…
…..-ference – the inappropriate redirection of emotions towards a new object. the way she flung someone else’s past at your face, like rice at a wedding. the way she cut you out of pictures and put you in places you’d never been.
…..-fix – to pierce through, to impale. to accost with penetration, to refuse penetration. to love only the things that please you, to refuse to love the wholeness. cruel.
…..-fer – to make over the possession or control of, to pass, to convey, as a right from one person to another. to claim again your right for love on your flesh, seeping into your pores. to steal back in the full glaring sun of day your right to love. to look in a mirror without flinching.
…..-action – a performance, an affair, the doing or performing of (important, life-altering, heart-stopping) business, the running until your feet rub through the rubber in your shoes, the clinging to what one must do.
…..-late – to render into another language, to express, only now, should have been said/done. who: should have been sorry/ forgiven/ punished.
…..-cend – to rise above, her body floating over yours. her words like daggers hung above your face. your eyes. to swim upwards through sharp spears. to not grab hold of the hilt on your way up.
…..-oceanic – across fluid filled holes the size of moons, beyond the horizon to where the stars live. and the dragons.
…..-Siberian – across the cold, the tundra, the frozen heart of that woman. to the other side of blue cold death.
…..-verse – to lie across, to make right angles like my nose in the crook of your elbow. to write, to lie – diagonal – across the bodies of our past.
…..-dermal – in through the skin. how you penetrate me. make my eyes leak and my arms bend and the corners of my mouth sore and stretched from smiling and kissing and arching to take you all in me.
…..-ect – a path along which one records and counts occurrences of the phenomena of study. i lose count of the times you touch me. not with your hands but with your eyes. the crinkled paper half moons of your smile.
…..-mit – to cause to pass over or through. to suffer to pass through. to see the fire around you, breath the flames into your nostrils and let it singe your body cavities.
…..-form – to undergo a change in form, appearance, character, condition, nature. to become unrecognizable. to say yes to the newness you cannot yet see. inside this new love die. your way begins on the other side.
Top 10 Benefits to Dating a Trans Man
I started out writing what I thought would be a racy, but light hearted post on the top 10 benefits of dating a trans man. But the process of writing it and discussing it with Alex, of Alex’s Attic has resulted in quite a different post altogether.
I strive to be an ally to marginalized groups I’m not a member of. That said, it’s always more fun to stand up for those groups and earn my “Good Ally” points, than it is to get called out on my ignorant and offensive comments. I’m grateful for Alex’s generosity in educating me (gently but firmly), and his compassionate listening of me and my intentions (ill-executed as they were).
Harmony, you want to leave trans men empowered right?
What you wrote doesn’t do that. ~Alex
In my original list, there were a lot of (what were supposed to be) sexy benefits to dating a trans guy. After sharing it with Alex and getting some good feedback, I realized that I can’t post superficially sexual things because that has the opposite effect of what I’m going for.
Rather than celebrating the incredibly hot sexiness of being with a trans guy, the list I originally wrote was too easily co-opted by/confused with/born from the fetishization of trans men. Anyone studying power structures and sex knows that fetishization of an entire group never occurs absent marginalization of that group. (One mainstream porn website lists Asian, Lesbian, Gay, Ebony, Latina, Japanese, Mature, MILF, and Teens as some of the categories. Women of color, under-age women and menopausal women are some of the most disinfranchised groups.)
However, there is a particularly cruel and invalidating twist to the fetishization of trans bodies. When trans bodies are fetishized, the gender reality of trans people is erased (i.e. trans men are cast as women and trans women as men). Trans bodies are described with language that polices, regulates, and “corrects.”
So, even though sex with a trans man is hot in many ways that are superficial, sex with a trans man is ALSO hot in a whole bunch of deep and delicious ways. And I really get that rather than helping to create a conversation about sex with a trans man as something that is fun and light and sexy and empowering, what I originally wrote ACTUALLY cast it as a plastic, objectifying fetish.
But I really love that you want to write this post.
So how about you look deeper?
How is sex with a trans man good in ways that don’t make him into a sex object to be used for someone else’s pleasure? ~Alex
I’m so glad Alex encouraged me to look deeper and not simply abandon the post. I was ready to just chalk it up to a learning moment and move on. I had one redeeming item on my previous list, so I started there. I haven’t made it to 10 yet, but I’ve got 5 reasons that I feel really solid about, and I think depth is better in this list anyway.
A note on the still present limits to this list– just like any list about a whole group of people, this is a bit of an over generalization. There are certainly some trans men who don’t fit these things and there are biological cis-gender men who do, and then there are women of course! And there are tons of benefits to dating a trans woman as well, but I have less personal experience with that, so that’s not included in this post either, though I think it should definitely be written.
With all of that said, here are my
Top 5 Non-Fetishizing Super Awesome Things About Dating a Trans Man
- They REALLY know where your clit is.
- They will never use your anatomy against you (e.g.: “oh, you’re just PMSing and overly emotional”).
- They are way better able to be your ally as a woman/feminist. Because trans men know all too well the consequences of a culture that pre/proscribes “proper” gender roles to particular bodies, there is, quite simply, fewer conversations needed about how a particular thing is sexist, unfair, limiting, oppressive, scary, violating, etc.
- Sex with a trans man includes not just your bodies, but also your hearts and minds. Fantasy, reality, communication, desire, words, wishes and feelings combine, overlap, squish together and are all valid useful tools in sex. Sex with a trans man has the ability to be a more complete, integrative and whole experience because of this. Who knew your brain had the power to be QUITE that erogenous?
- You will be forced (and if you are reading this, excited) to examine and question what you “know” about bodies, sex, gender and sexuality. You will become a better ally for the trans community, the Queer community AND women because of this. You will grow as a person.
*P.S. Alex and I co-wrote Beauty (the first half of which is here), a piece we will be performing at Bedpost Confessions next week. Here’s some more info about that collaboration and performance.
P.P.S.S. You can also read my poem about dating a trans man, -substantiation.
P.P.P.S.S.S…. An interesting comparison, here’s a very old article about me wrestling with being an ally for people of color…
