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October 11, 2008

Does Breaking Up Have To Be So Hard To Do?

My pal Steve Otero, Anton Diaz's right hand man at Sexy Spirits, sent me an essay written by Betty Dodson on the end of relationships.  I love the piece!  (I learned a lot about the life of Betty, one of feminism's great icons.)  Hit the link below because this is what you should read today.  Her writing is both poignant and funny, especially the part about her 50 years younger lover and his new GF, "Miss Tantra."  Then check out the rest of the website:  Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross Online.  It is the best sex website out there.  Babes, I honor you.

http://dodsonandross.com/essay/art-getting-apart

October 10, 2008

Rebecca Toys With A Boy

Could it be true?  Our Rebecca, who has professed her preference for older guys, might be toying with a boy? 
Again this week, Rebecca gives us a Quickie, a tantalizing tidbit that has me at least begging:  More!  Details!  Did you do him or did you not?  (If she doesn't spill next time, I will take her out for drinks and get the story.)
Here's Rebecca:
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I had my own moment with the concept of indulging intimately with a younger man. On a late night I was standing outside a bookstore peering in  the window. This young man; very young man wearing a grey hoodie, looked over at me. He asked “ Is there anything good?” 
I turned, I noticed these clear sparkly eyes. He was a strikingly beautiful man-child.  Almost Red Riding hood-like. Quite frankly it seemed that neither of us wanted to go home alone but we didn’t yet have anyone to play with.
So I smiled at him and offered him a cookie.
This week has been dreadful another extension of the last week.  I haven’t had a chance to sit with my Haagen Daz to truly digest this moment enough to indulge you.  No, I will not leave out the details as I did in my Sapphic encounter but till next week.
Cold spoon, hot mouth.

October 09, 2008

This Is Not Your Mama's Tantra

I am very proud to introduce my latest book, a slender high-quality trade paperback--another fabulous Quiver book!--that re-makes Tantra in my own xUrban Culture image.  [xUrban Culture, a term coined by urban marketing genius Dakota Pippins:  A global tribe of people, largely under 35 but including aging Boomers and others--who share a set of values and attitudes, including among others respect for diversity, irreverence, individual style and the inclination to re-invent traditions to accommodate the fast-paced realities of modern technological life.] Tantra, really Neo-Tantra, as practiced in the Western world is stale and insufferably smug--and just takes too damn long unless you're on holiday.

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A quote from my book The New Tantra:  Simple and Sexy:

"Most of the workshops seemed a little bit silly and too woo-woo for our tastes.  We didn't jive with all the white, middle-aged, strictly heterosexual couples-oriented, New Age Tantra thing, and we ran into some trouble as we were the only queer, edgy, freaky folks there," Annie Sprinkle in the introduction to her friend Barbara Carellas' book Urban Tantra.

Barbara's book (Tantra slanted to gay people and those into BDSM) inspired me to take my own version of Tantra--Fusion Tantra-- and make it into a book too.  Fusion Tantra takes the best parts of Tantra--the sex techniques--and incorporates them into Western lovemaking styles and practices.  If you are young or single or not monogamous and/or have no patience for long sessions of soul gazing with your partner--this is the Tantra for you. 

A quick Sex Tip from the book:

The Breath of Fire

The Breath of Fire is the quickest way I know to jump-start either my sexual energy or my libido.  It oxygenates the blood quickly, truly building your fire.  The exercise is simple:  Take rapid, rhythmic, and shallow breaths through your nose while keeping your mouth closed.  Breath this way for one to three minutes.  Feel your heartbeat accelerate and your genitals respond.

October 08, 2008

Meet The Man Who Gives Women A New Kind Of Happy Ending

Maybe you still believe in the fairy tale happy ending and maybe you are inclined to believe:  The prince will come, probably too soon; and you may not come at all.

Richard Anton Diaz, founder of Sexy Spirits, a not-for-profit sex education center in Manhattan, has created the perfect happy ending for every woman.  He teaches men how to become Orgasm Providers for women.  They perform this erotic touch service selflessly.  It's not about him, Babe; it's about you.

Born in New York City of Columbian parents, Anton is the quintessential Latin man.  Smoldering gaze, lean, taut body, intensely sexual but not in a threatening way.  With his ex-wife as his partner, he is a former world champion of ballroom dancing, a certified Taoist teacher, a one-time "lounge lizard" who briefly became a "Tantra wimp" and now teaches men how to be gods to their goddesses. 

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He began to figure out sex, he says, when he realized that he had to let his wife "become the leading power" in their dance.  Shortly thereafter, they won the world championship.

Next big sex life lesson:

"I was fucking my wife and she said, 'You're not hard,'" he recalls.  "I couldn't believe it.  We had sex every day and I usually had one or two women on the side, some she knew about, some she didn't.  I was always hard.  The next morning, I woke up without an erection for the first time in my life.

"I didn't know who I was without a hard cock."

The doctor he consulted told him that's what happens to men in their forties and suggested a psychiatrist to help him through this mid-life crisis.

"I said I would rather put a gun to my head and shoot myself."

He went to a bookstore and found a book that had the words "health, sex, longevity" in the subtitle--and that subtitle changed his life.   Adapting dietary changes, studying the Taoist method of conserving sexual energy, working his way through Tantra--"which makes men feel guilty about being horn dogs"--Anton arrived eventually at something entirely his own:  the power of sensual, erotic touch focused entirely on the woman to dramatically change and improve women's and men's sex lives and their relationships.  (Yes, his dick did come back to life.)

His course on providing orgasms has five levels.  Men sign up for it because "They think they will have unlimited access to pussy," he jokes.  So many women volunteer that he has to turn them away.

His first message to men:  "Women own the sexual terrain now.  But they still want us to step up as men.  I don't teach men to provide orgasms as servants or wimps--but as gods."

Women have started asking for "happy endings" when they pay for a massage--something men have been doing forever. Whether she's in a relationship or not, a woman wants to be touched and stroked and fondled to orgasm, at least now and then.  The man who knows how to do that without making her feel reciprocity is immediately required is a god.

Go to the Sexy Spirits website and learn more.  Additionally, in the weeks ahead, I will observe and report on one of these "happy ending" experiences. 

October 07, 2008

Do You Like It Down And Dirty?

Doesn’t sex need to be at least a little bit dirty for some of us to enjoy it to the utmost?

Yesterday I listened to a spokesperson for polyamory explain to me why he believes that having multiple partners with the permission of your main partner is by far the best way to live your sex life. Okay. Sure. I believe him in that it’s the best way for him to live his sex life. (But why the need to proselytize?)

Personally, I come from the cheat-and-lie Old School of Monogamy. Illicit affairs. The sword of Damocles hanging over my head. Sex in the afternoon with a lover followed by giving Hubby the best blow job of his life that night. Ah, I still remember my first extramarital lover and the incredible orgasm he gave me as I lay fully dressed except for panties on top of a chenille bedspread in a Howard Johnson’s motel in downtown St. Louis. I was 29; he was 50. His tongue moved like a thousand butterflies swarming my clit….I still have a fondness for orange chenille.

Poly? No thanks. I hate talking about relationships; and if you try to create a set of relationship rules with me, I will break them. I do not want the details of my lover’s other lives. There is something too naked and wholesome, too bland and safe about that--like full-out Neo-Tantra with its emphasis on soul kisses and so forth. I want some artifice and the privacy that allows me. Sometimes I need to be fucked in black lace thigh-high stockings and pearls and nothing else. Or taken fully clothed from behind. Maybe I want to wear my stilettos to bed. I was never a Hippie.

My bedroom game is also somewhat submissive; and it’s not my life game. I want to be dominated by a lover right through the orgasms; and then, he needs to realize who I am in the world and respect that. A lot of men have trouble with the changing dynamic. Either they think I want BDSM. No. Or they cannot make the switch from bedroom to the rest of life.

I was Dick-matized for over a year by one of those men. He never got past the fact that he picked me up in a bar. But, that dick. (Dick-matized: the state of being so totally into the dick that you overlook the fact that the guy’s a jerk. Carlin Ross and I came up with the term when we were podcasting for her Cherrybomb site.)

I had an on-again/off-again, love-him/hate-him relationship with D. He is cosmopolitan, sophisticated, chauvinistic, virile, stylish--a complicated man, my type. We never exactly “met.” I know that I noticed him--and later he told me that he watched me--at a jazz bar in our neighborhood. In one year of mutually taking note of one another he said one sentence to me: “You’re trouble.”

One Saturday night in October I was at the bar with friends, a couple visiting from L.A. It was 2:30 a.m. The couple were tired and ready to go back to their hotel room. The temperature in the bar was uncomfortably hot. I took off my cashmere cardigan, glanced over at the bar and caught Big D’s eye. He smiled and came over to me.

“Would you like some champagne?” he asked--making that more than twice the number of words he‘d ever spoken to me.

He put out his hand. I took it and walked out the door with him to his apartment. There was no champagne that night.

While kissing me, he unzipped his pants. In his hand he held that dick, the one I sometimes think I dreamed into existence, so badly did I long for it. Long, thick and proud with its wide head rising like a nobleman separated from the powerful shaft by the ridge of the corona that was in my fantasy a rich gold necklace, the tribal emblem of the king. He had me.

“I don’t know your name,” I mumbled.

He laughed and said, “Of course, you do,” and took my hand and led me back to his bedroom.

No, I didn’t know his name at the time. But the sex, omigod the sex! Naked, he was beautiful, as he needed to be to possess that dick. He massaged my clit, parted the lips of my labia, licked the moisture to the surface. And then he entered me. He fucked hard and fast, slow and easy, alternating positions--him on top, then rolling to his side to pull me on top of him, finally half on our sides, one of my legs up in the air-- until I was dizzy, crazy. Then he drove it home.

“Suck my dick,” he said when he could breathe again.

I took it into my mouth for the first time and felt it throb thrillingly to life again.

“That’s your dick,” he said. “Suck it.”

And I did.

I lost a necklace in his bed that night, a necklace he never found. The push/pull dynamic started right away--on both sides. We came together, we pushed apart. He never respected me aside from my sexual abilities. But his dick. It is my fetish object. It is the life force. I thrilled to its contractions in my mouth, the taste and feel of his sperm shooting down my throat.

I came when I sucked his dick. Sometimes I humped his leg as I sucked, like a bitch in heat, and my moans were as loud as his.

We had booty calls with champagne and strings where there weren’t supposed to be strings but yet they stuck to us like that stuff children spray out of cans.

He called one night. I put on black lace-topped thigh highs and high heels. We drank wine and kissed and caressed on the leather sofa. He pulled my breasts out of the black lace push-up bra and sucked my nipples. I caressed his dick, held it in my hand.

He reached his arm behind me, tossed a big pillow down to the floor between his legs and pointed with one finger: down.

And I went down.

When I was finished with him, I put my breasts back inside my bra. Leaving him limp with his pants still around his ankles, I went home that night, never having removed my jeans. I felt like I owned him, at least for one night.

Things ended badly--around the time his dick was losing its hold on me. I did get my own back. Babes, I screwed him out of a business deal.

I wish that magnificent member a better life support system in the next reincarnation.

October 06, 2008

What's Happened to Male Sexuality?--Part 2

Scroll down to my conversation with Palagia about male sexuality if you haven't read it already.  The comments from male readers are interesting.  Even when they're writing about sex, men don't write about sex--unless they are boy bloggers detailing messy anal copulations in adolescent language. 

Yes, I know.  That's a sweeping generalization; and there are brilliant male authors like Robert Owen Butler and John Updike who have often written beautifully about sex.  But online?  Women are doing it better.

The Palagia conversation was reprinted on Moxie --a fun and interesting blog!--and my pal Alex Zola's blog.  Some men responded by blaming their lackluster sexual presence on the Reagan years and corporate America or a society which is more accepting of female bisexuality than male or drug abuse by 70s androgynous icons--or they defended porn without describing how it turns them on or gets them off.  Intelligent, often provocative--but not sexy commentary.

One man did point out that Palagia's One Leg Up events are open to couples and single women--no single men allowed--indicating that she shares society's bias against male bisexuality.  (I will ask her about that in our next conversation.)

I was mulling all this over last night when I got into a discussion with a young man, new to the city.

"Women's sexual energy drives the scene here," he said.  "I don't even have to try like I did back home in the Midwest.  Women come up to me.  They initiate the hook-ups.  New York women are always on their game.  They dress to go out.  They walk into a bar or club like they own the place."

He learned quickly to lay back, enjoy the view and wait for the inevitable approach.  (He is quite a handsome boy.)  Last Saturday night two beautifully dressed babes came up to him.  One took his hand.  The other said, "You're coming with us."

His story ended there.  The babes would have told me what they did with him, how big his dick was--and who came or didn't. 

What do you think?  Is female sexual energy driving your scene? 

October 05, 2008

New York Babeland's Head Babe

I had breakfast Thursday morning with Claire Cavanah, co-owner of the Babeland stores, celebrating their fifteenth anniversay this year.  She is one of my heroines; and I was delighted to find her as warm and charming in person as I imagined she would be.  What fun to talk about sex toys over cappucino and pane chocolate!

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I asked her what changes she'd seen in the industry in the past decade and she replied, "First, higher quality products.

"Toys are more luxurious and beautifully designed.  As customers became more sophisticated and demanding, vendors responded by creating more luxurious products.  Look at the JimmyJane line, Layla, the new Sasi vibe, Gigi, the We vibe and others  Sex toys are beautiful little works of art now.   

"Have you seen the stainless steel line from NJoy?  Their vendor told me, 'Without Babeland, we wouldn't be able to make these toys,' and that was very gratifying because it says we have played a role in educating consumers and raising their expectations."

Babeland (along with their competitor Good Vibrations) is largely responsible for creating the luxury sex toy marketplace that is friendly to women of every sexual orientation and level of toy knowledge.  Claire and her partner in the business are both openly gay women.  Lesbians have led the way for the rest of us in many areas of sexual discussion and exploration, including toys, and in political activism for women's causes like reproductive freedom.  We owe our lesbian sisters a great deal.

I asked Claire why she thinks lesbians have been in the forefront of sexual empowerment for women.

"Our sexuality is what makes us different.  We are conscious of it all the time.  Coming of age as a queer person definitely made me more open about women's sexuality.  For straight women, we are like the sister you never had.  You can tell us anything."

That is exactly the feeling I have in the Babeland stores and on the website.  You can go there with any question, any concern and find acceptance.  Nobody will judge you.  They'll help you find the products that celebrate your own sexuality.

"The stigma surrounding sex toys has been greatly reduced," Claire says.  "A woman enjoys shopping for them today." 

October 03, 2008

Rebecca Has A Bad Day

Our usually loquacious Rebecca has a short post today.  But even a few words from her can make our day, right?

Here's Rebecca:

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I have had the worst day, yesterday. So this Friday there will be no post with exception to this:
Things are not what they seem.
Haagen Daz is not a European company.  In the 1950s , a fellow from the Bronx named Riben Mattus developed the brand of ice cream that he wanted to associate with old European charm.  WASPs have Ralph Lauren and Ice Cream has Riben Mattus.  SexyPrime has Rebecca Friday's.  My writing has sexual content, sexual themes but it is not about sex.
This week the work has been exhausting, so I am taking a hiatus on content. Till next week, I am keep a cold one in the freezer.

October 01, 2008

A Last Minute Intercourse Save

Women have asked me what to do when a man's erection flags.  Many men prefer you ignore the limp penis and let them satisfy you, orally or manually (which often restores the erection.)  Some men want a blow job.  (See directions for "The Perfect Stand Up Kiss" in The Sex Bible for Women)

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This is one of the Last Minute Saves featured in SBW:

The Scenario:  He's on top and you are close to orgasm as you feel him losing some of his erection.

The Fix:  Clench your PC muscle hard, firmly enough to hold him in place.  Grab his hip bones or buttocks, and rock him, side to side or back and forth, flexing your PC in time with the move.  Ask him to play with your clit if you need that extra stimulation. 

Why It Works:  You are controlling the direction of his pelvic movements, the speed of thrusting, and the depth of penetration; and you have him where you need him.  You can keep him there until you come, and he will likely regain his erection.  He will probably have an orgasm too; and it will feel to him like you are pulling the orgasm out of him in an explosive way.

September 30, 2008

What's Happened To Male Sexuality?

Palagia and I had another wide-ranging and fascinating conversation on the terrace of her Chelsea apartment this afternoon.  The creator and CEO of One Leg Up, a floating erotic country club which has been staging elaborate fantasy parties for a decade--Palagia is an astute observer of the sexual/cultural scene.  I asked if the economic crisis was impacting her business.

"No!  I had an eat-in soiree at the end of last week, crash week; and it was packed.  People need a little economic pleasure in times like these."

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Our burning question today:  What's happened to male sexuality?

SCB:  The significant changes in sexual behavior in the past decade have been led by women.  We have already agreed on the major trends: 

  • The rise of the Cougar [older woman/younger man];
  • Bi-Girls [young heterosexual women who play with girls too];
  • His porn/her sex toys ["In the latest sexual revolution, men got internet porn and we got better vibes," Lori Perkins, literary agent and author.]
  • The mainstreaming of "kink"
  • The New Monogamy ["cheating" with mutual consent through polyamory, group sex, consensual affairs, swinging]

What do you see most often in your work?

PALAGIA:  What I hear most often from couples is:  "Where can we find a girl?"  Couples are looking for the threesome with a bi girl.  I don't hear, "Where can I find a boy?"  Are there no couples who want a threesome with a boy?  Whatever happened to the androgyny of the Seventies?

SCB:  Good question!  The New York Dolls, David Bowie, Mick Jagger--all androgynous boys of that decade.  Male bisexuality was celebrated, but women were supposed to choose sides.  You were a lesbian or you were straight.  The feminist power structure was fairly strict on that point.  Bisexual women were in the closet just as bisexual men are on the "down low" today.

PALAGIA:  Now girls feel pressured to be bi.  Boys think there is something wrong with a guy in his twenties who hasn't had a threesome with two women.  The culture is selling female bisexuality.  Have you seen the big Remy Martin billboard?  Two smiling sexy girls appear to be tipsy; one is grabbing the necklace of the other.  The caption reads:  "Things are getting interesting." How suggestive is that?  Girl-on-girl is the fantasy America is promoting now.

SCB:  How appropriate to link it with alcohol--since sex is largely fueled by alcohol in this country.

PALAGIA:  I have a rule against excessive drinking at my events.  I want people to enjoy their sensuality and spin their fantasies with a clear mind. 

SCB:  Speaking of fantasies, you said before that you were able to stage more elaborate fantasies in the early days of One Leg Up than you can now.  Why is that?

PALAGIA:  Kink is more mainstream now than it was a decade ago, but people are still conservative.  They are "open" to what they find acceptable like female bisexuality and spanking, but closed to what they don't, especially male bisexuality.  I invited a gay couple to the last party; and people kept whispering to me, "they're gay."  Some thought having them there was great; others were discomforted by their presence.  In the early years, I had a real mix of people at events:  gay, straight, bi, trannies.

SCB:  Do you think fear of HIV-AIDS has played a role in that dynamic?

PALAGIA:  To some extent, but it's more than that. Women seem to be in charge sexually.  One of the gay boys commented on how the women's sexual energy drove the event. 

SCB:  That makes sense.  Women are the gender writing widely about sexuality; women talk about sex to their friends; women are pushing the boundaries. Men seem to have retreated into porn.

PALAGIA:  Women have only had a gateway for exploring their sexuality for the past decade or so.  Men always had access to deviant, underground sexual retreats.  What will happen to female sexuality in the next fifty years?

SCB:  Hmmm....maybe we will retreat into our own vibe world.

PALAGIA (laughing):  Maybe.  But I think women crave physical and emotional connection more than men do.  Porn has done men a real disservice.  They think the fantasy of porn should be the reality of sex.  I've been with men who use so much porn that they can't come with a woman.

SCB:  Yes, I've heard that from other women--and men have confessed it to me.  We must keep talking about this subject.  What has happened to male sexuality?  Guys out there, will you weigh in on that question for us?