WHO KILLED MALE SEXUALITY?: Part Four
An Erotic Mini-Series Featuring Death And Orgasms
(Incorporating Real Characters And Real Events Into Fiction That Includes Fake Orgasms, Forays Into Vibe Addiction And Larger Than Life Throbbing Dicks….Just Like Porn)
By Susan Crain Bakos
Part One is still up on glamwire: http://www.glamwire.com/articles/2008/12/06/sexuality-in-the-city
Part Two is still up on Sexy Whispers:
http://sexywhispers.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/male-sexuality/
Part Three is still up on Club Double:
http://clubdouble.com/columns/fridaymidnight/whokilledmalesexualitypartiii-3.html
At the end of Part Three, the character loosely based on me, had sex again with the man whose large dick curved slightly, making him better than a G spot vibrator. Between that ending and the beginning of Part Four, the following events (among many others--you’ll have to wait for the book) took place: the little stylist was arrested for murdering the little person, her accomplice in blackmailing clients of a wealthy dom. One by one, the city’s dungeons were shut down by the vice squad until only a few staid places remained. Not since Rudy cleaned up the porn shops around Times Square had there been so much attention paid to the moral behavior of New Yorkers. Between the crackdown and the recession, Palagia’s erotic parties were also taking a hit. (The best public sex is private, parties organized on the web but not open to anyone willing to fill out long questionnaires.) People aren’t spending a lot of money to go out any more--which is partly what led the many who were asking Who Killed Male Sexuality? to conclude; the best sex events in town are the free workshops at Babeland.
On December 22, the party at the Mercer Street Babeland store was the hottest ticket in town. Admission was free. Party favors included individual packets of lube and condoms, silver bullet vibes erotic chocolates. Drawings were held for three luxury vibes, JimmyJane’s new waterproof Form 6, Layla Spot and Sasi, providing the closest experience to cunnilingus you can get without a real live tongue. Add wine and cheese cubes and a hint of notoriety--and who could resist the invitation? Every time I enter a Babeland store, with the bright color schemes and elegant product arrangements, I am reminded once again of how much straight women owe lesbian women who were championing women’s sexual rights long before we were--and started the sex toy business in America. Thank your lesbian sisters for being able to buy glass dildos that look like little pieces of art and high-tech luxury vibes.
“She did not buy that huge dildo at Babeland,” co-owner Claire Cavanah assured a reporter from The New York Press. “Really, that model is just too big. I’m sure it came from a place in the West Village.”
The young girl reporter nodded in agreement. It came from some place in the West Village, like The Pink Pussycat or The Pleasure Chest or one of those really gay shops that specialized in harnesses, whips and chains. And why was the tiny stylist shopping in one of those places? The tabloids posited the question: Would the stylist be charged with pre-meditated murder because, obviously, she didn’t buy that dildo for her own intimate use?
I was more interested in the sudden feud between two girl bloggers. Serena and Mindy accused one another of “stealing” ideas, interviews, photo ops--and, of course, men. Bi-girls moving into polyandrous territory, they were as my friend Anton said, “fighting over the same little pie.” The poly concept is over-extended in blog world anyway. No one lies and cheats--suburban adultery as I played the game; they obtain permission from their “primary partners” to have sex with others. They create lots of rules and talk endlessly about their multiple relationships. Anton’s love Miranda once famously said, “Poly-amore is when you say, ‘My love, I need to fuck someone else now.’” (Typically the negotiations are more wordy than that--or so I have heard and read.) The more evolved polyandrous people bring secondary partners into their primary relationships and set everyone down together for holiday dinners, including the in-laws--like the extended family from hell. (When you just lie and cheat, it’s all about the sex; and you do not have to meet your lover’s relatives.)
I was standing between Nick, the man who is enthralled with the New York sex scene, and Steve Otero, my pal who knows everything about that scene, past and present--and that‘s way too much information to co-exist in the brain with any romanticized vision of the city‘s sex event calendar. Moxie, the girl who blogs retro relationship advice straight out of The Rules, was sizing up Nick from across the room. Oh, good match.
“I’m waiting for a girl fight,” I said. “Serena and Mindy have both signed book contracts to write about their experience of moving from straight to bi to poly.” I added for Nick’s benefit: “They’re basically going to write the same book.”
(Let me tell you about that particular pie: their small publisher’s advances were likely in the $3500 range--with potential royalties possibly throwing them into the Still Not Five Figures book earnings range. Candice Bushnell may be the last person to make serious money from documenting any part of the scene.)
“You’re so wrong about these girls,” Nick said. “They are very supportive of one another. They’re always telling me, ‘You have to talk to this one and that one.’ They share.”
“They deny it, but they all think they’re the new Carrie Bradshaw,” Steve said.
“Yeah, if Carrie Bradshaw had been paid a realistic fee for her column and couldn‘t afford all those shoes and was dating Mr. Not That Big,” I said, studying Serena and Mindy who, with their identical long dark haircuts, resemble one another enough to be sisters. “They might be exchanging veiled insults at twenty paces, but they’re not going to fight.”
“What? And wreck Babeland’s perfect displays?” Steve asked.
Yeah, again. I wandered the room holding my plastic wine glass, chatting briefly with the little groups of people, mostly women, who gathered together like chocolate chips in gooey cookie dough. Occasionally someone asked me if I really thought male sexuality was dead--or if women had killed it. Oh, how I wished I was wearing my Sweetheart, a strap-on vibe, so I could be discreetly getting off as I pontificated on dead male sexuality.
I spotted my two invited guests coming in the door: two handsome strapping husbands in their thirties one from Westchester, the other from north Jersey, faithful readers of my blog. They both e-mailed me regularly asking questions about their sex lives with the most oft-repeated: “How can I get her to let me go down on her more often?” I hear that a lot. Apparently all over America men are waiting to serve--and women just want to sleep. It’s a curious turn of events. The daughters of the Boomers who made ‘she comes first” via cunnilingus a generational battle cry, these girls, according to their mates, demur more often than not. What’s up with that?
I hugged my men and introduced them to Stephanie, a hot Babeland sales clerk. They wanted to buy toys, lots of toys, for their wives’ Christmas stockings. Stephanie was just the person to fill the store’s pink shopping bags with the right choices.
“Where are the real men?” a petite blonde asked me.
“Real men buy sex toys,” I said.
“Yes, I suppose they do,” she said, her tone sounding doubtful. (Ha! You see the problem? Some women think real men don’t buy sex toys.)
I thought about my friend A, almost 40, who definitely considers himself a real man. (I can’t see him purchasing anything but handcuffs and a flogger, maybe a sturdy paddle; the vibes would intimidate him.) A bit of a misogynist, he has reduced every woman in his romantic past to an unflattering blog post. I don’t think he gets laid very often either. (“What’s wrong with women?!” he frequently whines.)
I keep telling him: Bi-girls and Cougars get all the action; and he appeals to neither.
Thirty minutes later I was hailing a cab, having left “the scene” for the delights of a large black slightly curved dick in BedStye. Yes, the scene is all about women now. Who needs a scene anyway when the internet has made the private public? Men don’t. They lurk on craigslist. If they have lots of money, they pay for high-end call girls, happy endings at Asian massage parlors--or blow it at strip clubs. Male sexuality isn’t really dead; it’s still paying its own way.
How much do the girls of sex influence sexual behavior? I pondered that question on the way to my lover’s loft. Very little, I decided. Bloggers with the power to change thinking and the influence to make things happen are writing on politics, not poly-amore. The women who started Babeland changed our lives; the bloggers who promote their products--including me--are latecomers to the cause.
The new Sexual Revolution is a women’s revolution, the final stage. Female sexual empowerment! If we don’t own our sexuality, we don’t own ourselves. The message is out there, in many places, on many levels. I keep writing because I believe in the message. Women are getting it or they’re not--or not until they‘re ready to hear it.
I got it that night. Once again. I wasn’t wearing panties. He pushed up my skirt and thrust that incredible dick into me; and I began to come as soon as he entered me.
I would love to tell you that the story ends here in blessed monogamy on almost Christmas Day, with all the loose ends tied up as neatly as in the murder case. But, alas, I went home from BedStye, opened my email and read the latest chapter in an ongoing long distance flirtation I was carrying on with a younger man in California, another frustrated young husband rarely given the opportunity to serve. A former pro athlete turned vintner, he’s coming to New York on business in January and wants to meet.
I would love that
, I typed.
I’ve sent you a fantasy of being with you; now you send me one
, he typed.
And so I began to write a fantasy of meeting him for the first time in a restaurant, maybe one of my old favorites in Soho, scenes of my sexual past:
In my fantasy of a sexual encounter with this younger man, he is definitely in control. He doesn’t ask, What would you like to do? He says, This is what you will do.
When I get up to use the ladies room, he takes my wrist, holds it and says, “Bring your panties back to me and put them in my jacket pocket.”
My heart is pounding and my pussy is damp as I walk back to the table, panties crushed inside one hand. I do as I am told and slip a pair of delicate black lace panties into his pocket. We both know that signifies submission and surrender. I will do whatever he wants.
I am really attracted to his intelligence and good looks--the trim and fit body!--and to the athletic discipline that seems to guide his life. He surely understands the body, specifically I think he will understand mine-- how he can play it and use it and push it to the erotic limits. In the cab on the way back to his hotel, we kiss and run our hands up and down one another’s bodies. He reaches inside my blouse, into my black lace bra, caresses my breasts and takes my nipple between his thumb and first finger, pinching and twisting it until I gasp into his mouth.
In his room, he tells me to take off my skirt and blouse. Standing before him in thigh high black stockings and heels and my bra, I eagerly anticipate his orders. My pussy has a pulse of its own
……
Yes, my pussy has a pulse of its own.