Hello there, twitterers.
This blog is full of cobwebs, but I had a little blast from the past last night, when I opened my dusty box of collected erotica anthologies, and revisited my story from Alison Tyler's Morning, Noon and Night.
Full disclosure, this is my favourite of my own stories, a little wish fulfilment tale of being wanted after all.
If anyone would like to read, you're welcome to. But please - in return, follow the proper self-isolation protocols. Let's not have a thousand dead loved ones and nowhere to put them. Dublin's pubs are full, and kids are thronging the playgrounds. Stop. Stay home, if you can, don't socialise. It's not for long, but it will be longer and longer, if we don't do it, with added tragedy.
Stay in and enjoy this story, a little humour, a little sweetness, a little wetness, and little sentiment.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
More - a treat for those in self-isolation
More
I swing around, pint glass in hand, and there he is. Rob.
The broad shoulders and shoulder length hair are unmistakeable. He’s dancing
with some girl, and the eye contact he’s making looks convincing from her
vantage point, but most of the time he’s scanning the crowd under the cover of
the strobe lights. Under cover of the strobe lights, I try to pretend I don’t
know he’s catching my eye.
Last time I saw him, he’d been tiptoeing out of my apartment
in his socks, collecting his scattered belongings and sneaking out the door.
That’s why I decided. No more flirty eyes across the bar at kicking out time,
no more grinding on the dance floor. No more shot-for-shot games sitting either
side of a bottle on the floor. No more rum and sweat soaked orgasms in the small
hours, followed by a two day hangover and a three day comedown where I cursed
my luck with men and whatever perky breasted bitchslut he was surely sniffing
after now.
Nope. Not good for the mental health. I grasped my resolve
in my silver ringed fist and set my sights on surer things.
Tonight, though, those surer things weren’t exactly lighting
up my crosshairs. If I’m honest, I’ve been the one tiptoeing barefoot away from
yet another snoring disappointment the last few Saturday mornings. Those
lacklustre encounters haven’t been as good for the psyche as I’d anticipated.
So I’d been planning to just go dance with my girls. Thick
soled, lace up boots with leggings and a clinging cotton shift dress. I’m
grunging tonight, though the dress does have low back. Still, if I had the
tits, I’d wear a bra with it anyway, brazen, but it’s one of those nights I
feel blessed with my perky little boobs that push against the cotton without
any need for support. I’ve got boots and skin and a necklace
hanging the wrong way - my jet beads tight at my throat and hanging down my
spine, pointing like an arrow towards my ass. I tip my head back, and hold my
arms out, slopping beer through my fingertips caging the rim of my pint glass,
balancing myself with its weight. No cocktails tonight, no handbags, just
lovely, dirty, sweaty, nostalgic music in the humid, beer tainted air.
It’s dark, but he sees me. I can feel his eyes on me. But
I’m not going to look. He can flaunt all the floozies he likes, I’m gonna get
my dance on and walk home alone.
12.30 am and I’m sitting on the wall outside his flat.
Lights on. I’m a stalker, sitting here, waiting for two silhouettes to cross
the window. It’s cold and my ass is going numb on
this wall. I’m fighting the Shoulds pouring through my brain – shouldn’t have
severed contact with him, no, should never have slept with him in the first
place, should really be home in bed with a book and woolly socks, and at this
stage, possibly hot cocoa. I stand up and look at the window one more time. As I
move to leave, my phone beeps. I don’t recognise the number at first, because I
so virtuously deleted him from my address book.
Were you planning to come in, or
are you just going to sit there all night?
I look up. The window still seems empty. I text back,
desperate for a one liner that will somehow excuse my undignified behaviour.
Do you want me to?
Facepalm. Not so suave. A second ticks by, and his door
swings open, his familiar shape backlit. I jog across the street and then drag
my heels up to his door. I stop in front of him and he reaches out and runs a
finger up the zip of my scruffy black parka.
“This is
nice,” he says. “Retro.” I smile. I know from his record collection that we
shared similar tastes in the past.
“I’m in
fancy dress.” He raises an eyebrow, fingers still lingering on the black
canvas. ‘I’m dressed as my fifteen year old self tonight. Out for a pint and a
dance, it’s nice to have a warm coat for the walk home.’
‘Or for
stalking?’
‘I
wasn’t stalking!’ Lying indignantly is the best defence.
‘Tea?’
So tea will be the stream we float on, until we arrive at a
place that’s comfortable again. I sit on the sofa, knees pulled up, hands
clasping a hot mug, and breath in the steam. I glance at him while taking a
sip. He’s looking at me, openly, and he
looks amused. I can feel myself blushing – this is far harder without the
blanket of drunkenness we usually operate under. I’m not sure what he’s waiting
for and I look around the room to buy some time. I’ve only been here once before,
late at night. The next morning was a sort of stagger-round-in-sunglasses
affair, I didn’t remember much about the decor. But it’s nice. Not what I
expected. I thought it would be cheap flatpack furniture and student squalor,
to be honest. But it’s a lot more tasteful than that. Rich neutral colours and
reclaimed boards. Art on the walls. The place must be his, and he’s done some
work on it.
“Your
place is lovely, Rob.” I gesture at the heavy wooden coffee table and bookcase.
He nods at me in acknowledgement. He cocks his head to one side and studies me
and I squirm under his gaze a little.
“Thanks.”
There’s no, ‘do you want a tour?’ or suggestions about the
bedroom. He just keeps watching. “I like your place too.” I frown at my tea.
“You’re always in such a hurry to
leave it, though.”
Crap. That was meant to come out like jaunty banter, but
instead it falls flat, and sits in a sad little puddle between us. I smile too
brightly and wish he’d offer me a splash of something in my tea to give me a
little Dutch courage. He leans his head on his fist and his blue eyes burn
bright.
“Would
you like to stay with me tonight?”
I clear my throat and nod, tongue tied. It’s the first time
he’s ever asked. Usually there is grinding and groping and tacit agreement, and
we stagger home and fall into bed. I have no idea why tonight is going so
differently, but then I suppose I initiated a different protocol, with the
stalking and all.
“Stand
up.” His voice is soft, low and firm. I lean over to put my cup on the table
and uncurl my legs. I pull myself to my feet and look down at him. “What is it
you want, tonight, Cally?” The question paralyses me. I’ve no smart answer,
because for once it doesn’t really seem to be a smart question. I wrestle with
the fear that I shouldn’t be there, with that conviction I’d had that I was
chasing my tail. I open my mouth, and close it again. He sighs, but it’s not
irritated. “There’s something I’ve been wanting to do all night.”
He stands
up and walks over to me. Putting his hands under the shoulder straps of my
dress, he slips it down to my waist, and inches it around and replaces it, so
the high front is at the back, and my front is... backless. My nipples pebble
under the air and exposure and self consciousness. He’s framed my breasts like
they’re a painting, and sat back down to look at it. “Will you take your boots
off, Cal?” I nod. My voice is gone. I bend and unlace my right boot, fumbling
with the knot, the eyelets seem endless. I stand and balance myself to shuck
it, kick it under the table and this time prop my left foot on the table. With
my leggings on I’m still quite modest, or would be if my chest wasn’t naked. I
get the other boot off more quickly and drop it with a clunk. The noise makes
me giggle, there’s no question these are fuck-you boots not the other, but Rob
doesn’t seem to mind, judging by the look in his eye.
He
gestures, and I slide the leggings and underwear off myself and toss them onto
the sofa. “What do you want, pretty girl in my living room?” I resist the urge
to um and blush and I walk over to his chair.
“I want
to be closer to you.”
He holds a hand out to me, and I climb onto his lap. As I
do, he reaches up and palms my breast, and pulls me in.
“Well?”
“You
usually... you don’t usually ask, you just take,” I whisper, leaning into his
hands, arranging myself so I’m straddling his thigh, shivering with the chill
on my bare skin and the contrasting heat of his hands.
“Well,
you’ve never shown up at my door before.”
He lets me tip his face towards me,
and find his mouth with mine. His lips are firm and full and I can feel his
sandy beard scratching at my face. He tastes familiar when I flick my tongue
across his. Little shivers fill me at the connection. He hooks a finger into
the strand of beads at my necks and starts to pull. Caught in my dress, they
come slowly, snaggingly over my shoulders, then faster as there’s more slack.
They fall between my breasts and he fists them loosely in one hand and rubs the
sliding mass of them over my exposed and eager tits. The beads are cool on my
nipples. I close my eyes and breathe deeply. Rob pulls me forward by the
necklace and loops tight around my throat. It’s so long, he still has a lot to
hold on to. The strand around my neck is taught, but I can still breathe, and I
suck in air sharply when he catches my nipple in the fistful of beads he’s
holding and closes his hand. The beads crush together around it with tiny
shrill noises and I feel a multitude of little points of pain light up on my
tender flesh. I squeak and try to pull away, but the choke chain he’s made of
my necklace doesn’t make that any more comfortable. He pulls me back in and
does the same thing to the other nipple, reaching up to kiss me again as he
pinches my delicate skin. The beads are light, but they have a multitude of
edges that pinch and grind. I moan in protest but I don’t move again. “What do
you want?” he whispers into my ear.
“You?” I
try, mashing my crotch against his jean clad leg. He trails his fingers down my
thigh and strokes my bare pussy. I tilt to let his fingers in and even at this
awkward angle they fill me. I thrust onto them but he slides them out of me,
trails them up through the beads, which tinkle and whisper as he goes, and
pushes them into my mouth. This. I want this. The taste of him in my mouth,
tart with a slick of my cream, this is exactly what I want.
“Ass on
the table.” Rob moves forward with ease, pushing me back until my legs hit the
table, and I sit, more abruptly than I would like to. He slips to his knees,
and puts his mouth to the nipples he’s just finished abusing. Lightening darts
of pleasure zing around my body as he eases me backwards, and pushes the skirt
of my dress out of the way. He nuzzles my inner thigh all soft lips and
prickling beard, then his lips move slowly up to my cunt. I open for him and
whimper when he tongue delves deep into me before licking up to my clit. His
mouth feels so firm, so wet, his moustache and stubble press into my soft flesh
and the burn drives the pleasure upward. My hand settles on the back of his
head, winding tight into his thick hair as he starts a steady rhythm, building
pressure, sucking on my aching, swelling, throbbing flesh until my abdomen
begins to tighten and contract. And then he stops.
“What!
What? Rob!”
“What do
you want, Cally?” He rests his head on my thigh and begins to play with my
cunt, just lightly, running his fingers up and down my lips, spreading the
wetness of his spit and my juice around.
“I..! I
want to come! Rob, please!” I try to grind against him, but to no avail. He
moves away and lifts my hips, flipping me over onto my front. The smooth wood
of the table is cold against my breasts and belly and I shiver. Rob hunkers
down beside me and whispers in my ear.
“Not
until you give me what I’m looking for, baby. Now, remember that time we played
with the hairbrush?” I gulp. I do indeed. I not only remember it, it has played
a starring role in plenty of my fantasies since that night. “Hmm?” He smoothes
my hair off my face so he can see me, and I nod.
“Yes.”
It comes out as a whisper.
“And you
remember we agreed on a word you’d use if you needed things to stop or slow
down?” I nod again, caught in the bright blue of his eyes. My face flushes but
my pussy is flooding with the excitement and fear of anticipation too. “Do I
need to tie you down, Cal?” I really don’t know if he does or not.
“No?”
He pats me on the head. I try to feel indignant, but it
doesn’t work. His fingertip trails all the way down my spine and taps three
times. A beat, and his hand cracks onto my ass cheek, it sparks and burns and I
moan and put my head down, and wait for the next one. He smacks me and waits,
timing each pause just long enough to make me fear the next one, make me long
for it. My pussy throbs and flames along with my ass, I want his face back
there, even better, I want him to fuck me now. But he doesn’t. He stops his
punishment, and strokes my hot cheeks. I groan, and writhe and try to press
myself back against him but he just smacks me once more.
“Up. Bedroom.”
I scramble, slither off the table, melted and liquid and eager. He leads me
into his room. It’s white, mostly. The floor is stained dark, and the bed is
dark wood, but everything else seems white in the dim light. I clamber onto the
bed and as I make to turn around he catches my wrists and stretches them in
front of me. Beneath the pillows are straps! I didn’t notice them the time I
was here. Velcro straps he fastens me into. My arms are spread wide and my head
is low to the bed. He pushes my ass up high and checks my pussy. His fingers
stroke, then enter again, he pushes against my g spot. “What do you want, Cal?”
I groan in frustration. Isn’t it obvious?
“I want
you to fuck me, Rob, please.” It’s a good enough position to beg from, being
tipped up onto my face and spread open like this always undoes me. I can’t
think of much else but his cock at this point. But he’s having none of it. He
pulls his fingers out of me, leaving me gasping at the cold absence of his
hand. He crawls to sit beside me and pushes my hair out of the way, touches my
lips again. All of a sudden he smacks my face, not so hard, but I startle and
try to jerk away. The straps mean I’m not going anywhere, and he does it again,
a little harder.
“What do
you want, Cal?”
“Ow!”
I’m not used to this, and I’m shocked. I feel completely helpless, and small.
He smacks me again and the side of my face stings. Before I can even analyse my
reaction, I start to cry. Wet, lonely tears run from my eyes and he wipes them
away – and smacks my face again, lazily.
“What?”
I’m spread open, and within a few minutes, he’s put me in a
place I could never access by myself.
“More.”
It comes out as a hoarse whisper. I press my face into the pillow as best I
can.
“Oh,
honey. It’s ok, we’ve just begun. I can do this all night.” I sob and shake my
head.
“No, more. I want more. Than this. I want you.”
“Ohhh.”
He moves his hand over my breasts, spreads it on my stomach.
“I want breakfast with you.
Television. I don’t want to have to go home.” I start to babble. His hips press
against my thighs and I can feel him lean to the side. I hear a condom packet
rip and his hands leave me for a second and manoeuvre the rubber on. His cock
presses against my open, wanting cunt and for a second I’m worried he didn’t
understand. But as he pushes into me he leans over and kisses my back, touches
his forehead to my skin. His cock feels so good inside me that I almost don’t
care if that’s all he’s offering, but he leans over me and reaches for the
straps, pulls my hands free. He pulls me up to his chest while he thrusts into
me and wraps long arms round my torso, crossing my breasts and stomach. I am
penetrated and held, it feels like flying, like floating.
“Is that
what you want?” he whispers in my ear, licking the curves of my ear between
sentences. I try to answer, but now the tip of his tongue is running electric
shivers between every tiny hair inside my ear, hot as he exhales, cool as he
pulls his breath away. His pubic hair bristles against my sore ass, He’s pounding
against that swelling wall inside and one big hand is pressing on my clit,
rubbing as he fucks me. I’m trapped and there’s no escape from the waves of
pleasure that burst through me. He pinches my tender nipple and I reach back to
hold onto his arm as I come, the heat and hurt and tightness of it shaking me.
We
collapse to the bed, and he pulls me to his chest, arms around me. “It’s what I
want too,” he says, deep voice in my ear as I start to float away. “Sleep.
And in there morning, there will be more.”
Posted by Vida at 5:06 AM 0 comments
Friday, November 25, 2016
Sinful Press Flash Competition
Photograph courtesy of http://mollysdailykiss.com
Twilight
‘I’m hungry.’
‘Well, there’s any number of wannabe victims out there
lusting after your sensitive brand of murderousness.'
Two figures sat high on an office window ledge looking down
on a concrete underpass. You could have seen them if you looked up, sitting
side by side, in faded rock star denim and leather. No one ever looks up.
The first vampire sniffed in distain, tucking a strand of dirty
blond hair behind his ear with delicate fingers.
‘I’ve had enough of swooning waifs flinging themselves at
me. To be honest I could do with something meatier.’
His friend sniggered.
‘I’m sure all their mummies would be happy to oblige too.’
‘I was thinking more along the lines of a bit of a
challenge. Someone with a little spirit. Maybe someone like her.’ He nodded
towards a woman far below, dressed in scant summer clothing and Converse,
busily graffitiing the underpass wall. Her adrenaline and excitement blew
towards them on the summer air and both creatures shifted on their perch. She
wasn’t young, this woman, not the average scruffy teen they were used to seeing
spraying tags around like territorial cats. They watched the bulge of her
muscles in her arm as it swept over the wall, the tiny clang as she dropped her
cans in the backpack at her feet.
‘I don’t think you want any of that.’ He
nodded towards a figure who stood watching her.’ C’mon.’
They hadn’t seen the
woman kiss her boyfriend as he left for work, and scamper inside to change her
clothes and pack her bag before heading out purposefully, bare legs striding
into the summer evening. She didn’t see him pull out of a side road and follow,
keeping a careful distance so as to remain undiscovered. Now he watched from
behind her, dark uniform blending with the shadows. She stood back to assess
her artwork, stretching to rub her lower spine.
As she did so, he stepped up behind her, reaching through her
arms to pin them behind her. One large hand closed on her throat.
‘You’re nicked, sweetheart.’
The woman froze, the started to struggle wildly. At the hint
of movement, the policeman stepped forward, pushing her up against the wall
with a thud. Wet paint smeared on her chest and cheek. He moved his hand around
to tug at the choker she wore around her neck.
‘Really? You wear this to break a promise?’ She started to
speak. ‘Shut up.’
He reached between her and the rough wall and jerked her
stretchy white top down over her breasts, baring them to the cold, paint-dampened
wall. He pulled his nightstick out and pressed it to the back of her neck,
holding her in place with the cold metal while he drew her skimpy skirt up,
trailing his fingers between her thighs and through the plump divide of her
cunt and ass as he went.
‘Up against the wall. Spread,’ he leaned in and sneered in
her ear. She complied. The watchers high above moved in the distance, one briefly
placing a hand on the chest of his friend as the pump of the woman’s heart
reached them, the sound entwining with the fresh musk of her cunt.
‘You think you’re so clever,’ bit out the policeman, as he
ran the baton down her back and pushed its tip between her exposed cheeks. ‘You
thought you wouldn’t get caught? Or you’d get what you wanted?’ He pressed
harder and her breath poured out in a grunt. ‘Like being on your knees on the
concrete with my cock down your throat isn’t your favourite thing. But it’s
going to be a long night.’ He moved in closer and her cry carried to the two
figures moving away at speed, moved to start their own hunt.
Posted by Vida at 3:15 PM 0 comments
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Another rape post
I live in a country where child abuse was rife, alive and well in a church that had enormous social control, and which was protected by the Vatican. Police turned a blind eye. Church officials turned a blind eye and moved the abusers to new parishes, fresh pastures of innocents. Parents met accusations of abuse with physical violence. We're terrified our children might get abducted; stranger danger! but the horrible truth is, with this legacy of abuse, children are far, far more likely to be abused in their homes, by family members or friends, than by any dangerous stranger with a car and a bag of sweets. Statistically.
I also live in a country where marital rape didn't exists as a crime until 1990. Nineteen ninety. My friend who is now in her eighties told me a story of being in hospital after the birth of her first child, and hearing the woman in the next bed being visited by her husband - for a conjugal visit. He came into maternity hospital days after she'd had a baby, to fuck her. Ever had a baby? Can you imagine?
I think Stoya's terrible revelation on twitter last night, that James Deen raped her while they were still together, is profoundly unsettling. It calls into question everything I believed about kink. I've never been naive enough to think that there aren't abusers out there calling themselves dominant. It's all too clear. But James Deen stood for something, and was this daddy-figure for all sorts of adoring teenage girls who think they want what he's offering.
And, shit... what's he really offering, if he can rape a woman he loves, a beautiful, intelligent, articulate, important woman like this... one slip of the facade, one decision to let go the responsibility for your sadism that must be so tightly reigned in...
I have sympathy for people who feel these urges, not just the urge to play, but the real, vicious need to delight in pain you cause others, reagardless of their wants and needs. But we can't validate it if you're going to let go control and fuck it all up for everyone. Especially when your whole career and brand depends on presenting it as safe, sane, consentual. The mask slips and ... it's all called into question. Our support of kink; of porn, too. Much as I want to watch that stuff, no way do I want to get off on it if it's real.
It's a fine line, yes, and maybe an unfair one. But still, it's the one you have to tread if you want to be respected. And so many people do, right? It's hard, but they do it? Because they're good human beings who are horrified at the idea of putting their own base desires above their partners' physical and emotional safety. A safeword should be an instant cause for alarm, concern, de-bonification. It shouldn't be a turn on to override it. Because if it is, you're not kinky, you're just criminal. You're just a shit person who indulges their sadism at the expense of others without a care.
I think every learning Dom will make mistakes. People talk about how hard it is to be submissive, but I'm not sure. Personally, as someone with fuck all control over any aspect of her life or self, the level of control and organisation it takes to be a real dom amazes me - I can't imagine it. So... I wouldn't do it. But there's mistakes, and there's rape. There's a huge, yawning gulf between the two.
There will always be much 'let him defend himself/did you report it then?, innocent til proven' etc. etc. bleating in these cases. Certainly, false accusations can be life ruining. It's the playground of the mysoginist though, to decide to dismiss a rape claim because it can't be proven. I feel genuinely afraid of what's to come for Stoya, and absolutely understanding of why she hasn't come out with this before now. And I understand absolutely why people (everyday people, let alone porn stars who like rough sex) are reluctant to go to the police. Because it's a gauntlet of cruelty and misery they may face when they do. BDSM and misunderstanding of it cloud your right to protest against rape. There ain't that much understanding of the difference out there. And there's a whole heap of victim blaming bullshit - not to mention that post listing endless names of police officers convicted of rape in the US - the people you're reporting to are the abusers too. It's terrifying.
It may suck, but to me, the vulnerability of a rape or child abuse victim is far more fragile than the vulnerability of a man wrongly accused of rape. Foremost, because that's actually so rare. I'm appalled at the idea of false accusations, but I think the people who rant about them are blind to the misery of what it takes to accuse. They have no idea. And they also have a vision of women (and often children) as malign and manipulative in a way that harks back to fairy tales of old. They want wicked witch queens, it's easier than facing what our world is.
But tough... there's a hell of a lot more rape out there daily than there are false accusations. We desperately need to frame a different response. And how should Doms respond? The ones who get turned on by rape scenes, by tears... I'm not sure, because I feel the ground shaking too. I agree with Stu, that James Deen needs to man up, admit, accept consequences, and above all, apologise unreservedly, if he wants to make this right. He's being very silent on the matter - I assume he's lawyering up, I dunno.
I do feel naive and disillusioned, as a supporter of good porn, and kink, as someone with alternative sex-wiring... it does make you wonder if all the positivity is real, is possible. Whether the whole leather tower will come crashing down in an explosion of human foibles at some point. We're weak and imperfect. We fuck up. And we're all so vulnerable.
Communication is key. After-talk. Humility. A stripping away of barriers and borders and self-protection. Be honest, be ready to listen, be keen to fix. With this, mistakes don't become dire things that hurt the people you love forever. They are containable, and enable change and development. This is the only way to frame it for yourself, I think, if you are a Dom who's feeling doubts about the validity you've built around your needs. At the end of the day, if you're reacting to this news with alarm, with disquiet, with disappointment, you're doing ok.
I also live in a country where marital rape didn't exists as a crime until 1990. Nineteen ninety. My friend who is now in her eighties told me a story of being in hospital after the birth of her first child, and hearing the woman in the next bed being visited by her husband - for a conjugal visit. He came into maternity hospital days after she'd had a baby, to fuck her. Ever had a baby? Can you imagine?
I think Stoya's terrible revelation on twitter last night, that James Deen raped her while they were still together, is profoundly unsettling. It calls into question everything I believed about kink. I've never been naive enough to think that there aren't abusers out there calling themselves dominant. It's all too clear. But James Deen stood for something, and was this daddy-figure for all sorts of adoring teenage girls who think they want what he's offering.
And, shit... what's he really offering, if he can rape a woman he loves, a beautiful, intelligent, articulate, important woman like this... one slip of the facade, one decision to let go the responsibility for your sadism that must be so tightly reigned in...
I have sympathy for people who feel these urges, not just the urge to play, but the real, vicious need to delight in pain you cause others, reagardless of their wants and needs. But we can't validate it if you're going to let go control and fuck it all up for everyone. Especially when your whole career and brand depends on presenting it as safe, sane, consentual. The mask slips and ... it's all called into question. Our support of kink; of porn, too. Much as I want to watch that stuff, no way do I want to get off on it if it's real.
It's a fine line, yes, and maybe an unfair one. But still, it's the one you have to tread if you want to be respected. And so many people do, right? It's hard, but they do it? Because they're good human beings who are horrified at the idea of putting their own base desires above their partners' physical and emotional safety. A safeword should be an instant cause for alarm, concern, de-bonification. It shouldn't be a turn on to override it. Because if it is, you're not kinky, you're just criminal. You're just a shit person who indulges their sadism at the expense of others without a care.
I think every learning Dom will make mistakes. People talk about how hard it is to be submissive, but I'm not sure. Personally, as someone with fuck all control over any aspect of her life or self, the level of control and organisation it takes to be a real dom amazes me - I can't imagine it. So... I wouldn't do it. But there's mistakes, and there's rape. There's a huge, yawning gulf between the two.
There will always be much 'let him defend himself/did you report it then?, innocent til proven' etc. etc. bleating in these cases. Certainly, false accusations can be life ruining. It's the playground of the mysoginist though, to decide to dismiss a rape claim because it can't be proven. I feel genuinely afraid of what's to come for Stoya, and absolutely understanding of why she hasn't come out with this before now. And I understand absolutely why people (everyday people, let alone porn stars who like rough sex) are reluctant to go to the police. Because it's a gauntlet of cruelty and misery they may face when they do. BDSM and misunderstanding of it cloud your right to protest against rape. There ain't that much understanding of the difference out there. And there's a whole heap of victim blaming bullshit - not to mention that post listing endless names of police officers convicted of rape in the US - the people you're reporting to are the abusers too. It's terrifying.
It may suck, but to me, the vulnerability of a rape or child abuse victim is far more fragile than the vulnerability of a man wrongly accused of rape. Foremost, because that's actually so rare. I'm appalled at the idea of false accusations, but I think the people who rant about them are blind to the misery of what it takes to accuse. They have no idea. And they also have a vision of women (and often children) as malign and manipulative in a way that harks back to fairy tales of old. They want wicked witch queens, it's easier than facing what our world is.
But tough... there's a hell of a lot more rape out there daily than there are false accusations. We desperately need to frame a different response. And how should Doms respond? The ones who get turned on by rape scenes, by tears... I'm not sure, because I feel the ground shaking too. I agree with Stu, that James Deen needs to man up, admit, accept consequences, and above all, apologise unreservedly, if he wants to make this right. He's being very silent on the matter - I assume he's lawyering up, I dunno.
I do feel naive and disillusioned, as a supporter of good porn, and kink, as someone with alternative sex-wiring... it does make you wonder if all the positivity is real, is possible. Whether the whole leather tower will come crashing down in an explosion of human foibles at some point. We're weak and imperfect. We fuck up. And we're all so vulnerable.
Communication is key. After-talk. Humility. A stripping away of barriers and borders and self-protection. Be honest, be ready to listen, be keen to fix. With this, mistakes don't become dire things that hurt the people you love forever. They are containable, and enable change and development. This is the only way to frame it for yourself, I think, if you are a Dom who's feeling doubts about the validity you've built around your needs. At the end of the day, if you're reacting to this news with alarm, with disquiet, with disappointment, you're doing ok.
Posted by Vida at 3:59 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Speaking of rage...
So I have an elementary student from a foreign clime who asked me about treatment for thrush, saying she felt too ashamed to go to the doctor. I told her she didn't have to, and how to fix it, and that it wasn't neecssarily an STD, and said there was no need to feel ashamed at all.
She told me the shame was from sexual abuse earlier in her life and mentioned it in one other context too.
She's depressive, and is missing swimming and surfing like she does at home, which is her outlet and mental health guard. Her other teacher invited her to go away for the weekend surfing, an she was really delighted - a chance to have fun and get back to her passion that keeps her grounded.
Instead, she messaged me on Sunday to say that she got drunk on Saturday night when she shouldn't drink as it doesn't agree with her. And that she woke up naked next to her class mate that she's been being friends with, who's Brazilian about hugs but who she's not interested in romantically. She was horrified and ashamed and put her clothes on and ran away. She WhatsApped him to check that he'd used a condom (she couldn't remember anything at all, but could tell she'd had sex), he said he had, but she couldn't be sure.
Even though she's blaming herself for drinking when she's not used to it, she was able to tell me that she'd explained to him that she didn't sleep with men because of her past experience. Which seems pretty clear cut to me. Yet when she was so drunk she'd blacked out, he took her to bed and had sex with her.
I know it's complex, she doesn't know what she said or did or agreed to. But the fact remains that whatever it looked like, she was in no state to go back on her initial statement that she wouldn't have sex with him, because she doesn't sleep with men. She's 26, it's been 12 years since her original abuse happened, whatever it may have consisted of - but that means she was 14 then, and she's probably never had a consentual adult sexual relationship with a man ... but he took it upon himself to decide that he was that guy. While she was black out drunk.
So her beautiful gift of a weekend away gets turned into a re-experiencing of her earlier trauma, and she gets to try and process the fact that she's been raped, again, while so very far from home and having nowhere near enough English to talk to anyone about it.
I've found her a nice counsellor with 'some' Portuguese, I've brought her to get the morning after pill, just in case, and sent her home alone to deal with the ensuing sickness. I've had the guy moved to another class so she doesn't have to sit there looking at him. And I feel frustrated and impotent and full of rage.
If I had a superpower, it would honestly be to extract all her feelings of shame and panic and violation and dump them right on him. All the memories of what happened when she was a girl, all the guilt and regret and nausea and humiliation from the weekend and the way it must feel reawakened all over again - and the way her time away studying English has been soured and made into something traumatic and difficult and awkward and full of grief and fear. I would take all that, and fuck it, her depression and family difficulty too, and I would drop it on him from a height, and let him feel it instead of her.
And then maybe he'd get some perspective about what exactly having a fuck at someone else's great expense is worth. And maybe he'd listen harder next time, to the girl who's told him something that should have been respected, instead of listening to his cock.
I get that we through rationale out the window when we're horny and drunk. We throw caution to the wind and we think fuck it, and we do things like cheat, or fuck strangers, we do things we know we'll regret.
But we shouldn't do things we know the other person will regret. If someone tells you they don't want to sleep with you and gives you a very good reason, you don't bulldoze over that just because they're drunk and they've stopped saying no. Even if you want to have sex with them. Even if it looks like they want to have sex with you. This guy, he's not 16. He's a grown man, with a small daughter. And right now, I'd love him to understand, in technicolour pain, what he's done.
Posted by Vida at 2:30 PM 0 comments
Labels: callousness, consent, how much harm is a shag worth?, rape, speaking of rage, trauma
Monday, October 26, 2015
Beards and funny
I have yet to kick my tube porn habit, despite Stoya's eloquent laying out of the obvious problems with them. I'll confess this as penance at the start of this little story because it comes from something I saw thereon. I suppose I shouldn't post it and encourage anyone with similar habits.
Here's a pic of the Mr Pretty instead
The other day I watched a vid of two gay guys having quite a sweet, kissy time with each other. I've been rekindling my Logan McCree-inspired love of gay porn stars of late - beards and cool haircuts and tattoos and smooth tastiness. I hope gay guys don't mind being fancied from afar by women approaching middle age. Do you think they do?
Anyhow, at the end of the vid, the guys are being asked post-scene questions. He's lying there comfortably, basking in post orgasmic calm with his own spunk still on his rippling belly, and his partner's asked what he likes about him - he says his tats, and his beard (yes indeed, me too) and Jordan smiles and says sheepishly, 'It grew back' and goes on to tell a story about the same director asking him to shorten it for the last scene he did. He says his scene partner wanted to trim it for him, 'but he had the clip down too low, and buzzed it all off... so I rage-fucked him.' And all three of them crack up laughing, and his white teeth are all shiny and perfect. I wish I had a little clip, It sounds alarming out of context, but it's just really funny. And his voice is so deep and cute. It had me laughing out loud.
Here's a pic of the Mr Pretty instead
Jordan Levine
The other day I watched a vid of two gay guys having quite a sweet, kissy time with each other. I've been rekindling my Logan McCree-inspired love of gay porn stars of late - beards and cool haircuts and tattoos and smooth tastiness. I hope gay guys don't mind being fancied from afar by women approaching middle age. Do you think they do?
Anyhow, at the end of the vid, the guys are being asked post-scene questions. He's lying there comfortably, basking in post orgasmic calm with his own spunk still on his rippling belly, and his partner's asked what he likes about him - he says his tats, and his beard (yes indeed, me too) and Jordan smiles and says sheepishly, 'It grew back' and goes on to tell a story about the same director asking him to shorten it for the last scene he did. He says his scene partner wanted to trim it for him, 'but he had the clip down too low, and buzzed it all off... so I rage-fucked him.' And all three of them crack up laughing, and his white teeth are all shiny and perfect. I wish I had a little clip, It sounds alarming out of context, but it's just really funny. And his voice is so deep and cute. It had me laughing out loud.
Posted by Vida at 9:21 AM 0 comments
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Cosmo
@seblogofsorts lippy competition - what an evocative and powerful word this is, conjuring up memories of formative years. The only contact I've had with the famed magazine in decades is reading irate or hilarious posts and complaints on its dangerous anti-feminist messages and terrible, horrible sex education. There was a time, though...
When I was a girl, it was not quite the nineties. I started secondary school in 88, and finished in 94 (after a repeat year where I met my husband had more sex than I'd ever had before - or since, incidentally). It seems like such a short stretch of time. How did I fit all those growing up experiences into 88-94?
Back at the start of that period, things were different. American Pie hadn't come out yet, there was no tantalising Magical Book of How to Get Girls Off and the boys I knew at 15 didn't know what clitorises were. Boyfriend: where do you liked to be touched? Me: er, here? Him: that's a funny place!
Unpleasant, arrogant other 15 year old to me and best friend: do you frig yourself? Me: (inner sigh, debates round of anatomical education for group pf boys in garden at party: ...Yes. Best friend, uncomfortable: No. Me: inner sigh again.
But it was different for girls. Long before I'd ever had a cock in my mouth, I'd read up on Best Blow Job Techniques for Girls in the form of Cynthia Heimel's Sex Tips for Girls and the ubiquitous Cosmo. While the idea might have still made me uncomfortable, I had studied, oh yes. No one knew how to make me come, but once I'd got used to touching penises (which was scary at first - strangely, my 13 year old best frenemy had no issue touching them, but wouldn't let anyone finger her, while I was all good with that but was scared of releasing the trouser snake. I don't know why. Performance anxiety brought on by reading too many sex tips? Who knows.)
It's a further inequality between the sexes that I think has largely changed (no small thanks to American Pie, perhaps, and as far as I know, Men's mags like FHM etc, are thronging with articles on the Secrets of the Clit (though now women are irate about men's 'I'll sort you out, little lady' attitudes towards their own prowess. It is, I know, hard to win).
Fifteen... we've talked a lot about teenagers' sexual agency and how age laws in erotica do them such a disservice, essentially cancelling out young people's experiences and desire at a time when their engines run ten times hotter than yours, or yours, or yours. Do you remember? The burning, flaming, distracting desire? We could power the world on teenage horniness, if we harnessed it instead of suppressing it and jeering at it.
I had fumbling, secure, utterly non-orgasmic sex with a very beautiful, hazel eyed, read headed boy when I was 15. He had a gorgeous cock, too, larger than anyone else's I've seen, the first time I knew that quintessential velvet-hardness, in my hands, on my tongue. He was the first person I went down on too, and I loved oral sex, embraced it, was pathetically grateful for it. He boasted about it to friends in the supermarket one day and everyone wondered 'Did She Really??' which was odd, as weren't we all at that stage? Not quite. But I'd grown out of squeamishness by then, and god, oh yes, I did.
One day I wandered under the duvet, traced my tongue over his soft, white, boy's belly, impossible distances of smoothness, before finding his curling red hair (we all had pubes then, and we didn't worry about them - it was great) and happy, heavy cock, waiting for me. I don't know what happened that day, but there was some sort of magic coming-together of skill and experimentation. I slid him into my mouth and sucked and stroked and moved up and down on him, in that cave of warmth and skin on skin; it was the first time we'd taken all our clothes off. I was lost in no-time, dark and the smell of him and the feeling of him in my mouth - his hardness and my concentration - the work. And the freedom of our tentative nakedness. It was beautiful.
I didn't have TMJ problems then, but my jaw finally tired and I birthed myself back out of the duvet and into the light to find him lying, light headed, stunned, dizzy with arousal and surprise at the heights of sensation he'd reached. I asked him if it was good, and he said,
'Good?? Didn't you hear my breathing? And I didn't even come!'
I didn't used to be down with face fucking. I thought it was unfeminist. I thought blow jobs were all about being in control, back then. And, sometimes they are. Beautifully so. The power and pleasure of being able to make someone writhe and their breath rasp in astonished ecstasy is a deep and special one. I was proud of myself. I loved his cock. The study had paid off. I gave good head.
When I was a girl, it was not quite the nineties. I started secondary school in 88, and finished in 94 (after a repeat year where I met my husband had more sex than I'd ever had before - or since, incidentally). It seems like such a short stretch of time. How did I fit all those growing up experiences into 88-94?
Back at the start of that period, things were different. American Pie hadn't come out yet, there was no tantalising Magical Book of How to Get Girls Off and the boys I knew at 15 didn't know what clitorises were. Boyfriend: where do you liked to be touched? Me: er, here? Him: that's a funny place!
Unpleasant, arrogant other 15 year old to me and best friend: do you frig yourself? Me: (inner sigh, debates round of anatomical education for group pf boys in garden at party: ...Yes. Best friend, uncomfortable: No. Me: inner sigh again.
But it was different for girls. Long before I'd ever had a cock in my mouth, I'd read up on Best Blow Job Techniques for Girls in the form of Cynthia Heimel's Sex Tips for Girls and the ubiquitous Cosmo. While the idea might have still made me uncomfortable, I had studied, oh yes. No one knew how to make me come, but once I'd got used to touching penises (which was scary at first - strangely, my 13 year old best frenemy had no issue touching them, but wouldn't let anyone finger her, while I was all good with that but was scared of releasing the trouser snake. I don't know why. Performance anxiety brought on by reading too many sex tips? Who knows.)
It's a further inequality between the sexes that I think has largely changed (no small thanks to American Pie, perhaps, and as far as I know, Men's mags like FHM etc, are thronging with articles on the Secrets of the Clit (though now women are irate about men's 'I'll sort you out, little lady' attitudes towards their own prowess. It is, I know, hard to win).
Fifteen... we've talked a lot about teenagers' sexual agency and how age laws in erotica do them such a disservice, essentially cancelling out young people's experiences and desire at a time when their engines run ten times hotter than yours, or yours, or yours. Do you remember? The burning, flaming, distracting desire? We could power the world on teenage horniness, if we harnessed it instead of suppressing it and jeering at it.
I had fumbling, secure, utterly non-orgasmic sex with a very beautiful, hazel eyed, read headed boy when I was 15. He had a gorgeous cock, too, larger than anyone else's I've seen, the first time I knew that quintessential velvet-hardness, in my hands, on my tongue. He was the first person I went down on too, and I loved oral sex, embraced it, was pathetically grateful for it. He boasted about it to friends in the supermarket one day and everyone wondered 'Did She Really??' which was odd, as weren't we all at that stage? Not quite. But I'd grown out of squeamishness by then, and god, oh yes, I did.
One day I wandered under the duvet, traced my tongue over his soft, white, boy's belly, impossible distances of smoothness, before finding his curling red hair (we all had pubes then, and we didn't worry about them - it was great) and happy, heavy cock, waiting for me. I don't know what happened that day, but there was some sort of magic coming-together of skill and experimentation. I slid him into my mouth and sucked and stroked and moved up and down on him, in that cave of warmth and skin on skin; it was the first time we'd taken all our clothes off. I was lost in no-time, dark and the smell of him and the feeling of him in my mouth - his hardness and my concentration - the work. And the freedom of our tentative nakedness. It was beautiful.
I didn't have TMJ problems then, but my jaw finally tired and I birthed myself back out of the duvet and into the light to find him lying, light headed, stunned, dizzy with arousal and surprise at the heights of sensation he'd reached. I asked him if it was good, and he said,
'Good?? Didn't you hear my breathing? And I didn't even come!'
I didn't used to be down with face fucking. I thought it was unfeminist. I thought blow jobs were all about being in control, back then. And, sometimes they are. Beautifully so. The power and pleasure of being able to make someone writhe and their breath rasp in astonished ecstasy is a deep and special one. I was proud of myself. I loved his cock. The study had paid off. I gave good head.
Posted by Vida at 2:39 AM 2 comments
Monday, July 20, 2015
random words
Often as I'm drifting off to sleep, my head writes things. Sometimes they're coherent and I like the language, so I struggle out of my comfy half sleep and write them down.
I just one I filed away the other week. I do remember writing it, but I have no idea what the larger idea was, or what earthly use it will ever be to me.
So I'll just stick it here as written.
This is why I don't write long form work...
I just one I filed away the other week. I do remember writing it, but I have no idea what the larger idea was, or what earthly use it will ever be to me.
So I'll just stick it here as written.
This is why I don't write long form work...
I lay in my little bed in the cottage and listened to the
arythmic bump and scrape and shuffle of the boat bobbing against the dock.
Gradually the impact grew more rhythmic, and when it was accompanied by a soft
groan I realised it had been assimilated into the sound of my sister having sex
in the room next door.
I listened dispassionately. Really, I thought, I’m too young
to be exposed to this sort of thing.
That wasn’t actually true. I was of an age to start finding
out. My friend Cally had recently thrown herself into sex with an exuberant
energy, her enthusiasm and willingness to learn making up for her inexperience.
She shared her newfound knowledge with me in whispered snatches and I reacted
appropriately, smiled and filed it away in some later to be opened box in my
mind.
I couldn’t imagine being bothered. Not with Cally’s smoke
and cider scented Darren or the grimy construction workers who filed into the
pub on Thursday and Friday evenings, cement dust greying the rough lines on
their fingers.
Who might this ingenue teen find to explore her desire with? A billionaire dom? A vampire? Some class of lesbian? I've a horrible feeling it might have been her sister's boyfriend, now that I think about it, but I can't remember why. Hmm.
Posted by Vida at 4:32 PM 3 comments
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