I also got the P-style, which I am in the process of learning how to use!
AT LAST, I will be able to pee standing up!!!
Monday, March 8, 2010
let the sunshine in!
It was definitely sad to see Hysteria go. Another small, locally-owned business pushed out of the market.
My darling wife and I went to their going-out-of-business sale*.
I picked up, wait for it....
A SOLAR POWERED VIBRATOR (at 60% off!)
It is difficult for me to express how much this thrills the eco-geek in me. Basically, as you can see, it's a bullet with a control attached that looks kind of a like a cell phone. You flip the control open so that it stands up at about a 45-degree angle, and it charges in the light! ALSO: It does not necessarily have to have direct sunlight. The electrical lights inside the store were enough to charge the floor model. Understandably it is not waterproof, due to the solar-panel and cells I think. I have not charged mine up or tried it out yet, but am super excited to do so. Mon Amore saw this while at the store for a bachelor party last spring, and told me about it and that it seemed like something that would be perfect for me, except for being a little pricey as compared to similar battery-powered toys.
I'll let you know how it works out.
*unlawfully gay married at Boulder Pride '08, not the same person as Mon Amore.
My darling wife and I went to their going-out-of-business sale*.
I picked up, wait for it....
A SOLAR POWERED VIBRATOR (at 60% off!)
It is difficult for me to express how much this thrills the eco-geek in me. Basically, as you can see, it's a bullet with a control attached that looks kind of a like a cell phone. You flip the control open so that it stands up at about a 45-degree angle, and it charges in the light! ALSO: It does not necessarily have to have direct sunlight. The electrical lights inside the store were enough to charge the floor model. Understandably it is not waterproof, due to the solar-panel and cells I think. I have not charged mine up or tried it out yet, but am super excited to do so. Mon Amore saw this while at the store for a bachelor party last spring, and told me about it and that it seemed like something that would be perfect for me, except for being a little pricey as compared to similar battery-powered toys.
I'll let you know how it works out.
*unlawfully gay married at Boulder Pride '08, not the same person as Mon Amore.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Goodbye Hysteria.
Hysteria in Denver is closing. Sad times.
I'm checking out the going-out-of-business sale with my darling wife tomorrow.*
*who is not the same person as my partner (Mon Amore), just for clarification.
I'm checking out the going-out-of-business sale with my darling wife tomorrow.*
*who is not the same person as my partner (Mon Amore), just for clarification.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
the other kind of pussy
Finally watching 'True Blood' for the first time.
Sookie telling her cat to stop purring and watching her masturbate: priceless, and so painfully life-like.
Sookie telling her cat to stop purring and watching her masturbate: priceless, and so painfully life-like.
Friday, December 25, 2009
And things you never want to hear
I was conceived many years ago last night, or next Thursday: either Christmas or New Year's Eve of the year in question.
Why do I know this?
Lots of people know when their conception occurred, because a parent went away for business, were on leave from service, lots of reasons, some less pleasant than others.
Why do I know? I know because my parents felt the need to have an argument as to the exact date in my presence when I was ten years old, I believe it was Christmas Eve.
I then choose to believe that my parents only have sex on bank holidays.
"But Kinsey, you're sex positive, don't you want your parents (who are still together) to have a happy, fulfilling sex life?"
In theory, yes. Of course I do. I want my parents to have the marriage that they want to have, whatever that means, provided of course all things are safe and consensual. In reality, they're my parents. I don't want to think or know about them having sex. I think that's natural. Finding the idea of your parents getting down disgusting is a built-in safeguard against incest. Parent sex = gross = not having sex with your parents. I think the same basic principle applies to all close relatives.
There was a study in which men wore the same shirt for several days, with no fragrance or deodorant of any kind and those shirts were then smelled by different women. The scents that women rated the most appealing were those of the men with whom they shared the fewest genetic characteristics. Hybrid vigor, folks. Being the most attracted to the people the least like themselves decreases the likelihood of many genetic disorders- genes that make things go wrong have a harder time finding each other. An awesome argument for diversity and integration.
Why do I know this?
Lots of people know when their conception occurred, because a parent went away for business, were on leave from service, lots of reasons, some less pleasant than others.
Why do I know? I know because my parents felt the need to have an argument as to the exact date in my presence when I was ten years old, I believe it was Christmas Eve.
I then choose to believe that my parents only have sex on bank holidays.
"But Kinsey, you're sex positive, don't you want your parents (who are still together) to have a happy, fulfilling sex life?"
In theory, yes. Of course I do. I want my parents to have the marriage that they want to have, whatever that means, provided of course all things are safe and consensual. In reality, they're my parents. I don't want to think or know about them having sex. I think that's natural. Finding the idea of your parents getting down disgusting is a built-in safeguard against incest. Parent sex = gross = not having sex with your parents. I think the same basic principle applies to all close relatives.
There was a study in which men wore the same shirt for several days, with no fragrance or deodorant of any kind and those shirts were then smelled by different women. The scents that women rated the most appealing were those of the men with whom they shared the fewest genetic characteristics. Hybrid vigor, folks. Being the most attracted to the people the least like themselves decreases the likelihood of many genetic disorders- genes that make things go wrong have a harder time finding each other. An awesome argument for diversity and integration.
Better Left Unsaid:
Thank you notes which would be unwise actually to send:
Mere de Mon Amore, Cherie*,
Thanks for sending us home with those excellent cookies as well as the other fantastic leftovers from dinner this evening. The cookies made a really satisfying snack after the incredibly satisfying sex that I just had with your first-born.
Thanks a bundle.
Love, your child's partner.
*Dear the Mother of My Love
Mere de Mon Amore, Cherie*,
Thanks for sending us home with those excellent cookies as well as the other fantastic leftovers from dinner this evening. The cookies made a really satisfying snack after the incredibly satisfying sex that I just had with your first-born.
Thanks a bundle.
Love, your child's partner.
*Dear the Mother of My Love
Friday, December 11, 2009
like a sex machine
I subscribe to fitness magazines. I found SELF immensely helpful after I graduated from college and was trying to make-over my life and body from the excesses and abuses to which I had been subjecting myself. I got a free subscription to Women's Health thanks to a fabulous eyeslipsface (e.l.f) offer - a free magazine subscription with orders over $20.00.
I'm generally pretty pleased with the attitudes that these publications take towards sex - its positive, and relatively open-minded, if a little heterosexist and not super inclusive. They promote healthy sexuality as part of over-all well being: sex is good for your health, and good health = good sex. I could have told you that, but its nice to see science backing it up.
There seems to be an assumption that sex is always available to women, and by implication that men are always up for (forgive the pun) and available for sex. There's this implicit idea that men's sex drives are always roaring full-blast, and that they'll be happy to service the needs of a woman whenever she feels like, as though they don't have bad days, headaches, deadlines, and are always in the mood. That's not fair to men or to women. It suggests that there's something wrong with a man who doesn't want to, or can't have sex all the time, and/or that there's something wrong with a woman if a man does not, or she can not make him want to have sex with her whenever she feels like it - that something is medically or emotionally the matter in either case.
Not being at the ready all the time is not the same as E.D.
Encouraging women to be open and unashamed of their sexuality is great, making them feel as though they're undesirable by this kind of thinking about sex is not. Maybe there ought to be more consideration in these articles of ways that women can take care of their own sexual needs and how to navigate that within their relationships, how to read their partner's sexual cues, or how to facilitate communication between partners about what makes them feel like its a good time or not.
Just my $.02
I'm generally pretty pleased with the attitudes that these publications take towards sex - its positive, and relatively open-minded, if a little heterosexist and not super inclusive. They promote healthy sexuality as part of over-all well being: sex is good for your health, and good health = good sex. I could have told you that, but its nice to see science backing it up.
There seems to be an assumption that sex is always available to women, and by implication that men are always up for (forgive the pun) and available for sex. There's this implicit idea that men's sex drives are always roaring full-blast, and that they'll be happy to service the needs of a woman whenever she feels like, as though they don't have bad days, headaches, deadlines, and are always in the mood. That's not fair to men or to women. It suggests that there's something wrong with a man who doesn't want to, or can't have sex all the time, and/or that there's something wrong with a woman if a man does not, or she can not make him want to have sex with her whenever she feels like it - that something is medically or emotionally the matter in either case.
Not being at the ready all the time is not the same as E.D.
Encouraging women to be open and unashamed of their sexuality is great, making them feel as though they're undesirable by this kind of thinking about sex is not. Maybe there ought to be more consideration in these articles of ways that women can take care of their own sexual needs and how to navigate that within their relationships, how to read their partner's sexual cues, or how to facilitate communication between partners about what makes them feel like its a good time or not.
Just my $.02
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