Poll: Come with Me

[thefourthvine]

It's time to discuss a very sensitive topic that I know you will all handle with maturity and respect for your classmates. Yes, it's time to discuss...orgasm.

I heard that, makesmewannadie. One more remark out of you and you will be staying after class, young lady. Also, fanofall? Don't think I don't see you rolling your eyes.

Yes, orgasm can be a beautiful thing. When a person (or assistive device) gives pleasure to another person, that's a lovely, selfless act, and one we - last warning, people - as mature adults can appreciate. Or mature teenagers. Whatever. 'People old enough for porn' is the concept I'm trying to get across here.

Of course, orgasm can also be, well, a little less than beautiful. Particularly in certain kinds of fictional endeavors. Because, see, sometimes a person can be reading along, and then there's a sudden incursion of screaming and fainting and smelling salts and Mr. Darcy with a riding crop, and that person might think, "Did I just take a detour from Smut Boulevard onto Victorian Novel Lane? I...wow. I didn't know you could do that in spats." Or that person might think, "Jesus, what the hell is wrong with me? I've never done that."

And yet I know some of you out there in readerland have done that, and now is the time to tell me about it.

I'm trying to assuage my own fears of serious abnormality, here. (Yes, really. Well, mostly. Well, partly, anyway. But I also tend to assume anyone I can hear laughing is laughing at me. I never said I wasn't paranoid, if you think back.) I'm also trying to figure out how often these things honestly happen, and under what circumstances. (Because I am nosy. No, there is no better reason. What reason could be better than that?) So let's remember the honor system, OK?

And, truly, no shame attached, no matter what you answer. For one thing, I included in the list items I could answer 'yes' to, and I'm not going to tell you what they were. (Well, OK. Possibly with begging. The right kind of begging. But then, the right kind of begging can get pretty much anything from me.) This should encourage those of you who can answer 'yes' to any of these to believe I'm right there with you, just in case you forgot to bring your sex-positive confidence with you today. And since I can't answer 'yes' to all or even most of them, people who can't check anything should also believe they're in good company. (You can decide for yourself if I count as good company or not.) Furthermore, no one can see your answers, and you should feel free to comment anonymously. Internet + sex + anonymity is pretty much the recipe for sharing, isn't it? So share.

(Which also means, for the record, that if you folks want to pimp this I'd be grateful. I definitely want to hear from all of you, but it'd also be very cool to get answers from people other than the Egregiously Tasteful and Talented Cohort.)



[Poll #513074]

Comments

[zoerayne]

Engaged in other orgasm behavior common in fan fiction, which you will of course tell me all about in the comments?

Okay, this is cheating just a little, because it's not me but rather someone I used to date.... And, honestly, I don't see this all that often in fic, but I would like to. *g*

Anyway. So, this guy I used to date could have an orgasm on command. Not totally out of the blue, but pretty much any time during sex or masturbation, you could order him to come and he would within 5-10 seconds.

And why don't I have a TMI icon? *frowns*

[norah.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. Now, if it worked the other way, and you could get someone to hold off just by telling them to, I'd dig that, too.

[zoerayne]

Now, if it worked the other way, and you could get someone to hold off just by telling them to, I'd dig that, too.

Ooh, my husband can do that. Sometimes he has to pause for 10 seconds or so and sometimes it's just a matter of him changing tempo, but he can pretty much last for as long as you want. Er. For as long as *I* want, which is usually not more than 30 minutes at one time, though I think his personal record is more than an hour of non-stop intercourse. (FWIW, the average male takes 2-1/2 minutes to achieve orgasm, while the average female takes 12, according to that study on women who are non-orgasmic during sex.)

[indywind]

Have had lovers who can do both. Me, no way.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

So, this guy I used to date could have an orgasm on command. Not totally out of the blue, but pretty much any time during sex or masturbation, you could order him to come and he would within 5-10 seconds.

See, now, I would prefer to see characters who could only come when ordered. I mean, that's not all that plausible, but we have Centaur!John in SGA (and virgin!John, which, for the record, totally made me giggle, and I should've told you that when I read it) and Angel!Ray in dS and...well, I'm just saying. Plausible isn't always the goal in fiction.

*thinks wistfully of missed possibilities in slave challenge*

(And now I see what MMWD was saying about the riskiness of this post. The danger isn't that other people will overshare, it's that I will.)

*departs in search of TMI icon*

[zoerayne]

and virgin!John, which, for the record, totally made me giggle, and I should've told you that when I read it

Thank you. I am actually working on the sequel to that, in which we find out why virgin!John is (rather stretching the bounds of belief, in my opinion, by being) virginal. *g*

*thinks wistfully of missed possibilities in slave challenge*

Dude. We totally need another slave challenge. *g*