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

TMI?

[overly-shy.livejournal.com]

My husband & I have had simultaneous orgasms without trying a few times. It was just a coincidence, and has more to do with having had sex many times over the last 15 years than anything else. It did not, by the way, seem any more meaningful than having separate orgasms.

Re: TMI?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

It did not, by the way, seem any more meaningful than having separate orgasms.

I've never had one without some effort on the part of my partner, so I'm glad to hear you confirm my opinion of the whole deal, that there's no special wonderfulness there. For me, it was like - why go to any trouble just so that both of us miss half the fun?

That could potentially be TMI. But I don't think I'm going to make it through a single comment in this post without giving at least some of that, so, you know - sorry.

Re: TMI?

[monkeypumpkin.livejournal.com]

My husband and I had simultaneous orgasms once, by chance, and I DIDN"T EVEN NOTICE. Which led to an awkward conversation later when he mentioned how intimate it had been and I was all "we did what?"

Re: TMI?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

It seems reasonable that someone who's worth the trouble of having sex with would be reasonably excited when you are, and that you'd care enough about him or her that your partner's impending orgasm would be exciting...but I agree that it's not A Very Special Episode.

Re: TMI?

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it's less meaningful (or at least, enjoyable). Because if you're busy having an orgasm, it distracts you from your enjoyment of your partner's orgasm, yes?

Re: TMI?

[overly-shy.livejournal.com]

An excellent point!