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thefourthvine) wrote2005-06-14 03:52 pm
thefourthvine) wrote2005-06-14 03:52 pm
Poll: Come with Me
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,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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]
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]
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(Anonymous) 2005-06-14 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)Had blackouts and whiteouts. Screamed, name and non-name, loud enough that my whole dorm probably knew what I was doing.
Cried, but it was because I got something in my eye.
Nearly fallen asleep....
Simultanious orgasms are/were common, but, um... Well, I never could count high enough to know how many orgasms I've had during one round of sex. And why do women in fanfic seem to always only have one orgasm no matter how long they spend with the sexing?
Once managed to do something that made his orgasm last about 5 minutes, and sent me into a string of them. No clue how we did it, and we never duplicated it.
Left all sorts of unintentional hickeys, nailmarks, bruises, etc. I've also left marks that weren't noticed until the next day.
Gotten cramps in all sorts of muscle groups.
I'm sure there's more, but not that I can think of at the moment...
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This is a mystery for the ages. Seriously. I suppose we should just file this in "Unsolvable Points to Ponder" alongside the equally mystifying question of why so many men in FF seem to be capable of true multiple orgasms, and why so very few of them have anything like a refractory period. (I know about the whole prostate v. cock thing, although that's a whole other rant for a whole other day. But, seriously, it is not, in my experience, that common for men to be able to come once from jerking off, once from sucking, and once from fucking in the same half-hour.) (And, side note: I've observed that women have what I consider to be more normal orgasms in FF by people who usually only write m/m slash. Not sure why that is, though.)
But, go you for admitting to nearly falling asleep. That's happened to me a few times, too, and it's embarrassing.
Hmmm. I don't think I've ever read any FF in which one of the characters falls asleep during sex before either party comes.
This poll is not only revealing a lot about what should really be occurring less often in FF; it's also suggesting some fascinating lacunae in the FF corpus.