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'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Calli - Apr 09, 2011 9:22:31 am PDT #2506 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

vagina in penis sex

For some reason this makes me think of Klein bottles.


Jesse - Apr 09, 2011 9:33:07 am PDT #2507 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I totally agree with the rest of the discussion above, but:

I mean, why can you assume your sexual partner is vanilla?

I'm guessing it's the same way I can assume a guy I'm attracted to is straight? Like, I'll be wrong some of the time but not most of it.


Typo Boy - Apr 09, 2011 9:33:29 am PDT #2508 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I was lucky enough to see Alice Walker speak last night. Her comment, peripherally relevant to this conversation (quoted from memory):

"When I have sex with lesbians, hey want me to self-define as a lesbian. When I have sex with bisexuals they want me to self-define as bisexual. When I have sex with straight men they want me to self-define as straight. I don't like boxes. I define my sexuality as 'curious'."


§ ita § - Apr 09, 2011 9:44:42 am PDT #2509 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm guessing it's the same way I can assume a guy I'm attracted to is straight?

I think it's fair to assume most people will have vanilla sex and probably enjoy it, but how do you define vanilla, and do you really think it's reasonable to assume most people are into "just" that?

Then again, I don't assume the men I'm attracted to as straight, although I understand it's the probability.


Jesse - Apr 09, 2011 9:47:08 am PDT #2510 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think it's fair to assume most people will have vanilla sex and probably enjoy it, but how do you define vanilla, and do you really think it's reasonable to assume most people are into "just" that?

Oh, sure.

I'm still on the question of whether not-vanilla means kinky or just out of the ordinary. Like, I guess pegging is not vanilla?


Steph L. - Apr 09, 2011 10:48:48 am PDT #2511 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think I'd categorise vanilla as vagina in penis sex (yup, straight only) with no role-playing or fetish-exercising of any sort. At least that's what I was thinking of as I read that piece. Oh, and no toys. Oral is foreplay, never the main event.

I don't really think most people have (only) vanilla sex.

No, I don't either, esp. when using your definition.

PIV.

My OB/GYN was unfamiliar with this term when I used it with her. I'm glad to have educated her, but -- really? She's been practicing for at least 18 years, since I've been seeing her since I was out of college. No one has used this term?

vagina in penis sex

For some reason this makes me think of Klein bottles.

I love you people madly.

"When I have sex with lesbians, hey want me to self-define as a lesbian. When I have sex with bisexuals they want me to self-define as bisexual. When I have sex with straight men they want me to self-define as straight. I don't like boxes. I define my sexuality as 'curious'."

I think I've said this before, and I apologize if I'm repeating myself. The term "heteroflexible" unfortunately gets used a lot to mean "Tee hee, I'm a woman who makes out with other women in bars because the men think it's hot!" But that's really the only term that I can apply to myself. I'm honestly not bisexual. And I can't say I'm straight, because my boyfriend is also quite literally my girlfriend (because gender has nothing to do with genitals, which is a discussion I'm happy to have, but not at this exact moment, b/c I have to jump in the shower). With a trans* partner, to call myself straight is both inaccurate and also erases his trans* identity. So -- heteroflexible. But I don't make out with other women because the men think it's hot.

(I will, however, make out with other women if *I* think *they're* hot. It doesn't happen often, though, because -- monogamous. Tim is fine with me kissing women, but not men, as long as he knows about it first. I am fine with Tim kissing men, but not women, as long as I get to watch. Because I am a voyeur like that.)

t edit And let me tell you -- digression -- the monogamy KILLS me some times. I've met only a couple people who have made me very seriously consider a poly lifestyle. But, in the end, I know I am not built for polyamory. I'm unbelievably jealous and possessive, and I don't manage my time well (which is not meant to be funny; sometimes I think the hardest thing about being poly is managing one's time so as to have adequate time for all partners). Fortunately, I am exceedingly, X-ratedly happy with my monogamous partner.


Liese S. - Apr 09, 2011 11:04:45 am PDT #2512 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Seriously, people. I am an actual missionary, one who has only ever had sex with her husband, and I don't just do missionary position. I mean, come on. Vanilla is as vanilla does.


Jesse - Apr 09, 2011 11:06:44 am PDT #2513 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm still sad about polyamory, after falling for, and therefore having to break up with, a poly guy recently.

The term "heteroflexible" unfortunately gets used a lot to mean "Tee hee, I'm a woman who makes out with other women in bars because the men think it's hot!"

Really? Those girls would use that term? I mean, I guess so, but it feels so much more academic than Katy Perry.


Jesse - Apr 09, 2011 11:07:45 am PDT #2514 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OMG, Liese, I love you.

I wish there were better names for sexual positions. I hate both "missionary" and "doggy style" as terms.


Hil R. - Apr 09, 2011 11:08:49 am PDT #2515 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The term "heteroflexible" unfortunately gets used a lot to mean "Tee hee, I'm a woman who makes out with other women in bars because the men think it's hot!"

I knew someone in college who insisted that this was what the "I'm straight but not narrow" bumper sticker on her car meant.