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Defiance. According to Maria Russo, author J. Courtney Sullivan "has fun with the "lesbian until graduation" phenomenon—which, in Commencement (Knopf) at least, involves a lot of kissing and some forays to second base. But in Bree's unexpected passionate relationship with another woman, Lara, the novel bumps up against profound questions about love and sexuality," and issues that suggest they may linger with Sullivan's characters well after graduation. Russo goes on to ask the questions of a fluid sexuality that most would dismiss as confusion: "Is Bree, who insists that if not for Lara she would be with a man, really straight, or just unable to admit she's gay? Or do some attractions defy not just labels, but a person's predominant orientation?" Well put, Maria—we believe the latter. Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan, on sale now and worth it.—N.B.

By Neal Boulton at 3:13PM on November 05, 2009

Swung

Fuck, I'm actually going to do this. Fin was only 18 when he first fantasized about it; then, a month later, he took the leap.

"I read about it in a local listings magazine. I was nervous as hell. I hardly ever left my sleepy suburb for the city, but on the day I did, I went into an adult video store, flipped through this zine and, boom, there was a listing for a sex party," he said in a low voice over the phone.

"Can you hear me?" he asked, "My mom and dad are in the next room, and I'd be in so much trouble if they overheard me telling you this," he told me.

"Yes," I said and Fin went on, telling me the entire story—R.T.

I stuffed the free magazine into the inside pocket of my leather jacket and darted out into the rainy day, then to the subway for the bus station. On the bus back home, I leaned my head against the window, hornier than I'd ever been as I stared at the landscape that blurred by.

Later, I jotted down the time, date, and address of the party that promised (as the ad stated) 'to be worth waiting a week without jerking off for.'

I was so nervous.

Then the day finally arrived. It wasn't raining this time, and I sat on the bus, hard as rock in my jeans that evening, and finally emerged into the city. Once on foot, I made my way to the anonymous black door on 8th Ave., buzzed, and heard the unlatch of the lock that allowed me passage inside a dark room that smelled of sex.

As my eyes adjusted to the blue black light I realized I was staring at a man locked in sex with a hauntingly younger blond woman—while he was performing fellatio on a man who was standing in front of his face. All three of them groaned with pleasure and need.

I didn't know where to begin, or if I should run out of there. My stomach was nauseous with sexual terror—and arousal. I went deeper into the club, past many more foursomes and threesomes and couples, all twisted and feeding upon each other, until I found three men and one woman who had just begun to undress. She locked in on my scared eyes.

Fuck, I thought, I'm actually going to do this.

Thankfully, she undressed me, and never took her stare away from mine. I was now nude, and nervous, when she led me to the men who as she went down on me began to suck my lips and my nipples and massage my buttocks. Somehow, we all found this unifying rhythm as we became intertwined in what felt like hours of urgent hungry sex.

I was covered in everyone else's cum when I finally climaxed, all of us spreading and smearing and gliding our hands around our bodies with it, lovingly, knowing we would never see each other again—or if we did, we might nod, and grin knowingly as we passed the other on the street.

That night, I slept with my head, heavy with an afterglow, against the window of the bus, lulled by the hum of the massive engine carrying me home.

By Neal Boulton at 3:02PM on November 05, 2009

The sexless orgasm

"Most men are in too much of a hurry," she confessed to me earlier that evening, her eyes lowered to her half-empty wine glass.

"It's like they've all watched the same porno too many times, and they think the only way to make a girl climax is by pounding her as hard as they can in as many positions they can think of."

She drained the last of her Merlot and looked up at me.

"And that's so...not what it's about."

It was her first time in my bed. Slightly lazy from the wine, she let herself fall back against the pillows, dark hair cascading over the cool grey linen, and smiled demurely.

"Are you going to kiss me?" she asked.

My entire body was screaming for hers, but I took a breath to calm myself before moving towards the bed.

"Among other things," I murmured.

I started by undressing her, slowly and with extreme care, my eyes always penetrating hers. Each movement, the lowering of a zipper, the unfastening of a clasp, was made with the zen concentration of a Buddhist monk. When she was naked at last I outlined every part of her body with my fingertips, barely grazing the bulb and curve of her breasts, the slope of her shoulders, her soft chin, and the path from her belly button to the very uppermost wisps of secret black hair. I hovered there before letting my hand drift downward, then caressed her hidden curves with the same slow precision, starting at the bottom and following the lines of her labia up to her clit, where I began stroking her with no more strength or speed than a whisper. Up and down, up...and...down. She moaned so softly I could barely hear her; I moved so slowly she had no idea what was happening.

Then, I used my lips and the tip of my tongue to trace the same path as my fingers had. I told myself that my job was to touch my mouth to every square inch of her body, to annoint her skin, unbelievably tender, like the inside of a rose petal, with my kiss. She put her arms around me, moaning louder this time.

"Please, I want you inside of me."

I gently disentangled myself from her embrace, returning her arms to the bed, spreading them out like a T.

"Don't move, and don't speak," I said, and licked my way from the inside of her wrist to the top of her armpit. Our eyes were locked; we couldn't look away from each other for a second.

I was sucking her right nipple with the awed appreciation of a starving man when I felt her warm pussy begin to tremble under my hand...just the merest tremor. I resisted the urge to speed up my stroking, to plunge my fingers inside her. Up...and...down.

The tremor quickened, she grew slicker and hotter. Her breath, which had been deep and measured like mine, became short. She couldn't help herself. As she erupted, finally, quacking helplessly, I slid myself inside her.

"Nate?" she spoke at last, letting her eyelids close.

"Yes?"

"That's...what it's about."—J.B.

 

By Neal Boulton at 12:48PM on November 05, 2009

Made for more than walking

 

There's nothing like leather. "I'm not married; I'm not even dating anyone exclusively right now. I like it that way. These days I just like to fuck—on top, bent over, on my back with my legs in the air, or in any position he (or she) and I can possibly fathom. Thankfully, I have the unique ability to climax multiple times no matter how lame the lay is—I'm lucky that way. Finally, I do admit to having no consistency in the men or women I choose to pick up: black, white, tall, short, slim, or beefy, what really only matters to me is if they're hot—and that they know—the boots stay on."—Zoey, New York, NY

Photograph by the amazing Igor Amelkovich.

 

By Neal Boulton at 12:34PM on November 05, 2009

Married men, younger boys

Seated cozy next to each other in the last row of folding chairs at the the first Bozeman, Montana PTA meeting of the new school year, Scott and I slunk right back into the slacker kid mode of our own school days where we had become the best of friends. But tonight, instead of contributing to the conversation on how to build a better bake sale, we whispered furtively, wrapped in our bulky sweaters because of the draft intermittently sweeping down upon us in the 50 year old elementary school auditorium, about the only truly important thing in life: men.

Both of us parents now (I'm the married mother of an 8-year-old girl; Scott, with his new husband Thom, is the father of an adopted 6-year-old son), we started recalling how each of us crashed and burned through similar dating experiences, how we both fell hard—for the attentions of two different married men.

"I just wish someone had given me like, a list of do's and don'ts for getting involved with someone who was so much older, who was already a husband—and who was already a father," Scott hisses. Even though Scott is content and happy today, from the acrid tone in his voice, the memory still burns in his belly a bit.

"Such as, number one don't: Don't believe he'll leave. At the end of the day, I was with a 'Daddy', and I was, just sort of his 'boytoy' on the side. I kinda learned much later that I was the way he managed his urges for men while maintaining his facade as a happily married man whose wife would have probably passed out had she known. And he would say anything to me to keep me around. Hate that I believed it. ...I once saw her at a restaurant and nearly choked on my food at how plain and suburban she was."

"So true," I agreed. Like Scott's ex man, my lover made a string of promises about how amazing it would be for us once he left his wife for good, but it never seemed to be the right time: "Jess just lost her job, she needs me right now," or "I can't pull it off so close to the holidays," or "We're still trying to sell the house."

Scott and I blew off the weight of the memories, and turned to each other and laughed. When we thought we were obsessed with these men, we both agreed, "We were both obsessed with when our men would make that final, definitive step—that mythological proving of their love for us moment," Scott said, "that we could hardly enjoy the time we actually did get to spend with them."

"God you have a good therapist," I laughed.

Scott gripped my hand. "Oh honey—she had to peel me up off the floor after that mistake" he cried out, forgetting to whisper and getting us dirty looks from the parents around us who were actually paying attention to the cupcake speech.—M.T.

 

By Neal Boulton at 12:25PM on November 05, 2009

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