Month
May 2012
37 posts
Ru(m)ination
Read moreI have written before about my trouble with words like “lover” and “play.” I was listening to myself think on the subject just now (in flagrante delicto) and I realized that I really like the adolescent construction: “fooling around.” It’s…
Wisdom
Read morePolicy: Don’t travel to fuck someone you haven’t met. Yesterday, as T was reading over the e-mails and chats I’ve been exchanging with the woman I’ll call “P,” T shook her head admiringly and said, “I think you should go…
Monogamish sex
Read moreOver the last thirty-six hours, T and I have been blessed with a couple of unusual sex opportunities, due to a confluence of playdates and grandparental custody. Friday at 7 pm, we lay on our bed, typing on our computers…
The vagaries of desire
Read moreL has lamented (chuckled at?) – or is it lamented (chuckled at?) – my “flock of tweeties.” Currently, there are exactly three women with whom I regularly exchange sexy e-mail. One, I’ve been doing it with for about a year. …
Ethical non-monogamy
Read moreI saw the following question on Formspring the other day, asked by Harper Eliot, the former Lady Grinning Soul, and author of the terrific, newly relocated blog “It Girl. Rag Doll”: If you’re sleeping with someone whose partner doesn’t know,…
Paying for it
Read moreI was walking down the street the other day, and, on the doorstep of a neighbor, I saw Paying for It: A Comic-Strip Memoir About Being a John, a graphic novel by Chester Brown. I picked up the book and…
Noms de…
Read moreLong before 50 Shades of Grey made Mr. Grey famous the world over (as a dom in a piece of dreck, best I can tell – I haven’t read the book), I was known as Mr. Grey. Grey, or occasionally…