Betty Dodson with Carlin Ross
Better Orgasms. Better World.
Dear Betty,
I've been following you for a long while and I've contacted you before concerning a couple different issues and your advice always helped me work it out, I want to thank you for that. But I'm in a new situation.
Recently I had my best girl friend over and her boyfriend, we'd been hanging out a lot lately-the three of us. I've always been close with her physically. A lot of hugging, cuddling, playful fondling. During our cuddle time he started initiating sex with her and we all ended up having a wonderful sexual experience. None of us regret it and between me and him we kept our own boundaries, our concentration never wavered from pleasing my best friend.
I loved this experience and I thirst for more, but it led me to a question about myself. I was always aware I was bisexual but the roles I seem to put people into differ greatly. When I think about sex with women its always about love and passion...it's beautiful in my mind. And I enjoy sex with me too but in a much different way. When with a man I want to be owned, submissive. I want his sexuality to overpower me, to sort of just be his means to an end. I'm concerned that this is very unhealthy....fantasies are wonderful, but I can never really enjoy straight sex without that kind of action. Is it something you come across often? Maybe you could give me your opinion on it.
Dear J,
Threesomes were some of my favorite kinds of sex. And yes, sharing sex with a woman is often more about emotions while feeling love and tenderness toward her. You ask, " When with a man I want to be owned, submissive. I want his sexuality to overpower me, to sort of just be his means to an end. I'm concerned that this is very unhealthy."
Heterosexual dominance and submission is quite common. Most of us are doing it unconsciously as it imitates our standard expectations of Big Strong Man having his way with Helpless Girl. It's a mild version of a "rape fantasy" which is a favorite of many women, myself included, even though it's not considered PC. Never let the "thought control" cops interfere with a hot fantasy that works. I say our minds have no limits on what we can fantasize. Some day try fantasizing dominating your male partner for a change of pace. The truth is we rarely can experience sex between equals, a romantic notion that's been around far too long. One or the other partner will have to make the first move or we would never have sex.
Dr. Betty
BDSM
Might be full of cliche's but it has all the psycology worked out perfectly. Find someone nice who cares about you who's really good at acting like a total bastard in a session if that's what you want. And when the session is over you have a nice friend who cares about you and your orgasms.
If you want some variety you could try losening up your view and expectations of gender and try letting a man give you a loving experience. and also try switching so you have the all consuming desire for him. Having a range of mental states that turn us on is good I think, perhaps trying these fantasies and notions first masturbating Solo.
Ooh and yes, the way you feel is healthy.
Who cares if you're happy?
If you go into a sexual encounter with a man knowing this is what you want and you give it freely, then it's no one's concerns but yours. Sometimes feeling dominated is nice (but not for me, I'm like a movie director moaning out orders) and if that's what you like, as my dad would say, who cares? You are also lucky enough to have a whole different approach with women. Those of us who are more locked in to what we find sexually attractive are more limited in the ways we can interact sexually. But if it bothers you, then switch it up. Men like being told to do, most of them really enjoy pleasing a woman and really find it sexy when a woman just tells them instead of expecting them to read our minds. Maybe next time you can hook up with a couple who makes it their mission to pleasure you.
My last comment title sounds rude, sorry
The above title should have read, "Who should care to judge you if you are happy with how you view sex?" My mental voice was kinder, with a little wink and shrug meant to say that if you know what you want, there is no shame in wanting it. *Chastises self for writing posts while tired.
Threesomes
Stop It Betty!! You have no idea how many lives you are destroying spiritually by promoting and encouraging rampant misuse and abuse of our procreative powers. The time will come in the eternities when you will feel extreme guilt, and you will remember this comment. However, there is still time to repent and save yourself from eternal misery by renouncing your promotion of indulging in unhealthy, unproductive, and selfish sexual appetites; if you change your ways and thinking before the end of the world comes, you will experience the eternal joy and happiness that are reserved for those who control their urges and who live lives of virtue. One of the most frightening horrors that one may experience in the eternities is realizing that he or she has lost his or her virtue; if you start now and promote sexual purity and virtue, you will not have to experience an eternity of shame and regret. Please, Betty, I beg you! Stop your promotion of perverse indulgence in the appetites of the flesh. You have a lot of admirers and followers, and you are contributing to their spiritual destruction. Stop it, Betty!! Stop it!!
Not rude
It wasn't rude it was grammatically confusing which everyone should have known what you meant anyway. Like: If you are happy that all that matters.
Twins!
I'm the same way! Well, almost. I typically consider myself straight, although I think women in generally are more attractive than men. Does that make sense?lol Anyway the few times that I have fooled around with females I find that I slip into a more dominant role. With men I prefer it to be the other way around; and my fantasies cater to this too.
In the study of group dynamics you'll find that people tend to slip in a pecking order no matter how small the group. I think for most people its not something that's conscious they just sort of do it. I think in sex the role are more exaggerated than in other situations. Maybe because there's usually fewer people or maybe its just more of the awesomeness of sex. Sexuality, the one realm where you have to check most of your social constructs & political correctness at the threshold, leaving it all behind. Being yourself, being primal, being raw. There's no room for that other crap, especially when you're by yourself inside your own head. Betty's right, quit policing yourself when you're trying to please yourself. ;)
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