I'm a straight 26-year-old man in a happy, monogamous relationship with my fiancée. I was always vanilla, but she enjoys rougher sex and light bondage. We've incorporated some of this into our sex lives, and we are both happy with how fun it is. She has expressed interest in a rape fantasy. Both of us want to be safe when we do this, and we trust each other completely. But I can't think of a way to give her the experience she desires while still maintaining a safe dynamic. How I can help act out her fantasy in such a way that we both have fun?
- Seeking Erotic Advice Now
You and the fiancée are obviously capable of communicating about varsity-level sex play. Now you just have to use the same interpersonal skills that made your past kinky fuckfests possible to negotiate and realize your girlfriend's edgy-but-thoroughly common fantasy.
I recommend reading "Rape Fantasy: How to Carry It Out Safely," a long and thoughtful post at Slut Lessons (slutlessons.wordpress.com), an engaging sex blog that's sadly no longer being updated. The first recommendation from Educated Slut, the site's anonymous author: Maybe we shouldn't call them "rape fantasies" at all.
"A rape fantasy is almost invariably more about forced sex and not a desire to actually BE raped by someone," writes Educated Slut. "Very few people have the desire to be put through the physical and emotional trauma of a real rape. This is the primary reason I refer to this as 'forced sex fantasy' rather than rape fantasy; it just gives the wrong impression to some people."
You seem to be under the impression that there's something more dangerous about realizing/role-playing your way through a forced-sex scenario. And it may be more dangerous and/or triggering on an emotional level, but slapping the label "rape fantasy" on rough(er) sex shouldn't result in you having some sort of out-of-body experience that leads you to go apeshit on your helpless fiancée. Talk things through in advance, just like you have before, agree on a safe word and take it slow the first few times you go for it.
I'm a single straight guy and this is probably going to sound really stupid, but ... I basically stumbled over the cuckold fetish and I can't get it out of my mind. I've tried to stay away from it because I'm pretty sure you aren't supposed to feel like garbage after enjoying porn. But I can't get it out of my head. It's worrying, since I fear that one day it might end up spoiling things when I fall in love with someone since I'm a bit of a jealous person. The idea of a cheating woman is really hot in spite of all of that. But there's this lingering feeling of disgust surrounding the whole thing. Is it possible to have a fetish you hate?
- Baffled About Romantic Future
Don't you just hate it when someone leaves a fetish sitting on the steps and then you come along and stumble over it and – bam! – you fall and hit your head and when you come to you've got a brand-new fetish?
Yeah, no. We don't know exactly where people's fetishes and kinks come from, but we can safely say that people don't stumble into their fetishes.
Forgive me for being a pedantic asshole, BARF – I'm sure you didn't mean you literally stumbled over a cuckold. But misinformed, sex-negative, kink-negative pornophobes routinely talk about fetishes and kinks like a moment's exposure can transform an innocent person with vanilla tastes into a horned-up, slobbering, gimp-outfit-wearing kink monster. And that's not the way it happens.
So what did happen to you, BARF? You found some cuckold porn online, and your dick said: "DUDE. THIS IS IT. THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. RUN WITH THIS." Your particular kink was already in there somewhere, already rattling around in your erotic subconscious.
On to your question: Yes, you can have a fetish you don't want to act on because the fantasy can't be realized for moral or ethical reasons (it involves children, nonconsensual acts, Donald Trump) or because you're fairly certain doing so would suck for emotional or physical reasons (potentially traumatizing, physically dangerous, Donald Trump).
But if your only issue with your kink is a lingering feeling of disgust, that feeling may diminish the more time you spend thinking/jacking about your newly revealed kink. Time will determine if your feelings of disgust are merely your run-of-the-mill, beneficial-to-overcome kink negativity or if they're a sign cuckolding should remain a go-to masturbatory fantasy for you, without ever become a cheating-woman reality.
I've been dating a girl for a while, and I take our relationship seriously. Sometimes sex is a little difficult because of her pubic hair. She shaves it close to the labia, which is right where my cock is going in and out, and it's very prickly. I don't mean lightly prickly – it's like a bunch of wooden chopsticks have been filed down and shaped into a cylinder, and I've been asked to let them clench my dick. I brought it up once and tried to gently suggest a waxing or letting the hair grow back. She didn't want to talk about it. I get it: Nobody likes having their genital area critiqued. But the problem keeps recurring. I understand that I don't really have the right to dictate her grooming habits. And if waxing is out of the question for her, how can I suggest that maybe there are other solutions?
- Seeks Counsel Regarding Agonizing Penile Exfoliation
The only solution is your girlfriend letting her pubic hair grow back permanently, SCRAPE, since waxed labia will eventually become stubble-covered labia. Here's how you suggest letting those pubes grow back: Start by letting your girlfriend know you're aware that women have had to endure millennia of misogynistic/religious garbage about their genitals – but you shouldn't have to silently endure painful sex because that garbage has made discussing her choices around genital grooming unnecessarily fraught. This isn't about appearance or preferences or clashing philosophies about pubic grooming. You're in pain. Address the matter directly.
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