Friday, January 5, 2007

Anal Sex Preferred By Brooklyn Hipsters


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This week’s New York magazine’s piece on how straight people are so totally into anal sex (again) is the most emailed story there so far this issue.

Though the CDC study cited doesn’t offer any hard numbers on female-insertive, male-receptive anal sex, anecdotally speaking, the sex smart folks interviewed report that the boys in Brooklyn are getting some hot strap-on, man-taking-it-up-the-ass, girl-on-top butt-fucking action… just not as far as the CDC knows about it. Says one of the undoubtedly trendy spectacled pegging fans who just can’t get enough:

“My wife is totally turned on by the idea of ‘having’ me, as that’s just not something women really get to do most of the time, and it’s not something that guys have usually had done to them. It really is a reversal in the most primal of ways,” explains newlywed Brooklynite Anthony.

And much like the guys interviewed in their other oft-emailed article this issue, on the rise of the “grup,” or yupster (yuppie hipsters who still strive for twentysomething cool, but on thirtysomething budgets), a happening boy offers up a nature/nurture theory to explain for the rise of this phenom:

Jim, a 27-year-old consultant, has been given the opportunity by willing partners but hasn’t taken the plunge. He agrees that it seems to be on the rise among his friends but wonders whether it’s “really a cultural shift or just something we ease into semi-contemporaneously as we age, like marriage or buying real estate or listening to jazz rap.”

Is anal sex the new settling down for the iPod generation? Like evolving musical tastes, is it just inevitable? Or is it just a big whatever, and are those wrapped up in how kinky it is just being so 2005 about sex, honestly? (And I bet they still think one of the guys in the band is actually named Franz Ferdinand, too.)

Until someone busts out with a white leather harness for all those boys, I’ll just let the Brooklyn boy from the paper say it again, and better, for me:

“I think anyone who doesn’t enjoy it or thinks they wouldn’t is hindered by their own hang-ups. It feels good, period. And breaking taboos is sexy. Variety is sexy. Being vulnerable is sexy.”

Monday, November 27, 2006

Body Hacks: [rootlock@mulabandha] man comeharder


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Don’t hate on Tantra just for its unfortunate aesthetics — or rather, the unfortunate aesthetics of some of the web designers of its Western devotees¹. As a technology of pleasure, Tantra has a lot to offer the determined orgasm engineer. Learning to modify one’s ‘unconscious’ physical responses is fundamental to both sex science and to yoga practice, and to that aim, mula bandha, the root lock, can be explored as a basic body hack suited for bodies of all kinds.

I’ve scoured the Tantric web so you don’t have to, and decided, rather than point to something overly obscure, to instead share this more timely (as in, written this year), in-the-field approach, found in the Indigo Lotus community at Tribe.net:

For those of you saying, “What the Hell is MULA BANDHA?” Mula means root and Bandha means lock. You engage the Mula Bandha by gently lifting up the pelvic floor from the perinium and drawing in and up on the lower abdominals (below the navel). It can be a gentle contraction, more like a sense of awareness and stability in the pelvic muscles or it can be a stronger engagement for heavy lifting or defying gravity. Mula Bandha helps stabilize the pelvis and supports the back, it also gets you in touch with your root and the Kundalini energy that resides at the base of the spine. You can strengthen your Mula Bandha with Kegal exercises. Gaining control of your pelvic muscles not only helps with bladder control, posture and strength, but can help to develop, maintain and control sexual energy.

Translation: Those muscles that spasm and flex when you come? You can train them. You can train them (and likewise, your orgasms) like any other muscle: for strength, flexibility, endurance… and you can even do it under your clothes. You can do it right now.

And as always, for extra credit: a long, thorough, perhaps obsessive (but well-done, really) essay on the Westernization of Tantric technologies and practices and their emergence in pop culture, by Michael Winn, here excerpted on the evolution of Western Tantric ‘gurus’:

Nik Douglas, who met Rajneesh in India before he was famous, told me his main recollection him was of a “nice professor type who wanted me to set him up with intellectual Jewish girls who would fuck”. This suggests an early stage of trying to reconcile his sexual and intellectual identities. Rajneesh was later touted as the “sex guru” by the media because he told his followers to have as much sex as they could possibly tolerate until they no longer desired it. This was his novel application of a traditional Tantric principle of using ordinary desire to obtain enlightenment.

[1]dear internet, please stop putting such terrible pastel photos next to every article on male multiple orgasm, okthxbye. Or I will force you to write your sex guides with a basic Unix shell command file open in another window and run your XXXML past the WC3 for compliance.

Monday, October 16, 2006

Yoni B. Goode


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photo by jodigreen.

If, after reading on sacred cunt massage in the latest Scarlet…

The treatment would cost £40 and he reassured me I’d enjoy the experience and that it would help ease painful sex.

The session would take two hours and would begin with rituals to create a sacred environment with candles and music prior to the massage. It’s not goal-orientated, so the aim isn’t to have an orgasm, although if you do it’s likely to be “more intense than usual”. I quite liked the idea of being pampered for a couple of hours and booked a hotel room for the session.

…take a look at these boys who make making yonis their trade.

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