Sensual Highlights for the Week of May 15, 2022
Including excerpts from some of our favorite submissions
May is national masturbation month and we’ve already published several stories about the topic, but we’ve got some more good ones this week as well.
Here are excerpts from some of our favorite submissions from the week, but don’t forget to check out all of the terrific offerings on the main Sensual page, and see what’s trending as well.
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Elle
Essays 🧠
Masturbation as Guerilla Warfare in the Fight Against the Patriarchy by Danielle Loewen
Once upon a time, someone made up a story that women aren’t really sexual creatures. That ‘real’ women — aka the ‘virtuous’ ones — only ‘submitted’ to sex. That they didn’t need it or want it. The story was repeated often enough that some people started to believe it.
Women Should Talk More About Masturbation by Dominique Sloane
Sometimes the only way to normalize something is to bring it out into the light and talk about it and examine it until unfamiliarity goes from scary to comfortable.
Starting to talk about masturbation with friends as a normal part of a sex life is a good place to start.
It’s OK to Have Your First Orgasm With a Woman and Not With a Man by Em
Sam had freshly broken up with a boyfriend. Their relationship was mainly physical, but the sex wasn’t great for Sam. He lacked compassion and skill. When it came to women and their sexual needs, he wasn’t able to understand or serve. In contrast, the woman Sam was with focused on Sam’s pleasure. She was keen to explore, take time and provide comfort to Sam.
Does Your Partner Give You Money Just Because? People May Decide You’re a Sex Worker by Demeter Delune
I’ve had people ask me before, how can you be an escort or Dominatrix and charge people to go on dates with you or have sessions with you and be out here seeing people for free. Isn’t that a conflict of interest? Doesn’t it offend your paying clients?
One of My Amsterdam Sexcapades Went Wrong Before It Even Began by Elle Beau
The agency we contacted about a woman did not offer dates with men, but it was local and 100% legal. The agency that we contacted about a date with a man was not really legal because they offered gentlemen from throughout Europe. For example, in the UK, sex work is legal, but this sort of pandering is not. Escorting (money for time) is legal, but kind of in the same shadow way that it is in the US. That was a red flag that we really should have paid more attention to in this instance. More about that in a minute.
Poetry 🧝♀️
Found In The Wild Cherry Blossoms by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
There was a sweet
soft melody
that played on
in our dreams
when music was
the food of love
Making Love in a Sacred Space by Jean Carfantan
I make love with you, entering another time, an energetic bubble.
I imagine you in a dress or a skirt
We make love on a desk in deserted premises after work.
The scene is building in my imagination and my desire grows.
Kiss & Fuck by Alloyce Lugoma
Pull me closer
With your pink lips
Tighter to your skin
Your flavour like weed
Very addictive
My Long Cucumber by Patrick M. Ohana
Methinks, you must be English, my precious
Yet, I am sure you must also speak French
Lest you think I am a non-EU wench
Of the type some weigh as semiprecious
