Recommended for libraries serving a trendy population.

Yes, agreed. It's currently on heavy rotation and going on the new mix.

It reminds me of my obsession last year with the song "Take away" by Missy last year. The perfect love song for the moment, even though I have no gold or platinum chains to be taken away.

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what a great line :)

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I'm so sorry for the Elizabeth Berkeley tip. I tuned in myself and when I hit the "info" button on my remote it said something like "a happily married woman is wrongly accused of [something] by the student who accosted her". That's not how Entertainment Weekly described it. I also turned it off after 5 minutes. I was hoping for soft core cheeziness, but it was all EB on a cell phone acting badly.

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No worries -- I had plenty of other entertaining activities to keep me occupied, and it's not like I wasn't planning on multi-tasking during the movie, even if it had been trashy and fun. When I called, I meant to have

dommeyourass mention to not waste your time watching the movie during the multiple times I'm sure Lifetime will rerun it. I half-watched the first five minutes, then put it on mute and left the room. I tuned in at the end before switching over to The Simpsons. I would almost recommend watching the last two minutes, where there's a lame scene where some student confronts the rapist's parents and gives them their money (a payoff?) back, then the movie ends and EB does a very special public service announcement where she informed me that sexual assault is bad and it's not my fault if it happens. Gee, thanks, I didn't know. I'm so over lame "raising awareness" tips in lieu of actually doing something. Esp. coming from Jessie Spano.

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I swear I'm having deja vu right now, like I have read this entry before. Have I? In any case, I'm blushing about the flogging, feeling slightly envious which is a surprise to me. I think its just the kinky factor of it all, considering my long term boyfriend can't really even take a shower with me because of his "issues" with his own body, I guess I'm screwed if I ever want a flogging.
I'll miss showering with people though.

Let's all feel sorry for Q

-Q

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I don't think you've read this entry before, unless I accidentally posted it twice..... ;)

Perhaps you can negotiate something with your boyfriend about being open when it comes to flogging and other bdsm type activites? For me, floggings and spanking and other sensory dep type stuff doesn't HAVE to be about sex or even included "actual sex". Last night I was saying that sometimes it's actually easier for me to drop trousers, get worked over, and walk away without an orgasm, versus having a hot makeout session that leaves me, um, having problems walking away.

Showering is definitely a pretty intimate experience -- in my last relationship we had a rule about no showering with others. Funny how I was okay with fucking, but not showering. I still feel this way a little, but I'm in a place where I'm more okay with a partner doing intimate activites with others and not having it threaten our own intimacy. Which is to say, I still feel jealous, but I suck it up and focus on trusting the universe.
And, here's the point of the comment where I respectfully but flirtily offer to aid you in anyway possible should you be interested in a future flogging (or any other kinky) experience.

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*blushing again"

Why thanks for the offer, I've never met you but you seem exciting enough for me!
I do agree that some stuff is intimate without being about sex, and some stuff is just pure raunch and no sex, and some stuff is about bondage/pain/other and not about sex, but I think I would feel uncomfortable doing any of those things with anyone else other than Racerboy, since I would feel jealous letting him do those things with someone. I understand my own jealousy.I've tried negotiating these experiences with him, and we have a pretty direct relationship in which we can speak about these things, but he is insitant that he is way too uncomfortable to shower with anyone EVER, he even needs to lock the door. I guess his family used to come into the bathroom and play pranks on him while he was showering and it just pisses him off to have someone come in. He is ok with entering the bathroom while I am showering, or bathing, so I know it's just his issue. And he rocks my world in other ways so I guess I just have to compromise and think of what I have instead of what I don't. But damn, I sure do like hot steamy showers with people. There is nothing else like it.

um...what other kinky things did you have in mind, by the way? Just curious.

-Q

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Saw High Fidelity. Thought of you. Seen it? You should.

Cookout Sunday. K. and D.'s place on highland off clark. Email to follow :)

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but I think I would feel uncomfortable doing any of those things with anyone else other than Racerboy, since I would feel jealous letting him do those things with someone.

There's definitely a certain cockiness I had to develop when I first approached nonmonogamous relationships -- a way of thinking "you go on ahead and play around and do whatever you want, cause I KNOW you'll be back since I'm the best!" I often have my hands on my hips when saying this in my head. Nowadays I'm less competitive in thinking about my lovers having lovers. I try to embrace the idea that there are a lot of things that people can offer each other and these things aren't mutually exclusive from having a close relationship with one person.

I always thought I trusted myself and my own ability to have intimate experiences with other people and not have them affect my primary partnership, but I didn't have too many opportunities to put this theory to the test. Until I did, I got unexpectedly HUGELY jealous when my ex-partner had sexual experiences, particularly with people that were more "lovers" rather than just tricks or one-times. I was so afraid of her having these experience with someone else and then not being able to have them with me anymore. But then when I finally have successful experience with lovers and I was able to come back to her and still feel close, this actually helped alleviate my jealous. I'm sure there was also some ego in play -- she was getting more action than me for awhile and I was striking out hardcore! For better or for worse, when the scales were more balanced, I had more self-confidence.

But having said all this, I certainly respect people's decision to be monogomous or open in whatever ways they want (like I know people who are fine with their partners kissing/making out with other but absolutely nothing else), and I rarely proselytize unless they want me to! Though I am bugged by people who are monogamous purely by default and don't seem to approach the idea of being open or monogamous with any level of intentionality ot analysis.

But um, yeah, back to the kinky stuff....I mean, seeing as you often pop up on my comments page, with flaminf red hair, crawling on the floor towards me, it's hard to not have a few ideas! But I'm more the kind of top who's more interesting in fulfilling my bottom's interests instead of just doing to them what I want to do. So the question more appropriate for me to ask is, what would you want me to do to you?
:)

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You passed up X2 for flogging?!

This is clearly a difference of... uh.... things that important to each individual
(Why has all english language left me?!)

Regardless, please try and see X2. It's so fucking core. Beter than X1, best marvel movie ever (once again, not tyhat hard. have you ever SEEN the never-released Fantastic Four movie? Beautiful tragedy, but still bad)

xo dillon

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i offer my services too.

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It's not so much that I passed up X2 for flogging -- the offer for flogging came after I already decided I couldn't go. It was a fabulous consolation prize.

Glad to hear it's better than the first, which was enjoyable but not great. I'm excited to see it!

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top 5!! yes, i enjoy high fidelity a lot. pleased you thought of me!

thanks for the bbq invite -- just got it in the e-mail! i will check my schedule and hopefully will be able to stop by for a bit. also, this weekend i will be making copies of the housekeys for you too, for your temporary vacation at the Raymond House of Love B&B. Except you have to make your own breakfast since I won't be there. And Sophie's too. :)

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i know you don't think you had a lot of stamina, but i was very proud of you. with very little prep time, you quickly (ahem) rose to the challenge ;) i can tell you too that a belt is pretty high-end. it can be just one step lower to a caning. and i can make any flogger about five different degrees of severity if i want to be, as you can well attest. even a pretty tame thuddy flogger. but it's not a race or competition anyway. no one's ever going to give you an award for how much pain you can tolerate. it's about taking a journey with your top and trying to push each other's boundaries in a way that frees you from your body and mind. by the way, i didn't mention your name in my post, but after you posted this publicly i went back and changed it. i'm ass-uming you don't mind -- let me know if my ass-umptions are wrong ;) thanks again for being my subject. it was very helpful for me.

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why, thank you for your assessment. i wasn't too hard on myself for taking more of the belt, since i'm actually impressed i took more than one hit. when you were done flogging me, i really felt done being flogged -- it was still good but on the border of 'too much'. but then when you suggested trying the belt, i decided, "why not? while i'm already here and leathered up...." for me, my comments on pain tolerance/stamina were more about 1) my levels compared to people who've been doing it longer, and feeling the need to be honest about where i am so i neither seem to be a poser nor do i get myself into trouble by getting into something i'm not ready for because i'm not honest about where i am; and 2) where i desire to be when it comes to pain, though i don't fault myself for not being there yet seeing as, um, i have precious little experience.
part of it is my perfectionist streak, always wanting to be bigger and better and the best, but also part of it is just me saying. yes, i want more! i want to do more! sort of moving from one plateau to the next. perhaps the way i wrote about it made me sound more self-deprecating that i feel -- don't doubt though, i AM pretty proud of myself!

i might make this post friends-only now, since the post itself it pretty generic, but the comments have gotten increasingly personal. you changed it to mentioning my name in your journal? damn, i liked being "the houseguest". :)

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so far, i've found that i instinctively know when to end with you. that's a nice thing. psychic ability put to practical use.

i changed you back to "houseguest" ;)

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psychic ability put to practical use.

probably. though you should also give yourself more credit as a top and your ability to pay close attention to your bottom and notice how their reactions change and gauge limits that way. or at least with me. i guess i shouldn't speak for anyone else who bottoms with you, though i see you do this in other ways with me and others even in non-scene contexts.

i didn't mean to imply that you couldn't use my name! but i'm sure you're tired of going back and editing the entry -- however you leave it is fine with me. and don't worry -- i'd explicitly tell you if i don't want to be mentioned publicly in your journal.

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Well, as you can probably tell by the crawling, I'm more of a Top than a Bottom. Though, I've been in situations with other tops and it can be lots of fun. Nothing against Bottoms.This line of commenting has triggered me to change my LJ pic for some reason, I was feeling campy. Though I must say that the pic of Mr. Spike on your LJ can get me every time. Hubba Hubba.

Now, you went and turned my question into a question about what types of services you can provide. Since I don't mind switching to a Bottom every once in a while I would say a nice shower is what I was alluding to, or perhaps some other things that I'm not sure I want to reveal on my LJ. ( my roomates Ghostmonkey and RedRider are watching!)I'll have to start writing you specific journal entries, since this line of questioning makes my workday go OH SO MUCH FASTER. Faster.

(sigh) Q
p.s. I'm not always on my knees but I could be.

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I guess Raybear has some competition.

Yay!

-Q

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oh no girl...there's no competition here...the more the merrier! besides, we have different in skills. i was offering my skills more of service to you, rather than trying to "win" a new play partner. trust me, i've got my hands full here in chicago as it is. ;)

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Thanks for the lesson!
Tell me like it is!
*slap*

:)

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Oooh, I bet you'd like to do some dirty things which is why you NEED a shower!

I'm a major switch -- I used to be a top who would every-once-in-a-blue-moon-with-that-special-someone be a bottom. Nowadays I'm really getting in touch with my bottom self, though I still often "top from the bottom", so even though I might be bent over, I'm still in control of the action. ;) Basically I'm a top who loves to play with bottoms but really likes to be with people who can out-top me. Let me tell you, it's rare.

I would never try to compete with

dommeyourass when it comes to topping, at least in the areas of techinical expertise. She certainly has me beat there, though I'm hoping to pick up on some of her skills through informal lessons as well as osmosis. But I could certainly come up with some fun things to do in the shower -- waterproof toys are your friend. As are the cold tiles when being pushed up against them....

Drrrty thoughts make the day fly by!

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There is nothing quite like being pressed up against a cold floor, is there? Perhaps the contrast between a nice hot shower and the cold floor is where the tension lies. ( Care to get buddhist on that statement? Is that inappropriate?)

Yeah, Dommeyourass has set me STRAIGHT on that topic.

I wonder if there is a way to become a better Bottom. Bottoms always get the slack of just lying there and enjoying themselves, when that doesn't need to be the case as you explained yourself so well.

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Oh, I LOVE getting all buddhist about sex! I also like to do dirty things like fetishizing the virgin mary or doing naughty things with rosary beads. Hey, those catholic monks used to self-flagellate -- you can't more kinky than that!

You should read "The Bottoming Book", written by the same two women who also wrote "the Ethical Slut". they talk about different ways of being bottom (like being a 'busy bottom' who does lots of the work, versus being the abosolute receptor of the sexual activity). That book helped me start to be a better bottom AND a better top because I have higher standards for my bottoms. There's definitely a way of being a good or a bad bottom just like one can be a good top or a bad top. I don't like to play with bottoms who can't articulate what they want -- if they won't take the time to figure it out for themselves, I'm not going to waste my time trying to play Pet Psychic and figure it out. They can call me when they're ready to be topped!

Mmmm, cold tiles and hot shower.....oh, and did I mention that last night I got some nice ice cube treatment on my ass and back and other parts last night after the flogging? I'm weak in the knees again thinking about it, and I'm sitting down. I love cold sensations. Last week I made a joke about how I'm hot for people with poor circulation -- put those cold fingers on my neck (and other places) for warming....

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