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	<itunes:summary>Sexy, naughty, often kinky, and just 5 to 10 minutes long, each erotic episode is an invitation to join Kayar Silkenvoice in her exploration of the sensual side of life. Thoughtful, provocative, and creative, this writer and narrator of erotic stories podcasts her innermost thoughts, as well as hot erotic story excerpts and poetry readings which appeal to men, women, and couples alike.
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Bio: Silken has been writing erotica since 2005. Her short story, &quot;Where The Women Are&quot; has been published in the anthology Wetter. Another short story, &quot;Picnic Beneath the Willow&quot;, is awaiting publication in the anthology The Longest Kiss from Mojocastle Press. Her work has also been published by online erotica magazines such as Clean Sheets and Mainstream Erotica, and has received two Editor&#039;s Picks on Literotica. Silkenvoice has also released an album of erotic vignettes titled &quot;AudioSensual Erotic Shorts&quot; that is available on Amazon.com and iTunes.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Simon Says: Use Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silken on Sex #81 This is another explicit erotic audio story in the FemDom genre. Which means it isn&#8217;t for everyone, so do be warned. It involves a woman dominating a male submissive whose kinks are body-worship, cuckoldry, and strap-ons. In this case, he&#8217;s been a very bad boy, cheating on his wife and chasing tail all over the country, and he&#8217;s come to the Dominatrix to get the punishment he craves. Visit SilkenOnSex.com for more erotic tales intimately told.]]></description>
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This is another explicit erotic audio story in the FemDom genre. Which means it isn&#039;t for everyone, so do be warned. It involves a woman dominating a male submissive whose kinks are body-worship, cuckoldry, and strap-ons. In this case, he&#039;s been a very bad boy, cheating on his wife and chasing tail all over the country, and he&#039;s come to the Dominatrix to get the punishment he craves.

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		<title>Is it wrong to want a mistress?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Lately I&#8217;ve been struggling with monogomy. My partner is a good man and a considerate lover, but sometimes I want to be with a woman, to enjoy a relationship with a woman. Is it wrong to want a mistress? A: Not at all. One of the fallacies we are socialized to accept as truth is that one person can be all things to another. We find people attractive before we enter a committed relationship, and we will find people attractive afterward. It is unlikely that a single partner can meet all of one&#8217;s sexual desires all the time. But more than that, it is about energy. Dyad (monogamous) relationships are often closed systems. The couple gets wrapped up in each other during the NRE (new relationship energy) phase, usually to the exclusion of other people. Which can temporarily heighten that NRE high, but inevitably leads to an energy crash as the novelty wears off and there are no external sources of energy/stimulus to recharge. This is why serial monogamy occurs. It is a cycle of NRE high, crash, recharge, repeat. Which is a shame, because, usually, what we love about people doesn&#8217;t change, even if the qualities of the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Q: Lately I&#8217;ve been struggling with monogomy. My partner is a good man and a considerate lover, but sometimes I want to be with a woman, to enjoy a relationship with a woman. Is it wrong to want a mistress?</p>
<p>A: Not at all. One of the fallacies we are socialized to accept as truth is that one person can be all things to another. We find people attractive before we enter a committed relationship, and we will find people attractive afterward. It is unlikely that a single partner can meet all of one&#8217;s sexual desires all the time. But more than that, it is about energy. Dyad (monogamous) relationships are often closed systems. The couple gets wrapped up in each other during the <a class="zem_slink" title="New relationship energy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_relationship_energy">NRE</a> (new relationship energy) phase, usually to the exclusion of other people. Which can temporarily heighten that NRE high, but inevitably leads to an energy crash as the novelty wears off and there are no external sources of energy/stimulus to recharge. This is why <a class="zem_slink" title="Monogamy" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy">serial monogamy</a> occurs. It is a cycle of NRE high, crash, recharge, repeat. Which is a shame, because, usually, what we love about people doesn&#8217;t change, even if the qualities of the relationships do.</p>
<p>Why should a relationship that works in 90% of the areas of your life end? Choose happiness: negotiate sexual variety with your partner, instead. If you are both aware of what is going on, its not cheating. And when both partners are part of the process, the extra-marital sex tends to be less risky, both with regards to STDs and emotional health. For more information, I recommend looking into <a title="Polyamory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory" target="_blank">Polyamory.</a> It is a growing &#8220;alternative lifestyle&#8221; group with support groups in most major cities and extensive online resources.</p>
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		<title>Polyamory: Safer-sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Silken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I received an email from someone the other day asking: Hey Silken, this whole polyamory thing makes me nervous because I&#8217;m paranoid about getting an STD.  Doesn&#8217;t being poly increase your risk of STDs? I&#8217;d think poly people practice safe sex, but doesn&#8217;t that get in the way of intimacy? 1) There is no such thing as &#8220;safe sex&#8221;.  Not even masturbation is safe sex, since you can give yourself something if you don&#8217;t keep your toys clean. So, when we take precautions, it is safer-sex, but its still not 100% safe. 2) Practicing safer-sex is very, very important. But in poly-sexual situations it is critical. This is the 300# gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about because it may seem paranoid, untrusting, crude, or melodramatic. As a proponent of polyamory, I am also an advocate of safer-sex practices, because the last thing I want to do is transmit something to someone I love. 3) Some people think that practicing safer-sex means using a condom during intercourse. This is naive, almost criminally so. If you are using condoms when you fuck but not when you suck him, or don&#8217;t use gloves and a [...]]]></description>
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<p>I received an email from someone the other day asking:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Hey Silken, this whole polyamory thing makes me nervous because I&#8217;m paranoid about getting an STD.  Doesn&#8217;t being poly increase your risk of STDs? I&#8217;d think poly people practice safe sex, but doesn&#8217;t that get in the way of intimacy?</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>1) There is no such thing as &#8220;safe sex&#8221;.  Not even masturbation is safe sex, since you can give yourself something if you don&#8217;t keep your toys clean. So, when we take precautions, it is safer-sex, but its still not 100% safe.</p>
<div id=":aq" class="ii gt">2) Practicing safer-sex is very, very important. But in poly-sexual situations it is critical. This is the 300# gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about because it may seem paranoid, untrusting, crude, or melodramatic. As a proponent of polyamory, I am also an advocate of safer-sex practices, because the last thing I want to do is transmit something to someone I love.</p>
<p>3) Some people think that practicing safer-sex means using a condom during intercourse. This is naive, almost criminally so. If you are using condoms when you fuck but not when you suck him, or don&#8217;t use gloves and a barrier when you are giving her oral, then you aren&#8217;t practicing safer sex, you are playing at it. (Read more about how to have Safer Sex at <a href="http://std.about.com/od/prevention/a/safersexmechani.htm">About.com</a>)</p>
<p>4) Polyamory is Polynomial. In the not too distant past, I had three partners. Three. Now lets do the math. If I have three partners, and each of them has one other partner, and each of their one-others has one-other, how many body-fluids are possibly being inter-exchanged? 10. That is a lot of semen and vaginal secretions, saliva and mucous membranes, and if I hadn&#8217;t been scrupulous about screening my sex/play partners, then I put myself and everyone I was with, and everyone they were with, at risk.</p>
<p>5) Everyone who is sexually active in non-exclusive relationships should have regular screenings for STIs (sexually transmitted infections). You may trust your partner(s), but do you trust your partner&#8217;s partners? Is your inner circle sexually responsible enough for <a href="http://www.smartsextalk.com/fluid_bonding.html" target="_blank">fluid-bonding</a> (Don&#8217;t know what fluid bonding is, read <a href="http://www.smartsextalk.com/fluid_bonding.html">this</a> clear explanation at SmartSexTalk.com<a href="http://www.smartsextalk.com/fluid_bonding.html"></a>)? There are many stories of fluid-bonded couples who have had to go back to using barriers because one of them had poorly-protected sex or took on a secondary partner who couldn&#8217;t provide proof of recent screenings and the other partner(s) felt it was prudent to practice safer-sex during the 6 month testing interim.</p>
<p>6) The importance of confidentiality and/or anonymity for screening. Consider whether or not to use your insurer / primary physician for screenings. I know we are in the middle of a health care crisis and reform, and Insurers are Big Brother in all this. The have the pot of gold, they want to keep it to themselves, and they use your medical records to discriminate against you. If they know that you are regularly tested for STIs, they may consider that an indicator of &#8220;risky behavior&#8221; (rather than health maintenance) and drop you or raise your rates. There are companies out there like <a href="http://getstdtested.com/">getSTDtested.com</a>, as well as various local clinics, that offer testing at a variety of rates without compromising your medical history.</p>
<p>Just a few anecdotes:<br />
It is not uncommon for poly-couples to have a contract for themselves and their secondary partners &#8212; contracts that are reviewed and signed <em>prior to intimacy</em>, not after. Such contracts often require that all partners be tested semi-annually, disclose any and all exposures, and to use barriers during sex for at least six months before considering moving to a &#8220;fluid-bonded&#8221; status. I&#8217;ve been presented with and signed more than a few of these over the years and I&#8217;ve always found them to be an affirmation of my judgment in my partners.</p>
<p>STIs can show up in surprising places:</p>
<p>I have some friends in a monogamous relationship that were &#8220;serial-monogamy sluts&#8221; before they got married. They didn&#8217;t realize they had genital herpes until he had a flare-up &#8212; in his eye. He is one of those pussy-eaters who really likes to rub his face in it, soaking himself from his hairline to his chin. They aren&#8217;t sure who gave it to whom, and though they&#8217;ve tried to notify past partners, for them, its too late. They&#8217;ve got it for life, and he gets to worry about going blind if he doesn&#8217;t keep it under control.</p>
<p>I have another friend who learned that a wart on her husband&#8217;s finger have been transmitted to her vaginal and anal openings. The treatment was embarrassing, extremely unpleasant, and so painful she screamed every time she went pee for a week.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The message of this post? Even monogamous couples transmit STI&#8217;s to each other. Practicing safer-sex isn&#8217;t just about taking care of you: it is about taking care of the ones you love, and the ones they love, too. Yes, you might think it would interfere with intimacy &#8212; if intimacy was just about sex. In my book, sexual intimacy (as delicious as it can be) is just the icing on the cake.<br />
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		<title>Polyamory: Know Thyself First</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Earlier today the friend of a friend sent me an email: &#8220;I am currently working on reading the second edition of The Ethical Slut&#8230; was wondering if you had any ideas of other books I could read on poly that are any good?&#8221; Here is my response: Regarding polyamory and reading material &#8212; I&#8217;ve not read *any* books on it and very little in the way of online material. I come to polyamory by nurturing &#8212; my parents are poly and I lived communally until I was 10 or so. So I can&#8217;t really recommend any reading material from personal experience of it. I actually own The Ethical Slut but I&#8217;ve not read it. Why? I found myself resisting reading it and after thinking about it, decided that I didn&#8217;t want to influence my own innate understanding of it with someone else&#8217;s attempt to explain it or persuade others to give it a try. That said, I have read a bit of the Loving More site (http://www.lovemore.com/) with an eye toward being a contributing writer. My friends Y and his wife X run the Poly Circle Discussion Group (http://pcdg.portlandpoly.org/) and the books I know they recommend in [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong> Earlier today the friend of a friend sent me an email:</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;I am currently working on reading the second edition of <a class="zem_slink" title="The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities" rel="amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1890159018/?tag=silkenvoice-20">The Ethical Slut</a>&#8230; was wondering if you had any ideas of other books I could read on poly that are any good?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Here is my response:</strong></p>
<p>Regarding <a class="zem_slink" title="Polyamory" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory">polyamory</a> and reading material &#8212; I&#8217;ve not read *any* books on it and very little in the way of online material. I come to polyamory by nurturing &#8212; my parents are poly and I lived communally until I was 10 or so. So I can&#8217;t really recommend any reading material from personal experience of it. I actually own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1587613379/?tag=silkenvoice-20"><em>The Ethical Slut</em></a> but I&#8217;ve not read it. Why? I found myself resisting reading it and after thinking about it, decided that I didn&#8217;t want to influence my own innate understanding of it with someone else&#8217;s attempt to explain it or persuade others to give it a try.</p>
<p>That said, I have read a bit of the Loving More site (<a href="http://www.lovemore.com/">http://www.lovemore.com/</a>) with an eye toward being a contributing writer. My friends Y and his wife X run the Poly Circle Discussion Group (<a href="http://pcdg.portlandpoly.org/">http://pcdg.portlandpoly.org/</a>) and the books I know they recommend in addition to The Ethical Slut, are:<br />
&#8216;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1890109533/?tag=silkenvoice-20">Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless &amp; Hopeful</a>&#8216; (Ravenscroft)<br />
&#8216;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1880789086/?tag=silkenvoice-20">Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits</a>&#8216; (Anapol)<br />
&#8216;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/157344295X/?tag=silkenvoice-20">Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships</a>&#8216; (Taormino)</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve met Tristan Taormino and she is a friend of Y. She comes to Portland often to speak, so I&#8217;d say to try her book next.</p>
<p>I can tell you that the tendency of society to insist that we chose one person to be all things to us creates a lot of unnecessary tension and stress. A lot of people get into that mode of feeling like they settled for someone, settled for Mr Right Now instead of Mr Right, or worse, withhold forming intimate bonds thinking they&#8217;ll miss out on something better later on if they do.</p>
<p>I can also tell you that being self-honest is an absolute necessity. Self-inquiry and contemplation are practices that you are going to need to be comfortable with &#8212; you can&#8217;t really have healthy relationships with others until you&#8217;ve established one with yourself. In many ways we are each of us the biggest mystery to ourselves. We don&#8217;t know why we do half the shit we do &#8212; we just do it. Getting eye-level with your consciousness and being alert to your feelings and reactions helps resolve a lot of the self-sabotaging that goes on in each of us. I recommend meditation and journalling. We are blessed with being self-aware and each of us is a book-in-progress, so write your story, revise it, consider how things could be done differently in future situations, and outline the future chapters. We can live life intentionally, rather than accidentally.</p>
<p>Establishing good self-communication then makes it possible to have good communication in relationships. Especially poly ones. Jealousy is the biggest problem in any relationship, be it sibling, friend, colleague or partner. And the root of jealousy is issues with scarcity / abundance. Being self-aware and having good self-communication means we can often intercept the negative self-talk that arises as a result of feeling threatened by the prospect of scarcity / loss. Being able to share our feelings and thoughts with partners is both beautiful and necessary, so long as we learn to approach it in such a way that it is not a Blame Game. As soon as we make someone &#8220;wrong&#8221; or as soon as someone feels we are making them &#8220;wrong&#8221; we&#8217;ve lost the opportunity to communicate effectively.</p>
<p>My ex-girlfriend used to say &#8220;You made me do it&#8221; or &#8220;You make me feel like I&#8217;m crazy&#8221; and it really pushed my buttons when she did. If she could find a way to make something someone else&#8217;s fault, she would. She lived her life as a victim, and last I heard, she still does. But not me! I accept responsibility for my thoughts and actions, and I recognize that in the arena of thoughts and actions, I have control. But I also know that feelings are feelings, that they are what they are and that they arise from deep within, and I honor them and recognize that while how I feel is *always* appropriate (because it is how I feel) &#8212; I get to choose both what I think about how I am feeling *and* what I&#8217;m going to do about it &#8212; and thus I am responsible for the outcomes. There is no escaping that, no matter how much I may want to deny it, and did live in denial of it &#8212; ultimately I am responsible for my life, and being involved with others who also accept responsibility for their lives makes everything easier.</p>
<p>So basically, I guess what I am trying to say, is the best thing you can do is to make sure that you&#8217;re in a good place with yourself. If you are healthy and happy and self-aware, then everything flows naturally from that place &#8212; if you have a loving relationship with yourself love comes naturally, and the more you love the more love comes your way. From there it makes sense to keep expanding the circle of loved ones and exploring the various permutations of loving &#8212; there is little to lose and much to gain.</p>
<p>Lastly, be aware&#8230; things change. Like the ocean, we ebb and flow. One day or week or month we may want to be free to love anyone and everyone, and then the next, we want someone all to ourselves. Some of it is tied to hormones, seasons, lunar cycle, and emotional rhythms. Some if it has to do with aspects specific to each person we are involved with. It is important to remember that how we feel and what we want is valid AND that what others feel and want is also valid. Sometimes the two (or three or four ;) are in conflict and that is ok. The &#8220;conflict&#8221; may be temporary or permanent but it is only an earth-shattering disaster if we choose to make it one. Giving ourselves room to feel the emotional intensity while not succumbing to the pressing urge to act now is a good pressure valve to develop.</p>
<p>I hope I don&#8217;t sound too preachy. You may already have some or all of this down and if so, great. If not, that is cool, too. I mean no insult or injury in what I&#8217;m trying to communicate, only a desire for you to know love and happiness. I&#8217;ve learned to operate from the space that everyone is perfect, whole and complete just as they are while also understanding that most people just don&#8217;t realize they are ;)</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She threw herself at me. Well, not really &#8212; but it sounds good, doesn&#8217;t it? Actually she was standing too close to a tiki torch and when the wind blew the flame toward her, she leaped away from it &#8212; and into me. It was rather nice having my arms full of a buxom blond who smelled like Lolita Lempicka. I helped her steady herself and smiled as she blushed and apologized profusely. The man I was talking to when she stumbled into me made introductions. As we shook hands, I noticed her wedding ring. &#8220;Emily?&#8221; I said. &#8220;A lovely name for someone so warm and soft and sweet smelling.&#8221; The way she looked at me, I knew I&#8217;d read her right. Married she might be, but Emily liked girls. And dominants. Our mutual friend Bruce laughed. He and Emily had a lot in common, apparently. Both were married, bisexual, and submissive. We chatted for a while, and I enjoyed the energy they sent my way. Subs do that in the presence of Dominants&#8211;they bend energy our way. I turned to Bruce. &#8220;I brought my Sybian&#8230; if you help carry it in, I&#8217;ll let you choose who rides first.&#8221; &#8220;Oh!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She threw herself at me. </p>
<p>Well, not really &#8212; but it sounds good, doesn&#8217;t it? </p>
<p>Actually she was standing too close to a tiki torch and when the wind blew the flame toward her, she leaped away from it &#8212; and into me. It was rather nice having my arms full of a buxom blond who smelled like Lolita Lempicka. I helped her steady herself and smiled as she blushed and apologized profusely. The man I was talking to when she stumbled into me made introductions. As we shook hands, I noticed her wedding ring.</p>
<p>&#8220;Emily?&#8221; I said. &#8220;A lovely name for someone so warm and soft and sweet smelling.&#8221;</p>
<p>The way she looked at me, I knew I&#8217;d read her right. Married she might be, but Emily liked girls. And dominants.</p>
<p>Our mutual friend Bruce laughed. He and Emily had a lot in common, apparently. Both were married, bisexual, and submissive. We chatted for a while, and I enjoyed the energy they sent my way. Subs do that in the presence of Dominants&#8211;they bend energy our way.</p>
<p>I turned to Bruce. &#8220;I brought my Sybian&#8230; if you help carry it in, I&#8217;ll let you choose who rides first.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Oh!&#8221; gasped Emily. &#8220;Me-me-me-me.&#8221;</p>
<p>I smiled at Bruce and he gave his delightful laugh.</p>
<p>He laughed the same way when Emily climaxed later that night, her hips bucking on my Sybian and her eyes wide. She kept saying &#8220;OhMyGodOhMyGodOhMyGod&#8221; like a Buddhist reciting a mantra that had her on the cusp of enlightenment. And maybe she was. She looked utterly transformed: luminous, uninhibited, joyous. Her hair was a disheveled mess and her nipples, her little pink nipples, were incredibly hard, the large aureoles crinkled up tight.</p>
<p>I had slowly been turning down the vibration on the Sybian as she slid down her peak, looking drowsy and replete, but Bruce gave me a thumbs-up sign and moved behind Emily. He kneeled and pulled her back against him, wrapping one arm around her shoulders and another under her ribcage. Once he had her secure in his embrace, I goosed the power on the Sybian. Emily&#8217;s eyes popped open. </p>
<p>&#8220;NoNoNoNoNoooo,&#8221; she screamed. &#8220;Make it stop!&#8221; Her head tossed from side to side.</p>
<p>&#8220;Ever heard of forced orgasms, Emily?&#8221; I asked her. I knew I had a devilish expression on my face. I love making women cum.</p>
<p>Emily shook her head wildly. She choked on something that could have been a moan or a sob.</p>
<p>Bruce slid his fingers down her belly. I watched him tease her clit as I stepped out of my skirt, leaving a pool of silk on the floor. As I walked toward them, my fingers flicked my right thigh, the thigh that the holster for my strap-on dildo usually rode on. But not tonight. Tonight my tool of choice was the Sybaan. </p>
<p>I stood over them and gave first Bruce, and then Emily, a kiss. Then I took her hair in my hand and pulled it downward until her upturned face left her no where to look but my eyes.</p>
<p>&#8220;You are going to eat my pussy, Emily love, and you are going to make me cum. You are going to cum on my clit, making it vibrate with the force of your own screaming orgasms. And only your being limp and senseless will make it stop.&#8221;</p>
<p>I tightened my fingers in her hair and pressed her face against my pussy. With my other hand, I pressed the control box against my thigh and turned it to its highest setting. Bruce leaned into Emily, forcing her pussy and clit down against the machine. </p>
<p>When she came, it was with an explosion of hot breath against my clit that went off like an explosion in the back of my mind. The keening sounds she made were muffled against my flesh, but the vibrations rippled through me, pebbling my skin with wave after wave of gooseflesh.</p>
<p>So close! I pressed myself firmly against her face until I could feel the suction of her mouth and nose struggling to find air. She sucked pussy juice deep into her nostrils and then I set her free, letting her gasp for air. Mmmm. So close!</p>
<p>I watched as Bruce humped his cock against Emily&#8217;s ass, a blissed-out expression on his face.</p>
<p>&#8220;Finish in her mouth,&#8221; I instructed him.</p>
<p>Bruce staggered to his feet and moved to stand before Emily while I got behind her on the Sybian.  Even without the dildo attachment the vibration of the machine was enough to make me cum. I wrapped my arms around Emily and humped against her and the Sybian as Bruce cradled her head in his hands.</p>
<p>As profane as the scene might have seemed to someone else, to us there was something transcendent and sacred about the giving and taking of pleasure, of the abandonment of inhibitions and fears, and the release of our primal selves in this ages old dance to the orgiastic, orgasmic beat of carnal love pounded out in the drums of our flesh until we fell asleep in a sodden, tangled heap, our bodies imperfect instruments of the tireless, divine spark within.
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		<title>Jealousy, posessiveness, fear, change, LOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possessiveness, territoriality, the hoarding mentality &#8212; those things have always been so difficult for me to handle in loving relationships. When I was a child, I learned that the harder I tried to hold onto something I feared losing, the more of a certainty that fear became. So I simultaneously arrived at two things: In recognizing that loss was inevitable, I stopped fearing it. And, perhaps fatalistically, I prepared for it. In my past three long term relationships, which ran from 1988 through 2004, I had the same conversations with each of them: That nothing lasts forever, that no one person can be all things to another, that attraction to others is inevitable, that if one of us meets someone else we will be happier with, we should give our blessings to them. The happiness and well-being of the ones I love is essential to my own. And so I find myself in a relationship with a man whose love makes me a little bit giddy. Who says the sweetest, corniest things that lure my inner child to come out and play. Who has more kindness and constancy in him than I had thought possible in someone of our generation. [...]]]></description>
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Possessiveness, territoriality, the hoarding mentality &#8212; those things have always been so difficult for me to handle in loving relationships. When I was a child, I learned that the harder I tried to hold onto something I feared losing, the more of a certainty that fear became. So I simultaneously arrived at two things: In recognizing that loss was inevitable, I stopped fearing it. And, perhaps fatalistically, I prepared for it. In my past three long term relationships, which ran from 1988 through 2004, I had the same conversations with each of them: That nothing lasts forever, that no one person can be all things to another, that attraction to others is inevitable, that if one of us meets someone else we will be happier with, we should give our blessings to them. The happiness and well-being of the ones I love is essential to my own.</p>
<p>And so I find myself in a relationship with a man whose love makes me a little bit giddy. Who says the sweetest, corniest things that lure my inner child to come out and play. Who has more kindness and constancy in him than I had thought possible in someone of our generation. A man who devilishly plays with my libido like it is a cross between a lute and a cat&#8217;s toy. He delights in me, melts at my touch, makes me laugh, and supports me. But he also wants me all to himself. And therein lies the very heart of the problem.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve asked him for 6 months. Give me 6 months. There is a lot going on in my life, my world, and choosing him&#8211;which something in me very much wants to do and at the same time is very afraid to do&#8211;would be a huge change in my life. Not just a change from polyamory to monogamy, but a change in place, which would mean leaving my community. But when I ask myself what I want, more and more, I find myself answering &#8220;him&#8221;, and when I think about it, I recognize that if I do not choose &#8220;us&#8221;, then I&#8217;ll always wonder what might have been.</p>
<p>Where does the desire for personal freedom and self-expression find itself when two people merge their lives to form an exclusive partnership? I remember what happened to it when I was younger, less secure in myself, more eager to &#8216;fix&#8217; others or to &#8216;make them happy.&#8217;  I am so far from that place, and yet , I know that it is my daily rituals, my affirmations of self and non-self, my me-time, the pure freedom to be spontaneous&#8211;that it is these things which maintain the self I know as &#8216;me&#8217; me.  And I have seen how easy it is to slide out of healthy habits and ways of being, to let things slip for love, and I find myself conflicted, clinging almost jealously to my current life and way of being in the face of&#8230; love. There is tremendous possibility there. I love him like I have never loved another, in ways I never thought possible for me, and I know myself for 10 kinds of a fool if I pass up those possibilities out of fear or possessiveness.</p>
<p>&#8220;Mine. I am mine. No one claims me. No one owns me,&#8221; my inner child says while at the same time she reaches out to him, teases him, shares with him. Loves him.</p>
<p>I like things just the way they are, and yet I know that change is inevitable. He won&#8217;t keep forever like a doll in a glass case. He&#8217;s a person with his own needs and desires. I suppose I am faced with the choices we all are: shall I sit on the side of the path and wait for Life to happen and choose for me?  Or shall I take action and choose for myself what I want from Life, even knowing the path I choose to walk may not lead where I wanted?</p>
<p>I am reminded of the final words of a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f02Q5IFoyKw">poem </a>by slam-poet Shane Koyczan that go something like this: &#8220;Its a game. You play, you win. You play, you lose. You play. The world is a window that holds a sign. There is &#8216;help wanted&#8217; out there but if you are playing to win, the first thing you have to do is &#8216;apply within&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>Six months. Six months to wrestle with my choices and then take a stand for my own happiness, for what I want for myself and my life. Six months. 180 days. So many days. Why does it feel like so little time?</p>
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