Sinful Sunday: What Beautiful Music We Make

“If music be the food of love, play on.” – William Shakespeare (Competition Entry)

It’s been too long, my tempting seductress
Since I last felt your lips upon my breast

Your warm touch gives me pleasure and delight
I need to kiss and caress you tonight

My passion for you burns just like the sun
Envelop me, and let us be as one

See who else is being sinful at Molly’s Daily Kiss!

Formspring Friday: Play-At-Home Dad

You post a LOT of blogs, how do you find the time?? Jack, are you a stay at home dad?

(Submitted by Pagan Princess*)

You’re absolutely right.  The main reason why I am such a prolific blogger is because I do not punch a clock.  The reality of being a stay-at-home Dad means that it’s relatively easy for me to write a blog post or two each day, usually with enough time left over to read and comment on blogs.  Our daughter is two years old, and at times very independent.  While my typical day is far from leisurely – stay-at-home parents don’t have the luxury of sick days or even lunch breaks – and the pressure to succeed at raising a child is far greater than the pressure I felt at any of the myriad jobs I held previously, it’s nice to know that I can sit at my laptop for an hour or two and give voice to my feelings on the current sociopolitical climate, relate an account of the hot sex we had the night before, or test out my new Lelo Tor cock ring without worrying that my supervisor is going to fire me for being at my desk with my cock out.

The typical day finds me waking anywhere between five o’clock and eight o’clock in the morning, depending usually on my daughter’s sleep schedule.  On the days when I am able to sleep in, it’s because she is also sleeping in, and while I am pleased to have a bit of time to myself (a) I never use that time to shower, get dressed, and eat breakfast like a smart person would; and (b) it usually means that she won’t nap at all during the day.  It’s hard to believe that, when she was new, she would nap at least twice a day.  Anyway, the morning routine involves getting her washed, dressed, and fed, and somehow managing to sneak off for a shower.  We don’t have a backyard, but there are a few parks within walking distance so when the weather cooperates that’s where we usually find ourselves.  If I’m lucky she’ll take a nap on the way home, which means I usually have an hour or two of peace and quiet before Jill comes home.  In the past I was a lot better at timing the baby’s naps for just before Jill arrived, which meant two hours of uninterrupted sex.  Lately, though, there seems to be no pattern to her naps, and no predictability as to whether or not she takes one.

The blogging usually occurs in the morning while our daughter is playing or reading in her room, or distracted by a television show.  It isn’t always easy to write with the television playing; if necessary I use noise-cancelling headphones and white noise to block out the repetition of the average children’s television show.  Sometimes, however, I save the blogging for nighttime, typically when Jill is putting the baby to bed.  During that time I am able to sit in silence and write without distraction.

It probably helps that I enjoy writing to begin with.  I’ve been writing since I was around nine or ten years old.  I write just about anything, though poetry isn’t my strong suit.  It’s this love of writing, if not an aptitude for it, that makes it easy to blog every day.  We are also motivated by a need to share openly, by our appreciation of this unique forum in which to discuss our enjoyment of sex without fear of judgment or ostracism.  This is, in part, what keeps us going.  We are proud of this blog, and while it takes a lot of effort to blog at this pace, it will be well worth it if it means having a record of our sex life to someday look back on.

So in closing, yes, I am a stay-at-home Dad.  It is a unique occupation, one in which the rewards are immediately evident, and very significant.  It’s far from an easy job, and one that may seem thankless at times.  But I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
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*Yes, we’re attributing the questions now.  Not sure why we never did that before.

Flash Fiction Friday: A Half Mile Down the Beach

We spent three days riding up and down the beach and frolicking in the surf.  We spent the nights making love in the sand and sleeping beneath the stars.  At dusk, the horses would trot off, only to return at daybreak.  They’d wander up to the property to graze, and Sandra would get them some carrots from the main house. 
While she was there she made us breakfast, with Bloody Marys in proper old-fashioned glasses.  I dozed until she returned and we ate at the edge of the water.  When the horses were sated they returned to our blanket.  It was their way of telling us they were ready to play.  
When the horses left us on the third nightfall, I noticed Smokey’s limp.  I couldn’t bring myself to mention it to Sandra, so I lay her down on the blanket and kissed her.  She gave herself to me, her body opening to mine.  My hands caressed her even as I slipped inside.  But I was tense, and she knew it.  She asked why.
“They’ll be home tomorrow,” I said, nodding toward the house.  She accepted this, and I kissed her again.
The gunshot woke me in the morning.  I was alone.  I leapt to my feet and ran until I found them a half-mile down the beach.  Sandra stood over him, the old man’s rifle smoking in her hand.  Behind her, Beau held his own head low, an equine expression of melancholy.
“Dropped fetlock,” she said, eyes welling up.  I cried for Smokey too.  I hadn’t cried in years, but I did for Smokey.  And for Sandra.
We wasted no time mourning.  We led Beau back to our campsite and replaced his saddle.  Then we were gone. (288/289)
Behind the Scenes
This week’s Flash Fiction Friday challenge proved a bit more difficult than other recent ones, as while I found the image appealing and evocative, I was at a loss to determine the course of the story until I actually sat down to write on Thursday morning.  Once I began writing, however, the story flowed naturally.  I like the narrator’s voice, and the pace at which the story progresses.  
It was a deliberate choice to withhold the details of why the couple were there.  Clearly they are squatting, though that is never explicitly stated.  We also never discover how the squatters know the occupants’ schedule, i.e. when they are expected to return.  It seems that this story is a small portion of a larger whole; reference to “the old man” – ostensibly one of the home’s occupants – furthers this notion.
In addition to the prompt photo, the requirements imposed by Ram the Sunlover this week include a 289-word limit, which I found difficult to keep from exceeding; and use of the word “…fetlock…”  I doubt that I am the only participant who was wholly unfamiliar with the term, which refers to the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints of horses and similar animals.  I assumed that Ram had simply misspelled the name of a well-known kink website.
As someone who’s never ridden a horse, my knowledge of all things equine was lacking, and I had to research the subject extensively.  The new knowledge shaped the story as it was being written.  For example, originally not only was the couple squatting, but the horses that in the final version came with them were supposed to belong to the absent homeowners.  This was changed, as I learned you can’t go on vacation for a week and leave your horses in a stable with a giant salt lick or something.
Deleted Scenes
Despite the 289-word limit, I found myself forced to cut various lines and details that simply wouldn’t fit.  Sandra originally had expository dialogue in which she explained that Smokey had suffered a cut which had likely been infected by bacteria in the sea water.  Also, while the narrator states that he hadn’t cried in years, he was originally to state that he “hadn’t cried for my wife and son”.  This was another bit of character development that was never to be fleshed out.  Finally, in reference to the Fetlock/Fetlife similarity, I considered including the following narration:  “A year ago, if you mentioned fetlock, I would have said, ‘Isn’t that the website for kinksters?'”  The passage was ultimately dropped from the close of the story as it felt too humorous given the traumatic events of the story.  Including it anywhere else would have been too jarring.
Soundtrack
A lot of songs readily came to mind, some related specifically to horses and some not.  To represent the wild, playful days I like The Horse Song by Iggy Pop, while Catherine Raney’s All the Pretty Little Ponies would nicely fit the passionate nights.  And for the end of the story, when our protagonists ride away on the remaining horse, Remember (Walking in the Sand) by the Shangri-Las fits perfectly.  That, or Happy Trails, by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

The Naughty Hangout: My Fortress of Solitude

This week, the three themes at The Naughty Hangout are “Leisure”, “Messy”, and “Solitude”.  What you see below is me sitting on a patio chair on our balcony, enjoying a good book and a cup of coffee. On the rare occasion that I find myself with a half hour of leisure time and I want to be alone, this is where I go.  And as for messy, as you can see from the picture the balcony is strewn with leaves, and even parts of the bedframe we broke during very vigorous sex last month.

We posted a shot that was a bit similar for a TNH post in May.  But one thing that this post has that that one lacked is a mouseover image.  Be sure to check it out!

See who else is being naughty this week!

Wicked Wednesday: Night at the Pub

“You remember the time we met for drinks, back when I was still dating Vicky?  We went to O’Neil’s, sat in the booth by the door and watched people playing pool all night.  I drank Guinness, you had a martini.”

“So, oh-five, oh-six, then?  I think so.  You called me when you got out of class and I was just finishing my shift.”

“That’s the night I mean.  I didn’t want to go back to an empty apartment.”

“Where was Miss Victoria that night, anyway?”

“Vegas for her best friend’s twenty-fifth birthday.”

“And out of every name in your cell phone you called the one person your girlfriend wouldn’t let you hang out with?  You’re such a naughty boy.”

“No I’m not.  Nothing happened.”

“You wanted it to, though.”

“Doesn’t matter what I wanted.  I’m one-hunred percent faithful.  Or I was, anyway.”

“You’d better still be, mister, if you know what’s good for you.”

“Well, to a different woman.”

“Damn right.”

“You looked really sexy that night.”

“You’d better believe I did.  Nothing but the best for you.”

“And you say I’m the naughty one.”

“You are!  You could have called Derek, Rodney, or any of the guys.  You called me.  You’re definitely the naughty one.”

“Yeah well, by the time we left the bar you were all over me.”

“Oh yeah.  It was kind of a bummer to find out you could resist my charms.”

“Sorry.  If it’s any consolation, it took everything I had.”

“Doesn’t matter.  You’re powerless to resist me now.”

“I sure am.  But that night I thought I was going to lose my mind.  Remember you were singing that Pussycat Dolls song after your fourth martini.”

“That’s right!  I used to love that song!  I haven’t heard it in years.”

“You were so drunk.  Sloppy drunk.”

“And instead of kissing me all you kept saying was how it was a rip-off of…somebody.”

“Sir Mix-a-Lot.  And it’s pretty much the same song.  Same hook, similar lyrics.”

“And then I started singing – “

Baby Got Back!  That’s right!”

“I was shaking my ass right in your face.  I wanted to give you a lapdance but I couldn’t find your lap.”

“I had to practically carry you out of there.  I kept worrying that you were going to throw up in my car.”

“I didn’t!”

“Can you imagine me trying to explain to Vicky why my car smells like puke?”

“She would have kicked your ass.”

“I could’ve said it was one of the guys but she wouldn’t have believed me.”

“Imagine what she would have done if she came home early and found me sleeping on the couch.”

“Whatever she would’ve done, it wouldn’t have been half as bad as it would’ve been if she found you in our bed.”

“Whether or not you were in it!”

“She would’ve kicked both of our asses.”

“She wasn’t any fun.  Not like me, anyway.”

“Not nearly as hot, either.”

“I’ll second that, lover.”

“So you remember that night, right?”

“Uh, hello!  I told you I remember it.”

“Remember the skirt you were wearing?”

“Yeah, I think so.”

“Short, black leather, came down to just above your knees?”

“Yeah, I know the one.  What about it?”

“You still have it?  I want to see you in it sometime.”

Video prompt; no verbal prompt this week


TMI Tuesday: September 4, 2012 – Cum, are you a fan?

This week’s TMI Tuesday questions come from the wacky, inventive, and sexually creative mind of the late phoenix.

Jack’s Answers

1. We are all incurable sex addicts, but name one thing—a job, a passion, a creative outlet, a collection—of yours you use as a replacement, a distraction from constantly thinking about sex 24/7.
There is literally nothing that serves this purpose for me.  Make no mistake, I have a number of potential distractions, amongst them non-blog writing, reading, film, outdoor activities, cooking, and the day-to-day raising of my daughter.  But of these activities, absolutely none of them have managed to successfully distract me from thinking about sex for more than a couple minutes at the absolute most.  I kid you not, the typical thought in my head when I’m engaging in one of these activities is, “I wonder if I can somehow parlay this into getting laid.”

2. Have you ever loved somebody so much you thought having sex with them would actually sully the pristine purity of that love?
Of course. My mom.

Well, it would!
3. If you could make love to yourself, would you? Describe this experience in full detail.
I do frequently.  Generally speaking when I make love to myself, I light a candle and let it burn on my nightstand.  Then I put on some appropriate music on my mp3 player.  It’s soft, and frequently romantic.  Sometimes I put on my favorite slow jams playlist.  Then I get naked and lie down.  From that point, one of the following things happens:  I lose myself in a fantasy, typically involving Jill, one (or more) of our hot online friends, and/or someone we know in real life; or I peruse sexy blogs and Moby albums belonging to the aforementioned hot online friends.  That’s when the lovemaking begins in earnest.  I use the typical up-and-down motion on my shaft, though it is not unusual for me to stroke the engorged head of my cock with the palm of my hand.  This activity lasts until I am spent or interrupted.  Note that it’s the candle that makes it lovemaking.  Without the candle it’s just garden-variety jerking off.
4. Cum, are you a fan? Explain and expound.
My own cum?  Absolutely.  Huge fan.  For decades I’ve been proselytizing about the benefits of my cum – taste and skincare benefits paramount among them – to anyone who will listen.  Other guys’ cum?  No.  Other women’s cum?  Yes, especially Jill’s.  The taste tends to alternate between lime juice and buttered popcorn.
5. Does it creep you out to know that God is watching you as you’re fucking?  
No more than it does to know that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are watching.  I think you know exactly what I’m trying to say.

What I’m trying to say is that it would be totally hot.

Bonus: Tell us something sexy that happened to you this week.
Can’t think of a single thing, sadly.  It was a pretty unsexy week in the Jack and Jill household, the weekend especially.  Total bummer.  Maybe this week will be hotter…

Jill’s Answers

1. We are all incurable sex addicts, but name one thing—a job, a passion, a creative outlet, a collection—of yours you use as a replacement, a distraction from constantly thinking about sex 24/7.
I would say that my job is the one thing that usually prevents me from constantly thinking about sex.  I work with children, and that environment does not lend itself easily to sexual thought.  However, Jack being Jack, I frequently find myself the recipient of a variety of lewd text messages, emails, links, and photos via my phone.  He will do anything to redirect my mind to matters of a sexual nature.

2. Have you ever loved somebody so much you thought having sex with them would actually sully the pristine purity of that love?
No.  I’m pretty sure that, while I have dated many men, the only one I ever really loved is Jack.  By the time I realized how intense my feelings were, we had already had sex.  At any rate, at least in my experience I don’t believe that sex has to sully anything.  The love I feel for Jack makes the sex that we have more intense, and the sex makes our love stronger.  Being physically intimate is just another way for us to express our love.

3. If you could make love to yourself, would you? Describe this experience in full detail.
Yes, I would definitely make love to myself.  I’m hot.  Who wouldn’t make love to me?  I would start with a sensual massage to get myself in the mood.  Being touched all over my body excites me, and makes it easier for me to have an orgasm.  My hands would quickly be replaced by my lips and tongue.  After being kissed all over, I would desire something more intense.  Unfortunately I can’t fuck myself as I just don’t have the body parts for the job.  I would probably opt to use a strap-on cock or maybe a double-ended dildo.  If I could hold a vibrator on my clit at the same time, even better.  There have been times when I’ve had really good orgasms with just a vibrator on my clit, and they’re usually more intense when I’m getting fucked at the same time.

It’s a moot point, as cloning is out of my price range.

4. Cum, are you a fan? Explain and expound.
Yes!  I do consider myself a fan of cum.  I love it on my body, or in my mouth, but just not in my hair, please.  I especially love it when Jack cums inside me.  Sometimes when he does I like to masturbate so I can feel my cum and his mix on my fingertips.  Speaking of which, I love tasting my own cum too.  That counts, right?
5. Does it creep you out to know that God is watching you as you’re fucking? 
I’ve literally never given this any thought.  The thought of God watching me as I’m fucking, or changing clothes, or whatever, has never occurred to me.  But now that I think of it, there are probably millions of people fucking all over the world at any given moment.  I question whether God has the time to watch us fuck, despite His omnipotence.  However, I am sure that God is totally in favor of pleasure and happiness and that’s the epitome of sex so He’s not likely to be offended or anything.  Also, I love an audience while I’m getting fucked so that would probably turn me on, especially if He liked what he saw.

I think He would!

Bonus: Tell us something sexy that happened to you this week.
Jack and I had a threesome.  This week marks the birthday of M, our longtime friend and sometime third.  She happens to be single at the moment, so we figured, what better way to celebrate?  We had a nice dinner that was pretty much nonstop flirting and double-entendres.  Then we came home and opened a bottle of wine, and then a couple more.  I can’t even put into words how exciting it was to kiss and play with her.  It had been so long.  We hope it won’t be too long before it happens again.

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Why No Porn-Watching American Should Ever Vote Republican*

Apostrophes:  Learn to use them!

It was revealed last week that, in addition to provisions limiting the rights of LGBT individuals and forcing the victims of rape to carry to term the children of their rapists, the 2012 Republican Party platform includes language promising the vigorous enforcement of current anti-pornography laws.

There are laws in place in the United States which make pornography illegal.  I’m not talking about relatively tame scenes involving a man and a woman having sex; while there are those who would love nothing better than to eradicate even the nearly-wholesome output of studios like Vivid Video, its mainstream appeal makes cracking down on vanilla porn (for lack of a better descriptor) a hard sell.  But I’m not talking solely about child pornography, either.  Since the presidency of George W. Bush, the adult industry has seen strict measures put in place to make their product more difficult to produce and distribute.

In 2001, fear of criminal prosecution led to the creation of the Cambria List, a collection of sex acts considered at the time to be obscene in the eyes of the U.S. Justice Department; it was strongly recommended that these acts not be included in pornographic films.  Today the items on the list seem arbitrary, nonsensical even, from such porn standards as facials, simulated rape, and degradation; to much less controversial elements such as food play and blindfolding.

Subsequently in 2005, an Obscenity Prosecution Task Force was founded by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales which was “dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of the distributors of hard-core pornography that meets the test for obscenity, as defined by the United States Supreme Court.”  
Let me repeat that.  The purpose of this entity is to persecute – sorry, prosecute – the makers of any porn deemed obscene by the United States Supreme Court.  Its purpose is not necessarily to lock up those who exploit minors, exhibit pornography in public places, or otherwise circumvent consent.  Its purpose is, essentially, to flout the First Amendment which guarantees the right of any individual with a video camera to film two or more consenting adults engaging in sex (or for that matter a single such individual masturbating) without worrying about the government locking him or her up.
I may think he’s a pig, but as long as his movies feature consenting adults being urinated on, he’s in the clear.

“Wait a minute, Jack”, you may be saying.  “The Founding Fathers didn’t have Three-in-the-Butt Sluts Volume 4 in mind when they drafted the Bill of Rights.  They were talking about the right of the individual to speak his or her mind, question the government, and protest peacefully.”  Hey, you know what?  You may be right.  But if we start nit-picking details and questioning the evolution of each amendment of the United States Constitution, i.e. what the authors had in mind versus the way it’s interpreted today, we couldn’t in good conscience bypass the fact that the Founding Fathers probably didn’t envision automatic weapons when they wrote the Second Amendment.

They didn’t envision them in her hands, anyway.

Beyond the obvious violation of our right to free speech, my problem with outlawing pornography based on such grounds is that there is no tangible societal standard of exactly what constitutes obscenity.  Barring the sort of lunacy that has Child Protective Services investigate parents who take photos of their babies naked on bear skin rugs, child pornography is almost universally understood to be the production of sexually-explicit materials featuring individuals younger than the local age of consent.  Provided that the age of consent doesn’t change, the definition of child pornography won’t either.
But obscenity?  That depends who you ask.  Like just about anything else, it’s a matter of perspective.  One person’s hardcore scat fetish video is another person’s obscenity.  However, one person’s trashy romance novel is another person’s obscenity.  One person’s hip-hop video is another person’s obscenity.  One person’s lingerie catalog is another person’s obscenity.  However, I opine that allowing some hand-wringing fringe group like One Million Moms to determine what is obscene and attempt to influence Americans to agree is different than allowing the government to decide.
While there may be laws in place against hardcore pornography, they are seldom enforced.  How could they be?  Such statutes are clearly unconstitutional.  But most if not all Republican politicians support them.  When Rick Santorum was campaigning for the Republican nomination earlier this year, he drew much derision for his position on pornography.  Calling it “a pandemic of harm”, Santorum claimed that pornography is toxic to marriages, and “contributes to misogyny and violence against women”.  
 

And we all know that Republicans take misogyny very seriously.

I’m guessing that most of the right-leaning voters who regularly indulge in pornography were relieved when Santorum closed up shop.  They likely plan to vote for Mitt Romney, who may still plan to enforce anti-pornography laws but isn’t half as outspoken about it as was Santorum.
In an interview with Huffington Post, Patrick Trueman, president of Morality in Media, stated that use of pornography among males in their twenties leads to sexual dysfunction.  According to Trueman, because young men spend so much time watching pornography they essentially become broken.  Said Trueman, “Normal sex is not something that gets them excited.”  And you know something?  I’m almost inclined to agree.

Before you unsubscribe from this blog in anger, hear me out:  An overreliance on pornography is probably not unlike an overreliance on anything, whether it be a trusty vibrator, your alarm clock, or your mother’s home cooking.  Once an individual becomes accustomed to something, it can be very difficult to get by without it.  If your dog greets you at the front door every day when you come home from work, something will feel amiss that one afternoon when Sparky misses your arrival because he’s out back burying a bone.
We’ve written about Death Grip Syndrome, the phenomenon that affects young men who’ve spent their entire post-pubescent lives masturbating with a tight grasp.  When they eventually have sexual intercourse, they find that their partner’s vagina and other orifices are nowhere near as tight as the grip they’ve been using.  As Trueman would say, the brain maps of these men have been altered.  At this point, re-training themselves may be the only way to correct years of irresponsible masturbation.
However, I don’t hear any faith-based non-profit groups advocating that some sort of proper masturbation curriculum be adopted in our public schools.  But why not?  It’s the exact same principle.  According to its opponents, pornography leads to sexual dysfunction.  By their standards, so too does death grip-style masturbation.  So why are they in favor of banning pornography but against teaching young men how to masturbate properly?  It’s a rhetorical question; obviously the answer is because while masturbation is something that virtually everyone does, it isn’t something that can be talked about or advocated for.  Hell, even liberal-ass Bill Clinton dismissed Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders for daring to suggest that masturbation be taught in school.
While I understand Trueman’s belief that overexposure to pornography may have negative consequences, I will never support any school of thought that suggests that human beings need to be protected from themselves.  I don’t care whether the issue is cities banning the sale of soft drinks – a currently-trending cause championed by the left – or the federal government banning more adult vices including alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and, yes, pornography.  Enforced deprivation has been proven insufficient to prevent demand; it’s also been responsible for dramatic spikes in organized crime.  
The fact is that while filmmakers like Max Hardcore have been accused of “testing the limits of acceptability” and deviating from the boundaries of taste, that shouldn’t have anything to do with the legality of their work.  No one should be using words like “acceptability” when talking about porn that involves consenting adults.  If some fundamentalist claims that Max Hardcore’s films are borderline unacceptable, are they then suggesting that the rest of the porn spectrum – that involving acts of arguably better taste – is acceptable?  I’d suggest that those who don’t like watching porn simply not watch it and stop trying to inflict their will upon the rest of us.
When any politician – a Republican especially – seems to be looking out for the best interests of the common man and woman, be very suspicious.  They aren’t against pornography because they want young men and women to live happy, monogamous, heterosexual lives together.  I’m pretty sure most Republican don’t give half a fuck about the common man and woman.  They are against pornography because they seek to legislate (and regulate) our very sexuality.  If they could, they would criminalize all non-procreative sexual behavior.  Especially yours.
-Jack
*We get political sometimes.  It happens.  It is our belief that one can’t run a sex blog in America without occasionally thinking – if not blogging – about politics.  It is not our intention to offend, but rather to drag the issue into the spotlight and, in doing so, to force our fellow American voters to take action.  If you don’t, you shouldn’t complain when you wake up one morning and discover that your rights have been taken away.