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		<title>Unromantically In Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by NIKKI B. I’ve never been in love. I’ve been in lust plenty of times, and there was that one time I believed in fairy tales, but actual love and not the crazy-person kind? Nope. Wait. Hang on. Hold the violins and the pity party, please. I know y’all wanna start feeling [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>A Guest Post by <a href="http://womenarefrommars.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">NIKKI B.</a></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>I’ve never been <i>in</i> love</strong>. I’ve been <i>in lust</i> plenty of times, and there was that one time I believed in <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/03/02/lust-first-sight/" target="_blank">fairy tales</a>, but <i>actual</i> love and not the crazy-person kind? <i>Nope.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Wait. Hang on. Hold the violins and the pity party, please. I know y’all wanna start feeling all bad for me <i>for some reason</i> – but put that knee-jerk on pause for a sec. Falling into romantic love isn’t the only form of love, you know. My life is <i>full</i> of love – and it is one of the things that sustains me. It may just be a bit different. Let me explain.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">First, of course, is equating <i>love</i> with <i>physical intimacy</i>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ChocPink.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13594" title="pink chocolate" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ChocPink.jpg" alt="&quot;pionk chocolate&quot;" width="458" height="367" /></a>1) Box o’ chocolate love</strong>: Avoiding the whole commitment thing means, well, <i>you never know what yer gonna get</i> when the lights go down (<i>or not</i>) and the clothes come off. Might be that adorable 21-year-old knocks your socks off, even with his age and one arm in a cast. Might be the dimple-faced Irish bartender can’t perform past jackrabbit sex. So, yeah, you take the chocolate truffle with the marzipan. But you can always send the marzipan home in the morning, and <i>I’m no worse for wear</i>. I don’t have to keep eating (<i>pun intended</i>) marzipan… or try to change it into truffle.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">More importantly? <strong>It makes my life exciting</strong> <strong>and diverse. </strong> Different people can teach me different things– yes tricks in the boudoir, but also about my body and their bodies. Additionally, I don’t have to ask permission to try new things, nor do I have to let go of certain desires, I just find someone new who is into them. And, you know, it rarely gets monotonous.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>2) Solo love</strong>: Why don’t we celebrate masturbation more? I mean, I know why, and sometimes people do, <i>but still</i>! Hell, you know what works, yet you never have to have awkward conversations about what doesn’t. There’s no need to fake it, either. Moreover, no one’s making me watch lesbian porn or getting weirded out by watching gay boy sex or gang bangs (<i>although sometimes I have to send my inner feminist out for ice cream</i>).</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Of course, there’s more to love than physical intimacy. <i>Love</i> also translates into emotions and relationships with other people.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>3) Unconditional love &#8211; My      family</strong>: I love my family. They love me. However, we’re going through a pretty rough time (<i>no, I’m not getting into it here</i>), so… it’s a bit complicated at present. While this isn’t the time to really rely on my immediate family for support, it is very much about <i>unconditional love and self-sacrifice</i>. About putting other      people first, letting go of selfish notions and inappropriate      expectations. About the deep bonds we often take for granted but hold up when things are completely shit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>4) Platonic love -</strong> <strong>My friends:</strong> I may have said it before, but I am ridiculously lucky when it comes to my friends, both near and far. They listen when I throw a fit, bring over wine and a shoulder when things are tough, and call me out on my bullshit. Yeah, yeah, I’ve never been in love, but I <strong>do</strong> know my life wouldn’t be complete without them – I would never give them up in exchange for romantic love, and I think it’s always a bummer (<i>and, let’s face it, stupid</i>) when people sacrifice their friends for their partner.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And then, of course, the last one&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>5) Self love:</strong> I am not perfect. I make mistakes and say the wrong things and can be naïve and trip over my own feet. Yet, I love the person I am. I love the life I have built, and continue to build, for myself. I love what I do, I love the people I keep close. IMHO, you cannot <i>have</i> and <i>truly appreciate</i> <strong>any</strong> of the other kinds of love unless you have this one.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">In short, my life is full of love. No, I don’t have experience with the one we may typically associate with <em>the term,</em> but ever stop to think about our obsession that one anyway? I’m not knocking it, but <i>damn</i> you can’t turn on the radio or watch a movie without Romantic Love being shoved in your face as the end-all be-all experience of not only love, but practically life itself.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I <em>beg</em> to differ.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Look. I’m not saying one kind is better than others, that it’s <i>better</i> to have the whole box of chocolates than choosing to have the caramel-with-sea-salt every night, but neither is having the best chocolate in the box <strong>better</strong> than anything else and worthy of <strong>sacrificing</strong> everything else. I’m also not saying that Romantic Love ain’t awesome.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">What I <i>am</i> saying is there is more to love than the romantic kind. There is more to love about love, than our conventional notions.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Why not cultivate it and celebrate it in all its forms?</span></p>
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		<title>Operas of Orgasms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by SOMETHING SHE DATED When it comes to sex as a performance, it&#8217;s not a matter of whether or not it is, or whether or not one should approach it as such&#8230;but simply&#8230;to what degree. Life is a performance and sex is no different. The real question is just exactly who am I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">A Guest Post by <a href="http://www.somethingshedated.com/" target="_blank">SOMETHING SHE DATED</a></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">When it comes to sex as a performance, it&#8217;s not a matter of whether or not it is, or whether or not one should approach it as such&#8230;but simply&#8230;to what degree. Life is a performance and sex is no different. The real question is just exactly <i>who am I performing for?</i> Because I assure you, it&#8217;s more often than not, not the easy answer of <i>but your partner of course</i>. And then more than this is the <i>why</i> behind the escapade or depending on degrees, more aptly titled the charade.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Sex is like ice cream. It comes in any flavor you can imagine. And here are just a few of the flavors that drip themselves upon my tongue. Power sex. Makeup sex. Hate sex. Hotel sex. Vacation sex. Novelty sex. Sampler sex. Revenge sex. Love sex.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Power</strong> <strong>sex </strong>is about me. And you. It validates me. It&#8217;s a pat on the back <i>not to worry sweetie, you&#8217;re hot, you&#8217;re desirable, you can get what you want when you want it</i>. Sure enough you might be in the audience, but the show is for me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Makeup sex </strong>is about us. Together. And apart. I &#8216;m sorry and you&#8217;re sorry and this is how we say it, even if we&#8217;ve already said it with words, or maybe exactly because we didn&#8217;t or couldn&#8217;t. Sometimes it&#8217;s sweet. Sometimes it&#8217;s cathartic. But the slate is getting washed clean. You wash my slate. I wash your slate. And then the curtains close and the show is over.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Hate sex </strong>is about putting me before you. Because I hate you. And also probably love you. But mostly hate you. Maybe because you broke me. Or maybe you just chipped me a bit and I shed a tear or two but we&#8217;re through and this is how I say it. I&#8217;ll be more aggressive. The sex will be louder, and faster, and harder, and when we&#8217;re done I&#8217;ll have my clothes on before you can even <i>think</i> to reach for a towel. It might happen only once or I might come back a few times. Really, it just depends on how much rage I still have to work out. But you can be certain. You won&#8217;t come out of this without a scratch. And more than just a few bite marks.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Hotel sex </strong>is about everybody and nobody. It&#8217;s a show for anyone within listening distance. These aren&#8217;t my neighbors. These aren&#8217;t my sheets. And I haven&#8217;t a care in the world. But it&#8217;s also something private. And intimate. Because I&#8217;ll likely do just about anything, try anything, be anyone, <i>go ahead and ask for your greatest fantasy</i>. Hotel rooms are like little chambers of time and space that don&#8217;t exist outside of the four walls encapsulating it. They are a safe space. And while I&#8217;m not <i>moaning</i> louder, <i>panting</i> faster, or yelling out <i>fuck me harder</i> for anyone but you. Unlike at home, I don&#8217;t care if anyone hears. You&#8217;ll fuck me stupid and then I&#8217;ll send you out for donuts. <i>With sprinkles!</i></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/good-sex.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13569" title="sheet clenching good sex" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/good-sex.jpg" alt="&quot;sheet clenching good sex&quot;" width="455" height="285" /></a>Vacation sex</strong> is about me <i>and my friends, and my spank bank</i>. I&#8217;m putting on a show for myself. Look at me, <i>I&#8217;m so daring, I&#8217;m so scandalous, I&#8217;m so indulgent, and I can do whatever I want</i>. And then I do. And it&#8217;s a fantasy. And it&#8217;s amazing. And you&#8217;re so attractive. And everything is just so tropical, or foreign, or spontaneous. And then I&#8217;ll go home. And tell all my friends about the amazing sex I had while on Vacation. And I&#8217;ll think of you again, warm against my flesh when I&#8217;m wet and warm under my sheets. You&#8217;ll get me through many a cold winter night when <i>who has time to go out and date when all I want is to help myself off to a good night of sleep</i>. And I&#8217;ll cherish you. And what you did for me.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Novelty sex</strong> is a grab bag. Sometimes it&#8217;s for me, because I&#8217;ve always wanted to know what it&#8217;s like to be with two guys. Sometimes it&#8217;s about you, because you wanted to see what it was like to rip a whole in my nylons and do me through it and I&#8217;m nothing if not a good sport <i>for someone who deserves it</i>. And sometimes it&#8217;s about both of us, when there&#8217;s role play and suddenly I&#8217;m performing for you and you&#8217;re performing for me and suddenly the role of audience becomes intertwined in our interactive live show.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Sample sex </strong>is about me. And testing you. Though you may or may not really be able to control your performance. Maybe we&#8217;ve gone out on one date and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">you were absolutely fucking tedious</span> we just didn&#8217;t click but you&#8217;re super hot and I could use a good booty call. Or maybe we&#8217;ve gone on three or four dates and we have a good time, <i>not a great time but good enough</i> and frankly I&#8217;m trying to figure out if our time together is worth the effort to put on makeup and shave my legs. Either way. I sleep with you. And it&#8217;s a test. Not one that you might pass or fail in the sense that you have any real control. But more like a litmus test. I&#8217;m testing to see if your <i>acid</i> balances out my <i>base </i>to form the most intensely balanced pH. I&#8217;m testing to see if you can fuck me science&#8230;er&#8230;I mean <i>silly</i>. This is sampler sex, and I&#8217;m dipping my toe in your waters. Whether or not you have any idea.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Revenge</strong> <strong>sex </strong>is about you. Because it hurts. Because it hurts me. Because <i>you&#8217;ve</i> hurt <i>me</i>. And so this about me trying to hurt you. Or at least make you flinch. <i>Two for flinching!!</i> And the thing of thing is, you&#8217;re not even the one getting laid. Maybe it&#8217;s your best friend. Maybe it&#8217;s your brother. Maybe it&#8217;s your cousin. Or even just your roommate from college. But it&#8217;s a sad bad mad thing that I&#8217;m doing. And no one will come out the better for it. But people do it anyway. I&#8217;m going to do it anyway. The revenge is about you, it&#8217;s a show I&#8217;m putting on for you and the other guy, my co-star<i>&#8230;well&#8230;I barely notice him</i>. And the whole thing is so misguided and childish and spiteful and unhealthy but dammit if I&#8217;m not going to fall down the rabbit hole anyway.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>Love sex</strong> is about us. I look into your eyes, run my hand along your jaw line. Trace my thumb across your check until just before it touches your lips. Those are for me, waiting for mine. Lips kiss. Part. Wait. Pant. Hold. Nuzzle down into my neck. There are slow times. Soft times. Fast times. Hard times. Passionate times. No secret times. Sharing everything even this moment times. We lock fingers. Intertwine like highschoolers walking through a county fair. It borders on sappy and gross. But we don&#8217;t care. Nobody is watching. Nobody else matters. This is for us. You. Me. Us.  Love.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And I&#8217;m sure you. He. They. Her. The other person. Has their own view, another side to all our fantastical sexcapades. These Performances of Passion. These Luaus of Lust.  These Dances of Desire. These Operas of Orgasm. But sometimes I&#8217;m just fucking for myself. Sure you&#8217;re there. You&#8217;re necessary. You&#8217;re an integral ingredient. But the reasons why you&#8217;re there. Why I picked you. Picked now. Picked here. Or there.  Well that&#8217;s about me. Narcissistically nuanced sex. And don&#8217;t pretend you don&#8217;t do it to.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And sometimes the sex is good, healthy, stable type sex. And sometimes it&#8217;s false, destructive, broken type sex. That&#8217;s life. A mix bag. A grab bag. You just never know what you&#8217;re going to get. But just remember that the next time some young 22 year old lets you fuck her in the backseat of her car, parked down some dimly lit rarely used street, at four am after the club&#8230;she&#8217;s probably just doing it for the feeling of power it gives her. And if you&#8217;re cool with that, then fuck away my friend. But know that she&#8217;s faking. And that&#8217;s really the biggest problem with performing sex. A girl not getting off, and a boy not knowing.</span></p>
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		<title>Full Frontal Nerdity, Vol 25</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLIE What is going on in the world? That&#8217;s not a question I often ask since I pay little attention to the goings on outside of my glass bubble. But last week a British MP from the Conservative Party proposed legislation that can only be described as a HUGE step backwards. Nadine Dorries put forward [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">CHARLIE</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">What is going on in the world?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">That&#8217;s not a question I often ask since I pay little attention to the goings on outside of my glass bubble. But last week a British MP from the Conservative Party proposed legislation that can only be described as a HUGE step backwards. Nadine Dorries put forward a bill that would require schools to teach girls BUT NOT BOYS the value of abstaining from sex.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Shall I list the number of ways I am appalled by this&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">One &#8211; The push for abstinence only sex education has made the US in the lead in teenage pregnancies in the Western world. Britain is still number one in Europe, so do we really need to rise further up the ranks?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Two &#8211; Just girls? Really? Because girls are an object of sexual desire and not creatures of sexual desire themselves? Or because teenage boys can&#8217;t help themselves, whereas girls so OBVIOUSLY should be able to? Surely this is just a way of encouraging the worst status-quo in gender politics; specifically that for boys sleeping around is good and girls who do the same are just sluts or fallen women.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/nadine-dorries-protest.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13563" title="&quot;abstinence protest uk&quot;" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/nadine-dorries-protest.jpg" alt="&quot;abstinence protest uk&quot;" width="281" height="448" /></a>Three &#8211; Just ARGH. Seriously, I was so angry about this as a concept I found it difficult to verbalise why. And to add insult to injury last Friday I was out of London and therefore unable to join the protest outside the Houses of Parliament against this bill.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Fortunately, for my sanity, the bill was withdrawn and common sense has prevailed. The very fact that the bill was viewed as highly controversial gives me some hope that Britain is moving towards more gender equality, and also becoming a little bit more sexually positive with respect to education as well.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Ah well, at least over here we don&#8217;t have awkward televised debates between Republican candidates on contraception. So it just goes to show that it could be worse&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Mind you it could be a lot better. In March 2010, Johanna Sigurdardottir Iceland&#8217;s female Prime Minister, banned strip clubs. And topless waitresses. And a lot of other nudey things, as it is illegal to profit from employee&#8217;s nudity in any way, shape or form. Please note this isn&#8217;t at all like US states with no table dancing. There is no supposed religious reason behind it all. This is a piece of purely feminist legislation; based on the concept that women are not property and should not be traded or sold in any way, shape or form. Refreshingly simple.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Prostitiution was already criminilised in Iceland, and the belief that many of these clubs operated as fronts for brothels was at the heart of the matter. Here in the UK there is some debate even among feminists onwhether prostitution should be legalised.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I understand that there is an argument of freedom to do as you please, and if that includes profiting on your looks or sexuality then perhaps that should be taken into account. However, the Icelandic ban was not imposed on women, it was created and campaigned for women by women, and as such should be celebrated whatever your personal stance.</span></p>
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		<title>Be Your Sexual Self</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by JULIA BOND Is there a moment when you’re more vulnerable than that poignant instant when you first get naked with another person? Everything is out in the open – everything. Those minute flaws that you obsess over in the mirror are now under the microscope of physical intimacy. The oddly-shaped birthmark? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">A Guest Post by <a href="http://www.itsnotthatweird.com/" target="_blank">JULIA BOND</a></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Is there a moment when you’re more vulnerable than that poignant instant when you first get naked with another person? Everything is out in the open – everything. Those minute flaws that you obsess over in the mirror are now under the microscope of <i>physical intimacy</i>. The oddly-shaped birthmark? Check. The lack of a six pack? Check. The strangely baggy arm skin? Double check. More than that, now that you’re naked, there’s nothing between your partner and those most private parts of your own body. I’m not talking strictly about your Television Parents Council-designated private parts. Maybe you feel weird about your elbows. Maybe you giggle uncontrollably when someone kisses the right side of your neck. Whatever is it, you can only hide it for so long when you’re naked. Even with the lights off, your body is on display.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It’s not just your body, though. It’s your sexual self. When we go through our daily lives – going to class or grabbing a coffee before getting to work, we aren’t being sexual. Doesn’t mean we don’t think about it. And it doesn’t mean that we all don’t get those random waves of arousal that make any given day simultaneously surprisingly awesome and awkward. But we have to show the world that we’re above our basal instincts. That’s what being a person in society is all about. It’s the reason we don’t get drunk during the day, or eat an ice cream sundae in the break room for lunch, or make out with our co-worker at our desks (at least, not often). It’s not that we don’t want to do these things, it’s that we aren’t supposed to. This is the reason that getting drunk is so intoxicating (if you’ll excuse the pun). Being drunk allows us to ignore all of this righteous self-restraint and say, “Why yes, I will buy a lamb sandwich from this gentleman in the roadside cart at three in the morning <i>because it smells good</i>.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/undressing-1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13432" title="undressing " src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/undressing-1.jpg" alt="undressing" width="500" height="333" /></a>When you get naked with someone and sleep with them, you not only let them see your body. You’re also letting them see <i>you</i> at your most basic level. The part of you that you spend a lot of time trying to pretend isn’t there. We’ve been taught to separate our hedonistic sexual selves from our demure, proper, tax-paying selves, and to keep the sexy part under wraps. To borrow from the ineffable Lil John, we are all supposed to be “a lady in the street and a freak in the bed.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">So when you get intimate with someone, you’re letting that part of yourself off the leash. You’re introducing another person to a side of you that even you don’t even always see. And that’s a scary prospect. It becomes much easier if we embellish our sexual selves and mask those drives we have with a more theatrical approach. If we distance ourselves from our sex lives, then maybe we won’t be held responsible if we do something wrong.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">This is another confusing part of sexual intimacy &#8211; the fear of doing something “wrong.” We aren’t taught a whole lot about the realities of having sex, except that we’re supposed to be really good at it. We’re supposed to be able to successfully please (with an orgasm being the only valid measurement of pleasure) any partner with minimal amounts of conversation. Anything other than that, and we’re simply not “good” in bed. Can you imagine that kind of pressure in any other type of situation? You get hired for a job, and on the first day someone hands you a folder of blank papers and says, “The clients want a dynamite presentation. You need to address profit margins, assets, and merger outlooks. And not necessarily in that order. I can’t tell you how long the presentation will be &#8211; it could be two minutes, and it could be two hours. At no point should you stop and ask the clients if you’re on the right track. If they sense weakness, you’re a goner. Good luck!”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The simple answer is to detach our sexually performing selves from our real selves. We become the embodiment of who we think our partner wants to be with because it’s safer than being ourselves. We act out a script in our head that’s been successful in the past, or we embellish our moans and cries of pleasure because we think it’s what our partner wants to hear. I don’t think this is necessarily a bad strategy. Sex can be stressful and each new partner presents unique challenges, preferences, and learning experiences. Retreating behind a sexual persona can make it a bit easier to have confidence in yourself.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">This only becomes negative, in my opinion, when our obsession with being “perfect” prohibits us from enjoying ourselves. Even though having sex with another person is a shared experience, it is still a way for us to express ourselves. Becoming a caricature can alienate us too much from what we want and need. I think this tends to fade naturally when we develop a long-term sexual relationship with a partner, and this facilitates the development of those lovely little layers of intimacy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">My suggestion would be for those of us who are not in a long-term sexual relationship to try to find ways to be ourselves in bed. We don’t always have to hide behind this facade of being the perfect partner. Be willing to do what you must to get what you want and need, including asking the awkward questions. After all, at the end of the day, allowing your partner to really please you just might be the best way to really please your partner.</span></p>
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		<title>Gettin’ Around: A Monthly Review of Sex News and Events, January 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JON PRESSICK What about a fine for him? Okay, this story boils down to one thing: lack of respect for sex workers. Let&#8217;s see, dude goes into a strip club, gets himself $100 worth of shimmy and shake dances. Of course, there is the potential that he got more in that booth, I&#8217;m not going [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://sex-in-words.blogspot.com/?zx=f969a4e95c401638" target="_blank"><span style="color: #99cc00;">JON PRESSICK</span></a></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">What about a fine for him?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Okay, <a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2012/01/11/19231261.html">this story</a> boils down to one thing: lack of respect for sex workers.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Let&#8217;s see, dude goes into a strip club, gets himself $100 worth of shimmy and shake dances. Of course, there is the potential that he got more in that booth, I&#8217;m not going to sugarcoat that. Regardless, services of some sort were rendered, and the agreed upon monetary transaction was not forthcoming.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">He ran out without paying.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">She smashed him with a beer bottle.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Now she’s going to jail for nine months.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I’m not going to defend her actions, but this jerk had it coming to him. This was a dine-and-dash of the meanest kind. He had no right to stiff her after she’d gotten him stiff. Even though private dances in strip clubs are legal, what was she to do? Call the police? That is what restaurant owners can do if they catch you trying to sneak away without paying. That’s what can happen to shoplifters. But I highly doubt strippers will get the same cordial treatment.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">When I used to be a more frequent patron of the naked ballet, I found it embarrassing and disgusting the way a good number of the other visitors would treat the entertainers. They were rude, crude and grossly lewd. I know the whole spectacle is ribald, but you don’t need to be nasty about it. Guys would openly mock women if they didn’t like their bodies. They would hurl insults and degrade the dancers. It was awful and I didn’t and still don’t understand why it happens.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Oh wait, I do. Men don’t value strippers as people. Just objects. And that thought is revolting.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">&#8211;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://io9.com/5876335/until-2009-the-human-clitoris-was-an-absolute-mystery">Huh, who knew?</a> Seems the little bud of pleasure is actually a much bigger organ of orgasm! Though, why are we only learning about this now? Considering how much humans think about sex, you’d think we’d be studying it all the time. But oddly enough, we don’t. We don’t spend remotely enough time or resources on the act that is the origin of our existence.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Because of this, it really isn’t too surprising that it was only a couple years ago that researchers discovered that the clitoris is a much larger and more complex organ in female sexual pleasure. When excited, a woman’s clit engorges and wraps the vagina in a hug of pleasure. This can possibly put an end to the debate between clitoral/vaginal cums. It would seem they are all clitoral!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I do love the analogy in the article that the little glans, the tip of the clit we can see (and rub and lick and vibrate) on the outside is just like the tip of iceberg. However, unlike icebergs, the clit is nothing to fear! Instead, it is a harbinger of great things to come. Now that researchers have started to study female sexual organs a little more, we might finally learn more about how women are pleased sexually.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Hot clit off the starboard bow!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">&#8211;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Most would agree that when it comes to sex straight men rarely get the short of end the stick. Or in this case, the short end because of their dick.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">But how much do I love the fantastic Nikki Brown for pointing out that dudes aren’t <a href="http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/why-cant-straight-men-experiment-too/">“allowed”</a> to experiment with other dudes. In our society, guys are expected to fuck women or, with a bit of expanded acceptance, other guys. That is all. Why, even on this fine site, there’s been debate back and forth as to whether a guy can go back to getting pussy once he’s gotten his dick wet in a dude’s mouth.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/balian-hot.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13548" title="balian is hot" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/balian-hot.jpg" alt="&quot;balian is hot&quot;" width="450" height="600" /></a>While there is certainly room for debate as to the societal motivation behind encouraging women to explore sexuality, there is no doubt that women have a greater degree of freedom when it comes to trying new things. Sure, guys encourage it for their own thrills, I won’t debate that. But if a woman was to reveal she has tried some lady loving but chooses to stay with men, she is not degraded and considered less. In contrast, there’s no chance a man can suck balls and not always be considered gay, in some respect.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">So, I’m all behind Nikki and her words here. Everyone should be given the opportunity—without anyone questioning their sexuality—to try what they want to try. So many different flavours out there. Take a good slurp of them all!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">&#8211;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And I’m going to leave you this month with some <a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_98038.aspx">sexy eye candy</a>! HOT HOT HOT!</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by ETHAN SOMMERS Hi, I’m Ethan Sommers. I’m new around here at Met Another Frog. Ms. Blue invited me over because I have a confession: I hate performers in the bedroom. Don’t know what I mean? Here’s the nitty-gritty… It was some years ago when I was with one particular lady-in-question. We were both in our [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">A Guest Post by ETHAN SOMMERS</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Hi, I’m Ethan Sommers. I’m new around here at <em>Met Another Frog</em>. Ms. Blue invited me over because I have a confession:</span></p>
<p><strong><i><span style="color: #333333;">I hate performers in the bedroom. </span></i></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Don’t know what I mean? Here’s the nitty-gritty…</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It was some years ago when I was with one particular lady-in-question. We were both in our early twenties and she hadn’t had a lot of partners. I was a bit more experienced and welcomed the opportunity to play teacher.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sexy-cowgirl-f.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13409" title="sexy cowgirl" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sexy-cowgirl-f.jpg" alt="&quot;sexy cowgirl&quot;" width="320" height="480" /></a>In one of our first forays in the bedroom, she decided to ride cowgirl over my rough and rugged plain. After she slowly lowered herself onto me, I closed my eyes and surrendered to the sensation. She quickened her pace, up and down, and then, like a Hawaiian dancer, twisted her hips from right to left, drawing me in and out of her as she did.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I remember thinking for someone so inexperienced, she seemed pretty crafty with the coitus.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">She began moving her hips in a circular fashion, stirring herself with my erection, alternately speeding up and slowing down depending on her impulse in the moment. At first, it was enjoyable. I was content to let her play around as she was still discovering herself. Then I opened my eyes.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Her gaze was fixed to the left of the bed, on the mirror that made up the sliding door of her bedroom closet. She was watching herself, noticeably sucking her stomach in as she pinched the pink nipples of her perky breasts. Watching her as she moved, I realized she was so focused on how she looked that she didn’t seem to be enjoying herself. I had a theory why and a question to ask.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">“Where’d you learn how to do this?”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">She looked back at me, smiling. “Honestly? I saw it in a porno I watched last night. You like it?”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">“Sure,” I said, trying to keep things positive. “How about you?”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">“Oh, it’s nice.” She turned her head back to the mirror. While her attention was on me, she had relaxed a little. Now that she was conscious of her appearance again, she assumed the upright porn star pose once more, sucking in her stomach as she picked up the pace.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Did she look hot? Absolutely. If Heaven is a real place, then I hope the first sight I see beyond the Pearly Gates will be a woman riding me to climax. This lady, however, wasn’t even coming close. She was going through the motions of how she <i>thought</i> she should screw me, and that was a huge turn-off.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I’ve never had a problem with girls who want to watch themselves in the midst of a good fucking. It can add to the experience in so many ways that it’s worth a shot if you haven’t tried it already. The problem in this instance was that the lady-in-question wasn’t doing it for her enjoyment. She was putting on a show, performing for herself in the mirror; obviously more worried about how she looked than what she felt. I knew I’d have to nip this shit in the bud.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I chose my words carefully, got her to close her eyes and concentrate on how things felt as she moved above me. It didn’t take long for her to figure out what worked for her, and as the mess of the bed later indicated, it didn’t take long for me either.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Following a few more weeks of exploring, we tried the mirror again. Gone was the idea of looking sexy. Now it was about <i>being </i>sexy. Watching each other’s reflections pump and grind instead of spot-checking appearances made for quick and delightful work.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Sex done right is about connecting. If alone, with one’s self. If with others, then it’s about connecting with one ’s self <i>and</i> others. Whether you ride waves of pleasure to the port of orgasm or just for a lengthy cruise, it’s about knowing what you want to experience and exploring how to get there. By being more concerned with the performance rather than the sex, the lady-in-question was missing the point.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">That’s the problem with learning about sex from porn, as so many do nowadays. Anyone with an iota of actual experience knows that on-camera fucking isn’t always the same as <i>actual</i> fucking. Porn is performers getting paid to look good in acrobatic poses meant to arouse the viewer enough to rub one out. You can learn some new positions and get turned on plenty, but not everything on-camera is going to work for you in the real world. As hot as it may look, no girl I’ve been with has ever enjoyed reverse cowgirl while suspended above me on all fours. I’ve been with a few good women that have tried, but it ended up not being worth the trouble because neither of us enjoyed it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The moral of the story?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">When the bedroom antics become a show, it’s more about the idea of sex than sex. One is good, but the other is much, much better.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It doesn’t take a genius to figure out which.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[COCO LA CRÈME, Sex Educator As I delicately recover from the viewing of Michael Fassbender’s penis in the sweaty sex-fest Shame (I have to wonder: Where can a girl go to see some decent dong these days? Male bits have always been scarce in television and film, and IMHO it’s the greatest tragedy of our [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #333333;">As I delicately recover from the viewing of Michael Fassbender’s penis in the sweaty sex-fest <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/" target="_blank">Shame</a></em> (I have to wonder:</span></p>
<p><strong><i><span style="color: #333333;">Where can a girl go to see some decent dong these days? </span></i></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Male bits have always been scarce in television and film, and IMHO it’s the greatest tragedy of our modern age. Breasts, breasts everywhere but nary a <a href="http://www.omgblog.com/2011/12/omg_hes_naked_michael_fassbend.php" target="_blank">hairy dink</a>. Don’t these creative types realize that after decades of shoving exposed female flesh down our throats that ladies and gays are ready for some equal opportunity ogling? When every gumshoe crime show and frat boy comedy flick can get away with slipped nipples and prominent pubic mounds it becomes rather obvious that something rather important is missing.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Well perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself. After all, let’s not pretend that the female bodies exposed on our screens are generally depicted in a fun and flattering manner. Heaven forbid that we the viewing public should interpret <a href="http://www.mrskin.com/search/celebs" target="_blank">female nakedness</a> as something lovely, natural, normal or complex. Oh no, my anecdotal couch potato evidence shows that most naked ladies on TV are also&#8230;dead&#8230;or dying&#8230;or will be soon . Unabashed sexuality is after all, a punishable offense.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And, let’s not forget the entertainment industry’s astute use of naked ladies as background props to illustrate the supposed badassedness of various pimps, thugs and gangsters. After all, graphically gruesome murders don’t do nothin’ for a man’s cred without a couple of <a href="http://kingsceleb.com/nudecelebrity/1258-kadee-strickland-american-gangster-2007.html" target="_blank">naked hos</a> hanging out back at the bachelor pad, right? Thanks Hollywood, your respect for the intelligence of your audience is as always, less than zero.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Lovers of equality, I think it’s time to stick a flag in the sand and declare that the same viewership that can handle casual female nudity on TV along with intense psychotic violence is also able to handle a little swinging dick and some realistic depictions of people enjoying sex without (horrible) consequences.  I mean, if I can already see a hooker raped and murdered on TV before the kids have gone to bed then really, what harm can it do to imply a little <a href="http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/11/19/we-heart-ryan-gosling-actor-and-feminist/" target="_blank">consensual cunnilingus</a> now and then? Ladies is it only blowjobs going on out there? Have you ever actually enjoyed some sexy time without suffering a fate worse than death? Advertising executives (don’t) want to know!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ghost-penis.jpeg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13518" title="ghost-penis" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ghost-penis.jpeg" alt="&quot;ghost-penis&quot;" width="394" height="500" /></a>Perhaps industry execs are worried that audiences will become as blasé about balls as they have about breasts. This could be their attempt to keep the proud penis shrouded in its virile mystery. If we get too used to seeing them around maybe we’ll have higher expectations. Men will feel judged. Women will compare the onscreen offerings with their home model and call for change. To say nothing about the extra expense in <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2006/07/i_want_a_butt_double.html" target="_blank">body doubles</a> for all those shy and/or <a href="http://www.yourtango.com/201086372/which-celebrity-men-have-small-penises" target="_blank">underequipped</a> movie idols. Think of the budget issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It’s a sad to think that what we see onscreen does, in fact, reflect larger cultural values:</span></p>
<p><strong><i><span style="color: #333333;">War is a great way to turn around a depressed economy. Sign up at 18 and make your country proud. </span></em></strong></p>
<p><em><strong><em><span style="color: #333333;">Sex is shameful and bad please don’t watch/do/enjoy it until you are 21/married/never. </span></em></strong></em></p>
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<p><strong><em><span style="color: #333333;">Women are moms, sisters and virgin girlfriends and sex with them is special. </span></em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em><span style="color: #333333;">Whores are&#8230; not women (!?) feel free to rape and murder them without fear of reprisal. </span></em></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong><em>Men like sex so naked chicks = $$$.</em></strong><em> </em></span></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><em><strong><em><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/10-sexist-ads-made-total-pigs-133401" target="_blank">Women like</a>??? Um, who cares?</span></em></strong></i></p>
<p><em><span style="color: #333333;">I intend to vote against this dong drought with my dollars. Men who wish to expose themselves for our enjoyment should not be restricted access. I want that shit PG-13 or at least AA. Let’s stop the spiral of shame and admit that letting kids watch CSI is actually more damaging than some good old-fashioned softcore fucking.  Liberate the <a href="http://copyranter.blogspot.com/2011/03/ken-doll-irl.html" target="_blank">Ken dolls</a> of the entertainment industry and let them join their female counterparts with genitals intact. Remember <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Our-Nakedest-Actor-A-Tribute-To-Ewan-McGregor-17113.html" target="_blank">Ewan Macgregor</a> in the nineties? We want that back!</span></em></p>
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<p><span style="color: #333333;">A new viewership is emerging that is speaking out against this grave injustice and creating <a href="http://feministryangosling.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">feminist heroes</a> out of male actors who do the same. Ignore us at your peril Hollywood. It’s full frontal or death, and we’ve had enough of the latter already. Let’s make love not war.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by JON PRESSICK I live in a co-operative, a short building only six storeys tall. The structure itself is horseshoe-shaped and I’ve lived on most of the floors, in three different units. In the middle is a lovely courtyard. After considerable research, I have determined that my neighbours can best hear my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">A Guest Post by <a href="http://sex-in-words.blogspot.com/?zx=ff44fd1a1d7f6e0f" target="_blank">JON PRESSICK</a></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I live in a co-operative, a short building only six storeys tall. The structure itself is horseshoe-shaped and I’ve lived on most of the floors, in three different units. In the middle is a lovely courtyard.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">After considerable research, I have determined that my neighbours can best hear my sex from my current first floor unit.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">While I’ve been here eight years, I’ve had four significant sex partners and one in particular liked to treat our fucking like theatrical events seen only on Broadway. We weren’t on display (much) to the rest of the community, but she was loud. Very loud. And when you decide to have a little afternoon delight in the middle of the summer in an apartment without air conditioning, necessitating the windows stay open, well, a lot of people heard a lot of things they probably didn’t want to.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And that was just her. She’s a dramatic and gregarious person—she’s always on. Parts of that I liked, publicly and privately. And I liked her enthusiasm in bed, it is a helluva turn on when someone is, literally, going wild when you’re fucking. But, c’mon, even I didn’t believe it was all wholly genuine.</span></p>
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<div id="attachment_13419" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 629px"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/swinging-from-chandelier-3.jpg"><span style="color: #333333;"><img class="size-full wp-image-13419" title="swinging from the chandelier" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/swinging-from-chandelier-3.jpg" alt="swinging from the chandelier" width="619" height="288" /></span></a><p class="wp-caption-text">If you look anything like this during sex, there&#39;s a good chance you&#39;re performing more than you&#39;re enjoying.</p></div>
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<p><span style="color: #333333;">Treating sex as a performance is a tricky thing. Sure, we get into it, we get excited and some people are genuinely extravagant with their sounds and motions. But more often than not, when I’ve encountered someone who is putting on a show while putting out, I get a familiar feeling.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And when it hits me I look down and think “You look like you’re in a porno.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">As much as it is derided, mocked and the point of countless Ron Jeremy jokes, deep inside most people want to perform like a porn star. Men want show they can go for hours, women want to be the ultimate fuck. Guys picture themselves with rippling muscles, girls picture themselves looking glamourous while being the best fuck ever.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Sadly, this is rarely what happens. By no means am I trying to dissuade people from trying to achieve porny good times, and if you can without looking and acting ridiculous, then good on ya. But remember, these people are professionals. Fucking is their business and their jobs. They are also actors.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">In porn, you are rarely watching a true display of fantastic sexual pleasure. Instead, you’re watching a caricature of sex. An amped up, sensationalized and fantastic version of sex. They are great for entertainment purposes (I love watchin’ the pornz) but rarely a good how-to guide.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Think about it. Most porn (I’m talking mainstream, het films), follow some pretty standard scripts. Usually the woman performs a long and extravagant blowjob. (Often porn blowjobs are way too long. If most people tried to suck dick for that long, their jaws would be so sore they’d ruin the rest of their sexual experience.) They then move on to some cursory pussy licking, you know, just enough to show she’s there and has girl bits. I’ve always viewed good sex as reciprocal and 20 minutes of blowjob definitely warrants more than 20 seconds of cunt-lapping.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">But we’re off to the main event and the performances by sex actors are, more often than not, unbelievable. The piston-action fucking, the shrieks of joy, the multiple positions…these are all things we can watch and fantasize about and try if the situation is right. But in most sexual situations, trying to emulate the pro’s will just leave you frustrated and annoyed.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Did I mention you’re not alone in this? You’re having sex, not masturbating! Someone else is involved! So while you’re working at putting on the best sex show in the world, does your partner actually appreciate or want it? Does she want you to move through the Five Moves of Poon (a term I’ve adapted from professional wresting, another performance farce)? Does he want you screaming out your orgasm at the top of your lungs?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">If it is your first time with this person and they aren’t down with your theatrics, well, you might not be getting a call back. If they are, well, that’s great! But there’s another downside to putting on a fucking good show.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The repeat performance.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by JULIE ROBINSON It’s not uncommon for women to be expected to lick a little pussy to get the party started. The rest of the group gathers ‘round, watching the players lick, groan, jab, and grab at breasts. Right on cue one of the men starts rubbing on an ass.  Another fondles [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #333333;">It’s not uncommon for women to be expected to lick a little pussy to get the party started. The rest of the group gathers ‘round, watching the players lick, groan, jab, and grab at breasts. Right on cue one of the men starts rubbing on an ass.  Another fondles anything he can get his hands on. A woman not involved in the original act goes down on one of the men and—voila!—everyone in the room is getting a piece of the action.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Being part of a community of swingers (the “lifestyle”) as a single woman gives you power, a variety of playmates, and a few surprises.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">For me, delving into this world is a natural progression. Being a dabbler with a nonstop libido, the thought of being encouraged to experiment with my sexuality with a group of people open to sharing partners seems like a great fit. I <em>do </em>like dressing up in sexy outfits for themed parties. I <em>do </em>look forward to dancing on a stripper pole in my panties. I <em>do </em>partake in group sex from time to time. The piece that stymies me is the pretty-much-mandatory-female bisexuality.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">We’ve all performed in the bedroom. Whether it’s listening to the little voice in your head saying, “Here’s the best blowjob you’ve ever gotten, baby!” or the dreaded fake orgasm—women remove themselves from the moment and put on an act in the middle of the act. Even my most vanilla friends tell me they get performance anxiety when they are with a new lover. <em>Am I doing this right? Will he think this is sexy? What about if he doesn’t like this? </em>This low grade internal questioning—striving to improve—may even lead to some healthy experimentation. It’s harmless.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Moving outside of your comfort zone can also be a welcome twist allowing lovers to try on some fantasies for size. Giddy up! Community norms and expectations in the swinger lifestyle appear—on the surface anyway—to be completely malleable. Swingers embrace sexuality across the board, right? Not when it comes to bisexuality.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/women-kissing-red-.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-13413" title="women kissing" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/women-kissing-red-.jpg" alt="&quot;women kissing&quot;" width="376" height="515" /></a>Girl on girl play is so common in the lifestyle that it is expected and encouraged. The elusive single female is so rare and revered that she is referred to as a “unicorn.”Couples are welcome to bring single women with them to parties as guests. At most private swinger clubs, if single men can get in at all they pay through the nose while the single women walk right through the door for next to nothing. Women don’t always outnumber the men, but in this environment that’s the game plan. Watching a group of women play together becomes the life of the party.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Bisexual men keep it under wraps. “I’m pretty sure my wife knows about the other women,” a friend confides in me. “It’s the fact that I like to be with men sometimes that would have her talking divorce in a heartbeat.” It is not uncommon for him to engage in sex with multiple women out in the open: however, he makes sure any bisexual play he partakes in is done privately: “It’s just not accepted.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Of course, double standards exist in every community when it comes to dating, relationships, and sex.  Just as my bisexual male friend struggles with expectations placed on his sexuality, I—being a straight woman—struggle with being expected to perform bisexual sex acts. He’s not allowed to be open about who he is and I feel peer pressure to do things I don’t necessarily want to do.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I don’t expect mainstream society to get it right when it comes to accepting the spectrum of human sexuality. Mom and dad tell us that sex is to make babies. Schools adopt “abstinence-only” programs.  Girlfriends sneer if you leave the bar with a guy you just met. Men won’t date you if your “number” is too high. God forbid you should want to do something Jesus wouldn’t do!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The swinger community is naïve if they believe they are free from rigid codes of conduct. Members of the lifestyle may be more accepting of non-mainstream sex but the sex they do engage in is predictable.  Expecting women to perform for the group, to get the party started, places each of us into a well-defined box. Taboos within mainstream society are being broken, yes, but it’s pretty much the same old thing. It’s all an act.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Guest Post by NIKKI B. (with brief intro by MS. BLUE on behalf of the Met Another Frog crew) In December, when Elizabeth Rose came up with the idea that each of us should write a Best of 2011 recap posts this month, Sam and I readily agreed. And when she wisely suggested that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>A Guest Post by <a href="http://womenarefrommars.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">NIKKI B</a>. (with brief intro by MS. BLUE on behalf of the Met Another Frog crew)</strong><strong> </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">In December, when Elizabeth Rose came up with the idea that each of us should write a Best of 2011 recap posts this month, Sam and I readily agreed. And when she wisely suggested that we should also have one of our fave tweeps write one too, within about two seconds flat we came to a unanimous decision about who that should be&#8230;</span></p>
<p><strong><i><span style="color: #333333;">The one and only Ms. Nikki B.</span></i></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">As far as we&#8217;re concerned there are very few other (if any) bloggers out there who have shown us some much love, so consistently. I mean who else&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Shows up almost every day to leave us comments that read like short essays?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Retweets us like it&#8217;s their part time job?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Is always – and I mean always (to date she&#8217;s never said no) – up for the challenge of penning yet another original post for us whenever we come a calling?</span></p>
<p><strong><i><span style="color: #333333;">No. One.</span></i></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">For us it was a no brainer. Our darling Nikki was the best and only choice. And as is her habit, she came through for us  in grand style.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Now, bear with me. Just one last thing before we get to her post.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">We&#8217;d like to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to Nikki, for all her love, support and even the rants <img src='http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">In gratitude,</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">The Met Another Frog Crew</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333;">&#8211;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I started blogging for a single reason: Because a friend and I had some really strange dating experiences, and we wanted to talk about them.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">It really was as simple as that. <i>And, yeah, I know – we were SO original!</i></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">However. After almost two years of doing this (damn how time flies), that original impetus seems small and far away. Yes, I learned that we were not alone in the weird dating behavior of others, but my blogging experience quickly became far, far more than that.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I never, ever, <i>notinamillionyears</i> expected where entering into the blogging community would take me, or what it would give back.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And that is what it is. <strong>A community.</strong> I’ve conversed (even if it was just via tweets!) with so many new people. They’ve engaged me on many different levels, from the odd tweet, right on through to putting up with random rants (<i>holla Ms. Blue</i>) in e-mail form. I’ve met people I <i>actually feel like I know</i> even though…well, we’ve never met.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Even though <strong>they don’t even know who I really am</strong> (<i>…creeper much? Yep that’s me.</i>)</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Ms. Blue summed how I feel about it nicely in this <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/01/17/men-rock/" target="_blank">post</a>:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">“<strong>Realizing how much I don’t know about sex, dating and relationships</strong>: You’re reading the words of a lifelong learner here, and I honestly didn’t know just how much there was to know before this little blog came to be. I’ve got a lot to learn, people; which means I’m going to be doing this blog thing for quite a while – a very, very long while.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I have been educated and enlightened and challenged (<i>and even called names</i>)… but it’s been really eye-opening.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">My relationship with Met Another Frog has been a <strong>core part</strong> of that experience. One thing I <i>absolutely adore</i> about them is they take all that dating stuff to a whole new level of awesome. Sure, they talk about dating, and sex, but go well beyond conventional boundaries. Moreover, they search for more than their own opinions – always inviting guest bloggers and interviewing key voices in all things sex-positive.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">So when they asked me to pick my favs from 2011, I said <i>hells yeah</i>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Which was, as it turns out, a completely ridiculous response.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Any idea how hard it is, out of all the awesome content they have over here, to pick <i>only four posts</i>?? Out of an entire year?? <i>I was an idiot to agree to this!</i></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">So. To help me out a bit, I decided to pick posts that I found unique or really spoke to me personally.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I also… kind of cheated. Just a little bit. <i>Look, peeps, when I tried to narrow it down the first time, I ended up with two pages of links. Ok? </i></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Well. Here you have it. My choice for not-to-miss posts of 2011…</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">The Man Sam Sharpe</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Hear ye, hear ye, Sharpies: There were a lot of posts I almost chose from Mr. Sharp – and I will bet you’ll be surprised by the one I went with. In the end, I had to applaud him for loving the nonconventional, the things we love that don’t fit the cookie-cutter version of what we’re supposed to: <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/05/24/breaking-rules/" target="_blank">Breaking the Rules of Attraction</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/define-normal.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-13340" title="define normal" src="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/define-normal.jpg" alt="&quot;define normal&quot;" width="351" height="363" /></a>Ms. Blue</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Skye did a lot of experimenting and pushing herself this past year, in addition to exploring, while not necessarily participating some kinky worlds. One of the great posts, IMHO, to come out of that process was the following, which not only made the point that “normal” people may have some ridic kink behind their closed doors, but also asked what would happen if we were more open about our sexual fantasies and less judgmental of others. This, of course, also begs the question: <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/03/25/sfgd5/" target="_blank">what, really, is “normal”?</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Elizabeth Rose</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">My choice for Ms. Rose is one that’s completely personal. Girl wrote some great stuff (swing injuries, anyone?), but, in the end, I went with one that spoke straight to my heart, in terms of dating, and how other people kind of “interfere with my mojo”: <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/01/31/one-plus-one/" target="_blank">One Plus One</a></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Guest post: </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Again, this shiz was <i>hard mothafucka.</i> The Met Another Frog team had some awesome guest posts up, and it took me a long time to narrow it down. However, this one was so awesome at getting to <i>other people’s issues </i>regarding kink, I l-o-v-e-d it: <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/05/15/how-to-dom-me/" target="_blank">How to Dom Me More Than Once</a>.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Ok. Now for the cheating part.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">What about all the awesomesauce interviews? The podcasts? Full Frontal Nerdity? Love CoCo? Hot Debate Wednesdays (<i>what ever happened to those, anyway</i>?) Can’t I pick a couple of those? So, you know, I did.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I loved <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/02/10/sfgd2/" target="_blank">this interview</a> with one of the founders Fuck Club, simply because it talked about things I had not heard before, and made me want a Fuck Club in my neck of the woods.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">I also had to go with this fantastic debate on whether or not bi guys were datable, simply because it really got to the root of the issue: <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/07/12/bi-men-dateable/" target="_blank">Ladies, Would You Date a Bi Guy </a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">And, finally, I know this is also on bi-guys, but <a href="http://www.metanotherfrog.com/2011/08/18/mtpt3/" target="_blank">this podcast</a> just made me laugh and laugh.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;">Thank you all for an awesome year! I can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store for us in 2012!</span></p>
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