This week’s theme is “not here,” I suppose, because right on the heels of Rori’s fantastic top sex blogger list I have another (albeit really short) list of really awesome things for you. No introductions this time, let’s just get straight down to business.
- A Pleasurably Versatile Experience – This is my latest sex toy review published on EdenFantasys.com. I think you’ll find it quite interesting, especially considering it’s a review for a toy that is ostensibly made for the purpose of hanging weights off one’s testicles, and I’ve shared my opinion on that almost laughable practice before. Here’s a choice excerpt:
Cock and ball toys are without doubt one of the most unfortunately stereotyped of all sex toys. Those made out of leather and metal, even more so! The Large Parachute’s description doesn’t help any here, citing that “this original cock and ball torture accessory…provides a firm grip over the package” and “has a 6” long jewel chain that lets you attach additional weights for an increased cock and ball tease.”
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The good news is that I discovered other uses for the Large Parachute. The bad news is that it’s still mostly useful only for the types of CBT play you’d expect because it’s not as durable as it needs to be for some of the more inspired uses I came up with for it.
If you’re so inclined, I’d very much appreciate a positive vote on my review(s).
- When I Was A Boy – this is one of my good friend Switch’s latest posts that I read tonight and just about fell weak at the knees over. It’s so good and full of queer gender-bending hotness that I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to link to it. My favorite part:
In this submissive position, my cock meant a whole other thing. It never occurred to me that I was a girl in that context: I was a boy, submissive to a bigger, stronger Boy. And I LOVED it. I had never been a boy the way I was like that, even though vaginal intercourse made my girl parts very apparent. Nor had I ever felt submissive in the same way I did, with my hard silicone cock pushed into the bed and the base pushing against my pubic mound, turning me on even more as Boy fucked me.
Guh!
- Also, just because I can, a pair of links go out this week to KinkInExile.com and Essin-Em.com, who have simply been on my mind a bit lately.
On a completely unrelated note, I think it’s worth a mention that Conversio Virium is receiving an ever-growing amount of email on a wide array of topics. In the past week alone, we’ve received email from:
- three event organizers to let us know about their events (whom all got responses with instructions for how to contribute to the public calendar of sexuality events that CV hosts),
- another two emails from people who want to write about the group in other publications, one from the Columbia University Spectator newspaper seeking content for sexuality-related articles,
- another from a student of a non-Columbia-affiliated NYC-based University interested in attending CV meetings,
- an admittedly random email about some cross-campus game of Risk (WTF?),
- and another from what seems like a random visitor concerned about her daughter’s safety because she is “into S and M.” (This was the email that prompted me to add a link to the Kink Aware Professionals list hosted by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom on our contact page.)
That’s no less than 9 emails this week, more than one per day on average, and I’m pretty confident that CV’s email load will simply continue to grow as it gains more exposure.
Just…food for thought. Okay, that’s all. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming, kthnxbai.
That would be Go Cross Campus: http://gocrosscampus.com/
It’s the Next Big Thing at the Ivy League schools.
I’m delighted to hear that CV is getting positive exposure, and equally delighted that you’re staying so involved while down under. Far more so than I, who am just a few hours away from Butler. And if I haven’t told you before, the CV website is just fantastic. Gah! I just checked it out and saw there’s a grappling demo at CV next week, how frustrating.
Even when you’re half a world a way you still give so much to CV. As someone who’s been looking forward to going to more presentations there and as someone who subscribes to the events calendar in Ical. Thank you.
Funny story – I was thinking about you too.
Let’s rearrange a time to chat…at some point. Please?
PS. Thank you again for all your help. Link love on my About page :)
alterisego:
Ah. That would explain why I care not one whit about it. I’m not really into “next big things” or “Ivy League schools”. ;)
Boston Boy:
I’m delighted, too! I’ll also admit, I started the CV web site project back in 2007 when I was mentally preparing to leave for the express purpose of making CV better and letting myself stay involved in a useful fashion. I have no interest in just being another one of those older people who hang around. If I’m older and not actively volunteering, I don’t think I would belong there.
Also, thanks for the compliments regarding the site itself. Please, if you haven’t already, check out the volunteering page. We could use volunteers like you.
Axe:
Thank you! I’m so glad to hear that people are actually using those event features, as they are among the most complex in the site. It would be super helpful if you could evangelize that capability to the rest of the calendar-using world, since it would be immensely helpful to get that kind of stuff more into the mainstream. It’s not really useful if only tech geeks like you and I are using it. And since the CV calendar is fully compatible with Google Calendar, it has the potential to be really huge.
Essin’ Em:
Yes, let’s! So sorry I’ve been absent. Time zones are rough sometimes…. I hope we can do more preparation asynchronously. Also thanks for the link love on your about page! It is much appreciated! I was happy to help. :)
Many thanks for linking to me! That post had a lot of thought and effort in it, and I was sad when, for a while, I got no comments. And then they started pouring in! Thanks, darling.
I miss you vastly.
You’re most certainly welcome! The thought you put into the post showed. It’s really fantastic. And oh god, did I mention so hot?