
The last day. I spent most of that morning obsessively trying to get
The New York Times on my iPhone and watching Lehman Brothers stock drop to less than 50 cents a share in between packing. As fabulous as the weekend was, I was ready to come home. Sissy Stephanie was kind enough to give me a ride back to the city, in fact right to my door despite it being completely out of the way. I had this cool, kind of gothy, black Hello Kitty parasol I never use, so I gave it to her as a thank you. With the close of the car door I was back to Brooklyn, to fully clothed pedestrians, easily shocked friends, narrow minded co-workers and judgemental relatives.
Ah, it was good to be home...
You see, the good thing about camp, for me, is also the bad thing about camp. The total immersion experience is as freeing to me as it is, at times, oppressive. I was starting to feel a little overwhelmed, overexposed and my libido had taken a mysterious nose dive after day two. And at some point when all of the kinky stuff becomes normal, it becomes... normal. It stops being, well, kinky. The excitement, the nervousness, the thrill of walking down a sidewalk naked, gets a little less thrilling if everyone is doing it and no one particularly cares.
I get wary when things get too comfortable. If I'm nodding off while Nina Hartley is sucking cock right in front of me, something is horribly, horribly wrong.
In this continually, highly charged sexual atmosphere, it was a relief to sit fully-clothed on a bench, drink coffee and chat about international public health policy issues with someone who was also fully clothed.
You know, sometimes constantly talking, thinking, writing about sex gets a bit, well unsexy for me. I am not a professional sex writer, researcher, advocate or worker. It's not part of my job, it's not my career. This blog is pretty much just a hobby for me. A way to get my thoughts out and hone my writing skills and as soon as I get bored with it, I'll quit. To me, all this is still a little... you know, naughty and I like it that way! I still kind of want those hockey-moms out there to be shocked and appalled by my behavior. I like being the "adventurous" one in my group of friends. I like having the occasional dirty secret. I love the walk of shame!
And to this day, every time I have sex, deep inside me there is the small voice of 17 year old boy high-fiving myself, saying, "Dude, I totally got some!" I still can't type "pussy" or "cock" without hesitating for a half-a-second. It's probably why I'm so horrible at writing fictional smut. I keep wanting to write "vagina" and "penis" and I hate, hate, hate the word "panties".
From now on I'm saying "underpants". You know why? It's hilarious.
Anyway, my point is, as much as I love getting laid, there's something pretty great about wanting to get laid. It's the wait, the potential for sex, the tension of the tease, that is so freaking hot (I should add, as long as you know you're not going to be waiting all that long). If I know it's going to be good, I can wait. I don't always want Korean deli, open 24 hours, all you can eat, steam tray sex. These days I want "only in season for a week" sex, I want white truffle sex. I want fucking fugu sex!
Tease me. Save it for the big day. I don't need to see you naked right away. I'd rather imagine it, hope for it, wait for that moment when I'm unbuttoning your shirt and slipping my fingers inside to feel for myself.
I went on this great date a while ago. We were on the same page from day one, so I was a little surprised when the date ended with a little making out on the sidewalk, him walking back to work and me walking to the subway. I thought it was a done deal: pay the bill, back to my place, fuck... done and done.
But, when we finally separated, our hands lingering together a bit longer than necessary and we both looked back at each other as we walked away... damn it was sweet. I licked my lips and strutted down the sidewalk with that cocky half-grin on my face, feeling those lacy boy-shorts, already wet, get wetter and wetter. I went home alone and fucked myself stupid thinking about all the things he was going to do to me when we finally did get together.
And the wait? It was worth it.
I never, ever, for one moment want to forget how fan-fucking-tastic sex is. I never want it to become ordinary or hum drum or everyday. I never want getting tied up and flogged and fucked by multiple people to become normal. I want always to have that flutter of anticipation, that twinge of anxiety, that ache of wanting, that will we/won't we tension. Even if I, by some miracle, find myself with a boyfriend or a husband or some other significant-fucking-other and we're screwing and beating each other senseless every morning, noon and night, I'll still want to wait for it. I'll always want to be surprised. I'll always want to feel a tiny, little bit uncomfortable
I'll still want to imagine what's underneath.