Toothpaste Sex

I’d like a verdict on this unusual (for me) habit my girlfriend insists on during our sexual sessions. She is really all I’ve ever craved. She’s beautiful, and the horniest inventive sexual being I’ve ever met. I’m considering asking her to marry me, but this trick of hers during sex worries me.

It started one night after a good shag when she was bringing me back to hardness by gently rubbing me. Then she produced a large tube of toothpaste, peeled back my foreskin, smearing the knob with toothpaste before drawing forward the foreskin. It stung! She told me not to be a baby. You’ll love it when you’re arousing too. When I was about to fuck her, she asked me to squeeze toothpaste up her, ordering more when I thought one squeeze enough.

It certainly was one heated fuck, with her more excitable and vocal than ever. Since then she expects it every go almost, and it certainly does increase the fervour of our coupling. So far I’ve felt no ill effects except my knob is sore for a while afterwards. But I wonder if any long-term problems may ensure in time through regular use. She won’t agree. We both await your expert opinion!

It’s not exactly the recommended use. For that reason I can’t give you chapter and verse on the risks since toothpaste manufacturers, and the relevant government regulatory bodies, are unlikely to be able to tell you whether it is within guidelines.

However, I will say that it’s actually not an uncommon little variation – she’s not alone in discovering the fresh minty taste gives a zing to the nether regions as well as the mouth. And since toothpaste is designed to be safe in the soft tissues of the mouth I think one can say within reason it’s probably safe. Within reason; vaginal tissue is more friable and delicate than the mouth. And if you’re inserting the nozzle into the anus, make sure it’s cleaned properly before putting it away and using it again.

Most certainly don’t share the same toothpaste, allowing a tube that has touched either of your genitals to touch the other person, or to go from anus to vagina. Remember that organisms safe and healthy in the back passage can wreak havoc in other parts of the body. Apart from that, I’d follow sensible rules and ensure that neither of you continue if you feel at all sore or inflamed.

In essence, you’re using a substance that does slightly irritate the skin to give sensation. If the sensation is momentary or short lived, no harm is done. If it lingers, you’ve damaged the tissue and that could give an entry for infection. Be sensible and maybe save the toothpaste for special occasions – high days and feast days!

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Aroused by Violence

I wonder if you can help me. I’m 32, single and heterosexual. My problem is that although I’m not a violent or aggressive individual, I’m aroused by the thought of violence, or the infliction of pain. For example, when I was younger, my parents took me to a bullfight whilst on holiday in Spain, and I was aware of a pleasant itching around my crotch, and nipples.

More recently, when I went on a historic tour in a medieval town centre, the guide explained how criminals were buried alive in the market please back in the Middle Ages. When I got back to my hotel I raised my skirt, and brought myself to release with my hand. Although I am content to achieve climax this way, these feelings make me feel very lonely and I write to ask whether there is any group or pen-friend club for women to satisfy release, or exchange sadistic fantasies.

Not that I’m aware of, but search on the internet and I’m sure you’d find something. But meanwhile, let me reassure you that you are hardly alone and have no reason to feel lonely. It’s fairly widespread to find the thought of violence and pain arousing. I say the thought, because violent fantasies are a common theme in pornography and erotica and indeed in mainstream films and writings.

What I should caution you against is concluding that this necessarily means you would find the real thing stimulating too, which is by no means certain. The majority of people have sexual fantasies and many are aroused by situations and scenarios – rape, group sex, bestiality, sado-masochism – that excite and satisfy them in the imagination but would actually repulse if actually experienced.

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Women’s Knickers and a Large Penis

In the two years since I separated from my girlfriend with whom I lived for five years, I have become increasingly worried about the size of my penis, and my sex drive in general.

About six months before we split up, my girlfriend uncovered a stash of pornographic magazines and women’s knickers that I kept hidden in the garage. When she confronted me with them, I decided that honesty was the best policy and I told her that I had felt the need to masturbate regularly since adolescence and that I only wore the women’s knickers during masturbation sessions.

Unfortunately, she showed no understanding and drew the conclusion that I was a transvestite and that the reason I have such a large penis was because I masturbated so often. Things got even worse when she started to confide in her friends and they basically told her that I was a weirdo and that she was crazy to put up with the soreness that she sometimes suffered after our more vigorous lovemaking sessions.

After this she rarely let me penetrate her and often made disparaging remarks about my cock. She even told me that I embarrassed her in front of her friends because they would notice the protrusion in my trousers and tease her by referring to me as The Donkey. Now that I am single again, I find myself masturbating more than ever, sometimes up to four times a day. When my girlfriend said that masturbation had caused my cock to grow abnormally big I dismissed this as nonsense.

However, I am now starting to wonder if she was right because it has actually grown in length by about a third of an inch since we separated and is now a fraction under ten inches long. I know that there are bigger penises than mine around, but I would be interested to know how common it is to find ones as big as I have.

Does the fact that I often wear women’s knickers for masturbation mean that I have transvestite tendencies, and would it be wise for me to inform future girlfriends about my habits in order to avoid the scenario that led to the break-up of my relationship with my last girlfriend? With regard to my tendency to get erections in public places, do I run the risk of persecution for indecent behaviour?

Having a penis that’s just over six inches long when relaxed as well as large testicles means that most trousers are unable to hide the outline of my genitals and I have noticed that people’s glances are often drawn to my crotch area. Several times now I have found myself standing on a crowded tube train with women seated just in front of me and then it felt my penis getting a full erection with little means for me to conceal it.

Now, you see you went one step too far in this fantasy and spoiled it. I might – just might – have believed you had a ten inch dong. Very, very unlikely as the average is 6¼ but there are a few rare birds – usually found in the porn industry – that can reach such lengths. I began to find it all very unlikely when you said your girlfriend not only complained and disparaged you in private but made fun of you in front of friends.

Darlin’, if any girl was that stoopid she’d be so at her own peril; the chances are half her circle would as one cry “You don’t like it? Hand him over!” In my experience, far more women say they like a large one than protest they don’t. Laughing at you would be the last thing on their minds, and while I do acknowledge that men with large penises find it ain’t all as peachy in the bedroom as those with small ones think, they rarely complain about the show it makes. But you ruined it all by claiming yours has grown since your girlfriend has gone.

No, penises cannot and do not grow in length after adolescence. They expand as the genitals develop during puberty but that’s it; what you have when you finish growing, sometime during the teenage years, is what you stay with. Sadly, some kids still believe masturbating has something to do with it, because body development coincides with an increased interest in sex and with an increased incidence of self pleasuring. A young lad notices his penis expands as he rubs it and around the same time he sees it gain heft and weight, and often puts 2 and 2 together and gets 5. There is a link but it’s not that wanking makes you grow (except temporarily!). It doesn’t, during adolescence or at any other time.

It’s also very common for young men going through the hormonal and emotional upheavals of adolescence to get frequent and uncontrolled erections but less so for adults to get this. If this was happening to an adult I’d suggest speaking with a doctor to see if it has an emotional cause – grief, depression, obsession – or a physical cause. If this was a young man talking I’d suggest he does what most learn to do – carry school cases in front of them to hide their arousal and to wear looser trousers rather than skin tight ones, if they don’t want to be seen getting excited. Most people are tolerant of kids getting hair-triggered but would be less so of a grown man, feeling he was putting on a deliberate exhibition. As he would be, if he stood in trains with his crotch in women’s faces wearing tight trousers knowing this was a tendency.

Methinks you protest too much.

But in most cases of excessive masturbation in adults the reasons are emotional rather than physical – fear of commitment, inability to make relationships, anxiety after a bad break up. For genuine cases of this, I’d recommend talking to a counsellor and getting whatever was worrying you sorted out.

As for what constitutes excessive and how often people “should” masturbate; it’s a piece of string. Some men and women are happy to masturbate twice a day or more often and are quite content about it. Teens particularly go at it with a will why not. Others feel the same about once a month. There’s a problem if your masturbation comes first – if it affects your life, working or social, and is a refuge from real relationships rather than being a pleasant addition to your life. And as for penis size and women – well, the vagina can expand to take a baby’s head. You think you that big?

And penetrative sex isn’t the be all and end all of sex. Some women prefer their partners to do deep penetration and like a large penis; other prefer just having the tip in and like small ones. There are no rules. And men often prefer to wear women’s pants without it meaning they are transvestite. But not recognising that behaviour such as masturbating into a stash of women’s knickers while looking through a stack of porn magazines might be hurtful to a regular girlfriend might display a tadge lack of empathy and understanding. All in all, I’d suggest you would benefit from a talk with a counsellor to get your feelings and your behaviour understood and under your own control, or to sort out what might be appropriate to you age and situation.

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Grandparents and Discipline

My mum looks after my 2-year-old son while I’m at work. It fits in well with my work hours and she enjoys spending time with her grandson. However, she has very different views on discipline to me and seems to contradict what I do. How can I make her respect my views and let me bring up my son my way?

Are we talking smacking here? If so, you have every right and every need to tell your Mum you love and respect her and have no intention of “dissing” her upbringing of you, but that in your family you do not hit. You don’t hit him and since this is your son, neither should she. Full stop.

If it’s other less harmful behaviour, you can say you are raising your son the way that feels best to you, and that she could be confusing him if she insists on contradicting you. Is he finding it difficult to go from one style to another? If so, raise it with her that being very different to you is proving bewildering. Tell her firmly you have your way and you’re happy with it and you would like her to respect your views and prefer her to follow your lead.

If she can’t and you are unhappy and so is he, you may point out your only recourse may be to limit the time she does spend in the future with her grandchildren because while you respect her, you don’t like her way of doing it. Faced with your resolve, she may think again.

He may cheerfully recognise that what happens at grandma’s is different from what goes at home –many children can manage such inconsistency. Rather than her views on how enjoyable is this contact, think about his. If you think he’s happy, be assertive about how you’d like her to behave with him. If he isn’t, look for other childcare.

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Making Friends

My daughter started Secondary School in September but she doesn’t seem to have made any friends yet. Is there anything I can do to help or should I just let her get on with it?

Make it clear you’ll welcome anyone she chooses to bring back for a meal or to play, and that you will take her to wherever she needs to go to make contacts. You can also raise her self esteem by valuing her and encouraging her and by sharing the fact that making friends isn’t always easy and that’s no reflection on her.

It’s possible she just needs the confidence to break through the cliques that always develop in classes after a big change. Talk over with her how people have divided up in her class and whether there’s anyone she’d like to be friends with. ‘Role play’ or playact how she might approach them to make friends.

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Pocket Money

My son’s friends seem to get much more pocket money than him. I’ve tried to explain to him that I just can’t afford to give him any more but he still asks for more – what can I do?

Telling isn’t the same as showing and maybe you need to sit down and go through the realities of what you have and what you have to spend it on. Even small children can understand budgeting if it’s explained to them. They can also benefit from having an allowance rather than pocket money.

Give him more, but go over with him what things he will be responsible for buying, such as some new clothes or his lunches. If he chooses to blow it all on one purchase he’ll learn the hard way what you’re trying to say – that there isn’t enough for everything and once spent it’s gone.

Depending on his age you could also support him in earning some money for himself, with a paper round or by washing cars for neighbours – make sure he’s safe whatever he does, but encourage him to see money is something that has to be worked for, not simply demanded.

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Talking about Sex

I want to talk to my teenage son about sex but every time I try he gets so embarrassed and walks away – how can I make it less embarrassing for him?

Sex is an embarrassing subject for teenagers, especially when their parents raise the issue. It’s sometimes easier when this has been a subject of discussion over the years but even in open families, they may want to walk away when they feel you’re no longer talking in theory but about their sex lives.

If you are trying to deal wiht something you haven’t tackled before – to have “the sex talk” that many parents feel they should have when puberty begins – then drop back a bit. Ask yourself why you want to do this. To make sure he knows how to be safe and happy? To check on him? To have control of this aspect of his life?

The first step is to be able to listen to what he wants, feels and needs before you jump in with the sage advice or interrogation. Tell him it’s an embarrassing subject and a difficult time – for both of you. Get him some good literature on the issues – have a look in your nearest library or bookshop. And accept that he might prefer to get his answers from other people – parents of friends, other relatives, teachers.

The important thing is not for you to talk to him but for him to know you support him finding out and thinking about the subject. Be “askable” rather than lecturing and he may come back.

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Divorce and Children

I wonder if you can help me with my problem. I am 33, married with two children – a boy 9 and a girl 7. My husband and I have decided to divorce – it’s all quite amicable and there’s no-one else involved, we’ve simply grown apart and have nothing in common any more, although we are still good friends.

My problem is the children. I know if asked my son he would want to live with his Dad, and my daughter with me. I don’t want to split them up but it’s tearing me apart what this is going to do to my son. We have talked and talked and decided it’s best if they both live with me, but how on earth do we tell our children. What do I do if my son wants to live with his Dad? I don’t think I can bear it. We’ve tried so hard to make our marriage work and now we’ve finally made the decision to split I’m not sure what to do next. (Incidentally we have already been to Relate).

Can you tell me also where we stand in law? I know courts sometimes ask the children their preference. I’m studying full time right now so we have decided to stay together until I am finished so I will be able to support myself – my son will be 12 then and my daughter 10. Any suggestions would be helpful I’m sure.

The courts now prefer to stay out of custody battles. Parents are encouraged to make their own arrangements as reasonably and amicably as possible. But if it came to a fight, children are asked their opinion because it is their needs which should be uppermost. You’re making several classic mistakes. One is assuming that your kids won’t have already realised their family is in trouble. Another is that a parent’s job is to protect their children from real life, make life carefree and easy and to come up with all the answers.

You also seem to believe that when a family breaks up parents can and should distribute their children to one or other new household, along with the sideboard and sofa. You are treating them like objects you own, must have and hold and fight over. But your most potentially damaging mistake is in not confronting the fact that you and your kids have a very different take on what is happening here.

A divorce is a fresh start for the adults but a drastic, dramatic ending for children. In order to get them through it you have to acknowledge and understand that their viewpoint and feelings are very different to your own. It doesn’t help for you to only see this situation through your own eyes and to try and impose your view on them. Even at seven and nine your children have feelings and opinions of their own. I’m not suggesting you throw into their laps the decision of who to live with. That’s totally inappropriate, I agree. But that is not the question you should be asking.

The question is “We no longer love each other or want to live together but we’ll always love you and be your parents. So, how are we going to arrange our lives round giving you a full-time Mum and Dad?”

You’re thinking about what you may possibly lose – start seeing what they are losing and how you can manage it better. Spread the burden a little. The longer you wrestle with this behind their backs the less reason they will ever have to trust and respect you. By drawing them into the discussion you help your children learn a valuable truth – that life isn’t all sunshine and roses. But you demonstrate they can rely on their parents to love and be there for them, no matter what.

You could also help them recognise that they may have some control over their lives. The greatest unhappiness that children feel in a situation like this is in being utterly powerless. Give them a voice and give them some choices. You’ll find they don’t see it in black and white, only-one-way-to-settle-this terms.

Research has shown that children of divorced parents are no more disadvantaged than those whose family remains intact if they still have easy access to both their Mum and their Dad. You seem to think that the aim is for you to win control, have your children remain firmly with you while your husband goes off into the wilderness. Why assume that your children will only have one residence?

Families who have managed divorce with a good outcome do it by living near enough to each other so that children can make their own way between separate houses, having a base in each. You don’t lose one, other or both. Both of you remain full-time parents, it’s just that some nights one or both your kids sleep at his place and some nights they sleep at yours, some evenings and weekends they’re with him and some with you.

If you’re still friends, than act it; live as near as possible so that you can have your own, new private lives but your kids can continue to spend time with both their parents whenever and however they choose and need.

A parent is a parent for life. The only question is whether it’s to be a parent who is there for you or one that is absent. And the tragedy about absent parents is their absence tells children that they are failures – rejected, abandoned, unloved and unlovable. It’s not that parents divorce that hurts and damages children but how they do it.

You’ve been to Relate so now approach mediation for help. The UK College of Family Mediators or National Family Mediation can tell you of your nearest centre; ring 020 7391 9162 or go to www.ukcfm.co.uk for the former, call 0117 904 2825 or go to http://www.nfm.u-net.com/ for the latter. If you live in Scotland, try Family Mediation Scotland 0131 220 1610. They’ll help the four of you come up with a solution that fits.

Best of wishes, and good luck!

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Lap Dancing

A crowd of about six of us go out for a drink every Friday night. We’ve got in the habit of going to a couple of lap dancing bars, which are a great laugh. A couple of the guys bring their girlfriends with them, who say it’s fun and have no problem with this. Mine refuses. She’s not a prude and normally she’s great fun, so why is she being so unreasonable?

I wonder how you would feel if the positions were reversed. If, every Friday night, your girlfriend and five of her friends toured bars in which semi-naked men danced on tables and between their legs, begging for tips and gyrating lasciviously for their attention? Think of the way you and your friends behave to each other, to the lap dancers and towards these girlfriends and then consider whether you’d be happy or comfortable having the exact same behaviour turned on you.

Of course, the analogy isn’t perfect. There is a difference because men who strip for women are always more in control and less victims than women who strip for men. Women at a male strip show are far more on the edge – flirting with dominance but not really in control of it. Lap dancing and stripping are, in essence, male expressions of male supremacy – no more, no less. Male strippers are seen by men as an affront and a challenge, but the reality is you don’t take that challenge terribly seriously and so it’s one you can comfortably ignore and discount.

But your girlfriend can’t ignore or discount your choice of Friday night entertainment because, much as you’d like to play it down, it has a quite profound resonance for your relationship. What are the messages your girlfriend is getting from both what you like to do, and the fact that you can’t hear her reaction?

That you like looking at semi-naked women, which is perfectly natural and normal? More, surely, than that. That you see women as a commodity, to be paid to shake their booty for you. That you don’t see sexual stimulation or display as something personal and private between her and you but just as legitimate in the company of other men and directed at an impersonal object. But, above all, that your pleasure is infinitely more important than her feelings.

She doesn’t like it and has the guts to say so, but your response is that there must be something wrong with her – Look, you say, other women are fine about it! Well, I doubt that. The problem is that many people find it hard to go against the pressure of their friends. Worse, a lot of women define themselves by having a boyfriend and will put up with all sorts of shit rather than throw the bastard over or get into conflict with him. And, alas, the accusation of being a prude or frigid or sexually bourgeois can still tie women in knots and have them doing all sorts against their own preference, rather than be seen by their men as spoiling the fun.

It may be worth while just trying to analyse exactly what sort of pleasure you get from going to these bars. The pleasure of looking at a scantily clad women? (How old did you say you were?) The pleasure of having women apparently begging for your approval and approbation? (How needy can you be?) The joy of joining with men in a Man Thing (Oh perleaze, go run with the wolves and bang a drum in the woods!)

I know this lap dancing thing is frightfully fash at this moment, but that doesn’t mean it’s either good or healthy. Like many women, your girlfriend probably finds it humiliating and degrading. She finds the interaction between the working women and your friends embarrassing. She feels your involvement is debasing to her, you and your relationship and perhaps to women in general.

Arguments about the free choice of the women involved and the fact they earn the money cut no ice; what is important here is that she doesn’t like it and has said no, and you can’t or won’t seem to listen to her point of view or take her “No” as her last word. Which really, to be frank, is what her refusal is all about. Your pleasure, your rights, your point of view are all you seem to recognise; if it’s good for you, that’s fine.

So go run with the boys and the 2 girls who are so scared of losing their boys they’ll tag along. Maybe your woman will wait until you can hear her, listen to her and engage in an adult-to-adult discussion about this. And maybe she won’t.

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Men want sex, women want love

Men and women are more similar than dissimilar in their needs, whether sexual or romantic. Cut through the chatter and the reality is that most men want to be loved and cherished, and most women welcome a good shag. Where the two sexes do vary is in how they experience and express those needs.

As a whole, men are brought up to eschew the lovey-dovey and touchy-feely. It’s not manly and it certainly isn’t British to go around saying “I lurve you” and hugging, kissing or otherwise showing effete emotion. They are largely encouraged to suppress and repress feelings, instead relying on a complex series of coded behaviour to both have and declare them. Thus, men often use sex as a way of saying “I love you”, to say or show their tender feelings.

Courting, seducing and shagging gives a context and allows men to show both need and affection. A man who might feel foolish or compromised if he held, caressed or kissed his partner outside the bedchamber, can give free rein to his romantic side if and when it’s in pursuit of the proper, macho goal of nooky. Some will even allow themselves the luxury of letting down their guard enough to make open, verbal declarations of love – in bed, and nowhere else. But, above all, the act of sex is seen as an act of love – the most intimate and exposed way of declaring “I love you” that he knows or is often capable of making.

Women, who are far more verbal, don’t see sex in the same light. It’s fun, it’s great, it’s even necessary, but it’s just one of many ways to get what everyone needs most of all, which is the sense of being valued and needed. So turning down sex isn’t necessarily seen as a rejection of the person or their love, but a refusal to participate at that particular time in that particular act of arousal. It ain’t, always, personal.

The problem is that men tend to take it very personally, every time. To be told their sex isn’t required is felt as enormously hurtful. Most men add 2+2 and make 247. They’re convinced their partner thinks they’re dreadful in bed, that’s why she turned them down. Or they suspect she doesn’t love them anymore, that’s why she turned them down. Or she’s frigid, that’s why she turned them down. Or she thinks they’re a pervert, that’s why she turned them down.

In fact, it’s likely to be none of those. What she may simply feel is that since what you want is an appetite satisfied, it can wait. If she knew how much feeling the man invested in making love, and how hurt they may be at being refused, she may want to come halfway.

Of course, sometimes women know exactly what they are doing and what effect it is having when they turn down sex. Perhaps they do feel that there are serious problems in the relationship and “No Sex” is a way of telling the man that it’s time you sorted out the disagreements. But the message she may want to pass on could be less alarming. Maybe all she is trying to do is draw attention to what she feels she is lacking.

If his courting methods smack of the jungle – he roars, thumps his chest and gets down to it with a growl – no wonder she finds lovemaking less than appealing. To most women, love has to accompany sex. They want to be wooed, not just rogered. His belief may be that it’s the sex itself that says “Love, love, love” but she may want to hear it, in word and action, by his complimenting her, paying her special attention both before and after lovemaking, and by kissing and hugging as well as simply screwing.

It’s really a case of people who speak two different languages realising a bit of translation is needed. If men want women to understand their feelings and celebrate the rite of love in their way, perhaps they need to do it her way, too. A little more talk, a little more flirtation, a little more passion, moonlight and roses and you’re likely to get a lot more sex.

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