My girlfriend and I have been on-and-off for almost two years. I
took her back after she cheated on me. The only thing now is that she
wants to have a threesome. I am really not down with sharing her, but I
am willing to do it because otherwise some other girl will do it for
her. I told her that I want to be stoned when it happens, because I
don’t think I can handle it sober. She got mad because she doesn’t like
drugs. Then what am I supposed to do?
Lesbian With One Real Dilemma
You’re supposed to wake the fuck up already.
You can be in a monogamous relationship with someone, LWORD, or you
can be in a relationship with this woman — but you can’t be in a
monogamous relationship with this woman. She’s already proven herself
to be inept at this monogamy stuff; she cheated on you, you took her
back, and now she’s pressing you to bring in the occasional third. You
may not be down with sharing her, LWORD, but she seems pretty intent on
being shared.
Here’s the question you should be asking yourself: Do you want this
woman in your life badly enough to overcome your aversion to sharing?
Agreeing to a three-way — so long as you’re baked — doesn’t
count. A three-way involving a woman; her reluctant, resentful,
self-medicating girlfriend; and some innocent bystander is unlikely to
(1) be very much fun for anyone involved (particularly your unlucky
third) or (2) put an end to your girlfriend’s desire for share
time.
Your girlfriend is seeking to fold her desire to sleep with other
women into the structure of your relationship: three-ways now, perhaps
some degree of openness later. She gets points for being honest this
time, but she loses points for being manipulative and controlling.
(Fresh pussy for her, no pot for you? Please.) And if this three-way is
a disaster and you refuse to have others — which may be the
outcome you’re subconsciously hoping for — I predict that your
girlfriend will just go back to cheating on you.
So returning to my original point: If you want a girlfriend you
don’t have to share, find another girlfriend. If you want this
girlfriend, learn to share.
And invest in a vaporizer.
I recently read the novel A Melon for Ecstasy for an
English class, and an interesting debate came up. The book is about a
guy who is sexually attracted to trees and goes around drilling holes
into trees so that he can “seal the deal.” Though he feminizes the
trees, he cares nothing about actual human females.
The debate was centered on this question: Is this man
heterosexual? Or is he really gay? Is he having vaginal sex with a
woman or anal sex with a man? Or something else entirely?
RF
If the male protagonist in A Melon for Ecstasy is having sexual
intercourse with lady-trees — “feminized” trees — then the
male protagonist is a true-blue, red-blooded, lady-tree-fucking
straight boy, RF.
But it doesn’t surprise me that a room full of mostly straight
college students would seek to cast doubt on this character’s
heterosexuality. “Heterosexual” for many young people is practically
synonymous with “normal.” Introduce college-age straight kids to a
not-so-normal heterosexual character, and they’ll spend the rest of the
afternoon searching for evidence that the dude is gay. He can’t be
straight — he’s not normal! This explains the ability of some in
your class to look at lady-tree fucking and see, of all things, “anal
sex with a man.” Isn’t santorum bad enough? Do we have to worry about
splinters now too? (Queer-studies kids who read homosexuality into
obviously straight fictional characters are, for the record, just as
annoying.)
I have to disagree with your response to SHEESH, the guy who
asked his Dom to show him that her dildo was clean. He is right and the
Dom is wrong. Period. You should never let anybody stick anything into
your body unless you know where it’s been. Just because somebody is a
bottom, he doesn’t have to be reckless. This isn’t about being uppity.
This is about staying healthy.
So, bravo for Mr. SHEESH.
Critiquer
I was inclined to side with SHEESH, as I said in my response, until
he indicated that his Dom, who had asked him not to contact her again,
was a Savage Love reader. If SHEESH was using my column to get back at
his Dom, well, how badly did he behave during his sessions with her?
(And remember: We only had SHEESH’s version of events to go on.) But
like I said in my column: “[If] she is unwilling to pause, step out of
her role, and renegotiate a scene that’s already underway, SHEESH …
you are well rid of her.” But most people thought my advice for SHEESH
blew chunks …
Your response to SHEESH belittles the rights of submissive men
(myself included). Maybe this particular sub had a bit of an obsession
with hygiene, and his mistress (let’s not forget who is the employee
here) asked him to leave out of self-righteous pettiness. However, it
doesn’t even matter what actually happened because you have empowered
dominant women to demand more and give less.
Unsatisfied Male Sub
Thanks for sharing, UMS, and I’m sure all the pro Doms out there
appreciate the reminder about who the employee is. Moving on …
I don’t know what PRO Dom that idiot SHEESH is seeing, but ALL
pro Doms worth their weight in latex use CONDOMS over dildos. ALWAYS.
This pro may have just not gotten around to throwing the condom on it,
and she saw this as an opportunity to get rid of a bore. But shared
toys always need a condom for EVERYONE’S protection.
S&M 101
Thanks for SHARING, S&M 101 …
Thank you! I’m a professional Dominatrix in NYC, and I all but
gave your response to SHEESH a standing ovation. I mean, really: Does
he expect anyone to believe that she would just throw away a quality
client for shits and giggles? In this economy? Gimme a break. He was
obviously a douche.
After the recent legal/press issues that NYC pros have had to
deal with, it was great to see someone have our back in print. First
Barack Obama gets elected, and now Dan Savage shows pro Doms some love:
Things are looking up!
Anonymous Whip-Toting Flog-meister
Thanks for sharing, AWTF. And speaking of Barack Obama, and in the
spirit of dominance, I’m going to order everyone out there reading this
to send a postcard to Obama, reminding him that (1) he made certain
promises to the gay community during the campaign (repeal DOMA, scrap
DADT) and (2) he needs to keep ’em. Send your postcard to:
President-elect Barack Obama
Presidential Transition Office
Kluczynski Federal Building
230 S Dearborn St, 38th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604.
Find more info at JointheImpact.com.
