Originally posted by madame_zora@Oct 23 2005, 08:58 AM
I've had guys tell me they had sex with a girl who never moved an inch or uttered a sound the whole time. Wtf? I guess good ol' fashioned communication isn't easy for everyone. I always tell a guy what I like about him, compliments are free and men like them too.
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Zora, I once had a girfriend in college. wait--it gets better--
we had a terrific physical relationship and she was very verbal outside the bedroom (or dorm, if you will). If we were, say, on the train from NYC back to Bronxville she would say things like, "I keep thinking about your dick--it's so big. I wanna suck it."
Once, we went on vacation together and on one particular night we had sex and I thought it was AWFUL. We were totally disconnected--vacant. She told me the next morning that the orgasm was the best she'd ever had. I was totally confused, and also angry. At the tender age of 19 or 20, any sex that wasn't mind-blowing was somehow a complete failure to me--and I also hadn't yet learned that two partners can have a completely separate experience of the same thing, be it sex, a meal, an opera, a marriage...oy.
I was actually HURT that she enjoyed herself superlatively and I didn't :nopity: (ah, youth). The thing is, I HAD NO IDEA she'd even come. I'm all about the woman's pleasure--I actually count on it to get me off--so to have no idea was both a physical bummer and an emotional catastrosphe (have I made it clear that I'm dramatic?)...of course I was so young I said "what does this mean about us?!?" and shit, when all it proved to be was a lack of, as you say, "good ol' fashioned communication." it ISN'T easy for everyone...I would venture to assert that it's not easy for most. and in my experience, women --as a rule--don't like it when you don't know what is going on with them, even after admitting they haven't communicated it...you'd rather we "read" you.
Men DO lie to themselves. So do women. but we're both driven to do so because, I think, we fear directly and honestly communicating with one another. If I had to pick one thing at which human-beings excel, it would be 'second-guessing' where romantic relationships are concerned. We're so good at it that a whole three centuries of French theatre is devoted to the very subject. "Friends" --and most current sitcoms--thrive on its fallibilty.
I finally said to my college girlfriend--"I wish you had just let me know." She said "I was having too good a time."
Who can argue with that?