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When do you tell someone?  

spiderj72 51M
5951 posts
2/10/2016 6:00 am
When do you tell someone?


What the title refers to is your kink or your predelictions or favorite things to do in the bedroom. It is why I like this site and others like it. There is no hiding the fact that sex is the focus and key to the possible relationship.

I used to (like four years ago) also use a vanilla dating site. I remember suddenly not being able to contact people and it was simply because I visited the area of the site where it was people who were looking for sex. Now the end of my marriage had basically the worst stretch of sexlessness ever. LIke three times in the span of a year (I know there are others out there that have had it worse.).

I was not willing to accept going sexless so I found that my honesty in a way screwed me out of contacting people. Funny how that works in real life as well. Can you imagine if we all carried a little card like our profile and handed it out to strangers when we met them? How nice to know that the manager of your local coffee shop is into cross dressing and looking for someone to dress him like a doll?

Now comes the two sidedness of people on these sites. If you aren't into something that your potential partner is then don't do it? I personally cannot talk dirty in bed. It is a flaw of mine. Actually it isn't a flaw at all but just a characteristic . I watch porn with the volume low because I cant take dirty talk, it makes me giggle and laugh out loud. Do I hold it against someone that they want dirty talk? No. Just the same way as I don't hold it against someone that wants to role play, or cross dress or insert the name of your fetish or kink.

So when do you tell someone that you think football helmets are the bees knees in the bedroom? I think sooner than later. Make it clear that to you those football helmets are like a very special treat. A giant hot fudge sundae I you will. Not something to be had every day but a nice treat now and then. I think the worst thing you could have happen is the person turn you down flat and get snobbish about it but then they would be snobbish about something sooner or later.

The worst really would be closing our mind to your partners thing and not realizing that it is a tonne of fun and you missed out on lots of hot and "kinky" sex. That would really be the worst about it. So cast off the shame of your kinkiness or fetishistic side and with any luck that hot fudge sundae becomes something that both of you can enjoy.

Travel_Couple69 58M
1604 posts
2/10/2016 7:10 am

Wonderful blog. It is amazing that everyone knows the key to a successful relationship is communication, yet we do so little of it. All the effort in a classical relationship is focusing on putting your best foot forward for fear of rejection from the other. It's a downward spiral, the deeper into the relationship, the less honesty.

When it comes to sex it usually starts with the numbers lie - "how many before me" - never mind a frank discussion on the joys of anal sex.

We were lucky, in that we met on here and before we had any stake in a relationship, we had lots of discussions. Not just on sex, but on a wide range of topics. It is pretty liberating when you are not coming from any 'angle'. This communication and openness gave us a foundation to build on.

Before anyone thinks we were all about the sex...as we moved into the relationship phase, we moved away from this site...basically became pretty 'vanilla' in normal dating - but we could still openly discuss our sexuality.

Even after 10 years we are still pushing boundaries and continue to find new comfort levels. Ironically most of our kink is simply ideas/turn ons that have always been with us...neither simply felt a level of openness, trust and support to talk freely about them.

Again wonderful blog.


JJLooken 56M/46F
366 posts
2/10/2016 7:21 am

Great Question.

The male was so Upfront and Honest from almost day one. Scared the Crap out of me at first. I was the Vanilla Queen times 10. What he told me also Excited me I found out real quick. To have some one be so Trusting an Open from the start was amazing and special. Holding back or hiding ones Desires or Wants and Needs is just wrong. Be upfront and honest as quick as you can . Because it allows the other person to adjust to what they learned and to ask questions or to Open up themselves.


spiderj72 51M
7898 posts
2/10/2016 9:14 am

    Quoting Travel_Couple69:
    Wonderful blog. It is amazing that everyone knows the key to a successful relationship is communication, yet we do so little of it. All the effort in a classical relationship is focusing on putting your best foot forward for fear of rejection from the other. It's a downward spiral, the deeper into the relationship, the less honesty.

    When it comes to sex it usually starts with the numbers lie - "how many before me" - never mind a frank discussion on the joys of anal sex.

    We were lucky, in that we met on here and before we had any stake in a relationship, we had lots of discussions. Not just on sex, but on a wide range of topics. It is pretty liberating when you are not coming from any 'angle'. This communication and openness gave us a foundation to build on.

    Before anyone thinks we were all about the sex...as we moved into the relationship phase, we moved away from this site...basically became pretty 'vanilla' in normal dating - but we could still openly discuss our sexuality.

    Even after 10 years we are still pushing boundaries and continue to find new comfort levels. Ironically most of our kink is simply ideas/turn ons that have always been with us...neither simply felt a level of openness, trust and support to talk freely about them.

    Again wonderful blog.
Thanks for the praise. I can feel my head swelling I know all about the communication trap I thought I had it licked but I guess not. Very cool that you guys are a success story from the site. Keep up the good work.


spiderj72 51M
7898 posts
2/10/2016 9:17 am

    Quoting JJLooken:
    Great Question.

    The male was so Upfront and Honest from almost day one. Scared the Crap out of me at first. I was the Vanilla Queen times 10. What he told me also Excited me I found out real quick. To have some one be so Trusting an Open from the start was amazing and special. Holding back or hiding ones Desires or Wants and Needs is just wrong. Be upfront and honest as quick as you can . Because it allows the other person to adjust to what they learned and to ask questions or to Open up themselves.
sounds like he is a keeper. congrats on finding someones whose fires also lit your fire as well. There is something really sexy about honesty. At least in my opinion and it is why I try to stress it if I can. so much of the hiding I think comes from a shame thing.


spiderj72 51M
7898 posts
2/10/2016 12:16 pm

    Quoting  :

I think that the vast majority of folks who are happy with their partners are ones who communicated well at the beginning and always in their relationship. I have had a few partners (one wife included) who were content not to talk about what lit their candle and as a result unhappiness.


Glamlife14 53F

2/10/2016 6:31 pm

So I read all this and walked away thinking about a hot fudge sundae!!! I never heard it called the football helmet. ..I giggled like a naughty 12 yr old boy. When I watch porn..it is on mute. I struggle with dirty talk in bed. My hubby will say something and it makes me want to laugh or it sometimes...turns me off. Like, please don't speak!!

Communication is very important. I like this...I love that...and sometimes I like a football helmet. Hopefully, you will find so done who is open and maybe willing to join you.


spiderj72 51M
7898 posts
2/11/2016 2:00 pm

    Quoting Glamlife14:
    So I read all this and walked away thinking about a hot fudge sundae!!! I never heard it called the football helmet. ..I giggled like a naughty 12 yr old boy. When I watch porn..it is on mute. I struggle with dirty talk in bed. My hubby will say something and it makes me want to laugh or it sometimes...turns me off. Like, please don't speak!!

    Communication is very important. I like this...I love that...and sometimes I like a football helmet. Hopefully, you will find so done who is open and maybe willing to join you.
always good that someone can walk away from the blogs thinking about what someone read. with luck I will find someone. if not that is cool too.


spiderj72 51M
7898 posts
2/11/2016 2:01 pm

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there are times when I think of first dates as job interviews. I like the notion of a dating prenup though. I might steal that idea in the future.


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