Oral Pleasure

I promised an excerpt of "Getting Something Out of It," my story in the new Cleis anthology Going Down: Oral Sex Stories. When I wrote this story, I was thinking about the pleasure the giver receives from giving head. Conventional wisdom holds that it's something you're doing for someone else, or that if you're into it, it's because you like the power trip. In this story, I get away from both of those things and consider the giver's physical pleasure from the act -- oral fixation, smell, and so on. Here's a bit:

“Let’s try it. Right now. Put my cock in your mouth.”

She glanced down Mateo’s body. His cock lay soft against his leg. “But you’re...”

“Doesn’t matter. It’s not about me. Put it in your mouth and see if there’s something you like about it.”

Paige wanted to refuse. Hadn’t she screwed things up enough by now? Couldn’t Mateo just let her give up on sex for now and hope she didn’t make a scene about this next time? But when her eyes traveled down his body, she did want to touch him. Gently, she put her first finger on his cock and pulled the foreskin down just slightly.

“Not fingers, Paige. Try it with your mouth.”

She felt helpless. She arranged herself so her face was near his cock again. She pressed her lips to his stomach, feeling the soft cushion of hair there that led lower.

Feeling a little silly, she started by just kissing his cock, feeling how soft it was against her lips. She kissed up the shaft and then kissed the wrinkle where the foreskin bunched after covering the flaccid head. She wriggled her lips under the foreskin and kissed the bare head, too.

Mateo stroked her hair again, his hands now so gentle that she shivered with the intensity of his tenderness. “That’s good,” he said. “The idea here isn’t, ‘Let’s figure out how to please Mateo.’ I want you to do what feels good to you, what you like in your mouth. This is your cock, and, unless what you do hurts, you can play with it however you like.”

Paige felt his words go straight to her pussy. Her cock. She’d told him so many times that she was for him, that her cunt belonged to him, but had never thought to ask the same in return. What did she want to do with her cock?

She opened her mouth wide and sucked it all inside. It nestled easily against the roof of her mouth. She prodded it a little with her tongue and sucked it lightly. She liked having the soft, warm coil of it completely under her control. She cupped Mateo’s balls with her left hand. All of his most sensitive parts in her hand and mouth. She felt a slow, deep pulse in her cunt.

You can get the whole book here.

Going Down Released!

I just received my contributor copies for Rachel Kramer Bussel's Going Down: Oral Sex Stories, and the book looks hot!

The book has quite a range, and I'm pleased to say my story, "Getting Something Out of It," is called out in the introduction. I've posted some relevant excerpts of the intro below, but the full text is available at the book's website here.

I thought I knew, if not everything, quite a bit about the fine art of oral sex until I started to read the stories that came in for Going Down. In them, giving and receiving head became its own, if you’ll pardon the pun, head trip, and showed me that there is plenty for even the most seasoned connoisseur to learn and enjoy about an act that brings pleasure to so many.

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The intimacy of climbing between someone else’s legs, of discovering what happens when you peel them open and utterly expose them, leaving them aching, trembling, willing to do anything to have you keep going, is a theme that is repeated here. Lovers get off on the thrill of being in command, in control, giving and taking joy in ways that leave the other person breathless. “There’s no rush of power quite like it in the world, that knowledge that you can make another person come, can release her desire and expose her most secret and vulnerable parts. That’s my favorite part of sex,” writes Mary Borsellino in “Blush.”

For some of these characters, oral sex leads them into new territory that brings revelations about much more than sex: Paige in “Getting Something Out of It,” by Annabeth Leong, lets go of the memory of a selfish lover and finds that when she takes control and owns what she’s doing when she goes down with a new lover, the act is special for both of them. Characters facing gender transitions, and their lovers, discover what remains and what is gloriously new about this most personal of changes.

When I wrote "Getting Something Out of It," I was thinking a lot about my insecurities and needs around sex. I admit I'm sometimes motivated by wanting to wow my partner, but I'm not sure how good that is for anyone involved. I was really pleased to see the editor responded to those themes.

I'll post an excerpt of the story, too, in the coming days.

Don't forget to check out the book -- it's available in both print and e-book editions.

Going Down

"Taking in the essence, taste, smell, and sexy up-closeness of a lover is a powerful aphrodisiac that affects one physically, mentally, and emotionally. Once you have your lover in your mouth, the heat of desire, passion, and lust focus, tying your arousal directly to them." -- from the description of the forthcoming Going Down anthology, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel

My story, "Getting Something Out of It," will appear in this book. You can preorder now at Amazon, or you can wait until the book is out and pick it up at your favorite local purveyor of erotica. Expected publication date is May 15, 2012.

I'll post an excerpt of my story closer to time.

Here's the table of contents:

Pretty Dull Charlotte Stein
Milk Moustache Jacqueline Applebee
Lavender Cynthia Hamilton
Etiquette Sylvia Lowry
Stacked Logan Zachary
Sucking Casey’s Cock Shanna Germain
Getting Something Out of It Annabeth Leong
Bubble Dance Jeremy Edwards
Seriously Jeanette Grey
Shuck It Dusty Horn
Dover to Victoria Station Roxy Rogers
Blush Mary Borsellino
Clean/Dirty Lucy Felthouse
Trimming Tenille Brown
Your Body is a Temple Neil Gavriel
New Additions Rachel Kramer Bussel
Do You Speak French? Chrissie Bentley
Close Your Eyes Viktoria Michaelis
Snowjob A.M. Hartnett
The Perfect Shade Elizabeth Coldwell
The Thousand-and-One Ways Graydancer