I like to penetrate people. You might even say I love it.
As a matter of fact, penetrate is one of my very most favorite words. Just looking at it in the dictionary gives me a thrill.
penetrate
verb
1a. find access into or through, often by overcoming resistance, esp. forcibly
b. imbue with; permeate; to enter and diffuse itself through
2. to affect or impress deeply, as by piercing the consciousness or emotions
3. see into, find out, or discern (a person’s mind, the truth, a meaning, etc.)
4. see through
5. be absorbed by the mind
6. (as penetrating adj.) having or suggesting sensitivity or insight
[Latin penetrare place or enter within]
In case you haven’t guessed, this is my post about strap-ons. First of all, I’d like to say that I dig ‘em. It’s not the be-all end-all of sex for me, but I enjoy fucking someone with a fake penis every now and then. I find it a delightful addition to my repetoire of sexuality. Some things about strap-ons do bug me though, mostly other people’s ideas of what they mean, the pervasive and ridiculous preconceived notions held by society. But as in most areas of my life, I try not to let that stop me from taking my pleasure in it.
Before I really get into the nitty gritty of strap-on fabulousness there are two major things I don’t like about them. Firstly, they are often used with the ridiculous idea that cock=power/dominance. That “you need a cock to be on top, you need a cock to be a dom, you need a cock to fuck.” That really pisses me off. Bitchy probably elaborates on that better than I will, but when I have sex, it doesn’t always have all the connotations of power and gender (especially when I’m the one getting penetrated, ha), and being the penetrating partner in sex is not inherently a dominant act. Not at all. When I’m fucking, most of the time I like being the one getting pounded. I like being the one on the bottom. Let the other guy do the work, I am all about that. And it doesn’t mean I’m submitting, not in the least. Well, sometimes it feels that way depending on the dynamic of the situation, but the majority of the time it’s just me and my lover enjoying each other. And with a bioboy - he has a penis, I have a vagina, and damn can they ever fit well together.
But I digress.
Putting aside gender/power and “what does it all mean, ” strap-ons can be pretty damn ridiculous and inefficient in a more practical sense. Sometimes I just feel damn silly wearing that contraption, with some unnatural-looking rubber phallus bouncing around in front of me, invariably pointing in a direction that is not quite right for the actual act of penetration. Not to mention the fact that getting into one of those harnesses, adjusting the straps and getting it at just the right tight/loose ratio so I get the most sensation during the fucking, getting the dildo in the right position and making sure it’s not going to rip out any of my pubic hairs.. that can take the sexy out of a room pretty fast.
Now, I know you can penetrate someone without a silly-looking fake penis attached to your pelvis, there’s fingers and tongues and hand-held toys and mental/emotional penetration (which is a blog post for another time….)… but I find a strap-on to be the most effective and pleasurable tool at my disposal for penetrating my partner. With a strap-on, I can fuck my partner with my whole body, and I think that is what makes it so great for me. There’s something so primal and encompassingly physical about that, that just gets to me, deeply (no pun intended). It’s rutting, it’s fucking, it’s animalistic and rawr!
Penetrating a partner satisfies something in me that is very deeply seated and difficult to explain. I read something somewhere that talked about inwardly and outwardly directed sexuality. MJ and I talked about it, and she was saying that even though she likes the way sex feels physically with her dangly bits, her overwhelming desire is to take her parnter into her, to have her partner inside her body. As for me, I (so very much) enjoy the sensations my pussy gives, but I am sometimes frustrated because my body doesn’t match up with the way I feel… especially with certain partners, I want to penetrate, I want my sexuality to thrust outward, to be in your face and I want to drive into them when we have sex, I want to come into them and be enveloped by them.
Of course, a strapped-on cock is not part of my body and it doesn’t give nearly as much sensation as I crave (though the Nexus can be rather nice), but I don’t have satisfactory built-in equipment for penetration, so I take the second-best thing.
And this stuff has nothing whatsoever to do with gender, just so that’s clear.
In addition to penetration, getting a reaction is also one of my favorite things in the world. And few things get a reaction quite like shoving a phallus deep inside someone. Especially a boy. I love hearing those delicate gasps and grunts and seeing the totally overwhelmed look on their faces. Anal sex is so intense. And straight boys in particular are so used to being the penetrators, I like the mindfuck of turning the tables on them.
There’s also the idea of reciprocation, if I’m having sex with a boy. You penetrate me, I penetrate you. Keeps things balanced, in a way.
Fucking someone with a strap-on isn’t something I would say I prefer over vaginal sex, but I do like to keep it on the list. Who wants to have the same kind of sex every time? For me, strap-on sex satisfies desires and needs for me that can’t be met any other way. It can be a great tool, another variation of sex, and hey, variety is the spice of life, right?