(I need information: Is this photo of Annie Sprinkle?)
The food at Nino Tuscany is amazingly good; I had the halibut while Michael ordered the salmon. We were chatty and chummy and getting on quite well, all things considered. He’d removed his hand from my thigh for now.
I was also a little bit drunk. Unfortunately (or fortunately, if one values economy) I can barely function beyond one ounce of alcohol. I’d only drunk about half of my pinot noir and found myself holding on to my seat for balance while waiting for our entrees. When our fish arrived I could barely eat it.
The topic turned towards sex and Michael was full of questions. “So tell me, what is going on with women these days? I don’t get it. Nearly every women I meet these days either tells me she’s bisexual or likes to experiment with threesomes. I don’t like that. I’m sure they think I’ll find it sexy, but to be honest, once a woman tells me she has a “girlfriend” I don’t even want to see her anymore. Is this some kind of new trend or something?”
I picked up my wine glass, remembered I was drunk, swirled it a little and set it back down on the white tablecloth. Now was probably not the time to bring up my sexual past. “So, what you’re telling me is that you don’t like to share.”
“No. I don’t. I think it’s disgusting.” I just looked at him, tipped my chin and batted my eyelashes (I’m good like that). Since I wasn’t volunteering any information he moved on. “And they’re all shaving . . .” he leaned over and whispered in my ear “their privates!!!! Why? I don’t know if it’s because I lost my virginity in the 70’s or what, but I like natural. Who wants to have sex with someone who looks like a little girl? It’s sick!”
Maybe it was the wine, but I was staring to wonder if I’d judged Michael a little bit too harshly earlier in the evening. Here was a man sitting next to me, railing against the Porn Standard! It occurred to me that he might just be the one single man left in New York City who didn’t expect ordinary women to act like porn stars.
“Do you really want to know why?” I asked him, and he nodded. He really did look genuiniely confused. “It’s porn. It’s so easy and cheap to get these days with the internet. Men watch so much internet porn these days they’ve started to expect their girlfriends to do the things they see onscreen, even (I lowered my voice to a whisper for his benefit) anal. The women you’ve been meeting are doing and saying these things because they think you expect it.”
“I don’t watch porn.”
“Really.”
“No. I mean, I’ve seen it, but I don’t like it; it’s gross.” He put his head in his hands. “God, no. I don’t want any of that. No shaved privates, no silicon breasts, no group sex, no anal. I just want normal. Whatever happened to two normal people just making love?”
Y’all may roll your eyes all you want, but in my drunken haze I was actually impressed. But was I impressed enough to forgive him for his earlier gaffes?
7 responses so far ↓
vintagefan // December 8, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Hmm, I remember seeing this picture in BW in a book in my college library, a book on body photography all over the world and through the times. Can’t seem to locate it anywhere, it think it was called the ‘The Body’ or something. Wasn’t a big book, but it was thickish.
Who’s Annie Sprinkle?
Tacoma // December 8, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Also men are more likely to go down if it’s tidy.
I compromise with clippers, because I’m cheap and shaving properly takes too long.
If that guy could descretely let that info out, he’d have women lining up.’
It’s so WEIRD, what used to be normal (hair) is now a fetish. So wrong.
hedonisticpleasureseeker // December 8, 2006 at 9:13 pm
yup, it’s Annie Sprinkle . . .
http://www.anniesprinkle.org/
Coffey // December 9, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Hm, interesting! I didn’t think men with his sexual preferences (often termed “vanilla” in the BDSM world) existed anymore.
Cheers for that!
I shave, not to please men or because porn dictates that I should, but because it’s just tidier, it breathes better (to me), and due to me seeing a girl’s bush growing out of her bathing suit, in 7th grade swim class. It scarred me for life. Yes, I’ve been shaving “down there” since the tender age of 12. The visual of that level of bagina growth haunts me till this day. *sigh*
Rae // December 9, 2006 at 11:06 pm
I must say that I agree with Michael. I believe a woman should shave if that’s what she wants to do. If a man requires it…makes me a bit nervous for two reasons: 1) it does look like a little a girl (I was one, saw others, and have four of my own–little girls, and 2) it screams “I watch a lot of porn and expect women like it like that.”
Of course, I absolutely adore your methods of extraction; erm, that is, your ways of getting the information you want
hedonisticpleasureseeker // December 10, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Hahahahah Coffey said “Bagina.”
Tathagata // December 10, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I tend to agree with much of what he says…
Personally, I like either hairy or shaved, they are both nice and its up to the woman how she wants her body to feel, not me.
Porn? hmm, did a lot of looking at that stuff once, I find much of it degrading…as degrading for men as for women.
I rarely watch it now, in fact more often than not its my partner that suggests we put a movie on…Im ok with that.
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