Rambling Perspectives On Changing Positions

Ok, so the other day in class, during a sex-ed lecture on vanilla intercourse positions our professor was discussing the merits and demerits of rear-entry intercourse.

Anyway, while I was thinking about some of what makes that general position enjoyable for me, someone in class sort of took the mental words out of my mouth by mentioning, with a great deal of enthusiasm, the variation where she’s lying on her stomach with her legs together and her partner straddling her with his legs outside hers, and how afterwards she just doesn’t want to move. I’ve noticed that with quite a few partners as well. I mean, people say it’s a men’s habit to fall asleep after sex but it seems that that particular position more than most others has been most likely to have that effect on, well, quite a few of my partners as well. (Apologies for the even more highly qualified, disjoint sentence than usual there, I’m not sure why but I feel shy talking about it. It’s not bragging because I’m pretty sure it’s the position and equally sure it’s not me. But… eh, anyway.)

Anyway, Linda Sue of Linda Sue’s Diary mentions the effect that position can have on men.

I’ve never known a man who wasn’t wildly attracted to the position. It started with my very first lover. Some of my long-lasting athletes — the ones who can even withstand my killer pelvis oscillation that makes lesser men lose it — these guys come quickly once they’re fucking me from behind.
Read the quote in context here.

Woozie, it certainly has that effect on me. I’m not sure everyone likes their partner to say “oooh stop, stop, please don’t move a muscle, I could come any second…” but that’s one position where without help from a partner I’m not just done but undone!

Once I’m able to adjust to that sort of sensual overload then I can be the majesticall studly stallion men think we’re supposed to be like… ok, ok, or pocket vole, mongoose, or leopard, or elephant — there are after all4,629 currently recognized species of mammals, nearly all of which have intercourse the same way, that are more glamorous than “doggies.” Including people. Which brings me back to my point that it was nice to hear someone else corroborate what I couldn’t otherwise have been sure wasn’t just my imagination.

I might add that maybe it’s not even that unusual that such a primal position might produce such, well, primal results. Which are different from the face-to-face positions that, by and large, I tend to prefer for intimacy’s sake (love that cheek to cheek feeling, hands around my neck or shoulders, knees locked behind the small of my back, mmm… where was I?)

Oh yeah, face to face. Which brings up a point about rear-entry where — speaking for myself at least — I differ with Linda Sue:

Of course a cock in that position always wants to go an inch higher. But that’s a story for another day.

Anyway, the point being that while yes, rear-entry vaginal intercourse is awfully darn nice at least for me and evidently a lot of other men men, and, also evidently, for a sizable number of women, most of the things that make it so nice don’t actually translate all that well to rear-entry anal intercourse. For one thing, at least initially you have to move a lot more slowly and carefully, something that’s not so much in keeping with the “animal” passion people talk about experiencing with rear-entry sex. For another, anal intercourse seems to work best with a lot of feedback and checking in, and face-to-face positions just seem to facilitate that. And finally, at least for the recipient anal intercourse can be a lot more emotionally, physically, and even erotically intense and that’s just one more reason face-to-face positions seem like a better choice.

Hmm… if you’re inclined to comment I guess there’s a bunch of stuff in this post to comment about: favorite positions, their effects on you and what if anything you need to do to cope, how you feel about partners on the quivering edge of orgasm, how you think different genders think about different positions, and then if you’re into anal activities what if any positions work for you.

Oh, one last thing about anal intercourse from my perspective: other than the obvious emotional/taboo/trust/be-very-conscious elements, and the need for even more lubrication… sensation-wise it’s not so different from vaginal intercourse. (Certainly not different enough in terms of strict sensation to account for the intense interest in certain lad magazines.)

[Note: Image behind the fold is just barely less work-safe than usual. And except for that only barely different from yesterday’s. —fl]

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Anal… um, from behind. Um, yeah. Don’t really like it from the front. Have to tilt my pelvis up too much. Ass in IN the back. Makes sense. Unless I’m on top. Then I can do it sitting up. Haven’t done that in a while. Oh look, boy asleep next to me… hee hee… no, think I’m too tired just now. Oh well. Maybe tomorrow night :)

[Good to know, Plymouth. Best wishes for tomorrow night. —fl]

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You know, I could say a lot about positions and stuff, but right now, I’m just too distracted by wondering how the hell you find all the time to write so many blog posts in such rapid succession?!? You’re like the Bloggergizer Bunny.

[No idea where they come from, Elizavetta, but I appear to type very quickly. That and, obviously, I have no impulse to proofread! :-( —fl]

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lol @ Bloggerizer Bunny.

You bring up good points, but I have to second the first commenter. I’ve always had anal sex from behind, but spooning personally. I very seldom feel like it but when I do it’s incredibly intense.

And as for “doggy style”, I fucking HATE that description but nothing gets me off like it. I would be happy being fucked hard from behind almost every night. Mmm.

Your comments about intimacy made me realise though that it’s partially because I have real issues with intimacy + sex (as well as just physically being awesome). I like cuddling, I like sex. I don’t particularly like being loving whilst having sex. :\

[Hi Dana. I remember reading somewhere that the term “doggie” style was coined by proponents of the “missionary” position precisely because it sounded so degrading. Which is why I keep harping on all the other animals we could use instead… assuming we had to associate it with animals in the first place. —fl]

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Elizavetta, I nearly made a comment about figleaf’s recent copious postings on his “Because men wouln’t use it” post (probably about three pages back by now :) ) when he used a photo of Ritalin capsules as illustration:)

And this post I got held up at the “knees locked behind the small of my back, mmm”. Really? You know some very tall people figleaf.

[Well, they weren’t my Ritalin capsules… but I have often wondered…! :) And while I knew what I meant when I said “knees locked” I clearly didn’t actually say it. There’s this cool sort of urgent/closeness/indescribability I get when a partner sort of… clasps me with her knees and thighs somewhere between my waist and my ribs… and I… I… mmm, what was I talking about anyway? :) —fl]

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I’m personally not a huge fan of anal. I don’t particularly dislike it, but it doesn’t do anything for me either. However, if I am going to do that, face to face is better for me.

As for vaginal rear entry, I could go either way depending on my mood, but the husband really does like that best (as did every other guy I’ve been with). I don’t know why that is.

[Hi Ks. Actually I know what it is: In rear-entry positions the “g-spot” area right under your pubic bone, the one that when you’re aroused feels a little bit like the little corrugations on the roof of your mouth, lines up exactly with the sensitive, spongy underside of your partner’s cock, right where for almost all men it feels best to rub or be rubbed. There might or might not be visual or domineering implications, and I suppose for some men that’s all that matters, but for most men the secret is almost exactly perfect stimulation. —fl]

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I always wanted to try vaginal rear-entry, but when I’ve tried, there’s always seemed to be a little bit of difficulty in getting the heights right – either her thighs or mine always seemed to be too short to make the genitalia meet up, and shuffling around to get them to match up ended up being too comical!

Anal – well, only done it once, but it was incredibly intense and there was no problem communicating; it was me on top, her pinned face-down on the floor (and loving every minute of it, too).

I suppose it’s hard for me to describe a favourite position, because the actual in-and-out part only forms about 10% of a sexual encounter for me (the rest being involved with tying up, tormenting, spanking and all the other BDSM things my partner and I enjoy).

[Thing about rear-entry that I think a lot of people don’t get is that you don’t have to both be kneeling, and if you happen to be then you don’t have to both be kneeling at the same angles. But really for me anyway the nice things to be said about the position aren’t about one specific position — spooning side-by-side is nice and rear-entry man-on-the-bottom can be amazingly sensual since, for some reason, it’s always seemed easier to kiss that way than man-on-top. Thanks, SE. —fl]

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A.
lol… you didn’t even have time to make that comment three posts back, that’s how fast FL turns out his posts! And yes, I wondered about the ritalin, too :)

Figleaf,
On clasping:
I’m with you on this one. It feels really really good to be the clasper as well :) Hence, my killer thighs.

[Oh good, I may not have known what I was talking about but you did, Elizavetta. :-) Ok, I just couldn’t say what I was talking about but the first way to say it sounds more fun. —fl]

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Elizavetta— heh. I just got back from a hiking vacation with a friend. Husband says he wants me to do that lots more often because there was a measurable difference in thigh strength.

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My current boyfriend is not comfortable putting himself up there (to my disappointment). However, we’ve done upside down, kind of bend like a bracelet rear-entry. :) I still get to be on top. Yeah, that was the best thing that’s ever happened to me in a bed.

[Interesting, Lynn. Thanks. —fl]

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I’ve never been flexible enough to lock my knees at the small of your back, but I’m perfectly capable, still, of hooking my ankles around each other, and, yes, the small of your back is just about where they’d be.

All regrettably hypothetical, alas, but I do enjoy the teases you give us from time to time, and the way you include your own distraction from what you’re posting.

The most recent news about g-spots (I read it just the other day, but I don’t recall where) is that apparently some women have one and some don’t. This has always been a conundrum for me, because I certainly do get vaginal orgasms, as a pretty normal thing (call me a gender traitor, call me a liar, arrest me for heresy – but nevertheless, I’m still moved), but have never, from any sort of stimulation, experienced what g-spot stimulation is reputed to be.

If you’re correct about rear-entry getting just the right bits in mutual stimulation, though, that would resolve the conundrum. Rear-entry is especially (though by no means exclusively) effective for me for orgasm; they tend to be (how to describe it?) solider somehow, and especially satisfying.

I thus conclude that I have one; it’s just that g-spot orgasm isn’t nectar and ambrosia and angels with harps, it’s rare roast beef and blues.

Sunflower

[Hey Sunflower. I think the biggest flickin’ problem with every “new” discovery in sex — especially but not exclusively about sex and women — is that something someone can do turns into something everybody ought be able to do and, in fact, perhaps must be able to do. It’s especially a problem in the face of the original “g-spot” authors’ strongly-stated belief that people shouldn’t get obsessive-compulsive about g-spot orgasms because a) there’s no “right” answer or “best” way to have an orgasm anyway and b) “the search for the best drives out the good.” So anyway, it’s cool that whatever works for you works for you. —fl]

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Another reason rear-entry is so great: I really like the sound and feel of a man’s pelvis slapping rhythmically against my big round ass—it’s got the physical pleasures of spanking, but without the punishment baggage. Yes, what rear-entry does in terms of genitals is marvelous, but I also love other sensations it provides. Rear-entry makes me glad to have a big butt, even though I wish it were smaller most of the time.

[”...without the punishment baggage.” Nicely put, FBG. The punishment connotations gets in the way for a lot of people, receivers and givers, who might otherwise enjoy the sensation. —fl]

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I must say, I do adore anal from a rear-entry position (or, well, about anything else, but still). It lets me relax more, I think. The position makes me feel submissive and open to being used.. and just fall into the bliss of what is happening. He’s friggin’ railed my bum from rear-entry and it was phenomenal (and yes, I got really nicely warmed up first and there was plenty of lube).

We’ve had times where I really couldn’t decide which felt better – bum or cunny. They both felt so AMAZING in the session that I’m happening to recall.

The only thing I don’t like about the rear-entry position is that I can’t watch his face and we can’t smooch. But perhaps the lack of these distractions, as lovely as they are, lets me bliss out more since all I can really do is focus on the sensations. A happy frustration.

The position you first mention I haven’t done in years, and with a different partner. Makes me curious to try it again. That partner seemed to love it, but I always thought it odd. But with my current boy-toy, we’ve not gotten to that one.

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