Figleaf's Real Adult Sex

So the other day we had dinner with friends at their house and at one point while standing by in the family room to help the kids settle back down after a mid-game frackass I started thumbing through a book about working out with those big pump-up Pilates exercise balls.

This afternoon, sort of on a whim, I decided to try one of the recommended “subtle core-building” exercises on the biggest of several balls my partner used to use as a chair when she had a sore back. And the exercise really is a simple, subtle one. You sit square on the ball, your knees at roughly 90 degrees, and then bounce with a sort of elbows-bent, marching-band arm movement. The instructions had been to do the exercise for a while, five minutes or more, and to pay attention to what core muscles were engaged or flexed.

And it really is a subtle exercise. At first it was all about finding balance, and then rhythm, but once I found my center of gravity and a good pace I started noticing, sure enough, all sorts of muscles I generally don’t pay any attention to gently engaging and taking on more of a central role. The first big sensations were in my core muscles near my solar plexus — not my usual abdominals or obliques but something a little deeper.

So that was cool, but the other thing I really started to notice after my mid-torso muscles was my pelvic-floor muscles. After just a few minutes the slow, steady pulsing and flexing — too gentle by far to be anything like clenching… really no effort at all — just started reaching deeper, engaging not just my PC muscles but lots of other ones as well, leg muscles, girdle muscles, muscles around my perineum, and even muscles I think maybe I notice only when I’m ejaculating.

Anyway, it was just a slow, sensual not-quite-erotic feeling, and — me being me after all — I began to wonder how it would work with more direct stimulation like a smaller bump or ball near my prostate. And then, me being me with my little lint-trap memory, I remembered someone mentioning a gag/novelty sex toy that was basically just a Pilates ball with an attached dildo.

A little bit of Googling turned up a couple of products along those lines (or at least a couple of repackagings of the same product — as if that never happens.) You can see one from the first randomly Googled vendor that included a photo of the actual product here.

I obviously couldn’t say if the product would work for anyone else, male or female — especially since I haven’t even tried one yet — but I can say that I think it might not be the big joke it was often presented when it was first introduced. I happen to think you could probably get the same benefit from a regular ball and a regular insertable of your choice. Anyway, if anyone else has tried one of those things, or if you’ve noticed the sort of inner/erotic sensations I was trying to describe (with or without insertables) I’d love to hear about it.

[Note: Today’s photo is a bit less work safe than usual. But, again, only a bit. —fl]