Sexuality.

Orgasmic Meditation: My Kind of Sex Teacher

posted by Lissa Rankin Aug 1, 2011 9:03 am

After nine years together, having a child, and watching our sex life falter a bit amidst attachment parenting, professional turbulence, marital ennui, and the effects of aging, my hubby and I have been thinking about trying something new, either in the bedroom – or out of it.

But where do you start? We live in the Bay area, home of free love, Gay Pride, Haight Street, porn stars, trannies, dominatrixes, Tantra, naked bodyworkers, goddesses, pole dancing, gurus, threesomes, pleasure parties, foot fetishes, and the Grateful Dead. Here in San Francisco, anything goes, and that’s part of what I love about living here. It’s all good. (And it is!)

The Quest For More

But it can be a lot sometimes.  Do we go to Good Vibrations and check out sex toys and costumes? Do we head over to the naughty video store and catch a flirty flick? Do we take a Tantra workshop and get spiritual? Do we flip through 101 Nights Of Grrreat Sex and try all 101 sexy seductions?  Do we experiment with playing with a virtual threesome (yes, you can hire someone to join you both for cyber sex). Do we go nuts and go on a hot & nasty field trip to SF Citadel, where anyone can dip their toe into BDSM, sex swings, exhibitionism, and group sex? Should Matt dress up like a cop while I wear a baby doll dress and suck my thumb? Should we take a class meant to teach me how to ejaculate? Should we try ecstasy or Viagra? Should we sign up for a boudoir photo shoot together? Should we scroll through the Kama Sutra and get pretzeled?

Or should we just roll over into the missionary position and get off?

If your sex life is lagging and you’re desiring more, it can be not only embarrassing and uncomfortable. It can be overwhelming. Like where does a girl who wants to add a little zing to her zang even begin?

What’s The Leading Edge of Female Sexuality?

Right around the time that Matt and I were considering kinking up our sex life, I appeared as a guest on True Colors TV and met co-starring guest Nicole Daedone, author of Slow Sex.  The question we were challenged to answer on the show was “What’s the leading edge of female sexuality?”

My answer was this:

The leading edge of female sexuality is a woman who can meet her own sexual needs without depending upon being filled up by a partner. It’s not that she doesn’t have a partner, love the intimacy of a partnered relationship, and experience great physical pleasure in the arms of her partner. It’s that she shows up to a sexual relationship already whole, healed, and perfect. Instead of the “You complete me” mentality, she is already complete, and everything else is icing. She no longer resents her partner for failing to meet her needs, gets frustrated because her orgasm doesn’t matter, gets so bored or feels so misunderstood in her relationship that she feels tempted to cheat, or otherwise walks around sexually dissatisfied. She knows what she wants, learns how to get it, and then shows up with a partner, turned on, juiced up, empowered, and whole.

Nicole Daedone, dressed in a two piece white pants suit, with high heels, long blond hair, and warm, sparkly eyes, looked me square in the eye and said:

I hear you, Lissa, but I disagree. I think, as women, we’ve empowered ourselves out of our own capacity to surrender, and with that, we’ve lost true intimacy. There’s nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who is completely at his mercy.

My jaw dropped.

What ensued was a spirited discussion that makes for good TV, and by the end, we agreed that we’re both right.

When I came home that evening, I said to my husband, “I just met my kinda sex teacher.”

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