Hard for me to believe Lush is banning anyone without a human reviewing the evidence.

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Nautilus X-1 is under review. The hardest part was the characters: one Scottish, one Irish, and finding the Gaelic expressions to make them authentic

Fantastically well done, and both the technical and linguistic research you did shine like the polished brass of a steam fitting. I highly recommend others check out Nautilus X-1. It's pretty fecking steamy.

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Yes, I teared up a few times while writing Dating Daphne, my 100th. I put a lot into that one.

Damn, it happened again! I drafted the conclusion to "Daphne's Halloween" yesterday, and it turned out to be way more emotionally charged than I expected. Daphne is the most complete non-protagonist character I've created, and I think I've fallen in love with her.

If only she were real.

Maybe eventually we’ll have to ban junior members from sending external links, but that would of course take staff development hours to do.

Yep. Delete and block, repeat. Several times a week.

Not something I regularly give thought to. I usually shoot into a tissue or an orifice rather than into open air, so I don't have a lot of recent data to go on.

On the occasion that I do spew onto myself, it usually goes no further than my belly, or occasionally my lower chest, so I guess a few inches at the most. I have had it go higher on occasion, even nailing my own face a few times, so I guess it must be (or have been?) possible for me to go up to a couple feet if I’m really excited.

By the way, 50% of the cumshots in porn are fake (for what it’s worth, that’s a better record than female “squirting,” which is 100% fake}. So when I see a guy shooting across the room, I just roll my eyes and laugh that anyone is fooled.

As a bi guy, I certainly do!

Damn, 75 words is a much tougher bitch than 100, but here's one of the ideas I've been batting around for the Sci-Fi story I'll use to cross the Omnium threshold next year. I present "Trouble on the Voyage to Planet Wolf 1069 b." Which, by the way, is an actual exoplanet 31 light-years from Earth.

= = = = = = = =

"Are we there yet?"

"No," declares Misty, who has aged alarmingly. "The cryogenic system started failing four earth decades ago. Peggy and I kept you and Kevin frozen until now, but we're still ninety-three travel years from Wolf 1069, so ..."

"We'll die first."

"But we can maximize our pleasure while we live."

"Sixty-nine?"

"With a man will be a nice change. And is all you and Kevin will get once we're gone."

Quote by Candykok

Hello Ladies, My question relates to a girl i dated a few years ago and this experience has never happened before or after her . Everytime i would have vaginal sex she would orgasm and squirt so hard that it would force my cock out of her pussy. I would try my hardest to stay inside her but her contractions would always force me out. Can you possibly explain if this is a more common thing with woman or if anyone has experienced the same?

More likely, she just has very strong vaginal muscles that are forcing you out. You yourself mentioned the word "contractions," so there's your clue. I've had women buck hard enough that they bend my unit at difficult angles in an attempt to maximize the pleasure of some internal spot. This could cause the guy to pop out, and she's going to get wildest and most likely to do this as she approaches orgasm.

However, this wouldn't have anything to do with "squirting", which (besides being more myth than fact) is either urine or a small volume of Skene's gland fluid. Both of these exit near the entrance to the vagina and do not come from inside it. So it's not possible for some huge outwash of fluid to force you out. Basic female anatomy here.

Yes, I teared up a few times while writing Dating Daphne, my 100th. I put a lot into that one.

Yes, Likes and Favorites carry equal weight, and as a reader, you have the option to award either one or both. So you can give someone else’s story up to two points.

By the way, as an author you can see who’s been Liking your stories, through the Interactions item on your personal menu. So far as I know, however, Favorites selections are completely anonymous, and there is no way you can see who has Favorited any of your stories.

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I'm trying to determine if I should care about this metric.

Ahh, I see you’ve come to the more difficult question. I think most of us to some degree struggle with “How much should I care?” No matter how much we tell ourselves we don’t, if for no other reason than protecting ourselves from disappointment, it’s impossible to avoid feeling a boost when a story scores well. And, conversely, feeling let down when one doesn’t get the hoped-for reception.

Never witnessed anything resembling squirting, except when a girlfriend leaked a bit of pee (not as part of an orgasm) in my face while I was eating her. That true-life incident was the inspiration for my Watersports story “Daphne’s Bath Accident,” by the way.

There might be small release of Skene’s fluid for some women, sometimes, but it’s not something a camera would catch, and many women don’t even do that. I’ve witnessed some pretty spectacular female orgasms, some of them while my face was buried pretty deeply in their business, and never detected the emission of anything beyond ordinary vaginal fluid.

Any fluid being shot across the room and claimed to be “squirting” in porn is either water injected into a woman’s vagina with a turkey baster, or actual urine. Period.

I always figured the fascination with squirting was the product of ignorant juvenile male minds, falsely assuming that there’s a female equivalent to male ejaculation (much of which in porn is also fake, but that’s another thread). Enough women here claim to experience it with their own bodies that I have no place denying their experience, though I continue to suspect it’s the Skene’s variety and not highly voluminous.

It’s always surprised me how many Lush writers - even women - include this trope in their writing, with a huge spray and a sudden soaking of the sheets meant to indicate a great orgasm - and as often in FF stories as in MF. I admit to including it in a couple of my stories, though I try to portray it as limited in volume, and almost always as a rare event for the woman involved.

Maybe someday I’ll mock this whole trope with a story in which a woman uses one of the two porn methods (baster or pee) to fool a guy into thinking he’s made her squirt.

Quote by willing53

... by my coach. He was trying to teach me to behave...

And did it work?

Got at least halfway through Daphne's Halloween over the weekend before realizing that it's morphing into a two-part Group Sex epic. Part two is still just in outline form, but the good news is that part one is done! Since they're Halloween-themed, these two will (like my completed Monster and Horror stories) wait until October before I hit Publish. After my current lull, that will make four stories in October, four for November (nearly done), and three to five for December, the first of which is also mostly done.

That's all assuming I stick to my plan. My plans have a way of pausing and rearranging themselves whenever there's a competition. We've been promised that one is coming soon.

Quote by AmuseBouche
My 100th story is looming, too. My thoughts are turning to something special. 😘

Exciting! I did my 100th earlier this year, and I made sure that it was (at least to me) something special. I'm sure yours will be.

If I had my life to life over again (and none of us do), I'd get many men's penises in my mouth. And hopefully mine in most of their mouths too. I was just too naive and timid to take advantage of all the missed opportunities, or to even recognize them at the time for what they were.

As it happened, I only got a penis in my mouth once, but I loved everything about it. Now it's been well over thirty years, and I sure would like to try it again someday.

The appeal of tattoos has mostly eluded me, so I'd sure take a temporary one over a permanent one.

wxt55uk's ideas are sound and will help place your story in the mainstream of the genre. For what it's worth, although my recent Steampunk story Steam Mates was set in an alternate timeline/reality (as is common for the genre) in which steam power was widely accepted for cars and many other things, I chose a far different setting than Victorian England. I chose a very specific place and time (Portland, Oregon in 1972), and researched the fuck out of it.

I'm pretty happy with how that turned out, remarkable considering that I was once stumped by the genre and figured it would be the last for me to tackle on my way to Omnium. But then I discovered the existence of the Oregon Steam-Up fair as well as active gay steam baths in the early '70s, also learning about early steam cars, and everything just clicked together.

The tissues of the vaginal canal are extremely elastic. Although the comparison with childbirth was pretty obvious to me (as it would be to anyone who has a vagina), the OP's recognition of the real reason his wife "felt" looser seemed genuine. Meanwhile, I'm skeptical of goyse's interpretation of what happened with his wife. A woman's vagina may loosen as she ages, but it's very unlikely because she had a big dick in her. That sounds like male size anxiety talking.

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It never occurred to me until I saw your question and it still doesn't.

Really? This is a question that has been asked by literally almost every woman, ever, at least since porn went mainstream. I know I've had decades to think about my answer above.

That’s been exactly my experience. Adding or changing the series assignment, tags or even genre does not generally require remoderation, although I have had a couple of instances when a story went back into the queue for unknown reasons.

In either case, the comments, score and original publication are retained upon republication, so nothing to worry about there.

Even if you do go back into the queue, the worst thing that happens is the story disappears from public view while it is being reviewed, possibly interrupting the flow of a series. I noticed once, while that was happening, that a reader commented on the immediately previous story. I immediately let him know that the next story was unavailable, and informed him when it was published again, and he was thankful for my letting him know.

Bravo to everyone who participated, and especially the judges and winners. This was a wonderful idea for a comp, and I loved how even when multiple authors approached a similar art+sex concept (music teacher and protege, body art, nude portrait model, porn as art, etc.), they each approached it in a unique way that surprised and delighted.

I only got three of the ten, which is about my usual.

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😊 As my track record is not so good on this, I will be happy if I get 4 of the top 10 correct and one of the top 3. 😎😈

My track record on picking the winners is certainly no better than yours. But that's part of the fun, because it prompts me to reread good stories that maybe didn't flick my switch the first time, for whatever reason.

No. My girlfriend was on the Pill.

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So today should be the "Big Day" but there's often delays. The suspense is building, though, I imagine. Who is waiting and watching for the results post?

I Favorited almost a dozen stories from this comp, so yes I'm anxious to see how they align with the judging.

And also ... well, of course, to see if lightning strikes and my own entry lands in the Top Ten (or however many).

Usually, when I've conducted "research" to learn more about what's expected and conventional in a particular category (whether or not I intend to subvert it, which I often do), it usually takes the form of simply browsing the actual stories on Lush in that genre so I can get a feel for it. However, I have recently done deeper research on two stories, which involved hitting the search engines and diving down some rabbit holes.

For "Heartbombing the Heartland," I did quite a bit of research, much of it on Google Maps, on specific locations across the Great Plains. Especially Valentine, NE, a place I've been through once, but didn't know too much about, but quickly learned was the perfect setting for the ending of my story. I also took great care in choosing the names and pseudonyms of my artists, searching again and again until I came up with ones that didn't correspond to actual prominent artists.

"Steam Mates" took more research than I've ever done on a story. That included what was going on in 1972, in Portland, OR, in current events and in popular culture. That included whether specific businesses were in operation in Portland that year, what the state of the Watergate hearings (and other major news events) was in August of that year, and what the most popular and/or well-regarded movies, TV shows, books, songs and albums were that year. I verified release dates to make sure I referenced only what would actually have been available in early August, and not stuff that came out later in the year. I went out on a limb with Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes," which had not yet been released in the US, but had been out in the UK for a few weeks, assuming that Portland's Music Millennium would have procured a few import copies around the time my story is set. I also did quite a bit of research on 1910s-1920s steam cars to understand how they worked, and to project how they might have evolved over the next fifty years if internal combustion hadn't killed them off.

Both my upcoming Supernatural story for Christmas, and my Fantasy/Sci-Fi story that will put me across the Omnium finish line early next year, will each require a fair amount of research in terms of reading multiple books and watching several movies that relate to the subject matter.

Quote by darkroot50

It might be as simple as lesbians are out of reach for men. And as humans we often want what we can’t have. Or I may be way off base.

Didn't think of that, but makes sense. I tend not to waste my emotional energy longing after what I can't have (says the guy who keeps publishing his fantasies on Lush), but I have observed that a lot of people are attracted precisely to what's off-limits.

I think a lot of men are threatened by actual lesbians IRL, but are nevertheless turned on by lesbian sex. So I'm going to address your question in terms of what men see in lesbian porn and erotica. Apologies if you find my response to this very frequent question too porn-focused, but I think that's where the appeal actually lies.

On the superficial level, I think it's two main things. Men find women's bodies incredibly attractive, and seeing two together doubles the visual pleasure. Plus, seeing two women together may be less threatening than male-female scenes, by removing the competitive/comparative aspect of having another man in the picture, who of course is almost always hotter than the viewer.

A little deeper, I think it makes for an action free of the traditionallly coded-and-loaded baggage of male-female interactions - much as gay-male porn often does for women and especially lesbians. Of course, that's despite the fact that lesbian porn is one of the least realistic genres (or so lesbians tell us), because it's primarily produced to satisfy the straight male gaze, while gay-male porn is seen as one of the most realistic, because it isn't.

Another reason for me personally is that as a very strongly bisexual male, I'm heavily turned on by same-sex sex, regardless of whether it's men fucking men or women fucking women.

Finally, while I enjoy lesbian porn all of the reasons stated above, I like that it usually at least takes a shot at portraying the scenario, with tension and uncertainty, leading into a same-sex encounter, in a way that I have always wished bi male porn would do - and rarely does. I find that there is hardly anything more emotionally charged, tentative, delicate and ultimately hot than the prospect of two straight-presenting men getting together (with or without a woman present). And bi male porn gets it wrong every fucking time. Seriously, I probably wouldn't have published a hundred-plus bi male stories on Lush if bi male porn weren't so awful. So despite the often abysmal acting and supposed "unrealism" of how it portrays actual lesbian sex (not like we guys can tell), when I see two women working through across that boundary and doing these sexy things together, my mind sometimes drifts to imagining a similar interaction between myself and another man, giving me what bi male porn doesn't. I know of at least one or two other bi Lushies who experience this too.

Quote by Andrew00

is our own cum valid in the answers?

This is the Ask The Gals forum, so probably not unless you're a gal with a dick.

(That said, my answer would have been "this morning," had I been asked. Which I wasn't. 😉)

Quote by TallWillie

I think they lack discipline.

You're entitled to that opinion, I guess, and of course you're also entitled to be unattracted to BBWs. But I think if you actually get to be close friends with anyone who's struggled with their weight, you may find that discipline isn't the problem. I've known heavy people with a helluva lot more discipline than me.