What about bicupid? Seems to have decent reviews. If I were ready to act on my desire for men, I think I’d be on that 3-month membership in a heartbeat.

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Interesting point. I’ll think about it some more then!

I should be a bit more diplomatic. Your self-description falls well within the definition of bisexuality, and like I said being attracted to cock and not the rest of the man is really, really common.

That said, your identity is up to you. You meet the definition of multiple overlapping terms: not just bisexual, but bi-curious, heteroflexible (like you mentioned), or even straight but willing. Which one you want to claim (including no label at all!) is up to you. Just because I’m calling myself Bisexual does not mean that you have to.

Geez, I thought guys lied about cock size! So many women on here claiming to have taken 13”ers? Not that those don’t exist (I believe there is one guy - one! - authenticated at 13), but they are exceedingly rare.

For any claims beyond 9-10”, pics with a ruler or it didn’t happen.

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8. Decide if you need to break the story into parts. Is it better to have a story of two 3,000-word parts or one story of 6,000 words? It is an issue that I don’t have the answer to, but I know a lot of readers won’t even look at a story over 3,000 words, which I find a shame.

Readers' preference is clear. One of my three Recommended Reads - something you might expect to attract attention - is 10,000 words, and even though it's been out for two and a half years, it's just barely crested 4k sets of eyeballs. One of my others is 5,000 words, has also been out for quite some time, and hasn't even hit 3k views yet.

My general tendency has become to break stories up if they stretch beyond about 3,000 words. By keeping most of the individual stories of a series largely between 1,500 and 2,500 words, I find a number of my readers liking and commenting on multiple chapters if they like the overall arc.

Just to round up this long post. I have never binned a story or deleted one. However, I have returned to the earliest novel I posted here and edited it to improve the grammar and add cover photos.   

The only time I have canned a story was a Micro contest entry that got rejected for being a movie parody. The title itself was a parody, and the whole thing was unsalvageable.

I’m not complaining, but I can back this statement by saying… I wrote one I/F story and gained 168 extra followers from it (at the time, I had around 120). I also received over 200 likes on Part 1 and well over 100 likes on each of the other 3 parts. Even today, I am asked to write more parts, which maybe I will do one day (it is nice to be asked).

I don't want to judge those who like the very popular I/F genre - after all, fiction is supposed to be cathartic, and may actually keep people from doing irresponsible things, though you never really know. I know this category isn't required for Omnium, but I do have a story idea or two that I may eventually submit in this category. But cousins is far as I can go. Immediately family members, not ever, never ever gonna write it. Thought about a twins story, but I’m not sure I could even do that.

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I'd like to solve the puzzle: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down.

Stear clear of Rick Astley lyrics, and you should be fine.

Piece of cake since we're not allowed to directly quote any song lyrics anyway.

Otherwise I would have used "You wouldn't get this from any other guy" by now.

I’m not on the apps and didn’t know about this, but another Pride month reminder of how much progress has been made, and how much is at risk if we continue backsliding, but also how much less progress we have made against Bisexual erasure.

Sounds like an unmet need for sure. I happen to know there are a bunch of guys on Lush in their fifties somewhere on the bisexual part of the spectrum, ranging from mostly straight but cocksucking has climbed to the top of their bucket list, to probably mostly gay and in mostly sexless marriages but still love their wives. I thought there were bisexual apps - are those dead, or simply useless?

Haven't dated in decades, but I think that if it's a true, formal, dress-up date, as opposed to a casual hangout that may or not lead to more, the guy should still be expected to pay. Especially for the first couple of dates, as beatnik pointed out. Only exception might be if she obviously makes a lot more than him.

Worth mentioning that dressing up for nice dates (which many men expect of the women they go out with) tends to be a lot more expensive for women than for men. That should be reason enough, even without the pay gap that makes the dinner and drinks a bigger disposable-income burden for most women than for most men. For a guy to plead #metoo (what in the actual fuck) or hide behind some pretend rainbows-and-unicorns-equality bullshit is pretty assholeish. I'd hope that alone might be disqualifying, but that's for the woman to decide.

All that said, if I ever date again I'll probably go out with men as much as women, so the question would be kinda moot.

A few times while driving, and quite a number of times while on hiking trails.

Have done a couple of times while biking on paved paths, on quiet days when few others are around, but the breeze tends to blow the cum around and make a mess. It’s best done while stationary, I’ve learned.

I’ve only read six or seven of the ten, so apparently I’ve been missing out! I’ve got some reading to do. Congratulations all around.

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Very well done to everyone else who ... masturbated. Your efforts are all appreciated 😇

Always happy to make my contribution to the greater hole.

I agree. Lush is an anonymous (if you want) and judgment-free place to write about the kinds of things you mentioned. That’s why we use pseudonyms (sorry, Joe’s not my actual name), and usually change the names and maybe some of the physical attributes of the people in our stories.

Sure, maybe you’ve done some things that on some level you feel were inappropriate, and maybe sometimes you feel guilty. But if they also thrilled you, they might thrill us too. Writing about these encounters may even help you work through your conflicting emotions, help you identify the red flags you mentioned and maybe even break a vicious cycle or two.

My stories tend to have been clattering around in my head for months or even years before I really start writing. Usually I also have a very rough outline written down or maybe a short partial draft. I’ve got at least twenty stories in something like that state right now.

That said, I like how competitions force me to come up with new ideas, or seriously retool old ones, that jump to the front of the queue and disrupt my grand scheme. Yes, I do have one.

When I do think it’s time to actually start writing a story, how long it takes to finish the first draft varies a lot. Sometimes a few days, especially for a contest, often a couple of months.

Finishing that first draft tends to motivate me to push towards publication, even though I know that 80% of the work is yet to be done. I might be proud of having hit the first-draft milestone, but rarely would I be proud of the result if I cleaned up the technical errors right away and hit Publish without rewriting.

The first thing to go is obvious fat. My first drafts tend to be bloated, often using way too many words to overexplain the nuances of a thought or conversation, often saying the same thing multiple different ways.

Making the sequencing - of thoughts, actions and dialogue - more logical is important. I spend a lot of effort getting the dialogue to where it drives the story and sounds realistic, changing how it’s interspersed with action for optimal flow. I tweaked this time and time again to get it just right in Dick Job, for example.

I often spend a whole read-through just focused on how I’m sharing what’s going on in my head. That’s often as much emotion as it is logical thought, and it’s an important dimension of my stories.

Once I’m mostly satisfied, it’s time to do battle with Grammarly. When the words are my own, no matter how carefully I read, there tend to be errors my eyes simply skip over: the occasional misspelled word or punctuation error, of course. But far more often, there’s an extra or missing word in a sentence that makes me go “Duh!” once the tool points it out. Those latter errors are themselves usually the result of rewriting, which is why it is so important to save that careful Grammarly check - including ignoring 80% of its recommendations - until after the major revisions are done.

Finally, when I’m nearly ready, more read-throughs in Preview mode. Only when I can get all the way through in Preview with no more than a tweak or two do I hit Publish. By this time, I’ve easily done at least ten complete walk-throughs, maybe twenty if it’s a competition, and it was surely more than that for the three that went on to Recommended Reads status. And even after all that, I usually find a thing or two afterward that could be better, but oh well.

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Maybe we need the big list of banned words published somewhere?

Here you go: Seven Dirty Words | George Carlin

Oh wait, wrong list.

In honor of Pride 2025, I’d like to share a handful of stories that I take particular pride in, specifically for delving into various dimensions of non-Straight male sexuality, intimacy and desire that are about more than just the sex.

Deepening Our Friendship was my entry in the Rainbows competition celebrating Pride 2020, my first year writing on Lush. A night on the town with my longtime friend Theo leads him to reveal that his ex-girlfriend wanted a threesome with me. He wanted that too, but since she left him, he’s realized that he really wants a twosome. Maybe I do too.

In The Date Begins, the casual utterance of "It's a date" changes our expectations for what was intended as a simple reunion of old acquaintances. It has transformed into an actual date, complete with escalatingly sexy flirtations and vulnerable emotional revelations. It’s as strong a connection as I’ve had on a first date. So what if it's with someone named Mike?

Awareness starts off my extended Midlife Renewal series with a sudden realization about my running buddy and best friend Rick’s sexuality. This results in an even more startling realization about my own sexuality, which is definitely not the same as Rick's. Should that keep us from adding benefits to the best-friend menu? Continuing through the subsequent three short chapters will walk you through our entire first intimate evening together, as we work through not only sexual discovery but our asymmetric misgivings and inclinations.

In Thanksgiving Stuffing, a dysfunctional family get-together has piled misery on top of a recent breakup that was caused by misplaced homophobia. As I'm trying to wash away the ick, a empathetic and naked conversation with a gay friend exposes some misplaced homophobia of my own. Easing me through my final reluctances, Steve doesn’t “turn me gay” as my subconscious irrationally feared, but rather helps me become a fully functioning, confidently Bisexual man in the true culmination of my Becoming A Man series.

Skiing With Keith And Kate, my most widely-read story, has Kate catching me in a foolishly impulsive sex act with her boyfriend Keith. Kate should probably just walk out on him for this, leaving us drenched in semen and regret. Instead, she finds the strength to direct a frank conversation about the secret desires he’s been hiding from her. To everyone's surprise, including her own, she reveals secret desires she’s never discussed with him. The discussion that erupted from violated trust leads them to reconstruct their relationship upon a new set of rules around trust.

The “f” word - and no, I don’t mean fuck - is definitely not allowed. I’m pretty sure sissy would be okay, though.

I did once have a story returned for revision, for a scene in which a guy has a sexual encounter with another guy, then regrets it as soon as he orgasms, ending in a homophobic freakout. It’s possible the character dropped that f-word in the draft that was returned, but I can’t remember exactly. I toned down the interaction a bit, and it was approved.

My guess is that if the straight guys on the street make some casual, joking remarks lightly making fun of your character as he passes by, it’s probably fine. If they get genuinely abusive, maybe not.

I've been on Lush for five years, but haven't posted to Pimp Your Profile before.

Updating my avatar for Pride Month got me to also update my profile, making a more emphatic statement fully claiming my Bisexual orientation, and to change my stated orientation from Bi-Curious to Bisexual. I'm never really been curious; I know that I'm fully Bisexual, capable of loving both men and women and enjoying sex with both. Feel free to scroll down past the story index in my profile and read it sometime if you're bored with stories.

For those who are into such things, I've just uploaded most of my old porn photo collection to my Media space. Some of these are already trending in the Gallery. Enjoy my pics of lovely women (most of them retaining their pubic hair, because that's a turn-on for me), as well as of people engaging in lesbian, bisexual and gay male acts, as you are so inclined.

And then there are my 75 stories. I've had three Recommended Reads and two stories placed in the Top Ten of competitions. Eleven of my tales are past the 10,000 views mark, though none yet have the Famous badge. Like many on Lush, I write primarily about fantasies that are unfulfilled. I have had many delightful sexual experiences with women (though not that many actual women), but because of how things were in the Eighties, very few experiences with men. What this means is that while I do have a number of tales featuring straight sex between men and women, more of my writings involve man-to-man indulgences that I haven't had the chance to indulge in. Bi and gay male tales are a bit of a niche on Lush, but not necessarily a small one, and I have a good number of fans and followers. If this kind of erotica interests you, you just may want to check out my story library.

Near the top of my profile page (joe71's Profile) is a guide to my stories and series that may be of greatest interest to potential readers, followed by a complete index to all of my tales so far, and then a little manifesto about my Bisexuality - and also about people being decent and loving to each other. A shorter list of my top stories is right below here in my signature.

I’ve always used double quotes for both speech and inner thoughts, because that’s what I was taught. That said, while I do make a strong effort to expose my inner monologue in my stories, I tend to do it by describing my thoughts and emotions more than by quoting the actual words in my head. But this discussion has opened my eyes, and in the future I will use italics instead of quotes when I am sharing the actual words I’m thinking.

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There are emotions, body language, tone... and most of communication is non-verbal.

"After you," he said.

"After you." He smiled. Hopeful, earnest, revealing his vulnerability in his act of gallantry.

You decide - who would you would rather fuck?

Oh, I’d definitely fuck the second guy if he held the door and smiled at me like that.

Standard practice for a long quote that spans multiple paragraphs, when special formatting is unavailable, has been to begin each paragraph with double quotation marks, but not to end a paragraph with quote marks if it’s a quotation that continues on in the new paragraph.

“This is the first paragraph of the quote.

“This is the second paragraph of the quote.

“This is the last paragraph of the quote.”

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A recent snap of me on Bournemouth beach coming out of the water. I don't see that as revealing at all.

Hey, it’s covering your nipples, right?

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" if your going to step out on me, let it be with a woman at lest then I don`t have to fight for you"

I received a message telling me, in clear terms, " you dress like that, you kneel like that, you need a real man but your too old, too saggy, and not the best looking woman, maybe try an auction?" so maybe i just need to stick to stories.

That first quote is kinda sad, some kind of misplaced masculine honor.

The second is just cruel. Don’t let the haters drag you down. There are others who will find you to be the hottest thing ever. You are NOT too old or too saggy or whatever to have a fulfilling sex life. It just won’t be with that guy.

I’m not as quick to get on the DTMFA train. “Just get out” is simplistic and ignores your life situation. You might still be raising kids together, and the way (or whether) you split can cause or spare them lasting harm. You might also, like a lot of people these days, already be struggling to make ends meet and challenged to afford the cost of separate housing.

But it does sound like your marriage stopped working for you a long time ago. I hope leaning on the support of the Lush community or simply reading stories helps you get through, regardless of what you decide to do, so you feel less alone.

Your actions and your lifestyle are a choice. Your orientation is not. Homosexuality is orientation, not necessarily behavior.

Being bisexual, which is a catch-all of attracted-to-both orientations, my choices in my actions are easier than for those who are fully gay - or straight. But even so, while my lifetime 99.99% heterosexual actions are choices, my bisexual orientation is not within my control. I always have and always will be attracted to both men and women.

Having a fully homosexual or heterosexual orientation - being attracted to only one sex - isn't a choice either, whether or not it correlates with your actual sexual behavior. Being gay is not a choice.

I have finally started trimming for length, especially around the balls. In my old age it finally just started getting too damn long. But from a distance you might not know. Still appears as a full bush, which is how I like it.

Not the most masculine guy in the world, but solidly towards that end of the spectrum. So not really gurly at all. Just a man who likes men (and women, cis or trans).

Probably couldn’t go below mid thirties (I’m late fifties now) with either a man or a woman, but it’s hypothetical for me.

In addition to updating my avatar, I’ve taken the opportunity to update my profile. My bisexuality has been no secret here on Lush (at least if you’ve read any of my stories or forum posts), but in honor of Pride Month I’ve updated my wording to more proudly claim the “B” in LBGTQ+ for myself.

EDIT 6/6: Updated the avatar to flank the regular Pride flag with some bright pink, purple and blue Bisexual stripes. The standard Bisexual Pride flag is really drab, and I like this much better.

Although I'd still just as soon give as receive, lately the idea of watching my manhood disappear into a man's mouth is a huge turn-on.

No photo editing skills, so just swiped this off the webs.

Vigorous sex, sure, sometimes, a good hard pounding, playful spanking, nibbling, hickeys, maybe. Kinda as MC1982 said, I’m extremely turned OFF by anything really rough, though.

Sex for me is a celebration of affection between two people, not a … well, is it simple catharsis for all the pain and humiliation people endure in their non-sexual lives? A way to avoid guilt-based cognitive dissonance around sexuality? Or a trust exercise? I’ll be accused of over-psychoanalyzing, since those who are into truly rough sex just are, and don’t feel the need to analyze it. But as an outsider lacking these urges, I really don’t understand what it is that drives people to bite, scratch, bruise, pull hair, or other rough things (now choking* being the latest porn-driven fad) to the bodies of others, or have them done to their own bodies, in order to get off.

You be you I guess, I’ll try not to judge what you do behind your closed doors (except the choking) - as long as you’re not seriously hurting each other - but I want nothing to do with it.

Ugh, now that I’ve published my story, I wish I’d done a James Bond/Austin Powers style spoof set on the proverbial volcanic-island villain lair. Perfect for my recurring Joe Dick character, too. Why am I just thinking of this now? Oh well.

As a guy, I find it incredibly stimulating to be tasting pussy while receiving a blowjob, and have cum many times while doing it. So that disproves any “impossible” urban legend, which sounds like something an inexperienced teenager made up. However, “difficult” may be accurate for most women. The women I’ve 69ed with usually seem to find that having a cock in their mouth distracts them from getting to the happy place they need to be to cum; they usually release cock out of their mouth, panting, as they start getting really worked up.

Think about what it takes for women to reach orgasm during coitus. My (limited, but far from zero) experience with different women is that some reach orgasm much more easily while on the bottom and able to fully relax, whereas others have a strong preference to be on top and in control. So how do those pathways to orgasm play out during 69? Both are blocked. Even if she’s on top, in a 69 a woman isn’t really in control of her stimulation when she’s receiving oral, is she? Your mouth is. Conversely, is a woman who really needs to relax to cum going to be able to that on the bottom of a 69? With a guy hovering over her and thrusting his dick in her mouth? Unlikely.

I think for most opposite-sex couples, 69 works better as a form of foreplay than as an ending. And I say this as someone who absolutely loves 69 and recently (as my 69th story) published an ode to the act, and has always found it rather depressing that most women don’t seem to like 69 very much.

On the other hand, as Dominica shared, 69 may be a lot better for same-sex couples, the mutuality of being able to do the same exact thing to each other at the same time, or to do on the other person precisely what you want done to you in that instant, leading to potentially better, and better-synchronized, orgasms.

Published! Crossing Boundaries in the Boundary Waters. For what it’s worth, Seeker4 (and I’ll be reading your story soon), while my setting is not Isle Royale after all, it IS a place on the Canadian Shield populated by moose and wolves.

By the way, I elected not to use the series feature at this time. I’ll add it to my Contagion series after results are announced.

Now, since I haven’t read many of my fellow writers’ submissions yet, it’s time to pause my writing and get reading!