‘Be unapologetic about your desires.’
Ok I’ma get right into it… dig in y’all this is gunna be a good one.
I was recently asked why I run a roster, a great question and an honest one too, so it really got me thinking about the concept. Not necessarily for myself but in a general sense for the benefit of others because I realize that some people might assume there’s something missing in my life and my intentions for sleeping with more than one guy at a time on the regular comes from some deep-rooted insecurity, lack of affection, or some other life trauma that stuck with me and caused me to shy away from commitments or serious relationships… But the truth is much simpler than that analysis of the human consciousness, so I’m going to start there.
Let me tell you a story that I think will break it down for you a bit before I tell you my personal reasons for running a roster because I think we can all relate to the reasoning behind my ‘Roster Games & Rules’. This is going to be the prelude to The Conclusion of The Rules, coming very soon in The Art Of Seduction category of this blog, posted Wednesday’s, where we thoroughly examine and observe basic human desire when it comes to sexual satisfaction.
This is a peek into the consciousness if you’re the type that really analyzes human behaviour and the why’s behind people’s actions (like me).
When I was young I was always very interested in sexuality, and sexual desire, and the concept of sexiness. I felt sexual desire in me at a very young age, and being raised in an open and free loving family I never shied away from these feelings. I am Canadian born and raised with no religion chosen for me, that’s what I mean when I say I’m from an open and free loving family. I have freedoms that maybe you don’t, or didn’t and I recognize that I am very blessed to have a choice in these matters, that’s half the reason I’m here, but more on that later. (Quick note: Please don’t be afraid to comment below if you want to speak on anything I’ve written about. I am here.)
Back to it… I gave into my sexual appetite and always, for as long as I can remember, have played with myself. I reached orgasm for the first time when I was 8 or 9 maybe earlier. By the time I was in my early teens, 13, I craved orgasms and could achieve them quickly. My sexual appetite grew and I started exploring my body and all the sensations I could create, from fantasizing and deep visual meditations of desire, to physical masturbation and reaching orgasm. I knew long before anyone told me that females could have more than one kind of orgasm and I knew my body well enough to play with the variety of orgasms I could achieve.
When I was 16 I was desperate to have sex, although I didn’t have anyone around me I could picture myself sleeping with, until I moved to another town. I remember when my mom asked me which high school I wanted to go to in said new town, as I had an option between two. I knew nothing about either of the school and I thought, how am I ever going to decide?! And then it hit me, whichever school I chose was going to have the first boy I’d ever sleep with (more than likely). So I found out which school had the best football team, and the rest is history.
Think what you will of that mentality, but it’s how I made my decision. It wasn’t the most important decision I made about my virginity, trust me, but you know me… I’m gunna tell you what was!
When I started really thinking about sex, and love, and life, and relationships, I knew I didn’t want to give my virginity to someone I was going to be in a relationship with, or even someone I was going to have emotional attachment to. Hear me out. This idea started a year or so prior I’d say. I’d never had a boyfriend, I’d hardly done more than kissed a boy, and I wanted the first guy I ever slept with to be someone I could have great sex with for years, with real longevity. I had separated the two things without even realizing I’d done it. Emotions and Sex became two different sets of desires.
It suddenly seemed too complicated to try and find love as well as great sex. Even as naive as I was about sex and love, I knew at that age it didn’t seem realistic to achieve both.
I separated sex and love/emotions at a very young age, maybe subconsciously, I don’t know it was a long time ago but by the time I was ready to have sex I knew I wasn’t ready to be in a loving, committed relationship. So right then and there I decided the only thing I wanted from my first sexual partner was someone I could have great sex with forever, or at least until one of us was married or with children, or whatever really. Simple, exciting, raw sex. I wanted to be able to fuck for a long time without any need for a committed relationship and all the complicated feelings and emotions that came with it. Friendship would be the ultimate goal if emotions got involved after a few years.
I was all sensation and raging hormones, like anyone at that age. My body was changing, I was experiencing so many new feelings and complicated emotions, there was no way I was gunna look for someone to fill that void and bring me balance. I knew emotionally, I had to work on myself, for myself, by myself. But physically, no no no. No more solo ventures. I was ready to experience another. And so I did. I found him, and I fucked him… for years… and years. Success!
I can’t say it worked out exactly as I hoped, because there were some serious complications regardless of my lack of emotional attachment and strategic ways of thinking, obviously, I suppose. Emotions and sex kind of go hand in hand, but I learned to put my feelings aside, knowing (in this case) that they weren’t authentically aimed at the person I was projecting them towards. More so, they were ever present in my romanticisms and I had no intention of passing off that part of me to just anyone.
Of course I felt emotions towards my first. Of course there were some rocky moments when one of us was sleeping with another person that was in the same school, or same social circle (See Rule #2: Respect The Boundaries), and we learned the hard way to be more careful if we really cared about each other’s feelings, which we did because neither of us was willing to give the other up. It’s not a simple choice when you’re in it. Of course there’s more to it than I could ever describe in one post, but if you can put it all together in your mind you can understand the simplicity of something so complicated. I chose to do what I wanted, when I wanted and started laying out the groundwork (or the rules) to do my best to prevent people from getting hurt, including myself.
Over the last two years of high school we pretty much worked out all the kinks (at least in this relationship or lack there of) and to this day we still fuck. It’s been over a decade and we still desire each other, and more importantly we still don’t feel the need to be ‘more serious’ about our relationship. I can’t say I have no love for him at all, that would be a bold faced lie. Through all the years of lust a strong bond has formed, and if such respect and loyalty isn’t a piece of love then I’m a very confused young woman. The simple fact is, he and I have never been on a traditional date, we’ve never worried over ‘taking the next step’ in our relationship, and most importantly, we’ve put behind us the auto response of lies when there’s something difficult to discuss. We know each other, and we care about each other, and behind closed doors we don’t keep secrets, we are the secret. There is a level there no one else can touch. A floor in the condo of life that remains ours alone.
Do you believe some people are good for each other in some ways but never meant to be together? Is that really such a difficult concept to understand and is it so vile and repulsive that it’s not even worth entertaining that type of connection between man and woman, boy and girl, etc.? We as women are just as raw and primal as any man. We’re all beautifully human, so why not play with all our desires? Why hold back? Morally, draw your lines and move forward, living your life and learning your lessons and boundaries at the peak of your ability.
If I had never given in to my desire to be physical with this guy because I knew we’d never have a long term ‘relationship’, I might never have experienced all that pleasure and joy, might never have formed that lifelong bond. I might never have learned that I can sleep with more than just him and still respect him and even have loyalty and love for him, with absolutely no desire to be committed to him. Damn, we might never have learned how well our little arrangement really worked out for us both, how much we enjoyed it. I would have missed out on a lot of great moments and personally I wouldn’t go back and change it. I found a new level of connection to another at a young age, and it was everything I thought it could be and much, much more.
I’m one of the few women I know that can honestly say I don’t regret my first sexual experience or partner. I planned it well, I knew what I wanted, and most importantly I was realistic about my expectations. (See Rule #4: Check Your Expectations)
What are the chances that the first person you sleep with at the age of 16 or 18, or whatever age is going to be the only person you’ll ever commit too, the only person you’ll ever sleep with, and the only person you’ll ever love? Seriously though…?
You can shut down all desires for other people and commit to one person from the start, sure. I believe that 100% because human willpower is extraordinary, but is that really what you want, or is that just what you think you should want? If you want that, that one commitment from the get go then all the power to you. I think a good balance always exists in human nature, so my views aren’t going to be relevant to everyone, I just think it’s relevant and crucial information for the majourity. I wish more people were willing to openly converse, in depth and detail, about their own personal human desires and sexual appetites, but I guess I wouldn’t be here writing to you about it if that were the case, and you wouldn’t be here devouring the information like you are either. So I can be thankful for the lifetime of experiences that has brought me to you and you to me, to explain and possibly give you someone to relate too so you don’t have to feel alone.
I never had that, I don’t think anyone should have to go through such intense emotions and feelings alone. It’s hard to be the outsider or to feel like no one understands you when something feels so natural to you, but I’m here, being awesome and living my fuckin’ dreams. You should too, whatever your dreams are, wherever they take you. I knew from the beginning I would want more… that I would want it all, to connect, to love, to desire, to taste more than one in this short life, without a doubt.
So why do I run a roster?
Well, like I’ve stated before, I think we’re all looking for that one person we can love and spend the rest of our lives with… but while we wait, why not live our lives in the moment and experience some truly deep and sensual connections, even if we don’t want to be with these lovers forever or sometimes even a year. Even if you don’t want to love them, even if you don’t have any emotion towards them at all you can still desire a taste, can’t you? If they’re just as intrigued of course. (See Rule #5: Patience is your only choice).
Haven’t you ever been physically attracted to someone that you don’t really care for as a person? Maybe their personality just isn’t your thing but the desire to be physical with them is grand, more than just good looks, but genuine physical, electric chemistry. Mmm, just thinkin’ about it gets me excited.
Here’s how I look at it:
Lust has a scale. You can feel all different levels of lust for a person or an object, but let’s keep this specific to people for now.
Love also has a scale. You can feel love for friends, family and a partner, all of which land at different points on the scale.
I believe a soul mate, or your true love, will sit at the top of the Love & Lust Scales. This is what most people picture when they think of fairytale love, undying, unfaltering, till death and beyond kind of love. Well, I believe in it. I believe your mate is out there and more importantly that it’s very real and very realistic to receive that kind of love in this lifetime.
Since I was a little girl I knew I wouldn’t settle for anything less, that “only the deepest love would persuade me into matrimony.” (Pride & Prejudice)
So why would I commit or be in any kind of exclusive relationship if I know he isn’t that man? Honestly, that’s how I’ve hurt men the most in my life, I couldn’t’ look him in his eyes and tell him it wasn’t enough for me, that it wasn’t that love for me and therefore wouldn’t be enough. I know now that the only right choice in these moments, when I want to be with someone but I know it’s not the deepest love, is to give him a choice. Tell him the truth and give him the choice.
Of course I could be wrong and maybe the kind of love I believe in isn’t something that’s love at first sight, but I wonder then why so many great poets, literates and artists have described such a love… day dreams for 30 minutes about love and forgets train of thought. Nah, it’s real, I’ve never doubted that.
Some may think my standards are too high, but I have to say I enjoy my choices fully. I have connected to some lovers on deep and foundational levels and I don’t think if I had tried to fit those relationships into the carefully drawn boxes of society and the masses and even most of my own family of what a relationship should be I would have been as successful in the intense and beautiful bonds I formed. I couldn’t give that up, even with all the mistakes, and crushed emotions, it’s still so beautiful to me… so human and natural.
Some people just aren’t meant to be together forever, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a part of our souls that will connect with theirs. You just have to be brave enough to be honest with yourself about how you really feel, no matter what your family, or society, or anyone says about how you should act.
There’s no such thing as how you should act anymore. There’s right and there’s wrong. If you’re hurting people or yourself you’re doing something wrong, simple as that. And there’s no book on the subject breaking down the rules of life. You know the difference between right and wrong like we all do. And trust me, we all do. You can be brainwashed into believing something different, but the feelings are there, deep below the surface, screaming for you to wake up and take notice.
Simply put, I run a roster because I can.
Check RULE #7: ‘theFinalRule: Check Your Emotions… at the door.’
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