Another gem of a column from Stuart Greene in the October issue of The Rake: Sex & The Married Man: More Than a Mouthful.
I like it that he’s unbabashedly a fan of his wife’s front and back porch — great line: “Personally, I don’t want what I haven’t got. Maybe that’s because I’m a butt guy, and my precious has the finest caboose on the tracks” — but there’s one thing he’s missing, summed up in the ancient adage that I don’t hear much anymore in these days of boob jobs and penis enlargements:
It’s not what you have, it’s what you do with what you have.
This ain’t trivial for two reasons:
1) gravity and age take their toll on both sexes and especially on women after childbirth; sagging can be delayed but it’s inevitable as most long-marrieds can attest; and
2) no matter how perfectly proportioned your sweetie might be in your mind, a male’s propensity for variety lurks in any marriage, as Greene himself acknowledged in his last column defending married men going to strip clubs. (That column kicked up a storm of interesting letters, both pro and con. See the Letters to the Editor.
So while I agree with Greene that boob jobs too often miss the mark by focusing on size instead of shape, it’s somewhat of a moot point for anyone interested in long-term marital sex satisfaction — like me. What’s needed is more attention on how us marrieds can keep the sparks flying with the assets we each have without resorting to short-term anatomical fixes or siphoning off the energy via strip clubs or — to be balanced — romance novels, trashy, high-class or otherwise.
I’ve got ideas and some experience but I can’t go into details without stirring things up in a bad way on the home front.
Stuart, I’m guessing you’ve got the cloak of anonymnity, so let’s hear more!