I wrote this recently on another site.
The poster above me was talking about enemas and other prep, so I’m picking up the convo thread...
I also prep. So there’s a mental trigger.
I’m newish to it, also, and it was on an ask. A really cool, not in the moment ask. We were flirting over email and he simply asked if I’d ever done it. I said, not willingly. He immediately backed off, but said if ever I was curious, he’d be slow and gentle.
I made up my mind to give it a proper try.
Basically, I have to decide if I’m up to it at all. I live with a weird pain syndrome, and memories of assaults, so it really is my call, and he’s fine with it.
He’s also learned that the flirting when he’s on the road gets a more receptive partner.
Once I’ve made the decision to be ready (and it doesn’t happen each time I prep, we don’t plan to do it, but rather I planing not to, and might say, it’s not on deck today), and clean up, I let him know with a code word. I call prep an “extra serious shower.”
So if I say I’m well showered, or something like that, he knows it’s a possibility.
He will say that we are overdue for any given activity. It’s actually “pillow talk” when we have video dates. So I have an idea of where his head is.
we have lots of foreplay, including mutual rimming. We sort of pick up that the other is thinking about going there. Because sometimes rimming is just because it feels good all by itself.
If we have plenty of time and privacy, he will keep up the foreplay until I’m begging.
Usually, he starts with one finger, goes to two and sometimes three. Only if I’m responding well, and not simply doing it for him, will he continue.
Honestly? I think a few plugs to stretch would be useful. All smaller than he is, but close.
so far, we haven’t made it all about “finishing” there. It’s just fun for a while.
I’ve had days where I thought I was good for it, but couldn’t relax.
He says ”next time” and we go on to something else.
That part, his “it’s no big deal if it doesn’t happen right now” attitude gets him a lot of yeses.