Quickies

...f, you find fault in the men you date. P.S. There’s no settling down without settling for. Is there any way to enjoy anal while having a hemorrhoid? Nope, sorry. You need to wait for it to heal. I’m a 36-year-old man. If I get too psyched out to stay hard for (extremely rare) anal with my wife, should I just get some Viagra? Well, that depends. Does your wife like long anal sex sessions? If the answer to that question is yes, then Viagra could help. Because in addition to helping you get and stay hard, Viagra and other ED meds can delay orgasm. But if your wife doesn’t like long anal sex sessions—if she generally wants you to hurry the fuck up and get the assfucking over with—lasting longer could make those already rare anal sex sessions rarer still. Maybe try a cockring instead? Tips for helping a penis-haver last longer when penetrating other than cockrings? (Cockrings are great, but they don’t help with longevity.) Cockrings are great; I recommended them to another reader five second ago. But while a snug-but-not-too-tight cockring can help keep a penis-haver’s penis hard by gently restricting blood flow out of the penis-haver’s penis, cockrings don’t make penis-havers “last longer,” e.g., they don’t delay ejaculation. (Cockring 101: Gentle restriction is good; trapping blood in the penis is not. Cockrings should be snug, not tight.) If you’ve already tried all the standard-issue advice to treat premature ejaculation (which I’ve covered before and don’t have the space to re-re-re-rehearse in a Quickies column), an ED med like Viagra might help (for the reasons mentioned above); a low-dose SSRI is also an effective treatment for premature ejaculation. P.S. Whenever someone writes “penis-haver” my slightly dyslexic brain reads “penis-halver,” as in, someone who cuts a penis in half—which some people in the body modification community have done, and bon(e) appetit to anyone brave enough to do a Google image search. For those that like to fuck outside on hikes and while camping… should we be wary of trail cams or go-pros people are hiding in trees for whatever reason? How to spot them? If people are doing that—if people are hiding cameras on popular hiking trails—well, then you should indeed be wary. Hike the beaten path, don’t fuck on it. An ex-boyfriend is seeing trans prostitutes. Do I tell his current wife IF an opportunity to do so should arise? And it will, as we live on a small island. I would’ve wanted to know if we were still together. Should she not be offered the same? If you truly live on a small island—small enough that everyone knows everyone else’s business but large enough to have more than one trans sex worker—then your ex-boyfriend’s wife is gonna find out sooner or later. But even if it means she finds out a little later, it would be better if she found out from someone other than you. Assuming your ex’s wife doesn’t already know and approve, if the bearer of bad news is a bitter ex—or someone who can easily be cast as one—your ex-boyfriend will have a much easier time convincing his wife that it isn’t true. Better she should hear it from the vicar. I’m a gay boy in the big city and I want to start doing sex work as a side gig. But I have no idea how to start. First steps? First steps: get vaccinated against monkeypox, Hep A and B, and HPV, and get on PrEP. Then talk with other people who are doing or have done sex work. There are a lot of sex workers on Twitter; most aren’t there to solicit customers, but to advocate for their rights and create community. Follow and learn. I met a guy that is very gifted at giving me multiple orgasms, but I have a hard time getting him to come at all. Any advice? If he doesn’t want to come, don’t make him. No problem. But if he’s not coming because you want to make him come with your own hand, pussy, or mouth and he can’t come that way, then there is a problem here, and it’s you. Give him permission to enjoy oral and PIV and whatever else you both enjoy before finishing himself off with the same skilled hands he’s using to get you off. Problem solved. What is the best lube for anal sex with sensitive skin? We’re big fans of Spunk. Full disclosure: This isn’t a paid endorsement—but the last time I mentioned Spunk in a column, they sent me a case. That was years ago… and we’re almost out. Cough, cough. We often talk about warning signs/red flags with kinky Doms. What about subs? No one should play with a Dom who tells inexperienced subs that “real” submissives don’t have limits. That’s the biggest and reddest flag in BDSM. On the flipside, no one should play with subs who say they don’t have limits and/or can’t ask for what they want. Obviously, a Dom who says, “You can’t object,” is more dangerous. But a sub who says, “You have to guess,” isn’t a safe player either. A sub like that attracts two types of Dom: shitty Doms who are only too thrilled to do whatever they want, even if (especially if) the sub winds up traumatized, and inexperienced Doms who don’t want to traumatize anyone but could wind up traumatizing the sub and themselves if they guess wrong. Closeted bi woman here who is finally realizing that I want to date women. Is it better to come out to close friends/family and THEN date openly? Or is it better to date around and then only come out to straight friends/family if I find a long-term partner? Even if you got away with it—even if you dated women and never had to come out because you didn’t wind up with a woman—do you really want to have to worry about getting caught on an app seeking women or on a date with a woman? And do you really wanna be the kind of bisexual person who makes bisexual invisibility and bisexual erasure worse than they already are? Come out. And who knows? One your friends—maybe even one of the hot ones—may not be any straighter than you are. Is it safe to eat ass while pregnant? Me, the ass eater, is the pregnant one. This is a question from Sweden. Pregnant women are allowed eat whenever they want. (Hello, Sweden!) Also, I am not a doctor and hopefully one will speak up in the comments thread. Must we ALL rim now to get a date? To get a date? No. To get a Swede pregnant? Apparently. My wife of 23 years divorced me in early 2020. We ended up quarantining together and by August she moved back in. We’re kinda awesome together. Except for sex. We got remarried in May of this year. I got to experience truly great sex when we were apart. Our sex life sucks. She has no desire and complains it hurts. (I’m not that big!) Help, Dan. We’re not going to make it in a mostly sexless marriage. Jump in a time machine and go have a conversation about sex with your ex-wife before you remarry her. Yes, you’re great together, but if the sex was never great… it wasn’t gonna get great with her (or for her) the second time around. Now, an honest conversation back then—back when your ex-ex-wife was still your ex-wife—about what your second marriage might look like (companionate?) and possible accommodations (both allowed to seek sex elsewhere?) might’ve convinced her not to remarry you. And having it now could convince her to re-divorce you. But you’re gonna have to have this conversation at some point… and since you don’t have a time machine, looks like it’ll have to be now. What is it called when a guy jacks off into his own mouth while he’s upside down? Is there a term for that? Alert readers will recognize this question, as it ran in my Quickies column last month. I responded that there was no term for that—no term for a guy throwing his legs over his head and jacking off into his own mouth—but that there should be. A lot of people wrote in to suggest “Shortbussing,” a reference to the 2006 indie film Shortbus, which featured a scene where a character jacked off into his own mouth. Other suggestions: The Peter Parker, Self-Serve, Direct Deposit, and Closed Circuit. But my personal favorite—and the one I hope sticks—was sent in by reader William H. via Facebook: The Proud Boy. questions@savagelove.net Listen to Dan on the Savage Lovecast. Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. Columns, podcasts, books, merch and more at savage.love.