Please, someone explain this to me!

[metropolinational]

Many seem to treat the ratings as binary. I came = 5️, Mr. Woody said bye bye = 1️.

my wife claims that when masturbating on her own, she can only achieve orgasm about half the time. I've always asked what the other half is like. when does she decide to stop? how does she know its not going to happen? she has never given me a good answer other than "I just know." I feel like if she would tell me, I would have some valuable data about her...

 

[EmilyMiller]

my wife claims that when masturbating on her own, she can only achieve orgasm about half the time. I've always asked what the other half is like. when does she decide to stop? how does she know its not going to happen? she has never given me a good answer other than "I just know." I feel like if she would tell me, I would have some valuable data about her...

My percentages are different, I won’t get into that, but you can sometimes get to the point where it’s just too much bother. Like what you set out to do is now less important to you than, say, chocolate, or wine, or having a nap.

 

[metropolinational]

My percentages are different, I won’t get into that, but you can sometimes get to the point where it’s just too much bother. Like what you set out to do is now less important to you than, say, chocolate, or wine, or having a nap.

Astonishing. Imagine a man walking away from sex before finishing because he decided to have a nap?
Might as well be a different species, at that point...

 

[anthrodisiac]

my wife claims that when masturbating on her own, she can only achieve orgasm about half the time. I've always asked what the other half is like. when does she decide to stop? how does she know its not going to happen? she has never given me a good answer other than "I just know." I feel like if she would tell me, I would have some valuable data about her...

My percentages are different, I won’t get into that, but you can sometimes get to the point where it’s just too much bother. Like what you set out to do is now less important to you than, say, chocolate, or wine, or having a nap.

Can confirm. Sometimes it's just clear it isn't going to happen, so why bother? Sure, you could try to keep going, but the amount of effort and time for a low chance to get there stops being worth it at a certain point. There's a point where you plateau regardless of stimulation. Usually, you can feel it building, even if it's slow or in fits and bursts, but if it stalls out, then it's either not going to happen at all, or it will take so much work and effort that it's not worth the time.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Astonishing. Imagine a man walking away from sex before finishing because he decided to have a nap?
Might as well be a different species, at that point...

I could make a comment about which organ is in charge of men and which of women, but that would be shallow of me

 

[Imstillfun]

I have people who follow me just to 1* bomb my stories.

 

[IWroteThis]

Astonishing. Imagine a man walking away from sex before finishing because he decided to have a nap?
Might as well be a different species, at that point...

If I'm stopping short for a nap, I'm not walking away. I'm already asleep.

 

[Imstillfun]

Astonishing. Imagine a man walking away from sex before finishing because he decided to have a nap?
Might as well be a different species, at that point...

My husband has. We’d fucked for an hour or more. we were both tired and would just stop to catch our breath and we’d fall asleep. He’d often fuck me and not cum. We’re old now and it’s not the same, but he says his greatest pleasure was watching me cum.

 

[liliput1]

Hate is addictive, is my guess.

Mmm, might be something to that.

Apathy, not hate, is the opposite of love.

 

[TheLobster]

ure buddy, wake me up when we can fly across the Atlantic in four hours again, like we could in the 1970s....

Well, we do seem to be doing a remake of the 70s — going to the Moon, gas prices through the roof — so who knows? Maybe Concorde 2.0 is next?

 

[consistentlyrepudiated]

It's quite simple: he found it wordy and tedious, yet was intrigued enough by the premise to follow the series. Many enjoy junk food while being fully aware it’s junk.

By the way, using script format for dialogue in a 3P narrative is non-standard and visually jarring, especially with only two characters. This can be easily fixed with a few well-placed speech tags.

Hate... leads to suffering.

Only when it's bottled up and not properly vented. One would have to be quite unobservant to entirely shun hate toward their fellow apes, though one might occasionally feel envious of their blissful ignorance.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Well, we do seem to be doing a remake of the 70s — going to the Moon, gas prices through the roof — so who knows? Maybe Concorde 2.0 is next?

Boom Supersonic claims they'll have something better than Concorde year after next: https://boomsupersonic.com/overture

 

[TheLobster]

Boom Supersonic claims they'll have something better than Concorde year after next: https://boomsupersonic.com/overture

Let's hope that "Boom" refers to the sound of aircraft going through the air and not into the ground.

 

[metropolinational]

It makes no sense also because one of the major problems with supersonic flight is the sonic boom. that was one of the key things Boom is trying to solve.

Anyway, I feel like they have been saying "next year" since 10 years ago...

 

[metropolinational]

By the way, using script format for dialogue in a 3P narrative is non-standard and visually jarring, especially with only two characters. This can be easily fixed with a few well-placed speech tags.

Is this for me? Did I do this? what does "script format for dialogue in a 3P narrative" even mean? 3P is third person, I assume, but script? script vs cursive?

I want to not be jarring.... I want to fix it easily! what are speech tags? html speech tags??

 

[RejectReality]

Script format is declaring the name at the beginning of every line of dialogue instead of using quotation marks.

John: What's up?

Dialogue tags are a way of doing that which is more common in prose.

"What's up?" John asked.

 

[metropolinational]

thanks @RejectReality, I was not familiar with that terminology.

I use dialogue tags for regular prose. I use the script format exclusively to indicate text messaging.

so maybe the comment from @consistentlyrepudiated was not for me?

Either way, I learned something!

 

[consistentlyrepudiated]

I want to not be jarring.... I want to fix it easily!

"Jarring" was an overstatement; on second thought, it’s all highly subjective. What’s jarring to one might be perfectly pleasing to others.

"Easily fixed" was also a bit misleading; nothing is really easy. And with the way things are going--given this autoimmune disease known as the AI frenzy--fixing things might actually push you past the ever-lowering bar of AI detectors. So you’re likely better off staying right where you are.

 

[RejectReality]

Yeah, I wouldn't edit anything nowadays. It's rarely worth it because of the low priority of approving them, and the fact that most people who will ever see whatever flub you made will have already seen it by the time the edit goes live. Now, you have the additional worry of the AI detector coughing up a hairball and deciding it was written by AI.

 

[TheLobster]

thanks @RejectReality, I was not familiar with that terminology.

I use dialogue tags for regular prose. I use the script format exclusively to indicate text messaging.

so maybe the comment from @consistentlyrepudiated was not for me?

Either way, I learned something!

There is no standard for indicating text messages or other kinds of non-spoken conversations, so you're fine pretty much whatever you choose. I just advise not to use the same formatting as actual spoken dialogue, because that's going to confuse readers (esp. if the texting is interleaved with real conversation).

 

[HollyGoQuickly]

My husband has. We’d fucked for an hour or more. we were both tired and would just stop to catch our breath and we’d fall asleep. He’d often fuck me and not cum. We’re old now and it’s not the same, but he says his greatest pleasure was watching me cum.

I can understand this completely. My Partner and I often have sex in the morning at the weekend with her coming and me not, and then revisit it that afternoon. It doesn't always happen, but when it does it makes for a very stimulating day!

 

[Biglibido99]

A few years ago I had someone leave a comment along the lines of "I hate everything you write. I cringe when you publish something new, knowing I'm going to have to read another of the world's worst stories from the world's least talented writer."

I wasn't insulted because it was so funny.

And then I started to feel bad that someone out there was being made to read my stuff under duress.

Haha, the ultimate CNC scenario - or just a complete fool

 

[Biglibido99]

Reminds me of some favourite videos I've seen on Youtube - some of the most erotic videos I've seen - called "hysterical literature" - a dig at the victorian idea that a woman having an orgasm was having a fit of hysterics (she was having a fit, for sure) - it's why woman had to ride horses side saddle (so they wouldn't get excited).
Anyway, it's a series of 12 different women, sitting at a table, reading from a book while they are being stimulate under the table to orgasm. It's so erotic to watch a woman trying to use her willpower to maintain "normality" while her body screams in exciting pleasure.
This one is my favourite - the French accent plays a minor part - it's her struggle & final succumbing to her pleasure that I find most erotic

 

[redgarters]

My percentages are different, I won’t get into that, but you can sometimes get to the point where it’s just too much bother. Like what you set out to do is now less important to you than, say, chocolate, or wine, or having a nap.

Not getting into personal percentages, but I will say that this thread is undervaluing a good nap.

 

[Annabelle1990]

I've been posting in loving wives and I've seen all kinds of things like that that make no sense there. It's a numbers game - you have to take the bad to get the good. You can't control other people.