For aficionados of lesbian literature, Jeannette Howard Foster is beloved, as the author of the 1956 book, Sex Variant Women in Literature. In this wonderful and historically significant book, Foster both cited and analyzed 2,500 years of lesbian love in literature ranging from Sappho to Radclyffe Hall, including along the way writers as diverse as Ovid, Swinburne, and Verlaine. In fact, according to the new biography by Joanne Passet, Howard evaluated “an amazing 324 titles” including examples from “English, American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese literature, with the emphasis on works in English, French, and German, the languages she read fluently.” Howard dedicated over two decades of her life to the completion of Sex Variant Women in Literature, and she published the book at the age of sixty with her own money and using her own name through the vanity publisher, Vantage Press. Sex Variant Woman gives Jeanette Howard Foster the benefit of a well-researched, thorough, and engaging biography.

Born to a middle class family in Oak Park, IL in 1895, Foster’s “sexual variance” was evident to her and her family from a young age. As an undergraduate at Rockford College, a woman’s college ninety miles northwest of Chicago, Foster was able to find an environment in which she could thrive. Women’s colleges continued to provide an important space for Foster personally and intellectually in her early life. Foster was among the first women to earn a PhD in library science from the University of Chicago and served as a librarian to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Education. Throughout her life, she read and researched lesbianism and sexual variance in science and literature. Foster’s evolutions from a woman with passionate friendships at her women’s college to the lead librarian for Alfred Kinsey at his sex research institute and finally to a beloved lesbian literary icon are traced by Passet with clarity.

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Ok, so it’s been ages since I last posted, mainly because I’ve been so busy. I’m taking 20 credits of classes (the max courseload) and I have two on-campus jobs. But non-the-less, I have had some sexy adventures since my last post. It all started when I began perusing Alt.com this January and found a sub named Sarah who goes to college in a town not far from St.Paul. Basically this all started because I was in a tug-of-war with my domme side and my bi side, both yearning to come out, and so Paul agreed to letting me find myself a female friend. Sarah seemed super; my age, gorgeous, nice body, pretty smart, friendly and liberal. So after a few times chatting with her online we decided to meet up. No strings attached, right?

Well, not so much.

See, a few days before we were to meet up, she told me of her “mentor” Terry. He’s a middle-aged pyschology professor in California who she met a year ago and had become her master. They have phone- and cyber-sex/domination sessions. I was pretty open-minded, so I wasn’t really put off by it too much. She wanted Terry to guide us through her speakerphone on our first meeting, and I said, sure, sounds good, it’ll be easier for me since I’m a bit rusty.

So yah, it went ok, didn’t really go as well as I wanted it too (I ended up feeling kinda like Terry was completely running the show and I had no say, which was a blow to my eager domme side). So we talked, figured it out, and met a couple more times. I am too tired to discuss the details, but it basically involved playing with Sarah’s body (tits and pussy) and making her cum with her vibrator.

So yah, this was all good until spring term started, and the shit started to hit the fan as far as my workload. Suddenly I am a hermit working on projects, summer job apps, homework, and Sarah and Terry start to get irritated. Basically it comes down to that we are “not in the same place in live right now” and boom, I’m been dumped, I think around beginning of March.

That’s the short and sweet version. There was a hell of a lot of drama, anger, frustration, sadness, helplessness and etc, especially since there were multiple people involved (4 in total– me, Sara, Terry and Paul). But hell, that’s what happens in a lot of relationships, so no real loss. In fact, I regained my perspective that dating sucks and stable relationships are much easier to handle.

I will say though that I am glad I had the experiences I had. Being with a woman is so great. I am jealous of boys who get to play with girls all the time! The pussy is an enchanting thing, I swear. Man, when she gets wet, it just makes ya tingle, like “hey, I did that, I’m turning her on!” And the feeling of another woman’s breasts against mine… holy shit, so hot. I totally condone experimentation with the same sex during college, it’s such a mind-blowing experience. Be safe and sane, of course, but yah, it’s awesome. And Sarah was such an amazing sub. Such submission, she really had it perfected. It was a shame we didn’t have the chemistry or the time for it to work out.

At least I can say that I have satified my curiousity for now, and god knows I’ve learned alot. That’s all for now folks, can’t promise regular posting, but hey, at least you got a post, right?

Ciao!

So right now is completely rockin’ cuz Paul’s roommate is taking a month off and spending it in his hometown with his family, so I’ve kinda taken his spot and moved in with Paul. Hooray, finally we can have naked parties again! (that’s our name for when we hang out in our room naked for hours on end) It’s been super fun, and we’ve really livened up the place.

It all started when we went to Sex World to check out the porn selection. We don’t have any dirty movies, and were asking ourselves “why the hell not?” We started to look around and I found a section of Jenna Jameson films. I figured, hey, I’d heard of her but didn’t know what she was about. Well, I was in ecstasy at the things she does. She does lots of girl/girl stuff, and even quite a bit of bondage! I was very happy with this. We didn’t buy anything cuz prices were really high and there wasn’t as much selection as I would have liked to see, but the point was that I had a new hero.

The next day, we went to the mall and stopped at Spencers to look around. I decided to look at the posters, cuz hey, they have lots of eye candy. All of a sudden I saw this gem on the right. How hot is that? I thought, very, so I bought it. I had also had an idea earlier that day that Paul and I should have a sex journal, to jot our thoughts in, give eachother ideas, feedback, etc. As I perused Spencers I found a really nice Playboy notebook with a lace up binding, so we got that and deemed it our “Everything-Involving-Sex Shared Journal.” I also bought a Playboy 2006 lingerie calendar, because, well, Playboy girls are hot as hell. So that was our first little sexy adventure.

The next day we decided to go shopping again. This time to Menards. See, we’ve been thinking about buying some rope to enhance the bondage part of our sex life, and finally decided to act on it. We ended up having Billy go with us, mainly just cuz he had stopped over to our dorm to get some things and check out the newly rearranged room, and figured it’s be fun to have him along. We wandered around Menards for a while, eventually finding rope, and bought 50 ft of all-purpose, medium weight synthetic rope that seemed like it would be comfortable to be bound up in. It could handle 157 lbs, so I think we’re good. On the way to the check out line, I saw a dowel rod display and remembered a do-it-yourself idea my ex-boyfriend had had about canes used for spanking. instead of paying prices upwards of $20 and more plus having it shipped, we bought a $0.48 dowel rod, about a 1/4 inch diameter, and I made a handle for it. I will take a pic of it later, here’s kinda what it looks like, tho the handle of ours is white and has a loop for hanging.

We also bought a wooden hairbrush at Target, cuz I just wanted on to try for spanking, as it has a different feel than my plastic one. Lots of additions, eh? I am super excited to try out all our new stuff and come up with all sorts of creative ideas on how to incorporate many items in our sex drawer in a single setting. Oh, and Paul and I ended up ordering two Jenna Jameson DVDs online; they’ll be coming sometime this week. Ciao!

Wow, I had so much fun on Saturday night. For those who don’t know much about the BDSM scene, a switch is a person who can be either a sub or a dom, is pretty versatile. Do some research to get a less broad description. But yah, so last night I totally got the best of both worlds. I had been looking in our supersex deck and saw a card called the blind man strip. I was intrigued, so I decided to try it. I blindfolded Paul after having him take off all his clothes, tied his hands behind his back, then started to strip, telling him what I was taking off and rubbing my skin against his. His comment afterwards was that it was very erotic. Then I had him lay down and started riding him, teasing him very well. Fun fun.

At this point I told him to take the blindfold off, and when he did, he told me he was going to put it on me. He proceeded to do so, then manhandled me down onto my back and started fucking me at a fast pace. I was really getting riled up, when he slowed down the rhthym considerably. I whined a little, he told me no, and I proceeded to wiggle my hips toward his cock, at which point he flipped me over and gave me a bit of a spanking, just enough to get my attention. Eventually I got on my hands and knees where we had some wonderful doggy-style, ending with both of us coming hard. It was great.

I have three words for you, ladies and gentlemen: Bondage is fun.

So yah, it’s been a while since I posted. It’s been really hectic with school and all, only time for a little fooling around here and there, never any really long awesome sessions. But recently for some reason things have picked up again.

The first thing actually started at the sex show (see prev entry). As I was shopping I saw some clit stimulators and remembered good ol’ Talk Sex with Sue Johanson (see sidebar for fanlist link, the one with the pink vibrator/dildo) when she would turn on a “pocket rocket” vibrator and set it upright on the table, letting it dance and spin across the desk as it vibrated. I thought, jeez, why don’t I have one of those? I haven’t yet explored much into sex toys, but hey, no time like the present, right? So while at the sex show, we got some coupons from Fantasy Gifts for 15% off any purchase in their store on University Ave, and the other night Paul and I went there. I had a hell of a time choosing a vibe, cuz there was an uber 3 speed Doc Johnson one (for those who don’t know, Doc Johnson is a very well-known and reliable brand of sex products) that was $42, then there was the 1 speed for $32, then there was a bunch of off brand ones that ranged from $12 to $20. In the end, I settled for a pink off brand one for $15, and then we went home with our spoils. I haven’t really used it yet due to that time of the month, but I can’t wait to soon.

Anyway, after we got back, I said, “Paul, don’t we have more sex stuff somewhere?” He said yah, there’s stuff in his closet and his drawer and on his shelf. I decided that we should consolidate all our sex stuff into one place, so we cleaned out one of Paul’s drawers and put everything in there: the new clit vibe, the incense and candle, my lingerie, the dirty mags, the glow in the dark massage lotion, the nipple stimulating liquid, the large bottle of lube, the condoms and the Supersex card deck. I can’t wait to try all this stuff out, it makes me excited every time I look in that drawer now! Well, all for now, cya!

Hello my friends! Yesterday was a wonderful day for sex, so wonderful that I actually brought myself to finally post something in this blog. The reason? The International Sex And So Much More Show! Basically, it’s a big trade show that’s been going on in Canada for years, and they decided to try it in the US, and guess what the guinea pig city was: our very own Minneapolis! So yah, it was at the Minneapolis convention center, and boy was it awesome! There were a ton of booths, of course, just like any other trade show, but the content was a bit different: Deja Vu gentlemen’s club, erotic chocolates, belly dancing clothing and lessons, Flex Appeal (tagline: “awake your inner stripper), and tons of sex shops had huge displays of their merchandise. I was in heaven. Pure Pleasure, XXX Adult Superstore, Love Doctor and Fantasy Gifts were among the sex shops that were there. I was sad though that neither Sex World (the 2 story sex shop in the red light district in Minneapolis with the giant coin operated rideable penis) nor Smitten Kitten (the female oriented sex shop that did a seminar at Hamline last year) was at this large show tho.

Anyway, so my experience there was amazing. First of all, there was a big stage in the middle of it all with two jumbotrons. Paul and I got there just in time for the Burleque troope. They weren’t particularly good, the one solo dancer had no boobs and visible stretch marks… not the most attractive thing in the world. So for them, not so impressed. The thing that was really awesome? They had a woman with the stage name of “Kitty Meow” who was in full body black latex and a cat-woman-esque mask come out and do a routine. Wowowowow, it was insane. There was a bowl of milk at the front of the stage, and with fucked up techno blaring, she crawled up to it and started pouring it all over the black latex outfit and herself, rubbing it on her chest, etc. I think everyone there was not quite sure what to think; I meanwhile, was just in awe cuz I had never gotten to see anything like that in real life (I had been exposed to latex bondage before because one of my ex-boyfriends loved that stuff).

So that was my first awesome part, then next came when we decided to shop. We were walking around, and this guy at a booth asks if I could put his product on my hand. You know how in malls a salesperson will try and get you to try their lotion by asking to put it on your hand? Well, instead of fragrant lotion, he squirted a drop of lube on my fingertip! At first I’m like, no thank you, but then, upon rubbing the stuff between my fingers for a moment, then another moment, then another… I realized that this was incredibly good lube! So we went back over to the booth, thoroughly impressed and ready to buy, and when we got there, we saw that he had a little game set up called ’spin the chick’. Basically there was a little saucer sled rigged up to spin in a circle with a mat under it that had numbers like 2 oz, 4 oz, 8 oz, 16 oz, 32 oz. For $5 (the price of a 2 oz bottle) I could play and win whatever amount I landed on. So I played, a bunch of people gathered round and he haucked his product like any good salesman does. I landed on a 4 oz, and I won an 8 oz bottle for being a good contestant! It was awesome, and now I have more lube than I ever thought I would need.

Next we went back next to the stage area for one of the seminars that was starting. This one was titled “The Big O” seminar. Yah, this place was that awesome. The lecture itself was not too great cuz it was mainly two women talking about different products they sold for increasing probability of orgasms/ multiple orgasms, but it was cool anyway, they talked about different positions that help, which was neat. After that we went back to the stage where they had a belly dancer. She was fruckin awesome! Beautiful outfit and boy could she shake that thing! I was mesmerized to say the least. I’m so pissed that I couldn’t take pictures tho.

Before we left, we bought a 52 pack of cards with different ways to spice up the sex life. It looks like it will be a ton of fun, here’s the box:

see its here.

So that was my afternoon yesterday. What a fun time. And even more of a fun time once we got back to the dorms that night. Bye ya’ll!

So, last night was quite fun, as the title of this post might imply. At about 10pm we went out to a bonfire that Paul’s brother was putting on. It was fun, but we had to behave ourselves, which almost made me more horny to have to hold back even though my sweetie was right there. So eventually we decided to go off and have a little fun of our own. We were in the park, and Paul’s like “you know, we’ve never had sex on a Big Toy.” So we go over to the playground equipment, and I bent over the steps to one of the platforms, and hiked up the skirt I was wearing, exposing my panties to him. He pulled my panties down to my thighs, then spanked me with his hand there, in the dark for a few minutes. Unfortunately then Paul saw some people go over and sit on a park bench about 100-200 feet away in plain view of where we were, so we decided to leave. But still, it was fun being spanked again.

Oh sad, it has been forever since I’ve posted! Part of it was that I was home alot this month, not to mention the 7 days I was incapible of fucking (grr), but in general we have not done all too much. Not to many recent sex adventures, just normal, awesome sex. I don’t get spanked as much anymore (since anyway awake on my side of the hall can hear it from our dorm room, so we have to wait till late when everyone is dead asleep, and by then we are too tired).

Oh oh! One new thing though, we came up with a new sex position recently, it’s really nice for me. I love it when Paul plays with/fondles my tits, and I wanted to figure out a way to incorporate that during sex, a surprisingly hard thing to do. The only way we usually can had tit fondling is if I’m on top, and Paul doesn’t get off very well when I’m riding him (mainly cuz the condom deadens the sensation). So, I came up with a new position. Basically, it’s a modified doggie style, but instead of my hands being on the bed, my hands are against the headboard (or where the headboard would be if I had one). Therefore, I’m still on my knees and Paul can ram his cock in my pussy with ease, but also, my upper body is more vertical and he can grab at my tits from behind. Yah, it’s a bit of a balancing act, thrusting and grabbing at the tits, but it seems to work rather well, and is awesome for me.

Well, I gotta get goin’, but I promise to post more for the last 2.5 weeks of school. After that, I may not be posting as much, for I will be in my hometown while Paul stays in his up here, then in June I will be starting my summer job at a Girl Scout resident camp out in the middle of nowhere, and will only have the weekends off. I’m sure the sex we have on the occasions we are together will be a-fucking-mazing, and on that I will keep you posted. Ttyl ya’ll!

A while ago, Paul and I went over to his house while no one was home and we took a very sexually charged shower together. It was very fun, and we decided that we should do it again sometime. However, since Will moved into the Sawyer house and Mrs. Sawyer has shitloads of paid vacation to spend, there is rarely no one home. Plus, we almost never go over to Paul’s anymore, we just fuck in the dorm room, and since I have no roommate now, he just sleeps in the dorm with me.

But we wanted shower sex dammit.

A couple of nights ago we were both kinda dirty and sweaty from the day, and it was about 3 in the morning, and we decided, what the hell, let’s go to the guys bathroom and take a shower together. No one should be up anyway, right? So we get ready and Paul walks into the bathroom, then gives me the OK and I run into the bathroom and hide behind the shower curtain. We then stripped down naked, turned on the warm water and got ourselves nice and wet. We embraced, and the warm water washed over us, it was very sensual and romantic. We were just about to start washing each other and wash our hair when a random guy walked into the bathroom. I made sure to be extremely quiet as he did his business, but then as he left, he turned off the light. That asshole. I, too surprised to keep my mouth shut, said “Shit! What the fuck?!” Then put my hand over my mouth because I forgot I needed to be quiet. Luckily, I’m 99% sure no one heard me, and if they did, I don’t think they found out it was me, or I’m sure I would have gotten a stern talking-to by my RA by now.

But yah, so poor Paul had to get out of the shower wet and naked and walk across the bathroom in complete darkness to find the lightswitch. He successed, luckily, then came back to the shower for more fun. We began to wash eachother, he soaped up my shoulders, breasts and stomach, and I lathered up his shoulders, back and groin area, making him quite a bit aroused. Then we washed our hair. After that, I started stroking his cock, getting him about three-quarters hard. I decided that was good enough and turned around, exposing my ass and pussy to him. He went for it, of course, pressing me against the wall of the shower stall, half-bent over and on my tip-toes (I’m about 4-6 inches shorter than him). He fucked me for a while, and it was awesome. He went a bit softer though, so I was like, lets finish up and go back to my room where I can really pleasure you. So we dried off, and when we got back to the room he said, oh by the way, I can’t usually get completely hard when he’s in water. I shrugged and said that that was alright, cuz the only wettness that cock would be feeling now would give the exact opposite effect. And fade to black (I think we can all figure out what happened next) Yah, the sex was awesome. So yah, that was fun, and I’m sure we will be doing that again sometime. ttyl ya’ll!

Whoa it’s been a while since the last post, but I guess I’ve just been so content watching the hits count up that I forgot about the posting thing ! Well, and I suppose I was too busy having great sex, just maybe . No real post-worthy stories tho until recently. Wanna know what happened last Tuesday?

Paul fingered me in a brickyard.

Hehe, don’t worry, I’ll explain. A couple of weeks ago Paul and I went to my hometown, and we went to a park that had a limestone quarry in which one could find little fossils in the rocks. Paul later decided that he was going to take me to an area in his neck of the woods where we could find fossils. That placed happened to be the old abandoned Lilydale brickyard. They had large shale deposits there that had all sorts of little fossils in them. The area itself is very secluded, to get to the different deposits we had to hike through some wooded areas.

First we did some fossil hunting, then we hiked a little farther into the brickyard and found a really cool ravine with a little waterfall and everything. It was a warm day, and we were hot and sweaty from all the hiking, so we sat down by the cliffs where a cool breeze wafted through the ravine. We sat next to eachother, and hugged, then we started to kiss… then kiss more fiercely. He started to feel me up, and that turned me on. I was wearing a really low-cut shirt, and I pulled the collar down with my hand, exposing my breast to him. Slowly and senuously he licked and kissed my nipple, which just turned me on more and more. I moved to face him, straddling his legs as he continued to suck, nip and lick my now hard nipples. I moved my hand to his crotch and felt as he got hard. This made me just want to suck it, so I asked him if I could take it out to play. He told me not to ask such silly obvious questions, and I unzipped his pants, exposing his now fully erect member. I licked the tip and started to suck slowly on the head, making him moan softly. I let my mouth slowly move down the shaft, taking him all in, then out, then in. Then he started rubbing between my legs and touching my still-exposed breasts. I moved my hips up to give him better access, and then I pulled down my waistband, giving him permission to feel me there. He ran his fingers along my very wet slit, then started rubbing my clit. I moaned wantingly, and he began to rub faster and faster, making me hornier and hornier. He groped my breast as he fingered me, which just drove me wild. So yah, there we were, sitting on a hill of shale in a ravine, and Paul’s vigorously fingering my clit to orgasm. Oh oh, it was good. On the way back, all Paul had to say was “I’m glad you’re such a horny person.”

I’m glad too.