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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:00 AM

Sexual chocolate

A new candy bar for the ladies hungers to be an orgasmic experience.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:40 PM

Sexual Chocolate

My oldest, 36, has called me sexual chocolate for at least sixteen years....and a candy bar had to steal my alternate ego?

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 07:46 PM

to clear up my thoughts

Women are hypersexual, omnisexual, and insatiable

If only

-- dick dworkin

I should have also said that fantasy and concern does not automatically translate into action, specifically with what many women perceive around them to be men who are not worthy.

Women fancy themselves hypersexual, but only to lovely men, unlike those they can typically get. Also, by omnisexual, I meant that women get turned on both by men and women, and many are aware of this, many do not care.

By insatiable, I merely meant women do peak, some women, in orgasm, but they do not really clear out their systems like men do when men orgasm. The peaking is more like dancing along a pleasure peak rather than an all encompassing rocketlike rise like men experience. It would not be surprising that therefore women are relatively insatiable compared to men, who feel quite fulfilled after one orgasm.

The sexuality does not permeate men's lives

Having sex may not permeate men's lives but sexuality certainly does.

-- dick dworkin

Men link sex to hot women, to doing things with hot women, or watching hot women do things. Thus, men fixate on a relatively small subset of potential experiences that include sexuality.

Women tend to view sexuality as part of a larger complete whole that includes everything around them, the man merely being one part.

Men have a set and forget mentality towards getting sex. They play a role when the chance arises, but most men do not turn their whole lives into a chase for better relationships. Women do, even today, still do this though, at least when they are not overtly obese, and therefore relatively unattractive to most men, in which case they tend to shut down that part of their lives.

Just watch a sexual, smart, libertine woman one day. Her whole life is a sexual wonderland, visible to you or me if we only look closely.

As for the chocolate comment and men vs women vs sales, it's been a couple of years since I read this. I could not even tell you where I read it anymore.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 07:45 AM

The sexuality does not permeate men's lives

Having sex may not permeate men's lives but sexuality certainly does.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 07:43 AM

Women are hypersexual, omnisexual, and insatiable

If only

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:46 AM

And it's a hard call...

...which company who used to make good chocolate now produces the worst stuff. I figure it's a dead heat between Hershey's, Mars, and Cadbury--with a special prize to Russell Stover for always being horrible.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:07 AM

@Brightstar...

"second, chocolate is a harder sell to women than to men, (I know, I was shocked when I read the stats too). Men apparently buy more and better quality chocolate and consume more chocolate than do women."

Really. Wow. I would never have figured that--seriously. Where did you read that?

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:17 PM

Not only does this product look less-than-delicious...

...the advertising is singularly ill-informed about its so-called target market. Everyone knows that dark chocolate gives one much more of a...rush than that wimpy milk chocolate. Especially, as another poster noted, if it's churned out by "10% cocoa and that's it" Mars. :)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 05:35 PM

hmm, embarassing and condescending behavior from a regrettable company

first off, someone else said it, Mars does not make real chocolate, more like brown hydrogenated wax bars with some cocoa so they can call it chocolate.

second, chocolate is a harder sell to women than to men, (I know, I was shocked when I read the stats too). Men apparently buy more and better quality chocolate and consume more chocolate than do women.

third, the ad is embarrassing now, because it implies women will not buy something unless it comes with a special prize at the end, which belittles women, who try hard to actually do more than be pneumatic dollies, even if self actuated.

fourth, the ad will be MORE embarrassing years from now, fortunately for Mars more than for women, but it will be looked at as that women are less than men because it takes such blatant salesmanship to get women to move onto a product.

Can you imagine a chocolate marketed to men called a Pleasure Stick? of course not, it is utterly ridiculous. Women are hypersexual, omnisexual, and insatiable. Men are just neutral eunuchs, forever aspiring to be more than that.

The sexuality does not permeate men's lives, like it does with women, making women seem shallow.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 03:14 PM

This is my ad for FLING.

LADIES! Do you love pink sparkly shoppingy sexy fashiony trendy glittery stuff? I KNOW I DO! That's why I'm going to rush right out and buy FLING, the hottest new candy bar to hit the market since EVER!

http://www.flingchocolate.com/

When I eat it, I'm going to be sure to savor each of the shimmery chocolate fingers, feeling naughty but not that naughty, out in public. So basically it'll be sort of like my special alone time when I pleasure myself with this tasty delight, except I won't be touching myself, I'll be eating fingers of fabulousness that gleam attractively in the sun, and I won't even need four AA batteries.

And wait! It gets EVEN BETTER!!!!! In case I have any questions about FLING, I can navigate its scorching hot website to this FAQ:

http://www.flingchocolate.com/faq.htm

I'm really glad I read the FAQ, girls, because all my life I've been wondering what meringue is, and now when I eat lemon meringue pie I know that the stuff on top is a BAKING thing, not magical whipped up fairy dust made from the ground-up horns of unicorns. I'm also so excited to find out that chocolate melts in the sun, because if I bought FLING and left it out in my Mazda Miata convertible all day in the blazing heat, it would get all smooshy and I wouldn't be able to "pleasure [my]self with this chocolate sensation time and time again." So that's why when I've tried to do it with Mr. Twix he can't ever keep it up!

So ladies, let's all take a hot road trip to California, since that's the only place this must-have chocolate is being sold. And on the way, we can be sure to have three or four naked pillow fights to burn up all 85 of the calories in FLING, cause Jesus knows there's no better way to stay in shape than to have sexy semi-lesbian encounters with eight of your closest friends. Especially if they're all wearing pink and carrying cute purses, WHICH, OF COURSE, WE ARE!!!!

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