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Oh dear.
I'm with the guy on this one. Bad video porn has infected popular culture like unchecked crabgrass. From "racy" leather allusions on "Will & Grace" to 12-year-old boys on YouTube dancing barechested while rubbing their nipples, there's no escaping the naughty wave--a wave surfed expertly by the advertising agency echo chamber and its usual enablers in the mass media.
Yes, the entire nation is officially in on the S/M, B/D, W/S scene, so it's no surprise that the girlfriend insists on playing her assigned role with the boyfriend. Trouble is, the BF, perhaps wiser than his 30 years suggests, correctly finds his lover's behavior unoriginal, embarrassing, and witless. Cringing and erections tend not to mix.
By all means, LW, run, stilettos clacking, to the nearest Good Vibrations-like outlet nearest your subdivision and loiter long enough to meet your male counterpart, ditching that boring beige guy toot sweet. Hell, eleven months is practically a lifetime! Think of all the hot wax that went undripped! The safe-words that went un-moaned!
Meanwhile, the rest of us will soldier on making our boring love, enduring our boring orgasms, and living our boring lives outside the bedroom. What misery!
