Feature image of Barbary Rose and Rion Rhodes in Crash Pad Series episode 277. All of the photographs in this NSFW Sunday are from the Crash Pad. The inclusion of a visual here should not be interpreted as an assertion of the model’s gender identity or sexual orientation. If you’re a photographer or model and think your work would be a good fit for NSFW Sunday, please email carolyn at autostraddle dot com.
Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
Emma Claire and Lilian Rose in Crash Pad Series episode 283
“I planned on dying alone. Then I realized how comfortable love could be.” At the Cut, Samantha Irby wrote about falling in love with her wife, commitment and how there is no perfect romance:
“We spend so much time believing that there is a perfect person out there waiting for us and that our life’s primary directive is to tirelessly hunt that person down until finally we catch them and convince them to fall in love with our “quirks.” Cue taking off our glasses to signify the start of a makeover montage, passionately kissing in an airport, and the part where we spend the rest of our lives gazing at them over a farmhouse sink and pristine marble countertops in a clean and sunny Nancy Meyers kitchen. Most couples haven’t come together at the end of a fairy-tale rainbow! I imagine most courtships are like “He went to law school with my brother and we like the same shows and the sex is fine; I guess I’ll die with him” and you know what? THAT’S GREAT.”
Please join me in also now having this Sylvan Esso song stuck in your head.
La Muxer Diosa and Zoie Blackheart in Crash Pad Series episode 281
Here’s how to have sex in your childhood bedroom if that’s your life this week.
Here’s what’s up in your sex life in 2020 by astrological sign. (Don’t forget to check your Venus.)
At Oh Joy Sex Toy, Salem discussed their first orgy.
“SantaCon at a sex shop is a very specific hell.”
Cinnamon Maxxine and Kissy Burgundy in Crash Pad Series episode 288
Will 2020’s CES finally reward sex tech innovation?
Casual reminder that the relationship escalator is a bad way to think of any relationship and an especially bad way to think of non-monogamous relationships.
If your partner is sick, when do you take the day off work?
Your asshole is a vortex. Here’s how to have anal safely.
Adina Powers and Scout in Crash Pad Series episode 286
In an interview about her poetry collection Porn Carnival, Rachel Rabbit White discusses pleasure versus desire, why the best sex comes from overlapping fantasies, living your life like you’re the protagonist, and sex as self-expression:
“Sex can be a vehicle for self-expression and it can be a theater; sex doesn’t have to be serious, and sex can be anything. The most important thing I’ve learned is how to make boundaries a part of your seduction, your flirtation, an inherent part of your sex. I think that the first thing to realize to have a good relationship with pleasure is that enjoyment (the consumption of pleasure as a commodity) is not everything, that pleasure is not everything, that our sexuality and sexiness is not all that there is.”
Ugh Santacon. They came in a few times when I was working at Noir Leather in Royal Oak, but we only got a few and were a little better equipped to repel them. We didn’t have a union but we did have carte blanche to use the impact toys on rowdy people.
*SHOUTS LOUDLY*
Send in the heavy hitters
For someone who’s not ‘usually’ subby, you lot are having a definite impact!
I’m not sure that’s going to deter any Santas from being naughty
I’m good with their Claus…
We need to show some elf-control
Another shot taken while working
Damnit if I’d seen the claws joke first I would have posted the store cat, Mila!
Full title: Mistress Mila, Eating With Fur
Long story
I like eating furry things
CAN YOU CONTROL THIS ELF
Granted, the three ring collar really helps keep her under wraps
I can’t control mys-elf let alone that one
I successfully evoked the elf pic again so I’m gonna go with yes 😝
Damn I elf’d up!
Either way you win, you’re welcome
Carte blanche to use impact toys on rowdy people? What a wonderful job! Well I have no idea how the rest of the working day was … but hey, I would like that! And I think I would be highly qualified, I am quite good at delivering physical impact. *whack!*
It was a wonderful job. Most fun I’ve ever had at work.
*Actual picture taken at the store while working*
It wasn’t all fun and glamour though. We had our share of drama and low paid desperation. And obnoxious assholes are a problem year round.
I haven’t the present~s of mind to add comments with any sting, but I see and appreciate all your santanic antics
OW that string was pun-ishment enough
This present is tied up with strings
Just a few of your favorite things
Not actually sure if I want to unwrap that gift or not
Lol what does it say about me that the first thing I do is look at costume construction, and consider cut and materials.
Also, incidentally, is this an example of trisexual sitting?
Some people will tri any old chair!
And I think that says it all
And yes consider your materials carefully before cutting
Natasha Stagg’s interview of Rachel Rabbit White is outstanding!
Highly recommended if you feel in the mood to toy with the idea of pleasure.
Just got around to reading this and I totally agree! Damn.
Nope CES hasn’t learned their lesson. They even got Ivanka as their guest speaker. They can’t handle sex toys, but this is okay?