I'm a cis male in my late twenties. I've recently become consumed by a specific fantasy I fear is unattainable, a fear that has been made worse by several failed attempts to research it.
A little background: except for a couple dates and make-out sessions with other men, my sex life has always been exclusively with women. I've had male crushes and often thought I might be bi or pan, despite never masturbating to thoughts of men or gay porn. (Don't worry, Dan: I'm not going to ask if I'm gay. I promise.) In general, I've led a privileged sex life. I've never been broken up with and it's rare for me to experience any form of rejection. But in early 2020, my libido vanished. I stopped masturbating and only orgasmed once or twice a month when my...
I'm a cis male in my late twenties. I've recently become consumed by a specific fantasy I fear is unattainable, a fear that has been made worse by several failed attempts to research it.
A little background: except for a couple dates and make-out sessions with other men, my sex life has always been exclusively with women. I've had male crushes and often thought I might be bi or pan, despite never masturbating to thoughts of men or gay porn. (Don't worry, Dan: I'm not going to ask if I'm gay. I promise.) In general, I've led a privileged sex life. I've never been broken up with and it's rare for me to experience any form of rejection. But in early 2020, my libido vanished. I stopped masturbating and only orgasmed once or twice a month when my now ex-girlfriend would insist that we have sex. But then a couple of weeks ago I began imagining being one half of a loving gay couple that replaced all MM penetrative sex with MMF sex. My sex life with my male partner would revolve around the two of us going out and finding submissive women for kinky threesomes. Since then, I've been masturbating to this fantasy daily and Iâm excited at the possibility of finding a new lifestyle that brings me a lot of joy. However, I've grown concerned that nothing else seems to turn me on at all. Equally as concerning, even minor adjustments to this fantasy ruins the whole thing. And to fulfill I'd need a man who's at least all of the following:
1. Sensitive, giving, easy-going, and an all-around good guy.
2. Very physically attractive.
3. Into cuddling and general affection, some make-out sessions, and occasional hand jobs and blow jobsâbut absolutely no penetrative sex or anal play.
4. Into picking up submissive women for MMF threesomes.
5. Into penetrative sex with said women.
6. Into using roleplay and D/s to take out our kinks on said women.
7. Into giving me the more dominant role.
Now for my questions: Does anyone like this actually exist? Is there a name for the fetish I'm describing? Does it have a community? Is it similar to any more accessible fetishes out there? Does my loss of libido and this specific fantasy say something about me that I'm too close to see?
Can Anyone Tell Me Anything Now
First and most importantly, CATMAN, kinks arenât things you âtake outâ on other people. Theyâre things you share and enjoy with other people. Perhaps that âtake out onâ was a slip of the tongue or a little premature dirty talk; lots of people into D/s get off on talking about their kinksâBB or TT or CBTâas if theyâre things a sadistic Dom gets off on doing to a helpless sub. Thatâs the fantasy, CATMAN, but in reality, the Dom and sub discuss their desires in advance, identify areas of overlap, and set limits. (Not just bottoms; tops have limits too.) However brutal things may look to someone who wasnât a part of those negotiations, however degrading things might sound, kink play is consensual and mutually pleasurableâand if itâs not consensual and mutually pleasurable, CATMAN, then itâs not kink play. Itâs sexual assault.
Again, maybe it was a slip of the tongue and Iâm being a dick; you did mention a desire to find submissive women, CATMAN, which most likely means you were planning to seek out women who wanna be âused and abusedâ by two hot bi guys in love. And youâre in luck: there are definitely women out there who would into this scenarioâsome readers probably went all WAP reading your questionâbut youâre unlikely to meet those women on a night out. Meaning, you shouldnât be thinking about casually picking women up, CATMAN, but rather cultivating connections online or at kink events with submissive women who would into subbing for you and your imaginary boyfriend.
Finding a guy who meets your long list of particulars is a taller order. It frankly doesnât sound like youâre looking for a partner, i.e. someone whose needs you want to meet, but rather a guy you can plug into your masturbatory fantasies. Heâs gotta be bi but not into butt stuff, a good guy, a hot guy, a sub where youâre concerned and a Dom where women are concerned⌠and any deviation from that long list not only disqualifies him from consideration for your life partner-in-crime, making each and every item on that long list a deal breaker.
Relationships require compromise, CATMAN, no one gets everything they want, and a long list of deal breakers makes for even longer odds. If you canât budge on any of the items on your list⌠well, then you might wanna think about getting yourself sex doll or two. You also might wanna give some thought not just to your long and rigid list of deal breakers, but to why that list is so long and rigid that youâre unlikelyâas you suspectâto ever find someone.
Zooming outâŚ
You say your libido tanked in early 2020, CATMAN, and studies show youâre not alone. The twin pandemicsâthe COVID-19 pandemic and the stupidity pandemicâhave tanked a lot of peopleâs libidos. So, if this fantasy is working for you right now, I think you should lean into it. It may be a tall order, it may be so unrealistic as to be unachievable, but indulging in this very specific fantasy has cracked your libido open and continuing to beat off about this fantasy might blow your libido wide open.
I donât like to pathologize peopleâs kinks or attach meaning to what are usually arbitrary, random, and inexplicable sexual interests. But the taller the order, the less likely it can be filled, CATMAN, and itâs possible you may not want it filled at allâat least subconsciously, at least right now. Sometimes when sex is scary we obsess about fantasies that are impossible to realize or partners whoâre impossible to find because it allows us to avoid partnered sex. I know at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic I was obsessed with a guy I couldnât have because it got me off the hook. My list of deal breakers at that time was ironically pretty short: He had to be Tommy. If he wasnât Tommy, I wasnât interested. Tommy was amazingâtotally obsession-worthyâand I did love him. But I know now that I threw myself into my obsession with Tommy to protect myself from a terrifying epidemic.
Maybe youâre doing something similar, CATMAN. But if Iâm wrongâif this is what you wantâthere are cities out there with kink communities large enough for two partnered bi guys to find a steady stream of submissive women who wanna sub for them. But your list of deal breakers is going to have to shrink if you ever hope to find a guy whoâs close to what you want. And thatâs all any of us ever gets, CATMAN. Something close.
I'm a 39-year-old gay man living in Chicago. Recently a good friend of mine got engaged to a wonderful man from Gambia in West Africa. Sheâs planning a ceremony there next summer and has invited me to attend. After doing a little research I found out that being LGBT is a crime in that country and the punishment is execution. Should I go to the wedding and stay in the closet the whole time? In general, what do you think about gays traveling to countries that murder our LGBT brothers and sisters?
Intensely Nervous Venturing Into This Event
I wouldnât go, INVITE, and if I were a straight girl, I wouldnât expect my gay friends to risk their lives in order to attend my wedding. While a quick search didnât bring up news about any gay westerners being executed in Gambia in recent history, gay tourists have been arrested, imprisoned, and fined. So instead of attending your friendâs wedding next summerâwhich may not even happen, due to the pandemicâmake a donation in her name to Initiative Sankofa DâAfrique de lâOuest (www.ISDAO.org), an organization working to improve the lives and legal position of LGBT people in Gambia and other West African nations.
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