Sasha White

One of my favorite bloggers has offered to be my first Guest HNT!!
Seriously, I love this couple…check out their Blissfully Wed blog.

Happy HNT!

I have a little giveaway going on over at the Passionate Prose blog today. Go check it out!!

Yesterday I posted a unique challenge, and the prize is a few books, ebook and Print.

Vivi Anna has donated a copy of INFERNO, and Babe In The Woods, is the eBook Lorelei James has donated!! Kimberly Terry has donated a copy of Pull My Hair, and Arianna Hart is offering up Winners Choice from her backlist!!

Want to know more…read on!

BABE IN THE WOODS

…Animal attraction takes on a whole new meaning

Manhattanite Lacy Buchanan is out to prove she’s a tough cookie by signing up for a survivalist hiking trip in Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. The last thing she expected was to get lost, forcing her to spend the rest of the hike alone with surly, too-sexy mountain man, Becker, who blames her entirely for their predicament. After Becker saves her from a rattlesnake, and gently calms her fears, Lacy feels lucky to be in his experienced hands.

But Sam Becker isn’t really a hiking expert. He’s strictly the moneyman in Back To Nature Guided Hiking Tours and a last minute, temporary fill-in guide. He can’t believe his bad luck when his reluctant charge—a mouthy, but hot, blonde bombshell—pulverizes their only compass, destroying their chances of following the coordinates to base camp. Yet something about Lacy’s trusting nature makes him want fulfill her idea he’s her rugged hero.

As Sam and Lacy attempt to find a way out of the treacherous mountain passes, their natural instincts take them…farther away from civilized behavior and straight into the mating calls of the wild.

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that my freinds who all seemed so eager to pose for me, have suddenly become shy. So I’ve been using my own picts for Half Nekkid Thursday. Whilel i do plan to take a lot of pictures at the conference, I thought it would be fun to see if any of YOU want to guest HNT on my blog?

If you’re intersted..send me a pic, and be entered to win a suprise prize from me!

This offer ends Sunday morning when I pick a winner. (Probably around Noon EST). *grin*

Here’s the main guidelines you need to remember when submitting them to me… and rememebr *I* personally find it a great way to celebrate the beauty of us all…normal real people. So have fun with it.

~ In that North American, Puritanical way that most of my readers think, “Nekkid”, or its variations, somehow insinuates sex, or its variations. WRONG!! The purpose of “Half-Nekkid Thursday” is not to see sex acts! It is the celebration of exposure. Of your big toe. Of your breastbone. Of your knuckles. Of your uvula. Whatever. Of course, sex acts can qualify, so if you want to post those…..

~”Nekkid” is not the same as nude! Again, nude qualifies, but it is not a requirement!

~Pictures should be taken of you or by you. Don’t be going to some internet site and downloading “Half-Nekkid” pics. And don’t use Uncle Bob’s pictures from Spring Break ‘72, either. Let’s try to keep this fairly “real”.

~You don’t necessarily have to be the subject of the picture. By the same token, if you’re not, then the subject(s) should be known to you. No fair going to the beach and snapping pictures left and right. Yes, they might be “Half-Nekkid”, but they don’t follow the spirit of “Half-Nekkid Thursday”.

Okay, Sorry I’ve been pretty much MIA for a while. I finished WICKED and SEXY DEVILS, and went back to work ~ and during it all I had a hellish head cold and the flu.

But, I also managed to go to my very first Kink event. As in, it was like a writers confernce but it was BDSM focused. :) I took seminars on military scenes, BDSM and the law, and my fave, Degrees of Power, Degrees of Freedom. It was awesome stuff.

I admit it, I was a bit nervous to go, especially by myself, but I’m brave. And it was well worth it. I met some amazingly open and helpful people. I learned a lot, and saw a lot! Yup, there was a play party on Sat and Sunday night, I went to the one on Sat night and got my first real good look at a Dungeon full of people doing their thing. (Not having sex, but things like spanking, flogging, ropes, or sensation play.)

And yes, I dipped my toe in too. *blush* Some people might say I jumped in, but I don’t think of it that way. LOL All I did was let someone tie me up. I really wanted to experience the whole rope Shibari thing! And I had met the couple I let do it before, so I felt safe.

It was… interesting. I haven’t really had a lot of time to go over it in my mind yet.. but I do know I learned one thing about my own views of D/s and such that weekend. For Me, it’s all about the sexual aspect of things. Which makes sense when you read my stories, the D/s play is all centered around bedroom antics/lust/desires and needs. But clearly, that is not all there is to BDSM, and it’s not that way for everyone.

I’ll write more about this stuff later, like I said, I haven’t really had a chance to think about all I saw/learned when I was there because of everything else going on. But I had to at least tell you all that I did it. I finally got to be tied up!!

Look at THIS BOOK

I want one. Not just because of the amazingly beatuiful pictures, but maybe I’ll learn something. Okay, I would definitely learn something cuz I’ve never attempted Shibari, but I do think it’s so beautiful. Don’t you?

John Grinter and Mark Varley are the creators of the book. Mark, one of them, runs quite a few Bondage sites, as well as photography ones, full of information and photo’s. I’m super impressed, he makes my research pretty simple.

If you’re procrastinating..take some time to surf a bit.

Twisted Photography
Faceless Ladies (Very cool!)
Fine Art
Mark Varley’s site
MVP Gallery
Beautiful Bondage.net

So I was searching for a quote to insert into my WIP, WICKED, tonight. WICKED is Karl’s story, and has required a lot more research than I anticapated, because he’s a Dom that’s lived inteh D/s lifestyle fro years.

The research has been deliciously interesting and I just have to share some of the quotes I found that I loved.

“The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.” - Betty Grable

“A sadist is someone who refuses to be mean to a masochist.” - Anonymous

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.” - Anais Nin

You’re always there for me, whenever I need you. It’s as if you sense when I am lost, and need to be found. When I am lonely and need to be held. You come for me, no matter where I am. I need you on top of me, around me, inside me. Touching, stroking, caressing … being.
There is magic in you.
And when I’m with you, it’s in me too.
Thank You.

I’m the first to admit my body is far from perfect. I’ll also admit that when I used this photo in my ezine a year or so ago, one of my co-workers made some pretty judgemental comments about fat people covering up. But Half Nekkid Thursday isn’t about the perfect body, it’s about the celebration of it…so..once again, my Half Naked Body on the beach in Greece.

an essay by nina aoki

Nina Aoki is The Lazy Geisha one of my all time fave bloggers. She is extremely smart, sensual and sexy. And I Thank her very much for being a guest today! Go forth, read ehr essay

Relax and free your mind. I want you to think about just one word and what that word means to you; femininity. How does the word femininity make you feel? If you’re a woman it should make you feel sexy, vivacious, and beautiful because you, yes you, are all of those things and so much more.

It’s been a long held belief of mine that the path to our true sexual selves, our erotic core if you will, comes from connecting with and embracing our femininity. Think about this; we were born female, and with that birthright we inherited all of the burdens and all of the blessings of being a woman, and not to sound corny, but we’re every woman. We’re the mother, the wife, the seductress, the tramp, the slut, the tease, the submissive, the dominatrix, the princess, the diva, the bitch, the girly-girl, the tomboy, the girl next door, the one night stand… just because we were blessed with being born a girl. Think about something else for a moment now, each of those words, those descriptions, all have a different meaning and conjure up a different image in our minds, but they’re all us and we’re all capable of filling each and every one of those roles, simply because we’re a woman.

Did you realize that we had so much power?

Unfortunately in the 21st century the word femininity is often equated to weakness and subservience and living a life under the thumb of some man or playing by the rules of male society, but nothing could be further from the truth. While we fought for equal rights and equal pay and equal say, all incredibly important things for us and our lives, and I’ll add that every woman alive today owes a great debt to those who’ve come before us, somewhere along the way I think we lost touch with our femininity, that which is unique to us, and which is our greatest gift.

Our sexuality is deeply tied to our femininity, and on my own journal lazygeisha.com, I’ve tried to encourage other women to explore their own sexuality by empowering them to embrace their own femininity. While that may sound simple and easy, the reality of our lives sometimes gets in the way of making that happen, but it doesn’t have to be and it shouldn’t be that way.

Being feminine doesn’t mean being weak, it means doing things for yourself which nourish and bring out those qualities which are already inside you. They’re already a part of you, so why not explore those things and give them room to breathe and grow? We’ve been told for years and years by so called sex experts and relationship experts that we should do these things to keep the men in our lives interested in us, to help feed their sexual needs; I think that’s a load of crap! I think we should do those things to keep ourselves interested in our own sexual needs and to remind ourselves why it’s so beautiful to be a woman in the first place.

Think of our bodies; our wonderful curves, our pretty features, our soft skin, our delicate hands, our sacred flower which invites our lovers to slip deep inside our bodies and our souls; we need to feed these things, for us, because it’s good for us, and it’s healthy, because we need that and because our true nature as women demands that we express this great sexuality we’ve been blessed with, and she’s within our grasp, we just have to be willing to embrace her and set her free.

The very nature of our bodies invites the male to come inside us, to fill us, complete us, make us whole. We open our legs and wrap them around our lover and pull him closer, holding his body inside of ours, tightening around him as we submit to the act of love, which is as psychological as it is physical for us, and all of this because we’re women, the pure essence of feminine.

For centuries artists, poets, writers, and philosophers have tried to capture and understand the awesome beauty of femininity, and it’s only within the last century that women truly filled the void by expressing these things in our own voices. Today women like Sasha, like me, like any of the known or unknown women you see on any street who may keep a secret diary or a private journal or even a blog where she surrenders her most sacred self… her voice through her words… to a place so that others may someday discover her and know what she felt and what it felt like to be a woman; we are the new muses, writing the new mythology so that all women may come to discover the goddess within.

It is so important that our voices never go silent and that we encourage all women everywhere to sing with that feminine voice, and to rejoice and celebrate our most cherished gift, and when we embrace this beautiful creature within each of us, only then will we have truly claimed ownership of our own sexual freedom and our power as women.

Long live the vulvacracy!

nina aoki writes the erotic journal lazygeisha.com

Nina’s 101 things about Nina on her site, inspired my own 69 things about Sasha. In honor of her, anyone who lists on here something from HER list, or mine, will be entered to win a suprise pack full of Feminine pampering goodness from me! This is an “instant Giveaway” and I’ll draw the winner in one hour, at 4 Pm EST

WINNER:Congratulations DEBBIE! You win a wonderful prize pack!
Shall I tell you whats in it? Some yummy bath stuff, a candle, something to read, a few small surprises, and a nice little silver bullet vibrator. *grin* Everyone should have one of those!