Love is truly a delight. All you have to do is allow it to be that way. The natural order of positive emotions dictates that love is no different than endless bliss - perfection . . . an ideal has been met. When in love we feel and exhibit the endless possibilities associated with true happiness, supreme confidence and powerful support. We feel we can accomplish any and all things with only our true love at our side. If that one true love is not there due to the love you feel being unrequited or lost, just the
Begins with the kiss of two lovers caressing and touching, the exploration of each other’s sweet sensual touches.Lips meeting, fingers entwined in her hair, her gripping the back of his head unquestionably living the lustful moment.
Candles flickering, soft sensual music playing while lust and pleasure fills the air.Laying side by side next to one another staring hungrily in each other’s eyes when all of a sudden; Clothes begin ripping from one another, quickly entering the other as a groan slips from the tip of his soft kissable lips. The scratching of skin and gripping of sheets, moans filling each other’s ears as both beg for more, and only more.
Beads of sweat run down as their gyrating bodies move faster, him penetrating her with swift speed, entering in and out faster and deeper, harder then slower. Hours of forbidden lust between these two lovers, with no one to disrupt their passion as they seep into the pleasures of each other’s craving for desire.A groan and a moan ring out, their
We get into relationships for the love, right? Love is what we want to feel. The more we experience, the more intimacy and more close the relationship seems to us.
But most of us feel no true sense of control over how much love we can experience or provide for our partner. In the beginning stages we felt a lot of love and appreciation from our mate. In the dating phase, it was pretty great. Once we are living together after the initial dating phase, we
People are molded by their experiences. Some of the experiences are pleasant and are joyous to remember and express to people we know. Then there are the experiences that are unpleasant; we keep them to ourselves, hoard them from loved ones. These are secrets and shame.
In Sunny Rain, the debut novel from actress Ci Ci Foster, the adult lives of three women, Natalie, Monica, and Leslie, are shaped by childhood experiences they just can’t shake – and in some instances, tell their loved ones. The three women are successful social workers, helping children and adults navigate the system.
Of the three women, Natalie grew up in the foster care system, having been taken from her alcoholic mother and raised by her grandparents. Her childhood demons came in the form of a wheelchair-bound grandfather who had a taste for young flesh. She’s married, but kept her past a secret. She feels like a kindred spirit with the kids in her case, especially a frequent runaway named Kim.
Monica is a burn survivor who feels self conscious of her body. She stays within her shell, unable to free herself sexually as a woman. Now divorced from her ex-husband, her first and only love, she’ll try to do anything to win him back so that the two, along with their child, could be a family again. She doesn’t think anyone else would want her – not with her scars.
As a kid, Leslie’s family gets evicted and had to move into her aunt’s cramped, roast-infested apartment. Her aunt is a prostitute, and at a young age, Leslie saw what showing a little skin and flirting can get a woman. But Leslie isn’t a hooker; she’ll get expensive gifts and go on fancy dates with men, but only sleeps with them if she wants to.
The book is broken up into chapters for each of the women, and told through their point of view. For the most part, the women speak the same, though what they say is different. The pattern of their thoughts and speech don’t vary enough, and this otherwise interesting novel chapter breakdown loses its effect.
The book as a whole could use more editing and revising; but the subtleties in the storyline make up for the typos and errors. Combined, the three women are dynamic, as in they don’t sit and let things happen, but go out and make moves. Even shy Monica has a tenacity about her that is fun to read.
The sex scenes are average. They don’t detract from the novel, nor are they explosive. They fit well in novel. Separated, the individual aspects of the book are mediocre; combined, they create a decent debut effort.
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Stories of celebrity sexaholics (people addicted to sex) make for great gossip topics and South Park spoofs. Tiger Woods’ infidelities and voicemail/text foolishness essentially wrote the jokes for many late night comedians for weeks, months even. But sexaholism should be taken seriously, just like any other addiction. There are stories from regular people that have yet to be heard.
In Pynk’s new novel Sexaholics, Pynk takes the reader inside a sexaholic meeting and into the personal lives of four regular women. There’s Miki, a successful hotel executive and mother who prefers an assortment of men, rather than just one; Valencia is a hot mami who can’t get enough of men and women, she’s also Miki’s best friend; Teela enjoys watching other people have sex, even if it’s her man with another woman; and Brandi, the alcoholic middle school teacher who doesn’t sleep with a man more than once and often moonlights as a hooker.
The four women are new members of a Sexaholic Anonymous (SA) program, and the book starts off with them in their first meeting. After the characters relate what drove them to join the SA group, they return to their regular lives. Miki, Valencia, and Teela all have significant others waiting for them at home, but their partners aren’t committed to helping the women combat with their sex addiction. But, then again, how many men would?
The scenes after the SA meeting is of the women sexing it up – and the scenes are hot and steamy. The book is full of twosomes, sexy threesomes, and wild more-somes. Throughout much of the book it doesn’t appear that any of the women are trying to curb their lustful ways – but going from sexaholic to nun overnight is unrealistic and makes for poor erotic literature.
Like with many addicts, Miki, Valencia, Teela, and Brandi continue along on their lustful paths until something traumatic happens and they realize that their addiction is the cause. Pynk does attempt to explore the mindset of the women and get to the root causes of why the women are addicted to sex, but they come out in monologues that appear out of place with the rest of the novel.
The book falls victim to the pitfall when writing about multiple protagonists: one character and story doesn’t get as developed or as many pages as the other ones. Pynk does break the book into different chapters for the different women, but at the end I felt shortchanged with the lack of exploration into the lives of two of the women.
Pynk’s down-to-earth and fast-paced writing style keeps the story moving and entertaining. The sex scenes are plentiful and titillating. In this book, sex isn’t injected into the story, but the story is injected into sex and the consequences of being a sex addict. In Sexaholics, Pynk delivers on what the audience wants: and that’s sex – lots of it.
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Welcome back to the Black Door, where all your desires can come true. Hidden behind unique and colorful Venetian masks you can take on a different persona. You are endowed with the ability to become a new sexually free person, and experience life as it is meant to be lived: absent of categories, such as son or wife. Just like the fictional Black Door sex club, Velvet’s most recent book in the Black Door series, Betrayal, is much more than a hedonistic romp; it has the ability to grab the reader with its vivid prose and multi-dimensional characters.
The characters come to life on the page and bring their own emotional baggage to the story. There’s Trey, only son of a squeaky clean Supreme Court justice and owner of the New York-based sex club The Black Door; Preston, Trey’s father, who is a bit of a pathos and is too preoccupied with his own life that he blindly trusts everyone around him, to his detriment; Ariel, Preston’s wife and Trey’s ex-lover, the foster child who grows up to have a successful law career but is haunted with abandonment issues; and Michele, the sexy slim-downed ex-fat girl that will use her acquired “influence” over men – and women – to her advantage.
The betrayal in this novel happened previously in the Black Door books. Trey and Ariel have an affair. But at that time Trey is dating Michele and Ariel is with Trey’s father, Preston. Both Preston and Michele discover the betrayal, but Preston has a stroke and can no longer recollect the incident. Ariel then takes this prime opportunity to marry Preston, and enlist Trey and Michele in a cover-up scheme worthy of Richard Nixon and Watergate – the only thing this book is missing is Deepthroat, but there was another kind of deep throat going on in this title.
To add tension and conflict to the novel, Michele, the only reluctant participant in the cover-up, lands a job working as Justice Preston’s secretary and assistant. Obviously Ariel and Michele are constantly at one another’s throats throughout the entire novel, but the only reason Michele keeps her job is that she is the weakest link in Ariel’s chain of deceit used to keep her husband.
Preston, arguably the book’s most successful character, is also the most static. The main plot of the book revolves around him and his lost memory and the attempt to hide the ultimate betrayal from him until his memory returns, which allows him to be pushed and moved by the other characters in a way that seems out of character for a Supreme Court justice. He tolerates Ariel and Michele’s bickering without putting an end to it or choosing a side; he becomes an easy mark for Michele’s seduction and appears powerless to stop her; and he constantly believes anything the other characters say to him, regardless of concrete proof or evidence – especially when Michele glosses over her involvement in the scheme and adds other details not factual into story of the affair.
Even though Betrayal is the continuation of the story begun in the novels The Black Door and Seduction, it invites new-comers to the series with open arms and background reviews of important events portrayed in the earlier novels. The deep detail into the back story does create scenes and sub-plots that at first don’t seem to fit in the action of Betrayal – such as the scenes featuring the private lives of Senator Oglesby and his wife, Angelica, and their involvement with the Black Door club – but they bring to light some of the dark intrigue that effect the moods and attitudes of the characters, especially Justice Preston, and eventually foreshadow possible events in upcoming books.
If you’re expecting a book that is filled with sex for sex’s sake, you’re in for a shocking surprise. The sexual encounters, from the first scene between Trey and new beau Lexi to Michele’s desperate romp with the married Congressman Laird Forester, advance the plot and storyline and seem in no way shape or form thrown into the mix just to make the book an erotic tale. The scenes are tasteful, non-offensive, and sophisticated – just like the rest of the prose. Velvet’s descriptions of the places and smells and emotions are worthy of contemporary classic literature. In contrast, the images Velvet gives for the characters provide just enough detail for the reader to use their imagination and create pictures of the faces and bodies that work best for their own sexual fantasies. That’s what this book is: a fantasy with substance; a guilty pleasure that doesn’t leave you feeling guilty.
A. Jarrell Hayes’ most recent books are “Reign of the Good King: Book Two of the Good King Trilogy” and the poetry collection “Just Another Angry Black Man.” He is an educator and freelance blogger.
