DESIRE 2005 In The Media

in Fall 2005 issue of OnOurBacks, page 12

You want some carnal knowledge? All the sex manuals and seminars are fine for starters but there’s nothing like getting elbow deep in lube to learn how to fist. The same goes for other sex skills. Nothing can replace getting it on with some good guidance. Unfortunately, practicing new kinks with a tipsy trick picked up at a club or with your beloved bed-death partner lying next to you doesn’t often get you far. So pack your suitcases with sex toys, safer sex supplies, and some hottie outfits and fly off to a women’s sexual paradise – a place where butches, femmes, and all sorts of women flirt under the palm trees, fuck in the sparkling blue pools, and pull fisting trains under the twinkling stars.

Oh, I can hear your despair now…”C’mon Midori, no suck place really exists.”

Ah, but my little tartlets, you are wrong! I went there this past May in Palm Springs! But don’t bother registering for the Dinah Shore Weekend, Olivia Cruise, or some frigid folksong fest, ‘cause that’s not where these sex pirates hang out. You want to go to the DESIRE weekend, an annual weekend retreat for leatherwomen. You’re not a leatherwoman, but you love hot sex and you’re curious about kink? Then this event is right for you. On the other hand, if you’re too repressed to get naked in the women’s locker room at the gym, you’d better stay home. In their inaugural event over one hundred women gathered in the 100+ degree weather for four days of unrestricted indoor/outdoor play, totally taking over a nudist resort to fulfill their wildest fantasies. There were workshops but not the ordinary ones: you could sign up for one-on-one lessons with expert teachers on G spot ejaculation, flogging, bottoming skills, hot wax, and more.

I have to confess I did something there that I’ve never, ever done before. That’s right, darlings, this jaded dame still has cherries to be popped! Like so many leather events, a leather dignitary presented a keynote speech on Saturday afternoon. Sometimes these get excruciatingly boring and dry. It’s impressive how dull some people can make sex sound in their speeches. Fortunately, this time it was Vi Johnson talking about leather history, and she’s never dull, so I went to listen to the poolside presentation with Racer X, my partner in crimes of pleasure. I have never in my life attended a keynote address, butt naked, floating on an air mattress in a pool while licking snatch and rimming ass. I didn’t hear much of the speech between the thighs on my ears and the sound of slurping, and I doubt Racer X did either with her spasms of orgasms. Of course we weren’t the only ones being naughty. Vi didn’t mind at all and just smiled and spoke on. When the event organizer came over she didn’t reprimand us; instead she gave a thumps up. The weekend was totally debauched. I fucked and played so much that somewhere along the way I lost clothes and have no idea where they went. So, my darling fornicators, next year, don’t miss DESIRE.

Midori is a sex-educator and the author of The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage and Wild Side of Sex.