Ramón Larsen

Ignore Your Blemishes: Practical Advice for Women

Because what is happening here has next to nothing to do with me or men in general "who are always staring at my scar."

Dave Goodman Featured

Transmogrification of The Soul: The Reliable Rebirth Narrative of the Great American Road Trip

The cross country journey in America is its own poem, its own song of a nation, and its own spiritual rebirth. Time to press onwards through familiar terrain into the next unknown. . .

Dave Goodman

Achieving Spiritual Union Through The Passionate Pursuit of Vice

In the monotheistic world, we have forcefully eschewed this. We live in a brutalist Manichean world, like a Hoover Dam Sized Firehose being choked off with a mix of circumcision, Catholic shame, and Protestant self-hatred holding fast the kink with all its Abrahamic might.

Ramón Larsen

Neither Fish nor Foul: The Sweetest Scents of Female Arousal

But it is perhaps the sweetest smell I have ever sniffed, acacia and orange blossom rolled into one but with a more ephemeral lightness that can only be described as heavenly.

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Ramón Larsen Featured

"A Woman's Ass is a Window to Her Soul"

Dave Goodman

As The World Gets Richer, It's Time to Re-Examine The Perils of Generational Wealth

But even in these “primitive’ cultures, the effects of inherited wealth were the same as they are today: indolent, bored, neglected children who were too little tested by life and too much tested by academia and tutors to ever live up to the glories of those they inherited their wealth from.

Dave Goodman

The Varieties of Hipster Experience and The Slippery Slope of "Authenticity"

Gilly’s was not playing by the rules. In fact, it wasn't even playing at all. Gilly’s was an unreconstructed dive bar. It was uninhibitedly, unapologetically gross - where gross people come to do gross things.

Dave Goodman Featured

Artistic Liberation, Strange Bedfellows, and The Unspeakable Luxuries of the (Itinerant) Simple Life

It was touching. The Gadsden flag people evidently have not made it to Armenia, Rubin's home. "The *real* Armenia. U.S.S.R. Armenia. Not Armenia from. . .'Greece,'" he scoffs. I smile in recognition, as if I have any idea what he's talking about.

Dave Goodman Featured

The Passive Aggressive Post-Honk: A Talisman of the Fecklessness of Our Time

The "Millennial Honk" is the perfect metaphor for our time in that it is at once completely annoying and that nothing will ever actually be accomplished by it.

Dave Goodman

The Platonic Ideal of the Old San Joaquin: Charmlessness with a Hint of Spice.

But what you lack in pizazz, Manteca, you more than make up for in. . .remoteness from any semblance of natural beauty.

Ramón Larsen

Priapus's Splinter and The Tightrope's Walk of Reconciliation with Human Deviancy

One must live out the fragment qua fragment in order to remain a whole person in the context of a D/s-prohibitive society. But we also have to keep two toes firmly planted in the vanilla world so that when it comes time to reintegrate and live even fuller lives, we are able to do so.

Dave Goodman

The Delights of Second City Springtime

Up here, there's something almost crystalline about it, as if the Spring is encased in a pure shell of timeless glory, like a still frame in a movie, trying not to move lest it disturb the just perfect balance.

Ramón Larsen

The Tragic Ending of a Bought and Paid For Rape Fantasy

The female heart, once hardened in its resolve, never to be taken for a chump again, will be merciless in her revenge on male-kind once betrayed. Yes, hell hath no fury and so forth, but being "scorned" is a far lesser evil than being disappointed. . .

Dave Goodman

Our Greatest Joys Are Built on the Suffering of Others. Waking Up To A Tired Cliché.

"I've never seen anything like it. What an amazing collection!" He replied in a flat deadpan that was not meant to be deadpan:"Yes, it's a mental illness."

Ramón Larsen

"I Can Only Cum With Guys I Don't Like."

When there is a problem this big, fast fixes are almost never the answer. But rather, patient allowing of the deeper truth trying to emerge to reveal itself is the more reliable (if far slower) approach of (my) choice.

Dave Goodman

Now You Know There Are Honest To God "Songs" in Classical Music. Here's Why You Should Desperately Care

Schreier is in many ways the Bjork of German Lieder. Schiff makes passionate declamations when needed, hidden pianississimos when needed, and is not afraid to bang and bash to punctuate the occasional outburst, so delicate is his touch that no one could ever accuse him of being a brute.

Ramón Larsen

The Tell-Tale Blink

In fact women will almost always look the other way when they want you to look at them, firstly for the ego assuasion if you don’t, but secondly because their left hand can tell their right they weren’t even interested, thus preserving the last vestige of virginal posturing left in the modern world.

Ramón Larsen

Uptight, Repressed, Bible-Thumping Christians Know More About Sex Than You Do

But we've left behind that fear. We’ve enlightened ourselves past the point where we have forgotten a core tenet of life: Sex is risky. Sex is scary. Sex is dangerous. And it’s supposed to be.

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Ramón Larsen

The Sexual Desires of Younger, Hotter People Are Not "Insecurities."

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Ramón Larsen

You Will Receive BY FAR The Most Resistance from Women Whose League You Are the Farthest Out Of

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Dave Goodman

The Janus Face of Fiber: A Cautionary Tale

Ramón Larsen

The Very, Very Real Risk of Love at First Fuck: A Kinky Trilogy

They will argue, they will fight feebly to try and keep control in the face of your mastery, but when you make them fail, they will fall in love before their juice is even dry on the sheets. This is the thing she desires most in life, but it is also the thing that scares her beyond belief.

Ramón Larsen

How To Achieve Total Relationship Security for Women

These are the mechanics of love, that in the deepening of love, the desire of the other becomes your desire. This allows this dynamic to continue indefinitely. The interests are aligned in that the desire for the other's desires becomes our deepest desire. A bond like that does not break easily.

Dave Goodman

The Southwest's Plus-Size Cousin is Worth Its Weight in Buried Silver

The endless dryness, unpunctuated by spectacle or wondrous glamour of any kind- it's just rock after rock with even rockier mountains dividing the vast sprawls of gravel. It's a hard sell, to be sure.

Ramón Larsen

Grooming For Sexual Failure: Why Porn Is Bad For You (And Way Worse Than You Think)

This enshrines in young impressionable men the sense that they are not in control of the sexual situation. They are not in control of the arousal process. They are completely at the mercy of what the girl does. This is the subtext of porn - and this is why porn is bad for you.