Sweet Offering

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See also the previous posts:
• Year of the Phoenix
• Morning Touch
• Morning Light (3/16/24)
• Poolside
• Versatile Phoenix
• Released and at Ease

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• The Body: A Holy Place of Romp and Renewal
• The Body’s “Holy Hole”
• A Source of Great Pleasure
• “Downtown Heaven”
• Morning Light – November 26, 2016
• Morning Light – August 30, 2013

Sweet Release

Orgasm, which is usually accompanied by ejaculation for a man, is the culminating stage of sexual arousal.

Ejaculation cannot be stopped once it has started, for it is an involuntary process of muscular contraction and release of tension. But a man can control how soon he ejaculates during sex in a variety of ways. He can increase the pressure on his penis by making deeper or harder thrusts during intercourse, or by more vigorous hand movements during masturbation, or by having his partner massage his prostate through the perineum or through the internal wall of the rectum via a finger inserted through the anus.

Another way is to contract the internal muscles which run through from his pelvic bone to his penis, a movement which will both speed up ejaculation and make it more intense. Learning to contract and therefore strengthen these muscles will result in much more intense orgasms and a much more powerful ejaculation.

Once the level of stimulation has reached such a point that the final phase of sexual arousal begins, your body prepares itself for orgasm in all kinds of ways. Your blood pressure goes up, your heart rate rises, your breathing becomes deeper and heavier, and there are involuntary contractions of muscles throughout your body, producing a desire to thrust deeper into your partner.

Immediately prior to ejaculation itself, seminal fluid builds up in the prostate gland. This produces that familiar sense of impending ejaculation – that moment where you just know you are going to ejaculate and nothing will stop it.

Then, at the moment of ejaculation, your testicles are drawn up close to your body, the urinary tract to your bladder closes so that your semen will spurt out of your penis rather than being passed back into your bladder, and the muscular contractions of your ejaculation take place.

These contractions involve the muscles at the base of the penis, the muscles of the penis shaft, the muscles around the anal sphincter, the pubococcygeus muscle, and the muscles of the rectum. They contract about eight times, maybe slightly more or less, at 0.8 second intervals, and as they do so the seminal fluid containing sperm is expelled. These contractions may lead to semen shooting out or just dribbling from the tip of your penis, depending on the condition of the muscles, how long it is since you last ejaculated, and the volume of fluid which has accumulated during the earlier phases of your sexual arousal.

Orgasm is the sensation that accompanies the ejaculatory contractions. It can be an energy flow, a sense of muscular contraction, an overall feeling of well-being.

– Source

See also the previous posts:
• Penis
• Phallus
• Soft
• Hard
• Rethinking the "Normal" Penis (Part I)
• Rethinking the "Normal" Penis (Part II)
• Not a Weapon or a Mere Tool
• Reaching Out
• The Body: A Holy Place of Romp and Renewal
• The Body's "Holy Hole"
• A Source of Great Pleasure
• Body and Soul

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

A Source of Great Pleasure

Writes Bill Brent in The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Men:

Like the head of the penis, the anal region is rich in nerve endings. In fact, some men experience intensely pleasurable sensations in the penis during receptive anal penetration. The prostate gland, an important sexual organ that can only be stimulated directly through anal penetration, is a source of great pleasure for many men. . . . Like the genitals, the anus engorges with blood during sex and contracts upon orgasm. Some people learn to control these contractions to prolong orgasm and increase its intensity.

See also the previous posts:
• The Body: A Holy Place of Romp and Renewal
• The Body's “Holy Hole”
• “Downtown Heaven”
• Buddies

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

“Downtown Heaven”

In response to the posting of the image at left to the Facebook group Queer Artists, one member of the group wrote: "One famous and very handsome American writer who I was lucky to know and who was an admirer of men’s beauty, called this particular area “downtown heaven.” Each time I’m lucky to visit that area I always remember his words of appreciation."

I too appreciate and enjoy my forays into this area of another man's bodily terrain, and always strive to make it a "heavenly" experience for both of us. There is something special indeed about both exploring and pleasuring another man's cock, balls, and hole, and surrendering one's own cock, balls, and hole to another.

The images I share today celebrate all of this. Enjoy!

See also the previous posts:
• The Body: A Holy Place of Romp and Renewal
• The Body's "Holy Hole"
• Buddies

Images: Subjects and photographers unknown.

The Body's “Holy Hole”

In The Orifice as Sacrificial Site (2002), James Aho asks, "What exactly is it about the anus that induces a feeling of unease, dis-ease?"

He readily concedes that part of the issue is the anus's association with feces and thus its long history of being declared limmode [unclean]. Yet the anus is also one of the body's most erogenous zones, a "holy place of romp and renewal," in the words of poet James Broughton.

"The anus is the transforming and recycling volcano that fertilizes new growth," declares Broughton in his contribution to the 1995 anthology Gay Spirit.

Perhaps James Aho had something similar in mind when he wrote that "the anus occupies an ambiguous, transitional status"; it is one of those "other places in the geography of the lived body, passages and districts of otherness, holy holes . . . sites of numinosity and sacredness."

See also the previous posts:
• The Body: A Holy Place of Romp and Renewal
• Body and Soul
• Morning Light – November 26, 2016
• Out on a Limb
• Beauty

Spring Blossoming

See also the previous posts:
• Burgeoning Life Force
• Eostre at Spring Equinox
• A Time of Balance
• Body and Soul
• Sacred
• The Goddess Ostara

Out on a Limb

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.