• About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
  • Shop
  • Sign In
  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles

Life

  • LGBT History
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Money + Work
  • Geekery
  • Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft
  • Holigays
  • Parenting & Family
  • Pregnancy

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Webcomics
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Shopping
  • Podcasts

  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Sign In
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles
  • Shop
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
Sex

View From The Top: Giving Orders

Giving orders is more than the words coming out of my mouth. It’s the tone of voice I use, the eye contact, the confidence, the ease with which I speak.

Sinclair Sexsmith August 16, 2016 14 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: Little Boi

Being in little space doesn’t feel like being a child again. It feels more freeing than my childhood ever was, and like something completely different.

Ari August 9, 2016 48 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Desire That Looks Like Mine

The possibility of finding our kink community gave me the courage to take another deep breath and open the door.

Sinclair Sexsmith August 2, 2016 12 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: Nope That Word Is Not For Me

“I cannot wait to have a partner with whom I can explore consensual non-consent in a 24/7 lifestyle. But to be called a slave? In America?”

Ari July 26, 2016 39 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Coming and Crying; Master and Slave

“Master and slave — in consensual, intentional contexts — are the precise words for the cravings I have in my heart and gut to own, control, protect and nurture my partner.”

Sinclair Sexsmith July 19, 2016 8 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Power In Theory, Power In Practice

Sarah and I talked a lot about power in our relationship — who had it, who felt it, how it flowed between us. It wasn’t always smooth.

Sinclair Sexsmith July 5, 2016 24 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: Why I’m A Bratty Bossy Bitch

Submitting is a weird dichotomy of knowing exactly what you want but putting someone else in control of giving it to you.

Ari June 28, 2016 9 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Polka Dots, Packing, and Protocol

We started to turn the top/bottom dynamics in our sex life into 24/7 dominance/submission. It was highly negotiated, mutually consensual, and extremely hot.

Sinclair Sexsmith June 21, 2016 10 Comments
Sex

So You Want to Fuck an Able-Bodied Person

For the disabled among us, meet-cutes and the events that follow aren’t so simple to orchestrate. Need a refresher on the rules of engagement? There’s no need to go it alone!

Carrie June 17, 2016 34 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: My Time In The Dungeon

“I was on my ninth cigarette when the dom about to give me the most affirming experience I’d had as a sub came to stand next to me.”

Ari June 14, 2016 9 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Daddy

I wanted to hear her say it again. I wanted her to say it while we fucked, while I was inside her, while she kissed me, while she came. It felt right, it felt extraordinary, it felt entirely new.

Sinclair Sexsmith June 7, 2016 175 Comments
Sex

You Need Help: Issues With Strap-On Size

What do you do when your girlfriend has a small vaginal opening and wants to have penetrative sex?

Ari June 2, 2016 16 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Theory Is Foreplay, Right?

I wanted her. I dreamed about her, daydreamed about her, wrote love notes to her all day long, wrote erotica about our sex life. We weren’t together all that long, but she taught me so much about dominance.

Sinclair Sexsmith May 24, 2016 15 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: BDSM and Abuse

It was summer and I was lonely and she was kinky and the sex was good and I live in a small town. And she was perfect, but she wasn’t.

Ari May 17, 2016 31 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Canes Are Sticks!

I had always put boundaries on my sadism — until I started seeing impact toys everywhere.

Sinclair Sexsmith May 10, 2016 13 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: Bottoming and Butt Sex

I want to submit — to the right person. And the right person — with whom I have a deep level of trust, with whom I can relax — will fuck me in the ass.

Ari May 3, 2016 15 Comments
Sex

10 Tips For Texting About Sex (and Having the Kind You Want)

“You will have the best sex possible when you abandon yourself to pleasure.” The fastest way to find that feeling of abandon? Telling someone what to do to get you there.

Lynsey April 26, 2016 7 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: It’s Like 10,000 Femme Tops When All You Need Is A Bottom

Before you can find someone who wants what you want, you have to say no to everyone who doesn’t.

Sinclair Sexsmith April 26, 2016 134 Comments
Sex

Bottoms Up: I Am My Best Sex

Being single, solo submission, masturbation, and how you can be your own best and favorite top.

Ari April 19, 2016 14 Comments
Sex

View From The Top: Don’t Come Until I Say You Can

Tease and denial is a classic flirtation. Orgasm control is just one step further.

Sinclair Sexsmith April 12, 2016 12 Comments
← Previous Page 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 … 25 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • Jasika Nicole Will Teach You Embroidery and Social Justice: The Autostraddle Interview
  • WHAT?? There’s an A+ Book Club?!
  • Taco Tuesday: The Incomplete History of Tacos

Latest Comments

  • Vicomma Content Creators Lesbian Sex: Your 15 Favorite Ways To Have It "Every small step takes you closer to success"

  • Shira Presenting the Winners of the 8th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards! "Okay, since somebody had to beat my personal fav of Mika Yasuda, I’m thrilled it’s Van."

  • I get there were tough choices but come ON Presenting the Winners of the 8th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards! "Just gotta say it is some bullshit that Somebody Somewhere wasn’t recognized for anything."

  • N I Have Never Felt More Cherokee Than While Reading ‘To the Moon and Back’ "Adding this to my list! Thank you for this review <3"

Latest Posts

  • A Gay Recap of the 2025 WNBA Season
  • Presenting the Winners of the 8th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!
  • I Have Never Felt More Cherokee Than While Reading ‘To the Moon and Back’
  • No Filter: We’re Loving Cameron Esposito’s Queer Pregnancy Content
  • 40 Films Featuring Transmasc Characters

Our Network

  • Store
  • For Them

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2025 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

Read ad-free: join AF MEDIA