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We invited a few of our favorite love bloggers to come clean about their most salacious summer hookups.
We invited a few of our favorite love bloggers to come clean about their naughtiest summer secrets. WARNING: The following true stories of red-hot hookups might leave you breathless—and ready for a sexy rendezvous of your own!
Twanna Hines, blogger of Funky Brown Chick , talks of how her lustful experience with a stranger made a simple house party feel like a steamy mini vacation.
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While Hines shows us that sex with a perfect stranger can bring a thrill, Latoya Irving of Black and Married With Kids shares how spousal romance can be just as untamed and spontaneous.
Sometimes summer loving comes with a cost, like in Monique Kelly’s story, where the Confessions of a Serial Dater in LA blogger talks of how a seemingly perfect night took a turn for the worse when a surprise guest shows up.
Anslem Samuel Rocque of Naked With Socks On spills how dirty dancing with a familiar-faced cutie quickly turned into an uncomfortable family affair.
Love University’s Abiola Abrams shares how a passionate kiss in the rain capped off an sexy summer date in the city.
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A long, cold winter night is the perfect time for an evening of white hot passion in front of a blazing fire. Of course, the lonely months between the bright glow of the holidays and the first buds of spring are also a time for runny noses, wet hair that freezes on your way to work, midterms, grey skies, and a car that just won't warm up in the morning, no matter how long you wait shivering in the front seat, struggling to secure as much warmth as your travel mug has to offer.
What with all the dreary, gloomy, dark, cold, and stormy cares consuming winter days and nights, it can be tough to turn on the passion just in time for February 14, regardless of the love in your heart or the lingerie in your closet. Of course, it has been my experience that there are very few problems in life a good book can't fix, so if you're looking to bring a little heat to your Valentine's Day doings, why not get yourself in the mood with these 10 steamy, dreamy, utterly atmospheric novels? After all, laughter may be the best medicine, but literature is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
If seduction games are what get you hot under the collar, forget Gossip Girl and turn instead to the undisputed master of decadent depravity, Choderlos de Laclos. Set in the waning days of the French aristocracy and brimming with seduction, deception, and competition, Dangerous Liaisons is deliciously devious and just naughty enough to put you in the mood for a little something devilish this February 14.
Tracing star-crossed love through generations of moody mistakes on the English moors, Wuthering Heights mixes torment and treachery with passion and penitence. If nothing turns you on more than howling wind and a brooding stare, Wuthering Heights might be just what you need to settle into the right state of mind for a truly steamy Valentine's Day.
If the daring and devilish Alain-Fournier were writing today, the The Lost Estate might just have been titled "Missed Connections." The Nicholas Sparks of an earlier, grander age, Alain-Fournier's evocative and epic tale traces the destiny of soulmates who meet one fateful night only to find themselves struggling towards a happy ending for pages to come. Without giving anything away, let me just say that if grand love affairs playing out over the ages get you into the mood for love, you'll feel right at home and ready for anything with The Lost Estate.
The hippies of yesteryear had nothing on D.H. Lawrence, so if you're looking to embrace a little free love for the upcoming holiday, turn to this candid, inspired, and utterly impassioned tale of two sisters and the mistakes they make in love and life. Lawrence was a true believer in love and a free spirit to boot, so if you find nothing sexier than honesty and integrity, settle in with Women in Love , and you won't be disappointed.
When the sun is setting and you're looking for something dark and strange to bring just the right sort of energy to your romantic rendezvous, turn to Jeanette Winterson's The Passion and I will personally guarantee your satisfaction. From a tempestuous lesbian love affair begun with a glance across a card table to the chance encounter between deserting French soldiers and a mysterious Venetian prostitute with webbed feet, The Passion is exciting as it is exotic — the perfect anecdote to a relationship that has become just a bit too ordinary .
If you find yourself excited by the idea of whips and handcuffs, I beg of you — forgo Fifty Shades of Grey in favor of the superlative story of S&M penned more than a half century ago by Pauline Réage. Although The Story of O is most certainly not for the faint of heart (and I really cannot stress that enough), Réage's daring story of dominance and submission at an elite club catering to a secret society wealthy, erotic adventurers is about as steamy as it gets — although, not exactly a bastion of feminist sentiment, I must say.
Whether or not you've already enjoyed the iconic film adaptation, you're sure to fall hard for Annie Proulx's short story tracing the love of two sheep herders from a slow smolder to a passionate affair over the course of one summer in Wyoming and throughout the decades to come. Both rich and restrained, Proulx's narrative is nothing more than pure and utter pleasure, the perfect material for making your way into the mood for love.
Ann Patchett's unusal story of a world-renowned opera singer taken hostage among a band of ardent admirers at a private party. As lives are threatened, love blossoms almost unbidden among the unique cast of characters trapped together through the vagaries of circumstance. If you like your love stories on the quieter side, slip in some time with Bel Canto before the 14th and you're sure to find yourself alive to the possibility of romance.
Alan Hollinghurst's poignant, passionate novels are at the top of nearly every literature-lover's list of steamiest love stories. With The Folding Star, Hollinghurst follows the life of a disaffected English tutor who finds true love only in beauty but seeks passion wherever he can find it. For some of the most poignangtly penned scenes of lust and love in contemporary fiction, you simply can't do better than Hollinghurst.
For a literary aphrodisiac that hits a little closer to home, why not try John Updike's Couples, the lyrical story of 10 New England (you guessed it) couples trying to make sense of their newfound sexual freedom after the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Updike clearly revels in the descriptive scenes of romantic ecstasy; so, if direct and somewhat contemporary adventures in romance have the ring of atmosphere to them, than Couples is sure to set the right tone for your February 14.
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“In ancient times, a king had his men place a boulder on a roadway. He then hid in the bushes, and watched to see if anyone would move the boulder out of the way. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers passed by and simply walked around it.
Many people blamed the King for not keeping the roads clear, but none of them did anything about getting the stone removed.
One day, a peasant came along carrying vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to push the stone out of the way. After much pushing and straining, he finally managed.
After the peasant went back to pick up his vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and note from the King explain that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the road.”
“There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence.
On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence.
The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.
Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day he kept his temper under control.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
‘You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there.'”
“People visit a wise man complaining about the same problems over and over again. One day, he decided to tell them a joke and they all roared with laughter.
After a few minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled.
Then he told the same joke for a third time, but no one laughed or smiled anymore.
The wise man smiled and said: ‘You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?'”
“A shop owner placed a sign above his door that said: ‘Puppies For Sale.’
Signs like this always have a way of attracting young children, and to no surprise, a boy saw the sign and approached the owner; ‘How much are you going to sell the puppies for?’ he asked.
The store owner replied, ‘Anywhere from $30 to $50.’
The little boy pulled out some change from his pocket. ‘I have $2.37,’ he said. ‘Can I please look at them?’
The shop owner smiled and whistled. Out of the kennel came Lady, who ran down the aisle of his shop followed by five teeny, tiny balls of fur.
One puppy was lagging considerably behind. Immediately the little boy singled out the lagging, limping puppy and said, ‘What’s wrong with that little dog?’
The shop owner explained that the veterinarian had examined the little puppy and had discovered it didn’t have a hip socket. It would always limp. It would always be lame.
The little boy became excited. ‘That is the puppy that I want to buy.’
The shop owner said, ‘No, you don’t want to buy that little dog. If you really want him, I’ll just give him to you.’
The little boy got quite upset. He looked straight into the store owner’s eyes, pointing his finger, and said;
‘I don’t want you to give him to me. That little dog is worth every bit as much as all the other dogs and I’ll pay full price. In fact, I’ll give you $2.37 now, and 50 cents a month until I have him paid for.’
The shop owner countered, ‘You really don’t want to buy this little dog. He is never going to be able to run and jump and play with you like the other puppies.’
To his surprise, the little boy reached down and rolled up his pant leg to reveal a badly twisted, crippled left leg supported by a big metal brace. He looked up at the shop owner and softly replied, ‘Well, I don’t run so well myself, and the little puppy will need someone who understands!'”
“As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.
He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. ‘Well,’ trainer said, ‘when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.’
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.”
“Once upon a time, a man found a butterfly that was starting to hatch from its cocoon. He sat down and watched the butterfly for hours as it struggled to force itself through a tiny hole. Then, it suddenly stopped making progress and looked like it was stuck.
Therefore, the man decided to help the butterfly out. He took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, although it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man thought nothing of it, and he sat there waiting for the wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. However, that never happened. The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling around with small wings and a swollen body.
Despite the man’s kind heart, he didn’t understand that the restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to get itself through the small hole were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings to prepare itself for flying once it was free.”
“Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the boiled eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. ‘Daughter, what do you see?’
‘Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,’ she hastily replied.
‘Look closer,’ he said, ‘and touch the potatoes.’ She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. Its rich aroma brought a smile to her face.
‘Father, what does this mean?’ she asked.
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
‘Which are you,’ he asked his daughter. ‘When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?’
‘One afternoon, a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from a lofty branch.
‘Just the thing to quench my thirst,’ he thought.
Taking a couple of steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. The fox tried again but still failed to reach them.
Finally, giving up, the fox turned his nose up and said, ‘They’re probably sour anyway,’ and walked away.”
“In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.
The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it.
‘How much is a dish of plain ice cream?’ he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient.
The little boy again counted the coins. ‘I’ll have the plain ice cream,’ he said.
The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.
When the waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at what she saw.
There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were 15 cents – her tip.”
“A group of frogs were traveling through the forest when two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them.
However, the two frogs ignored their comrades and proceeded to try to jump out of the pit. However, despite their efforts, the group of frogs at the top of the pit were still saying that they should just give up as they’d never make it out.
Eventually, one of the frogs took heed of what the others were saying and he gave up, jumping even deeper to his death. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the group of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and to just die.
He ignored them, and jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, ‘Did you not hear us?’
The frog explained to them that he was deaf, and that he thought they were encouraging him the entire time.”
“A popular speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20 bill. A crowd of 200 had gathered to hear him speak. He asked, ‘W
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