SEX IN A CAN

   

It was an ordinary supermarket.  I just needed some ginger ale for a scratchy throat.  Imagine my surprise when I ran into this display of Brisk Ice Tea cans.  They were posed just this way.  I don’t know if it was deliberate or just a coincidence.  All I know was that the cans stopped me in my tracks.

 The lineup.

The passionate face.

The sensuality of it.

So I pulled out my trusty Black Berry / Camera and snapped away.  In hindsight, I should have brought one of the cans homes with me, but the mystery is all the more appealing this way.

I don’t know if it was a portrait of a singer, an actress, a woman in the throes of death or even the “little death” (aka orgasm).  All I know is that it fueled my imagination and got the creative juices working overtime.   Here are some of my plot ideas:

• How about a singer at the cusp of stardom?  She can name her price but will fame take her away from all she loves?
• How about an actress at the top of her game, who is bored and reckless enough to get involve with a bad boy on his way down?
• How about a dead woman?  What secrets died with her or did they?
• How about a married woman with too much time on her hands and a friendly stranger?

The plot lines are endless.  But I must give each story the same degree of sensuality I see in that face.  Who knew that sex could come in a can?

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PASSION: EROTIC ROMANCE FOR WOMEN

  
Love may make the world go round, but it is Passion who is in the driver’s seat.

Passion that explores. Passion that pursues. Passion that conquers. Passion that launched a 1,000 ships.

As editor and author Rachel Kramer Bussel states: “ Passion. It can mean greed, desire, love or simply, emotion.” And all these are celebrated in her new anthology collection, PASSION: EROTIC ROMANCE FOR WOMEN (Cleis, November 2010) – 20 stories by such celebrated erotic romance writers as Saskia Walker, Donna George Storey, Portia Da Costa and Jacqueline Applebee.

For me the story that best summarizes this anthology is “Rekindle” by Kathleen Bradean. After 16 years of marriage, this couple is in a rot, the sex routine but a special birthday wish and a lot of passion rekindles the spark in their marriage.

“I’m marking you on my heart,” states the wife and lover. “I’ve grown too accustomed to you. I want to get a fresh perspective so that I can feel every nuance over again, like a jazz interpretation of a classic song. I want to fall in love with who you are now.”

Love may keep them together, but it is Passion that will remind them why and have them falling in love all over again.

For example, passion is what drives a policeman to call in a few favors so he can get stranded with his lady love and convince her that the “Third Time’s the Charm.” Passion has a chivalrous knight rescue the fair princess and then devour her completely. Passion is what gets two “horny workaholics” to connect on a dark road, in the headlights. Passion is what keeps an efficiency expert organized and prepared even when dealing with girl trouble, and what makes a cowgirl, who loves riding wild things, realize that the hot sexy bull rider at her side doesn’t want to tame her but race alongside her.

Passion is what puts the romance back in sex, and that is just what this anthology is all about. From the couple in “Big-Bed Sex,” who find the bigger the bed the better the sex to the down-on-their-luck couple in “Crave You Close,” who fall on hard times but their love and passion keep them together to Rachel Kramer Bussel’s own story, “Five Senses,” where even the hottest sex becomes routine until this couple purposely engages all their senses and are “sore in a good way.”

I’ll end with this quote from “Rekindle:” Any long term relationship took work, but keeping the magic between us felt more like play. The real trick was remembering to take time to do it.”

What is the Passion in your life and are you taking the time to pursue it?♥