Valentine's Day Greetings from Molly and mick

Mistress and Slave have a laid back Valentine's Day planned. We already covered the romantic dinner this week. And yesterday we had more hot sex than most couples will score on the real Valentine's Day. There was that traditional wake-up sex. Then, after work, with nothing on our agenda but an improvised dinner, there was some slow and languorous love making in the UCTMW executive suite. So whatever happens this morning, or tonight will be (red) gravy!

At some point, Mistress confessed that she had not gotten me a Valentine's Day card. "I know. You think it's a bogus holiday, Slave."

 I suppose I do. Something pumped up by Hallmark and  the floral/ retail / restaurant industrial complex  to give them a quick cash fix 45 days after the Christmas shopping season peters out. But that doesn't mean Slave is a fool! I did pick up something for Mistress at a local lingerie store, in the spirit of the season.

Just because some cynical old Slave thinks Valentine's Day is a made up holiday, doesn't mean Mistress thinks that way. No, I didn't get her  this:

 That would have seemed to "all about me". Although, let's face it, buying Mistress sexy lingerie is kind of all about me, isn't it?

And although I didn't get a card to go with my present, this sort of captures my cynical attitude about V Day:

But despite my cynicism, somehow I think I will still get Mistress naked today.

Mistress and Slave Have an Early Valentine's Day

Back here in River City, Mistress and Slave decided to beat the crowds and have our romantic Valentine's Day dinner early. Mistress saw an invitation with a special 5 course meal and wine pairings at a restaurant within walking distance, so we signed up. After a brief but satisfying worship session here at the UCTMW World HQ, we put on our boots last night for a crunchy walk through the hard packed snow to indulge. A nearly full moon was rising. 

Muy Romantico.

But when we arrived, we realized there had been a serious miscommunication. This "romantic dinner" was set up in a brightly lit room, at communal tables, and a very geeky and annoying crowd was already gathered. It was the sort of crowd that clearly did not want  to celebrate Valentine's Day where you actually had to carry a one-on-one conversation with your true love through 5 courses and the accompanying wine.

We considered aborting our mission, but Mistress, ever resourceful quickly deployed her charm and considerable persuasion skills..... soon the owner's wife was sheparding us to the nearly empty regular dining room to a very private table. We had not only avoided the crowd of wine geeks, we had also scored a corner to ourselves where the staff brought us our 5 courses and paired wine through a very lovely evening. 

(This being River City, the only other couple there all night included one of Mistress's high school class mates, on what looked like a Match.com first date, but fortunately they sat on the other side of the room).

By the end of the evening, Mistress and Slave were considerably tipsy, and grateful that we had walked rather than driven. It was a nicely saved V Day for us, and we hope all our readers get to share the day with their special someone.

But that may not include our dedicated Western Correspondent, who has resurfaced in Sochi after a few days off our radar. We were a little nervous that he had been subject to some cruel rendition by sadistic Caucasus Rebels, or former KGB dead enders, particularly after we saw how he was dressed for the Games:

Apparently he did not get the State Department memo about trying to blend in, and deemphasizing the red, white and blue. But it turns out he's just been simmering in the international melting pot, and soaking up the local spices, like any good sex blog sports reporter should do:

Well the poor old WC resurfaces .......

I took Vladi's ticket to the peep show at the woman's showers

They were great holes!!!!

Things were going great

Vladi was happily jerking off

I was watching the show with interest

When the Russian woman Hockey team caught us

OMG!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever had a whole naked hockey team chasing you with big sticks

The poor old WC was scared to death.........

Well long story short

They caught us

I resurface two days latter and let me tell you

It was great!!!!!!!!!

Those Russia hockey players rock!!!!!! Particularly, Anna Prugova.

Well so much for my ordeal

On to the games

Bodie missed out

Too bad but he might still win  metal

I am so over figure skating     WTF!!!!!!!!

Shawn White is old too....

Mancuso rocks like a rock star

So what if she is  the daughter of a drug kingpin

Love the different/backwards human interest story

Well got to go

I'm reporting on all the kinky sex going on around here

Have an invite to the Bulgarian  woman curling party tonight!

Word is they tie you down naked and tickle your balls with their  brooms

Can't wait!!!!

Your man from Sochi

WC

Thanks, WC. Go easy on the vodka. 

Wouldn't curling be a lot more interesting if they did it in bikinis, like beach volley ball. It couldn't hurt NBC's ratings!

Drilling Down Into the Data on Whether More "Manly" Hubbies get more action.

How do I get my partner to dominate me?: Housework, Sex, Middle Aged Marriage and what the study actually says

Niles English who writes the blog "How Do I Get My Partner to Dominate Me" did a great job of drilling into the data of the study blown out of proportions in the New York Times article discussed here yesterday. It looks like it was based on some rather stale and imperfect data, from which the author may have jumped to some unjustified conclusions. The link is above.

In any event, those of us who have changed the traditional sex role "scripts" in our marriage sure do better than either the typical "traditional" marriage, or the "modern" marriage with its housework sharing!

Thanks Niles for looking deeper into this.

Do "Manly" Husbands Really Get More Action?

The New York Times Sunday magazine had an article yesterday that got Mistress and Slave laughing. Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The author  tosses off a variety of  half-baked  theories on the state of modern marriage based on a study that she claims shows (no link to it is provided so I can't verify)  that couples in more "egalitarian" marriages, where child care and household tasks and decisions are shared,  have sex 1.5 less times per month than couples in more "traditional"  marriages.

One thing that  was hard to pin down is what constitutes an "egalitarian" vs. "traditional" marriage. The author's  focus seems to be on whether the husband does a significant share of the child care, cooking, vacuuming and laundry. If they do, well then, things are coming up short for them in the bedroom, presumably because the wife no longer sees husband as a compelling manly hunk.

On the other hand, if the man of the house focuses on yard work, log splitting and hunting for game to put on the table, well.... he's scoring bigger in bed. That is if you count 1.5 times a month more a big score.

From this premise, the writer launches into a number of social theories, including that there is less sexual satisfaction in a marriage when the wife brings home a bigger salary than the man; and that women who are "better educated" than their husbands tend to "cheat" more.

Of course, here at the UCTMW HQ we had a little trouble comparing those apples to our oranges.

"1.5 times a month less, Mistress.... all because I like to cook and help with the laundry?"

"Do you feel deprived Slave?"

"No.... I think I'm pretty well satisfied. We even have readers like Harry and Suzanne that say you indulge me too much. If I vacuumed, would you cut me back to 8 times a week?"

"When was the last time you vacuumed, Slave?"

I confessed it had been quite a while.

"I guess the fact that we now leave the vacuuming to our gay, male house-cleaner  confirms the thesis of this article, Mistress."

There was one gaping hole in this article: 1.5 times per month less than what? The writer never reports what the baseline norm was in the "control group" of households, where the more macho traditional husband  only sneers at the idea of whipping up dinner, or dropping little Johnny off at school, and then drops his sweaty gym clothes on the floor so his less educated, stay at home wife can secretly sniff up his genetically different secretions before spreading her legs for him, hopefully before he showers. (You have to read the article, I suppose).

But you can read a little deeper into this by doing the math. In a later paragraph, the author says that the 1.5 times a month penalty a guy endures for cooking and cleaning amounts to a 17% reduction. So with my limited algebra skills I worked it out. If a 1.5 times "sex reduction" is 17% of your "traditional marriage" total, then that total is a whopping 8.8 times of sex per month.

So your average bring home the bacon, chop the wood, go hunting on the weekend with the guys manly husband is only getting it 8.8 times per month?  No wonder the internet porn industry is doing so well, and so many folks download pictures of Molly's ass for imagination stimulation purposes!

Here at the UCTMW World HQ, where this humble Slave is happy to do the laundry, cook a good percentage of the meals, and wear a cock cage on command, that 8.8 represents a typical WEEK! And I'm past 60. Presumably this study includes guys in their 20's, 30s and 40s, when at their sexual peaks, not way over the hill like me.

 I also wonder how that study defines "sex". Are they using the traditional "Bill Clinton, "I did not have sex with that woman" definition? I am not counting in our 8 times / week total  the times when Mistress gets worshiped and her slave is not indulged. Or when Mistress makes a pit stop at her lover Jay's house. Those are just bonus cums for her, I suppose.

Obviously, this "study" used the wrong control group. They need to look at couples where the wife takes charge!