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Keith kicks things off with the realization that he's been celibate for half a year and asks Mike for his longest dry spell, opening up a deep dive into the strange, hilarious world of post-college dating before apps were even a thing. Spoiler: the secret to success back then apparently involved nothing short of flashy cars and questionable confidence. The conversation quickly veers into the psychological battlefield that is dating culture, as the duo debate why some guys lie their way to the top while others (including themselves) end up spinning their wheels. Keith reflects on his struggles breaking into conversations with strangers, while Mike philosophizes on the mysterious charm of "Riz" (after first learning what it is). In an unfiltered chat about awkward social dynamics, they wonder if being a charismatic introvert in your forties is more of a feature than a bug. Somewhere between debating candy-colored apps and chemical addictions, Keith admits to getting way too into Candy Crush, losing hours and, n

This week, I'm going to have ChatGPT give you a summary of what we discussed, mostly because I'm lazy, but also because I just think it's more accurate than I would be! And, I mean, when you've made an episode with such a detailed effort to describe the structure of women's clitorises, what more is there to say? New Orgasm Discovery: Ally shares a personal experience about discovering a new way to orgasm by being fingered in a different location. Discussion on Female Anatomy: The hosts discuss the anatomy of the clitoris, with Mike attempting to explain its structure, leading to a playful debate on its positioning. Porn and Anatomy Examples: The conversation shifts to the hosts sharing anatomical diagrams and explicit videos, sparking some humorous reactions. Clit Size Comparison: A discussion arises about Ally's clit size compared to those in porn videos, leading to suggestions for measurement and light-hearted banter. Dick Pics and Sexy Poses: The group talks about the challenges of men taking sexy pictures

Ally says she doesn't make efforts to get a guy to tell her he loves her, but it seems to happen anyway. We discuss the detailed parsing of that word that lies at the heart of many women's fantasies. Another topic: How important are relative arousal levels in sex. Sure, it's irritating to see a guy in a porn is only partially erect, but is there some equivalent for women? And, what is the motivation behind a woman masturbating during her period? Is sex drive tied mostly to the desire to procreate or other psychological factors? We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/182/orgasm https://ymmv.me/182/period https://ymmv.me/182/love Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

With election season firmly here, we take up a topic that probably shouldn't be in the news but always is: abortion. Good thing we didn't have a woman on this episode, because women's views on this topic are annoyingly consistent and, frankly, pretty boring. Now, I like killing people as much as the next guy. I really do. But I'm not sure it's right to expect unrelated folks (doctors, nurses) to facilitate your killin'. It's a shame there isn't some sort of analog to the famous suicide pod for abortion. Then pregnant people (heh) could do it without involving any other people. To follow on with women's issues, we discuss women who are unhappy with their experiences interacting with male doctors. And, a woman has a horrific experience with anal sex. Here's the article we discuss about abortion: https://ymmv.me/181/abortion We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/181/doctors https://ymmv.me/181/

With everybody in the media wagging their fingers at Mark Robinson for his posts on a porn site a decade ago, Ally and I take a look at what he said to understand if it's really all that different from what a lot of men get up to in the porn universe. On the sex side some of what he says is probably less unusual than others might imagine. But of course he goes off the rails when talking about broader social issues. We take a similar look at Caroline Ellison, Sam Bankman-Fried's accomplice who was recently sentenced to hard time in prison. Perhaps she will be able to enact her plans for a hierarchical harem system in the prison setting. We briefly discuss the revelation that a female journalist was having some sort of affair with RFK Jr. This seems fairly typical, as she is seeking status, and he wants to sext with someone half his age (Who wouldn't?). And, to bring it back to explicit sex, Ally discusses her experiences with deep vaginal penetration and wonders why men consistently tell her that her oral is t

I'm fairly disappointed that our listener base hasn't worked very hard to help Ally out in her search for sex with a dominant older man. Maybe they don't exist? Or maybe our listener base consists largely of folks who just want that vicarious experience, not the sweet escape. We solider on though, discussing Diddy's behavior and how that compares to other men who have found themselves in such compromising situations. We tackle the orgasm gap and the true percentage of women who can orgasm through penetration alone. Ally waxes poetic about her love for deep, cervix-hammering penetration from a real penis. And, should men initiate dominant play when kissing early in a relationship, or is it too risky? Here are links to the articles discussed early in the episode: https://ymmv.me/179/orgasm-gap https://ymmv.me/179/never https://ymmv.me/179/condom https://ymmv.me/179/diddy We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week:

Let's cut right to the chase: Ally is looking for a certain kind of man to satisfy her needs, and she's not finding him. This isn't your typical female ask for a life partner or a long-term relationship. It's more a recognition that she's had difficulty finding someone who can get the job done for her. Which brings up an interesting difficulty that women can face: It's actually difficult to find out, early in a relationship, how a guy is going to perform in bed. Or, indeed, if he'll be able to perform at all. And, I suspect dick pix are no help, as they're often taken in a flaccid state, or taken from an angle that just doesn't do justice to the man's true stature. Along the way, we discuss Peyronie's disease, some listener feedback on the podcast and listener questions. And, Mike informs Ally that none other than Bill Clinton, according to a sexual harassment lawsuit by Paula Jones, suffers from Peyronie's Disease. It's an epidemic! Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

I really appreciate Ally's choice to talk in detail about her submissive proclivities prior to a hoped-for sexual encounter this weekend. I'm not sure how common it really is for women to like men to be dominant and/or aggressive during sex. As she points out, it's definitely common enough to make successes out of movies like 50 Shades of Grey. Regardless, it's a welcome reprieve from the questions we more typically field: Men wanting to be pegged and women wanting out of the gender binary. Our free-form discussion also touched on how men and women select mates, whether people naturally gravitate toward people of their own ethnicity, and the differences between physical and psychological dominance. Ultimately, one has to wonder what feelings people are working out when entering into these dominant and submissive situations. Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

Straight back from consuming the dreadful convention coverage from the political parties, Mike tackles porn and society. The key word for the week is "taboos," as so much of what we're allowed to talk about now revolves around what will and won't make other people uncomfortable. The history of mankind is best understood by thinking economically, and this applies to sex and dating as well as it does to other cultural institutions. I didn't talk about it this week, but religion can be understood in similar ways. Sadly, economics may presage the death of the tube sites that have dominated online porn for so long. OnlyFans appears to be pretty powerful, and the cucks who are willing to pay make life difficult for the rest of us. And, what happens when women experience problems usually reserved for men such as too-obvious arousal and a lack of desire for foreplay? Here's the channel I mentioned where a guy talks about dating from an economic perspective: https://ymmv.me/176/dating We get a lot of our questions f

Ally thinks she's never been filmed while having sex, with or without her knowledge and consent. The joke's on her, because I'm relatively sure pretty much everyone has been filmed at one point or another by the powers that be for blackmail material. She also hasn't noticed in her sexual experiences the claimed increase in penis length that researchers have discovered. Apparently men's penises are now 25% longer than they were just a few short decades ago. Vagina depth doesn't appear to have kept up, but more research is definitely required. We discuss the curious phenomenon of hundreds of young women wearing provocative clothing, seemingly for each other, at bachelorette parties in Nashville. And, do women really mind if their male partners are bisexual? Here's an article about the Nashville bachelorette scene: https://ymmv.me/175/bachelorette And here's the one about penises getting longer: https://ymmv.me/175/penis We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are link

One surprising challenge for the man traveling through Africa is that porn is illegal in essentially every country there. This, combined with spotty Internet access, can genuinely inhibit a man from being able to orgasm during his trip. Not to mention what it might do to prostate-cancer rates. Condom use, or lack thereof in early sexual encounters, is discussed. Men and women's different and competing strategies come into play here, since women can decrease the odds of being ghosted by suggesting some hot sex in the future. But, if they actually do the deed too well, maybe the guy gets what he "wants" and moves on. And, how much do women really know about their own genitals, given how hidden they are? Why do they appear so surprised when interacting for the first time with another woman's lady parts? Here is the video of women touching another woman's vagina for the first time: https://ymmv.me/174/touching We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of

Keith has a serious problem while touring Southern Africa: Access to high-quality porn. We take it for granted in this day and age, but it relies completely on high-speed Internet access. How much porn per day should a man prepare before such a trip, and what should he do if he runs out? We dive deeper into questions of squirting and what esoteric places the fluid might be coming from. If it were a religious debate, you might be able to call it a "squirt of the gaps" argument being made by the pro-squirting contingent. And, it seems Keith is aroused by his own naked image in the mirror. Perhaps this is more widespread than we might have thought? We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/173/flatulence https://ymmv.me/173/handjob https://ymmv.me/173/butt Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

It turns out that Ally has never been with a man whose penis was so tightly circumcised that he had an immobile foreskin when erect. This came up because I wanted to understand what goes into her management of semen when the guy orgasms in her mouth. Come to find out this generally isn't an issue for her, which makes me wonder whether she's having sex with men who have small penises and/or aren't generating very large loads. I also had the joy of showing Ally the large clitorises discussed on episode 171, which I think she did not particularly enjoy. Funny how women can tolerate a penis-sized thing on a man, but put one on a woman, and it becomes a problem. And, is it normal for people to be sexually attracted to themselves in the mirror? We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/172/mirror https://ymmv.me/172/thin Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

I think the clit might be the most misunderstood part of the sexual apparatus. What's really going on with that small penis-analog that sometimes isn't difficult to even locate? People really just don't talk enough about clits. Why is that? On some level women are in luck, given that men generally haven't extended to clits the specific body-part fetishizing that is applied to breasts, asses, facial features and the like. This could change, given the "Big Clit" content available online. Maybe men will start looking for women to enlarge that erogenous zone? In other news, a female friend decided to explain to me how YMMV should provide a disclaimer or be censored because of its excessive male-gaze. I disagreed. Some discussion followed of a woman who enjoys her boyfriend cumming earlier than anticipated during sex. And, is cellphone addiction eliminating the power gap between men and women in sexual relations? By the way, Mike also explains why politics in western nations are so toxic. On the topic of big clit

Maybe all women fantasize about being a man during sex in order to get off. I have often hypothesized that it's just more fun for the male partner to do the act. In this gender-bending world, it's hard to know what's going to work for someone. One man's autofellatio is another man's pegging. In this episode, Ally and Mike discuss details of what goes through women's minds when in the locker room, whether nipple erections for women are analogous to men's erections, and much much more. I'm confident that a large percentage of women don't have their first orgasm until they've been sexually active for some time. Is this evidence of some kind of male failing, or maybe just lack of interest by women? And, what to do as a woman if you're convinced your vulva just isn't good looking? Is there a way to hide it during sex? Here's the article about the professor fired for having an OnlyFans account: https://ymmv.me/170/prof We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to s

Even men who are into cuckolding tend to restrict it to their fantasies or to what they think about when pretty aroused. We discuss a man who wants deeply to interact with the penis of another man, until he orgasms at which point the desire recedes immediately. What should he do? Simply remain aroused as long as possible? A woman is tired of turning over when she wakes up to find her partner masturbating in bed while ogling her body. Is this a reasonable reaction? And, what would it be like if the gender roles were reversed? We delve again into a relationship that tried an MMF scenario, only to find that the added "M" gave the female partner way more orgasms than her male partner expected. She says it's not a big deal, but is it? And, how should a relationship proceed when both partners want to be dominant? If listeners are interested in the video we discussed about dreams and the brain, here is the link: https://ymmv.me/169/dreams We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment,

It's an oft-discussed trope that women become much more attached to men after the first time they have sex. But, does the same logic apply to oral sex performed on the guy? That is to say, does it matter where exactly the penis goes? And, does it matter where the semen goes? Keith is interested in understanding how, in a normal relationship, a blowjob is initiated. Is there a verbal request? Does the man "push her head down" as is often suggested online? Or is there some other protocol? And, a man who is dating a transwoman would like to know what a vagina feels like. How does it compare to the anus or the mouth? Here's the link to the Tenga egg product discussed on the episode: https://ymmv.me/168/tenga We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/168/again https://ymmv.me/168/bj https://ymmv.me/168/vagina Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

It's complicated, as a man, to know how to respond to receiving a nude photo from a female partner. The obvious answer is you should be complementary, and not respond with a dick pic or similar. But then, how strong should the complements be? Is she forcing you to interact with her insecurities? We struggle often to define the term "fingering" as it applies to women. Is it an internal or an external act? And, what could be going on with a woman who needs deep, aggressive fingering to (sometimes) get off? Is it smart for a man to tell his partner that her ass is "too bony" for doggy style sex? And, what does the term "pillow princess" mean? We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/167/fingering https://ymmv.me/167/cow https://ymmv.me/167/dirty-photo https://ymmv.me/167/pillow https://ymmv.me/167/bony https://ymmv.me/167/cow Twitter: @ymmvpod Facebook: ymmvpod Email: ymmvpod@gmail.com

In this day and age, it's hard to believe how poorly informed men can be about women's sexual responses. This week, we've found a selection of odd male behaviors in relationships which we make an effort to explain. To wit, what would possess a man to send a list of "mistakes" made by a sexual partner after their first encounter? From my perspective, this only really makes sense if he wants her never to have sex with him again. If a man reveals his desire for a woman in terms that she might not find particularly alluring, is that his fault or hers? Especially in a people where men are increasingly encouraged to be honest about their feelings. Are women ready for the reality of young men's libidos? And, can a woman be too wet for oral? We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are links to some of the questions we discussed this week: https://ymmv.me/166/list https://ymmv.me/166/virginity https://ymmv.me/166/condom https://ymmv.me/166/ridiculed https://ymmv.me/166/too-wet

A listener ponders: Given a choice between a series of probably gay activities and pegging, which is the most gay? And, how would we rank-order the experiences which all sound pretty gay, including two men facing each other and then masturbating simultaneously on to a black towel. Along the same lines, a man really really wants to enjoy being pegged by his female partner, but he just seems unable to turn his prostate "walnut" into the pleasure organ he's been promised. Is he doing something wrong with his technique, or should he give up? And, in general, do men get more pleasure out of receiving anal than do women? I suspect they do. A couple of men seem to have real problems with their partners' genitals. One got dry heaves when he tried to give oral sex to his partner, and the next isn't even willing to touch her vulva with his fingers. Are these just strategies to get out of pleasuring them, or is something more at play? We get a lot of our questions from Reddit, so for our listeners' enjoyment, here are