It was no surprise that I woke up ridiculously early, so I took out a book I packed and started reading. My date was still fast asleep and snoring faintly. As I turned the pages of my book, I gently touched the arm that slinged over me and pressed my lips against his skin. I rubbed my legs against his and waited for another snore. It dawned on me that his skin was really smooth, and it felt nice against mines. I put my bo...

I had so many mixed feelings about my current date. We've only been dating for a month or so, and I was already craving for his touch with each passing day we didn't see each other. I was meeting his relatives and friends for the first time, and things were progressing faster than I anticipated. I was falling hard for him, and it was frankly, really scary. After a long day, he was driving me to his place to spend the nigh...

It was only the 5th time we met up after the back and forth on Coffee Meets Bagel, but there was something different about the way he made me feel from the first date. For once in my life, I wasn't obsessed with the idea of having a boyfriend. I was just craving his company. His voice was music to my ears; his touch made me feel both comforted and flustered. He was driving me to his place, and there was still time before...

She looked at him, eating his slurpy spaghetti, nervous and happy and messy. The crinkles around his dark eyes doubled every time he smiled at her, which in turn drew a smile from her, which enchanted him into a grin, and the cycle continued.She ordered the chocolate mousse, he ordered the vanilla bean cheesecake, and they took bites from each. She watched him swallow the sweet cream,  and then she felt his knee bump agai...

In May 1975 I gave my girlfriend Michelle Hanley a tour of my hometown of The Bronx. We were both sophomores at the City College of New York and we had a Wednesday for ourselves. We decided to take her car for the trip back and forth and for part of the excursion within the borough; I would drive because I knew my way around and she could be free for sightseeing. I went out by subway to Long Island City on a sunny morning...

I’m warm, safe. She’s next to me, hugging one of my arms around her shoulder like a blanket. I draw in a breath of her scent and… “Sal?” I ask, allowing the smallest possible amount of light through my eyelids, reality comes back. “Mmm.” Now don’t get excited, Sal is most certainly not someone I expected to ever find in my bed. Me and Sal don’t have compatible sexualities. Well, not anymore anyway. Sofa? I remember where...

In the first chapter, I explained how Kelly and I met. We were two lonely people in loveless, sexless marriages. We met on an adult dating site, chatted, texted and sexted for weeks before we actually met. The culmination of those events was the most sensual lovemaking session of my life. Now we continue: We hadn't seen each other for a few days but had kept up a barrage of texts, in which we now included emojis and short...

Kelly and I met through an adult dating site. We chatted through the site then texts and emails. We couldn’t seem to arrange a personal meeting. She had a family reunion to go out of town and for personal other family-related matters. Then I had to go out of town to deal with a family matter. As it turns out to the same city, but she was already home when I arrived. Through our chats and texts we grew to know each other a...

At the age of twenty-seven, Lisa was starting to see tough scenarios play out in her life. A lot of her friends were starting to get married and she was still not interested in a long term relationship. As a former athlete in college, she took a job in Miami where despite her background as a white southern woman, she fit right in due to her look. Lisa had black hair, a light tan, slim waist, stood at five-foot-nine and lo...

As the lonely mother of a twenty-two-year-old girl, I began thinking it was time to get my love life back. But the likelihood of hooking up with another man scared me after Johnathan, Mandy's father, left us to live with his girlfriend. When he left, I vowed I would never be with another man.Time passed and Mandy became a strong, beautiful young woman with an enviable body. She’d grown up and I knew that someone would soo...

I felt like I was living a dream. I had gone from a small town, single mom, and now I was in my New York City apartment with the love of my life. I was standing on the balcony, sipping on a glass of wine, and watching the city move when John stepped out to join me. The night was cold, we wouldn't be out long so he kept the door open with our curtain drawn as a barrier. This allowed us to hear the kids, but kept the cold a...