Photo courtesy of Elle from Kink Unleashed

Welcome to Elust #17 -

Your source for sexual intelligence and inspirations of lust from the smartest & sexiest bloggers! Whether you’re looking for hot steamy smut, thought-provoking opinions or expert information, you’re going to find it here. Want to be included in Elust #18? Start with the rules, check out the schedule and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates!

Editor's Note:  A little change in how things are done for this edition -  you'll notice there are no "Top 3" picks - due in part to the holiday I ended up being extremely short on judges and I didn't have enough for fair voting. So instead, I expanded my "Featured Post". (If you'd like to volunteer to be an occasional judge for e[lust], just email me, Lilly, at questions.e.lust @ gmail.com) Also, please be sure to check out the new summer schedule in effect until the 20th edition.

~ Featured Posts (Lilly’s Pick) ~

Why Pride is Still Important - When someone tells me that they don’t think Pride is necessary, I can’t help but believe that they go through life with tunnel vision. I live in New York where for the most part I can walk around being a big ol’ queen and I’ll make it home alive, but there are people who live in places where they can’t. Even here in New York you’ll get called a faggot from time to time by passing cars or groups of punks, and even here in New York I hear stories of people getting the shit kicked out of them just because they were gay.

Ask Garnet, Fantasies and Condoms - Our culture has created a narrative in which sex only feels good and looks sexy if no one is protected. We’re all suffering from this narrative, but sex workers are probably suffering the most.

~ Elust Editress ~

Dangerous Lilly, Some days we need a little hope - I encourage you to practice random acts of kindness that could be worthy of inclusion on the site (GivesMeHope.com). Be nice, be caring, let your heart open up just for the sake of bringing someone some happiness or comfort. Do you know how good it feels to just give?

See also: Pleasurists #83 and #84 for all your sex toy review needs.

All blogs that have a submission in this edition must re-post this digest from tip-to-toe on their blogs within 7 days. Re-posting the photo is optional and the use of the “read more…” tag is allowable after this point. Thank you, and enjoy!

Kink & Fetish

Bejeweled Down Under An Anal Adventure
Bound in the Night
Being a Tart
heels n stockings, Danger may explode without warning
Found It: Pearls for the Submissive Wife
Submissive Guide, Morning Rituals
Pieces of Jade, Shoe Slut
long-distance sub, (another!) Shoe Slut
Spanking my ass while fucking so he feels every wiggle
Submission is impossible in the absence of humanity
Domme Chronicles, Strip, boy
Vineyard Road, Swallow Falls
Eden Cafe, The Trigger
Diary of a Kinky Librarian, The Beast with Three Backs

Erotic Writing

A long hot day
Voyeur on Display, And then we kissed...
Phallicity, A Picture of Lust
Ass Plug
100 Ways to Be Perverse, 'Come For Me...'
Glimpses of Dave, Depths
Love Hate Sex Cake, Exchange II
Mistress Arabella, Forbidden Fantasy
Fucking Mika for the first time
Sexxxcapades, Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
Femme Fatale Teen, Getting Off...On The Road
Katie's First Time
Master Class
Joe Heather, My Favourite Waste of Time
Butchtastic, Microfantasy Monday, week 84: Addiction
My Desire, Picture to Word 2
Sociable
Porno Person, Saturday Night Plans
Safe Sex
The Train
Thunderstorms are Sexy
Teaching Respect (Part 1)
Geek Evolution, You First

Thoughts & Advice on Sex & Relationships

Panda Dementia, Adventures in Birth Control
Life on the Swingset, Erotic Awakening: A Swinger’s Comments
Whip and Apple, Friends With Benefits His Lush Behind!
Getting Started - Hotel Parties
Life on the Swingset, Greetings From The Deep End - Swinging and Openness
Having My Cake and eating it too, How To Have Multiple Orgasms
Curvaceous Dee, Mr. Strong
Mistress Arabella, Play Safe. Stay Safe. Get Tested. Be Protected.
Beyond Xs and Ys, Political Cuddling: Asking, Talking, Touching
Lady Pandorah, Reflections on Glass
Mistress Arabella, Something I Wish I'd Had 10 Years Ago
Eden Cafe, Sex: A required part of the college curriculum
Shades of Grey
Three's Company
Insatiable Desire, Ten Life Lessons I’m Learning from Enslavement
The Lust Files, Uncomfortable
Brit is Shameless, Walk of Shut The Fuck Up

Sex News, Interviews, Politics and Humor

Pop My Cherry Review, Interview with Scarlett Chaos aka Essin'Em
Eden Cafe, The Media is Not Responsible for Your Poor Body Image
Sea of Neptune, To Shave or Not to Shave