You know exactly what to do. And that’s the problem.
There’s a moment you don’t talk about. Not with friends. Not even with yourself.
Everything works.
The toy. The technique.
You know the sequence. You know the shortcut. You know the ending.
And yet, you’re not really there.
Not in the way you used to be.
Not in the way you want to be.
It’s not that you don’t feel.
It’s that you feel… outside of it.
Pleasure is happening,
but it’s not meeting you where you are now.
It feels like watching yourself from a distance.
Like ticking a box.
Like playing a role you’ve outgrown but keep repeating
because it still “works.”
But working and moving you are not the same thing.
And your body knows the difference.
You’re not bored.
Maybe you’re just not involved.
What you’re craving isn’t more stimulation.
It’s more participation.
You don’t want pleasure that’s efficient.
You want something that holds you in your mood, in your rhythm, in your complexity.
You want a kind of intimacy that doesn’t perform.
It listens.
It slows.
It changes with you.
You’ve done the technique.
Now you want the truth.
You want to be moved, not just touched.
To be surprised, not just satisfied.
To feel something that doesn’t just deliver but reflects who you are now.
Because pleasure that doesn’t involve you fully
isn’t really pleasure.
It’s choreography.
And choreography, no matter how flawless, gets boring
if you’re not inside it.
If you’re here
You’re not bored.
You’re just no longer willing to fake it,
not even with yourself.
And once you’ve seen that,
there’s no going back to pretending
that friction is the same as depth.
You want to be inside it.
Fully. Or not at all.