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“Pillow Princess” jibe unfair?

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Thestoryof · 24/06/2025 09:25

Been seeing my BF/partner for almost a year. We were talking about keeping things fresh and he said last week that in the spirit of honesty he’d mention that he thought I was a bit of a “pillow princess”.
I thought this meant someone who doesn’t put the effort it in bed. As far as I’m concerned I do. I’m always very well groomed, sometimes dress up for him, have no issue at all going on top and always give him oral as part of foreplay. It’s pretty vanilla generally but I think I’m generous and never expect to receive anything I wouldn’t give back.

He said he meant that he spends ages going down on me whilst I just lie there. There is some truth in that, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable. Our normal sex involves that for a while (not ages IMO) because that’s how I orgasm. Then afterwards we have PIV so that he gets his.

I kept my upset to myself when he said these things but we have had sex twice since and I secretly timed things to see if he was being mad or I was (maybe I was mad to time things!). On both occasions he went down on me until I came but it was for under ten minutes. We then had PIV for about five minutes until he came, once with him on top the whole time and once with me on top at the end.

Is this “pillow princess” behaviour? It’s not like he’s down there for an hour then I just lie back and think of England.

OP posts:
Sunflowers67 · 25/06/2025 13:43

Great result - so pleased that you guys talked/sorted and had a fantastic evening 😜

allamberedover · 25/06/2025 18:10

Well done OP ! Thank you for updating .
I'm SO pleased for you both and in awe of your communication skills .

GreenwayHouse · 25/06/2025 23:09

KPPlumbing · 25/06/2025 10:50

I would be really cringed out by any straight man who wasn't - at best extremely keen - and as a minimum - willing - to perform oral sex. There's something I find really unmasculine about not wanting to do it.

I think it was a lack of confidence potentially. He isn’t a very sexual person. I tried not to take his lack of interest personally as he told me he had no sex life with his ex wife either. I didn’t want us to end up that way so made the effort but he never initiated sex and never went down on me. I’d not had a partner before who wasn’t happy to do it so did find it a bit odd but didn’t push it. If not a lack of confidence, then it was selfishness!

Sorry to derail your thread, OP!

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