Unintentionally hilarious Guardian article

[Krakauer]

This has to be a joke, surely! Especially the part about how he's so good at sex due to all the lesbian porn he watched

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/09/my-life-in-sex-man-always-gives-orgasm#comments

The Guardian is now a complete joke. A goody, mysoginistic one.

At least the comments are good.

What on earth is the point of that "article"?

Since when did any kind of journalism involve a few paragraphs of a man bragging about how porn has made him invincible?

How utterly pathetic and unnecessary and so lacking in context and purpose. They might as well have just published a pornographic image. Because that is all it amounts to.

The context is that this is part of a series - each week someone writes about their life in sex. They have all sorts - people who have been unfaithful, people who have only had sex once in their lives, people who have been married 50 years and still have a fulfilling sex life etc.

Obviously if you don't buy the newspaper, and just read stuff on the web, then of course it will appear as if it has no context.

I'm well aware that it's part of a series, I normally love it. But this week's is just so bad! And so... Male!

Not good enough for his ex wife to stay for though...

I'm also well aware of the wider series. There's no context within the article as to why it is remotely anything other than an unmediated statement.

Fine I suppose, if that's what passes for newspaper articles these days. I guess self-indulgent, narcissistic bravado is all the rage, so what's new Guardian.

Anyway, it's interesting that even if his 100% A+ scorecard is accurate, there's something manifestly revolting about him.

But in a series like that there's no obligation for the paper only to print articles by people who are likeable. In that series, there have been pieces that are touching, annoying, sweet, sad and all the rest. Why not have a narcissistic one? As a standalone piece it would have been ridiculous but in the context of a series it's just another point on the graph of human sexual experience and attitudes.

Yeah the problem with this sort of bloke is the risk they'll hang about for breakfast.

What the fuck is wrong with the Guardian

I take your point there hackmum.

I think there's just something off with giving narcissistic men the oxygen. He's probably been wanking over that article all morning.

Wtaf. I'm surprised that a man being attuned to his partners enjoyment during sex warrants an "I'm a sex God" article. It's just normal isn't It? Or have I been very lucky?

I didn't think it was unintentional?

hahahah

Anyone ever watch the inbetweeners? He's Jay.

"I'm like proper good at sex mate . Really, well good

My current partner starts helplessly chuckling to herself

To be fair, I do believe that.

I knew this was going to be about that article! Some of the comments on there are very funny - men talking earnestly about how satisfied their partners are.

"they’ve all displayed a few seconds of what I can only describe as total paralysis."

Yes, this was boredom.

"My current partner starts helplessly chuckling to herself."

Oh good for her, she's found something to think about while he's going at it.

The comments are just fabulous!

Oh, btw, is this 'few seconds of total paralysis' what actually happens, because if so, I've never had an orgasm. I don't think that's correct, I think I have. Funny how all the women he sleeps with experience orgasm in the same way though.

I also don't believe counsellors ask you give a GCSE grading style rating for your sex life.

In summary - this is a fantasy :) But hilarious with it.

It is no worse really than most of the egotistical nonsense by random members of the public which The Guardian has been publishing for decades on a Saturday.

My favourite was the mother whose life was devastated when her 20 something son got a small tattoo on his shoulder.

Btw anyone else who still buys the print version - was the book review section missing? This is the second week we didn't get one and it's almost the only bit I read (does anyone read Tim Dowling or Bim Adewunmi?)

Just about the only interesting thing I've read from The Guardian in years was that Experience piece about a woman who was attacked by a dolphin. I never knew dolphins could be like that so that's it really.

I think it shows different viewpoints. You free to think this man is an utter prick. That doesn’t mean his view shouldn’t appear in a newspaper.

I assumed it was a follow on from another article that went viral last week about a bloke who found out his girlfriend masturbated after they had sex and didn't know why...
There were a lot of people taking the piss on Twitter on that one.
I'm completely tickled by the idea of the Guardian then going out to find someone who makes sure his partner comes when they do the deed as a counterpoint, and then coming up with that bloke

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/05/my-girlfriend-masturbates-after-we-have-sex-why

OMG that is even worse!

"Many women crave a second orgasm, " - very kind, Pamela, very kind. I'd never thought of the shower thing but always assumed the reason nature made men fall asleep after sex was so women could finish the job in peace......

But surely the correct 'advice' would be to chat to her and find out how you can incorporate her needs into your joint experience? No, men, bugger off and leave us to it - you have aroused us SO much we need more but not from you .

I was just coming on to post about that other article, but Stars has beaten me to it. Yup, the "I always give my girlfriend an orgasm" was clearly a follow-up to all the comments below Pamela Stevenson's piece (most of the comments were "err, mate, I think we can safely assume that it's not a second orgasm she's after").

I'd love them to have a "My life in sex" submission from a woman riffing on "my boyfriend insists on plastering his interpretation of our crap sex life all over the inside pages of a national newspaper".