I'm a
transgressive girl- but not very. (see- if you went there- my pictures are pretty, not even especially raunchy.)
I love my
secret life. But
secret lives are complicated. Some days I'd love to reveal all. But most? I love having this- outside of my day to day, outside of (what I think are) most people's perception of who I am.
Other days I wish nothing was hidden, that we were all brave enough to risk judgement daily, constantly. That I didn't have to sweat the potential damages to my family.
I run up to the edge, drop a (very cute) toe over it, and hope I don't fall. Trust I won't fall? Hope the landing is soft? Trust it will be?
I've never done drugs- not really. The illicit, transgressive nature of them is my only attractor. I've tried, here and there, but I'm not cut out for it. Alcohol is similar. In that case I'm sure I
could become addicted- it's in my family- but I don't go there. I don't go there in large part because it doesn't work for me. I'm a lightweight in every sense of the word. More than one drink and I'm sleepy and almost guaranteed to feel it the next day, regardless of the type or strength of the drink- beer will knock me over about as easily as a martini. Remember that scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? I ached to be tiny Karen Allen, drinking the big boys under the table, then walking away level as all get out.
I'd love to be a wine snob, but it's never gonna happen.
But skinny dipping? I'm in.
And sex? I'm not particularly kinky. Nor unusual. The exploits documented here, as much as they are, are about it. But it does qualify as having pushed
my boundaries, in a delightful, challenging, and occasionally painful way.
How far will I go? Will it have to ratchet up? (in an aside, I think this could be a danger of sex blogging- for me anyway- the idea that I would have to have/court experiences faster than I would naturally want to in pursuit of fodder.)
Boundaries are tough for me. I want to push them. I want to see just how far I will go. Can go. Of course, this is a slippery slope, and many many people who've thought they were in control have slid down it.
The most immediate and unfortunate negative to pushing boundaries is finding them before I would want to: hating to be denied. Feeling like my edges are further out than someone else's, being told No. Or that I can't. Or that "it just doesn't work that way".