The first rule of sex
is there are no rules.
(This is not the only way
in which sex
differs from Fight Club.)
Sex between two people
with vaginas
(not two women, mind you)
is not elementary.
There is no peg
that fits perfectly
into a hole.
Just two (consenting) people
who can fit perfectly
into each other
if they try.
My first time was,
to be honest,
like all first times
(awkward and underwhelming)
but,
thanks to heteronormativity,
it was minus
the endless tutorials
representation on repeat
how-to-guides
booklets
explaining how
with the peg, and the hole,
to make any,
arbitrary, person
feel good.
As if a guide
could ever supply
that kind of information.
Useless for straight people
but even more so for me
(because of the fixation on the pole, you know how it is)
but the sex was
happening.
So I pressed my lips against their neck
ran my fingers through their soft hair
felt the curve of their hip pressing on mine
pulled them close
and kept experimenting.
Image: V.H. Hammer CC BY 2.0.