Puppy Food for your Puppy

Puppy play is a really common fetish among some BDSMers. What many people don't realize when they are training they puppy, however, is that human puppies shouldn't eat real dog food. First off, dry dog food is too hard for human teeth to chew, and can damage your pet's teeth and gums. Also, dogs have completely different nutritional needs than humans, so using real dog food can upset your pet's digestive system.

But there are a few tricks if you want to feed your puppy from a doggie bowl!

Here are some foods you might want to try...

Chocolate. For the puppy with a sweet tooth, crumbled bits of chocolate in a doggie bowl are a tasty but visually "doggish" food. But if you have real pets, be careful not to leave it out, since chocolate is toxic to both cats and dogs!

Beans. Beans are the color and consistency of much wet dog food, so these are great for humiliation. Pour some refried beans into a dog bowl, or use any variety of canned or fresh beans--chili beans, kidney beans, or any type of brown bean will work.

Chili. This food looks almost exactly like dog food when you leave out the peppers and onions. Make a simple chili dish with just tomato paste, ground beef, and chili beans, and you have a mushy food ready to be poured into a bowl!

Porridge. Anything soft and soupy, such as porridge, oatmeal, or even cereal can be poured into a dog bowl and enjoyed as a puppy treat.

Ground Beef. Try a dish with a ground-beef base for an authentic look. Some suggestions include Hamburger helper dishes, noodles and beef, chili, Sloppy Joes, taco meat, or cut-up hamburgers. All these foods are easily edible for humans, but look like dog food.

Ribs or Legs. Throw your human puppy a cooked chicken leg or a baked rib and let him get dirty licking and comping the meat without his paws. Later, you can enjoy watching him knaw on the bone!

Of course, basically any food poured into a bowl can substitute as dog food, so you are only limited by your imagination!

For more tips on how to train a human into a pet, click here.

Simple and Sexy Aphrodisiacal Recipes

After researching which aphrodisiacs are really sexuality-enhancing foods, I thought a subsequent post on simple aphrodisiacal recipes would be a great idea for subs wanting to surprise and please their Doms (or, Doms wanting to thank and appreciate their subs!).

All the following are tried-and-true recipes, either originals by me or trusted hand-me-downs from friends and family. I have tried and love each of these, except for the veggie sautee because I hate spicy peppers. I love to cook, and hope you will enjoy these, too!

Champagne and Strawberries
Simple, elegant, and classy.
You need: champagne, fresh strawberries (washed), powdered sugar

• Fill two stemmed glasses 1/3 full with chilled champagne.
• On a plate, arrange the chilled berries around a small bowl of powdered sugar
• Take a strawberry, dip into sugar, dip into champagne, and eat
• With your lover, take turns feeding each other and looking into each other's eyes

Salade de Fruits
This salad is not only sweet and healthy, but uses aphrodisiacal foods (either thought to release sex-friendly chemicals, or fruits with vibrant colors and sweet, ripe, juicy centers).
You need: 2 bananas, 3 kiwis, 1 green apple, 1 carton fresh strawberries, 1 carton fresh raspberries, 1 carton fresh blueberries, 1 peach, 4 clementines (or 2 oranges), 1/2 fresh pineapple

• Chop fruits into bite-sized pieces
• Mix gently to combine colors, taking care not to mash the fresh fruit
• Display in large, chilled bowl and serve cold, with fondu sticks or forks

Fruit Salad Dip
A magnificent complement to any fruit salad, I've also found this dip to be absolutely divine for licking from a lover's finger, stomach, thigh, or nipple...
You need: 12-oz package cream cheese (chilled, not low-fat), 12-oz jar marshmellow cream, ginger, lemon or orange juice, cherry syrup (optional), red food coloring (optional)

• In large mixing bowl, combine chilled cream cheese and marshmellow cream, mashing with fork until smooth and well blended. If lumpy, chill again and re-beat with fork
• Add a splash of citrus juice for extra creaminess and a slight citrus smell
• sprinkle ginger on top and stir in
• for pink dip, add 1 T cherry syrup and red food coloring, as needed; stir
• Serve cold, with fruit of choice

Fondu de chocolat
The quintessential romantic dish, this is easy to make in a microwave or on the stove-top.
You need: 1 bag semi-sweet milk chocolate chips, 1 T peanut butter, 1 T butter, 2 T milk

• In large saucepan or microwavable dish, melt chocolate chips, stirring often
• When halfway melted, add peanut butter, butter, and milk. Continue heating, stirring often to avoid sticking
• Pour into warmed bowl; keep warm to avoid solidifying.
• Serve with assorted fruits, breads, cakes, brownies, graham crackers, marshmellows, and other bite-sized sweets for dipping

Moules au La Rochelle (French-style Mussles)
A wonderful main dish or appetizer I first tried on the French seaside of La Rochelle, these shellfish will get your blood pumping.
You need: 1 lb. mussles, 1 c cream or milk, 1/2 c butter, 1 T freshly chopped parsley, 1/4 cup sliced onions, salt and pepper

• Rinse mussles. Put in large saucepan over medium heat, without water. Heat until shells open.
• Add all other ingredients except parsley. Heat til melted, stirring mussles into mixture
• Transfer mussles and sauce to two separate bowls.
• Garnish with parsley. Serve warm.

Sauteed Veggies and Rice
This spicy dish will get your loved one's heart racing and circulation pumping!
You need: white onion, garlic cloves, unshelled baby peas, red, yellow, and green chili peppers, cucumber, eggplant, squash/zuccini, plump tomato, mushrooms, other veggies to taste; 1 can salted cashews, salt and pepper; 2 c dry rice.

• Add butter to large saucepan and melt.
• When hot, add chopped veggies. Stir well.
• Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour in cashews. Continue stirring.
• Heat water and make rice according to package instructions.
• Fluff finished rice with a fork. Pour onto 2 plates.
• Top with sauteed veggie mix. Serve warm.

Homemade Sangria
If champagne is not your thing, this lightly alcoholic drink will add a fruity, fun flavor to your private party for two!
You need: 1 bottle red Reunite wine, 2 cans Five Alive frozen fruit juice (or other frozen mixed fruit punch drink), 1 bottle club soda, 1 lemon, 1lime, 1 orange.

• in large pitcher, combine wine, frozen juice, and 3/4 bottle club soda. Stir well.
• Slice fruits and add to pitcher; stir.
• Serve, chilled, in 2 stemmed glasses (with ice if preferred)

Sex in the Kitchen

No, I don't mean doing it against the refrigerator. I mean aphrodisiacs, that group of famous foods that are so lauded and celebrated for their supposed sexuality-enhancing powers. But what are aphrodisiacs, and do they really work?

The answer is, sadly, no. No, most "aphrodisiacs" don't actually work. Apparently our ancient ancestors believed the banana, carrot, cucumber, asparagus, figs, and oyster would increase sex drive simply because they looked like sex organs. (I don't really understand the oyster similarity myself, and I think I am slightly offended by the suggestion that the female vulva looks like nothing but a pile of sticky, gooey flesh.) They also thought eating the testicles of "virile" animals such as bulls and goats would produce the same effect, but hey, try it if you want to!

The good news if, some so-called aphrodisiacs actually do work. Not, as some of you may assume, because they look like dicks and pussies, but because they happen to contain some chemicals (dopamine that makes us happy), hormones (testosterone or estrogen that makes us horny), inhibitors (alcohol that makes us more likely to say yes), or scents (pumpkin, licorice, or lavender that increases blood flow to the genitals) that make us hornier, happier, or just more likely to say, "Heck yeah!"

So what foods might get you and your honey's blood pumping? Read on...

• Fruits: bananas are high in zinc, which get men's blood pumping, and papayas contain estrogen, which can help increase female libido
• Veggies: asparagus has vitamin E, which helps produce sex hormones. The scent of cucumbers, according to one study, increases vaginal blood flow in women (I'm not sure if this would work for women like me, who don't like the taste of cucumbers?). And chili peppers and other spicy foods have a dual effect: first, they hike up circulation, sweating, and heart rate to get blood pumping more forcefully; second, they release capscaicin, which relieves pain and releases the "happy chemicals" endorphins.
• Proteins: I can't really call this category "meats" since the only two contestants are caviar and shellfish. Yes, you heard right, the famous oysters are actually aphrodisiacs! Well, sort of. If you stretch it a bit. Okay, so caviar (fish eggs) and oysters are both high in zinc, which is important in the production of testosterone. Testosterone makes the sex drive higher in both men and women.
• Alcohols: Well, the truth is, any alcohol (in small quantites) will boost confidence and decrease inhibitions. Champagne is considered the most "romantic" drink, and a small amount will make you feel relaxed and warm. Many people get a lot hornier when they drink alcohol (I do!). But be careful, because if you drink too much, you go past the horny phrase straight into the drowsy stage. Zzzzz.....
• What? Oh, yeah, desserts. Happily, chocolate makes the list! Not only is it romantic and sweet, but chocolate makes people happy. Its chemicals stimulate us, give us a slight high, makes us feel happy, and relaxe us.

Want some sexy and simple recipes to create a hot, sex-friendly meal? Read my post, Simple and Sexy Aphrodisiac Recipes.

Of course, there are many non-food aphrodisiacs as well.

One is scent. Anyone with an acute sense of smell can tell you how much scent is a turn-on or turn-off. I am super sensitive to smells, and a really, really good cologne worn by a stranger on the street can make me instantly horny. Unfortunately, I've only found about four scents in the world that do that to me, and I have no idea what their names are. :( Thus far I have managed to avoid jumping and raping any of these strange men. Also, pumpkin and lavender are supposed to turn men on, and licorice and cucumber supposedly turn women on (I doubt this would work for me, as I detest licorice, cucumber, and lavender!)

Another is exercise. Or watching scary movies. Or wrestling. Or a tickling war. Or a good, long, stressful, all-out-yelling fight. Or having an adrenaline rush (from excitement or fear).

Are you getting the point? Anything that gets your heart rate up, blood pumping, and adrenaline coursing can be turned into heated arousal, because the physical characteristics are so similar. This is why dating magazines advise you to try watching a scary movie with your girlfriend or have a good, long wrestling match. This is why people have incredibly hot, wild make-up sex after huge fights. If you can get blood pumping, it's a good thing. While I don't recommend you set the mood by watching a blood-n-guts thriller or jumping out and scaring your partner (this gives me panic attacks and frankly just ticks me off), some wrestling, jogging, boxing, or other exercise might not be a bad idea. Or, just pick a fight. Whatever.

Another, and the most powerful, aphrodisiac is the brain. That's right, this is where we set the mood and send the signals to your body to let it know, "It's time." The power of thought is the reason some foods, which in fact do little or nothing for your sex drive, appear to increase it anyway. This is why a man who's been watching his partner's butt all night is horny, and why a woman who's been reading a romance novel wants to hop in bed. Your mind is your most powerful aphrodisiac! There are a multitude of ways to stimulate the mind to make your partner horny: talking dirty, writing a love letter, watching sexy movies together, writing erotica for them detailing what you want to do to them in great detail, talking about your fantasies, teasing each other, and setting the stage with lights, music, candles, perfume, romantic foods, soft fabrics, and sexy lingerie.

Life is an aphrodisiac. Get busy.

Resources:

http://homecooking.about.com/od/holidayandpartyrecipes/a/aphrodisiacs.htm

http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/family-relationships/articles/sex/rogers-chatelaine/food-top_5_aphrodisiac_foods

http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/aphrodisiacs/foods.html

http://health.howstuffworks.com/aphrodisiac.htm

Using Food During Sex

Food is often considered a sexy, kinky addition to sex. While there is nothing wrong with this, using food the wrong way can be dangerous. Here's our guide on when and how to use food in the bedroom.

A good general rule for sex is: No insertion! This makes some people sad, as some people have an obsession with finding kinky foods to stick up places it shouldn't go. Common examples are phallic objects like bananas and cucumbers; ginger for "figging"; or irritants like alcohol, wasabi, hot sauce, pepper sauce, and other spicy/stingy foods for pain play.

The problem with inserting food into a vagina, anus, or penis is that these are all mucous membranes. This means they are highly sensitive and absorb chemicals quickly. It is also nearly impossible to get all the food remnants out later, no matter how well you wash. Somewhere warm and moist like a vagina will find any molecules of food left over and harmful bacteria will begin to grow, making you incredibly sick. And water often just spreads the food around.

Sugar is a favorite kinky food (fruits, dips, desserts, champagne, and other sweets!), but it particularly dangerous. The natural, healthy bacteria inside a vagina will feed off the sugar and grow exponentially, resulting in painful yeast infections, urinary tract infections, or bladder infections. Not only are all these illnesses incredibly painful, but they require professional medical treatment, medication, and weeks of pain and no sex to heal.

If you want to use food up your read end, generally the more natural a product is, the less it can hurt you. So processed or man-made foods are out (like alcohol). Natural foods like peppers or ginger can be used, but be warned--the linings of the anus are delicate and will absorb the chemicals fast! In other words, it will hurt. :) Also, you can damage, tear, or inflame the tissue, causing rectal bleeding after sex or when you poop. Sometimes you can cause a rash or deaden the nerve endings. Just be cautious about inserting anything into your body other than a clean, washed body part or sex toy.

But cheer up: this doesn't mean food play is out. You can use food all over the body for foreplay, as long as you take care not to get it in the blody! Edible syrup, chocolte syrup, and sweet fruits can be safely used on the stomach, breasts, legs, and buttocks--anywhere covered with skin, with no openings into the body. Also, you can generally lick food off the outside of your genitals, so long as you avoid getting it inside.

If sex just doesn't seem as like "sex" without some sort of insertion, try pairing food in one spot with insertion in another. You can lick syrup off nipples while holding a vibrator inside your lover or stimulating her clit and G-spot with one hand. Or have her lie face-down or kneel doggie-style and sensually nibble fruit off her back while giving her some light anal fingering with the other hand.

Some sexy ideas: strawberries and champagne, a selection of sweet fruits to feed each other, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, fruit dip (one of my favorites!), or chocolate fondue. Take turns dipping fruit into the fondu or chilled dip, then feeding each other and trailing the food across the other's skin, then licking it off. And a tip about licking: it feels better when you keep it small and light, touching the body with only a small part of your tongue (such as the tip). Lots of slobber or a full, large lick isn't sexy.

In my experience, honey and ice cream can get sticky, so put a tarp under you and head to the shower after play. Anything with sugar in it (including fruits, which have natural sugars) gets sticky, so a tarp or old sheet is a must. It is probably a good idea to keep a damp towel close by so you can wipe your hands when you are done.

Happy eating!

Sources:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/BDSM-2733/Figging.htm
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080126161531AA9sBOy