Permanent Retrograde

Permanent Retrograde

Share this post

Permanent Retrograde
Permanent Retrograde
The Single Greatest Sex Move in the History of Heterosexual Relations

The Single Greatest Sex Move in the History of Heterosexual Relations

Kelly Oxford's avatar
Kelly Oxford
May 07, 2025
∙ Paid
88

Share this post

Permanent Retrograde
Permanent Retrograde
The Single Greatest Sex Move in the History of Heterosexual Relations
6
Share
a woman holds her hands over her face
Photo by Anthony Tran

Let's talk about something they never cover in those clinical sex education pamphlets with the cartoon vulvas. Something that doesn't make it into Cosmo's "257 Ways to Drive Him Wild" between "tickle his earlobes" and "surprise him with lingerie." Something that should honestly be in the Museum of Revolutionary Sexual Problem-Solving, if such a place existed.

Which it should.

Foreplay isn't just physical. It starts in the brain hours before bodies even touch. The anticipation. Those glances across a dinner table. The deliberate knee touch that lingers just long enough. This is the intellectual appetizer before the main course.

Anyone can follow a sexual instruction manual. But few actually understand the architecture of desire—how to build tension beam by tension beam until the whole structure is about to collapse under its own potential energy. The most erotic moments in life often involve problem-solving on the fly, not performing some rehearsed routine.

Which brings me to the single greatest move a man has ever pulled off in my sexual history. A moment so perfectly calibrated to the urgent need of the situation that it deserves actual academic study.

It happened on a Tuesday night when we moved from his couch to bedroom in that wonderful fog of desire where furniture becomes suggested rather than solid. Bodies navigating space without breaking contact. Like a masterclass in ambulatory kissing.

This post is for paid subscribers

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Kelly Oxford
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share