"Top Ten Lists" by Darren Michaels

I hope you enjoy my Top Ten Lists, and take them for what they are worth…mainly entertainment. But like the old saying goes, sometimes there is nothing funnier than the truth.

I am often asked how I came up with the idea for telling both sides of the same erotic story. I think it really ties in with the lists I wrote out. The reality is that when it comes to having sex, most of the time I have no idea what I do right and what I do wrong in the “preliminaries” to end up there. Actually, I shouldn’t say no idea, but I certainly have come to terms with the fact that most of the time I have no idea what women are thinking. So to rectify this, I started asking questions.

When I would write a story, and then “translate it” into the women’s point of view, I would show it to the woman who was involved in that encounter. I had the luxury of having good relationships with these women and was able to gain a lot of insight into the female mind. I did things “right” more often than I thought, and also gave myself credit where I was way off base, too. Yes, ladies…go ahead and laugh. But I learned a lot about the process as a whole. I used to think getting someone there was always a little like a hostage negotiation, but I have learned that sex is something women want just as much.

Now I can freely jump back and forth between perspectives, and even write stories in the women’s point of view first. I sit around and laugh when listening to my male friends reciting stories from the bars on Friday night; things they said or did that I just laugh at knowing it didn’t have the affect they were hoping for. It is highly entertaining. And I can also sit with a group of women and hold my own in your conversations about the same thing. I am eerily in touch with my feminine side, and toe the line on Metrosexual at times a little more than I am comfortable with.

So what this really means is that it is still amazing to me that men and women get together at all; the agendas are so different, and the criteria vastly different. Thank God for alcohol. Hope you enjoy my book, and the unique perspective I try to bring by showing both sides of the stories. Half of them are real and half are made up…can you tell which is which???

www.flipside-erotica.com check it out!

Darren Michaels

Top Ten List of what men think women think about during sex
1. Am I sexy?
2. Do I look okay???
3. Am I doing it right?
4. Does he really like me?
5. Will he call me again?
6. Focus so I can finish.
7. Ugh I wish it was bigger
8. Is he going to stay afterwards?
9. Am I gonna regret this???
10. Love me love me love me marry me have kids, I wonder how many and what their names should be……

Top ten list of what women really think about during sex.
1. Relax!!! BREATHE BREATHE
2. Focus, focus, focus….
3. Patrick Swayze in Dirty Dancing.
4. Brad Pitt in… well anything.
5. Gerard Butler , 300 nuff said.
6. Oh God, I am so close!
7. A little farther left! A little farther left!!!
8. I really need to touch up this ceiling paint…..
9. Is he done already???
10. Why isn’t he done yet????/

Top Ten List of women think men think about during sex
1. Pornstars
2. Strippers
3. Ex Girlfriends
4. What do I have to say to have her let me………
5. Is she really enjoying it?
6. Oh my God I am having sex!!!
7. Dead puppies, Baseball, my grandmother…ok I can come now.
8. Where are my pants?
9. nearest exit is where again?
10. I am a rock star.

Top Ten list: what men really think about during sex (once we’ve got the okay to finish)
1. Pornstars
2. Strippers
3. Ex girlfriends
4. The girl at the office.
5. The girl at the grocery store.
6. The girl at the coffee shop.
7. The girl at the mall.
8. The girl at the gym.
9. Your girlfriend’s best friend.
10. Hot female celebrities

Top ten list of what men think about during sex (trying to last past five minutes)
1. SportsCenter
2. The starting line up for the 2001 New York Yankees.
3. Margaret Thatcher on a cold day
4. Algebra equations.
5. Who is playing in the Monday Night Football game?
6. I need to trade one of my running backs and get a better wide receiver for my Fantasy
football team.
7. Work
8. SportsCenter
9. Music lyrics
10. The Ultimate Fighting Championships Greatest Knockouts Volume 4