“I once had a really old lover. I love to say ‘lover.’ It sounds so old-fashioned. Better than ‘fucker.’ He was many, many years older than me. I learned a lot from him. He wanted me to experience everything about male sexuality so that in the future no man could ever pull one over on me. Now I supposedly know a lot about male sexuality, but I don’t know whether all of what I have learned applies to all men or only to him. I still have to see. One of his cardinal rules was that you should always stick your finger up a guy’s ass during sex. Makes him come harder. So far I can certainly concur. It’s always a hit. They go wild. But you shouldn’t discuss it with them beforehand or after. Otherwise they’ll worry they’re gay and get all uptight. Just do it and afterward pretend nothing was ever in there.
This older boyfriend also showed me lots of porn films. He thought not only could men learn a lot from them, but women, too. It’s true.
It was in one of those films that I saw a black woman’s pussy for the first time. That’s something. Because they have dark skin, the interior colors of the pussy really pop when it’s spread open. Much more than with white women, where the contrast isn’t as extreme. Something to do with complementary colors, I think. Pussy-pink next to light-pink skin tone looks a lot more boring than pussy-pink next to dark-brown skin tone. Against dark-brown the pussy-pink looks dark-lavender-bluish-red. Swollen and throbbing.
I’m telling you. Complementary colors. Brown skin complements pussy-pink.
It impressed me so much that since then I always put make-up on the inside of my pussy when I have a date to fuck. I use standard make-up that you’d usually put on your face. I have yet to find pussy make-up at the drugstore. A gap in the market.
Like when you’re putting make-up on your eyes, I make it darker the closer you get to the center. I start with light pink and pink tones, lip gloss and eye shadow, and work my way through the folds until I’m right at the entrance to the tunnel, where I use dark red, lavender, and blue. I like to color the brown-pink of the rosette with a few dabs of lipstick, too, rubbing it on with my finger.
It makes the pussy and rosette more dramatic, deeper, more beguiling.”—Charlotte Roche, Wetlands, p125
