Lion used to spend more time travelling for work than he did at home. That was before we met. After we met he got a job that sent him to China a few times. Other than one or two day trips since then Lion has been home. Until this job. He loves his job. He does fun things. And when he travels now he goes to a touristy area with lots of things to do. Still, he doesn’t like to travel anymore. Last night he was so down about traveling that he didn’t get his orgasm. I couldn’t get him aroused.

In a few days I’ll be joining him. He’ll work during the day and we’ll do touristy stuff in the evening. Our evenings are so jam-packed I’m not sure when we’ll have time to play, but we’ll figure it out. We’ll have a lot of fun both in and out of bed, I’m sure.

Last night Lion asked about the cage again. We both see the benefits of it. We both understand that there’s technically no need for it. Chastity continues whether or not Lion is locked up. I’ve been doing fairly well playing with and edging him. The cage has served its purpose. However, I hesitate (I think we both do) to retire it completely. For now let’s just say it will gather some dust. At some point in the future we may see a need for it. I may decide one Saturday that I want my balls and weenie locked up and on the cage will go. Lion may get all nostalgic and ask to be caged for a day or two.

I doubt there will ever be a need to stop Lion from masturbating or to remind me that I have a horny Lion who needs to be played with. We’ve progressed quite far from those days. We’ll still continue to work on communication. And we’ll still continue the blog. Lion is still chaste whether he’s locked up or not.

While it is a lot of work writing daily posts, it also provides me with unique opportunities. For one thing, I don’t have to compress events into infrequent posts. I have the ability to explore many sides of our interests through these daily exercises. I’m taking advantage of that now.

I like to read other blogs on the subjects of male chastity, sexual control, and female domination. The vast majority of what I read is written by men. A few blogs are authored, I believe, by women. Most of the readers of all of our blogs, are men. I know that many of our readers like reading Mrs. Lion’s posts because they like to read what a dominant woman has to say.

Most of what she writes isn’t about being dominant, at least in the BDSM sense. She reports on our activities and how they affect her. She sees herself as a journalist. I think of myself as a columnist. Between us, you get a good sense of what is happening in our relationship. I’m her most avid reader.

Occasionally, I read a post that amazes me with its authoritative voice and the misinformation it preaches. I recently read one such post that prescribes how long a man should wait between orgasms. It’s filled with pseudoscience to rationalize ejaculatory spacing. I’ll bet you a nickel that the only readers who actually accept this stuff are male. In fact, I’m pretty sure women don’t spend much time at all thinking about the frequency of their partner’s orgasms. Ask Mrs. Lion. She’ll tell you that it isn’t something she particularly cares about.

Men, submissive men, love to obsess about orgasm spacing. Some, who wear chastity devices, take great pride in how few orgasms they have in a year. It’s an exciting concept to them. Some, revel in the number of orgasms they give their partners while they remain dry. That’s all cool.

As long as we remember that male chastity is a male fetish, it’s easy to understand why orgasm infrequency is such an important topic. It’s even more fun to rationalize that infrequent orgasms have health benefits. That misinformation is fairly recent. Four years ago it was all about how a male will become sexually attentive only if he is stopped from ejaculating.

If a woman stays with a man who is only willing to please her when he is desperate to ejaculate, she has a poor self image. It’s true that most of us get a bit sleepy and lose interest in too much activity immediately after we ejaculate. But we all recover our energy and ambition in a short time and we are ready to please our lovers. We may not be able to ejaculate for a while and we may not be able to get erect, but our tongues and fingers work just fine.

There is no real medical evidence that ejaculation is harmful in any way. In fact, men who have 30 orgasms a month have been shown to have reduced incidence of prostate cancer. The improved odds are statistically significant, but largely not worthy of serious consideration as rationalization for daily orgasms. Similarly, there is absolutely no evidence that spacing ejaculation out over days or weeks has any medical benefit.

It all comes down to what works for each of us. Mrs. Lion has some fun edging me and making me wait. I like that she does it. I like the frustration and uncertainty I feel when she starts stimulating me. We have yet to find any particular wait that is magical. I like to wait at least three days. That’s because after three days, the orgasms tend to feel better to me. I never complain if they come more or less often. I wasn’t any crazier after I waited three weeks than after one week.

We had fun playing with the extended wait. But we also have a lot of fun when I am allowed to ejaculate. Mrs. Lion decides. That’s because I want her to. I like when she is in control. There’s no science involved. It’s just what we do.

I worked later than normal on a Friday yesterday and I was very busy. I usually write a post in the morning and have it ready to go by deadline. I even thought I’d write when I got home but Lion was already home and we decided to jam even more tours and reservations into our vacation. I forgot all about my post by the time we had it all sorted out.

We went out to dinner and then Lion fell asleep watching TV. This isn’t necessarily a death knell to snuggling or sex but I was tired too. He is correct that I will send him off on his trip with a smile on his face. I usually do. It’s sort of a tradition because most of the time he’ll be off by himself and lonely. This time I’ll be joining him in a few days. That certainly doesn’t mean he won’t get his send off. I’m actually wondering about the opportunities for snuggling and edging while we’re together. Our dinner reservations are quite late and Lion still has to work at least two of the mornings. I’m sure we’ll find time to have some private fun mixed in with all the vacation fun.

Neither of us knows what’s going to happen with the cage. The morning I wrote about the cage being permanently gone I was still trying to figure out how I felt about him asking to be wild. I really think I was just annoyed at having to get out of bed again to unlock him. I don’t think it signaled retirement. In some ways it served its purpose so why bother? In other ways it’s still a useful reminder to both of us. I know Lion thinks he shouldn’t have a say in the matter but certain things need feedback from both sides. I do know we’ll work it out eventually. Right now we’re too excited about our adventures next week to think about it too much.

Neither of us have slept very well this past week. I’m hoping that trend ends this weekend. I’m heading out of town to (hopefully) warmer weather. I’m pretty sure that Mrs. Lion will send me off with a smile on my face. At times when sleep is missed, our interest in play naturally diminishes. I can’t say my interest in sex goes down proportionately.

But it does go down. I fell asleep last night while we watched TV. It’s something I don’t particularly like. I also don’t like the lost opportunity for some snuggling and teasing.

I’m not looking forward to another long flight on a full plane. I travel enough to hate being crammed in coach and not enough to rate first class  upgrades. Transcontinental fights used to be on wide-body planes with room even in the back of the plane. The food was good and was free. I don’t mind paying for a meal, but the quality of what’s offered is less than spectacular. Enough air travel whining!

Last week when I asked to be unlocked for the night, I hadn’t given any thought to asking Mrs. Lion to retire the chastity device. Based on one of her posts last week, apparently she thought I was asking to be permanently wild. She mentioned that years ago she said that if I want out of the cage, I would also give up all the other power exchanges we have. She went on to say that she no longer feels that way.

I want to be very clear. I was not asking to be released permanently. I was just having a bad night and didn’t want the distraction of the cage. If she had refused to unlock me, I would have been fine with that decision. She decided that I could remain wild since I was leaving on my trip in a few days.

The question is what happens when I get back? Does the cage go back on? If so, are we returning to full-time lockup? I don’t know. I also don’t think Mrs. Lion knows either. We agree that regardless of whether or not hardware is  locked onto my penis, I will not masturbate. I will always be completely dependent on Mrs. Lion for any sexual satisfaction. We both like this arrangement. That isn’t going to change. Ever.