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126. you spilled your hot come on my hot girlfriend: horizontal with the king of cuckolding [1 of 2]

in episodes on 21/04/21

Here, lookin’ at you kid, is Dallas.


126. you spilled your hot come on my hot girlfriend: horizontal with the king of cuckolding [1 of 2]

Hello my horizontal lovers, my intimacy investigators, my horizontalists! horizontal is the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down (and usually, while wearing robes).  With few exceptions, our conversations are languorous, meandering, and long-form, as though post-coital, or stargazing, or staring out onto the open road in the wee hours of a very long road trip.

Dallas:  Your role is to not love her, fall in love with her, steal her away, or any of that bullshit. Your role is to please. That’s it! You’re there, for one thing. Now, that’s singular. There’s a spectrum, of course. Some people want other things. I’ve been asked, Oh, take her out on dates, you know what I mean, Go on vacation with her. Come to Vegas. Take her to Vegas. Fly over here with her. Actually be the, basically the side boyfriend, that they don’t have time to be. You know what I mean, I’ve been in those situations. So— but in its singular form, you’re there to provide a good time, in the bedroom, behind closed doors, in an intimate sensual and sexual fashion.

Lila:  So what turns you on about that?

Dallas:  It’s so raw. It’s just so raw. That, in more cases than not […] the guys that are asking me to sleep with their wife or girlfriend, are not pushovers. These guys are CEO’s. They own businesses of a hundred people, employees. They don’t have any money problems. They go on vacation, more than they fuckin’ live their life. They’re fuckin’, they’re top of their pyramid. These guys have no problem getting a woman, or anything like that. To be asked, by another alpha male, to do something that he can no longer do? It’s pretty amazing.

Lila:  Is that the case, he can no longer do it? Most of these scenarios? 

Dallas:  […] Oh man, there’s such a spectrum. It could be: I’m tired of fucking my wife. It could be: My wife is tired of fucking me. It could be that: You know what, I only get off on watching porn, not my wife anymore. But I’ve met couples where they’re in their first year of marriage, so no one’s tired of fucking anyone, at that point! Then it’s just something different. No, I get turned on by watching. By voyeurism. Not only that! I get turned on by watching somebody please somebody that I love. I get turned on by watching somebody turn on somebody that I love, cumming all over their face, so that, when you leave, I can kiss her all night. These are the different spectrums. I mean there’s so many different variations, but it comes down to one variation where, it is in its simplest form: another man, is in one way or the other, getting turned on, by letting another man sleep with the wife. Now, here’s a funny— here’s a interesting, not a funny one: I’ve known guys, that want this from me … just for the outcome of causing conflict […] and issues and drama and conflict and anger, with their wife or girlfriend. Just for that.

Lila:  Yeah! Because! Jealousy is an age-old aphrodisiac. 



Hello my horizontal lovers, my intimacy investigators, my horizontalists!

horizontal is the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down (and usually, while wearing robes).

With few exceptions, our conversations are languorous, meandering, and long-form, as though post-coital, or stargazing, or staring out onto the open road in the wee hours of a very long road trip. It’s a private conversation made public. It’s consensual eavesdropping.

Typically on horizontal, each conversation is between 3 and 5 hours long, and divided into two to four parts. The former half is available to all horizontalists, and the latter, is available exclusively to patrons of the horizontal arts.

This is Season 4, my Season of Experiments. During this season, I’m investigating form and format, length and structure, context and content. Playing aurally. Trying things I haven’t tried yet.

Thus far, Season 4 has seen a mash-up with Devin Person’s “this podcast is a ritual” show, episodes with more-or-less intrusive narration (you decide), and a session with a matchmaker in which I get interviewed, as the client.

you spilled your hot come on my hot girlfriend, this episode, is my very first recording spotlighting a single sexy topic!

Meet Dallas.

In episodes 126 & 127, I lie down with Dallas King: L.A. native, global hedonist, director, filmmaker, hot professor, model, and profoundly experienced bull.

He is writing the book on cuckolding. Literally. That’s what he’s in Bali to do.

It’s called GASM.

For images featuring such highlights as Dallas’s rippling abs, brooding fashion sense, and graphic tattoos, witness his Instagram @dallasking1

In this first half of our recording, we talk about:

  • craigslist personals
  • what cuckolding means
  • “the lifestyle” versus sex-positive culture
  • working as a massage therapist in L.A. & becoming a bull
  • his first time pleasing another man’s wife & being watched while doing it
  • grappling with professional, mental, and religious inhibitions
  • homophobia & sexual performance
  • how being a bull can affect your romantic relationships
  • humiliation & emasculation
  • agreeing on where to come
  • navigating couple dynamics
  • dealing with your own expectations
  • cuckqueens, and …
  • my desire to be a female bull.

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Upcoming in Season 4, I have a recording from my guest spot on Dominick Q & Bryan Stacey’s “The Great Man Within” podcast, a couple of episodes with the journalist Sue Jaye Johnson, in which she interviewed me for her project “The Pleasure Report,” a 5-part mini-series with Jet-Setting Jasmine, who you must know — a badass Black therapist & porn star, and her incredible Dom husband, and a daughter that gives me hope for the future of humanity, as well as shows with segments, a la NPR, among other explorations.

Until next time: May you have someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to.

I’m looking forward to scripting and rehearsing my first TED-style talk, and the event I curated around it to celebrate the 4-year podcast-aversary on May 21st, 2021! It’s gonna be called “Hot Love Talks.”

Thank you for listening. Thank you for getting horizontal.

Now, come lie down with us, in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia.

horizontal with Dallas King in Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia


Links to Things:

Dallas’s IG with ripplings abs, etc.

On FOSTA-SESTA: “Sex Workers Tell Us What Support They Actually Need From Politicians”


Show Notes:

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[4:46]  Dallas on wanting to be a senator when he grew up. Lila on wishing that a politician’s sex life didn’t affect public opinion on the way they govern.

Dallas:  I wanted to be a senator when I was younger—

Lila:  Seriously?

Dallas:  — yeap. You know, a politician. A senator of California. And I was like, “Na, the sex tape already came out. It’s too late for that.”

Lila:  I would love it if we got to the place where that didn’t fuckin’ matter, right? (Dallas hmm’s) Where it didn’t have to come out as a scandal later because […] you would just know — 

Dallas:  Yeah.

Lila:  — and it’s not a big deal! Somebody’s sex life does not determine how they can—

Dallas:  Right.

Lila:  — do this job! Come on!

Dallas:  Someone later would be like, “Was that— wasn’t that you on Craigslist?” And I’d be like, “Fuck yeah it was!”

Lila:  Yes indeed it was!

Dallas:  Weren’t you on there too? (laughs) 

Lila:  It was a great time. I’m sure we met…

[5:42]  Dixie de la Tour & Craigslist personals, as community

Lila:  Dixie de la Tour. She has the longest-running sex storytelling series in the U.S. […] You just reminded me of her, because she told a story about Craigslist, Personals back in the day.

Dallas:  Oh gosh! Oh yeah. That’s still! Infamous, what are you talkin’ about?

Lila:  Yeah but it’s not— it’s shut down now, because of FOSTA-SESTA. 

Dallas:  I know. But we, we we upgraded. Or we— it’s like we got orphaned little children and we all got put out on different apps— 

Lila:  Yeah!

Dallas:  And we’re lucky if we find each other again, you know.

Lila:  Really!

Dallas:  I mean I can only from about, Los Angeles, but there was such a community. To the point where it was like, Oh yeah, I remember I saw your posting! You know what I mean, Oh we finally meet! You know? There were some guys I had talked to for years, looking to like, combine forces for like swinging parties and then, two/three years later we finally meet up and we’re like, “Where did we meet?” “Oh fuck! Craigslist ad, man!”

Lila:  Wooooow.

Dallas:  And it was already been taken down. But we still stayed in contact, you know.

[6:40]  Lila & Dallas reminisce about Craigslist’s Missed Connections

Lila:  I remember loving Missed Connections. I posted, probably twice, over the course of maybe 6 years in Missed Connections, and I remember just reading them just for joy!

Dallas:  Yeah… Somebody posted on Missed Connections to find me, and, somebody said, “Hey, I think someone… described you on Missed Connection—” (laughs)

Lila:  Woooow! I was hoping that would happen. 

Dallas:  It does! It has happened. Yeah, for sures.

Lila:  Yeah, wow. Even in such a big city as L.A.

Dallas:  Yeah… yeah, big little city— technology though really,

Lila:  Makes a big city smaller.

[7:24]  Dallas on cuckolding vs. cock holding

[8:00] Terminology: The Lifestyle vs. sex-positivity

Dallas:  It just goes to show it’s not a very common sector within The Lifestyle. And when we say “Lifestyle,” when I hear that, I mean: it’s a broad spectrum.

Lila:  Do you mean sex-positivity when you say Lifestyle?

Dallas:  You know what’s funny is that, not until I traveled internationally do I even hear that word as much,  like— and again, you know, I’m always coming from a voice of Los Angeles for most of my life, and, although I’ve traveled 60 countries, I, I wanna feel like I could, have kinda an international vibe but it always blows my mind about, depending upon where you’re at, not where you’re from, the terminology of things being used more and less, is very very interesting to me. And so, my time here coming to Bali, I had to try to just keep an open mind and an open ear about things that are commonly used and things that are not, and things that I’m used to may not be here. No judgements at all, I just think it’s a different vibe and a different feel.

Lila:  I very rarely hear anybody say The Lifestyle. Actually, the only people I’ve heard say that are stringers— str— 

Dallas:  Swing— swingers?

Lila:  (laughing) Stringers!

Dallas:  I wanna meet a stringer, yeah!

Lila:  Whoa, what are stringers like?

Dallas:  String— string me on, you know? Lead me on! (laughs) 

Lila:  Hey! I think you’ve met a few of those though.

Dallas:  (reluctantly) Yyeah.

Lila:  Alright, no, swingers: are swingers specifically. […] And that’s what I associated it with so I thought The Lifestyle equals swinging.

Dallas:  Swinging. It’s kinda like: So in America we say EDM music, Electronic Dance Music, which encompasses all 20+ genres. Anything electronic, synth-made, it kinda falls underneath EDM, right?

Lila:  Yeah.

Dallas:  I come to Bali, everyone’s just like, “Oh, techno.” And I’m like, “Techno?!” Like, techno’s actually a specific genre in America— 

Lila:  Oh, of EDM.

Dallas:  Yeah, of EDM, like, there’s techno artists. And I didn’t understand that, for like a month. […] I guess for me it helps me understand that The Lifestyle, there’s a huge spectrum. And we can say from conservative, to extremely radical, if we’re looking at a spectrum, right? And in that spectrum of, quote unquote, a lifestyle or kink lifestyle, I think there’s many different playgrounds for people and obviously, there’s so many crossovers, so many hybrid, so many grey area, I mean, there’s not gonna ever be like, Oh, this is the religiously this and if you don’t do this then you’re not that— 

Lila:  Of course.

Dallas:  I mean I don’t— Yeah, please. So, it’s just a easier way to define things, I believe. And mind you, when I’m meeting people, this is the first time they’ve even dipped their toe into the puddle of any Lifestyle. So I really have to keep an open mind and try to welcome them in. I really try to use friendly terms to not scare the fuck out of people, coming into it, because they’re kinky, they’re openminded, they know they want more sexually, or sensually, or mentally. But they don’t know the ins or outs of going about it. 

Lila:  So do you feel like The Lifestyle as terminology is less scary to people than sex-positive culture?

Dallas:  You know, here’s something interesting: I’ve been using the word “sex-positive” more, and, I’ve said it to people that have no idea what that word means […] annnd, they’ve taken it the wrong way. So you almost have to educate people about what sex positive actually means.

Lila:  (overlapping) You do. When you say it, you have to define it usually.

Dallas:  Right. I can, tell the stories of someone’s like, “Sex-positive— No, I don’t have HIV!” […] They’re like, “Positive, sex-positive, no I don’t have a lot of sex.” No no nonono, that’s not it either. […]

Lila:  Absolutely. And I think of that as part of my job, so I do it a lot. So I use the terminology, and then, you know, wait. (giggle) So that, so that I get the question, so I can answer the question. But I’m, I’m getting you as, it is an umbrella term— you’re using The Lifestyle as an umbrella term, just as I use “intimacy” as the umbrella term and underneath that, I place sex, love, and relationships of all kinds. All kinds of connection I place under the umbrella of intimacy. So when people say I make a sex podcast, I say, “Well that is partially true. Yes and.” That and all other kinds of intimacy. And that is also something that’s really important to me, is to sort of expand people’s notion of what intimacy is, and also see if I can… soften the primacy of the romantic and the sexual relationships— people are putting all their eggs in that basket and then, going hungry, basically.

Dallas:  I understand.

Lila:  When they don’t, don’t have that.

[12:54]  Dallas’s early experience as a virgin bull

Dallas:  So circling back to cuckolding, it’s been a challenge, and a very learning experience, going back now, let’s say, 9 years, in the lifestyle of cuckolding. And, starting from basically a virgin, a virgin bull (chuckles) as we would say.

Lila:  Wow.

Dallas:  Starting from a virgin bull of just being offered: Hey, would you like to sleep with my wife? You know, and how alien that felt. Which, for me is everything. Because, when I meet people who are just getting into cuckolding, and, quote unquote, that specific lifestyle, I go back to my early years, of how I misperceived, and didn’t know, and just, my mind wasn’t that exposed and that experienced and that open at the time. And, my mind is connected to my emotions— I remember the first time I was put in that situation, I couldn’t perform because, my mind and— I didn’t know how to separate my mind and my emotions and therefore it connected to, my other body parts and they didn’t work! You know! And it took a while to retrain, rewire, and re, re-synthesize things for it to work in this type of scenario. 

[14:10]  Dallas tells the story of the first time he was propositioned to be a bull… as a massage therapist

[22:47]  Dallas shares his virgin bull story

[26:36]  The inhibitions that can arise for the bull, of the spiritual, moral, ethical, professional, & mental varieties

Lila:  What are the things that came up? What are the inhibitions that came up? What’s in your brain, that’s keeping you from connecting your body to your arousal?

Dallas:  Yeah I mean, that, in itself, is the biggest journey. And I mean this is something, in the book I’m writing, that, I’m very much focusing on, because, so many times people think like, cuckolding … in its, in its rawness term, which is: when another man, enjoys to see his wife or girlfriend, getting pleased by another man. I mean that’s in its general term, right? But see, immediately you’re just thinking the sex, the fucking, the whatever, right? But no. It’s, it’s so much more than that. And, for the bull? There’s the emotional hangups, because you’ve had past lovers and what does this— how does this apply? What if you’re wi— in a relationship, too? I’ve had that issue. And not even be able to get excited or perform with somebody that I’m in love with, and because I’m so used to this type of extracurricular lifestyle. The mental, of course, the blockages there, of somebody else being in the room, somebody else being involved, and there’s many ways to not be involved, there’s many ways to be involved. I had, in the very beginning, a lot of issues morally, because of my spiritual and religious foundation of Catholicism, of adultery, and Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife. […] Thou shall not sleep with another man’s wife!

Lila:  Right!

Dallas:  So I had that issue to even go through, you know what I mean? So that’s a huge one to understand. And then, all of those, I don’t care how King Ding-a-Ling you are— it’s gonna have an affect on your performance.

[29:04]  The homophobic hang-ups that can reveal themselves when being witnessed in a sexual situation by a man

Dallas:  Then you have the idea that, there’s another person in the bedroom […] watching, that’s a male, and you’re not, you’re not gay, and you don’t, and you don’t—

Lila:  What does it mean?

Dallas:  Right, so there’s these homophobic issues that you have as a heterosexual. Then there’s the issues of: you have to perform above and beyond, because now you have a woman, and depending on what level of experience, and most of them are pretty experienced— well their expecting a fuckin’, a bull! I don’t like to dilute that word! I mean you’re, you better step up to the plate. You’re a lion, so you better perform like one! Because that’s why you’re being invited into the room.

Lila:  That’s why you’re there. So there’s this performance stress, basically this is like game time, it’s go time— 

Dallas:  Sure, sure. Sure!

Lila:  And you gotta show up and you’d better have an erection, etcetera.

Dallas:  And let me tell you, I’ve been in many rooms with many other guys that are considered bulls that did not rise to the occasion. And I think a lot of it has to do with the mental blockage and mental preparedness.

[30:03]  What did the cuckold do when Dallas, as requested, brought another bull into the mix, and that bull failed to rise to the occasion?

[33:08]

Dallas:  We’re doing DP stuff here! And it’s working! It’s flowing! And it’s very difficult to do, and she’s with it, and it’s happening. It goes an hour! We all finish in some glorious bukkake-style stuff. And uh, afterwards— now mind you, I’ve known this guy for about five months. This is at least five, six, or seven encounters. But this is like: This is the end. […] Never hear from them, never see them ever again. And, then he reveals: He’s like, “Hey.” And I (chuckles) I don’t know how to take this, but I’m just gonna say it: He’s like, “Hey. I used to be a porn star.” He’s like, “You did really good.” […] Translation: just being able to stay hard and stay excited in the moment, of so much conflict happening, is everything in this, this Lifestyle. It is so challenging, I must say, to be excited, from a male’s point of view. Because we’re so external. And if our thing isn’t hard then we’re just useless as a bull. As a bull in in, in the wild, you are looked at to perform, to breed the herd, to continue the race. And that’s your role. That is your sole role. You are here to breed the strongest, of our race to continue, until your no longer, can perform, and then you’re out, and the next bigger, baddest bull is gonna take over. I watch this shit on National Geographic, and I’m like, Damn! Am I the young bull or the old bull comin’ in, you know what I mean? And I’m over here butting heads with bulls. 

[34:59]  The mental hangup of being watched by a man

[36:57]  Lila on how heteronormativity hurts all of us

[37:53]  How the cuckolding lifestyle can affect a conventional relationship

Dallas:  I think when it’s like a one-off or a couple times, you know what I mean, it’s one thing, but when you start getting into some consistency, with this cuckold lifestyle where you’re the bull, and you’re constantly being asked to please another, another man’s girl, when you walk into a conventional relationship with someone, of a lover, on a level like that, it becomes not the norm. The norm is like, this is not the dynamic. So what I found is that— […] I, actually get turned on knowing that I am being sought after — talk about no strings attached! You know your rule— your role. Your role is to not love her, fall in love with her, steal her away, or any of that bullshit. Your role is to please. That’s it! You’re there, for one thing. Now, that’s singular. There’s a spectrum, of course. Some people want other things. I’ve been asked, Oh, take her out on dates, you know what I mean, Go on vacation with her. Come to Vegas. Take her to Vegas. Fly over here with her. Actually be the, basically the side boyfriend, that they don’t have time to be. You know what I mean, I’ve been in those situations. So— but in its singular form, you’re there to provide a good time, in the bedroom, behind closed doors, in an intimate sensual and sexual fashion.

Lila:  So what turns you on about that?

Dallas:  It’s so raw. It’s just so raw. That, in more cases than not […] the guys that are asking me to sleep with their wife or girlfriend, are not pushovers. These guys are CEO’s. They own businesses of a hundred people, employees. They don’t have any money problems. They go on vacation, more than they fuckin’ live their life. They’re fuckin’, they’re top of their pyramid. These guys have no problem getting a woman, or anything like that. To be asked, by another alpha male, to do something that he can no longer do? It’s pretty amazing.

Lila:  Is that the case, he can no longer do it? Most of these scenarios? 

Dallas:  […] Oh man, there’s such a spectrum. It could be: I’m tired of fucking my wife. It could be: My wife is tired of fucking me. It could be that: You know what, I only get off on watching porn, not my wife anymore. But I’ve met couples where they’re in their first year of marriage, so no one’s tired of fucking anyone, at that point! Then it’s just something different. No, I get turned on by watching. By voyeurism. Not only that! I get turned on by watching somebody please somebody that I love. I get turned on by watching somebody turn on somebody that I love, cumming all over their face, so that, when you leave, I can kiss her all night. These are the different spectrums. I mean there’s so many different variations, but it comes down to one variation where, it is in its simplest form: another man, is in one way or the other, getting turned on, by letting another man sleep with the wife. Now, here’s a funny— here’s a interesting, not a funny one: I’ve known guys, that want this from me … just for the outcome of causing conflict […] and issues and drama and conflict and anger, with their wife or girlfriend. Just for that.

Lila:  Yeah! Because! Jealousy is an age-old aphrodisiac. 

[42:05]  What happens when couples in long-distance relationships enlist Dallas?

[43:13]  What does humiliation do for the cuckold?

Dallas:  It’s such a interesting paradigm, that a man […] it’s amazing that a relationship between a husband and wife can exist, where the man has literally been — what’s that great word that you call? Emasculated? […] He’s literally, you know metaphorically, had his balls cut off, in front of the wife. And what amazes me — and this is why this dynamic is so fucking interesting to me — is that they can go on after this experience, to continue their happily marriage, and, it even gets stronger. Blows my mind.

Lila:  Do you think that emasculation, can only happen, because there’s still a notion of women as property, and wives as property? Because otherwise, somebody having sex with your partner, means nothing about you! Unless you have a— an ownership, a sense of ownership over her.

Dallas:  Well you, you bring up a great point. ‘Cause now we’re talking about humiliation. So in some cases, I am asked to verbally humiliate the cuck. In some cases, I’m asked to verbally and physically humiliate the cuck.

Lila:  Like coming on him?

Dallas:  And in some cases, I’m asked to verbally and physically humiliate both parties. You know what I mean.

Lila:  OHHhh.

Dallas:  So, there’s many different dynamics here. 

[44:49]  The questions Dallas asks when he goes in to a cuckold situation

Dallas:  But so when I go into any cuckold situation, communication is key. So I’ve gotten used to asking the most standard of questions, like, “What are you expecting? In an ideal world, what are you wanting?” Okay? “What are your boundaries? What is gonna turn you on the most? Verbally, physically. And I’m very specific of asking: “Are you expecting to be humiliated?” Half the time it’s “Yeah, can you do that?” You know, they’re like, “Oh my God, somebody’s not— freaked out by doing that!” And then the other cases are like, “No! No humiliation bro!” You know what I mean? “None of that shit!” […] And there’s even variations. There’s guys that are called stags. And that’s not necessarily a cuckold relationship when you’re a stag, but sometimes it is. A stag is a guy who’s— he’s an alpha. A stag is an alpha. But he’s just okay with allowing another man to sleep with his wife. But he also will get involved sexually. Into the threesome. […] But it’s less of a threesome, and still more of a, I want you to fuck her brains out, and I will join in maybe. And if I do, there’s no humiliation, it’s both of us tag-teaming, and it’s all good.

Lila:  Less of a voyeur, and not really a cuck, because cuck implies this humiliation piece.

Dallas:  Right. I rarely have ever seen a stag sit on a chair, drinking his whisky, jacking off while I fuck his wife.

[46:20]  Why would a stag go in the other room?

[47:24]  How do people know their boundaries? And the story of what happened the first time Dallas accidentally overstepped one… 

[51:29]  Dallas on cuckolding, expectations, and his ethos

Dallas:  Just do not come in with expectations. I come in with negative expectations, and come out with amaazing surprises. In so many ways.

Lila:  How do you keep yourself from having expectations? I think that’s something very difficult for people, particularly sexually.

Dallas:  Uch, I mean gosh, I’ve just practiced that so many fucking times that I go into any situation with: This is gonna be the fucking best night of my life! And I’m like, even if something doesn’t happen, it’s still gonna be great! I mean, I’m— maybe I’m just too philosophical, where I believe everything happens for a reason and shit like that, right? And I get it. I’m too fuckin’ cliché. I’m a fuckin’ walking, like haiku and all that shit. (Lila giggles) But whatever! But I really don’t come in with expectations; I can’t even tell you that enough. And I can’t tell you how many times, when situations that didn’t work, it was applauded that I didn’t have expectations. I wasn’t mad, I wasn’t angry, I wasn’t frustrated; I was cool, calm, collected, no worries. I’ve fuckin’ driven two hours away! Driven! Two hours! That’s a four-hour return trip! There and back. Things did not work out… within five minutes, and I had to get back in my car and drive back. Was I mad? Was I upset? No. This is the price of the game. It is the game. And if you wanna— if you want to get into this; this is what’s gonna happen. I knew what I was setting myself up for. There’s no reason to be frustrated or mad. And I think back to all the times that it did fuckin’ work. Glorious! I’m not here collecting fuckin’ trophies; it’s not about that, but I think back to some of the most amazing, mythical, mystical, magical fuckin’ nights that I’ve had, with amazing fuckin’ people in amazing scenarios, that have ended in hot glorious bukkake come fashion, that will forever be implanted in my mind, that if I ever get locked up in some prison in the Maldives, (which I hope there is where I go!) I could live out all these fantasies that I’ve lived out truthfully, in my mind! You know? And I’m okay with that.

Lila:  To me, “This is gonna be the best night of my life” sounds like a big fat expectation! But!

Dallas:  (chuckling) Yeah, right!

Lila:  But! I think what you’re saying is: That’s more like your ethos. And it’s sort of like— 

Dallas:  Sure. Oh yeah.

Lila:  No matter what. Whether, I come, whether I don’t. Whether she’s into it, whether I leave. Whether he’s into it, whether he pulls the parachute. I am going to make greatness for myself, and enjoyment for myself, wherever I go.

Dallas:  I’m for the experience.

[54:51]  Dallas on his forthcoming book, GASM

[55:34]  Has Dallas ever played any of the other roles in the cuckolding scenario?

[56:25]  Dallas on cuckqueens

Dallas:  My book is going to try to highlight something that is very very less known, which is something called, I would say a cuckqueen. […] It’s not like, oh well, they’re all over the place; they’re definitely not, but it would definitely be a woman that has orchestrated, organized, their fantasy of a cuckold situation, for the benefit of their pleasure. So they’re just taking the place of the husband. So they basically want to find another woman, a bull, to please, the man.

Lila horizontal, pre-Dallas recording. Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia

Lila:  (big breath) So I want to be a female bull. A lot of my fantasies— I would say 90… 98.9% of my fantasy life, centers around threesomes. And 75% of those fantasies are myself and a man and a woman.

Dallas:  Yeah, but the woman doing what?

Lila:  So the woman is usually, watching; I’ve ordered her to not touch herself or I’ve ordered her to… whatever. Like she has to be across the room, or she, she can’t do this, she can’t do that. So I’m dominating her—  

Dallas:  Right.

Lila:  And I’m enjoying him.

Dallas:  Whether you’re submissive or not, right?

Lila:  Whether or not.

Dallas:  Right, yeah. Well there you go.

Lila:  But I’m in a position of control and power over her.

Dallas:  Right.

Lila:  That is what turns me on.

Dallas:  That’s great! I’ve seen it in action.

Lila:  (thirsty) You have?

[57:58]  Dallas’s words of caution for those of us who want to be female bulls

Dallas:  And the most, I think important thing for, let’s just say, a female bull, is to understand, you need to check in with that woman. Because women, operate differently, when it comes to the emotional cord, and the mental cord. You can cross the line, when you are emotionally intimate with a man. […] Versus just strictly pleasure.

[59:22]  Dallas’s advice for future female bulls

126. you spilled your hot come on my hot girlfriend: horizontal with the king of cuckolding [1 of 2]

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Dear One, I hope this makes you laugh as much as Dear One,

I hope this makes you laugh as much as it made me laugh. 

Laughter in the midst of grief is so good. As good as tears. Different sides of the same emotional release.

My dear friend & brilliant psychiatrist-writer, writer-psychiatrist Dr. Owen Muir, called to check in on me. We joked about my plan to write a scathing critique of this looks-so-nice-from-the-outside, for-profit Assisted Living facility my mom had been living in for a year. (This is not a joke.) 

Owen suggested I write a scathing critique of everything, and then used the phrase “the terrible consumer experience that is death.” 

He said I should write it. I said he should write it. 

So he called me and we recorded it. Together.
Because this is what we do. 

Big Love,
Lila

To listen to the 7 minute recording, tap the Substack link in my bio, or type this link into your browser: horizontalwithlila.substack.com
My new friend @latonya.sunshine78 , a visual artis My new friend @latonya.sunshine78 , a visual artist and educator whose work I *deeply* admire, gave an Artist’s Talk on Friday at the conclusion of her @floridarama.art exhibition, and I got the chance to see it, and hear her speak passionately, eloquently, humorously, lovingly, about her art and the process of making these large-scale mixed media collage works that, for lack of a better art-world term, I personally think of as Very Mixed Media.

If you swipe through to the last slide, you will see the very first time I caught glimpse of her work, long before I know who the artist was, weeks before the exhibition opening, when it had likely just been hung up, and I brought @mrghyseye to experience the immersive exhibit at FloridaRAMA and we both fell in love with the respective pieces behind us. We thought we matched the pieces so well, in both vibe & style, that we had best selfie with them!

And since I follow FloridaRAMA so closely here on IG, when I saw that the official exhibition opening was happening, I made it my business to get there, on my @radpowerbikes @stpeteradpowerbikes ebike, in my ball gown skirt. I brought two Toastmasters friends, Lena & Steve, along.

You can see from the second photo that I was so moved by Latonya’s work and beautiful energy, that I spontaneously Kissed Her Hands (!!!) Later I was a tid bit embarrassed, like ‘really Lila? She does not know you!’

But she does now. And I can tell you that Latonya is a source of unending inspiration, just by being who she is, and working the way she works.

I was deeply moved by the way she weaves objects, and memory, into a visual tapestry, and the way she listens to the objects until they Tell her how they want to be incorporated, so moved, in fact, that I brought her something back from my father’s funeral, and from his dilapidated house. I will be honored if those memories make their way into a tapestry of hers.

Recently I heard this quote. (Do you know who said it?) 

“Use your suffering. Don’t waste it.

I promise I will use it. I promise not to waste it. It will make its way into all of my art, of every medium. And maybe, it will make its way into the art of others, as well.

❤️‍🩹
I’m recovering from a speech heartbreak. I gave I’m recovering from a speech heartbreak. I gave the most beautiful speech of my life last week. It was about my parents, my father’s sudden death, my love, the love of my life. And it is gone because I forgot to turn on my microphone! 

It’s not completely gone. I did find an app transcription service that can read lips. So I have the transcript, but I am devastated to not have the video as I thought it was going to be something I would send to the @ted curators to follow up on my finalist win in 2021. I was going to send it to X, Y, Z… ( And @imranamed )

And the ephemerality of this is really with me. Sometimes creativity, even visionary creativity is a mandala. 

If you’ve ever seen the monks with the sand, pouring a mandala, they put such meticulous precision, such effort, such focus into it. And when they are finished, they gaze upon it… and they sweep it away. Somebody said that my speech last week was a mandala, and I was like, “Yes! I know!” 

Many people have said, “If you can do it once, you can do it again. And I know that this is true. 

As a person who has been creative my entire life, I know that this is true.

{To WATCH the whole speech or READ the full transcript, go to: 

horizontalwithlila dot substack dot com

Or click the link in my bio, bb}

And then go out and make some art.
“Fashion” I think I’m gonna need to add a B “Fashion”

I think I’m gonna need to add a Bowie album or two to my burgeoning collection… 

Which ones are your favorite? Let a girl know in the comments.

Art by @mollymcclureart 
Leggings by @l.o.m_design 
Vampira lipstick by @thekatvond 
Sneaks by @adidas 
Photo by @samia.mounts
Here’s how it starts: Dear Young Man I Dated in Here’s how it starts:

Dear Young Man I Dated in 2016,

I have something very important to say to you, and it isn’t ‘I told you so.’

It is this:

Politics are about people and the planet.

Every single political issue is about people, or the planet. 

Politics do not equal some ideological, intangible thing. “Politics” are real things with real consequences to real people. Probably people that you know. Probably people that you love.

When you say, “I’m not political,” what I hear is, “I do not actually care about people other than (a handful of) the ones I know personally.”

To read the whole letter, tap my Substack link in bio.
Brought my mom to @floridarama.art for the first t Brought my mom to @floridarama.art for the first time so she could experience something different than the view from her couch, and she “didn’t like it”? It was “esquisito”?

#okboomer 

BeforeI went up to NY for the funeral, I did wind up telling her that my father died. I was worried she would be devastated and she would develop what they call “increased mental state,” but that wasn’t the case. Mostly she was just sad for me. 

I’m not sure if she now remembers that it happened.

To be honest, sometimes I don’t exactly remember that it happened. I have his wedding ring and his glasses and the prayer card on my nightstand but still it’s sometimes unreal.

I don’t want to bring it up all the time, but I do like having physical reminders. 

And though I don’t want to wear all black all the time for months on end to show that I’m in mourning, it feels good to put on my morning armband… even, and maybe especially, because it’s just a little bit too tight. So I really know it’s there.

Because the grief is always there even when I’ve forgotten about it.

So is joy.

Hold your people close and tell them, 
if you love them, 
tell them.

#mourning #arttherapy #floridarama
A poem of grief and wonder-ing that I wrote years A poem of grief and wonder-ing that I wrote years ago, and could have written yesterday.

You can read the whole piece on my Substack (with proper syntax). 

Substack is where I put my tenderest thoughts and deepest writing. If you want to, you can become my patron there. This would move me very much.

Link in my bio.

#grief #griefislove
Went to my father’s funeral, but couldn’t wear Went to my father’s funeral, but couldn’t wear black *all* weekend.

Dreamy roses are red @selkie tournure skirt giving me life. Fascinator by @babeyond_official
Are you a member of the Dead Dads Club? Only two Are you a member of the Dead Dads Club?

Only two criteria for membership!

Any Dad will do. Stepdads, Granddads, Poor Dads, Rich Dads, Fun Dads, Un-Dads.

But for real.

I thought for sure my Mom would go first. I mean, I moved to Florida because she has dementia and she is dying.

“Plot twist,” somebody said.

That’s funny.

I actually mean that. I’m just too tired to laugh today. It takes too many muscles.

My mom is in an assisted living facility, on Hospice Care, can no longer stand up from a seated position on her own, and is worried about the stuffed cats we gave her possibly being dead because they ‘have a soul and they used to meow and now they stopped.’

The staff has been putting down food and water for them and every time I drop by the stuffed cats — and the food — are in a different place in the apartment. So that’s good. They’re still alive, you know. And the facility is still keeping her. Alive, you know. And putting down real food for her stuffed cats.

“What’s the harm?” they said. 

No harm, I say. She wasn’t going to eat that, anyway.

To read the entire essay, to subscribe, or to become s paid subscriber and be part of my art, follow the Substack link in my bio 

horizontalwithlila dot substack dot com

#deaddadsclub #deaddad #grieving #sickmom
Try not to forget, okay? Belt @l.o.m_design Bow Try not to forget, okay?

Belt @l.o.m_design 
Bow @riskgalleryboutique 
Earrings @artpoolgallery 
Top @forloveandlemons 
Photo @samia.mounts 
Art @verticalventures
I never wanted a child. So the universe gave me I never wanted a child. 

So the universe gave me an 84 year-old one. 

We are the playthings of the gods.

I have cleaned up her urine. I have cleaned up her shit. I have changed her soiled diaper. I have used a q-tip to put medicine in tender places that I never wished to see, because there was no one else to do it.

What’s that they call it in the Bible? Smiting? God smote him? Smited him? Smit him? In my bitterer moments, it does feel as though I’ve been smote. In my better moments, it’s simply the part of my story where Timon & Pumbaa sing the “CIRRRRCLE of LIIIIIIFE.”

{You can read the rest of the essay on my Substack. Link in my bio. Thank you for being a witness.}
I’ve just learned that today is International Me I’ve just learned that today is International Mermaid Day!

Thanks @jujubumble 

📸 @wildartistryphotography 
💄 @mrghyseye 
✨ Me
📖 Gift from @kristianndances 

#internationalmermaidday
My Mom is dying. Fasc!sm is on the rise. A small g My Mom is dying. Fasc!sm is on the rise. A small group of evil corporate overlords is trying to Handmaid’s Tale us. My brilliant, funny friend @synchlayer died of bladder cancer at age 49.

I’m out here buying pretty things on the internet. 

I have no regerts.

This will be an essay mostly in photos. I am very, very tired. 

February was: 

setting up temporary-house in FL

gathering 95% of my possessions from 4 places in NY (thanks Kenneth, Deniz, Marghe, Owen!) and two places in Los Angeles (Thanks Adam M. & Samia!) 

driving a 12-foot box truck from NY to Baltimore to Savannah to FL (mostly with Jon! thanks Jon!)

shortly thereafter, flying to L.A. and, while packing up, the remaining 17% of my possessions, managing to see as many people I love as humanly possible (for someone who is slightly manic and rather time-optimistic) — which is, honestly, rather a lot of people, if I do pat myself on the back… myself— and then rushing back to St. Pete (thank you friend for flying me home; you know who you are) because mom went into the hospital again…

FOR THE REST OF THE ESSAY, TAP THE SUBSTACK LINK IN MY BIO, bb. 💋 💋
Proud to Protest today.
Falling more in 🩷🧡💛🩵💙 with St. Pete!

Happy International Women’s Day. 

May each of us born to a woman, 
raised by a woman, 
nurtured by a woman, &
 f*cked by a woman 

CHOOSE to SHOW WOMEN the RESPECT and CARE that we deserve.

#internationalwomensday2025 #stpete #resist
“What a year January has been. 

My dear friend’s sister died by su!c!de. My dear friend lost his home in Altadena and had to evacuate the fire with his family, including his 92 year-old grandmother. My dear friend is dying of cancer in New York. (In his 40s.) The br*ligarchy rears, fasc!sm festers, and every tr@ns person, woman, and human with even mildly uncertain imm!gration status in the United States is, rightly, terrified. 

Here in Florida, my mom fell on her face right in front of me at church last week, on the threshold of the ladies room (busting her upper lip) and had to go to the E.R. where her CAT scan and her hand xrays came back negative but it turns out she has…..”

You can read the whole piece on my Substack- link in my bio!
In March, 2019, my friend @stevenmdean (remember h In March, 2019, my friend @stevenmdean (remember him from horizontal with lila episodes 82. 200 dating profiles, & 83. you do not have voting rights in this startup relationship?) teamed up with an experience designer to create an event they dubbed The Love Immersive, a “10-hour exploratorium-style foray into the 5 love languages.”

In Steve’s words: 

“I teamed up to architect a choose-your-own-adventure interactive journey through the languages of love. 
Spanning every floor of a sprawling 6-story arthouse in the heart of New York City, and co-produced by the creative arts group Moontribe, Love Immersive attracted over 450 attendees who came to explore love through the nuanced dimensions of touch, words, service, quality time, gifts, and more. 

We invited over 50 volunteers and practitioners of different love languages to showcase their creative capabilities in an evening of self-discovery, secret missions, hidden rooms, wandering wizards, art installations, and live music.“

I was one of the 50. 
They gave me a closet. 
A closet.
This is not lost on me.

That was all the space they had left, apparently. And I was determined to make good use of it. I turned it into a cozy nesting pod with blankets and pillows and two sets of listening devices, and I recorded this 11-minute meditation for anyone who stopped in, so that they could take a break from the glorious menagerie for a few minutes. And reset.

In the closet.

#immersiveexperience 

LISTEN ON SUBSTACK! Link in my bio!
Busy? Low on bandwidth? No time to read the whole Busy? Low on bandwidth? No time to read the whole piece?

TL,DR: Don’t ask. OFFER.

Don’t ask. Offer.

Honestly though, the whole piece is worth reading, and, of you’re grieving, sharing with those who ask you if there’s ‘anything’ they can do.

Link to my Substack in my bio.

I love you.
I grieve with you.
I love you.
Think of this as a candy conversation heart that s Think of this as a candy conversation heart that says “READ ME”.

“Annie Lalla, the love coach I would trust with my love life, who explains the unexplainable in ways that break open my head and my heart, once told me of smuggling love. Some people do not demonstrate love in ways that we at first recognize as love. She spoke of becoming a Detective on the Case of Love, noticing where a partner might be smuggling morsels of it. Refilling your water glass while you’re busy writing, perhaps. Going out to the car early to defrost it before you get in. Things like that, and things far less legible.

When I first courted her for a couple of episodes of horizontal with lila, I asked, “How do I smuggle love?” She replied immediately that I don’t seem to smuggle at all; I just come right out with it. Make like confetti. Festoon a person. She said loads of people are more reserved than I am because they believe compliments, effusiveness, and praise, once offered, lower their social status. She said I don’t care much about that, because it’s more important to me to let the person know.

Let the people know.

We are all going to die. And it seems like most of the time, it will be a surprise when. What does status matter, really? Really really.

The fact that I will express my love with a freeness is a thing I love about myself even when I don’t love myself.

So sure, I don’t need a holiday to express my love — which is one of the main annoyances I hear bandied about near February 14th — “I don’t need a holiday to tell me to tell my wife I love her!”

Okay. But setting aside a day for a thing can certainly help, right?

Atonement.

Independence.

Rights.

Holocaust remembrance.

If anything, Valentine’s offers us that cultural pause in the middle of an unfavorite month, a will-we-make-it-through-the-winter, hope-our-stores-last, do-we-have-enough firewood, dear-God-don’t-let-me-freeze-to-death month that says, in candy-colored suspended animation:

Think about love, will you?

What kind do you have?

What kind do you want?

And:

Now what do you want to do about that, sweetheart?”

Read the whole piece on my Substack, darling. Link in my bio.

P.S. I love you.
Read this if you love me: “february, the month Read this if you love me: 

“february, the month you’re supposed to be in love”

https://open.substack.com/pub/horizontalwithlila/p/february-the-month-youre-supposed?r=m6nsi&utm_medium=ios
“This has been a terrible no good very bad super “This has been a terrible no good very bad super sucky year. For moi. (You too?) 

Would not recommend. 
Would not wish on anyone.

Back in Florida. Mother descending into dementia and decrepitude. 

Don’t want to do the things. I am the only person to do the things.

Almost the entirety of 2024 has been an adulting montage. Or rather, for accuracy’s sake, the first three-quarters of the year was a months-long ordeal which Joseph Campbell of The Hero’s Journey might dub the REFUSAL OF THE CALL.

I am firmly in the montage now, though, for sure. How long will it last? Who knows. Montages are interminable for the person living them. That’s why we speed them up in the movies.

So I juuuust entered the montage 2 months ago. Basically when I got out of bed. There was a lot of bed. See: Refusal of the Call.

This is sort of a MVE, a Minimum Viable Essay. I haven’t written in 10 months. A list is the first thing I’ve mustered, and I’m very glad I’ve mustered it because it means I’m back. English is so confusing, isn’t it? Mustered. Mustard. Tomato. Tomato.

Anyhoodle! Without further ado, I present you with an exhaustive yet incomplete list of Things I Learned (in 2024) that I Really Never Wanted to Learn and Didn’t Really Want to Know:

[Go to the Substack link in bio to read about the 24 things!]
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