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My next pick is a complete 180 from Adams’ song. Oh, it’s still sexy–don’t get me wrong.

What song is this?

Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are”

The first time I heard this song?

Insert BATED BREATH

I’m not going to lie–it made me swoon, sigh, and even cry just a little. Even with its faster, up tempo rhythm, this song speaks to the beauty of women, and to that beauty that is wonderful–just as you are right now.

In a world where women are often picked apart and the ideal woman is a collection of body parts that “real” women can hardly ever attain, it is wonderful to hear a song in which a man is saying I love you just the way you are. Now, I won’t sit here and analyze the sexy, thin chick in the video and my thought of I dare you to find a real flaw to hate on this woman–that’s for a whole other post that’s not nearly as sexy as this one!

Let’s look at some lyrics:

Oh, her eyes, her eyes, make the stars look like they’re not shining
Her hair, her hair, falls perfectly without her trying
She’s so beautiful, and I tell her every day

Smiles Big Time

He says of her face: there’s not a thing that I would change
He says of her smile: the whole world stops and stares for a while
He says of her lips: I could kiss them all day if she let me
He says of her laugh: she hates but I think it’s so sexy

We women often question what’s on the outside, asking, even if in silence, Do I look OK? It’s awesome to know that the man you love sees your beauty whether you’re in a ball gown or a ratty pair of sweat pants. That he sees that beauty when you’re fresh-faced and ready to start your day and when you’re just waking up and have dragon breath and crazy hair.

It is true that we should have strong self-esteem and see our own beauty, but we can’t deny that having the one we love see and tell us how beautiful (in whatever that word means) we are to them gives us a major boost. Not only is that touching and loving, but it’s also sexy. There’s nothing like a great woman with just a touch of the swollen ego because her man thinks her stuff don’t stink!

You know what ELSE is SEXY?

UNDRESSED INC. featuring four strong, independent, beautiful women who have been through some things but have not lost all hope in finding love. Authors Samara King, Embue, K. Carlton, and moi offer you love affairs that are often dangerous, often scary, but always daring and sexy. Pick up your copy of UNDRESSED INC. today! Click the cover below!

I thought it would be cool to highlight what I think is sexy–basing that sexiness off of songs that I love and that ooze their own particular brands of sexy.

It’s almost unfair to start this journey with the song I’m going to present in this post because it is, for me, one of the sexiest songs out there, and if you are a woman, the words just burn on you, sizzling their love and sexiness and heat.

What song is this?

“Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” — a 1995 song written by Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, and Robert John “Mutt” Lange.

Why does this song ooze sexiness?

Let’s go to the lyrics (provided by Sing365.com).

To really love a woman
To understand her – you gotta know her deep inside
Hear every thought – see every dream
N’ give her wings – if she wants to fly
Then when you find yourself lyin’ helpless in her arms
You know you really love a woman

Sighs heavily

To really love a woman
Let her hold you -
till you know how she needs to be touched
You’ve gotta breathe her – really taste her
Till you can feel her in your blood
N’ when you can see your unborn children in her eyes
You know you really love a woman

Releases a few tears as a sob builds in her chest

You got to give her some faith – hold her tight
A little tenderness – you gotta treat her right
She will be there for you, takin’ good care of you
Ya really gotta love your woman…

I really do have to pull myself together to finish this post. I could easily rattle off body parts and attractive qualities that might be sexy, but there is something muy sexy in UNDERSTANDING and using that understanding to love a woman. It’s nice to have someone be interested in you because you’re beautiful. It’s a whole other level when the person is trying to understand what makes your entire being tick, what makes you breathe, smile, cry, move. This song resonates that kind of sexiness for me. It makes me want the man who understands and agrees with these lyrics. How can you not find sexy the loving of a woman being equaled to holding her so that you can learn how to touch her in the way that she wants? How can you not find sexy the seeing of unborn children in a woman’s eyes? This is a pure wooing song. It is a make you want to drop your panties and say, “Yes, it is YOU I want…Right.Now.”

When I listen to this song, I feel it in my marrow. It’s not just about swaying and saying at its conclusion, “This is a good song.” No, the sounds, the words, the rhythms all culminate into this soft, sexy, passionate cocoon that smolders of sensuality. Listening to this song, I want to stand, dance, run my fingers through my hair and imagine, imagine, imagine until that man arrives…for me. And for that man to arrive and see me, “get” me, understand me and still want to stay and illustrate all the myriad of ways in which he loves me and wants me forever. Yeah. That’s sexy. That’s the ultimate sexy.

Holds off even more tears

I couldn’t embed the song, so unfortunately, you have to head to YouTube to watch and listen, and I know many of you have already seen this video and listen to this song, but I tell you what, just in writing this post, I listened to the song about five times before I began writing, then listened while I wrote this, and will probably listen a few more times after this is posted. It’s a beautiful song, and I think it taps into the very heart of what women want. Having someone understand that And want to fulfill that? SEXY–all day, every day.

You know what ELSE is SEXY?

UNDRESSED INC. featuring four strong, independent, beautiful women who have been through some things but have not lost all hope in finding love. Authors Samara King, Embue, K. Carlton, and moi offer you love affairs that are often dangerous, often scary, but always daring and sexy. Pick up your copy of UNDRESSED INC. today! Click the cover below!

I knelt beside him and ran my hand from his hair to his ass, rubbing and petting him like my most-prized pet.

“Yes, my pet,” I whispered in his ear, feeling him shiver. “You may please your Mistress.”

I stood, tossed the whip onto the bed and positioned myself at the foot of the bed. With dramatic flair, I lifted my five-inch spiked heels onto the backless settee at the foot of the bed and parted my legs, giving my pet a full view of the warm, wet place of his desire.

“Come to me, my pet,” I said and watched him crawl to me, kneel before me upon the settee.
He licked his lips, and I smiled.

“Run your hands up my legs, Pet,” I whispered, and controlled the pant that threatened to release itself at his hands on my ankles. Even through the latex, I could feel the heat from his touch.

His hands moved from ankle to calf, massaging along the way. From calf to knee. From knee to thigh. His eyes never left mine.

I closed my eyes tightly and inwardly moaned. On my mind’s screen, I saw him, the one I carried into every episode that took place within the Mistress’ Boudoir, the one who made me cum without a touch: Drew Winger.

It might seem odd to hear a dominatrix, someone used to being in control, talking about a person who could demand me, command me to do anything, but I think that’s what makes a good dominatrix: she knows both sides. She knows how to be vulnerable, submissive. She knows how that feels, what parts of the body react to what speech, look, touch. And she can incorporate that knowledge into delivering a remarkable performance for her pets as a dominatrix.

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HELPLESS AND HOPELESS by K. Carlton
Not at all happy about her long-awaited homecoming, video vixen Brooke Langely finds herself the maid of honor in her best friend’s wedding and face to face for the first time in years with her old high school rivals. But Brooke has her silver lining in the form of Sam Foley, the shy jock in high school that was Brooke’s favorite extracurricular activity after school.

For the next few days, Brooke plans to make up for old times and screw her sex buddy like crazy. Unfortunately, her best friend’s circus of a wedding threatens to get in her way.

NO OTHER LOVE by Embue
Arizona “Ari” Garrison has made some changes in her life: she’s finally left her abusive ex-husband Fletcher and she’s graduating college with her degree in business. Despite her accomplishments, what she lacks is a real man to be the comforter she seeks. Her vibrator can only do but so much to curb her sexual desires. The night of her graduation, her best friends take her out to have a good time. Little did she know that she’d find love in a jazz club.

Newman Riley Myers has had his share of women. After breaking off his engagement to the daughter of a wealthy socialite two years ago, he vowed to never love again. It’s not until he lays eyes on Ari that his mind is swayed. Handsome, educated and interested, Riley pursues Ari and wants her in the worst way. His only fear is can she love him for who he really is.

With secrets lingering in the balance and jealousy in the air, can Ari and Riley shed their fears to have…No Other Love?

BLACK HONEY by Samara King

Skeletons could wake the departed and make the living – dead targets!

Who could she run to?

When Officer Elisha “Elle” Taylor finds out crime lord Monty “Black” Kearns was her father, there is only one man she can turn to in the midst of a deadly plot for revenge. The very man she’d sworn never to touch again. Durant Kane.

Leaning on her father’s enforcer and her ex-lover seemed suicidal when the hit on her father was said to be ordered by his own people. Yet, the impulsive and heady sexual chemistry between them was undeniable.

One touch was all it took for the lines between good and bad to blur. One kiss was all she needed for him to steal her breath away…

TABLES TURNED by Shonell Bacon
By day, Samantha Long uses her hands and pressure points to help her clients relax as a massage therapist. By night, Sam is Mistress Siren and uses her whips and leathers to make her clients submit as a dominatrix at Destiny Parker’s ultra-hot spot, Awaken. No matter the time of day, her mind is constantly focused on Drew Winger, a man she wants but can’t seem to conjure up her sexy nighttime persona Siren to express her feelings.

When Destiny “gets real” with her and allows Sam to think of the alternative of not expressing her feelings to Drew, Sam unleashes Mistress Siren in the hopes to making Drew only hers. She soon realizes, however, that sometimes, in order to get what you truly want you need to be willing to relinquish control and let go.

As you all know, DDIW was released in 2010, and late last year or early this year, sadly I – as author – did not receive full details of the matter, the publishing house folded. Sad? Kinda. But I know it’s a good book and there are plenty of people who have not read it, so I will re-release with a bonus chapter of Into the Web.

Right now, I’m busy contacting places that are still selling my  book. This is what happens when people don’t take care of their business properly. I’m still trying to not become upset and irritated and angry over the fact that I have to do this or that I wasn’t kept informed of anything in this whole process, but it has taught me that if I’m going to fail with my book, then hell, I might as well fail with the book instead of someone else.

So, right now, I’m getting the book removed from places and soon we get the cover redesigned and all the particulars underway for it to be available in print and as an e-book. Then I’ll be working on having Into the Web edited and have the cover designed for that as well. I hope to have things more solidified in September.

Right now, although I love writing, I am too busy with academics and preparing for quals to think too much about this whole endeavor. But when I do…you’ll be the first to learn more!

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