http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/15/sl-letter-of-the-day-lifted-program Comments On: SL Letter of the Day: Lifted Program by Dan Savage en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by izzydope]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 13:21:36 -0800 The Stranger
(If you think about it, TV shows like American Gladiators or even women in pro wrestling proved the audience for it, years ago.)

There's a lot of room for variations on the basic idea too, so not everyone into this stuff is going to be interested in the same things. For example, I know guys for whom the woman carrying the guy around is more along the lines of a domination/submission thing. (EG. Make the woman act like your personal human pony and carry you wherever you order her to take you.) Other guys are just into muscular women, so lifting and carrying heavier guys is kind of an extension of that. (More fun to be the human weight than just watching the woman lift bar-bells, right?) Others might simply be into bigger, taller women - where lift and carry helps emphasize the differences in their sizes. A few seem to even have more of a "superhero" fantasy going on, where they like real lift and carry sessions as well as women dressed up as Wonder Woman doing fake feats of strength in videos.

Anyway, just like not all men are equally strong, the same is true of women. Especially if a woman has a knee or back injury of some kind, I wouldn't probably recommend she try to get too involved with this fetish. But I can tell you first-hand, there are a LOT of incredibly strong women walking around out there. Some have gone their whole life trying to hide their physical strength because they thought of it as a negative/undesirable trait.

One of my former girlfriends was in that category .... naturally very strong but was almost ashamed of it because she thought "guys didn't like that". When she finally opened up to the reality that I liked it a lot, she showed me all sorts of crazy lift and carry stunts she could do. She actually got bored carrying me around, unless it was in public where she could get a bunch of strangers' attention. (One time she insisted on giving me a piggyback ride through the grocery store while she pushed the cart down the aisles. That was even a little too embarrassing for my tastes - but pretty fun at the same time!) So eventually, our interests turned to her picking up and carrying our bigger, heavier friends and usually surprising the hell out of them!

Posted by liftcarry_fan]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:18:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by carrymeaway]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:05:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by carrymeaway]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:03:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by fetish]]> Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:20:09 -0800 The Stranger
I'm glad others have already suggested it. A great, easy way to pick up a lot of weight.

Posted by Learned Hand]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:56:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by scrappy_girlie]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:36:22 -0800 The Stranger Posted by geminilee]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:59:47 -0800 The Stranger Posted by anarchy burger]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:03:13 -0800 The Stranger
Contact improv is CREEPY.
Posted by anarchy burger]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:00:21 -0800 The Stranger Posted by smajor82]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:36:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Neptune]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:30:38 -0800 The Stranger Have you asked them?

What, you mean, like, with words and stuff? Are you kidding? What do you take me for, some kind of sniveling, needy asker of things? A real man doesn't ask, he sits around muttering to himself and pouting until his wife sighs and says, "OK, I give up, what is it?"
Posted by seandr]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:35:33 -0800 The Stranger http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLiftin… an "advanced" woman at your weight should be able to SQUAT 200 lbs (more difficult than the carry). \

This doesn't mean go out today and carry this guy on your back. Experience, technique and confidence are required also. So if it is something you want to do, get to a gym (crossfit seems particularly suited towards this type of activity) and train up. You don't need to blessed in your DNA region to get strong enough to carry 200 lbs, anyone who puts in the time can get there.
Posted by fetish]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:13:34 -0800 The Stranger When you embed videos in these it crashes the Savage Love iPhone app. Something for the tech savvy at risk youth to investigate perhaps.

Posted by KateAGR]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:06:11 -0800 The Stranger
Side note: Two people each in life preservers having sex in deep(ish) water is a great time. The bobbing up and down effect is quite nice.
Posted by smajor82]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:51:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by LML]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 06:12:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by drewm1980]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:31:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Eastpike]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:29:30 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sirkowski]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:55:42 -0800 The Stranger
We're all suggesting carries and aids that assume he is still and letting her keep his center of gravity over her feet. But won't he actually be wanking it?
Posted by DAVIDinKENAI]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:52:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gnot]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:50:29 -0800 The Stranger Posted by gnot]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:46:55 -0800 The Stranger
But I'm guessing he'd rather see her in a weight-lifter's belt than in a tutu.
Posted by DAVIDinKENAI]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:46:12 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sea Otter]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:44:59 -0800 The Stranger