By Round One or Round Two, I don’t mean the very first or second time with a new partner. I mean “of that specific night/encounter/whatever”.
Hard & rough kthx
Another vote for some of both, please.
Uhm yeah, the missus definitely likes it rough. She claims that this is because she is descended from the Vikings, but I’m starting to suspect that it’s because she’s a female of the species Homo Sapiens Sapiens. My experience before we met is pretty limited though, so I’ll never know for sure.
Mind you, we typically start very slow, cuddling, kidding, etc., and things just kind of escalate way the heck up from there. Things famously once escalated to the point where we ended up breaking a bed that belonged to the Air Force. I say famously because before it was replaced, some of the plumbers from my squadron had to go into her room to work on a leaking sink and saw the bed. They never thought I had it in me before then.
Blindfolds and gags are an occasional feature, hair pulling, choking, and digging in with the nails are also common, though we have to be careful to leave any resulting marks below the collar. Turns out that claw marks and hickies are not an authorized part of the Air Force uniform. :smack:
She likes that she can draw that out of mild-mannered quiet nerdy me. She refers to it as “Her Big Bad Wolf”
Did I mention that I get to go home on leave in almost exactly three months if my leave request gets approved? :D:D:D
Depends on what you define as ‘rough’ sex I guess. By my definition, I’ve never had it, and am not interested. Discomfort during sex is a huge turn-off, much less pain. Dirty talk would turn me off like a faucet. I don’t like feeling ‘dominated’ or forced in ANY way (I understand there’s not actual forcing going in between people who enjoy playing that way, but it’s not my thing at all).
But it’s not all rose petals and butterfly-like touches over here either. I’m not a romantic person, don’t want or require some big gay set-up with candlelight and sweet nothings whispered in my ear (I don’t want to talk about it, I just want to do it) but I’m vanilla.
ETA: In answer to the OP’s question I would say my type of preference for sex isn’t the average. Most women I know aren’t shy about wanting to be dominated and liking it ‘rough’.
Welp, my favorite position is doggy-style, so I guess I like it mildly rough.
But like <probably> every other person on the planet, I’m fickle, and like other things at other times.
If I was told I could never do it doggy-style again, though, I would cry. 
I’m not sure too many women enjoy these things in and of themselves when experienced with a partner (sure long baths are great, great for a pre-nap soak), it’s what they represent – someone making an effort. At the same time, for many women, rough sex can only be enjoyed with a partner who they feel totally comfortable with, and who agrees on what ‘rough sex’ even means and that it usually doesn’t involve jackhammering against a woman’s cervix.
I have read that, right before and during orgasm, a woman actually has a much higher threshold for pain, and it can even actually feel pleasurable.
Unfortunately, I have not had any chance to test this newfound knowledge.
I was pretty drunk and on vacation one time and had a one-night stand with a girl who informed me she “liked it rough”. Unfortunately her definition of rough was right off the fucking radar. She wanted to be slapped, choked, spit on, called dirty names, and so on. I couldn’t manage the effort----I’m a lover—and the sex just kind of petered out and ended.
With us “rough sex” means that we will have a jug wine burgundy with dinner, instead of a $30.00 chablis.
Doggy-style = rough?
Hasn’t been my experience at all. Can you explain a bit?
I’ve no objection to vigorous sex, but I draw the line at insult or denigration.
No. Doggy-style=ruff.
I like both because the same thing all the time gets boring, but when I fantasize it sure as heck isn’t about rose petals and bubble bath.
If I had to pick best I’d say cerebral foreplay followed by hind-brain snarly, wrestle-y, bitey, rough sex.
Rough. Absolutely. But, like a lot of you have said, it’s more about aggression than pain or humiliation. I love having my hair pulled, but I don’t like it if it actually hurts; my back scratched, but not so hard it breaks the skin; my ass smacked, but not with a belt; my neck bitten, but not so that it leaves a mark; dirty talk, but not stuff like “you slut.” Above all else, being forcefully grabbed. I don’t think there’s any limit to that one.
I don’t dislike soft and gentle sex. But given a choice, I’d pick rough every time.
You always make me laugh!
Interesting post. As a guy, I definitely found it true that many women like a certain amount of forcefulness (within the right context). I have to admit that I enjoy “taking” a woman (with her permission, of course). Pulling her hair and taking her doggy-style is the hottest. 
My current lady-friend loves a good choking and slapping-across-the-face while I pound her pussy from time to time. Life is good 
I like to start out slow, but I actually orgasm when my husband gets rougher and more dominant. If I had to choose between the two, I’d go with rough and mildly aggressive (i.e., not denigrating, but a little tug on the hair or a spank or five, some dirty talk) over tender and romantic.
I hope you mean something similar to choking that doesn’t actually involve cutting off air, because this can be really, really, really dangerous. Even GGG nazi Dan Savage is against it.