FRESH
YARN PRESENTS:
You
Don't Seem
By
C. Brian Smith
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TWO:
I'm
quite certain my road to alcoholism was paved that evening.
Booze had always intrigued me, but on the night of my deflowerment,
my body adopted a rather "Belushi-esque" quality about
it: I was attacking the liquor cabinet like a soldier going off
to war, and I was pissing like Secretariat before the big race.
As a result, by the time Kelly escorted me up to her parent's bedroom,
I was fucking wasted.
But
things did get off to a decent start. I was able to take my clothes
off without much assistance. I had been watching my friends watch
straight porn for years, so I had a pretty good sense of how I was
expected to waste five or ten minutes before actually inserting
my penis into her vagina. I squoze things and figured it would do
the trick.
Condoms
didn't scare me either. I had been trying them on for years. The
primitive containment system fascinated me. I think Kelly was a
little confused as to why I already had one on when I got into bed,
but nevertheless, all seemed to be going just fine.
Until
the moment of penetration. Now, all of my research on the subject
seemed to suggest glided ease, like Greg Louganis (also a gay) dipping
in for a late afternoon swim. But in this case the pool seemed to
be filled with peanut butter, lined with Velcro. Something was wrong.
I struggled to make it right while Kelly's body emitted sounds that
could only indicate extreme, acute discomfort.
And
then she said it. The most frightening, abhorrent, blood-curdling
words a gay teen could ever imagine:
"I
think this will work better if you go down on me first."
Now,
it was dark. And I was wasted. And while there were no mirrors,
I can still see the look on my face as the notion sunk in. There
was no way out, and no other way in.
Sure,
the more reasonable, mentally stable gay teen would most likely
have abandoned the cause at this point. But I had established that
everything in my life would work better if I participated
in vaginal intercourse, and it had been established that vaginal
intercourse, apparently, would work better if I ate her out first.
And since I have always had tremendous respect for the transitive
property, I swallowed hard, lifted up the covers and said, "I'll
be right back."
To
classify the breath I took as "deep" would be doing me
(and the breath) a tremendous disservice.
Bracing
for a large oncoming wave -- sitting down to take a final exam --these
require deep breaths. My inhale had more of a Shawshank Redemption-escape-route
feel to it.
Safe
to say that my mouth was in unfamiliar territory. Luckily, thanks
to HBO's new late-night hit series Real Sex, I had learned
from an eighty-two-year-old nudist Mormon that the letters of the
alphabet, when applied just so, could be extremely pleasurable to
a woman. (Incidentally, the accompanying song can be extremely comforting
to a homosexual while performing oral sex upon a vagina.)
I must
have dotted the "i" with a great deal of force and accuracy
or
perhaps it was the acceleration through "j, k, L-M-N-O-P!",
but the eruption that ensued was
shocking. I was sure I had
broken something. Perhaps the fallopian tube? But "yes"
means "yes", even in a court of law, and that was
the only word coming from Kelly's mouth. Before long, I was summonsed
out from under the covers. Greg Louganis, who had been foiled by
the missionary position moments before, was now effortlessly twisting
and tucking and somersaulting into the deep end with virtually zero
splash upon entry. I was having sex.
It
became clear right off the bat that premature ejaculation was not
going to be an issue. In fact, as the "Summer of '94"
mix tape flipped over for the third time, I began to realize that
my award-winning speed in circle-jerk competitions was not relevant
here. Books have been written about this kind of stamina. Kelly's
encouraging moans began to wane, and by the thirty-minute mark,
she was essentially asleep.
Desperate
times call for desperate measures, so I began to shift my focus
from the woman I was having sex with
to the high school wrestling
team. If you close your eyes tight enough, you can imagine just
about anyone -- doing
anything -- and sure enough, my cadence
accelerated. My veins expanded. My toes curled. Kelly woke up. Amazing
technicolors dream-coated the walls!!
Just
like that, it was over. I clumsily rolled off the bed and into the
bathroom, in order to congratulate myself on a job
done.
I enjoyed
a good long look at the man in the mirror. Unfortunately, while
the man did seem to be wearing his heart on his sleeve, he didn't
seem to be wearing a condom on his dick. Fuck. It had somehow fallen
off.
I swiftly
but covertly leapt back into bed. With the steadiness of a spinal
surgeon, I inspected Kelly's vaginal region. No luck. Those final
thrusts of passion must have catapulted the condom way up into her
uteral passage. What had begun as a feeble attempt to adjust my
sexuality had resulted in the impregnation of a sixteen-year-old
girl! The fetus was surely being suffocated by the condom -- not
enough to kill it, just enough to severely damage the brain. I liked
retarded kids, but wasn't ready to love one as my own flesh and
blood.
The
next several hours were filled with panic and irrational behavior
and a little bit more alcohol. I called my mother around 6:00 AM,
but hung up when she answered. A grandmother at 47. What had I done
to her!?
When
the sun rose I went to the bathroom to urinate, and a strange sound
emanated from my genital territory. Not unlike a gurgle. Not unlike
someone pissing into a condom. I looked down and there, on my pathetic,
shriveled up penis, was the rubber, still attached. Apparently,
in all of my prophylactic practice sessions I had never seen one
in its sloppy, post-coital, transparent state. I laughed at myself
and flushed it down the toilet.
Flushed
along with it went any doubts about my sexuality. After all, though
I did physically have sex with Kelly Quinn, mentally I
did things to the high school wrestling team I am still ashamed
of.
I saw
Kelly a couple years later when I was playing a squash match at
Princeton University. I told her I was gay, and that I had fallen
in love with my freshman roommate. She started laughing and introduced
me to her girlfriend, Vanessa.
Not
only did that god-awful sex fail to turn me straight, it had driven
Kelly to a life of lesbianism.
Incidentally,
losing my homosexual virginity was far less traumatic.
And
thankfully, the letters of the alphabet aren't gender specific.
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