Message-ID: <52753asstr$1136189405@assm.asstr.org> Return-Path: <cobillard@hotmail.com> X-Original-To: story-submit@asstr.org Delivered-To: story-submit@asstr.org X-Original-Message-ID: <BAY103-F369793E59E1C030C48517ABF2A0@phx.gbl> X-Originating-Email: [cobillard@hotmail.com] From: "Carol C" <cobillard@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jan 2006 23:21:45.0976 (UTC) FILETIME=[21FAB780:01C60F2A] X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:21:45 -0500 Subject: {ASSM} The Alumni Homecoming Picnic Lines: 1537 Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:10:05 -0500 Path: assm.asstr.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr.org/Year2006/52753> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-admin@asstr.org> X-Story-Submission: <story-submit@asstr.org> X-Moderator-ID: dennyw, hoisingr "As soon as my husband walked out on me I reverted to what was right for us, the way we lived in the commune. The kids were young enough so it didn't seem odd or wrong to them to swim and play nude with others of all ages. And see me free in my body alone and with men. We spent our vacations here [at Mom's Friend's House]. I never closed the door when I had sex. I wanted them to see me. To see me play with a penis was their sex education. And because we came here a lot and she knew all about it, as soon as she discovered her first pubic hairs she wanted a penis inside her. To be with my daughter on her big day, to see her skip years of stupid flirting and word games and join the natural order at 13 and have fun makes me proud. It's God's order of things." -- A mother gazing at her daughter's cute vagina and at the still-upstanding 14-year-old penis that just deflowered it, while talking to the mother of the boy. ---------- (The story until now: Too long and complex to repeat or even summarize here. I've written a brief account of how I came to be deflowered in an accidental tumble with a boy at age 11 and how that affected my life thereafter -- how Mom was both happy and sad: happy that I was now rid of my virginity and free to play with penises, and sorry she couldn't have been there for important event of her only child. I had grown up totally honest and open with my Mom, and she had watched (and photographed even) all the stages of my puberty: for her to miss the big event of a penis piercing my hymen must have been a disappointment, although she was quite subdued about it. (You can read about my first sex if you like, at http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/first.html . Almost as soon as the residue semen had dried on my vulva Mom wanted me to learn all the theology and physiology of sex -- as well as how to have the upper hand with men. I went on the Pill. I was in play, and I shared boys and penises with all the other girls. Mom and I came to take immense pleasure watching one another play a penis, seeing a penis slide into the other's vagina, seeing each other with legs wide apart, a boy's or man's tongue inside our vaginas. Above all was the religious experience of receiving semen in our mouths after being brought to climax orally. (While I have a real life -- I did well in college, have a great job and, now, a nice, sexy boyfriend -- I cannot imagine a life without sex as faith and faith as sex. And the experience of many penises has made me happy with the one I have chosen; has enabled me to make the right choice. There's a list of links to most of my prior autobiographical essays at http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/ Mom is unwell now. I'm glad she is able to see me settled in life. She knows I will carry on, as far as society and practicality allow, in bringing up children so that they, too, will be uninhibited, never embarrassed, never modest. So that I can see any son and daughter of mine -- and they can see each other at an age when penis and breasts are still growing -- with erect penis, with trickles of semen at mouth or vagina, with the relieved and happy smile that follow orgasm. It's a lovely thing to see your 13-year-old daughter, a bit apprehensive perhaps, but ready nonetheless, as a boy and his mom enter the room, the mom lowers her son's underpants and nudges him forward. His penis gets excited, or if it doesn't, the girl knows enough to caress and kiss and lick it, and in her mouth it gets strong. The boy kisses and licks her vagina and her clitoris, and her vagina becomes dilated and wet and her friends and her mom -- and the girl -- have an urgent need to see the penis to enter it. Just as I did at that nude dance when the 13-year-old Big Breasted Girl had spread her legs wide and her boy's penis hovered over it forever and he seemed to need help directing it home. But those urgent moments are fleeting: soon boy and girl are making love. And for the ex-virgin, that first thrust of the penis has freed her forever from -- I think Moses David would have said the Antichrist, but I would say from the social engineers and the false prophets and the misogynists and those so fearful of their own inadequacy that they want to deny pleasure to others. To receive semen is to receive Holy Communion (I cannot say that enough times). Puberty is the right time for its reception to begin. As others have said and I have repeated, the easy availability of sex for adolescents disposes of those anxieties that most interfere with studies. Not to mention sexual and social dysfunction and problems in later life. (But they have to be brought up to think of sex as a public, not a secret and private, event. So that they are happy being nude together and a mother, or a sister, can casually and innocently play with a lover's penis, spread her legs in response to an erection, displaying her labia, her vagina. So that the lovers can kiss each other's sex parts put penis in girl and be proud of the rush of semen that follows. And never arouse anything but appreciative glances and vicarious pleasure from family and friends of any age.) This is an essay about some events at Mom's Friend's summer alumni homecoming picnic-barbecues, and in particular about a former free-sex commune adherent who had lived for a time at Mom's Friend's House. She was a single mom who had come out as a lesbian and yet who wanted to assure her son a wholesome, hetero, sexually-liberated, puberty and adolescence with Mom's Friend's crowd. Be patient in reading this essay though: there are lots of digressions and diversions along the way. When Mom and I moved to Mom's Friend's House it was refreshing for both of us to see how easily, casually, comfortably and positively even young girls years away from beginning their sex lives related to naked boys. Older ones on the threshold of puberty were casual about the adolescents having sex around them, more and more curious about orgasm and semen. Among themselves, these pre-teens talked of penises, marveled and laughed over older boys' erections and ejaculations. And wondered over, anticipated and feared, like Charlotte Flax in "Mermaids", the arrival of hormones that would make us want to make love to a penis. Yet, apprehension or not, puberty would inevitably be sufficient reason for defloration, and defloration sufficient reason for a party. ("A daughter's hope and a mother's prayer." And a delight for her friends who, seeing the two lovers excited and making love would be aroused and sexy too.) Peer support, or pressure, and maternal delight too, and the absence of any shame or other hindrance, would see to that. To be "released from hymen bondage is the greatest thing that ever happened to me" is how Older Girl would put it. "Aren't we lucky to live in an environment where having a penis in your mouth and semen spilling out of it is something to be proud of and not debauchery." Indeed, soon after I moved to Mom's Friend's House I found -- because of the relative lack of privacy and the openness of the culture -- that much of the time when I would have a boy's penis in my mouth I was being watched. What girls and boys were watching for of course would be the signs of semen, drops of it, or a trickle, dribbling down the penis to show that ejaculation had happened and that the girl has received Communion. A vignette: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/trkl.html Likewise, when a boy was kissing your vagina, you would be likely to spread your legs and position yourself in such a way that others could see and admire your vagina as your excitement mounted. Those watching would be mostly our peers. But also -- shyly, even furtively, briefly and usually from a distance pre-pubescent boys and girls, giggling and tittering perhaps, but learning too. And, often, very often, by adult visitors, parents or just friends within Mom's Friend's circle, wanting to reassure themselves that their offspring were safe and happy. It was a delightful tease for me and other girls to show off our bodies, sometimes even to men to whom we were physically unavailable. Mom's Friend made a reasonable effort to keep a gender balance within all age groups: but the facts that most of her friends were women from the CoG and similar backgrounds, and that adult men tended to be more demanding sexually than women probably canceled each other out for the adults. The influence of the "teen feminist cabal" (who ran the parties and dances and, for what it's worth also ruled the "coming out parties" where a girl could celebrate her defloration) and the requirement that a male guest at a nude dance party had to be sponsored if he didn't bring along a sister or female cousin or other girl, and a few other tricks kept the peace among the adolescents. For the pubescents one counted on the mother, since she invariably was the chauffeur, and she would almost certainly be a "friend of Mom's Friend". (When I relate this to trusted acquaintances from outside our circle I get disbelief that any mother would be eager to show off her changeling daughter's or son's naked bodies and solicit their seduction. Such people simply have no understanding of the strength of belief fostered by the CoG and by other cults -- a belief that survived the passing of Moses David and the crisis within the CoG because of its basic validity. But, as we now know, it can only be safe within a closed circle, a controlled environment, parentally (or peer) supervised. A limited population of partners who can be trusted not to have unprotected sex outside the group. (The bond fostered by family sexual openness is so strong that I have seen three generations enjoying romance, passion and, indeed, sex in each others' company. Just as, when the opportunity happens, my boyfriend and I freely disrobe and fondle each other and I look over at Mom to see if she has noticed his penis going erect and my looking for a delicious drop of seminal fluid. Of course his penis will wind up in my mouth and his tongue in my vagina with Mom looking on. She's told me that she can almost taste the semen spurting into me and she feels so good for me. So I want her to see my vagina too, and I wait for his penis to get hard again and I'll position myself so that she can see it entering me. (We can't do any of that in front of his parents, more's the pity.) Having others appreciate your orgasm, your display of semen, doubles the enjoyment: as I've often said, it's like the old question of a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it: ejaculation becomes spectacular if it's on show, semen leaking from your mouth; penis grandly pressing itself into wet vagina with the girl sighing as with exhaustion from romance and delight. (It is, of course a fiction that girls do not, innately, love the sensation of semen rushing into their mouths. But having been conditioned to think it's disgusting, having been told it's demeaning, and having allowed men to get crude and obscene satisfaction over purporting to "humiliate" girls by ejaculating into their mouths, a myth has taken hold. The real obscenity is the failure of men to give first priority to girls' orgasms and not their own. I never met a girl who, once introduced to mutual oral sex -- preferably at age 13 or 14 at the latest -- didn't find it fabulous. There probably are girls who can't get an orgasm that way, but I've never had one say so to me. When I have brought over to a girl the "present" of a new boy in his underpants, and she pulls down his pants and sees his penis and gets excited over it and fondles and kisses it and puts it in her mouth -- and when it spurts out, consumes and loves his semen -- it's with the knowledge of what will happen next. That right away when she spreads her legs and exposes her vagina to him the boy will make love to her clitoris with his tongue, and tease and taste her vagina and bring her to climax. And they will hug and caress and have a lovely day. To see her mouth overflow with semen is to see her in communion with the divine, enjoying the DNA carried down from a million generations of humanity. And tasting romance and passion and the whole history of lovemaking.) Pubescent and even pre-pubescent kids would see this too, of course. More than once, a parent passing by with her (or his) child would make us an example for a sex-ed lesson. "Your penis will grow, and when it does a girl will kiss it, and semen will come out." "You will have breasts, and your 'gina will be irresistible to boys with nice big penises that give you semen." For us, and for that child, virginity was something to be disposed of as early as possible. I know that some don't agree -- but mostly those are misogynist cultures. Not entirely, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out, but they are mostly Arab and Latin American ones. http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/hymenoplasty.html As for the boys of 14 or so whose penises were chosen: I'm sure they were proud, but it was a pride in helping a girl to grow up and have fun, and not the arrogant satisfaction of demeaning or devaluing her. Why else would a girl's mom, in the CoG or out of it, take such pleasure in watching the boy as he offers he penis to her daughter? As she kisses it and guides it into her vagina -- something that she has been programmed to do, to want to do, to not be embarrassed to do, since infancy? And later, as she marvels over the semen and what it means for her, and for her salvation? I think it's the fond memory of that which underlies the special desire of some girls to have sex during their periods: to see the bloody penis, to enjoy the mingling of mucus and semen and blood. So there is nothing unique about defloration except that it is the gateway to adulthood and to the pleasures that puberty and adolescence bring. One of the bits of advice that Mom gave me after we had moved the houseboat and seen that there were so many kids about was "Never ignore a young teen with a 5- or 5-1/2-inch erection. You can change his life forever and he will never forget you for it." And so I could and so I did, occasionally in Mom's presence. That advice was even more pertinent at Mom's Friend's House where the size and condition of a penis was often open to view. For girls, the issues of maturation in terms of sexual capacity and sexual desire are subtler. I was happiest when Mom could watch: we believe that orgasm is God's love expressing itself directly to us, which we must share by way of evangelization ("flirty fishing" -- but bear in mind, the initiative had to be ours, never the boy's). That is not to be done in secret: indeed we should show off the semen we receive, as semen is both blessing and host for Holy Communion. This is why the moment of first orgasm was so special, and why, indeed, a pious girl might well feel faint when she experiences her first orgasm as equally the first time a boy's semen streams into her. Especially with her friends and family there, for example at a defloration party or at a nude dance -- although it goes without saying that the drama at those two different kinds of events would, itself, be totally different. This is scarcely different from the swooning of converts, or of the faithful, at a revival meeting -- except that for us, the touching of our bodies by God is palpable, the pleasure both tangible and repeatable at will. Make no mistake: our lifestyle certainly had to be secret from the outside world. We brought very few trusted outside friends to our nude dances, and most of those girls would have been at least 16; younger ones -- like that lovely 13-year-old Big Breasted Girl http://assm.asstr.org/Year2002/38098 ("I have a vision of putting a bit of my saliva on the end of his penis with my fingers and then guiding the penis to its destination as he again thrust his lower body downwards. There was an electric moment, one of realized anticipation. As the penis entered her vagina, the girl moaned slightly.") came as couples, or because they (or, likely, their parents) had a connection with the CoG or a similar cult or movement for whom sex is central not just to growing up but to existence as a human being. We had no, or few, secrets from each other, and the petty jealousy and envy of most teen boy-girl relationships just could not occur among boys and girls who saw showing off our bodies and flirty fishing within our circle as part of a divine order, a missionary obligation, a public profession of faith. To reach puberty is to be entrusted specially by God with the duty of propagating the faith serially among multiple partners. Each act of sex, each ejaculation and reception of semen, is His intervention. The pleasure of orgasm is His gift. (I should interject some science here: in the medical sense a girl's puberty can start as early as age 8 and still be "normal"; but puberty is a "process" that takes years and usually starts between 8 and 10. For boys it is 9 to 11. In the sexual sense that concerns me in this essay, puberty is when the penis and vagina are visibly developed to the degree that they are capable of normal, enjoyable, recreational sex. That is most often at age 11 or 12, 13 at the latest. A lot has been written on the subject, much of which can be found online. Early puberty is related to early sex (no surprise there) and also to a wider variety of sex partners and to casualness of sex. But we knew that already. An article in "Evolution and Human Behavior", vol. 22, p. 329, 2001) reports that absence of a father in the home may precipitate early puberty in girls. The Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 36, Feb. 2005, p. 109 reports the obvious: that teens consider oral sex "less risky, more prevalent and more acceptable" than vaginal sex, and are happy to do it early on. There was a brief outcry a year or more ago when some heath authorities actually recommended oral sex for teens as a less-risky alternative to straight sex. (Anyway, "More than half of American teenagers aged 15 to 19 say that they have had oral sex, with females and males reporting similar levels of experience, according to the most comprehensive survey of US sexual habits yet conducted.") There's a comprehensive bibliography of the professional literature on pubertal and pre-pubertal sexual behavior at http://www.student.ru.nl/d.f.janssen/GUS/tables/table1.htm and I've archived a few newspaper articles at http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/precociouspub.html . Lastly, there is a huge difference between "recreational" and "devout" sexual intercourse at age 13 or younger, and forced marriage, as in the "trainee wives" of certain polygamous Mormons and in indigenous African cultures: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/afrpuberty.html I leave it to you, Dear reader, to draw whatever conclusions you see fit from any or all the foregoing, but hopefully you will conclude that any child more than a couple of months shy of 12 is too young to have sex: there is no peer group for support; there may be physical ability but there is no emotional capacity. And we've all heard the awful accounts of that pregnant 5-year-old Peruvian girl -- http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/peruvianmother.html http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp ) There is, of course, nothing sexy about such medical anomalies, especially when they are coupled with child abuse. Drs. Gould and Pyle, in their 1896 compendium of medical anomalies, include a photograph of a 5-year old boy with a fully mature penis. http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/precboy.html The boy looks more confused than mature, although we all know the "naughty nanny" stories where child minders, seeing a boy's sexual maturity, have seduced them. And indeed that was reportedly quite common at the CoG -- as common, anyway, as precocious puberty itself. For normally-developing girls, and doubtless boys as well, crossing the threshold into active sexuality was not a matter of seduction but rather a gradual process for which putting penis into vagina was only the last step. After all, both with us and in mainstream life many girls and boys have had oral sex for months before starting vaginal sex. And beginning regular sex as soon as your body changes is natural and normal -- it's mainly a matter of access, of opportunity. Think, for example, of the indigenous tribes in Brazil, or of African teen "promiscuity" (which I put in quotation marks because the only thing wrong with it is the failure to take STD and HIV precautions). Sex happens on impulse and by necessity, just as soon as a kid has capacity. With families on the periphery of our way of life the progression was more likely in fits and starts, opportunistic, related to a mother's reaction to a child's masturbation, flirting, play of a sexual sort, or perception of sexual frustration. Or, for their girls upon insightful observation of sexual urges. In either case, the approach of puberty often led mothers (and occasionally fathers) with a CoG or other background common to ours to bring their kids over for "de-" or "re-programming" or for a "refresher course in interpersonal relations". Mom's Friend was always tactful with new arrivals; kids unused to nudity and sex at home would be eased into the environment. Parents could take discreet pride in their sons' penises, their daughter's vaginas. It all depended upon the family environment: teens who had been well prepared by their parents for puberty and adolescence would have no inhibitions at all and would engage in sex play right away. Sex, like prayer, ought not to depend on scheduled timing -- both should be spontaneous, inspired -- and inspirational. I think, in this context, of Mom's Friend when she would see a kid slouching in the back yard and tell him to "sit up straight, move towards the front of your chair, and show off your gorgeous penis to all the girls". Sometimes she'd admonish a young boy who seemed mildly embarrassed over an erection, telling him it's something he should be proud of, and that she really liked his penis and was sure all the girls did too, and pretty soon they'd be lining up to kiss it. She'd say something comparable to girls, and encourage them to keep their backs straight, their breasts forward and their legs spread apart while seated nude. "Let boys see your clitoris so they don't forget you have one." The whole point was that if children can learn not to be embarrassed by their bodies and its natural sexual function, and if they can be instilled with confidence without any arrogance, banish false modesty and inhibition and guilt, as soon as they have the capacity they can express themselves sexually in a physical way and never experience the sexual frustration that most teens go through and some never get over, winding up dysfunctional. That was the practical side. The theological side I've written about extensively (some might say too much so, but that was Moses David's way and I'm afraid I've inherited it via my Mom): how attraction and arousal are direct divine intervention, orgasm, ejaculation divine message, semen the instrument of Holy Communion. Indeed, that's how the vision of families getting together and sharing sex was attributed to the biblical admonition "when two or three [couples] are gathered together in my name...", at least by the Rev. X, who seemed to think that, as a result of his status, his penis was more godly than most. But then it seems that he was not the only clergyman to feel that way: there is Jimmy Swaggart and plenty of other holy rollers like him, a host of Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis, many Hindu priests and doubtless Muslim imams too. There was always, for parents, the pleasure of having friends with whom they could be open about their children's sexuality -- friends whose children theirs could interrelate and have sexual fun with; friends who would admire their kids' growing bodies, and genitalia. (All over the USA, I've found, there are single parents and families that get together often -- in groups of 2, 3, 4 or more -- raising their children to be comfortable naked and intending that they should go through puberty together and engage in free sex, as indeed many of the parents did and do. (I've annexed an account of a family I came to know where the daughter's defloration was orchestrated that way, done by a young boy who'd been groomed to deflower girls with panache: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/gsstory.html ) Children are children, after all. They are capable of enjoying -- indeed they need to have -- sexual release, but in many ways they lack rationality. Parents and mature peers can supply that, setting an example and providing guidance, even discipline. Instilling respect and self-respect. (I have to laugh when I seek those young teens in the public-service "pro-abstention" TV ads. I'm sure half of them are having sex; and the other half are missing all the fun and following false prophets and they'll be sorry later: you can't get back what you missed.) It has to be kept in mind, though, that kids who've recently become sexually active are always trying to others of their cohort; one aim of teen exhibitionism is to arouse others of the opposite sex who are coming of age, and by arousing them make them want to join the circle of potential partners. That isn't, however, inconsistent with keeping them safe from predators, coercion and from abuse by elderly perverts http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/glitter.html . In other words: girls and boys are encouraged (indeed, we would say duty-bound) to share their bodies and exchange bodily fluids in a romantic religious passion. But the sex act must be the result of spontaneous desire from within, and mainly from within the girl: religion-based flirting. Coercion, unwanted sex, abuse by an older person: these are no less rape than if the girl (or boy) were a virgin of another faith or of no faith. And, at the same time, recognition that sex becomes more refined, more sophisticated with age: http://geneva.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/108540455.html (a rant by some woman over her lover, whom she calls "Small Penis" -- and then she admits she herself has got hardly any breasts) -- yet another reason for segregating by age group, for enforcing the "10% rule". I want to define "respect", which, after all, is the object of countless films, plays, stories and jokes. The whole point of acclimatizing boys to girls' bodies and needs and behavior and thinking even before they are ready for sex is so that when the time comes they are committed to fulfilling those needs -- and not just their own. This also was the basis for the (sometimes ignored) "24-hour rule" whereby like some Shia Muslim temporary marriage a boy and girl were bonded for sex for a short period of time. The (pubescent or adolescent) boy couldn't just ejaculate into his partner and disappear: he owed her interest and attention and pleasure for the rest of the day. Of course if he proved to be boring or she had other things to do, that would be the end of it. But in fact, I did a lot of homework together with my various sex partners, and we'd go out on quasi-dates just to see things or go for a walk, and so on. Most of our likeminded friends living in the vicinity of Our Town would come by with some frequency, at least in summer. Those on the periphery might come once a year, or hardly ever. By "periphery" I mean not only physical distance but moral doubt: those with an uncertain intellectual commitment to adolescent free sex. Yet for them the sight of growing penis or growing breasts on a child gives a different perspective, akin in sense to a return to religion as one faces a crisis. At its best, the CoG and similar colonies offered a rare state of contentedness and an intergenerational understanding and peace: parental support at a time of changes in body and personality and emotional structure. A mother who is often naked with her children will want to parry a son's immature sexual attraction to her. Similarly for a father with his daughter. And having been brought up or otherwise come to believe themselves in a culture of wholesome adolescent sex such a parent would, as the opening quotation says, "revert" to practices like those they'd known at the CoG: children initiated by peers (or, less wholesomely, by elders). It is asking for trouble to bring a boy or a girl up knowing that it is proper to display sexuality, erection, masturbation in front of the family without then providing access to potential same-age sex partners. (There are alternatives, such as subterranean school "sex clubs" and, more specifically, "oral sex clubs", and I've written about these; but Mom's Friend's answer was safer. Mother knows best.) In truth, mothers and fathers, released from stupid and false and perverse religious and social constraints and "laws" are as delighted to see teen penis enter teen girl's vagina or mouth as any parent is at a confirmation, bat mitzvah, graduation, wedding and so on. It's a rite of passage, doing what comes naturally. And for the kids, it's just as much a celebration to show off and to be proud of: first kiss of a penis, first taste of semen, first knowing smile. First vagina, first ejaculation. Abandonment of virginity is the start of personal autonomy and liberty: the offspring have joined their elders in a secret society consisting all the sexually active people in the rest of the world. And a grinning 13-year-old girl with semen on her braces or semen glistening on her pubic hair shows off nothing less than proof of the truest sort of First Holy Communion, a sacred badge of youthful evangelism. There were as many permutations of background, family structure and lifestyle as there were families in our circle. Some people either lived too far away for regular visits, or accepted our beliefs and practices only in part or too secretly to risk regular involvement. A few single mothers had ambiguous sexuality, or else had been troubled by their CoG or cult experience and yet thought that bringing out an offspring's sexuality at a young age would avoid such ambiguity and/or troubles. As noted in the introduction, this essay relates -- in context -- the story of the return of a particular single mother who had drifted towards lesbianism. Either for his sake (as we shall assume) or for own her satisfaction she wanted to see her son's pubescent penis erect and inside a girl. That mother had not been part of the CoG; instead she had been part of the 1960s free-sex movement, and specifically that part of the movement which rejected the notion of identifiable paternity: his mother didn't know and didn't want to know who his father was. In fact, when she left, or grew out of, the movement, she took up with a string of female lovers. While her boy was still young she'd spent a number of months at Mom's Friend's House, but that was some time before Mom and I had joined it. Her stay entitled her to be invited to the annual homecoming reunions, and she came to several. She was one of the many mothers who remained in the shadows, largely uninvolved in the gossip and in the politics of sex. Her reticence must have had something to do with her sexual preference: we encountered gays and lesbians from time to time, but aside from enjoying camp culture (didn't I write once how much I enjoyed Quentin Crisp's "The Naked Civil Servant", the film and the book? And Oscar Wilde and Truman Capote and all those other writers...) we had little in common. With our theological interest in -- some would say theological fixation with -- puberty, the mother and her son first came to my notice the year that the boy was 12. Though reluctant to disrobe for the pool party, the other boys made it more embarrassing for him not to. His penis confirmed his beginning of puberty. Under other circumstances and with the slightest sign of interest and desire on his part, I or one of the girls would have to seduced him then and there. As I've written many times, there is no reason why sex shouldn't start at the beginning rather than the end of puberty. ("Why wait impatiently for your breasts to grow big when they and you are quite sexy enough right now to a boy of your age?" And Mom's Friend would say the same to a boy concerned about his penile development. "You can have a great orgasm; size doesn't matter for oral sex; one drop of semen in a girl's mouth is enough to delight." And, again to the girl: "Just keep your eyes wide open and on the penis, make a fuss over semen and enjoy it when it spurts out. Act as if all those sperms are making love to you, because they are." And more: "Swallow semen gladly, and the boy will love you to bits." "Contrary to common misconception", she told the boys several times within my hearing, "most girls don't wish to have an avalanche of semen. A teaspoonful is quite enough to cover a tongue, to spread on the head of a penis, to savor and swallow." Right she was. After listening to her, any girl would rather die than spit out semen instead of swallowing it. (It is one thing to be happily "drippy" -- to show off semen and how much one appreciates it and sees it as communion. It's quite another to reject and waste it.) There was non nonsense in her sex-ed lectures, unlike what we had at school. She knew very well, as I do, that from the moment a girl's lips circle around the head of a virgin boy's penis and has his penis slide into her mouth, that girl owns that boy's spirit and soul, forever. Even if they never have sex again.) The B&W (because they're by way of sex-ed (and religious ed) and not with prurient purpose) illustrations put together for me by a friend express the point well: tinyurl.com/8ww3p . Sex is at its best when it is a communal social event with everybody aroused, when erection and ejaculation are religious as well as romantic expressions, and when semen is taken as a holy message. The Word, in New Testament terminology. A girl who (as in the bottom-right-hand picture or, even more, the left-hand one, second row from the bottom) is happy to show off to friends and family around her the semen in her mouth has fulfilled those three criteria. She (1) has received semen as Holy Communion, (2) through "flirty fishing" she has captivated and evangelized her boy, and (3) she has helped propagate the faith to girls younger than she: invariably other girls will want to imitate her act and her display. In the latter sense, it is because I could see Mom and older girls playing with penises and loving it when they ejaculated -- and accepting their semen as a blessing -- that I "always knew" that when I reached puberty I would want to kiss and cuddle penises, think them lovely and take them in my mouth and make them give me semen, all in front of my friends. And the closer I got to puberty the more frequently and vividly I would imagine the process that would lead up to my having a penis pushing its way into my mouth, ejaculating for me. Knowing I would want to do it in the future did not, I hasten to add, mean that I wanted to do it right then. Somehow I knew that I had to grow up a bit first. Mom had explained to me that "desire" keeps pace with our physical development. That a "proper" boy or man would only want to put his penis inside your body if you had breasts and pubic hair. (The growing-up principle is seemingly the same for the boy from among our group who expected to enjoy one day giving a girl oral pleasure. Even though the picture of the male with his face to a vagina is not so poetic and artistic as that of a girl with a penis in her mouth. (As to that, I've been handed a photograph to share with you: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/hld.html ) For the boy pleasuring a girl the event and its results are more subtle. And also, perhaps therefore, one has to try harder to educate a young boy. But, Dear Reader, you may recall how, when having sex in the back yard that time with the 16-Year-Old Boy, I showed those two toddlers how my vagina was structured, and how it could make me happy. Sure enough, 7 or so years later, the two remembered and while not yet 12 were enjoying oral sex together in front of us, the boy making sure his girl was had her climax before he ejaculated into her. When they ran up to Mom and me, naked and drippy, it was for us like a missionary who has brought two souls to his faith. A couple displaying their after-sex bliss like that is simply the most sacred sight imaginable. Their story illustrates the point that for a boy to really enjoy kissing and licking a vagina -- and not just to do it reluctantly in order to get the girl to accept his penis in her mouth and to swallow his semen -- is just a matter of conditioning. And a boy whose mother shows her inner labia to him at an early age, who explains how labia are like the petals of a flower opening up to beauty, how much pleasure vagina and clitoris bring, and who has partners who pleasure her in front of him -- such a boy will grow up with a positive attitude, happy when his mouth is at a vagina. With an understanding that will make him happy also to kiss a vagina after he has ejaculated into it, to share with his partner their mingled holy fluids. (This suggests an expression which, unfortunately, has become crude and overused by pornographers. "Creampie" -- which you can Google -- is something so primordial and so lovely -- so human -- that every child should know it. Even little boys can be taught the significance of a dilated, moist vagina, and how the grown penis of an adolescent feels so good -- and makes the girl feel good -- as it slides in. Culminating in ejaculation and lovely streams of semen to enjoy, semen merging with the girl's own fluids, that boy and girl can taste together. There are some examples, albeit commercial in nature but for all that less crude than elsewhere on the Web and free of charge besides, at http://www.creampie.com/tour/videoclips.html Political and legal correctness make it impossible to view adolescents at fun. Except, perhaps and by happenstance in the flesh, being among a group like us.) To return to the problem of Shy Boy: in addition to his slow start at puberty the shy boy was making a slow start at interpersonal relationships with girls and he wasn't even trying. After a quick look around, he was not paying attention to the nakedness all over nor was he inviting attention to himself or his penis. Shy and introverted, we decided he wasn't worth the trouble to seduce when there were enough alternative boys about. Not every teen should be having sex just because s/he has the capacity: there has to be interest, desire, emotional readiness. One who is too apprehensive -- for want, I think, of parental conditioning in the months and years preceding that first pubic hair -- just has to wait. That point aside, I never had any hesitation to make love to a penis that I thought cute even if I had no long-term interest in its owner. I think of all those 12-ish boys I seduced at the houseboat who dearly wanted to see me again but whom I turned away after having awakened their libidos, given them pride in their penises and confidence in their ability to get girls -- me anyway -- to pay attention to them. There has to be a bit of momentary romance and passion to go with seduction, something hard to do if the boy is, as I said, apprehensive and you can't calm him down first. Especially if you have no intellectual or spiritual or future interest in him. And, the kid has to want sex: if he doesn't realize yet that he wants it he has to be brought to desire and arousal. I wanted each boy to want my body desperately enough so that he would take the trouble for proper oral foreplay. Or else have enough gratitude after he ejaculated in my mouth that he would want to kiss my clitoris forever. I wanted him to think, as I do, that my vagina is pretty. Other girls, some of the "vamps" I've described before, could be counted on to come on to a virgin boy solely for the pleasure of having his virginity. Such girls don't care so much about their own climax as long as they can have that particular quirky satisfaction. To some degree I must have shared that quirk during my houseboat year, although in my case it was more psychological jousting with cute-looking boys -- getting inside their heads as much as getting their penises into my mouth. Anyway, this boy, this year would not have sex. He could be left alone to read, to watch others at sex, to wander about and to chat with his mom. He would surely grow into sex (or vice versa) over the winter. I'm quite sure that mother discussed her boy with Mom's Friend, and they would have talked about his penis and his readiness for sex. Why else did she visit; the subject of early sex was after all our common thread. Mom's Friend would hardly have left unremarked the existence on her territory of a boy with his first pubic hairs: she would have wanted to assure his sexual education and conditioning. If he had been seen by any of the girls to have an erection -- whether out of sexual arousal or otherwise -- she would have been told. Indeed, if he had so much as touched his penis in a pleasurable way, somebody would have seen and reported it. There were witnesses to everything at Mom's Friend's House, privacy would have been hard to come by. (There were many positive points to that: it provided a sort of protection from exploitation to more vulnerable kids. I was struck by a recent New York Times article on webcams and exploitation of loners: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/webcam.html There's no doubt that our sexual openness, without parental guidance and protection, could have led to victimization in certain cases -- another good reason for discretion and secrecy, the same-age rule and the "closed circuit".) If it hadn't been for the hectic atmosphere of an alumni reunion Mom's Friend might well have taken charge and directed one of her more outgoing girls to sidle up to him and make friends (i.e., physical contact) with the boy. It isn't that hard to strike up a casual conversation, press your breasts close to a naive boy, make him nervous -- but not so nervous that he will resist as you reach out to his penis. I have been there and done that for hundreds of boy's "first times". Inviting boys to explore my breasts, my vagina; giving them by caress the first hint of how good his penis will feel when it's inside my body. Then bringing my face close to it, kissing it lightly, licking it around its tip, putting it in my mouth. This was my protocol for seducing boys on the houseboat, a protocol that made Mom smile if she saw. Now another girl had started, but the boy hadn't responded as he was supposed to, and it there hadn't been erection, penis in mouth, orgasm and ejaculation. The following year the shy boy had grown less in stature than I should have imagined. Doubtless that was because we were comparing him to his cohort and they were the same relative to each other. He had braces on his teeth: certainly no impediment to oral sex, I thought, but reason for taking care. He was willing enough to undress although he did wait for others to go first. I imagined that others would remember him and that all eyes would be on his groin, but in fact the other girls were more interested at that point in greeting old friends and, in many cases, in displaying their own bodies -- i.e., their breasts, although some managed to show off a bit of inner labia too -- to best advantage to older boys whose approval meant more to them and whose penises they knew to be reliable and responsive. One of the vamps and I were the only ones to see Shy Boy's penis displayed for the first time in its new 13-year-old maturity. It had indeed grown; it was now by my guess, 5-!/2 inches, on target for his age, cute: http://www.sizesurvey.com/result.html and http://www.jackinworld.com/library/surveys/survey2.html . Its circumcised head was nicely prominent and there was a plentiful bush of fluffy pubic hair (had he brushed it?) setting off his wrinkly scrotum: all very kissable. His penis was relaxed, and at that moment his testicles nicely distinct. (Mom talked a lot about circumcision as allowing the full beauty of the penis to be seen; recently she has been adding a "told you so" in view of new claims for its health benefits: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/circumctrend.html ) Our staring at his penis discomfited the boy somewhat. The Vamp now had designs on it and I encouraged her, making her promise to make a show of her seduction of him. I told her I would have him the next day: a friendly handover. He was too confused to notice our deal. By tradition, sexual touching -- at least public touching -- did not begin until the afternoon on an alumni homecoming day. This gave everybody a chance (1) to get to Mom's Friend's House and play the (level playing) field and (2) to have a proper (barbecue) lunch. Nudity was gradual, anyway: more and more topless girls; eventually boys and girls and parents with underpants only; finally total nudity, one person at a time tossing off a piece of clothing. There was, before noon, a naturist atmosphere: the occasional incidental erection, but no sex, just knowing smiles and coquettish eye and head movements. Sex was, as always, for the afternoon. The Vamp would stay close to her target, Shy Boy. As soon as it was tactically and socially prudent, she would try to arouse him. And she would make sure he was present at the visible arousal of others. She would talk about nothing but sex, and remark on how she adored his penis. When, after barbecue and sangria, the first penis would find its way into a girl's mouth, she would watch his reaction. She pressed her body against his and made her interest in his penis overly apparent. Somewhat tactlessly, and I thought counterproductively, she asked the boy in front of his mother how he'd spent the past year. And when he replied, missing the point, with an innocent description of school and sport she corrected him and asked quite bluntly: whether he had ever seen his mom have sex, whether he thought the inside of her vulva was cute, how often he had erections. He didn't answer, and him mom blushed. We never found out for sure. Instead, his mom reminded him that she'd been telling him for years that he should not waste his libido on masturbation, that his penis deserved better. (That was scarcely unique: Mom's Friend tried to predict when a boy might start masturbating and to see to it that one of her girls got to his penis first.) And, repeating something she must have heard from Mom's Friend, she said that his semen was hers, too -- "family property", "divine gift". And she looked over at Mom's Friend and asked if her son's penis hadn't grown nicely over the past year, wasn't it lovely. "I'd love to see it kissed." Whatever reticence there had been the year before was gone now, on the part of Shy Boy as well as his mom. But then, I've written often about that mystical relationship between a mother and her son's penis. (What mother doesn't secretly want to see her son's penis spurting semen into a girl? How many times have I taken special care to bring a boy to orgasm, if his mom was watching, solely by running my tongue endlessly over and around only the head of his penis so that when did ejaculate she would see his semen spurt out? My diaries from the period when I was 14-15 take note of all the times when I saw a mother or a father watching their kid at oral sex. In a certain sense I was the journalist creating my own story when I made a show of playing with a boy's penis in front of his mom.) I deduced that if his mom was practicing lesbian she was now laying claim to her son's penis as her own, and that she wanted to see a fountain of semen spurting out of it. Her son was very uncomfortable and fidgety at this point, and by standing behind the Vamp, he did his best to hide his limp penis from our view. And there would not most likely be a "fountain" of semen anyway. Maybe a teaspoon (according to the Merck Manual, 1 to 6 ml is "normal", quite a broad range), and likely as not we wouldn't see even that. Whatever her motivation, I wouldn't categorize her with those fathers who brought their sons to Mom's Friend because they worried, dreaded that they might be gay and thought that early exposure to sex would "prevent" it or else "cure" them. Such fathers tended to give Mom's Friend lavish gifts in support of her work, and I'm sure this mom did not. But like some of such fathers, she clearly did want to see her son's penis ejaculate into a vagina. Like many of the mothers who were not seeking sex partners for themselves his mom was topless but wore a bikini bottom. Such women could be sure of being left alone: there were far fewer men than women (ours being a quasi-feminist grouping) and it was helpful to know who among the mature crowd was in play and who was not. By now every male was completely naked and those without partners were wandering among the girls and women trying to attract attention, conversation, attraction itself, and sex. The nervousness of the boy suggested to me that his penis might need some care to make erect and to keep that way, at least for the first time. But a girl can never be sure of such things. In my year's experience on the houseboat there were few cases where I had real trouble getting a boy's penis erect, and even fewer where it failed to get stiff once it was in my mouth. It's a matter of will, of concentration on his part, of overcoming apprehension. Then the penis should get erect almost as soon as it touches the girl's tongue. And once a boy had come in my mouth, his erections would usually be automatic, Pavlovian, at the approach of my breasts, the separation of my legs, the movement of my lips. The main challenge my first time with a boy was trying to anticipate just when his ejaculation would happen so I'd be ready to use my tongue to direct his semen to the floor of my mouth. You have your lips planted firmly against the head of his penis, and with each stroke you wonder: will the next make the semen start coming? In my case I wanted so much to show it off to him and to m y friends before swallowing it. In the end, the wondrous, startled, delighted look on the boy's face made the special effort worthwhile. (Regarding my breasts, those spotlights in the eyes of boys that could momentarily paralyze and enslave them for me: Rev. X, Mom's Friend's "pastoral consultant", whom I haven't seen in some years, used to call me "Belle Poitrine". I knew perfectly well what that means in French but it wasn't until I was away at college that I learned it was a pun on the ironic label name given to the eponymous leading lady played by Virginia Martin in the 1962 Neil Simon musical "Little Me". Rev. X liked big boobs so long as they were self-supporting; indeed he liked pressing, uninvited, against women and girls from behind, his penis hard against their buttocks and his hands covering their nipples. I mentioned in an earlier essay how I inexplicably and somewhat regrettably let him put his penis in my vagina on the first day that he could do that, off in the sidelines on my 18th birthday when the 10% rule went out the window. Uniquely among all the hundreds of boys and men I have had sex with over the past 25 years, Rev. X never stopped talking, preaching even, from the moment his penis entered my vagina until semen gushed out of it: "bouncy breasts are heaven-sent", "you must not stop evangelizing for Jesus", "you will be a great fisher of men" (referring, I suppose, both to Jesus and to flirty fishing), "remember that semen is god's Word", "your lovely nipples speak to me in God's name" and then, "His blessing is coming" ... at which point he ejaculated and ceased talking.) It was obvious that he wanted me now to kiss his sticky penis and taste his semen because he brought it close to my face. But I didn't and he must have sensed my ambivalence because he didn't try to kiss my vagina at that point either, something a boy would often do after sex as an act of religious devotion as well as sign of respect for the girl. And a means of obliging her to reciprocate by taking his spent penis in her mouth. I just walked back to my friends, somewhat embarrassed that I'd fallen for the line of that self-styled holy-sexy intellectual with the big penis. I was used to little kids pretty much ignoring the sex that went on around them so it was further disconcerting for me to hear one little girl tittering while she asked another whether she had seen Rev. X "stuff his penis into Carol's 'gina", did she see it "going up and down and squirting". As for the Rev. X, he wore on his face something between a smirk and the kind of patronizing smile that preachers sometimes have when they finish what they suppose to be a terrific and moving sermon. (Well, after all, for Rev. X and for the rest of us, isn't sex a form of prayer?) There are not very many sexual liaisons that embarrass me to think about so much as that incident with Rev. X. As I think about him now, he reminds me of Zoltan Karpathy as much as anybody. Rev. X's penis wasn't, itself, the cause for embarrassment; in fact it was on the big side and with the kind of head I like normally -- rounded rather than conical, nicely formed and impressive when erect -- and impressive even when just pointing horizontally, straight ahead. It was his attitude, and sense of entitlement that bothered me, and a humbug about his constant claim that his sex, his semen, was somehow more sacred than others'. I was still glad I hadn't allowed him to put his semen-sticky penis into my mouth. I complained to Mom's Friend about the incident and she saw to it that Rev. X never came on to me again. But he'd had his heart's desire -- my 18-year-old vagina -- and I don't suppose he much cared after that. For all his philosophical charm, if that's what it was, he understood girl psychology even less well than the teen-age boys I was used to. It's annoying when males fail to take into consideration our basic differences in urgency, frequency, pace and source of attraction and arousal. Among other things. As for the Rev. X: I continued to go at least occasionally to his prayer meetings. But we were all dressed for such occasions of course, and if young children were there he would scarcely mention sex in his sermons. Still, even young children got to know his aphorisms, such as "a girl is never so holy and lovely as when she has a man's sacred vessel in her mouth". It was after his lectures that the tone of the gathering would change from prayer to sex. I would avoid him then, him and his dirty-old-man's penis.) During their 14th year (i.e., while still 13) boys and girls are, on average, quite mature enough by any measure -- mentally, emotionally and physically -- for the act itself. Not for pregnancy -- which is why parental advice and consent and support are so important. In the context of casual sex as we knew it, the issues of jealousy and envy and destructive competition did not arise. These are issues that under-16s cannot be expected handle alone, and in our cases they were dealt with -- avoided -- by the involvement of parents and older teens who would all have been through that stage: Almost none among our crowd, kids or parents, had reached age 15 and still been a virgin. Not a few, like Terrific Girl and me, had their first sex at 11, and never had reason to regret it, never looked back. These statistics, as it happens, are not shocking even in mainstream life. ---------- Now back to our story. Having abandoned Shy Boy for the day, I'd been looking about for another. By now I had exchanged glances with a boy visiting from afar with father, mother and sister. A typical naturist family, I thought from their appearance. I decided to make friends with the boy and I put on my best adolescent-sexy demeanor. The boy was shorter than I, shorter enough so that I had to overcome a feeling that I was trying to seduce a child. As I've written, I've always loved the sight of a small boy with a biggish penis: a grown-up infant. I love the constant amazement on such boys' faces while their penis is making love or being made love to, the inevitable gasp upon orgasm. Their surprise at their accomplishments, especially at their being able to please a girl. The curiosity of both over whatever semen has been produced. From this boy's response it seemed to me he was sexually experienced. He rapidly had his hands on my body, on my breasts. Remembering the protocol (which he may not have known) I told him that was for later, and to encourage (in a rather perverse way, I'm afraid) him to wait I ran my hand along his penis and kissed him on the mouth, compounding the violation of that protocol. His younger sister was too self-assured to be a virgin. She would not wait to be asked; she went along eyeing the various boys, presumably passing judgment on their smiles and their penises. She later said that she was really looking for intelligence and wit but I'm not so sure. She anyway admitted that "in the end we both want white stuff to spurt out of that little slit and into my body -- why pretend otherwise? The only question is whose little slit will it be?" Their parents seemed proud of those children and their sexuality. Mom told me that they were active proponents of CoG philosophy at a point just before its most "decadent", when even pre-pubescent children were exposed to and involved in sex, with little respect for age. Not in the "innocent" way of modern early sex education: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/earlysexed.html but in a hands-on approach, of older partners seducing a child as soon as the child becomes aware and interested of his or her sexuality, and whether or not the child's genitals have grown. (There is some detail on Moses Berg's evolving philosophy on that at http://www.xfamily.org , especially http://www.xfamily.org/index.php/The_Devil_Hates_Sex It's all in the "Mo Letters" of instructions that David Berg sent to all his disciples; some of them are online, some are quoted in the so-called Ward judgment, also online.) Davidito, http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/nyt_cog.htm http://xchildrenofgod.xfamily.org/viewtopic.php?t=334 after all, had sex with one of the CoG nannies with his mother looking on. If Moses David's foster son could come to enjoy sex despite the hairless, "under-5 [inch]" state of his penis, why not all the children of the CoG? Or so thought many of those in the movement. Knowing that quite a few boys start masturbating as early as age 10, they assumed -- with justification -- that it was physically possible for a pre-pubescent boy to have intercourse. Whether that is wise is another matter, and Mom and Mom's Friend didn't approve so they left. They said they didn't so much object to spontaneous imitation by young children, copying or trying to copy sexual acts of adults and adolescent elders. And of course they were happy for boys and girls to have oral and vaginal sex -- so long as both had at least some pubic hair. Usually a kid, unless him- or herself on the threshold of puberty, would abandon the effort or at least not repeat it until the arrival of a sign of puberty, by which time the rest of us would have noticed and encouraged him or her. After all, unlike ordinary nudists we made a point of admiring and talking about each other's sex parts, and certainly from puberty on we enjoyed and encouraged such critical examination. The argument went that a small penis in a small vagina could do not damage, and (which was true, I guess; but immature vaginal tissues can bruise and tear if handled carelessly) that it was usually a matter of experimental oral sex or tactile exploration -- fingers in vagina, fingers around penis which would result. From a sex-ed standpoint there is nothing wrong with examining the sex parts of a child of the opposite sex: the issue is whether it's right to awaken libido and lust in a pre-pubescent child. "Consensual sex" to Mom's Friend means consent by someone at or above the age of reason, with full reasoning and physical capacity. Someone capable of resisting coercion. And always with someone of the same age and of the opposite sex. Anyway, here was the family, and these kids -- now -- certainly had sexual capacity and sexual desire. They seemed confident enough, subtly or not-so-subtly displaying penis and breasts, respectively. The girl found a partner and came over to where I was with her brother and the two of them started asking me about our community and questioning me about particular boys and girls. I knew most of them and had had sex with many of the boys, so I think I satisfied most of their curiosities. I was always truthful with other girls when asked about a particular boy, about his tact, consideration, respect or the lack of it; about his personal habits and his penis and his tongue. More than most 12/13-year-old girls, even those who like this one had substantial breasts with prominent nipples and a bushy, unshaven mop of pubic hair that made her look 15, the sister had no hesitation to chat in public about penises and semen. She said -- in a manner that I thought rather presumptuous since she scarcely knew me -- that she loved seeing her brother's penis erect and she looked forward to seeing it ejaculating in my mouth. And I shouldn't forget to show his semen to everybody before I swallowed it. "I just love to see the look on a boy's face when a girl takes his penis into her mouth and makes the first stroke," she added gratuitously. Then she started analyzing my body for her brother and her partner, commenting on my breasts, telling her brother to feel them now, asking when I had lost my virginity (she was satisfied by my answer, at age 11 "and good riddance") and making suppositions about my vaginal "condition", whatever that is. I began having second thoughts about whether I wanted to be involved with this family, kinkier than most I had met at Mom's Friend's House. Indeed, complete nuclear families were uncommon: mostly we had single moms and a few single dads, and they might or might not come with a partner and might or might not have sex in our presence, might or might not even disrobe. Many parents were nervous about being thought to have become aroused at the sight of youngsters having sex: "child sexual abuse" had already become not just a watchword, but a threat -- like the threat of being tried as a witch in Salem, Mass. some years ago. Once a family like that is started on the subject of sex, there is, it seems, no letting go. Not each and every member of the family has had an opportunity for orgasm, because they're all going to be watching, and "kibitzing". The girl was proud of her breasts and also, equally obviously, very proud of her ability to make a boy very happy. And to enjoy a climax whether with penis or with tongue. Part of her process of arousal seemed to be learning all about her partner's sexual history. This was a subject almost never raised in mixed company in our group. We took it for granted that all the kids and all the parents subscribed to most of Mom's Friend's theology and sexual philosophy: arousal is the presence of the holy spirit, orgasm and ejaculation represent holy communion, and that semen is the body and blood of Christ exchanged as sacred Host between lovers as in prayer. In fact, as it would turn out, this family was more secular than that. It presented itself as "naturist, fun-loving, sexually-liberated, outdoorsy" and thought of sex as part and parcel of its family recreation. While they did not say so and I didn't ask, it seemed apparent that the parents were swingers and that they might, had the occasion arisen, defied Mom's Friend's preference for fidelity between parents. Mom's Friend could hardly insists on such a norm, but she did, after all, view free sex among adolescents as a precursor for loyal marriage thereafter. She supposed that sexual experience and having sex before marriage led to a wiser choice of spouse. She's probably right about that, and I certainly think my own standards for marriage developed in such a way as to protect me from folly. As for the girl, for her to insist that I agree with her that her brother's penis is "simply lovely" and "gorgeous when erect" was nothing new. As I've written, in our community brothers and sisters were expected to take vicarious satisfaction at the sight of a sibling's penis entering a friend's vagina, or vice versa. I knew of several naturist families that vacationed together in groups with the same ethic that we had, the boys and girls from the various families having sex at will and sleeping together, incest being the sole taboo. A brother and sister having sex in tandem with their respective partner, the satisfaction of each enhanced by vicarious thrill at the ejaculation alongside, was common enough at our nude dance parties. This was only to be expected, given that most of our friends had grown up in families where nudity and open sexuality were encouraged, where having sex in tandem -- two or more couples in parallel, each proceeding at their own pace -- was seen to reinforce pleasure and blessing and delight of the others. There was always pressure on Mom's Friend to allow brothers -- and occasionally fathers -- to attend defloration parties. She would not, however, go that far, and while it might have happened once or twice, it was normally not done. I think there was some kind of distinction there between "parallel" sex and "serial" sex, as well as the basic fact that defloration parties were basically a girly event, the boys being there by invitation on command to lend their penises for the occasion. (I mentioned this above and I'll provide the link again: some time ago I recorded the recollections of a girlfriend who's father had orchestrated her defloration -- and who therefore couldn't have the party at Mom's Friend's House: http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/gsstory.html Her story was made more complicated by her unconventional family life, and her younger brother and sister. And her dad had been one of those CoG leaders who took advantage of his status, and had preyed on, deflowered anyway, as many young virgins as he could. So he wanted to be there when his daughters came face to face, so to speak, with their first penis. Just as soon as their bodies had developed enough, he wanted his daughters to be totally comfortable and casual playing with a penis with him watching, just as he and their mother had done for them in the bedroom they all shared.) Well, brothers weren't there for a defloration itself, but soon enough -- the next day most likely -- a brother could and would see his sister playing with penises and displaying her inner parts, enjoying ejaculation and making a fuss over semen. And now that his sister was initiated, a brother could unselfconsciously show off his own erection to her, seduce her friends, get her to set him up with girls. And condition her to enjoy watching him go from arousal to ejaculation without embarrassment, vicariously enjoying his orgasm, even being right next to him when he was making love. I always thought the biggest test for sibling solidarity was having sex in tandem, each making love to a friend of the other, ejaculations cascading one after the other. It was nice when a girl could look to an older brother as easily as a sister or girlfriend to talk about her vagina and about any health matter concerned with it, or about lubrication, birth control, etc. I don't know whether it was going too far, but more than once after I had sex with a boy and he was showing off his after-sex penis to his sister or girl cousin, he'd invite her to touch the tip of his penis and taste "her own" DNA. They usually complied, giggling while they put finger to penis to tongue. Although Mom's Friend didn't allow brothers at the defloration party, the hypocrisy, or at least illogic, of her position was that the reverse situation was common. A boy might be invited to deflower his sister's best friend. His sister would almost certainly be there with a boy of her own, and she would be inches away while her brother's penis plunged into her friend. (Anyway, what girl wouldn't swoon on seeing her brother's stiff penis sliding into her friend's vagina, and then, as he ejaculated, bits of his semen leaking out? One time I saw such a minuet, the sister rushed to put her own partner's penis into her mouth, all the time keeping her eyes on her brother's. It struck me as odd at the time, but when I studied sexual psychology and put together what I know about sibling relationships, it made sense: a brother's erection is a threat as well as a comforting sign of strength.) That notwithstanding, a certain amount of discretion and decorum were usually exercised. On this occasion, however, the sister was sexually assertive and even aggressive -- she wouldn't lay off of the subject of sex, of penises, of her favorite techniques. About how she liked her lovers to make slow strokes over her clitoris, varying the tongue pressure from soft to hard. Quite a precocious girl. (A girl I came to know at one of our nude dances had slept in the same room as her brother until well into her teens, so they'd seen each other naked a lot. One day when they were all around 12, 13, 14, and her parents were away, she got her best friend and her best friend's cousin to compare bodies. Somehow, she said, the girls got to playing with the boys' penises and it seemed only natural to put them in their mouths. An oral sex club was born, and eventually there were a dozen girls and boys involved. There's no surprise there: lots of sexually liberal parents pair off boys and girls to sleep in the same room, much like that stupid film "The Harrad Experiment" (if you didn't see it, don't bother; but you can Google it to find out the plot), and the kids almost always wind up having sex as soon as they physically can, which was precisely the point.) At this point, her brother was standing behind me, his hands fondling my breasts. His penis having risen to erection, he pulled his hips back just enough for it to spring up and it was now pressed against my back. The sister looked quizzically at her partner, obviously expecting him to do likewise, and he took the hint. It's always fun to see a penis rising in response to a girl's invitation. On the other hand, it's not easy for a girl to carry on a thoughtful conversation while a boy is in the early stages of lovemaking. I suggested we all go to eat. Without any hint of embarrassment over the erect state of their penises -- why should there be in a place where boys expect their erections to be admired? --, our partners accompanied us over to the barbecue table. Mom's Friend always asserted that the law where we lived did nothing to discourage parents from serving their children a small amount of wine at dinner time, especially at a religious event. I never looked up the law, so I don't know whether that's an urban myth or a true statement of law. In any case, I don't think even the most eager prosecutor would have chosen to target the sangria -- dilute as it was -- as the issue over which to denounce our alumni party. Fortunately Mom's Friend's House was far from any prying neighbor, indeed that's why she chose its location when her parents' trust fund bought it for her to live in. We didn't really need the buzz of sangria to loosen our libidos, but it didn't do any harm. It wasn't so much our style to talk about what we'd be doing with and to a penis after lunch the way some girls have been known to do (and "Kayla" does in the first of her three video clips in the Creampie series linked above). There were, however, hints, implications, innuendos; and there was a great deal of open admiration. And, that day, comparisons of the circumstances of defloration. My story was the most boring since it was an almost accidental event -- a tumble with a boy when (as I had thought) neither of us was sexually aroused and when I was only 11. Other girls could talk of a party with friends alongside watching that first penis surge through her hymen. Or of a group of couples having oral sex in tandem, but one couple deciding to go "all the way" instead and, again a first penis sliding into her vagina. I asked how many girls had a member of her family there watching when it happened; only a few did. Many, with the wisdom of hindsight, wished as I did that their mother could have watched, supported, encouraged, advised. One girl said that her mother, at least, would have warned her what to do with a surging rush of semen in her mouth. Her friends had just sat by waiting to enjoy her embarrassment when the spurting made her gag and a mess all over. There's also the pure pleasure and maternal satisfaction it gives an open-minded mom to see her daughter grow up, to see her enjoy her body to the fullest. To see her take Holy Communion, with the trace of semen at her vagina testifying to her passion and faith. I had often wondered what it feels like to be on the other side of this mating dance -- to be a boy who suddenly discovers that, after all, there is a girl wants his penis right here and now. I suppose boys of 10 or 11 or even 12 have unrealistic, or idealistic, expectations. Oral sex gives, I think, the best possible orgasm to boy or girl and it gives pleasure to those watching, too. But it lacks the feature of closeness of bodies and sense of completion, wholeness. It involves contortion to touch a breast during soixante-neuf or any oral sex -- or even during demonstrative sex using "Mom's favorite position" with boy standing between girl's legs. There is nothing quite like the sensation of penis finding its way into eager vagina with bodies together, in the missionary position. That's why Mom's Friend always called oral sex "oral foreplay" -- a precursor to penis in vagina whether or not the boy comes in your mouth first. Lunch was over. My boy stood in front of me, and his penis was ready, stiff. I told him I wasn't yet ready, "sit down next to me and let's cuddle". Most 12- and 13-year-olds don't seem to understand the value and importance of foreplay, except maybe for oral foreplay. My boy put his hand on my breasts, drew me close and we kissed; I held his stiff penis to encourage him. After a few minutes I said it was all right, now he should kneel in front of me and kiss my vagina. He seemed to fumble, yet I knew he was experienced. He was in too much of a hurry. His sister saw the problem and saw his over-stiff penis and she told him to slow down, to "pay attention to her clitoris". I watched his tongue move over my sex parts and I gave him instructions. It took me a long time, however, before the warmth of climax came close. Then, suddenly, it came in waves and everybody around could see my ecstasy. I had my boy lie back on the ground and now his penis was at my mouth. There were several kids standing around watching us, watching my tongue flicking against the head of his penis. I wanted to torture and tease him to exhaustion by just licking the underside of his penis forever until would come. But his sister was watching us too, even as her boy was kissing her vagina, and she nodded her head as if to tell me to take the penis completely in my mouth. (Perhaps she was really signaling to her own boy, but that's how I took it.) I don't know why I paid any heed to her, but I finally did take the penis into my mouth and my head began bobbing up and down, making long strokes with my tongue pressed against the underside of the penis. The taste and smell gave me a thrill, almost another orgasm, and I slowed down, stroking now with just tongue and lips making contact -- touching mainly the head of the penis. I was going more slowly, I think, than my boy wanted, but I was in control. I knew he would ejaculate more semen this way. By the time he came his sister was no longer watching us. My mouth filled with his semen and I wanted him to see it, to see me swallow it. I wanted him to know how important it was to me. I wanted her to see it, too, but there was no chance of that. I let a bit dribble onto my breasts and left a trickle of semen to dry on my face. She would see that and I was indifferent as to whether she would think of it as proof of her brother's joy or a silly waste of lovely semen that should be inside my body and not an ornament outside. His sister was in fact off in her own reverie, a dreamy expression on her face as she first caressed and then took into her mouth her boy's penis, seemingly trying to do me one better. The next time I looked though, I saw that penis sliding into her vagina, the boy's hips moving up and down. My boy -- her brother -- took his eyes away from my face and watched that penis making love to his sister and the movement of his sister's hips in response. By the time her boy had ejaculated inside the sister, the parents of the two kids had come over. The father's penis was erect and the mother grasped it possessively. My boy asked his parents if they were going to do 69, and, pointing at her, he asked whether his mom would go on top to show off her vagina to the kids. It was nice that son and daughter felt free to express themselves so frankly, and also that they could appreciate the beauty of what was, after all, their birth canal. They parents didn't, though, do mutual but rather sequential oral sex. The mother lay back, legs apart, a cushion underneath, showing off her vagina. It looked youthful -- very attractive, alluring to any penis. Then the father, licked around it and put his tongue inside, making it happy, dilated and wet-pink and penis-ready. The boy told me that his mom almost never could get an orgasm without oral sex, and that his dad would take forever to ejaculate unless he first had his penis in his partner's mouth. Middle age spread, of a different kind. Later I asked other kids if they found the sight exciting, arousing; how and why they enjoyed seeing it. Few found it "sexy" in the sense of arousing; most found it agreeable as a reaffirmation of love, romance, passion and existence. (Love, as I have repeatedly said, is hardly a prerequisite for pre-marital sex; on the other hand romance and passion are or should be essential attributes, conditions precedent, so to speak.) Once the mom had finished, the dad lay in her place. His penis was so stiff that he had to prop it up while the mom's mouth moved up and down over it. As one of the advantages of familiarity the woman knew the optimum cadences -- first fast, then slower -- the pleasure points, the best depth to make her man happiest. Every minute or so she would life her head off the penis and examine it, and so her kids and the rest of us could admire it if we wanted. Like her daughter, she worked calmly and smilingly, enjoying her work. The two exchanged no words, even after the man had ejaculated, some semen running out of the corner of his wife's mouth and down his penis. She silently pushed the semen up his penis with her finger and sucked it into her mouth, swallowing noisily. Then she took her mouth momentarily off the penis and I was surprised to see a thick coat of semen left on its head. It looked really nice. That is a girl's show-off trick that has been around forever: the next step is to suck the semen into your mouth and swallow it. The surprise for us was that she had seemingly already swallowed it all. Now she put the penis back in your mouth and licked it clean. These were not religious people; if their exchange of fluids didn't represent for them the holy communion it does for us. But there was clearly a woman's delight over having given pleasure; and her climax was very real: you could see that from the condition of her vagina. She seemed happiest though showing off object of her affection and that coating of semen -- after all, it was impressive and so was her obvious delight at sucking it into her mouth. I saw now that the daughter and her boy had been fondling each other while watching the parents' minuet. They were seated cross-legged in front of each other, and he could play with her breasts and she could caress his penis. As for the son, he really wasn't doing anything, so transfixed he was by his parents' lovemaking. He just stared at their sex parts and gaped when he saw the semen go back into his mom's mouth. The parents looked over at their two kids and smiled. It was almost as if all four of them had multiple orgasms that afternoon, their own and, vicariously, the ones they'd watched. ---------- I dragged my partner over away from his family to see how Shy Boy was doing. As I said, I had designs on Shy Boy for the next day and I like a preview of a new penis I'll be making love to. Even with all the experience I'd had there was always more to learn about sex. My boy and I sat on some folding chairs. I noticed that he sat forward and spread his legs apart the way Mom's Friend liked her boys to sit, displaying his penis and balls to the girls. He obviously wanted to be noticed. Like me, he must have been thinking of tomorrow. I felt like telling him that nice as his penis was, personality is more important to girls as a criterion than penile appearance, even for a one-night (or -day) stand. That he should concentrate on chatting up the girls, and they will probably take his penis as they find it. (I thought of the misfit, inept boys whom we'd ignored, and who (or whose mothers) eventually got the message and left, or stopped visiting.) I didn't bother, and besides his penis did looked cute hanging there. From time to time it would stir, even get semi-erect. I'd had enough sex for one day and I would have refused if he'd asked for another round of sex, but he didn't. As far as I was concerned, the boy was history and I was already thinking with some anticipated excitement and curiosity of tomorrow's penis. Perhaps like some boys he thought that merely having an erection entitled him to put his penis inside me anytime and that I'd invite just him to get on top of me. True or not and justifiably or not I started to think less of him and his kinky family. Where a moment before his middle-aged parents having sloppy center-ring sex instead of discreet, if visible, sex in the margins or shadows had seemed morally reaffirming and artistically delightful, now it seemed an odd imposition. They weren't, after all, part of our family like Mom's Friend and her partner, having sex in front of us by way of celebration because their daughters asked them to. They were strangers really. The predatory Vamp, as I shall call her, was ministering to the Shy Boy's penis, trying to make it stiff enough to go easily and strongly into her vagina. He was lying back on a beach towel and she was kneeling between his legs, holding his penis by its base and licking it all over, and especially around its tip, then flicking her tongue at it. I don't know how long this had been going on, but it seems they probably started after watching the other kids at sex for a while to build up the boy's courage, libido and confidence. The girl now decided to have her boy take time out, and to have him bring her to climax. They changed places, she spread her legs wide, her knees bent, and invited him to kiss and lick her vagina. He went at it rather wildly, his limp penis moving to and fro in time to his tongue and facial movement. I couldn't tell if he enjoyed what he was doing or not. The Vamp kept quiet and said nothing even as orgasm approached: she just watched his tongue moving over her sex parts. He kept it up until at last the girl quietly announced that she had come. They traded places again and she resumed working on his penis. It couldn't have been 3 or 4 minutes before he began to grunt and the girl said she had tasted semen "but not much". She then tried to stuff his penis into her vagina. The funny thing is that the erection he could barely achieve before he had ejaculated came to him, sort of, now. A half-erection anyway: enough so that the Vamp could put his penis into her vagina and we could watch him making at first tentative, and then aggressive, strokes. But within a couple of minutes his penis fell out of her vagina and the show, such as it was, was over. I knew I could do better with Shy Boy's penis. The next day it would be mine. But not completely. Sex was never our sole preoccupation, even if it's what I mostly write about. Traditionally, those who stay over Saturday night on an alumni weekend (or who return, if they live nearby) go hiking in the hills Sunday morning. I'd like to say that we have philosophical chats and recite romantic poetry, but the fact is that our philosophy and theology seem to be exhausted in our romance, linked as that is to our religious beliefs (or affectations, as the case may be). We would have a picnic in the fields, come home, and then have couple of hours for lovemaking and goodbyes. Sad to say, a lot of the kids chose to go the mall instead of hiking. They could have gone to their own mall at home; malls are all alike and Main Street has been cloned all over America. And, for all I know, all over the world. They say that today every town in England has all the same shops. Only it's "Asda" instead of "Wal-Mart". Boring. Maybe it would have been different if I'd had a lot of money; but Mom never made much and if it hadn't been for Mom's Friend's help we wouldn't have lived as well as we did, I wouldn't have been able to go to college. So I was used to frugal living and cheap sources of entertainment. And, hey, isn't sex one of those cheap kinds of fun?) We got home. Wit, repartee, flirting had made us ready. Few of us had worn any underwear anyway, or at most thongs (I'm not sure they called them "thongs" back then, but they certainly were thong-like). Skimpy shorts and skimpier tops. I don't even remember the circumstances of Shy Boy and I becoming nude, and we were in a sea of nudity. His penis was erect at first instance, and right he wanted to put it in my vagina. Clearly he hadn't had proper sex education, never mind experience. I had to explain that I'd never get a proper orgasm that way, and anyway my vagina probably wouldn't be lubricated enough yet. Actually, his not-yet-fully-grown penis would probably have fit in all right. Oral foreplay was part and parcel of our sex. There was, actually, a conundrum: if he put his penis into my vagina dry the way it was he'd probably have enough friction to come to ejaculation quickly. Because of its small size it probably wouldn't hurt but I would feel nothing. On the other hand, if he got me ready by kissing and licking my vagina as he needed to do if I was to get a climax, his penis would be too loose in my vagina for him to have optimal pleasure. The solution would be for me to bring his penis near to ejaculation with my mouth, and then for us to have regular sex. That was what I wanted to do. I lay back and spread my legs, separated my labia with my fingers and watched as Shy Boy's moved close and started exploring the inside of my vagina with his tongue. As long as he hasn't been wrongly conditioned to think a vagina "dirty" any boy can learn within a few minutes to be great at oral sex. (That's why it's so important to allow a boy to see his mom's and his sisters' and family friends' vaginas from an early age, and to see how a penis fits inside, how penis or tongue gives them joy.) Shy Boy had now had plenty of time to watch others and yesterday he'd tried it out on the Vamp. I gave him instructions from time to time, reminding him to give proper attention to my clitoris. After he had been doing this a while (10 minutes? 15?) and brought me to the cusp of climax we changed places. I took his penis in my mouth. In those days I really loved to play with pubescent penises; today I think they're nice to see from a distance and in the mouths of girls their own age. Those days I would try to imagine a penis growing even as I played with it with my lips and tongue. (You may remember, Dear Reader, that boy I arranged to have oral sex with every month for a year, measuring his penis while it grew through puberty.) Every so often I would take this penis out of my mouth, kiss its tip, run my tongue over its slit to check for any seminal fluid, examine it. I held his balls in the palm of one hand and I watched his eyes. When I sensed his orgasm might be coming on I stopped and lay back, pulling him on top of me. Then there was a mutual fumble to get his penis into my vagina. It was quite stiff enough and once properly aimed it slipped right in and it felt good. He was completing my climax even as he struggled to reach his own, to catch again the train of concentration and excitement, to get past that point of no return so he could relax and just enjoy ejaculating. Today was his second and final practice lesson. I wondered, though, how he would find partners if not through his parents' network or by visiting us. And he was really too young for our nude dances: a girl of 13, or sometimes even 12, could perhaps attend and make sense of it and not be too juvenile. Many girls are quite developed and emotionally quite mature at that age. But boys rarely are; and as to boys the source of sexual attraction for girls is a mature or maturing penis, yes, but also a certain maturity in physique and commandment of demeanor. Of stature, I would say: and of course many or most pubescent and adolescent boys are shorter than girls of their cohort. A girl of 11 who wants to have sex has trouble finding an appropriate partner within 10% of her age. We had some boys whose penises had grown enough before age 12, but there were not many such. Shy Boy's penis was now out of my vagina, exhausted. And now his mom was standing nearby, nodding approvingly. Only at alumni picnics would so many parents be about and watching. (I thought again: was this lesbian mother expressing her masculine side through her son's penis?) But at the same time, she was urging him to think about getting dressed and going home. I asked her what he was going to do for partners; she gave a mumbled answer. I didn't see him for another year and then he said it was only by accident that he found a girl his age at school to target for sex, that later he found a secret society and that he was handed from girl to girl. How many? "A few." If he was telling the truth, as I assume he was, it just shows that everywhere there are subcultures where adolescents can and do have early sex. With or without parental consent. That next year, Shy Boy's penis was masterly. And Shy Boy was no longer shy. His penis was, if not a Washington Monument, big enough for the purpose intended. Seeing his new confidence and panache -- and the impressive display his testicles made -- I wanted to nominate him to be the lead boy at a defloration party. I thought he would look grand strutting in with an erection, presenting his penis to the girl to kiss, kissing her vagina, looking about at the faces of friends and family gathered there, and then plunging his penis through her hymen. That didn't work out, but what I was able to do was to bring him as a "present" to a (then) 13-year-old girl who was sitting alone reading. For this he had to put his underpants back on. (A rule came into force around 1995 that kids from far away who were having sex elsewhere had to use condoms. It wasn't enforced for young adolescents, and older ones sometimes just had oral sex, for which the rule wasn't enforceable. Perhaps we were just lucky, but nobody every got ill. The ones whom it was strictly enforced against were the over-18s, who were too mobile to restrict in terms of partners and too untrustworthy anyway.) The custom for this charade would be to escort a boy wearing nothing but briefs over to a girl who might be dressed, topless or nude. The "surprise present" would be the boy's penis, which she would have to unwrap and then of course kiss and make love to. The girl was watching TV; she, but had nothing on except a T shirt and scanty panties. Suddenly there was a pair of bulging briefs in front of her face. She looked up at the owner of her present, pulled down his pants and smiled at the sight of the penis, now half-erect and pointing right at her mouth. She opened her mouth and began to suck on it like a lollipop. The expressions on both their faces was precious. The boy pulled up her T shirt to expose her breasts: for that she had to let his penis pop out of her mouth. The boy got so excited at the sight of her body that he just left his penis waving stiffly in the air while he removed her panties and her socks and fondled and kissed every part of her. The two of them made love finally, but by the time his penis slid into her vagina the rest of us were so totally taken up by a need for sex that there was a dash to sort ourselves out in couples. There was, inevitably, at least one boy lacking, one girl who would have to wait for a partner to be fetched. Even at our nude dances it was hard to assure gender balance: but for those we generally had a girl and boy "on call" in case needed, with the promise of "special favor" the next day if not. I saw Shy Boy from time to time over the next few years, and each time his penis seemed grander, the boy more self-assured. I got him to accompany me to a nude dance once, and in the atmosphere of nighttime romance and sexuality his penis stood out. I was able to make a show of having his semen in my mouth, and keeping it there all the time he made love to my vagina with his mouth. Just when I reached orgasm I swallowed his semen as a special blessing. Then we lay on the floor so he could put his penis, erect, into my vagina for lovely strokes and togetherness. I always valued a boy with the stamina for vaginal sex so soon after having ejaculated in my mouth. The younger a boy is the more likely it is that he can do it without waiting long, or at all, for it to regenerate. Meanwhile, others around us were having orgasms too and it was a sacred atmosphere. I wanted to play with Shy Boy's penis forever after that: the mingling of our fluids was so heavenly. He caressed my body; and then we started dancing again, looking over each other's shoulder sometimes to see other couples at joy. It was one of many of my thousand and one nights to remember. I invited Shy Boy to my Sweet 16 party, where I imagined having a dozen boys naked, all with erections, teasing them and finally choosing one and leaving the rest to the other girls. But he couldn't come and anyway Mom told me I shouldn't have that sort of game: that I should arouse one boy and choose him, or choose one boy and then make his penis erect, but not "interfere with" other girls' boys of the day. I didn't, and still don't, see the problem; but that just shows the tortured nature of all religious and most ethical reasoning. I suppose parental rules are, like the law generally, not intended to do justice in any objective way but rather just to keep the peace. (So, when they say that justice, like ejaculation, (or is it the other way 'round?) must be done and seen to be done, are they being hypocrites?) "Revealed" religions have an even worse time rationalizing: http://tinyurl.com/733sc (Islam's problem). So sometimes they just prohibit sex: http://www.yoatzot.org/article/17 . Our rejection of "revealed" rules doesn't mean that we are without inconsistencies and anomalies in our beliefs -- but at least our beliefs aren't frozen in time, frozen for a thousand years (think of Islam's "itjihad", some of the Pope's stupider immutable enunciations, and the prehistoric habits of the orthodox of many religions, especially the Jews (although that said, Jews I've known have the nicest penises, although they were scarcely "orthodox" and I have no idea who circumcised them)). An example is our philosophy, or theology, on masturbation. As much as we appreciate personal autonomy and argue for the maximization of sexual pleasure, this is overridden by the Biblical command of not wasting semen; that semen belongs to God and to woman. Boys, it is to be hoped, learn to store up both libido and semen and to cultivate respect for women and their vaginas and their needs. I like nothing better, after all, than to approach a boy who has not had an orgasm for a long time and to tease and delight him and to have him tease and delight me with his mouth and his penis until his semen overflows. There is always a risk that he will come too quickly, but if I'm aware of that risk I know how to deal with it, how to slow him down. All of that makes a particularly good show when others are around, and, in the olden days, a good lesson for the pubescent crowd. And even for the occasional small child just learning what her future holds for her: just as Mom would show me her mouth and her vagina filled with semen, I would do the same. And I look forward to any children of mine having a like familiarity with my body and its sexuality and to having them share the sight of their bodies: concupiscence, sexual joy, semen... Remember the 12-year-olds holding hands, running over to Mom and to me to show me that sticky vagina and that cute sticky stiff penis? A child's first sexual joy is really holy. Those sanctimonious hypocrites who attacked Moses David for his position on that point caused their own tragedies to the extent that their children were left dysfunctional, relationally inept and sexually inadequate, and turned to drugs. Theirs are not even religious rules but contrived social and legal ones, contrived as a matter of controlling and dominating women and children. Each time a Jimmy Swaggart or a Scooter Libby or a Tom Delay falls it is a time for joy, a victory for "freedom" of the real kind, not the dictatorial, 1984-kind which they would enslave others. It's true that kids need protection from predators and protection, advice and care in their sex lives. The solution to that is the abandonment of false modesty, inhibition, jealousy and shame, and the recognition that sex is a social act that should be shared with others -- never secret, never hidden from friends, siblings, parents. For us, the act of penis entering vagina is a primordial human act for all ages and for the ages. It is something all of us are, or should be, eager to see, to share, to do -- in the presence of likeminded couples. ---------- A final comment: Alumni(-ae) homecoming picnics are considerably tamer these days than they used to be. Partly because Mom's Friend's cohort is aging and partly because of the fear of increased public vigilance. If there is near-universal toplessness at the parties, there is less total nudity -- and far less sex than I remember from my adolescence. And certainly less show(wo)manship. But then there are fewer people attending, and among them are still fewer young people. Our Town, like many American cities and towns, is losing its youth to the Capital City and to other cities where there are jobs and a future. I know -- and have discussed in prior essays -- that parent-inspired youthful sexual liberalism exists there too: but with secrecy and within close-knit circles. I don't, or don't yet, know who are the heirs to Moses David's credo of sex as religion and the Devil as its opponent. Among them must be Rev. Mary's church (which I wrote about) where the youth club is a sex club; but such institutions are rare. More common are marginal sex-obsessed cults which are really excuses for church leaders to abuse women and girls: Jim Jones's Jonestown, Colorado City's polygamous Mormons, and a commune-church that a reader described to me about where the pastor routinely deflowered the girls (well, the Hindu priests do that in India, don't they?) and his wife the boys when they reached age 14. http://tinyurl.com/9vo9s Mom's Friend really had a positive influence on her kids; it's a pity that mainstream professionals and theologians dare not study such communities in a positive way. Yet, as I've written, sex sells and commercial interests rule over politics. We may be approaching Mom's Friend's ideal not philosophically or medically or sociologically, but commercially! In past essays I linked to newspaper articles that have highlighted school-centered "secret sex societies" where nudity and oral sex and exchanging partners are the raisons-d'etre. Inspired by what? By the easy availability on the Internet of information and pictures, and by the advertising of sex on TV and in films. What irony that is! And how unstoppable. I should add one more comment: the reason why I have seen fit to spend so much time describing and discussing pubescent and adolescent boys and girls at Mom's Friend's House as they discovered sex is quite simply that it is between the ages of, say, 11 and 14 or 15 that families are relevant to their learning and enjoyment of sex. About the time that a kid learns to drive, s/he begins to take sex for granted. That's a pity: sex should never be taken for granted, if for no reason other than that there are so many lonely, sexually dysfunctional adults out there who could have benefited from parental guidance and introductions when they were young. But that's where we are. Love, Carol Most of my prior autobiographical essays on my sexual learning and observations, based on my childhood diaries, are archived or linked at http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil I have greatly appreciated comments from readers, especially those who share a CoG heritage. That I am unable to reply does not mean I don't find comments lovely and helpful. Several of my essays have been inspired by letters and queries from readers. Those who have expressed concern about Mom's health and well-being have been particularly appreciated. She has now become eligible for Medicare, so her medical bills are more or less under control. The Blond-Haired Boy and I are still together, and his penis is as darling as it was when I first had it in my mouth on the houseboat more than 13 years ago! And Mom loves it still when I let some semen trickle down my cheek, even if, or perhaps especially because, her own sex life is behind her. I have promised her I shall raise my kids the way she raised me, only better because we won't have the financial worries she did. They will know, from the earliest age, what their penis or vagina is destined for, and how and why semen spurts out of the penis when it is kissed by a mouth or a vagina. And what semen looks and feels like, and how I love to receive it beause it is sacred and because it is the product of passion. (Sorry, Stanley Green, you were wrong: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pete_hall_uk/green.htm also http://www.angelfire.com/co4/cobil/stanleygreen.html and http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1528657 I would have liked to meet Stanley, although it's wildly improbable that I could have since he died about ten years before I went to London for the first time. And I suspect his mind was made up, his sexual repression entrenched. Because he hadn't enjoyed our kind of growing up.) -- Pursuant to the Berne Convention, this work is copyright with all rights reserved by its author unless explicitly indicated. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | alt.sex.stories.moderated ------ send stories to: <story-submit@asstr.org>| | FAQ: <http://assm.asstr.org/faq.html> Moderators: <story-admin@asstr.org> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |ASSM Archive at <http://assm.asstr.org> Hosted by <http://www.asstr.org> | |Discuss this story and others in alt.sex.stories.d; look for subject {ASSD}| +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+