Aunt Em and I
A Sexual Primer for 18-year-old Boys
by JoeRyan
During the summer of 1950, we celebrated my graduation from high school and soon after, my 18th birthday. At that time, there were only three of us living in our house: Mom, me, and my younger brother. Grandpa Schrank, Mom's father, had died the year before, and Dad was serving the last year of his 30 year enlistment at an army base in South Carolina.
Mom had a brother, Bill, and a sister, Emily, who often paid us a visit. Bill, an expert handyman, showed up when the house needed a new roof or the kitchen needed replastering. Emily would bring her waitressing tips in a big cloth bag. I was allowed to rummage through the coins, and pick any that I needed for my collections.
I always thought aunt Em was a levelheaded person, but she had a few eccentricities. She went to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but Mom said she wasn't an alcoholic and probably went hoping to meet the man of her dreams. Em would often go around the house softly singing some popular song, and then break into a soft laugh as if she remembered some pleasant event. But here is the most curious thing: In the heat of summer she would be dressed only in a bra and skirt indoors. No slip, no blouse, no shirt. Curiously, I didn't seem to regard this as sexual, probably because I'd always seen her that way.
Late one evening, when Em was visiting, I was studying a chemistry book for a course I would be taking in the fall. My thoughts strayed and I imagined that a certain girl in the neighborhood was standing before me stark naked. Two things took place simultaneously. I got a huge erection and aunt Em came into the room for our nightly kiss. She was barefoot and wearing a lovely nightgown. She delivered her usual peck on my cheek, but this time Em leaned toward me more than usual. I could feel her breasts against my bare chest.
Something incredible then happened. She reached down, and, with a smile on her face, put a hand on my erection. She must've seen the bulge in my pants as I stood up to greet her. I didn't know what was going on and my head was spinning. Before I could say anything, she said that I could come to her room if I wished after I finished studying. She would leave the door unlocked. I was to crawl into bed, and wake her if she was sleeping. After she left, I tried to resume my studying, but I couldn't concentrate. So, after half an hour I changed into my pajama bottoms, grabbed my pocket flashlight, and headed down the hall to her room.
I was nervous as I went down the hall because I didn't know what to expect. In the past, she had always acted toward me in a very aunt- like manner. When I opened her door, the room was pitch dark. I turned on my pocket flashlight, walked to the side of the bed, turned off the flashlight, placed it on a night table, and slipped under the sheet. She turned over and gave me a long kiss on my mouth. I felt her bare nipples inching over my chest. She had taken off her nightgown!
Em asked me if any girl had ever kissed me, and I said yes, but not like that. She then asked if my parents had ever taken me aside and talked about sex. When I said that never happened, she laughed and said that she couldn't imagine her religiously bound sister ever doing so. Em said that it was ridiculous that a boy who masturbated would be sent to hell for eternity. Then she revealed her plans for me: Every boy of 18 should know about sex, and she would teach me. It would be like a high school course, and she would be my teacher. Em even had a name for the course: Sex-ed 101. When she asked if I ever had sex with a woman I replied that I hadn't, but that I knew a lot about it because I was an avid reader.