(Author's note: Oh, hello! It's you again - Good to see you! I've just remembered that in the first chapter of my autobiography...
[That was 'Some Day, All This Will be Yours' - Ed.]
Yes... well, as I was saying... In there, I promised I'd tell you about learning to masturbate. Well, here's the story, although it didn't turn out quite the way I expected. And in case you are wondering, no one under the age of eighteen (years, that is) engages in any sexual activities in this story... Perish the thought!)
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My parents were away on one of their frequent trips, and they had packed me off to stay with my Gran (whom I just adored) in her cottage in the country. You're right!... It was the same ramshackle old house she left to me when she died. Oh,
how
I miss her!
It was a beautiful evening in early summer, and the setting sun was bathing the fields and trees with a gorgeous rosy glow. I'd had my dinner, done the washing up, finished my homework, and there was nothing worth watching on TV (So what else is new?). I kissed my Gran goodnight and went early to my room.
Oh, I bet you'd like to know how old I was. Let me see...I must have been about...
[Eighteen - Ed.]
[Who are you? And what are you doing in my story? - Author.]
[I'm your editor; and believe me, you were eighteen or more.]
[There, were you? Hiding in the closet, maybe?]
[No, but if you want this story to see the light of day, you were eighteen, minimum. Trust me, I'm an editor and it's my job to know these things.]
[I don't get this...One, this is
not
a story; it's another chapter in my autobiography. And two, you're a complete stranger who claims to know when I first learned to masturbate. Give me a break!]
Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted... I was about
[eighteen -
Ed.] at the time...
[I
cannot
write if you keep on butting in all the time!]
[Do you want this to be published or not?]
[Of course I do. I really enjoy writing about sex, but only if someone's going to read it. And before you ask: No... my brother doesn't count as someone.]
[Well then... either you were eighteen or older, or you must stop
right now
!]
[Get real! I don't believe there's anyone on the planet who didn't discover masturbation before they were eighteen!]
[I didn't. I had a very strict upbringing. My parents used to tie my hands to the bedposts at night.]
[Oh! How awful! You poor guy... Umm, you are a guy, aren't you?]
[I am.]
[So when
did
you learn to masturbate?]
[Umm...Not until a couple of years ago. I was twenty-three, would you believe?]
[Jeez! You must have been chewing the carpet and climbing the walls by then!]
[I was;
and
having wet dreams almost every night...mostly about bondage and rape, funnily enough.]
[Yuck! May I get on with my sto...chapter?]
[Only if you agree that you were eighteen.]
All
right
... Now I remember! I was eighteen at the time, and being an incredibly late developer, I was just becoming aware of my body. My hairless cuntlet...
[No! Stop right there, dammit! I can see exactly what you're doing!]
[What's that, then?]
[You're putting all these illegal, immoral, and probably fattening thoughts into your readers' heads without actually writing anything actionable.
I'm onto you, my girl!]
'In your dreams!' I thought to myself.
[Mister Ed.... One: I am
not
your girl; two: you are ruining my story; and three: I think you're a pedantic little prick! There!... What do you say to that?]
[.......]
[Hello...Mister Ed., are you still there?]
[......]
Hmm, maybe he's given up and gone away at last...
Hello, Mister Ed.? Anybody there? Testing, testing... cuntlet, hairless cuntlet... Come in please!
[Ma'am, after that last exchange, your previous editor stormed out of the office, saying that you are, without a doubt, the most impossible author with whom he has he's ever had the displeasure of working. And on top of that, he simply hates being called 'Mister Ed.'! (I should add that he took 'pedantic' as a compliment, but he felt that 'little prick' was below the belt! (Ha! And who says that editors don't have a sense of humor?))]
[So who the hell are you?]
[I'm your new editor; you can call me Ned.. I hope you and I can get on better than you and Ed. ever did.]
[Well, so do I, Ned.; why don't you start by telling me exactly what I must avoid?]
[Okay... Rule one, no bestiality.]
[What?!... not even with snails? I'm working on this great story about a sixteen-year-old virgin and her pet snail...It's called 'Snail Male'.]
[Absolutely not! That one also violates Rule two: no sex whatsoever under eighteen.]
[Months or years?]
[I can see why Ed. walked out on you! Come on... Be reasonable! It's for the lawyers, you see...]
[Oh, you mean no lawyers ever have sex under eighteen. Well, that I can believe. In fact I've known some who have probably never had sex in their entire lives! Not even with snails. All right, now I know the rules. So... May I use the word 'cuntlet'?]
[Er...cutlet?]
[You're as bad as my spellchecker! No!... 'Cuntlet'. C, U, N, T, L, E, T. Got it?]
[What does it mean?]
[Can't you guess? Henry Miller used it to describe the...er... the pudenda of a not-yet-ready-for-prime-time young lady who was... well, never mind what she was doing; I don't think you'd approve. Anyway, may I use 'cuntlet'? Please? Just by way of paying homage to Henry Miller...?]
[Well, I suppose so... Provided its owner is eighteen or older. But no snails and no underage lawyers!]
[An eighteen-year-old me with a cuntlet would be a stretch, if you know what I mean! Perhaps if I were an Olympic gymnast? Just imagine what their contortions do to their poor cuntlets! Okay, I'll give it a try...]
[Remember, I'll be watching!]
[Like to watch, do you, Ned.? Is that why you became an editor? Turn you on, does it?]
[Stop teasing me and get on with your story...sorry, your chapter. Tell me about your eighteen-or-more-year-old cuntlet...]
[I'll show you if you like, Ned.. Here, I could take off my panties and... Wait just one cotton-picking minute here! Are you a guy?]