CHAPTER 7 : IMPRINT: Law of the Futzie
My former friend and roommate, Erica Ehrlich used to say that my resort to medical - ese had become so all -- encompassing that my sweet nothings in the grips of sexual ecstasy would come in doc -- speak. A quatrain slid from her sparkling tongue, "Your mouth bespeak, your tonsils creak, your tongue squeak, an incomprehensible blither, of doc -- speak." Smirking, she added, "Uttering double -- speak, truth to obfuscate."
"And you," I retorted, "soon to be a lawyer. Does legalese unveil truth or conceal it forsooth?" We both collapsed into each other's upper extremities (arms) laughing.
I thought of Erica's epigram as I waited. Would my lawyer Sam Pauling would appear for a date? Actually, you might say Erica had brought Sam and me together.
And we did come together three times in one day. After a day of a spontaneous sex -- ercise with my lawyer Sam Pauling, I dared to invite him to spend Saturday evening in my bed. Standing by in a dressing gown and fish net stockings, I wondered whether he had the testes (balls) to show up.
Yet, promptly at eight, Sam stood at the door -- brief case in hand, attired in a dark overcoat over a suit and tie. "I'd like to go over your case to get to the truth."
Struck more by his getup than his quest for truth, I was speechless. Had my date in bed showed up in a three -- piece suit, ready to search for the truth? Wasn't the female privileged to excuse herself slip into something more comfortable?
The theme of the moment was equality. "Were the sexes equal? Not really!" my former friend and roommate Erica daringly disagreed as we went out to a gym, "Darling, through Futzie, Fodder, Fucking, women retain certain prerogatives."
In days I speak of, when the surge of equality had not yet embraced open homosexuality and same -- sex relationships, my former friend Erica Ehrlich, now the source of my grief with the legalese of her malpractice suit against me, used to drag me for a night out to female saunas attached to women's exercise clubs.
Erica had a jingle that caught the tempo of the times: "There's a certain incongruity // of faithful Futzie // pursuing equality // through a Sisterhood // curious with bisexuality."
In such times, when equality had not yet outlawed facilities solely for women, Erica claimed private gyms were a "safe haven for our date, despite my personal sacrifice."
"Sacrifice?" I challenged her as she parked her car in the lot next to the gym.
"Publicly exhibiting my depressed breastbone." Erica reminded me "You may lick my chest." Erica blew an osculation (kiss) as we left her car. "Only you, Dearie!"
"What an honor!" I teased her as we walked to the gym.
Entering the locker, Erica reveled in "the hypocrisy that affords young women the opportunities of a wider world under protections of a patriarchal society."
In an unclothed condition (naked) presenting a standard anatomical position to (facing) Erica, I questioned, "Hypocrisy?"
My ever -- witty friend, Erica fell into rime: "My sincerest apology // to present in honesty // intentions good //rule of Futzie!"
Pinching my fleshy gluteal prominence (fat ass) as I turned to reach for a towel, Erica laughed when I jumped. I defended my jitters. "The first lesson given female students: never allow a patient to come up from your posterior (behind you.)"
In a merry voice, Erica reminded me, "You could afford to lose a few pounds. Cheer up! Think! Notwithstanding moralistic pretenses, a certain amount of overt female bi -- sexuality is socially acceptable. Sitting on splintery bleachers with a towel with your cunt hairs jutting out, you can cackle with sweaty futzies, hiding bi -- curiosity by speculating," Oh how I loved Erica speaking so smoothly in inflated tones, "whether intercourse in which a man penetrates a woman is a rape."
By this standard, how would Erica have rated my first sexual encounter tumbling in the sheets with a man? I regarded my first time eh -- accidental. Neither Sam nor I intended to have sex. Sam was my lawyer on hand `searching for the truth.'
To the gathering assembled on the wooden benches of the sauna, Erica redirected the usual debate over heterosexual (penovaginal) intercourse. Nodding as she orated, Erica reframed the question, "Can a woman rape a man? Isn't that the sum of equality: that a woman is capable of everything a man can do?"
Perplexity sprouted on the faces on the faces on the wooden benches. "But of course," said some, "the woman is the equal of any man!"
"Forget equality," Erica answered her critics, "not everyone is equally endowed. Compare my boobs and Rebecca's; Hers hold up the towel easily. You're a doctor. Dr Rebecca Barton, MD," Erica assumed a formal tone, "What do you think?"
"Oh," I hesitated, looking at Erica's expressionless face and at the faces of the other ladies as they leaned forward to hear my response. "Breasts, eh -- Mammary glands are not sexual organs. It's a cultural fascination, not sex." The wooden panels of the steam room echoed with high pitched cheery laughter.
Shaking her head before she planted an osculation (kiss) on my bucca (cheek), Erica whispered aloud, "Darling, it's not what you say, but the way you say it."
"I never thought mammaries were so funny," I declared to the amusement of the girls on the bench in the sauna.
Mammaries played a role with my first contact with a man. Released from the fertility experiment where I had been bamboozled into donating an ova (egg), I, finding myself without a change of clothing available, left hospital sans culottes (no underwear) in scrubs with tight fitting haz -- mat boots. Picking me up to drive me home, Sam Pauling arrived in front of the hospital thrown together, an unzippered jacket over pajama bottoms with unlaced boots.