This is a fun story that came out of a conversation with a female friend about objectifying women. She asked me how I would like it if women objectified men. My brains started working (both the one in my head and the one in my pants) and this is the tale that came out of it. There are many twists and turns and, I think, if you keep an open mind and just have fun with it this story could really entertain you. ENJOY!
DOWN FOR THE COUNT Part 1
JOURNAL OF MARK PARKER
My name is Mark Parker. I will be starting college next year with hopes of becoming a waiter—I'm trying to manage my expectations.
I was getting dressed in the locker room after a swim meet one day listening to the sexual escapades of my teammate Topher Grady. Topher is a man's man, the guy every guy wants to be and every girl wants to be with. He is a physical specimen and he was telling my close friend Louie West about his date with Jane Seward last night. I won't go into the sordid details, but let's just say he banged the hell out of her. My friend Louie was also a guy every girl wanted. I am not like them, not that there is anything wrong with me (I think I look pretty good) but I'm just not "That Guy". Although Louie usually hung on Topher's every word, I noticed he seemed distant, disinterested in Topher's recent, very graphic tale of sexual achievement.
We are all in High School (and over eighteen) and our swim meet had just ended. I finished dressing and headed for the door. I looked back at Topher and his captive audience of guys who love to hear locker room talk about nailing women and I knew better than to interrupt his tale of sexual prowess. Personally, I really didn't want to hear about it today. The love of my life, Abigail Van Houten, was away for the week. Her Grandmother had a close call recently so Abby and her Mom went down to care for her. Thankfully, her Grandma will be fine and I was really looking forward to Abby's return.
Abby and I aren't officially dating, but I think everyone knows how I feel about her, I've just been too chicken-shit to tell her.
We live in Whitby, South Carolina. It's a small coastal town with a very low population in the off season. The kind of town where everybody knows everybody and everybody knows everybody's business. And no, we are not a bunch of hicks; we're just everyday people trying to live our lives.
I will be graduating soon with a class of 103 students. It was 102, but the new kid, Brad Drake, showed up not long before that big storm we had a few days earlier so now it's 103. Brad is a strange guy, keeps to himself, he's kind of Goth and not fitting in well at all. Sometimes I think if I wasn't a friend of Louie's I might be a guy like Brad, lurking in the background all the time, no friends, a bit of an outcast, so I feel kind of bad for him. It has to suck to be the new guy in the last few months of senior year.
I started to walk home that day when my Mom's mini-van pulled up. I was surprised to see my Sister, Carla, driving it.
"Hey!" I said, "What are you doing home?"
"I'm homeless for about a week. After that big storm the river near school flooded and all these rats poured onto the campus. There's rats everywhere—thousands of them, like, millions of them!" She said.
"Yuck."
"Yeah, so until they get that under control class is suspended. Hop in"
I jumped in and gave her a hug. I won't bore you with the details of our conversation, just family talk, and catch up chitchat—the usual. I'll just tell you the parts that have to do with my story.
"So when did you guys become such prudes?" She asked.
'Huh?" I said, having no idea what she was talking about.
"What's with the new suits? Where are your Speedos? I came to watch a boys swim meet and I was very disappointed with your team's choice of attire!"
"Oh yeah, last year the board of education decided that the swim teams should all wear Jammers instead of Speedos, you know, for modesty sake. I guess one of the mothers complained; she said the skimpy Speedos were 'too revealing'. They say the Jammers makes us faster anyway."
"Yeah right! If they were interested in making you faster they'd have all of you swim nude. That's bullshit, when I was going here the guys wore Speedos and the girls all went to the meets to see the guys in their Speedos! Cute butts and bulges that's what swim meets are really about!" She said teasing me.
Carla has always been very blunt; she really likes to tell you exactly what she's thinking at all times.
"Well, the girls wear one pieces. It's not like they're wearing bikinis or anything, so why should we have to?" I argued.
"Because it's traditional. It's the correct attire for the sport."
"But you just said it was so girls could check out our bodies!" I added.
"Yeah so . . . wouldn't you go to the girls swim meets if they did wear bikinis?" She asked.
"Of course, but women are meant to be looked at!" I said realizing this was a losing argument.
"What!" She exclaimed.
"You know what I mean, women are beautiful. Their bodies are amazing and wonderful and designed to be ogled. It doesn't mean they only have that value, it just means they have more value because they're hot!" I knew I wasn't going to be able to explain this properly.
"Whatever that's supposed to mean! You have a lot to learn, Dude!" She said.
She looked me up and down.
"So it's okay for men to look at women, but not the other way around?"
"No, it's just that . . ."
Carla cut me off, "That's probably why you finally got the courage to go out for the team in the first place, right? They changed the Speedo policy and then you signed up!"
"No, that's not why I signed up, I wouldn't care if I had to wear one. I signed up to get in better shape!" I argued, even though I didn't believe my own story.
Carla looked at me and laughed, "Yeah right, I bet if you knew Abby was checking you out in a Speedo you'd show her just how much of a man you really are!"
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"You'd pop a rod in two seconds flat! I know you. You couldn't stand a bunch of chicks watching you walk around in front of them as your package flopped from side to side!" Carla said checking my reaction. I could feel my face beginning to turn red.
She smiled and continued with enthusiasm, "Water droplets rolling down your firm, wet, shiny skin, your round, tight little ass hanging out from that thin fabric barely concealing everything that God gave you!" She said unable to contain her joy at making fun of me.
"All right, All right! Enough of that! God, you're a tease!" I said, while trying not to laugh myself.
I have to admit she was right. I was starting to get hard just thinking about Abby looking at ME the way I look at HER, or the way I look at all women for that matter.
"You couldn't stand women looking at you the way you look at them!" Carla added as if she read my mind.
There was a moment of total silence then I smiled and added, "Besides, Speedos are so tight it can't flop from side to side!" and we both broke out laughing.
"How would you know? Have you ever worn one?"
"No, but I've seen pictures. I think it compresses everything down, doesn't it? There isn't a lot of room for things to flop around. Besides I would never wear one of those, they are too revealing. I have a hard enough time going out in front of everyone wearing the Jammers!"
"See, I knew it! You are such a hypocrite! You have all those pictures of hot, naked women plastered all over your bedroom wall, but you're too afraid to show your own body even in a perfectly legitimate setting like a swim meet. So sad."
I didn't say anything in response and she looked at me. At first I think she was afraid she crossed a line, but then she burst out laughing again.
"Look at your face! You're red as a fire truck! I'm right and you know it." She laughed.
"You may have a point, maybe I'm a little shy."
"A little? Have you even told Abby how in love with her you are yet? Of course you haven't. Why not? Please tell me it's not because she doesn't rate with those naked chicks in your posters!"
"No! It's not that, and for your information I think she's better than those posters. She's hot like those naked girls could never be. I just use the posters for—" I stopped, realizing I almost said something embarrassing.
"For . . .?" She said, smiling. "Cranking material?"
I grinned and looked down, "Obviously," I said quietly.
"Well if you tell her how you feel about her maybe you won't have to crank it so much anymore, know what I mean?"
"No. Abby's not like that, she's a sweet person."
"What, and you're not?" Carla asked.
"I just mean that . . . Abby is special, she's . . . pure, you know, not like that."
"You don't think of her that way?"
"Well yeah, but I don't think she's interested in anything more than holding hands and that kind of stuff, she's just . . . nice." I said unsure of how to explain my own thoughts (as usual).
"She may not be as sweet as you think! I mean, girls have sexual desires too you know, and not just porn chicks! I'm just saying maybe if you and Abby would stop being pathetic and tell each other how you actually feel maybe you wouldn't have to spank it so much, you know?" Carla said in typical blunt fashion.
"No, I'd have to one way or the other, believe me. Lately, I've just been . . . I don't know how to say it . . ."
She looked at me waiting for the rest.
" . . . going for a new record! I've been so horny lately, more than usual. I don't know what it is."