"Unless it's immoral, I think you should try just about anything," she had told him earlier. It was a good philosophy, he agreed. He still had three or four morals left -- but aside from those, he'd try just about anything.
They had been sitting on the couch, watching the movie for the University of Indianapolis course. It was pretty slow, but the scene had raised Jen's curiosity and she asked Jeff the question. She did it because she was feeling a little wanton, and thought it would be a good icebreaker to a little sexual play.
But she didn't expect the answer she received.
Jen leaned forward, her eyes widening at the comment.
"You're kidding, right?"
"No."
"You've never masturbated?" she asked him again. Her head was leaning to one side like she was a curious animal in a zoo. And this statement raised her curiosity. "Why not?"
Jeff was uncomfortable with the questioning. For 22 years, he thought he was not dirty because he didn't touch himself, and now this friend of his was making him feel like an idiot for not taking in the self-pleasure.
"Never felt the urge, I guess."
"Never?"
He looked around the room for some kind of comforting reference point. Perhaps a movie poster of a flick they both liked or a band they both listened to. But only tapestries were hung in the television room -- like the ones he'd seen while stationed in the Far East.
He never talked about his masturbation habits -- or more accurately lack of -- to any of the girls over there. Jeff had a lover and that was that. Good, hard sex the old fashion way -- with her climaxing four times before he came once.
And this girl -- what was she even 19? -- wanted to talk about him and his desires to break off a piece.
"No. I swear I don't."
"I thought every guy did?" she asked confused. "I know my brothers did. Hell, I think my dad taught them."
"Yikes. That might fall under 'TMI.'"
"TMI?"
"Too much information."
She laughed. "I don't know that he did. We're not an incest family, but I always assumed every guy masturbated. Most girls do. That's a little secret we don't like to share, though."
"Well, not every guy. Like 90 percent of men do, if I recall a survey right. Hell, I was raised Catholic. The way I was brought up, I'm not even supposed to know I have a penis, much less a prostrate and testicles."
"So, what, you walk around with blue-balls all the time?" Jen asked, trying not to laugh.
"No. Blue balls is a myth. I mean, when I'm not in a sexual relationship, I still have 'moments' where things are drained."
"Things? You mean your cum, spunk, sperm, right."
"You know, you're kinda crude. Kinda evil."
"I know," Jen smiled. "But I'm honest."
"I guess." He felt boyish talking to her, and it annoyed him. He was far from a boy.
Jen and Jeff met in Modern Theatre 101 at the University of Indianapolis. She was a member of the tennis team there, while he had returned home after spending four years in the Marine Corps as a combat photographer. They were watching some artsy European movie where the lead actress started satisfying an urge -- all underneath the letterbox border -- when the topic of masturbation came up.
"Wait, how did you cum?"
Jesus, this girl is a little wanton, Jeff thought.
"Nocturnal emissions is the proper name, I guess. Wet dreams. Some guys jacked off in the Marines. Hell, some guys were proud of it. I just never had to."
He recalled some great wet dreams. In a dream while in basic training, he was making love to his female friend Leah -- she was wearing a white teddy as they laid their bodies bare on a white sheet in a white room. It was like a room of Heaven.
And then he work up with a fresh, warm batch of white in his skivvies.
"Wet dreams? Jacked off? I'm offended," Jen smiled. "Loosen up, Jeff. You've done your time for God and country. Now enjoy the pleasures of freedom." She moved closer to him. There had been definite flirting in the classroom, and Jen licked her body lip, placing it on his and kissing him.
She felt him respond, soft lips but firm placement on her mouth. She was 19 and hadn't been properly laid in seven months -- but she no longer wanted to get laid. Well, not right away. She wanted to be crude, evil and honest. Jen inhaled his scent and looked at his eyes as they glazed over. His lips raised in a suspicious smile like he knew there was something more in her sexuality's desire.
"I don't want this to go too far, too fast," Jen said. "Anyway, I have a match tomorrow, and I haven't had sex in a while, and if you're half as good as I bet you are, it would affect my play," she commented.
Her cheeks and ears were flush -- a part of her body chemistry she didn't quite understand, but she knew happened when she was wanting. She wrapped her fingers around Jeff's bicep and kissed his neck -- then pulled away, crossing her legs and lifting her "Greyhounds Tennis" T-shirt. Jeff momentarily pulled her chest to his mouth and tasted her skin. Her legs were crossed and she felt the wetness of her passion seeping within her. She wanted to feel his body penetrating her -- but she wanted something else.
Something he'd never done before. Thinking about it make her nipples rise and her ears and cheeks grow hot.
"Jeff, Jeff, Jeff. Wait, wait, wait."
He was no idiot. He was a gentleman who had no desire to upset this beautiful, if not crude and slightly evil, girl.
"I want to do something," she said, pulling down her athletic shorts and revealing her purple satin panties.
"That thought is going around. Feel free to do something," he smiled.