In the first of my encounter with Lucinda (As Long As It Takes), I began to reminisce about the only man I might have married. His name was Alan, and it was forty years ago. But remembering him has prompted me to relate some of his adventures, garnered during our relaxation after his virtuoso playing of my clitivarius. As I told Lucinda, he was a specialist fetishist, an ever-expanding, collection of photos of the women. How he persuaded them to pose for him I cannot recall, but he snapped them, naked, facing, full-length, and then took the rear view, full on, in profile and with the woman bent forward, a posture which, he considered, best showed the bumscape.
All right, then, here we go with my rendition of one of Alan anecdotes.
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Born and brought up in a small town in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he was used to seeing big, black, bottoms and bare breasts. But his initiation, and the confirmation of his fundamental fixation, were thanks to the wife of one of the white officials then in control. She was middle-aged, rather worn in the face, fined down by residence in a hot climate. Her breasts were average in size, and shapely, but her bottom was enormous, appearing the more so because she was meagre in the midriff. You could see it from the front, because it bulged out sideways ('saddlebags' is the usual, uncomplimentary, description, implying the presence of a horse - but in her case the carriers, suitably for the continent, would have been appropriate for portage by an elephant).
Digression 1: Large though it is, my bottom cannot be discerned if I'm facing you. Though I pride myself on the curve of my flanks, hip to thigh.
The lady, Jean, was embarrassed and wearied by her posterior proportions, and by the crude remarks it drew from the unreconstructed males at the local, whites-only, social club. But Alan was awestruck. Aged 18, and soon to depart for university in the UK, he made no attempt to conceal his appreciation, which was, naturally, observed by Jean. She was initially suspicious, in case the young man was being satirical, bent on adding some telling quip to the repertoire of stale epithets and idioms.
Alan was, however, able to convey his admiration during one of the weekly Saturday night dances at the club, and to do so in such a way as to indicate that his attention was on the lady as a woman As, indeed, it was, because he rightly divined that her husband was no longer interested, and that no other man had wished to contemplate the feature other than as something phenomenal, not simply part of a woman who needed emotional-sexual attention.
Under cover of the last waltz, during which her husband was sinking his last sundowner or two, something like the following dialogue occurred:
'Could I call round for tea one afternoon, Jean - if I may call you that?'
'You may, Alan. I am at home every weekday between lunch and tiffin. Alone.'
'Would Monday be all right?'
'You don't hang about, do you?'
'Why delay? When I very much want to see and talk with you.'
'You must have noticed that I've got a big arse? And heard all the jokes - and cracks.' 'Nice double-entendre. Yes, I have heard a few uncalled-for comments.'
'And you don't want to make any?'
'One the contrary. Those making them have no appreciation of so curvaceous an
aspect of your physique.'
'You have the gift of the gab. No wonder you're going to college back in Blighty.'
'When you move, especially when you dance, it shows off your figure a treat. I can't help looking down your back.'
'So that's why you're holding me so tight.'
'Only partly. I'd be holding you tight if it were pitch dark in here.'
'Well, I think my tits are quite good, but no-one's admired my arse before.'
'If it were pitch dark I'd be stroking it, if you'd allow that.'
'Well, we'll see if you're all talk on Monday, won't we?'
'Proof of pudding?'
'How dare you talk about my arse like that.' Mock-angry.
'Well, two puddings. To be tasted.'
'My husband, over at the bar, says my mother must have been a Hottentot. You know about them? Able to store food in their arses, which can be huge.'
'Yes. Bushmen have it, too, like camels, though the humps are elsewhere.'
'Not many Hottentots in Surbiton, where I grew up, but he calls me "Hottenbot".'
Pedantry 1: Properly, the tribe is the Khoikhoi.
Pedantry 2: The term for the characteristic is called 'steatopygia' (Greek) = fat bottom. 'Pygiaphilia' = love of bottom. Since African bums are larger than European ones, suggesting they all have some ability for food-storage, some people think that the emigrants from that continent lost he steatopygic trait along with the dark pigmentation.
Digression 2: My tits are quite good, too, and they're over 50, in years, not inches. Blew up like balloons in about five minutes, it seemed like, straight to 40D. My mother said hers did the same, and it must be heredity, or 'heretitty.' My earliest lessons in word-play. She went with me to buy bras till I was sixteen. I remember her saying in the cubicle when trying one too small, 'Those puppies are showing their noses,' to which I replied, 'The cups are running over.'
In the darkest corner of the room, Alan managed to plant a passionate and foreseen kiss on Jean's lips, and then the dancing was over and the company dispersed to its bungalows, with some wives, including Jean, supporting their spouses.
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Jean had scarcely closed the front door before Alan was holding her tight and continuing Saturday's kiss. She responded, but quite soon pushed him away. 'I think we should have some tea and talk about this a bit, don't you?'