Terminological Problems
"Penis...ick!" Angela thought to herself. Ugly word. Perhaps worse than vagina for ugliness.
Not at all descriptive, nothing intriguing or erotic, or even
friendly
, about it.
She sat on the bed between Gavin's legs, dreamily fondling his clean-shaven crotch, lost in a major reverie.
So: a terminological problem. Definitely not "penis": what, then? Cock? Better, perhaps. At least, not so clinical. Clinical was okay in its place: after all, she'd even dissected one back in human anatomy class years ago and far away. So she knew the details, the veins and nerves and hydraulics... a marvelous, a marvelous and un-necessarily complex complex system, almost as good an argument for "Intelligent Design" as the human spine. The best drawings of it were still those made by Leonardo 500 years ago.
But none of that caught the real essence of the beast, the heat, the heart, the changeability, its honest-to-god moods, its personality (plural?), the capabilities it had to enthrall and please two people at once.
Her fingers caressed lightly: the soft core slipped about in its coat of loose skin. Her thumbnail ran gently under the helmet-rim of the wrinkled pink head, so capable (eager, even!) of morphing into other textures and colors. The edge of the helmet had a lovely name, 'coronal ridge' - melodious. Tongue-friendly. Why not equally nice names for other parts?
Back to reality. Amazing the changes this thing could go through! Soft now, shrunken, almost wormlike. But she was powerful in her own way, she knew how to change things in just a few moments. If and when, not yet. Her fingertips slid delicately under the chicken-neck skin of his loose, hanging scrotum.
Another vote of "ick": scrotum. On a terminological par with penis. If not clinical, then what?
She dandled his testicles, weighed them, felt him shift... he enjoyed her touches, loved being explored, her touches didn't have to be overtly sexual and arousing all the time, which was nice. She rolled the little footballs between the pulps of fingers and thumb, gently, eyes nearly shut, breathing Gavin's warm gentle aroma, male pheromones in there somewhere, no doubt about it.
A vocabulary problem, and not to be taken lightly, if one wanted to communicate well. Cock, that would do: like "cunt", it could be pejorative if delivered harshly, but could also be loving, sexy, personal, intimate... 'penis' seemed inherently devoid of intimacy.
Balls: that always worked, it, too, was friendly, could even be sexy. Besides, it was descriptive in a way "testicles" simply could never comprehend. So, she pondered... did "balls" necessarily include the sac they came in? Probably so. Good: fewer words to worry about - but was that actually a good thing? Did she want to be a terminological 'lumper' or a 'splitter'? Cock and balls. Original, not very... but capable, between herself and her lover, of conveying any nuance they needed.
Her thumbs and forefingers together stretched out Gavin's foreskin: he was right about having nearly half of it left, and about the good doctor of his infancy having cut him on the bias. She liked to play with it, was happy the doctor hadn't done a high-and-tight, traditional circumcision. Her tugging on the loose skin made a wide-mouthed skin-funnel inside of which huddled his cockhead, like an ant-lion at the bottom of its burrow. Waiting? For what? Such a nice toy! She pulled the foreskin up to hide the head completely. 'Cock-head' was ugly, no hyphens allowed, so perhaps "PLUM" would do? A nice descriptive and fairly accurate term, plum.
Beneath her fingers, things stirred, textures changed. Oh-ho! A life of its own, indeed.
Gavin squirmed slightly, as her fingers investigated the engorging shaft, textures, shapes, size, all changing moment by moment. Like a sunrise, or clouds. The way he claimed that her own crotch did. Gender parity is conserved, at least as to changeability?
She slipped a finger down against the base, the cock-root, far behind his balls, stroking down there where the shaft anchored to his crotch, felt gently for a pulse, found it. Strong, solid, slow: her other hand circled the shaft, feeling the way each heartbeat was followed a few milliseconds later by a slight increase in solidity.
Ah, yes... here, in the living flesh, was where those crotch-hydraulics she'd studied actually MEANT something! She slipped the suddenly snugger-fitting skin slowly along the solidifying inner core, always and forever surprised at how far the skin could be slid fore and aft.
She let her fingernails trail over Gavin's naked baby-smooth crotch skin.
He sighed: she knew... she was in full control now. Men were so EASY, sometimes!
Now the erstwhile worm was becoming a real cylinder, becoming marginally useful instead of vaguely decorative. Could a soft cock ever be truly attractive, decorative? Probably not, she thought.
Solid now, nicely curved, not overly thick. "Proud, it is, of itself..." so she thought with an internal grin. Goldilocks redux, not too big, not too small, but JUST exactly RIGHT!
Such a difference between this condition and earlier this afternoon, swimming in the ocean. There, chest deep in the surf, she'd slid her hand down Gavin's suit, just being devilish. Her own erectile tissues were up and operating nicely thank you, very much prepared to embarrass the bejeezus out of her when they exited the water, but how was Mr Cock doing?
"Hell!" Gavin had said, grinned at her, and then "Might as well be a dimple, Madam!"
Not an inch outstanding at the time, all shriveled, all gone gone gone. Awaiting the resurrection and the life everlasting? The umpteenth coming, perhaps?
Later, exiting the water, she had plonked down on their special beach homestead, made a little heap of the warmest surface sand, told him to lie down, face down, with his crotch on the heap. As he knelt to do so, face all quizzical, she'd slid her hand into the pile, palm up. She recalled his sigh as his pubis nestled against the warmth in her palm, the shock in his face as she slid the front of his Speedos down beneath him and pressed the handful of warm sand up against his cold-water shrivel... and how fast he'd warmed up, how hard he'd become.
'Pubis' - an unusual word, straight from the Latin, it could be either cold or warm, depending. But not pretty or enticing. And there really was no alternative term, unless one either stayed in Latin with "mons veneris" (how bloody formal!), or went with the horribly uglified English "pubic mound". Besides, lots of women really had no "mound". Difficult.
He loved being teased... it had taken her months to learn that, to believe it, the game was almost its own reward, so she had used the sand between his cock and her palm to chafe Mister Penis gently, Gavin groaning deliciously beside her, just above inaudible, the innocent crowds walking past mere feet away. But she hadn't let him finish. That came (so to speak) a bit later. And nicely done.
Now, another terminological conundrum... "erection"? Another baddie! Erections were things one built. A high-rise dam was an erection, as was a skyscraper or a bridge. But this blood-inflated cock, not hardly. Oh, hell, maybe she "built it" on occasion, but the sense of the word was all wrong. Hardon was good, except that it lacked a female parallel, so gender parity was in danger. Plus, spellcheckers had to be taught the word, it never came as original equipment... a drag, educating an e-dictionary. Apropos of gender parity, she'd heard girlfriends use the term "wide-on" for their own state of arousal, but it didn't scan: too contrived.