The morning after my swimming pool exposure I received an e-mail from Lisa—apparently she was very interested in seeing my stuff! She sent me a link to her photography work and I checked it out. To my surprise there were no nude photos. It was all dogs, nature scenes, and wildlife. Almost everything she had was shot outdoors. It was not at all what I expected to see. Was it possible she wanted me to pose in clothing?
Unlikely.
Her e-mail said if I liked what I saw to let her know a time we could meet and discuss it. Now that I was no longer aroused/excited/horny and had a good nights sleep, I felt I wasn't interested. I wrote her back saying I would have to think about it, thinking to myself that I had already made my decision.
I went downstairs and saw my Mom washing her breakfast dishes.
"Good Morning," I said.
"Hi, Mark." She said looking up from the sink.
"I'm sorry about last night, I'm sorry you had to see that. I don't know why this keeps happening to me."
"Nothing to be sorry about. I guess you won't be skinny dipping again anytime soon! I am just amazed at the "events" of your life in the past few weeks."
"You're amazed! Try being me!"
She finished the dishes and sat at the table with me.
"It's been a lot for you. I don't know how I would feel in your situation, but I am impressed with how you've conducted yourself."
"That girl Lisa sent me an e-mail."
"Oh? What did she say?"
"She just wanted me to see her work and meet with her."
"Last night she seemed very interested to work with you!" Mom said smiling, "I think you impressed the hell out of her."
"Do you really want me to pose naked for her?"
"No! I don't want you to do anything. I just thought that with your newfound confidence in your body and your need for college money, maybe it would be an idea. But if you're not comfortable then don't do it."
"I told her I'd think about it, but I don't think I'm up to it. The other times were either against my will or at the least unplanned. I don't think I could do it if I knew I had to do it at a particular moment, you know what I mean?"
"I understand." She said touching my hand.
"So you're not going to do it?" Cindy said as she walked into the kitchen, "You wuss!"
"Cindy, give him a break."
"Why? I'd do it if I were him. Everybody's already seen you naked on video, in pictures and in real life so why not get some cash out of it. Your job is never going to get you through college. Why don't you use what you've got."
"It has to be his decision and he's made it. I'm sorry I ever brought Lisa into this. I don't want to push you into anything, Mark, I don't want you to become some kind of weird exhibitionist or pervert or something."
"Well I became a pervert a long time ago!" I said, "but I don't know, maybe I could do it. It's just so bizarre being in that . . . condition . . . in front of people."
"You mean with your hard penis sticking straight up in the air?" Cindy said with a big grin.
My Mom giggled, "Cindy stop!"
I rolled my eyes, "Yes, that's why! I just can't seem to keep it . . . you know . . . down."
"A penis is sexier when it's hard anyway, girls like it stiff—it shows confidence. Even if you don't feel confident your body does and it's the one feeling that a guy can't hide. It's very sexy to see a man with a hard one, it shows vulnerability and strength simultaneously."
"You don't even like guys!" I said opening up a touchy subject, but she took it well.
"I can still admire the body, it's a beautiful thing." She added more quietly.
"Why do we always end up talking about my . . . schwantze in the kitchen? We used to be a normal family!"
"You're the one that whipped it out and set this whole thing in motion, buddy."
Mom jumped in, "Okay, enough appendage talk for now. Whatever you want to do we support you. Enough said." She smiled.
And that was that—at least for the time being. I talked to Jill about it and she said it was up to me, she didn't see anything wrong with posing nude. Then she shocked the hell out of me when she said that it might be a turn on for her to have other women lust after her boyfriend!
A few days later I e-mailed Lisa and said I would meet with her if she wanted to and we could talk about it. She responded by telling me the calendar idea fell through for reasons she didn't specify, but she had been working on a new idea and she would be in touch if anything came of it. I said 'great' and figured I'd never hear from her again.
Jill and I worked a lot at our separate jobs over the next few weeks, but we spent as much time together as possible. When we were together I tried to restart where we left off in the pool, but Jill told me she thought maybe we were going too fast. So I kind of backed off a little and accepted that I had a girlfriend that maybe didn't have the same sex drive I did and that's how it is going to be.
Honestly though, and I realize I am betraying my manliness by saying this, but I would love Jill and want to be with her even if I could never touch her again! Seriously.
So we stuck to passionate making out and occasional groping. I took care of business when I got home—look I've been doing it that way for years at least now I had a real girl I could touch a little bit.
So that's how it went, until one day when I got a call from Lisa. She asked if I could meet her at a local restaurant so that we could talk, I told her yes and I brought Jill along so there would be no weirdness.
That night when I arrived home my Mom was in the living room reading.
"Hey, Honey. There's still some dinner left in the fridge if you want to heat it up."
"No thanks, I ate at the restaurant. I met with that girl Lisa."
"Oh? What did she have to say?"
"Well . . ." I got nervous all over again and tried to work up the courage to spill it. I don't get why I'm like this. It seems right after some act of courage I have left over courage, but a few days pass and I'm back to being a shy-guy, "I took her up on her offer," I finally said.
Mom put her book down and looked at me.
"I thought she told you the calendar was a no go."
"She did, this is a whole new thing. Apparently she started a website awhile ago where she teaches camera techniques and I guess she gets a lot of traffic and she has sponsors and everything—I didn't really follow what she was talking about, I never really understood how people make money with a website, but they do. I guess she does okay with it. She showed me on her phone a few examples. She had one lesson for photographing your pet and every day she would post a new picture of her dog in a different kind of style and then explain how she shot it, using filters and whatever. This went on for like two weeks or something and people followed it, so she kept going—choosing different topics, like flowers, sunsets and whatever and it's caught on really well. I guess by posting the lessons one day at a time it keeps people coming back. But lately she's been running low on ideas and she had a lot of her followers writing in telling her what they would like her to do. And apparently they want lessons on shooting the male nude," my voice stuttered on the word nude.
"Ah ha!" Mom said.
"She said the people who follow her site seem to be mostly women for some reason and they want to learn how to photograph the . . . body."