Ch. 2: The Pool Of Semen
Next morning, when Alice woke up she found that she had no clothes to wear as her Mickey Mouse tee-shirt had disappeared into the laundry basket. "Wear one of my sweaters," offered Mouse. "It'll look like a dress on you." However, in Mouse's home putting clothes on was not the first thing to do in the morning. Mouse was wandering about in nothing but her bra, while her mother was wearing only her shift.
Alice went into the bathroom to wash her face, and watched Mouse sit astride the bidet and shave. She ran warm water into the bidet, applied shaving cream with a brush to her crotch and then scraped off the blue stubble with a safety razor.
"I have to go to college today," Mouse announced. "I'm an Arts Student. So I won't be able to keep you company. I don't know what you can do."
"That's alright dear," Mouse's mother said. "I'll give Alice some money and she can go to the Cinema for the day. You'd like that wouldn't you, dear?"
So that was settled. After breakfast, Mouse put on her short dress, her mother put on her very long dress and Alice put on a polo-necked sweater which came to just below her tummy. It didn't seem the right place to ask for knickers, and indeed Mouse didn't appear to have any. Mouse's mother gave Alice a ten shilling note and Alice set off to the cinema.
Ten shillings was more than adequate as Alice discovered, since the stalls cost 6d and the circle cost 9d. And there was a very wide selection of cinemas, but they were all showing silent films. Alice went into the Mecca Cinema to see a selection of cinema shorts and it was here she gained an insight into the entertainment enjoyed in Wonderground. There were two types of film on the bill: one was comedy and the other romance.
The romances all featured couples where the girls were dressed like Mouse and seemed otherwise a admixture of the bold and demure. They were very demure at the beginning of the films, when they first met the romantic heroes. They studiously crossed their legs in their company and, as the subtitles made clear, generally were very coy. They would giggle with their friends and kiss them discreetly on meeting and parting. The hero at the start of the film would be portrayed as being a good sort led by less chivalrous comrades who would pull up girl's skirts, pinch their bottoms and put their fingers up their vaginas. There would invariably be a scene where the hero would be fucking a black girl together with friends, egged on to put his penis in her mouth and up her anus. The film would continue with the hero becoming steadily more chivalrous as he fell in love with the romantic heroine and the heroine becoming bolder as she got to know him better. There would be a minor tiff, but the hero's continuing affection was demonstrated by his inability to fuck a black girl later in the film, despite her encouragement and that of his friends who were so engaged themselves. The climax of the film was of the hero and heroine making love and the heroine allowing the semen of her lover to trickle down her front or over her face. At that point, with a climactic scene of general happiness, the film would end.
The comedies likewise used black women in humiliating ways, but here the thrust of the humour was precisely their humiliation. Near the beginning of the film a black girl would do something - like refuse to have sex with people, be seen having sex with a friend, behaving in a way that might be considered uppity - which was considered sufficiently opprobrious for her to be considered fair game for a practical joke. The rest of the film would show the male hero conspire to humiliate her, and the final scene would illustrate this humiliation. This might mean she was fooled into eating her own excrement, suck off a donkey's prick, get beaten by her mother or get buggered by a succession of men.
After the film, Alice ventured into the light, blinking as she walked along. Despite the treatment of black women in the films, there seemed little evidence that many of the black people she passed (who represented only a small minority) were anywhere near as grotesque or deserving of disrespect as had been suggested. They were less well dressed than most, but generally that entailed their clothes being more modest. The black girls did not all have the large breasts and balancingly large buttocks as in the films. Indeed, they were comparatively slim and graceful, and certainly had greater success in keeping on their clothes.
The posters for films outside the cinema had gross depictions of black girls, often smiling or looking foolish, but rarely shown in the foreground. That was reserved for the white stars of the films, who also were shown wearing more clothes than they did in the films. One particularly large poster showed a white man and women kissing in passion, while black women were shown in the background being raped by soldiers in a town bathed in flames.
When Alice got back to Mouse's home, neither Mouse nor her mother were in. She used the key that Mouse's mother had given her to get in and searched around for something to do. Mouse's younger brother, Bunny, was sitting in the living room just by the doors into the garden, where there were beds of bright flowers and a water-sprinkler. He was only a year older than Alice but he had his trousers and underpants down to his ankles and was stroking his penis. "Suck Me", he pleaded on seeing Alice regarding him with curiosity.
