Out of Peoria: A Story of Innocence lost.
Chapter 3: Finding a man.
A week in the commune taught me just about everything I wanted and needed to know about sex. I experimented with everything (except anal sex which had no appeal for me at all --- and I never have met a woman who would admit on close questioning that she really liked it) and was beginning to find it somewhat easier, though not at all easy, to come to orgasm. Strangely, what worked best for me was oral stimulation by a girl, especially if she used a vibrator on the shaft of my clit. I did not wonder too much about this. I enjoyed Alex and Bob very much, in particular riding them when their cocks were very stiff, in fact I enjoyed everything we did. Thinking back, I used that time in the commune to rid myself of all the prejudices and hang-ups of a very staid and sheltered upbringing. It was as if a dam within me had burst and all the frustration of the preceding years was flooding out.
I asked Jane many questions and she answered all with transparency and honesty. In particular, I asked her about Bob and Alex. Were all men in California like this or were they exceptional? Jane laughed when I said this. No, all men in California were not like Bob and Alex. They were very much the exception. Very few combined extreme stamina with such sensitivity. Bob and Alex were the type of guys who needed and could handle as much sex as you could throw at them. And what really got them going was girls in a high state of arousal. They enjoyed their own orgasms of course, but they seemed to get as much pleasure in giving as in receiving. They got off on their partners getting off. They were not ‘machos’ in the negative sense, though they were in the positive sense.
I asked Jane how the commune chose its members, me included.
“Oh, you!” she said, ‘That’s simple. You’re gorgeous! The girls love your body. We all do. And you have a wonderful attitude and you just love sex as much as we do. What more do you need to know?”
I let that sit for a while, not quite sure how to take the obvious compliment, and then inquired about Bob and Alex. I mean, whatever I may have felt about being called ‘gorgeous’ I had to admit there was some substance to it. I did have, I now realized as a subjective as well as an objective judgement, a ‘great body’. This, though, could not in any conceivably way have been said of Alex or Bob. Presentable, attractive Yes! Gorgeous, definitely not! How had they been found? What was the criterion whereby the commune chose its men-folk?
“Ah! Well, that is not so simple,” Jane said. After some prompting she said that in the first instance there were ten thousand guys who would swap places with Alex or Bob at the drop of the hat, so the problem was not to find someone but to filter out until the right guy was found. They did this via a series of tests that ensured that the right kind of guy got through.
Well that only encouraged me to speculate what the tests might be, and when I brought this up with Jane her response was not quite what I expected it to be! I was having to get used to being surprised by Jane! It seemed that Bob and Mandy had decided to move out of the commune and set up on their own as a pair (surprise, surprise!) so we needed two new members.
“It’s not that common,” Jane said, “but it does happen. You can’t control when you fall in love. Mind you, I’m not sure it will last, but right now the hormones are in control and it’s not my business to advise either of them one way or the other.”
The upshot of all this was that I learned how the commune chose a new male member (no pun intended!) first hand, at Jane’s invitation, by participating directly! The first step was simple, a one-liner on a web-site catering to ‘swingers’ : “Commune seeks male partner. Must be presentable, must like and be likable to women, be very good at sex and have extreme stamina.”
This last, as I discovered, was where the rubber hit the road. An advert like this attracted many thousands of responses. Every guy, it seems, imagines he is very good at sex and has “extreme stamina”. Jane showed me some of the e-mailed responses and it was indeed easy to filter out most of them just on the basis of what was written. Some even included pictures of their dicks! Talk about dick-heads! We finally got down to a long but manageable list of “possibles” that we thought were worthy of ‘auditions’.
The first part of the audition was very simple. A number of prospects, usually fifteen or twenty were e-mailed, asked for cell phone numbers, and required to be ‘available’ in the Malibu area on the afternoon or evening of a certain day. Somewhat to my surprise, we received virtually 100% responses! Jane and I would drive over to a motel we had ear-marked just off Highway 101 and call the first candidate on his cell. He should drive his car to the parking lot of the motel, park close to the lobby, get out of his car and walk back to the parking lot entrance and wait for further instructions. We parked hidden from direct view, but able to see the entrance and take a look at the guy (and his car) before committing to step 2.
If we could tell by looking that the guy was not appropriate, Jane simply called him and told him we were held up in traffic in LA and maybe we could meet another day, a day of course that never came. This way, we thought, the guy’s feelings would not be unduly hurt. He would not hang around waiting, he would just go. Once he was gone, Jane would call up the next candidate, and so on until we encountered a ‘possible’.
Step 2 would then go into action. We would ease Jane’s BMW towards the parking lot entrance and the rear door would open. I never encountered a guy who, in such circumstances would not enter. I’m sure the guys took their own precautions, but we were in the driving seat, literally and figuratively.