I was sitting in the church at Terry's funeral, staring at the coffin and the photo of him resting on top of it. Lisa was sitting next to me. We had been friends for a long time. Her Mum, Nellie, was our maid and occasionally she stayed over in Nellie's flat at our house. We had gone to different schools –she to a Zulu rural school near Nellie's home and me to boarding school, but now we were at College together. We were both studying courses in the hospitality industry. (She is now a successful Wedding Co-ordinator having done many celebrity weddings for Kwaito stars; I, as I have said previously, have my own franchised Coffee Shop in a large Mall.) Around us were other students from the College.
I stared at the photograph of Terry, remembering the brief encounters we had shared, and suddenly I had no regrets. We had shared something very intimate and personal in just two short weeks. He had died in a motorcycle accident just after our last meeting when I had showed him the videos on my brothers' computer. I had showed him the one of Lisa in her mother's room masturbating, and of my folks fucking in their bedroom and me masturbating on the toilet. He had come over my face and then I had masturbated for him and him for me. It had been the most erotic moment of my life so far. (See "The Story of Joanne D'Arc – My first 'boyfriend'.)
As the minister brought the service to a close Lisa leaned over and asked if we were going to the burial. I didn't think so, so I suggested that we go for coffee instead. After the service we gave our condolences to his parents and went across the road to a Coffee Shop. They were not licensed to sell liquor but they did sell Irish Coffees so we ordered one each, feeling the need for some inner warmth.
After they arrived I said to Lisa, "Terry and I almost made love before he died."
"Almost?" She asked.
I explained that I was not ready to fuck and so we had just indulged in some mutual masturbation.
"But that is just like our Zulu culture," she said, "I thought you white people just fucked when you felt like it."
We discussed the different approaches in our two cultures. I said that we had two schools of thought –those who saved themselves for marriage and those who just did it. She told me about ukuHlobonga.
"In Zulu culture," she said, "a maiden must always be ready for a man. We have a custom that when a man stops you on the road to talk, you must be ready to lie down with him."
"Any man," I asked incredulously.
"Well, not every man will stop you," she responded, "but when a man does he is admiring you and you must be ready to repay the compliment."
I couldn't believe it.
"Have you been stopped and fucked like that?"
"Yes, many times," she said, "but its not really fucking. The man doesn't penetrate, he just puts his cock between your thighs and rubs himself in a fucking motion until he comes. Sometimes he wants you on your back and sometimes you kneel in front of him." I sipped at the Irish Coffee, amazed that this pretty black girl had been fucked in that way many times by what were effective just passers-by. She explained that there was nothing in it for the girl but that she had personally often been excited by it –especially the prospect of getting caught by another passer-by and also the admiration of the man. It had started, she said, in the time of Shaka when he wanted to satisfy the sexual needs of his soldiers but not create a nation of unmarried pregnant women. The practice had been absorbed into Zulu culture but in modern times the men were not satisfied with just fucking between the thighs –they wanted to really fuck the girl, or for her to suck him off or to masturbate him.
Then she blushed under her dark skin and said, "I have been properly fucked though. Just twice by single men, but also by many one time by a group of boys at college who were 'streamlining'". She explained that this was a new craze amongst modern youth where the young men used the principle of ukuHlobonga to accost a girl and then they would each fuck her straight after each other. It sounded very much like a gangbang to me but she said that it was not really. It was a chance but willing encounter that conformed to her culture –it was just more than one man at a time. It wasn't all that different, for example, to ukuHlobonga with two men on a path on the same day when she went down to the river to fetch water. She explained that they didn't use condoms because then there would be no stream lining of the girl's pussy. She had been afraid of HIV/Aids after the incident but had recently had a test and fortunately was negative.
I pondered the thought as we sipped our second Irish Coffee. My pussy was quite damp under my black dress. Both the talk and the Irish Coffee were having their effect. I had never yet been fucked but I savoured thought of a number of men coming into me one after the other. I wiggled my fat bum on the seat.
"What did it feel like –this streamlining?" I asked.