I stepped outside, drawing in the February air with deep, harsh gasps. My heart pounded in my throat. I looked back at my car longingly, wishing I could climb back inside and drive until my mind had rid itself of this awful idea. I felt dirty, ashamed, and oh, so deliciously wet. I felt like a little girl again, standing there in his front yard, so very small against the gray sky. Obviously, my nervousness hadn't killed my mind's tendency towards verbosity. Dammit, though, I hated thinking like HP Lovecraft hopped up on Viagra.
How did I get here? I wondered desperately. There's nothing wrong with me, right? It's not like I'm dirty. Well, not as dirty as some people I know. Jesus, though...I mean, well, what the hell is wrong with asking your boyfriend to whack off in front of you, anyway? IS there anything wrong? There isn't...there ISN'T. Right?
My musings carried me all the way to his door. I shivered in spite of myself when it loomed up in front of me. If a standard eight-foot door can loom, that is. I raised my hand to knock, then put it down again. I was struck with indecision. My heart ached in my chest. Should the fulfillment of one's deepest fantasy hurt so much? I had just decided to forget the whole thing when the door opened, and there was his roommate leering at me quizzically.
"Can I...help you?" he asked, his eyes following the curves under my sweater.
"Is he here?" I asked ignoring his pointed statement.
The troglodyte nodded, and moved to the side just enough so I had to squeeze past him. Choosing to be coquettish, I stuck out my chest and eased past him a little slower than I could have. There, I thought naughtily, that'll give the perv something to think about on those cold, lonely nights.
Shaking off the encounter with a haughty, piercing giggle, I walked to my lover's room and was about to knock on the door when I was seized with another shuddering gasp of panic. I swallowed nervously, mustered my courage, and knocked softly, calling his name. I felt my core harden into a knot of icy and burning desire.
The door opened quickly, and I wondered momentarily if he had been waiting behind it the whole time. I returned his eager, anxious stare with a shy smile.
"Hi." Was that a tremor in his voice?
"Hi." That WAS a tremor in mine, no doubt about it.
I walked in, shed my sweater, leaving only a plain white undershirt, and sat on his bed. He sat in his desk chair, facing me. I noticed, somewhat abashedly, that he was already aroused.
"You've certainly wasted no time," I said, pointedly staring at his bulging package.
"Well, um...I figured I should already, um, be prepared...I was looking at some porn, so I'd be..." he blushed, and I immediately regretted my sarcasm. Wasn't it my fault that we were feeling this awkwardness, my fantasy that we were attempting to fulfill? "So, do you want me to um..." he continued, after a moment of silence.
I panicked. "You don't have to, I mean..."
"No! I don't mind..." His voice faded, and he turned an impossible shade of red. We faced each other, blushing, and suddenly, I felt my throat constrict with an uncontrollable urge to burst out laughing. I clamped my hand over my mouth, and a few giggles spilled out anyway, and suddenly, I fell off his bed, laughing hard. I could feel him staring at me, and the stare felt right, like I deserved bewildered scrutiny. Hell, I'd often looked inwardly at myself with the same baffled look on my mind's face. I am, and always have been an oddity.
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My little obsession with male masturbation started in high school, with the introduction of the hand job into my sexual repertoire. I was still unsure of myself when it came to pleasure, but it struck me that this guy (I don't even remember his name, is that bad?) was obviously very familiar with the feeling of a hand encircling his shaft, gripping his most intimate place. As I felt him grow rigid in my hand, I was amazed to find that I was getting aroused by the thought of him doing that. I was raised to believe that masturbation was dirty...but that fact made me even hotter.
I was shocked at my newfound craving. At night, I would stay awake for hours after my family had gone to sleep, staring at the images on gay porn sites, watching men touching themselves. I visited one of those sex advice sites and read about how I could bring myself off, so I didn't have to retire to bed with that delicious ache still rippling through my body.
Meanwhile, every boy I dated was pleasantly surprised by my preference for giving him pleasure. But I never had the courage to ask for something in return. That is, I never had the courage to ask to see what I was so desperate to see...until now.
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My laughter finally died down, and I looked up at him, so eager to please, despite his obvious discomfort with the situation. I wanted nothing more than to get up and throw my arms around him, but I opted to regain my composure.
I cleared my throat. "So, if you're ready..."He nodded, and moved to reach inside his jeans. Suddenly, I had a thought. "Maybe you should be naked."
He bit his lip, mumbled something that sounded like, "Yeah, sure," and stripped. I had seen him naked before, but my breath still caught in my throat. There he was, his tall, slender frame wearing his pale, glowing skin like the pristine coat of some lithe jungle-cat. And his manhood, standing out from his body with its own delicious life, looked so strong and powerful. His cock was beautiful, uninhibited by any clinging pubic hair (he and I both prefer to be shaved); it was long and hard and begging to be touched and sucked. Looking at him standing there, towering over my position on his floor, I had fight the urge to wrap my hands around his hips and pull him to my worshipping lips. But I restrained myself.
His eyes watched mine as he said softly, "What now?"
I gazed up at him like an adulating pilgrim standing before her god after a desperate journey through hell into paradise, and handed him a bottle of lubricant without breaking eye contact.
"I want you to show me how you touch yourself. I want to watch..." I faltered, gasping from a thirst I did not understand and a heat I knew all too well.