Every woman at the hot spring laughed at the young man's micro-penis, and it was all that I could do to refrain from laughing myself. It was barely two inches long, too small to satisfy any woman, and I wondered if it could even ejaculate.
It was the most risible thing I had ever seen, and I questioned why a young man with such a pathetically small penis would humiliate himself in public, at a location that attracts so many women.
Otherwise, the boy had a pleasant appearance -- a good-looking face and muscular build -- with downy soft skin, clean shaven of all bodily hair. He had a child-like quality to him, so I think of him as a boy, but he was likely in his mid-twenties. And there he sat, alone and naked, in the coolest of the three pools.
He was sexy and any woman could scoop him up, I thought -- and if she could motivate his 'miniature member' she would have a real catch.
For several months I had heard the salacious stories about 'Stubby' -- the name that all the women in my hiking club use when talking about him. "That boy needs a woman to take charge of him," Caroline commented. "Someone who will take ownership of that little stub."
"You could fit it into the daintiest teacup," Brenda cruelly added, motioning with her fingers, "and still have room for cream and sugar. I bet that I could completely hold it in one clenched fist, but how much work would it take to get it to do anything?"
"It definitely needs a woman's touch," Angela surmised -- and all the women laughed.
Yes, the women laughed and laughed. Because what could be funnier than a boy with a small penis? (Only a boy with a small penis who displays it publicly, I suppose.)
Altogether there were several dozen women in the hiking club, most in their forties or fifties, and this was the only spot where any had ever seen Stubby. There are several hot springs in this general area, however -- ten miles this way, five miles that way, but as this hot spring is the easiest of the hikes, it is also the most popular destination.
On this weekend the hot spring attracted fifty or so people, mostly women.
The trailhead to the hot spring is adjacent to a paved parking lot. First traversing under the highway, the 5.8-mile loop leads down a broad alluvial plane across the desert that funnels into a narrow slot canyon, which winds its way to the river. From the river the trail circles to the south, then up a different slot canyon -- equally narrow, then up a metal ladder, to first enter the coolest of the three pools.
The warmest of the pools is roughly 110°F and is the favored relaxation spot for weary hikers having made the arduous trek. Given my competitive nature, I led the single file of ladies in our group for most of the hike - a hike into a wilderness of rough rocks and jagged cliffs, that despite having been subjugated to eons of scorching sun and flash floods, can still cut unwary skin.
Nature is raw and unambiguous, and we often lose sight of this fact.
The news I had heard about Stubby piqued my interest, and when I signed up for this hike, I thought about what it would be like to finally see this spectacle for myself. "It's laughable how small it is," was on every woman's lips. At the top of the ladder, stepping into the coolest of the three pools, I first laid my eyes upon Stubby.
It was as small as every woman said, and my first thought was that I'd like to play with that tiny todger to see if I could make it get any bigger. I mean, he wasn't an unattractive boy, and other than possessing genitalia the size and dimensions of an acorn, I found him sexy.
Sexy and naked -- and on display for all the world to see.
One by one each of us passed Stubby, and other than me, every woman in our group broke out in uncontrollable laughter -- often right in front of the boy. "I wonder if that's as big as it gets," snickered Mylene, who like myself, was also seeing it for the first time. Walking through the three pools we arrived at an area that offers privacy, where we ladies changed into our swimwear, then we returned to the warmest pool for a long soak.
The water's unwavering heat stung my skin, and sinking deeper, I took a series of unsteady breaths. Nature is confrontational, I was reminded, and that when we insert ourselves in its realm, we participate is this dialectic -- although so often we unsuccessfully try to tame it.