"What do you mean you've never seen one??" gasped Beth as we sat in her bedroom reading magazines and indulging in a smattering of girlie chatter and gossip.
"It's true!" I replied, "I've never seen one."
"I can't believe that!" Beth replied somewhat aghast.
"Yeah, well you obviously didn't have the sort of upbringing I had!" I shot back.
"Yeah but even so, you must've at least seen a picture of one."
"Nope, I've no idea what they look like."
The 17th of July 1985 was a day I will never forget as long as I live. It was the day when I finally had my eyes opened to the marvel of male anatomy and it was all thanks to my best friend Beth.
I'd known Beth for less than a year but she soon became my best friend. We had moved to the area when my mother landed a new job with a local school as an English teacher. I was an only child and my dad died when I was only three years old. They had been very strict Methodists and when my dad died she vowed to never remarry or even to have any type of relationship with another man. They weren't exactly Amish-type strict, but my family certainly lived by Victorian values. Most of the rest of my family were women, there hadn't been a male born into the family in over 70 years so I had no young male cousins although I did have several female cousins. So apart from the boys at school I had almost no experience with males on a regular basis. The only men I ever knew growing up were my granddad and my uncle Charles, my aunt Erica's husband.
"I simply refuse to believe it – you're seriously telling me you've never in all your life seen a naked boy before?!?"
It was true; I had somehow managed from the day I was born right up to the age of 19, to have never witnessed the sight of a naked male human being. I truly had no idea what they looked like. We never even had any male pets as my mother fervently believed that I should not be corrupted by the sight of male genitalia of any kind lest it take away my virtue. As I said, my family was very conservative and I was only meant to discover male anatomy when I was married off. My mother also forbade me from attending sex education lessons at school, both at primary school and secondary school.
I didn't share my mothers' sense of morality however, and I longed to see a naked male for myself but with such a female-dominated family and my own shyness, the opportunity had never presented itself. The only things I knew for certain was that boys were different to girls, that babies grew inside girls and that boys somehow made them grow inside a girls body.
I also knew that boys could go to the toilet standing up whereas girls had to sit down to pee. I had heard of this thing called a penis and that it was something that all boys had but which girls didn't have but I had no idea what one was, what it did or how it worked.
"Well, we're going to have to change that!" said Beth with a slight grin, "how would you feel if we were to, y'know take a little peek."
"What? You mean... you can't be serious!" I replied, now it was my turn to be aghast.
"I'm deadly serious!" Beth said, "Just give me a sec and I'll see what I can do."
Beth disappeared from her room leaving me on my own. I had expected her to appear a few moments later with an armful of pornographic magazines which were sure to have plenty of glossy pictures of naked men therein. Something which, if my mother had caught me with them, would've had dire consequences that I didn't even want to think about. She was gone for more than just a few moments though, in fact she didn't reappear for at least 20 minutes and it wasn't merely a handful of magazines she came back with – it was something far more interesting than that.
"Terri", said Beth as she entered the room, "meet Tommy – my darling twin brother!"
My jaw dropped, Tommy was beautiful! He was tall, with a well defined but not overly muscular physique (he was already topless, well, it was a hot day after all!) with nicely proportioned pectorals crowned with small, dark but very pert nipples. He had slightly curly blonde hair and deep blue eyes, he was almost Adonis-like in the way he carried himself. His masculinity was effortless but at the same time totally non-threatening to a sensitive girl like myself.
"Hi!" I said, my voice trembling somewhat.
"Hi" he replied, "You must be Terri", I found myself lost in those beautiful blue eyes of his and I instantly longed to reach out and feel his manly but hairless chest and caress his nipples. Beth snapped me out of my trance by dropping a monumental bombshell.
"Tommy has agreed to let us take a look at him so that you can see what all the fuss is about and what you've been missing out on all these years."
"For real???" I said in almost total disbelief.
"For real!" Beth confirmed, "It took a little bit of persuasion to get him to agree but he says he'll let us do whatever we want".
"There are just two conditions", said Tommy, "firstly, neither of you mention anything to anyone, ever, about what is going to happen in this room today."
"We swear we won't mention it to anyone" Beth vowed as solemnly as she could, I vowed myself likewise.
"And secondly," Tommy said with a sly grin as he raised his arms, "if you want it, you have to come and get it!"
"Well, what are you waiting for Terri?" said Beth "get his trousers off already!"
I needed no further invitation; I knelt down in front of Tommy and looked up into his deep blue eyes.
"Are you sure about this?" I asked him.
"Of course I am, Beth tells me your folks were really strict and that you've never seen a naked boy before so it'll be an honour for me to be your first!" he replied.
"Well, just as long as you don't mind" I said, and I reached out and undid his belt. Then I undid the button at his waist and unzipped his flies. With a single motion, gravity took over and his jeans fell down his legs, ending up in a crumpled heap around his ankles. He stepped out of them and kicked them away as I gazed at the sight of him in his underpants.
I was mesmerised by the sight of the bulge at his crotch, my own knickers concealed no such thing so to witness this mysterious swelling at Tommy's crotch only fuelled my curiosity further. I just stared at it, utterly spellbound until Beth's voice snapped me out of it.
"Well Terri, are you going to pull Tommy's pants down or what?"
Tommy's underpants were such an erotic sight to me in my innocence – they were sleek briefs in bright red cotton with a wide black waistband which accentuated his manly figure. And that bulge! I couldn't wait to discover what was causing it so I reached out once again and took hold of his pants at the waistband and started to pull them down.
Everything then went in slow motion, gradually the red cotton gave way to smooth pinkish flesh and this odd appendage began to reveal itself as I pulled down Tommy's pants further and further. This must be the fabled penis I had heard about that made boys different to girls I thought to myself.
As I revealed more I noticed there were other things inside Tommy's pants as well, I guessed I would soon find out what they were in good time.
With the waistband of Tommy's pants now halfway down his legs the gusset of his delightfully masculine underwear, which had up to that point clung between his legs as if hanging on for dear life, finally gave way with an almost inaudible twang and I simply let them fall to the floor around his ankles. Tommy kicked them off just as he had his jeans a few moments earlier.
Tommy was naked, albeit still with his socks on which I thought was kind of cute. He sighed as he lowered his arms to his sides and I took in the sight of my very first naked boy in all his masculine glory.
"Well?" asked Beth, "what do you think Terri?"
"It's beautiful! Sorry, I mean you're beautiful Tommy!" I said.
"I'm glad you think so Terri!" said Tommy as he gave us a quick twirl allowing us to see his back and his beautifully tight, pert bottom. I was beside myself with arousal!
"Here, let me give you the grand tour" said Beth as she knelt down beside me in front of her brother. "This is Tommy's penis" she said as she reached out and took hold of the largest of the three appendages set before me, "it's probably the most important part of a man's body, the part that actually makes him a man."
