Video Submission #1
Greetings, comrades: long time lurker, first time poster. I trust you will watch and understand what is taking place in the video -- it is not a hard thing to grasp -- but I humbly beg that you indulge me, as I describe the entirety of the scenario: the build-up, the event, the postscript, and the tiny moments that have stayed with me, that video did not, or cannot, capture. For me, this means more than the thing itself. I live to relive, I suppose.
This is my first year at a small liberal arts college that I am to attend — against my will, out of some sense of filial duty, fiduciary in truth, and of course for my own good. There is, however, nothing that I find enjoyable here. The campus is filled with snobbish dilettantes, dysfunctional and humorless; the college town is populated by Mid-Atlantic blue-collar trash; the teachers are useless, middle-aged know-it-alls that stink of coffee and failure.
During the days I find myself reading books not assigned in class; at nights I walk alone through the small streets of this sad place, the solitude liberating yet depressing. As I ramble I dream of the Alps, and of old friends met.
That is, until I found you all, my dear VoyeurWorld faithful! I had no idea there were so many of us. The dark web indeed. I have been watching and reading your submissions with extreme interest and envy. And while I have a recording ready to submit, it is for me and me alone. I realized that in order for a proper initiation and hopeful acceptance into your circle, I would need a new video.
The next step was finding the victim. Who should it be? Who should it ever be? I did not take this question lightly. I strove to get at the meaning of my voyeurism. What does the subject of the voyeur bring to it? Object of affection, or of disdain? Is it better if they know, or don't know? Do I want to admire, or humiliate, or both?
I decided, then, that my questions were too many and too big, and I needn't answer them right away. Perfect is the enemy of the good, said Voltaire, and I intend to make this channel a vehicle for my journey into the heart of these musings. My subjects will be many, I told myself, as will my reasons for selecting them, until I understood what it is about this deviant path that fulfills and torments me so.
And do you know, my comrades, that after deciding this very thing, Fate placed in front of me a golden opportunity?
On another late night of walking the west side of the campus, I came upon a stately suburban residence with urban music beating out. Two Greek letters hung from the front of the house, and two inebriated youths stumbled from the door.
"Party inside," one of them shouted. "Free beer for thots." I was flattered, to be sure. My instinct was to tell him to go to hell; but some latent curiosity, or maybe just boredom, drove me in. Was it more? Did I know what I was going to do, even then?
The high point of the party had clearly passed, but a sizable crowd remained of the very drunk, the desperate, or both. A single woman would be wise not to enter a party at such a time, but I have rarely been wise. I craved something resembling excitement, and this would have to do.
"Hey." It was one of the guys from outside, the one who had not referred to me as a 'thot.'. He had followed me back in. I said hey back. He was cute when he slurred.
"You play pool?"
I told him I did. He racked the balls, incorrectly. I took the heaviest stick that wasn't completely warped. I told him I'd break; first shot, I got the two ball in.
"Whoa," he said, before taking another swig of domestic beer. "You're, like, good." He was sweet and well-mannered for a drunk. Curly brown hair, dimples. He told me his name, I think.
His play had deteriorated by the third game, missing gimmes, knocking the cue ball off the table twice. He began to sway. His friends were laughing at him behind his back. At first I felt sorry for him, and disgusted with them. They should take care of him, I thought, his so-called brothers. Shouldn't they, of all people, protect him while in such a state, where anyone could take advantage of him?
He drank thirstily the rest of his light beer. Or perhaps not, I wondered. Perhaps the ecosystem of the fraternity is such that the weak are consumed to the benefit of the strong, and his lack of self-control meant nothing to them except for one less competitor. Perhaps they were on to something.
It is here, my friends, that my plan was hatched, fully formed, in my very active brain. I felt the old familiar surge: hot, wrong, alive. Yes, I knew. It would all be too easy.
After I beat him a fourth time, I opened him another can and suggested that we sit: on a couch, or maybe his room?
"Y'wanna go upstairs with me?" He goofily grinned at me, eyes swimming in beer. I said that I did. He took my hand and led me up; I smiled at his brothers from the stairs. They no longer laughed.
We entered the third room on the left, and I locked the door after shutting it. He sat on the bed hard, almost falling. I sat next to him. I needed only to wait. Take off your shoes, get comfortable, I told him. He did. I put my hand on his shoulder; I lightly pushed. Lie back, you look tired.
"Can I kish you?" he asked politely. I was almost touched. Later, I told him. We had all night.
His left eye closed permanently as he tried to communicate something. The right soon followed. The mumbling finally stopped. I waited silently, for five full minutes that felt much longer, just to be certain. I took out my phone and touched the camera app. I hit record.
At first I circled him, without speaking. I zoomed in on his face. Peaceful. He was cute before; he was beautiful to me now.
As you will no doubt see in the video, I began slowly, starting with the socks. I took off the left one, affectionately grabbing at the big toe, wiggling it; then the right, then the right big toe. I stroked at the bottom of his foot, then finger-walked up his leg. You see my dainty little right hand begin to unbutton the shirt off his wide torso.
I opened it and stepped back. He had a nice body — big-boned and fit but not overly muscular — and he was smooth to the touch. I paused the phone, then helped him out of his shirt. I hit the record button again and zoomed in on his face, pulling back to show him fully shirtless. I placed my hand on his sweet chest, and then walked my fingers down, down to the hairs below his navel, and stood them triumphantly on his belt buckle. I began to open it with the one hand, taking my time, as I filmed with the other. I opened the top button of his jeans. I took the zipper down, and parted the front open, revealing black boxer briefs. You can see the shot begin to tremble in my unsteady left hand. You can hear me breathing.