For many years I led a life of quiet desperation. At the age of 23 I still lived with my divorced mother, and I was still a virgin. But do not think for a moment that I had no sex life, no appreciation for pleasures of the flesh. I did. I worshiped, adored, dreamed about, and was utterly obsessed with the legs of young women.
Observation or contemplation of those captivating limbs occupied most of my waking hours. I could tell you just when and where to see California's most delectable females clad in cut-off jeans, jogging shorts, mini- or even micro skirts; whatever revealed to my admiring eyes their delightful legs.
And don't even get me started on beaches and swimming pools.
As a product of the modern era, I accept no blame for my obsession. It wasn't me, it was the environment I was brought up in. More to the point, my Aunt Mandy. Yes, Aunt Mandy, 32 and separated from her husband when she moved in with my mother and me for a few months. I was 14, a mere lad, tender and impressionable. And Aunt Mandy was possessed of the longest, most lissom, golden legs in Contra Costa County. I suppose it was inevitable.
It is no secret that women know precisely what is their best physical attribute, and dress to display it to full advantage. Aunt Mandy's entire wardrobe, I believe, was selected for no other purpose but to show off her amazing legs. And she did, with shockingly brief skirts and dresses; shorts of every fabric and style provided they were short. You can imagine how she dressed at my mother's house.
At first Aunt Mandy came to breakfast in a long T-shirt, panties, and nothing more. My mother finally laid down the law, but by then it was too late. I'd already spent several mornings studying my aunt's smooth thighs and calves. I blushed like the schoolboy I was, but could not take my eyes off them.
I knew I was a goner that day I was lying poolside, innocently reading a Henry Miller novel. Aunt Mandy strolled out, wearing one of those high-cut swimsuits that accentuates a woman's long legs. She sat down in the sun lounger next to me, and began to slather baby oil on her silky legs.
By then she was aware of my fascination, of course. But do you think she took pity on me, accepted her responsibility to behave modestly around her own flesh and blood? She did not.
Once she had my attention, which took about half a second, she worked her hands slowly up from her delightfully slim ankles to those full meaty calves, whose skin enclosed taut muscles and the like. Her knees were firm and well-shaped, leading to the piΓ©ce de rΓ©sistance: thighs as smooth as butter, as flawless as a porcelain vase.
Helpless to do otherwise I watched. Watched as she slowly moved her hands over them, kneading the muscles, caressing her thighs as if she were making love to them. It was the most sensual thing I had ever seen in my young life.
The woman, haughty and proud, gazed at me over her sunglasses. "Are you enjoying this, junior?" she purred.
Oh, she was a heartless no-good woman! But how many times since that day have I lain in bed, caressing my manhood as I envisioned Aunt Mandy and her legs? How many stars are there in the sky?
I took my college degree at the University of Arizona. I chose that school because Tucson's climate enables young coeds to wear shorts throughout the school year. It is a leg-watcher's paradise.
And oh, the legs on display. The Arizona girls were no slouch, but many attractive girls from southern California also go to the U of A. Their parents gladly pay out-of-state-tuition to get them farther from home than USC or UCLA.
I loved the warm sunny days we'd have in mid-February. Wearing my Ray-Bans, I'd sit on the Main Mall, watching the endless parade of pulchritude. I fell in love with many of the girls, for example the one I called Latina doll. She had amazingly shapely legs of the most exquisite brown ochre color. And there was Barbie, blonde and from SoCal of course. Superb long legs, thighs a delicious wheat color, so lithe that you could see her muscles ripple as she pranced by. Ah, college life!
Although I was there for the leg show, the U of A insisted that I actually major in something. I chose tax law and accounting. To my surprise I was rather good at it. Eventually I had taken all the courses I needed and was obliged, somewhat against my will, to graduate.
I took a job with an accounting firm in the Embarcadero section of San Francisco, and moved back in with my mother who lived across the bay on Lois Lane in the town of El Cerrito. That's right, Lois Lane. Always good for a chuckle.
I settled into a dreary routine of commuting on the BART to the city. Now of all months I dreaded February most. There I'd be, riding through cold rainy San Francisco, tantalized by thoughts of all those curvaceous legs on display at that very moment down at the U of A's Main Mall. So far away now.
But in late winter the Bay Area eventually rewards you with glorious sunny days. Then, here and there, can be spotted my sole pleasure in life, a nice pair of legs on display.
It began on just such a day. I was returning home on the BART, thinking of nothing in particular. Several seconds passed before I realized that a young woman had sat down opposite me. I vaguely recall reddish blonde curls; she may even have had breasts. But what she did have, what riveted my eyes to the point of hypnosis, was the most enchanting legs a man can imagine. She was Aunt Mandy, Latina doll, and Barbie rolled into one.
Barely covered by an eyelet miniskirt, spread apart more than is decent, were the legs of my dreams: cream-colored perfection, firm and muscular but at the same time so very silky-smooth and feminine. Some might think them too long. But I say that just as you can never be too rich, a woman's legs can never be too long.
My obsession was such that everything around save those legs somehow just faded away. My eyes were filled with that sweet object of desire, soft woman's flesh so delightfully formed.
The girl looked out the window for a while, but soon realized that the man across from her was staring at her legs with unbridled lust, his eyes glazed over, his jaw slack.
I glanced up and saw that she was watching me. Blushing intensely, I tried to look away. But how can you ask a man to ignore legs so enchanting? Helpless, feeling like a marionette, I drew my eyes back to her flawless limbs.
The girl sighed in vexation, and the temperature in the car dropped about ten degrees. Then she got up, glanced at me and hissed, "Asshole!" With that remark she strode down the aisle and disappeared into the next car.
I was embarrassed, but not as much as you might think. It wasn't the first time I'd been caught in the act of ogling a woman's legs and called asshole or worse. It comes with the obsession.
And so the days went on in dull sequence as the weather gradually warmed. About a week later I was returning home on the BART, reading the Chronicle as we whooshed under the bay. I looked up and there was the same girl: sitting across from me, looking directly into my eyes.
Her eyes, I saw, were a pleasing cornflower blue. Now they were dark with contempt but also curiosity. Of course I looked down to her legs, on display today below cotton shorts in a floral print design. Somehow I mustered the willpower to meet her eyes again.
Then I spoke. "Look, you're a very attractive woman. And I'm really sorry my behavior offended you. Will you please accept my apology?"
That softened the edges around her a bit. She smiled, but there was the cool look of a minx about that smile too.
"So," she murmured, "you like my legs?" There was no one near us in the car. She could speak freely.
"They're very lovely," I answered, thinking, I should know.
The cat regarded the mouse. "I'll bet you'd like to touch them. Slide your hands over my thighs, hmm? Wouldn't that be nice?"
I gulped and said nothing.
"Maybe even kiss them? How do you suppose that would feel, placing your lips on this soft skin?" With that she raised one leg up so that her foot rested on the seat.
I swallowed, beads of sweat now on my forehead. She held her leg so that the back of her thigh was on full display, not to mention a glimpse of white panties under the shorts.
"Why are you doing this?" I whispered.
"Because I can, my love, because I can." Was Aunt Mandy ever so cruel?
I took several deep breaths. "There's a better place to torture me."