I met Cathy Ann at a disco in New York's meat-packing district. It was a hot sultry August night, a Friday night. I paid the cover, got the back of my hand stamped--silly ritual--and circled around the dance floor to the bar. Strobe lights flashed on the dancers. You saw them kaleidoscopically, in colored fragments. Cathy Ann was sitting at the bar nursing a vodka tonic. I was drawn to her at once. Even before I ever laid eyes on her I felt her presence. Hairy women seem to give off a certain electricity that makes me alert.
Cathy Ann had shoulder-length, straight brown hair, worn loose. Her eyebrows were bushy, wild, and connected in the middle with a thick dark fringe of hair. She had a very feminine-looking mustache, a woman's mustache: her upper lip was entirely fringed with dark straight silky hairs. The dark down that lined her jaw from her ears almost to her chin was long enough to tug. She sipped her drink. A droplet clung enticingly to one of her mustache hairs. Her tongue flicked up and licked it off with the darting quickness of a snake.
I introduced myself. Cathy Ann reciprocated. "What are you drinking?" I asked. I ordered another vodka tonic for her and a glass of the house white for me. Normally vodka rocks is my drink. But I thought I might get lucky with Cathy Ann. I didn't want to get too drunk to take advantage of whatever opportunities presented themselves.
She was wearing a short-sleeved black knit top, a black pleated skirt, black pantyhose, and black half-heeled pumps. That her arms were exceptionally hairy was impossible for anyone to ignore. Dark tufts sprouted from her knuckles. Dark flecks of hair covered the backs of her hands. At her slender wrists, the hair suddenly grew longer, thicker, curlier, and as it spread up her forearms its lushness only increased, giving her a flagrantly feral quality. Her upper forearm hair was at least three or four inches long, and it was smoothed straight, perhaps an attempt to give it a lower profile. Even so, it formed a dark dense carpet with a feel factor that promised to be off the charts.
We chatted about this and that, I bought her another drink, and then I just came right out and said it: "I love how hairy your arms are."
"Really?" she asked. She couldn't believe it. "Most people think it's gross."
"I think it's beautiful," I said. I took her hand in mine and began to stroke the hair on her arm. It actually tickled my palm. I raked my fingers through the thickest parts of it, and it spiked out tantalizingly.
Cathy Ann smiled. "You know, I'm hairy all over."
"Really?" I said.
She nodded. "I don't shave. You should see my armpits. They're hairier than a man's."
"Is that an invitation?" I asked.
She smiled coyly.
"What about your legs?" I asked.
"My legs, too."
"Tell me how hairy they are."
"The hair is really long and thick. I love to run my fingers through it."