Author's note
I've deliberately kept this one short as it's a slow burn and doesn't contain a huge amount of actual sexual activity. The story is written through the eyes of a journalist who is following an 18-year-old girl as she prepares to undergo the village blowjob ceremony.
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In the year of our lord, 1304 a great famine hit the Welsh village of Llanslebog. Not a morsel of food was to be found and once all the cats, dogs and children had been eaten the village faced starvation. Then the lord heard their prayers and said, "Owen, thou shalt be a fountain from which all will drink." Owen was blessed with erotic eruptions that filled the bellies of the faithful and so the village was saved.
Well, that's the story everyone in the village of Llanslebog knows. There are of course sceptics of the official story, and the Vatican refuses to canonise him, but there is some proof. The male line of his family still resides in the village, blessed with well-endowed penises that produce a generously unnaturally large volume of semen. OK, not enough to fill your belly but enough to overfill a shot glass if the locals are to be believed.
Scientists say it's just a genetic abnormality, but the village isn't taking any chances. That's why on the first Sunday after their daughters turn 18 they whip them straight over to the village square after church to be blessed with a mouthful. Every girl in the village has undergone the ritual for over 700 years and now it's the daughter of the Page family's turn and this is her story.
I must confess I was sceptical of the ritual when I first heard of it. I had travelled through Wales on many a summer holiday and never even heard of Llanslebog. Perhaps with so many villages beginning with "Llan" I could be forgiven as an Englishman for it not standing out. Llanslebog lies far from the major trunk roads and holiday destinations. Few go out of their way to visit the place.
I first became aware of Llanslebog and its ritual last year after a chance meeting in a Gwynedd pub with a colourful, if intoxicated, local character. Naturally, I thought he was pulling my leg but I couldn't resist the long drive down winding B-roads to visit the place myself.
I found an unremarkable village, a couple of shops, the obligatory church and a single pub. As a journalist, I felt I had to put at least a little effort into substantiating the rumour and so called into the church hoping for answers. Thereupon a small stained glass window, I saw it, Owen and his fountainous phallus feeding the faithful. The vicar was kind enough to fill me in on the details, to my amazement everything was true. I asked him if any families would be willing to be interviewed and after several months he put me in touch with the Page family.
Their daughter was fast approaching 18, I was invited to spend time with them upon her 18th birthday until the ritual 4 days later. After a four-hour drive to the village Satnav forgot, I was welcomed into their cottage. Like the village, the family appeared unremarkable, the father Dewi, the mother Beca, and two daughters Bethan 20 and Ella 18 looked like any other decent British family found in any street.
Morning birthday events had long passed, it was now late afternoon and after a meal of lamb shank and tatws popty, the two daughters prepared for a night out celebrating with friends giving me time to interview their parents. I opened up by asking what the myth of Owen's penis meant to the village.
"I wouldn't be calling it a myth around here," replied Dewi, "People can be a bit sensitive about outsiders looking down on our beliefs. Is it any different to Christ feeding thousands with two fishes?"
I acknowledged I had made a mistake and pressed on with how they got around the sexual nature of the story when it came to the younger generation.
"It's tricky," replied the mother, "The story is important to the village but we still have a responsibility to shield the younguns from the sex act. Are you familiar with the biblical story of Mosses?" I nodded I learnt it as a child.
"As a child did they teach you Mosses ordered his followers slaughter 3000 of their friends, brothers and neighbours in Exodus 32?
I admitted that was the first I heard of it and she continued, "It's the same here, we omit the more adult parts to protect the young."
The father added, "They do a yearly school play but Owen shoots tea from his magic finger instead."
"I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout,
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up,
Hear me shout,
Tip me over and pour me out!"
"Not as innocent as you think, Is it?" asked the mother.
It was clear that for the family and the village, the story had great significance but I was interested as to why they felt the need to send their daughters off to perform fellatio in public.
"No one wants to break a 700-year-old tradition," replied Mr Page, "No girl wants to spend her life known as the one who never kneeled."