Every year at Easter time the State Agricultural Fair took place in the fairgrounds - they were in the same buildings and grounds that they had been in for over 100 years. It was a chance for all the farmers to bring their cattle, sheep, goats and pets for the annual show where they would be judged and proudly displayed by their owners. The stalls for the animals were set up so that there was a small elevated space where the owner could sleep and take care of their animal. It was primitive but everybody had a lot of fun. These were not young city kids who had grown soft - these were country kids who had grown up on farms and had a physical life doing chores around the farm. They were not the children of poor farmers, but rather farmers who had large properties and who raised pedigreed animals worth a lot of money. For most of them the annual fair was something to look forward to because it had become part of a mating ritual where they could meet the opposite sex.
Dating apps were useless in the country. Everybody generally lived a long way from most other people and if you found somebody you liked, you would've had to drive for a long while to meet them. The main problem was that most of the people on the dating apps were city slickers who had no idea of life on the farm and what it involved. These country kids of both sexes expected to inherit the farm or part of it and that's why they kept working there. It was the future. All you had to do was find somebody that you could make a life with on the farm. There was no doubt in their minds what that involved. They all knew from experience what hung like a horse' actually meant and knew the difference between B and a bull's pizzle. The girls knew that their destiny was between their legs and that was the source of sexual pleasure and babies. There was no avoiding it. The fellows knew what their role in all this was and happy to accept it.
Nobody ever actually said it that but it was widely accepted that the basis for a good marriage was a happy physical relationship and that meant you had to enjoy the other person's body and they had to enjoy yours. The window of opportunity to find somebody was not very long - you had a few days and if you didn't find a person this year you might have to wait a year for another chance. It put a bit of pressure on people but one good thing was that the parents of both parties were likely to be there and could talk to each other and give guidance to their kids. It was not an arranged marriage by any means but it had elements of it in that the parents were slightly involved.
At the end of the big Hall where they all slept, there were two large communal showers for males and females. The rules were that at 6 o'clock on the first night of the show, an hour after all the visitors to the show had left, all the young people over 18 who were looking after the animals would be able to go down to the showers - the showers were now uni-sex and after a shower they would all walk naked through the hall to a small judging ring whether they would mingle and then walk back to the showers. They weren't the only fair where this happened - necessity was the mother of invention and it was pretty harmless and it worked.
A long time ago, nobody knew when, about 20 of the farmhands in the hall had gone to the showers and walked down to the judging ring naked. Everybody was shocked out of their mind but when they did it the next night, there were a lot more people and when they did it the third night, practically everybody in the hall was there. The next year on the first night of the show, they did it again and that was the beginning of the tradition and soon it was the thing that everybody look forward to most. They all knew that college kids had their hazing rituals which often involved people running around naked. Why should they have all the fun?
After dinner there would be a dance and everybody would go dressed ready to attract a partner from the other sex. In theory it didn't look like a mating ritual that would work, but in practice, its success over all the number of years in uniting their parents overcame everybody's reluctance to get naked. None of the girls had seen so many dicks all at once and none of the fellows had seen so many hairy pussies.
In the showers everybody looked around nervously. They had never been naked in front of anybody before and all of a sudden they were surrounded by naked people. To look or not to look? To be embarrassed or not to be embarrassed? Within a minute or two any pretension to embarrassment was gone - what was the point - everybody was in the same boat. It didn't stop people being self-conscious as they looked around and compared their own bodies with everybody else's. Jed and Jessica were no different. Jed looked around comparing all the dicks - were they bigger than his, were they smaller, longer or shorter - it was hard to tell, some of them were already stiff. Jessica was the same, comparing her breasts with everybody else's - she was satisfied that that she didn't have the biggest breasts but they were more than adequate. It was really confusing when it came to pussies - some of the girls had no hair at all and you could see the slits - others were nicely trimmed and a few even had bows and tattoos. There were those who strode confidently and who chatted with others but quite a few who are rather sheepish about the whole thing. When the bell rang at 6.15 they would all slowly troop out of the hall.
The girl's eyes flicked from man to man checking their equipment and wondering which one they preferred. They were all shapes and sizes, long and short, cut and uncut - more than a few were standing out stiff and erect and of course they attracted a lot of attention. Was it good to have a husband who was hung like a horse or was something smaller preferable? The girls would discuss this at length but never able to come to a conclusion. The boys' gaze wandered from girl to girl assessing their attributes. It wasn't easy to make a comparison when you had to compare three things simultaneously on each girl - face, breasts and pussy. The girls could have tried to hide their assets behind their hands but they didn't - they wanted to attract somebody and they knew the best way to do it was to look sexy. You not only had to look sexy but had to look as if you wanted to have sex - that was a bit difficult but some of them managed.
Jed's eyes spotted a woman who looked very interesting from afar. She was easy to pick out because she must've been the tallest girl there. She had a nice smile, smallish breasts and he couldn't see the rest through the crowded bodies. Jed threaded his way towards her and she realised that he was headed towards her. All she could see was his head but when he got closer, she could see that he had an erection. It certainly wasn't the biggest dick there but it would be enough to satisfy her. Jessica's parents bred cattle and she knew the importance of cojones on a bull and you could see instantly that Ted was well endowed in that department. Other girls might think that a fellow with a big dick, good for two fucks per night was good but she knew that it was better to have a fellow with a small cock who could last many times in the night.
Jed introduced himself, "hi, I'm Jed. You look great. I've seen you in the hall a couple of times and I noticed how tall you were but I didn't know that you had such a terrific figure. You hid it well."
"Hi I'm Jessica. I've seen you around too;" A brief conversation followed and then everybody began to walk back towards the showers. Jed's parting words were, "I'll see you at the dance tonight."
"I'll look out for you."
After a few minutes mingling in the judging ring they all went back to the showers and got dressed, ready for the evening dance. At the dance they looked for each other again. This time they were dressed and Jessica was in a very nice dress that showed off her breasts to advantage. The dress was very short and when she danced and spun around you could see her panties underneath. Jed was turned on immediately and would have been happy to get into her pants straight away but that was not how things worked. You were supposed to take things slowly and get to know the girl properly before you did anything like that but the fact was that it looked like a case of love at first sight. Jed was dressed like a cowboy should be dressed and Jessica was smitten.
The next day they partook in the shower ritual again and Jed kept his eye open to see Jessica - she looked terrific and as they mingled in the judging ring, he said "let's go out for dinner. There is a nice Italian place in town."
"Great idea. I don't often get a chance to eat Italian and I love it."
