You'd never believe the story of how I fucked a guy for the first time. He was a drinking buddy, nearly twice my age and a head taller than me.
I didn't know I was even interested until I transitioned from female to male. Suddenly I felt the dick and the drive that I had been missing all my life. The hormone therapy, testosterone, made me as horny as a teenager and I needed to get off with someone. As it turned out, my silver fox buddy needed something from me too.
The seduction started innocently enough over a couple of beers. He was telling me about work troubles, family troubles, and then, as usual, once he was midway through his second bottle, he told me what was really on his mind: he had an upcoming appointment to see the proctologist and he was scared shitless, so to speak. He was afraid of cancer, sure, but mostly he was anxious about someone probing his ass. He'd avoided this sort of appointment up until now, but at his age, it wasn't safe to keep putting it off.
I've been through my share of anxieties about penetration. I'm a trans guy with a "bonus hole" for god sakes. But I never understood why some straight guys are so afraid of getting their ass felt up, especially when they have the fortune of sexual arousal from their prostate. Hell, I love anal penetration, and I don't even have that sweet spot. I guess I never worry too much about being emasculated, being born with a female body steels you against those worries by making your worst fear true from birth.
So anyway, being the kind of friend I am, I decided to air my critique of uptight straight dudes and then probe him further:
"What's the deal with straight guys worrying about their precious asses?"
He fires back defensive, "I'm not worried about being seen as feminine. And I'm not a homophobe."
"So then what?" I challenge.
"I just get really freaked out if someone tries to touch my ass!" He replies, vexed by having to spell out the obvious.
"Like at all?" I ask.
"I've never had gay sex," he replies, as if that helps explain anything.
I push, "I know. You've told me that. But... I mean, hasn't your wife ever just slipped in a finger?"
His ears get red at my asking such a personal question, "No! Never! We don't have sex like that."
He falls silent. I sense an opportunity in his willingness to dwell in the discomfort of this conversation, "Hmm...Do you ever think about it though?"
"I dunno. I don't like to really. It makes me feel weird. I'm curious, a little...." He says while looking down, as if he's ashamed to admit it.
I soften my approach a bit, recognizing his shame like it's my own. "Did someone try to touch you, or make you feel wrong about it?"
He pauses for so long I think I've crossed a line from playfully teasing him about his ass fears into something far too serious and painful. I try to change the subject but my mind goes blank.
He fills the silence with confession, "There was this one thing, when I was kid. I dunno. It was weird. I dunno how to describe it. It was this friend of my father's, a drinking buddy. He'd come over on Saturday mornings and they'd start drinking early. My dad would pass out or just zone out to the TV and his friend would come up to my room. He took a lot of interest in me; he would ask me all about my model planes and play with me. But then sometimes, not everytime, but sometimes I would pull my pants down and show him my butt."
His face is burning red as he pieces this story together. "I don't know why I did that; or what was wrong with me. He just took an interest in me and I went and did such a stupid dirty thing."
Fuck. I think I know where he's coming from. And that it wasn't his fault, but telling him that probably doesn't help. "How did he react when you did that?"
He pauses again, scrunching up the edges of his eyes and contracting his temples, like he's digging the images and feelings up from a deep corner of his mind. "I guess sometimes he would ask me to do it...and sometimes he would feel it a little."
"Did you like it when he would feel it?"
His voice cracks and pitches up to become almost child-like, "I'd ask him to rub it and to tickle me. I started getting woodies so he stopped coming to my room. I was bad and messed everything up."
He stops short and his voice drops back to its normal low rumble. "Ugh, what am I talking about?" he beats on his temples with his fists as he snaps back to the moment.
"It's ok" I say softly, putting a firm hand on his shoulder. "You're ok now."
I give him some time to collect himself by heading to the fridge to grab us two more cold ones. I snap his open for him and toast, "to letting out all the fucked up memories sick fucks gave us." He smiles and relaxes back against the couch knowing I'm not going to make fun of him, pretend he never said it, or be freaked out by what he was telling me.
I shift the conversation to other things, to football, to the most recent restaurants we ate at, to the science of genes and trauma. My traumas left me with a disposition for stubbornly persisting toward what I want, so I circle back to his anxieties about his ass. I tell him there's this approach to healing trauma where you revisit the event in a controlled environment with someone you trust. For example, the proctologist is a controlled environment, and I suggest he could note the feelings that come up, maybe write them down. I expect to get smacked down hard for this touchy feely suggestion. (And honestly, I provoke him because I enjoy his smack downs.)
But this time he surprises me. "What's the fun in that?" he asks with a glint in his eye.
"Well, I could walk through it with you first, break out the rubber gloves." I intend to laugh like I'm making an offhand joke, but it comes out pinched from my own excitement at the possibility.
He just looks at me hard, holding my gaze until I drop mine.