Hot Sex With Some African Queens
Jo'burg. Ivan shows me around. He's been here before. He has friends, he knows places. We drink in a small bar off Rosettenville, then stroll further towards a club called 'The Blue Dahlia'. There's a low marquee outside. It looks rather run-down. But once inside, with the lights low but for winking red fluorescents and spots directed onto a small stage, it begins to appear more lively. Couples are dancing to a cool jazz soundtrack on a small dance-floor adjacent to the stage, but Ivan locates a table in an alcove and signals for two more drinks. He glances at his watch impatiently.
A sinuous female figure sidles onto the stage and caresses the microphone in an intimate manner that draws and hooks my attention. She sings "That Old Devil Moon" and "Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday songs, but charged with an aching sensitivity that sets the hairs on the nape of neck prickling. An eloquent melancholy giving voice to all the sadness and sweet romantic pain of the world, of loss, of exclusion, of being trapped as a transgressive outsider in a twilight world. Most of the smoochy dancers don't even notice, but I do. Her glamour and sophisticated artistry has me hypnotized.
Once she's left the stage Ivan waits a few moments more, gulps what's left of his drink, and indicates for me to follow him. It's only as I pass close by the dance area it dawns on me that the dancers are all same-sex. Women dancing with women. Men dancing with men. Some of them in elaborate drag. I don't have time to gawp, Ivan leads me through a side door and into a backstage corridor. The carpet is worn, but had been rich maroon. There are posters on the wall hinting at better days of old, 'Burlesque', 'Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret'.
He knocks at a dressing room door, and enters without waiting for a reply. There are three 'girls' inside in various stages of undress. The vamp who'd sung "Strange Fruit" with such magical intonations looks up as we enter. Her face illuminated with camp joy.
"Oh Ivan, what a joy it is to see you again!" She minces across in high heels, her hips swaying, embraces Ivan and kisses him on the lips.
Then she turns her attention on me. "Is this your latest boy, Ivan. Oh, he's divine."
I feel clumsy and tongue-tied. Their gender is erotically fluid, an alien glamour that takes my breath away. They cluster around me.
"This is Honeysuckle" says Ivan. The singer, coffee-dark complexion and a pale orchid in her nightblack-hair, has eyes that are hauntingly deep. Her slim figure outlined in a gold lamè creation cut low to reveal a convincing décolletage. Her voice is deep and rich. Behind her is Lola, in tight basque with blood-red ribbons and lace, suspenders and black stockings, she wears tasteful sequins and her blonde hair is piled high in elaborate coiffure. And Lucy Bluesky, in fifties-style see-through lingerie, a fetishistic baby-doll costume with cut-away nipples, and thong pulled up tight between the ample curves of her rounded bottom.
"I loved your songs" I stammer.
"Oh how cute. I do believe he's blushing" teases Lola.
"Is he as good-bad as he should be, Ivan?" teases Honeysuckle. "Does that surly mouth of his keep your big-brute cock happy? Do you think we should take him in hand...?"
"He does look a little dowdy" complains Bluesky through scarlet pouting lips, hands on her hips. "Can we work on him, Ivan, please, please?"
Ivan laughs. "Be my guest girls. I'm certain he'll benefit from your tender ministrations."
I allow myself to be drawn forward. They seat me in a cosmetic chair in front of make-up mirrors, the desk-top a confusion of powders and exotic creams, then they elevate me higher, and recline the chair backwards. I'm nervous and excited. Don't know how to react or what to expect. Their perfume is making me light-headed.
Honeysuckle is easing my T-shirt up and over my head, gently but firmly, her soft feminine touch on the bare skin of my stomach is electric. Over the weeks of my voyage I've come to accept that my sexuality reacts to whatever circumstances I find myself in. That it's impossible to imagine certainty in such an imprecise area. I'd now feel amputated from an integral part of my personality if I were forced to reject one gender for an exclusivity of the other. It's that I so much prefer to relate to people as individuals rather than gender stereotypes. These three, fussing around me, confound even those expectations.
Lola uses downy feathers to brush my forehead and cheeks, leaving a residue of aromatic powder, before applying gel eyeliner, smudging on softer lines, and massaging shadow around my eyes. While Lucy splays my fingers across the arm-rests, buffs and prepares to add sparkling nail-varnish. Ivan watches, his arms folded, with a broad smile on his face. I attempt to relax and allow them their way, even as Honeysuckle fumbles with the fastening of my shorts and begins to tug at the hem. Uncertain what to do, still bashful and just a little intimidated by this exotic trio, I relax, lift my hips a little to allow her. My shorts slip down my thighs.
The 'girls' momentarily break off their make-up tasks as my stiff cock quivers into view, slapping up against my stomach as it comes free from the material of my shorts. They're cooing with delight and making little appreciative groans.
"Oh Ivan, he's simply lovely" simpers Honeysuckle as she reaches out to take the head of my cock between thumb and forefinger, lifting it up so the girls can see it to better advantage. Lola claps her hands in delight. Lucy blows it an exaggerated kiss. I squirm in pleasurable embarrassment.
Honeysuckle produces a fine-comb and begins teasing my pubic hair into shape, using clippers and a small lady-razor to snip away strands. As she works I notice the dexterity of her long slim feminine fingers moving over the intimate areas of my groin. Her nails are long and lushly varnished, except for the index-finger of her right hand, where the nail is manicured short and rounded. I don't have time to wonder further as they continue transforming my appearance, massaging lotions, using blusher and subtle tints, tweezering away stray hairs. I'm just a human doll for their cosmetic games.
Honeysuckle's fingers are cosseting my balls, snipping away hairs into a neat bush. Her close and intimate touch is setting up inevitable reactions in my groin, her every touch stimulating radiations of pleasure. I bite my lower lip, even as Lola is painting on lip-gloss.