"Do you feel more comfortable now?" Jason, my therapist, my shrink for the past month, asked.
"Much."
"You like being naked in front of other men. Or nearly naked."
I nodded. "I'm definitely..." I rephrased it: "I definitely have exhibitionist tendencies."
"Explain."
This was a road we'd been down before but, here we go again. "Nude beaches, having men over, strangers."
"Dressing for them?"
I looked down the length of my slender body. I was slumped against a pillow, my bare thighs crossed. "Dressed?"
"In panties," Jason explained, lifting a chin at me. We'd been discussing my crossdressing fetish, Jason had sensed my nervousness and asked me if I would feel more comfortable sitting on his couch in my panty. Assuming I was wearing one, which I was. Now my street clothes sat untidily folded on the cushion to my left, my slip-on shoes on the carpet below. I felt like a barrier had been broken through. I was at ease. I could say anything now.
"Yes. Usually in the beginning, when they arrived. Then..."
"And what did you do with these men?"
"Most wanted a blowjob. We would go in my livingroom, they'd undress quickly and I'd sit on my couch and...suck them off."
"You enjoy sucking other men?"
"Yes."
"Do you swallow?"
"Yes. Always. I always included that in my ads."
"So these men who came over--come over--they're responding to your ad?"
"Yes. Although sometimes I'll respond to someone else's. Someone looking for a BJ on the way home from work for instance."
"How many men have you been with?"
My eyes rolled toward the perforated ceiling, which had brownish water stains here and there. They reminded me of dried wet spots on the bed, when I was married. "Over the past ten years...since my divorce?"
I thought a second longer. All these "casual encounters" kind of bled together. "A hundred, I'd say?"
"Did any of these men...?" It was Jason's turn to rephrase his question: "Did you have anal sex with any of these men?"
I nodded. "Yes. A few of them."
"Did you practice safe sex? Not so important when giving oral, but..."
"Yes," I lied. Except for the first time, at my urging, not a single man who fucked me had ever worn a condom. I'd been barebacked every time, and on each occasion my partner had shot his load in me. In fact, for a brief while I carried it around inside me as a kind of trophy.
"What effect, if any, does having sex with another man have on you?"
I thought for a moment. This was a difficult question. There's a big difference between sucking cock and taking that same cock up your ass. "It makes me feel...submissive. And fem. Especially bottoming. I'm very submissive. I feel very..."
"Go on."
"Effeminate afterwards. I want to dress up in women's underwear."
Jason glanced at his legal pad. "But you began dressing up in women's underwear before you ever"--another glance--"bottomed for a man, correct?"
"That's true."
"So the root of your crossdressing, your fetish crossdressing, panties and the like...lies somewhere else."
"I guess. If you say so."
"When's the last time you had sex with another man?"
"A...couple of weeks ago," I hedged. Honestly I couldn't remember.
"And what did you do with him?"
"A blowjob."
"Were you dressed in panties?"
"Yes."
"Did he know you'd be dressed?"
"Yes, I guess so. I'd sent him a pic."
"What did he say when he saw you were dressed?"
"Nothing. He kind of backed me against a wall and gave me a fondle. He was in a hurry, though. They're always in a hurry."
"Why?"
I shrugged. "Get back to the wife and kids."
"This guy was married?" Jason acted surprised.
"In my experience almost all of them are. That's why"--a laugh leaking out here--"I've developed this theory. Bisexuality is the norm not the exception, especially as guys get older."
"Hm. Interesting," Jason mused.
"It's rare that anyone wants to have a drink and hang out and..."
"But some do."
"Occasionally. Usually before a fuck."
Jason pointed with his pen. "I notice you're getting aroused."
I looked down at myself again. At my cock now slanting crosswise in the vee-front of my colorful panty, constrained my the thin waistband. I was embarrassed. "I'm sorry," I said.
"No, don't be," the doctor advised, shifting in his facing chair. "It's natural. Normal. Did you used to get hard when you were here before, fully dressed?"
"No."