You wouldn't believe the lovely things I want to do before I cum.
When I haven't had time for sex or masturbation for days, or in that sweet first minute of feeling something amazing happen to my cock (including my unusually talented hand but I'm a big fan of mouths too), I think of the most wonderful things I'm going to do to finish myself off.
When I get to share this moment with another man, it's easier: I've 69ed until our faces were smeared with each other's sex, I've watched cum fly wherever my partner wishes it to land, I've happily welcomed people down onto my face so they can clumsily dance their orgasm across my cheeks and in my mouth.
But when I'm alone, my exciting imagination has an off-switch, and depending on how desperate I am for my orgasm it happens 5 seconds before or 2 seconds after. In that moment, a powerful change of mind happens. I become less brave, I become less kinky, I become less horny, I become less creative. I still let myself cum, and I'm pretty damned good at it, but I don't have that last moment of kinky fun that can only happen at the end.
I wish I could. But I can't win an argument with my future, vanilla self. I become him.
I'd tried to win, but I'd given up. I'd tried to order myself to be brave. I'd tried to get into positions where gravity forces certain things to happen before I can change my mind. But the only thing that seems to work is body-doubling: the act of having another person there to be accountable to. And in this case, I'd need someone to enjoy my fantasies and push them to come true.
I gave up.
Everything I describe about this past spring is just weird. I know it. The weirdest thing is the very unique friendship I have with my best friend, that I'd had since highschool. She and I once tried seeing whether the natural chemistry our friends kept telling us about was real, but soon realised we didn't fit -- we didn't get along when we were trying to date. And that was before I realised how much I liked men. We were just a comic duo of sassy and anxious, but we just fucking loved each other. But as friends. And I don't really want to change that.
And yet? I fully realise how bizarre it is that we're so comfortable with each other.
We realised just how comfortable when, during a fancy lunch in a boutique restaurant, we were approached by a couple. They clearly thought we were lovers, and intervened upon our dessert to take a gamble that we were interested in helping them find out just how bisexual they were.
At first we just listened, fascinated and trying desperately not to laugh at them. Their fiendish shyness was adorable. And yet, our looks at each other confirmed how outrageously we were each attracted to one of them respectively.
And so, a moment came, when she snuggled my arm and spoke for both of us that we would love to 'bring some new light into our love-life'. We still thought they were ridiculous, but I was also adamantly on board just to see how deep this rabbit hole went.
So, later that afternoon, while we had found it back in highschool strangely discordant to try to kiss each other or be on dates, it felt perfectly natural to lie upside down with her, our heads beside each other, giggling at each other occasionally while our groins were experimentally worshipped by this vaguely Southern middle-aged little family.
Joan's advice to the woman between her knees seemed less about skill and more about shyness, and soon enough this polite wife was nuzzled impressively and boldly deep into Joan's labia, lapping her up from vagina to clit like you'd clean a plate of dessert. Meanwhile, after a few encouraging words and touches from his wife, the man started letting himself enjoy more and more of my dick at once. He seemed to have an adoring fixation on balls in particular.
Nor did we seem to mind seeing each other's nearby faces stuffed with meat (too impatient to be touched before we were finished off) and we gladly returned their favours before we finished exhausted.
The cute couple ended the session each between our respective knees again. Sitting on a bed beside each other, Joan and I gave these two our shuddering orgasms while they sentimentally held each other's hands. The couple smooched our cum into each other's mouths with romantic gratitude.
Later we got a pitcher of sangria together and giggled about the couple's rapid progress from fumbling around a genital they'd never kissed before to finding the right rhythms to make us actually enjoy ourselves. Hypothesis confirmed that these two were both very very bisexual, and found a way to lean it toward each other.
Kissing dick-breath into your wife's mouth, who knew!
I'm skimming over my retelling of that day, because what our silly horny minds would turn our lives into in the present and over the coming weeks sticks far more explicitly in my mind.
I still feel complicated about that day though. We have a unique friendship that no one would believe is platonic. But after that silly adventure we started really telling each other everything, from funny sex injuries to heartbreaks to extremely specific advice.
In retrospect we both probably have better orgasms because of each other. We definitely choose better partners because of each other. And we definitely are more talented at sex because of each other. Not because of things we've ever done to each other, but because of advice and techniques and shared victories. Once I even drew a diagram, colour-coded for what to do where.
And once I just said 'fuck it' and showed her the technique she just wasn't getting. My erection was for myself, not her, but it still surprises me that we're nonchalant enough that she can spend a moment watching me doing a corkscrew handjob on myself and we still don't WANT each other.
But she did thank me later when she tried it on a boy.
With her advice, while I learned a lot about mouths from her, just as often as not it was about overcoming my own nonsense. Including the dissonance between my shyness and my horniness.
So then, one day, in a mostly empty diner forgotten by its neighbourhood, out of earshot of the bored waiter, my smiling friend with the pink cheeks wonderful breasts broad thighs and mischievous eyes casually scribbled in her notebook, recording my kinky wishlist in bubbly-fonted bullet points, and annotating with notes she didn't let me see.
-I want to taste my own cum
-I want to use cum as lube
-I want soft touches all the way to orgasm
-I want to swallow perfectly
-I want to stay kinky after I cum
-I want to be someone's sloppy seconds
She didn't give advice this time. All she said is that she would make very nice things happen for me, but it would only work if I didn't ask questions. I would begin a tiny era of my life where she would tell me to do things and I would never, ever ask why.
She ordered another milkshake and serenely drank half of it before I made up my mind with a very bashful Yes.
"Wizard. Okay, my friend. I'm gonna take care of things. And don't worry, because I know you always worry, this won't make our friendship weird. We're going to go to some weird places hun. But as friends. We won't have sex with each other. By most definitions. This'll be fun for you too. How ya feelin?"
Her first ever instruction to me was not to give my penis any pleasure until her go-ahead.
The next day, she asked me to send her a floormap of my office. That was unsettling.
The day after that, she showed up at my door because she had got me a just-because gift. It was a Bluetooth. Old-fashioned, cheap, probably in her drawer from long ago.
The day after that was Monday. By then I missed cumming by quite a lot.
Joan's second ever instruction was to wear my nicest whitest shirt, the lightest-coloured dress pants I had, no belt, no underwear, and the Bluetooth. Joan's third instruction was to initiate a phone call after I blitzed through my morning work double-time, but not to say a word when I called, not even 'Hello'. But, crucially, I wouldn't mute. She had to hear, I just wasn't supposed to say things. I would just hear her voice and, when applicable, comply.
I phoned her at 10:20, after the kind of office efficiency I knew my boss must never discover I was capable of. I was curious to get started, but pretty nervous for exactly WHAT I was starting, whatever that was. I spent the morning with 10% of an erection and a teeny polkadot of precum on my silver-coloured dress pants.
Joan answered and said,
"Hey babe! Mondays amIright?" She cackled on the other end of the line, clearly very pleased with herself.
"Nervous bud? Don't answer, let's assume you're nervous. Okay let's do this. When there's a reason what I'm asking isn't possible for some reason, or if you decide you don't want to I want you to give a big bored-sounding sigh. That's your signal. Hah, I just realised I gave you a safe-word! Otherwise, mum's the word! You ready for this?"
I did not give a big sigh.
"Do you still trust me with this?"
I did not sigh. I almost wanted to but I held my breath and made myself not.
"Okay babe. Think of something boring because I don't want you traveling with a big obvious hard-on, because you're wearing really bad pants for an erection and commando if you've been good."
She then began a little speech about a little-known rule in soccer and the debate around it. "There, you should be good and bored now. Go to the bathroom. Don't go TO the bathroom, I mean go INTO the bathroom."
As I was most of the way there, looking as casual as possible about the fact that I was on a call only I could hear, I heard her say, "Once you're in there, I want you to find a wedge. You know, the wood thing the janitors use to prop open bathrooms? I hate it when they do that."
I washed my hands casually until the only other person was gone, looked around, and hurriedly found and got one. As casually as possible I put it in my pocket. I didn't have a signal for the affirmative, but she must have heard the clack of wood echo.