"It's so fake," Peelo said, laughing derisively, something she had picked up from hanging around my wife, "those women are all just pretending. It's a big scam."
"Mm, hm," I replied. "Yeah, whatever. You're probably right."
I got up and poured myself more coffee, hoping somehow to escape the present thread of conversation.
You see my wife had shared with Peelo, our cute and usually sweet neighbor, that I'd been caught with my pants down, literally. That is, doing the porn thing on my computer.
"Don't you think it's kind of pathetic," Peelo asked as she dumped sugar in her own coffee, echoing the very word she'd heard from Patrice, "those women are about as sexy as, as, a...refrigerator."
I looked at her fridge and wondered if it was, in any way, fuckable. My wife was off somewhere upstairs using their bathroom. Peelo's hubby was, of course, at work at his dealership.
"Oh, oh, oh," Peelo moaned playfully, "Oh, you are such a stud! I want to be your sex slave for life!" She was too damned cute to be sarcastic and derisive. She was, in fact, a sweet and friendly person. Patrice was a bad influence.
"What the hell are you guys talking about?" Patrice asked from the kitchen doorway.
"Guys who think porn is sex," Peelo said, "Guys who think women are really like that."
"Oh," my wife said, matter of factly, "my husband."
"Do you think it will rain today?" I said, looking out the back window of their lovely kitchen at a beautiful clear blue sky.
"Peelo," my wife was looking for her keys in her purse, "I'm sorry to leave you here with this pervert, but I gotta go in. Got a day's worth of showings. See you guys later."
Patrice is a star real estate agent, so has to work weekends. Paula Logan, Peelo, like me, worked regular hours and could sit around on Saturday mornings drinking coffee. Peelo wished Pat luck as she walked out the door.
I poured another cup and looked out a window at their backyard.
"So, Pee," I chirped after my wife exited, "your lawn looks great. What do you use? I'm thinking of, um, you know, doing some fertilizing."
"I don't get it. What's the appeal, Dash?" she ignored my brilliant attempt at misdirection, "what the heck could be so appealing about pornography?"
"I think you're underestimating the sexiness of porn, Peelo," I ventured. "Some of it's downright hot."
"Hot," she scoffed, "What's so hot about a bunch of degraded women pretending to have orgasms?"
"I don't think that's an accurate assessment of what's out there on the web these days, Pee," I asserted, defending my albeit nasty habit. "It's not like the old days of sleazy magazines and smut. It's a whole new world of erotica."
"Oh please," she dismissed, "whatever. It's still for pubescent wanna be boys who can't find real lovers."
"There are women who enjoy porn."
"Dikes?"
"No, real women. Like yourself."
"Dashiell, you show me some porn that's really sexy and I'll buy the Brooklyn Bridge from you."
She slid her iPad across the table to me, then crossed her arms and gave me a haughty look, though really she was also far too cute to pull off looking high and mighty. I tilted my head as I looked at her and, gauging her request to be a sincere one, I decided to accept her challenge.
"You may think," I said, "the internet is for surfing, for watching news and Twitter and FaceBook and YouTube and streaming movies and reading articles about pruning roses," I paused to finish logging on, "but in fact it's one big porn fest, a veritable cornucopia of human sexuality." I started with XXNX.
"This is the 76th most visited site in the world," I said, feeling somewhat vindicated that one of my favorites was so damned popular. I typed "cream pies" into the search slot. I clicked on a particularly wet and creamy looking pussy. I slid the iPad back to Peelo.
She didn't initially react, which was actually something of a reaction. Instead of deriding the vid as being unrealistic and tawdry, she watched it awhile and her eyes got bigger. She gulped some coffee. I took the iPad back and typed in "ohmibod." I found a good one of a sweet young thing in the wild throes of multiple orgasms. No fakery there.
Peelo watched it all the way through, gulping down her coffee nervously.
"Wow," she said. "They're pretty good at faking it. Um, how, how does that thing work?" she asked, her tone now one of curiosity, and was that a hint of true interest? I swear she sounded like her mouth was watering as she spoke, "that thing inside her is wired to the internet?"
"Mm hm," I replied. I reached over to take back the iPad but she clicked up another vid, another woman being tortured with uncontrollable orgasms, spewing cum juice and squirting all over the camera like a leaky faucet.
"Goodness," she breathed, "she must need a lot of towels. Or a new mattress every week."
She finished her coffee and got up to get another cup. Was she shivering? Was it the caffeine? I searched up some art porn, the kind with super beautiful lovers making sweet, tender love on white sheets in a bedroom flooded with natural light. The woman, of course, was quite young and lovely. The guy was a perfect specimen of manliness and had a cock as long as my forearm. He lovingly buried it in his lover's willing ass. Peelo sat down beside me, riveted on the scene as the young woman came and the gorgeous man then jerked his cum onto her upturned face. I was pretty sure Peelo had never done that. Her husband was, well, pretty square.