I'm just a normal girl.
I know that there's no such thing as '
bimboification'
- the act of turning someone into an over-bloated, hyper-sexualised, mentally-stupefied sexaholic - of course. That just makes sense.
Similarly, I know that there's no such thing as brainwashing - no such state where a person can be so totally mentally drained as to feel as if they have no thoughts at all, no desire to consider or wonder or i, just enough mental capacity to feel aroused and reach for the next boob, pussy or cock.
And of course, I know that there's no such thing as sex slaves - at least, not in any socially accepted, non-illegal way, of course. I know that people
choose
to have a night of fun, or seek
consensually non-consensual
couplings, or just like to be really, really submissive in the bedroom... But these things never all came together to create the ultimate mindless, hyper-sexualised, sex-enslaved slut. Right?
But...
If
those things weren't real... Then, that meant that my Saturday night carried memories--and, more undeniably,
pictures in my phone
--that bore no sane explanation what-so-ever.
I remembered it as well as one could when they had already begun the night teetering into drunkenness. My friends and I had gotten together at Jane's place to do what girls did best - drink, talk about boys, watch cheesy romance shows and 90's rom-coms and pretend we weren't all just a little bit considering dashing into the bathroom to masturbate. I think Jane might have even done it - she had said she'd gone for a shit, but I'd seen Jane take less time to shit than most of the men I'd dated, and when she came back, she'd flopped down on the couch, sighing and smiling, looking all spent and red-faced. Ah, I couldn't blame her; Joey
was
'finger-licking good', especially on
Friends,
and I knew that was what a young DiCaprio did to a girl.
Amelia said it was the alcohol, and to her credit, we'd collectively polished off a bottle of wine we'd started last month
and
cracked into the spirits, but I'd known Jane since high school, and I'd seen how she looked after she'd rubbed one off many times before. Still, we were in front of newer company, and although Amelia was tight, she'd never made it as far as the 'showing your girlfriends your titties' base before (whichever base that is) let alone the masturbating-around-each-other base.
But I digress. An hour later, our romance movie and romcom shows quota filled for the month and our drink well and truly on, we'd packed into a taxi and hit the town, just in time for the sun to slip beneath Mother Earth's skirt for a little night-time fun and for us to break into the first club in what was sure to be another lengthy crawl.
I remember spots of lucidity after that. At one point, I ground my ass into someone wearing sequins while KE$HA played--
party don't start,
indeed, given the way I was trying to work anything underneath that monstrosity of a piece of clothing into me--and at another, I did shots across a table with a man who I
remember
looking exactly like Arnie (from his Terminator days, naturally.)
There was one point in the evening where I remember pushing out of the ladies' room, my sweaty panties freshly squashed uncomfortably back up vaguely where they ought to be, and my hands neither dried nor soaped, thanks to the lack of working soap dispensers and hand driers, to return to our table, finding Jane and Amelia resting atop their elbows, staring into the sticky tabletop. Flopping myself down and using the last of Amelia's half-finished vodka lemonade to sanitise my hands, I just sighed, feeling as tired as they did.
'Man.' Amelia said.
'Men.' Jane echoed incorrectly.
'Fuuuck.' I groaned, completing our sorry game of
Telephone
.
'I'd take a good fuck.' Jane said. Amelia nodded vaguely. I wasn't sure if she was agreeing to the need to be fucked--by some unknown male figure or other--or agreeing to fuck Jane. In our state, I wouldn't have put gay stuff past them - I was deep enough into the night myself to have some
severely
blurred lines.
'I would-I could,' Amelia said, stammering slowly through her vodka-thoughts, 'I'd do a good fuck. Like--I'd like...
Like
a good fucking. Man, you know? I haven't had one since...' She trailed off, seemingly realising she still had a sip left in her glass. She tipped it back, not noticing or caring that it was the glass I'd washed my hands with earlier, and frowned when only a few drops reached her tongue. 'I haven't had-
hic
-one since last--last year.'
'Oh shut up,' I said, genuinely, enunciating in the way that inebriated people do when they feel they need to communicate something important, 'you're literally gorgor-gorgeous. Men would be fucking over to fall you.'
(I of course meant 'falling over to fuck you'.)
But Amelia was right. As we sat at who knew what pub, at who knew what hour of the night, with who knew how many drinks sailing our stomachs, we sobered up over tales of our woeful love lives.
It was more than Amelia and I had shared before, without a doubt. I'd known Amelia about two years, Jane far longer, since high school. She was a good friend, shared our humour and love for the same drinks and soppy romances, but she was still far newer than Jane and I, who went back over a decade, back to when we'd given each other tampons and shouted at mean boys when they teased us in the yard. As I said earlier, Jane and I helped each other through the best and worst parts of boyfriends, shared the same tiny studio apartment, had to turn ABBA up to drown out the sound of sex in the bedroom on the other side of the wall, hot-swapped in the shower to maximise the value we got out of our eight minute hot water budget, taken each other to job interviews--and picked each other up after getting fired from said jobs--and shared more nights out like this one than we could count. We'd seen each other naked, helped check for
those
kind of warts and bugs, done the pharmacy walk-of-shame for condoms, pills pads and pregnancy checks, and on one special occasion, broken a wrist bone punching a soon-to-be ex-boyfriend moments before someone's body count gained a very unwanted "R" word in it.
Amelia's last boyfriend had lasted almost a year, and it had ended as so many boyfriends in so many B-grade TV procedurals did; coming home from work early to find him clapping ass with a blonde that looked like she'd just turned eighteen on all fours, with a sliver of Amelia's side-of-the-bed sheets clenched between her teeth and her little fakey nipples dribbling on her mattress.
It had been a shame, Amelia said to us as she wiggled her shot glass around her finger on the table, because he'd not only been great for sex, he'd also been her first. Yes, despite or protestations, Amelia had been a virgin until she was twenty-seven years old, and she'd lost it to a boy who knew all the right things to say and do - all while he texted other women for nudes while she was asleep.
Following on from Amelia's story, Jane launched into one I knew well - the boy before her last, who, as she told it, had been oh so perfect for her - until he did exactly what I'd told her he'd do: blamed her for a dozen innocuous things he'd never communicated once to her prior, called her a sociopathic slut, tore out in a fit of rage, and then come crawling back into her bed a week later to apologise, fuck her brains out, "forget" the condom, and then call it her fault because she'd stopped taking birth control. I could almost finish the story for her, word for word.
'And then, a month later, he writes me this massive apology text, pours his heart out, tells me he's changed, that he's seen a therapist, that he knows he has attitude problems, but that he needs a gentle rock like me in his life to keep him sane. Two nights later, he slips it in after getting me drunk watching fucking Sex in the City and has the audacity to shush me while he finishes--
shush
me!--and when I tell him to get out, he says I'm only attractive when I'm asleep, because I "can't run my mouth" and my "fat sags out of the way".'
Of course, after my friends had shared their horror stories, I had to go next. Jane knew what I'd choose before I did, and of course she was right: the Highschool Home Run.
Comparatively, my story was pretty simple. I'd met Tom in high school and we'd kept seeing each other afterwards. Things were going strong, until the day he and I were fooling about at his place. He'd had this great bedroom, spacious and comfortable, surrounded by football shit and posters of sexy girls and strong male role-Βmodels, which I felt made him feel romantically 'safe' and 'normal' - plus, I liked looking up at Taylor Swift alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme while he tried to unclasp my bra. He'd just kissed me down to my neck and run his big, rough hands up my back, and was trying--rather unsuccessfully--to free the girls from their holsters, when his phone, abandoned on the bed beside us, had lit up.
Curious despite my growing heat, I'd reached out for it, and it was in my hand before he'd been able to rip his out of my shirt.
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