Have I ever been raped? You've got to be kidding, right? I mean, I'm a cheerleader. You show me a cheerleader who says she's never been raped and I'll show you a woman who can say "yes" with a hand clasped over her mouth and a cock up her. . .
Just stop and look at the field, for crying out loud. On one side you've got nubile young females, chosen for their looks and athletic abilities. And in case you're wondering, nubile means screwable.
On the other side you've got this team of football players, chosen for their size, aggressiveness and will to win no matter what. Do you really think they're going to limit their competiveness to the football field?
To control these two sides you've got a chaperon for the cheerleaders and a coach for the team. I don't know about other cheerleader squads, but our chaperon was red hot if you were under age. Once you're of age, she reckons it's none of her concern.
As for the coach! Let me tell you a little story about our coach. Last year one of the girls fronted up to the coach to lodge a complaint. She said one of the team members had raped her and she wanted to know what the coach was going to do about it.
The coach called the guy in and ripped him a new one.
"I teach you to win," the coach told him. "I teach you to get out there and do your best and come out on top. And what do you do? You grab one of the cheerleaders and rape her and she comes to my office complaining.
Now I expect you to apologise for your performance right away, and after that you take her next door to the massage room. You can use one of the beds there and then you will damn-well rape her until she's satisfied. I don't want her coming back here whining about your performance."
You mix people and attitudes like that together and you think the girls aren't going to get raped? With cheerleading, rape is just considered an occupational hazard.
Like I said, show me a cheerleader who says she's never been raped and I'll show you a liar.
What, me personally? I just said I'm a cheerleader. Of course I've been persuaded to have non-consensual sex.
Do I remember these episodes in any way?
What do you think, pal? If you had a chunk of man meat jammed up where you don't want it and didn't ask for it, you'd remember it too.
You want me to describe one of these incidents? Why? Do you get off on that sort of thing? Ah. As a salutary warning to girls aspiring to be cheerleaders. All right. Let's see, where should I start?
I'd have been nineteen the first time I got nailed. Fortunately I wasn't a virgin. It must be a bit rough to get your cherry popped by a rapist. I was introduced to sex very nicely by a boyfriend I'd had for several years.
Anyway, the start of the season was coming up and we'd all been training hard. We decided to have a party and we all arranged to meet at the house of one of the team members. He had a big place and we could just sort of spill out around the place, assuming the weather held up.
Now a few days before the party some of the girls heard a few rumours of what some of the boys were planning. It seemed that some of the team had decided that the party would be a great time to get more personally acquainted with some of the girls who had been reluctant to meet them, if you get my meaning.
I don't know where we got them but we had names of the bad boys and their potential targets. I think just about all the girls were on the list, but at least we'd all know who we had to watch out for.
My name was down and Mike, the defensive tackle, was nominated as the guy who'd be trying to get me alone. Some of the girls opted not to go to the party, but most of us were willing to front up. I mean, really, all I had to do was keep one eye on Mike and make sure I wasn't alone with him and I'd be right.
So I rocked up at the party and I enjoyed myself. I was between boyfriends at the time so I could flirt with anyone I cared to and I was happy and carefree. I should say, almost carefree. I'd made it my business to spot Mike as soon as I arrived and to keep one eye on where he was. A couple of times he'd approached me but I made sure that we were with others and would then sort of drift away from him again.
It was about midnight that things came unstuck. A bunch of us had just been to the loo and I was walking down the hall a bit ahead of the rest. Brendan was in the hall walking towards me. Brendan was the team full-back and he was, to be honest, a walking man-monster.
As I passed him he turned, neat as you please, picked me up and stepped into the bedroom we were passing, kicking the door closed behind him.
He tossed me onto the bed and stood there, smiling down at me.
"Hi, Sharon," he said. "I'm your partner for tonight."
I couldn't make sense of this. What about Mike? The boys didn't normally trespass on each other's reserves and if Mike had flagged interest in jumping me then Brendan should have stepped aside.
Brendan saw my confusion and the swine just laughed at me.
"You're wondering about Mike, aren't you? That little list you girls came across is a fake. We sort of let that leak out so you would lower your guard around the right people.
Are we going to do this the easy way or the hard way?"
"Guess," I said, and kicked him in the cods.