"Make yourself comfortable," she said, motioning me towards the couch.
Reluctant to lie down on the stereotypical couch, the tufted, blue leather looked comfortable, so I followed her lead. She turned a new page on her note pad and poised her pen. Suddenly, I felt pressured to speak, only, I did not know what to say. I had rehearsed this conversation for weeks but, now, with her pad in hand and pen at the ready, I was tongue tied.
"I expose myself," I said finally. "I find it exciting for women to see me, I mean, to see my penis, and, now, it has developed into a habit." She did not respond. The room was silent but for the sound that her pen made on the paper.
"Please continue."
"It started when I was very young, when I first exposed myself to my sister, then to my cousins. I found that exciting, very exciting."
"Did you masturbate afterwards?"
I saw from my peripheral vision that she crossed her legs.
"No, not a first but, yes, it led to that." I paused not knowing what else to say. I felt embarrassed and ashamed.
"Please continue."
"I've exposed myself to my mother, grandmother, aunts, friends of the family, neighbors, friends of my sisters, and door-to-door saleswomen. I've even exposed myself to the mail lady, Avon lady, and, even, the Jehovah's Witnesses, God have mercy on my soul." I anointed myself.
"Only women?"
"Yes."
"And when you say that it is becoming a habit, what did you mean by that?"
"I feel the urge more and more to expose myself."
"I see. How often do you feel the urge?"
"Every day, at least, sometimes, multiple times a day."
"I see. Please continue."
"I've flashed my mother-in-law and sisters-in-laws. Matter of fact, every female that I know has seen my cock, er, sorry, penis."
She crossed her legs, again.
"Whatever word you feel comfortable in describing your appendage is fine with me. Cock is okay."
Again, she crossed her legs.
Appendage? Geez, maybe, if I referred to my cock as my appendage, I would not feel the urge to expose myself, again. What a strange word to call it, appendage. I laughed to myself. Boy, this therapy is not so bad after all. I'm having a good time talking about my appendage. I laughed to myself, again. I wish I had done this, years ago.
"Yeah, so, I've been exposing my cock appendageβ"
"It's either one or the other, cock or appendage. You should not refer to it as both. That is redundant, like saying car automobile or vehicle car."
"Oh."
"Please continue."
I wonder if she says that to her husband, boyfriend, or significant other while having sex. Please continue...I nearly laughed out loud at the thought of a man with his appendage poised at your lips and she looks up at him and says, "please continue."
"I'm here because exposing my cock is becoming a problem." I turned my head just as she crossed her legs, again, and, this time, caught a quick flash of white panty. I felt my cock, er appendage stir.
"How is it becoming a problem?"
"Well, it is illegal, first of all, and I risk being caught, prosecuted, and being listed on the sexual offenders' list as a deviate."
"Have you been caught before?"
"No, I mean, I have had some close calls."
"How have you managed not to get caught exposing yourself to women?"
"I make it appear accidental." I turned and smiled. She nodded without looking at me. "Other times, I go to great lengths to make it appear that it was their fault."
"That is quite an accomplishment." I turned again to look at her and smiled and she returned my smile, this time. "Tell me about some of the incidents of exposure."
Incidents of exposure? She made it sound like she was decorating my windows. If we use a heavy drapery, the incidents of light exposure will minimize the effect and not fade the furniture's finish.
"Which ones?"
"It does not matter which. Whichever ones you prefer to tell me."
I knew that this, definitely, was a trick question. I remember the comedian David Steinberg when he played a psychiatrist asking his patients to choose a chair from the three chairs that were positioned in front of his desk.
"Please sit. Pick a chair. Any chair. It does not matter which one."
Always, the patient paused and pondered looking at the chairs, looking back at the psychiatrist, and looking at the chairs, again.
And as soon as the patient picked a chair and was about to sit, Steinberg would say, "Ahhh!" Then, the patient would jump out of the chair and choose a different chair and, again, Steinberg would say, "Ah, hah!" And this act of musical chairs would continue until the patient was a total nervous wreck and refused to sit.
I did not know which chair to pick? Which is how I felt not knowing which "incident of exposure" to tell her about, first. It is, after all, always the first one that you discuss that has the greater ramifications and psychological weight attached to it.
That is why I suspected that she was asking me a trick question because, if I told her about the times I exposed myself to my mother, grandmother, aunts, or sister, then I would have deep seated lust to want to have incestuous sex with them, much like a character in a Shakespearian play. If I told her about the times I exposed myself to my wife's friends, then I would have trust issues and she would insist that I invite my ex-wife in for a chat. If I told her about the times I exposed myself to strangers, then I would have anti-social issues thereby putting a totally different slant to the therapy she would offer. Hell, exposing yourself to anyone is anti-social, so what the Hell. All of this internal dialogue flashed through my mind in nano-seconds. I was in quite the quandary as how to proceed.
"Please continue. I assure you it does not matter which event you chose to tell me about, be it your mother, grandmother, sister, aunts, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, friends, neighbors, and/or strangers."
"It started with my sister, I guess." I took a deep breath. "She was the first one that I remember exposing my cock."
I looked over at her and she crossed her legs, yet, again, only this time more slowly, slow enough for me to get a clear view of her panty clad pussy. Her apparent need to continually cross her legs and in the way in which she crossed them made me wonder if she was purposely exposing herself to me. Nah!
Another man would have been caught looking, but I am an experienced, voyeuristic professional at catching forbidden glimpses of up skirts and down blouses. Do not try this at home, I laughed to myself. Again, all of this internal dialogue flowed thought my mind in nano-seconds.
"At the time, we lived in a four room apartment and none of the rooms had doors. Ergo, we had very little privacy affording me plenty of opportunities not only to expose myself but also to spy on my sister in all manner of undress. She had the habit of walking into my room whenever she felt like it and caught me naked dozens of times and, each time, she stared at my appen, er cock."
She crossed her legs, again, only, this time, too fast for me to see anything.
"Were you more apt to expose yourself after seeing your sister semi-nude or nude?"
"Yes," I did not even have to think about the question. Seeing my sister naked made it seem okay for me to expose myself to her later and for her to see me naked. I guess, I thought, it her reward for allowing me to see her naked. Back then, they did not trim their bushes and she had a forest of dark brown pubic hair."
"Did you ever think that your sister was exposing herself to you?"
"Nah! Actually, I never considered that. Perhaps, she was better at it then I was because I never suspected her of flashing me. I always thought that I was the one who was spying. Still, that would be interesting if she was just as perverted as I was." I laughed.
"I see." She wrote on her pad at a furious pace. She stopped and looked over at me. "Please continue."
"Nonetheless, whichever is the case, if I was spying on her or if she was flashing me, back then, I always found it exciting to show her my cock..." There she did it again. She crossed her legs.
"Please continue."
"Even though, at first, it was accidental, at the time, it still excited me. After that, I wanted her to see my cock..." and again, she crossed her legs, "again and again so being intimately familiar with her routine, I planned when I was going to change so that she would walk in on me at the most opportune times."