[sebbie]

In thinking about Dylan’s situation, dreaming a vivid dream, two movies come to mind. The first movie is called “Pride” in which the Terrance Howard character coaches an inner city Philadelphia team to compete in swimming. The most unforgettable scene from that movie is when the coach tells that the swim team members, in order to compete, are going to have to wear swimming briefs. Of course, coach has been wearing swim briefs already. The reactions of the swim team members to the idea make for unforgettable movie-making.

Clearly, the swim-team members are more than a little apprehensive about the situation they face. The coach is telling them that wearing the briefs is a basic requirement if they intend to compete against other teams (who will also be wearing swim briefs). The apprehension might be due simply to the “revealing” nature of the clothing. Or, perhaps the team members are secretly worried that they will get erections just getting into the clothing, and what do they do if THAT happens in public?

Whatever the reason for the apprehension, the next scene shows the team all wearing the briefs, so, somehow, they all “survived” the situation at hand.

The other movie is a 2006 film called “Swimming Upstream” that is based on the Tony Fingleton autobiography. Fingleton was an Australian swimmer who competed in the Empire Games in Australia, and later was on the Harvard University swim team. The Fingleton boys competed in swimming and at a very early age and, as the movies shows, wore swim briefs from the very start. This would be a very normal thing for a young guy to do in Australia.

Tony Fingleton, as played by Jesse Spencer in the movie, was quite a handsome guy, and the females of a similar age followed his athletic career a lot, and probably not simply the swimming records. It was clear from the movie that they were fascinated with his looks as a scantily-clad swimmer.

In the scene where Tony is about to board a plane that will take him to the Empire games, a young lady dashes up and asks him to give her one of his swim briefs. Tony is taken aback by this at first, but then reaches into his duffel bag and pulls out a neon green swim brief, and tosses it to her. What does this all mean, anyway?

The young lady gets a treasured “trophy” of sorts, a swim brief that only recently encased Tony’s private parts. So, maybe the idea that young women are somehow turned off seeing guys in swim briefs is a myth. Young ladies may very well get turned on by seeing guys clad this way, though they may be less than forthcoming about it. And, for that matter, guys who wear swim brief may need to realize that it is more than just gay guys who might be “sensitive” to what they are wearing at swimming meets, and this COULD be at least one reason why the sport attracts a following.

So too, now, with Dylan in his dream. Of course, Dylan learned at a very early age that his body parts were “sensitive” to certain kinds of clothing, starting with the tighty whitey underwear he wore as a child. As Dylan got a little bit older, he started thinking up ways so that he could turn himself on, and, for that matter, admiring guys who he thought just might be getting turned on doing the same thing. All of this more or less comes together in high school, where young males are together in a gym locker room, preparing to participate in sports where one or more clothing items might lead to arousal…guys are constantly tilting back and forth between the thrill of the arousal itself and the fear that this could happen in some inopportune or inappropriate place or time, and Dylan is no exception in this regard.

Of course, once a guy is in an erotic dream, all the rules about what should happen go out the window. If Dylan wants to get a hard-on just getting into a skimpy Desmiit® swimming brief, his subconscious is perfectly free to let that happen. If Dylan thinks he will get erect putting on a snug-fitting strap, cup and wrestling singlet, that can happen too. If Dylan “likes” the compression gear that apparently is part of the martial arts apparel, then that is fine as well.

For guys, the best wet dreams are the ones in which the guy wakes up with a huge hard-on, a situation so precarious and unstable that it cannot help but go right into a full-blown orgasm and release that creates a royal mess in the bedclothes and on whatever the guy wore to bed. Then, in a close-quarters double dorm room, the poor guy has to figure out how to get up without alerting his roommate to exactly what had happened. Of course, the guy in the other bed may very well have already or will soon face the same “problem.”

So Dylan is in the middle of a dream involving three different sports, or maybe I should say instead three different ways to create a powerful orgasm. Each of the three sports involves getting into and wearing clothing items that could be quite arousing and the dream will go whatever way it wants to go even as an erection builds while the guy doing the dreaming is fast asleep. Indeed, the dream and the subconscious will make a series of “decisions” seemingly consistent with making it tougher and tougher for the guy to continue watching the dream without creaming all over. That the dream seemingly operates on its own is part of what makes the entire experience so interesting. Characters will move in and out of the storyline as the dream progresses, but seemingly each character builds on what has already happened in such a way to push Dylan’s erection a bit further along.

Then, in just the nick of time, Dylan wakes up only to discover that he is on the very verge of exploding in a powerful orgasm, with enough cream to cover the bedclothes. It is clear in Dylan’s mind that there was one particular sport, and one particular set of clothing items that Dylan was being “forced” to get into in the dream that pushed this entire experience forward to the powerful end.

The entire experience is now glued to Dylan’s brain. Dylan knows that he already has the items that showed up in one way or another in the plot of the dream. Otherwise he would be up for a shopping trip in an effort to closely replicate whatever it was he found himself doing in the dream.

Dylan wonders about Josh. Is the experience Dylan just had more than a little weird or are such experiences commonplace among guys his age? If Josh were “exposed” to the same situations Dylan has been into, would Josh’s body and brain respond in the same or at minimum similar way? Dylan knows that Josh certainly did not object when Josh got to see Dylan masturbating while wearing the thong in the dorm room. But will Josh get really turned on by the same items that seem to work for Dylan? And what role if any might a college-age woman play in all of this? Lots of deep stuff here to be uncovered for sure.

To be continued….