[sebbie]

Those of you who have been reading along with me recognize that the story lines have frequently centered on two males attending college, and rooming together in a traditional college dormitory set up to house students two-to-a room with rooms along both sides of long hallways and a large rest room/shower facility placed at one end of the long hallway. Many of these dormitory facilities, built in the 1960s and earlier, are still in use today, but would be difficult if not impossible to remodel to provide more privacy and more modern features without simply tearing them down and starting over. For most colleges, getting half of a double in one of these older-style single-sex dorms still is probably the lowest-cost housing arrangement, as colleges realize that by modern standards, living this way for an entire college year is not that attractive other than for the comparatively low price.

The other twist that has always made this interesting is to simply let the college assign you a roommate whom you have never even met before and you know absolutely nothing about. Colleges used to do this completely at random and with the assumption that every enrollee was somehow magically straight. There was not a sexual-orientation box to check on the dorm-room application form. The application form does not ask “do you prefer a gay or a straight roommate” at least on MOST college campuses. [Maybe I am completely out of date on this. M-F Partner sex and beer technically USED to be completely off-limits in university housing, or at minimum, there were written rules designed to calm nervous parents. Gay sex was never an issue because university housing had no idea if any guy they admitted was gay on not since they never asked the question on the form. And of course, none of us in our college years ever observed any other student in violation of any of these carefully-written housing rules about M-F sex and drinking as they appeared in the university housing manual]

Furthermore, if there were boxes on the application form to check with respect to sexual orientation, the university could face a major dilemma. Should we assume that the college would want to put two guys claiming to be gay in the same cramped room or would they specifically try to somehow avoid doing that? If they are OK with putting two gay guys in the same room, why not a heterosexual couple? An interesting puzzle for the 21st century with social and sexual components.

Still, over the years and despite the obvious 21st century questions , many times what appears to be random pairings of men in dormitories ended up working out well, and oftentimes college roommates who met in such a random process end up being lifelong friends (if not gay couples). The opposite can happen too, where two randomly-assigned roommates end up disliking each other intensely after, say, maybe 3 days of rooming together in such close quarters. Part of this relates to similar objectives and interests academically, but more often because the two roommates differ widely in their out-of-class behaviors. Say one roommate likes to come in stone drunk on Friday nights, or arrange for his girlfriend to sneak into the dorm room on the weekends the male roommate went home. Some of this can end up being pretty offensive if the other roommate is focused on his academic studies and at least for now has no interest or desire to have sex with a girl over the weekend in the guy’s dorm. No two guys, stuck rooming together, are going to look at the situation in exactly the same way.

Here, however, I’m headed in a slightly different direction. I’m assuming that the two college roommates are at least OK rooming together. I’m also assuming that neither guy is gay, or at least not openly so. Both of the roommates tend to be more focused on college academics than on females, however. They both tend to be the quiet serious types, much like what you have been observing all along with Dylan and Josh.

By the time a guy has turned 18, he has probably already developed both a number of specific methods and a schedule of sorts for jerking off that seem to work for him without being too obvious with respect to what he is doing and has been doing since he was 12 or 13. This is all just a very normal part of growing into adulthood for any guy irrespective of sexual orientation. This is a learning experience of sorts because as discoveries are made with respect to finding out exactly what is really enjoyable, each discovery gets firmly planted in the brain perhaps later in life to be accessed as a useful data base of information that can again used in a relationship with a sexual partner.

In short, masturbation is not just a silly, childish thing to do, but a critical part of who you are as a guy. Now that a guy is in college, it is common to not want to get too involved with a female lest the relationship starts to interfere with the degree objectives. So masturbation in one form or another still may play a major part in a guy’s life. The big question, however, is how a guy is going to cope with living in such close quarters with another male without doing the unthinkable, realizing that the roommate you have only known for a few days is going to know more about you than you really want him to know!

Of course, the new roommate has the same “problem” to deal with, or at least something very similar. He has been thinking about the same issues. And keep in mind that the university paired the two roommates pretty well, both being a bit on the “brainy but nerdy” side. Neither are social animals and neither believe that personal charm will necessarily get you farther in life than academic skills.

At this point, I’m going to start messing with the heads of my readers. Let me give the two new roommates names, Randall for the first roommate and Shawn for the second roommate. Also assume that in growing up, Randall developed some specific jerk-off skills related to wearing an masturbating in various kinds of snug-fitting clothing, but that this is all something that will ultimately prove to be completely new and an eye opener for Shawn. Randall, of course, is concerned that Shawn, even inadvertently, see Randall doing some things that could prove embarrassing for Randall and perhaps even strain the situation they both face of rooming together for the school year in the little dorm room.

Still, from Randall’s perspective, what he has learned to do with and to himself has over time proven to be not only quite enjoyable but also a way to relax from the tensions of the day, now even greater as a college rather than as a high school student. And, he realizes that he cannot keep what he does a complete secret from Shawn for the entire school year.

Maybe Shawn will observe some things that he is at first a little uneasy about. Still, going to college involves getting an education on a lot of different aspects of life and part of this involves understanding people both in and outside the classroom. And maybe this will be a learning and broadening experience for Shawn.

So, the situation is as follows. Randall is bringing with him to college a wardrobe of clothing items that he will make use of in various ways throughout the school year. Shawn has a wardrobe he brought with him too, but certainly not any stuff quite like this. Randall is just going to wear and do the stuff he has enjoyed being in and doing all along. He is not going to verbally discuss with Shawn any of this either as to what he is doing or explaining why he is doing what he is doing. That would be going way too far, TMI, at this stage. If Shawn sees some stuff he doesn’t fully understand, fine, but call that “inadvertently”.

But, given the close-quarters living situation, Shawn cannot help but see and perhaps wonder a bit as to what might be going on with his roommate, who otherwise seems quite a normal but serious guy. And that is where the fun begins.

To be continued….