What to wear?

[sebbie]

What do Dylan and Josh have to do with Cedric and Brian? It turns out, quite a lot. Writing about Cedric and Brian got me to thinking some more about what was going on in my own brain and body when I was that age. Male hormones are bombarding a guy’s brain relentlessly, and yet a guy does not fully understand how he is supposed to deal with this. At some level, a guy knows that all of this has something to do with forming a relationship with a partner, most commonly female, but even at 19, a lot of guys are not going to be prepared to deal with the consequences of penis-vagina sex. But the hormones relentlessly keep the guy feeling horny, more or less constantly, unless he can figure out a way to get some periodic relief from this situation.

What kind of relief? Well, you can guess. This need and urge to jerk off is all but universal among college-age males, never mind all of the elaborate schemes guys work out in order to attempt to do this on the sly, under the cover of darkness. Partner sex is fun, but jerking off on your own is terrific fun too. That is, if you can only figure out a way to do this secretly. Or, maybe not.

Now, the thing you need to know about Brian and Cedric was that they both fell into the category of pranksters. They loved to do things that, as Bruce, Brian’s brother, would call “grossing out” their friends just to see how they would react. In this case, masturbation with the other roommates watching was just another prank to them. And of course, just the idea of Brian jerking of Cedric and Cedric jerking off Brian brought the prank to a whole new level on the “gross out” scale. The two of them were having just as much fun seeing how Bruce and I would react to them jerking off themselves and each other as we watched them doing something “really gross” as they were jerking off.

One way of looking at this I suppose was that it was my first encounter with the idea of a gay sexual act. Brian and Cedric both knew that, and that did not stop them in the least. I admit that I was pretty naïve, sexually. I loved jerking off but my list of techniques for doing this was, well, candidly, rather limited. I was very curious as to whether the other guys my age had mastered skills in this department that I had not yet acquired, and what Brian and Cedric were each doing to themselves and each other certainly added to my information set in this regard. But was I observing first hand a couple guys who, if not gay, were at least bisexual? That was an interesting question. Neither of them was dating a woman so far as I knew, at least not steadily.

Well, what happened was that both of them graduated from college. I lost track of Cedric, but Brian married and raised a family. There has been quite a bit of research by sex researchers on the whole subject of male-male sexual conduct that might be seen as one form of gay sex and its link to ultimate sexual orientation. A quick summary of that research says that perhaps 40 % of males who eventually marry have, at some point in their lives, had a sexual encounter with another male that led to an orgasm for one or both. The sex researchers seem less concerned about the meaning of all of this in relation to whether or not an occasional male-male sexual encounters means the guy is gay or bisexual than the public at large. The public at large seems to think that if this has happened at all the guy therefore must be at minimum bisexual if not “entirely” gay.

This gets into some really tricky stuff and into things about human sexual behavior that are not at all fully understood. First, let me say that I am as open minded as all get out on the entire subject of sexual orientation, and a proponent of the “whatever floats your boat” school of thinking on this. But I find it endlessly fascinating to try and better understand how guys get to the point where they eventually end up in this regard.

I’ve read all the stuff related to the science that says sexual orientation is ultimately determined by one’s genes. This perspective is the one promoted by the gay community--that a guy has no choice at all in the matter of sexual orientation but is stuck with whatever his genes say he should be.

But then, I keep thinking that in real life, sexual orientation determination is not nearly so simple and clear cut as this. People fall all over the five point scale from straight to gay and basically everything in between. At some point a guy might form a partnership that involves sex with another person, and that person will be either male or female. So the decision at that point is more or less 0-1. But then you have true bisexuals who like having sex with partners of either sex, and they do not fall neatly into one category or another.

I further conclude that guys who might ultimately live out their lives in a straight relationship may also have enjoyed engaging in some sort of sexual activity with a male partner. At the end of the day, the preference is still for being with a female, but that doesn’t discount the possibility that the male encounter perhaps was really fun sexually too. Seeing either sex as being absolutely equal in this regard (as a “true“ bisexual) is likely rare but certainly possible. At some point, most guys are going to get to the point where they at least prefer having a physical partner of one sex over the other, and, based on this most guys seem to ultimately be able to determine if they are actually gay or straight. At least, I think that is what is going on.

There have been many movies where the plot line involves a married man who has a gay male encounter, and what that means for a marriage. Sometimes males divorce wives and take up with a gay male. Sometimes females divorce husbands and move into a lesbian relationship. I’ve seen all of this up close in real life too. My only observation is that in general for both males and females, they seem to me to mostly be happier after the heterosexual breakup than before. I don’t want to ever judge people male or female in this regard based on what they choose to do. I’m not walking in their shoes, except to say that sexual orientation might be a bit more fluid than some of the gay rights advocates might care to admit given the effort made to promote the idea that sexual orientation is written in the genes and unwavering otherwise. Is this all somehow written genetically, or could circumstances matter and feelings about sexual orientation in one direction or another evolve in one direction or the other over time?

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[sebbie]

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So, what does all of this have to do with modern-day Dylan and Josh, horny college roommates stuck together in a cramped dorm room? As you might imagine, there are parts of both Dylan and Josh who remind me a lot of myself when I was their age. I was a nerdy 110 lb weakling. At that age, I was getting erections too, relentlessly, and seemingly for no obvious reason. I was always in search of a degree of privacy so I could jack off without interruption.

The various clothing items of course play a role in the two of them feeling horny as all get out. They were able to wear items that I could have only dreamed and fantasized about of wearing in that regard at that age. The complicated part of this story has now arrived. Josh has already seen Dylan masturbating in the room. Josh was not repulsed by this, and Dylan didn’t stop just because Josh had accidentally wandered back from class a little early. I guess a “real” straight guy is supposed to somehow be repulsed by being able to observe close up another guy jerking off. At least, that is how this would likely have all played out in high school. But Josh and Dylan are young adults now and the rules on this might have changed.

If Josh somehow gets aroused himself in part by watching Dylan engage in solo sex, does that mean that Josh has a gay or bisexual streak to his personality? Now Josh not Dylan has been wearing that magnificent thong underwear. And then there is Dylan, wearing that little Desmiit® swim brief. Can you imagine Dylan, penis pointed up in the brief pouch, with the underside clearly rubbing against that super slick fabric? Can you imagine josh getting even more turned on just by looking close up at how Dylan has all those sensitive male body parts positioned? What if one thing leads to another, and the two of them decide they would like to touch or grope each other’s penises while still contained in the swim brief or thong?

And what of their buds Bill and Joe, also horny but wearing different items, straps, cups and compression gear? Wouldn’t Bill end Joe greatly “enjoy” watching Dylan and Josh messing around with themselves and each other? Bill and Joe have been good friends to Dylan and Josh, teaching them a few things about clothing items and their potential for making masturbation more exciting. It seems a shame not to invite Bill and Joe into their dorm room to watch all of this, Just as Bruce and I were keen observers of what Brian and Cedric were up to, alone or with each other even as we acted as if what they were seeing was repulsive.

And why does any of this need to have anything to do with determining if each of the four is ultimately gay or straight? For now the four of them are just college buddies who get horny and are trying their best to cope with what is happening to them in the male hormone department. The rest of it can wait. These are moments in a guys live to be savored, not repulsed. Or so it seems.

To be continued….

[sebbie]

A lot of guys shortly after puberty sets in discover that their penises don’t always behave like a guy might expect. Generally penises like to become tense, hard and erect when a guy thinks about or encounters something he regards as sexually exciting. Not long after, guys learn that there are situations that other guys think are OK to get hard-on. Generally, these involve an encounter with a female regarded as sexy pretty. But other instances where a penis gets hard and erect are not considered socially acceptable.

Still, a guy soon determines that male sexually is not anywhere near this simple. For starters, sometimes guys have “reactions” just thinking about stuff. While sometimes these daydreams (or night dreams) may involve a female, sometimes this stuff may go off in many other directions, the scariest direction being a situation that involves no female at all. Young gay guys may daydream or night dream about an encounter with another guy, and these dreams may parallel to a large degree those that straight guys have, except for the gender, of course. My objective today is not to go down that trail, but instead head down a different trail.

Nearly every guy at some point in his life has gotten into a situation where he has gotten an erection at a time and in a situation that he deems inappropriate, or at least his male peers would think is inappropriate. A lot of these happen in instances where there is no partner present at all. A lot of guys are really embarrassed by all of this, and think that there is something wrong simply because the guy’s head is saying one thing and the guy’s body is clearly saying something different. It’s this old problem of getting aroused in a situation where the guy thinks he isn’t supposed to be aroused.

No better example of this problem that a guy who gets aroused whenever he wears snug-fitting clothing, or even thinks about wearing snug-fitting clothing. Now there is nothing unsafe or illegal about wearing snug-fitting clothing. The only real problem is that if the other guys discover that I like to do this, I will likely get teased or bullied, unless, of course, there are other guys out there who also think its fun to get aroused wearing snug-fitting clothing.

So, what is the problem with all of this, then? Erections are fun. Really fun. Now the sad part is that there are lots of issues and dangers associated with having an erection in partner sex, whether the partner is male or female. The girl could get pregnant. An STD may get transmitted, Gonorrhea or Herpes, or even HIV. I can think of a dozen reasons why a guy might not want to have full-scale sex with a partner. Yet, erections keep happening, and something has to give, and probably on a regular basis.


I’ve talked a lot about male masturbation here. This has been a nearly constant theme. Now, I would be the first to admit that there is nothing at all wrong if a guy simply wants to rub or stroke himself to orgasm in the privacy of his own bedroom or bathroom. Oftentimes his must be done in a hurry, so as to not tip off to others what the guy is up to.

But what if a guy discovers that masturbation is a whole lot more fun by wearing (being contained in) certain clothing items? If a guy enjoys masturbating more if he wears something that fits snuggly around his penis, and feels smooth to the touch, does that somehow make a guy weird, a freak of sorts? Well, only if he admits to doing that to his peers ?

Every guy who discovers this thinks he must be the only guy who does this, lest some of his peers would have mentioned this at some point. Yet, this has got to be one of the deepest, darkest secrets a guy normally keeps to himself.

Except for Dylan, Josh, Bill and Joe, of course, college freshman who have gotten pretty casual about all of this, first with themselves, and then, at least to a degree, with each other.

What kinds of clothing items do guys particularly like for this purpose? For the most part, the entire list is fairly short.

Brief-style swimwear perhaps tops the list of clothing items leading to male arousal in this respect. I’m convinced that a lot of the fear guys have of wearing swim briefs is linked directly to the fear that they will get an erection just putting a swim brief on, and one thing will lead to another. There is no greater fear a guy has than being seen in public not only with a an erection, but scarier still, a cum-stain on the front of the brief.

Jock straps are probably only slightly less scary in this regard than swim briefs.
 
Men’s thong underwear are right up there too in this regard, though most guys worry less about this as they believe that if they are wearing thong underwear they will be covered by something else, say a pair of shorts or jeans, so the danger of being seen erect but uncovered is less.

Then there is the whole category of compression gear, the tees but particularly the shorts, which will do a good job of revealing a guy if he is at all erect. Swimming jammers are actually an offshoot of compression shorts. Some guys wear these instead of a swim brief in the mistaken belief that if they get erect it will be less noticeable that they are in this condition. But that is largely a myth.

Wrestling singlets are made like swimming jammers but with a twist. Since the singlet is but one piece, there is a top with shoulder straps that like to tug at a guy’s groin area as he moves. Depending on your outlook, this can either be a feature or a potential problem.

A related increasingly popular item is snug fitting full tights designed for outdoor running.

The last item on this list has to include skinny jeans, once again hugely popular for guys. With the multi-stretch Spandex denim, some of these are becoming nearly as snug-fitting as a jammer or running tight. Good luck getting in and out of these without getting an erection.

It used to be, guys would occasionally get their nerve up for going to the shopping mall to find one or more of these items. But now, with on-line shopping, it is sometimes advantageous to make on line purchases. The selection and options will be greater, too.

How will a guy know if he has found an item that interests him at an on line retailer? Well, the male body is set up to do just that. That is where the cowpers gland and the precum sets in. If a guy starts precumming, just thinking about buying a certain item of interest, this is probably something he should try ordering. Beats getting yourself into a potentially embarrassing situation at the local store, and avoid the potential embarrassment associated making the purchase with a real sales clerk. That’s what Bill, Joe and then Dylan found out.

To be continued….

[sebbie]

I presume my readers would not still be following my stories if they did not see something of themselves in the story characters. In other words, my readers would not be here reading this were it not for the likely fact that there is an arousal mechanism at work just hearing about the escapades of the guys in the stories getting aroused by wearing various items of snug-fitting clothing. OK, so reading these stories is at least a bit of a turn-on for you. If otherwise, why have you read this far.

But, let me suppose that you are new to all of this. You have discovered that you suddenly get turned on by the very thought of being in the situation that Dylan, or Josh, or Joe or Bill have been facing, but, where to start, anyway?

Well, if you have not ever actually tried doing some of the things that the four college guys have been enjoying, you do need a place to start. And the logical starting point would be with (surprise!) a swim brief.

Here, I may surprise some of you, because I am going to suggest not the smallest, tightest, skimpiest swim brief you can find on an on line store, but instead, something pretty basic and purposeful. And something that could be worn for swimming at practically any pool without any concern.

What is that, exactly? Interestingly, I come back to what is perhaps the most basic of all swim briefs. A simple “standard-cut Speedo®” with approximately 3-inch sides in a very common and ordinary, color, one that has been out there for ages, Royal Blue! And, I am suggesting that you purchase one of these in your normal waist size, say a 30, 32 or even a 34-inch waist if that is what you think you need.

Some of you are probably wondering what gives here anyway? Bill, Joe, Josh and Dylan don’t each have one of these. Can this clunky a swim brief somehow still be sexy and arousing? Could this possibly get me turned on in the manner these stories have been describing? Isn’t this more than a little old fashioned?

Well, yes to all of that. But, consider, one of the sexiest moments in all of swim brief wearing occurred in Season 6 of the long-Running “Dallas” nighttime soap. A then-young Christopher Atkins had this thing for the much older wife of J.R. Ewing played by a then still relatively young Linda Gray. Christopher plays a camp counselor for the Ewing boy. Numerous scenes are shot near a pool either at the camp or at the pool on the Ewing ranch.
What you will want to do is Google “Christopher Atkins Blue Speedo” and then do a Google Image search on that. You will see multiple photos of Atkins wearing the same Royal Blue brief with a Speedo logo. There is one thing that is basically the same in all of these multiple photos of Chris in his Royal Blue Speedo with three-inch sides. That thing is what appears to be an at least somewhat erect penis clearly in the “up” position, and pressing tightly against the slick confines of the blue Speedo.

The producers of Dallas probably had a plan in mind when they let Christopher dress that way. They had to know that the camera would pick up the outline of the underside of Christopher’s penis underside pressing up against the slick blue Speedo®.

But, I would argue that this same visual had to affect men, straight, gay or in-between as well. As many of you know, I have been stressing the idea that the underside of a guy’s penis is a whole lot more sensitive to tough than the top side. Any guy who looks at these photos has got to realize that Christopher must be feeling quite good when those photos were taken in all sorts of different ways.

From here, it is only a short leap to a guy wanting to try this himself, understanding now full well with a guy who is wearing a classic Royal Blue Speedo ® with 3 inch sides is likely going to feel quite horny, and especially so with a semi-erect penis pointing “up” inside the Speedo® Indeed, any guy would have to be brain dead in all sorts of ways to not want to try the same thing himself.

I may suggest to Josh and Dylan that perhaps they might want their own old school Royal Blue Speedo with three inch sides. There is something about all of this that makes even guys who thought they were somehow “immune” to getting turned on by this idea to suddenly change their minds.

So, see where you come out on all of this by following the instructions, above. The classic blue Speedo is the place to start in your quest.

To be continued…

[dm106]

Linda Gray (not Linda Evans) was on Dallas. Linda Evans was on Dynasty. Great story, and I never realized that he might be semi in Dallas until I did look at the photos. Some are there of him nude as well but not from Dallas.

[sebbie]

I corrected that... Been watching Big Valley reruns, which included a young Linda Evans. It was Linda Gray's leg in the famous poster for "The Graduate"not Anne Bancroft's. :-)

[sebbie]

The Internet photos showing Christopher Atkins wearing a royal blue Speedo® swim brief pose a whole series of interesting questions. The first of these issues relates to the fact that what you are seeing are stills from a network television show, albeit when TV was not being broadcast in HD. Still, that Atkins’ male anatomy under the shiny blue swimsuit was readily visible could not have been lost on the show’s producers.

Network television is highly regulated not only with respect to foul language, but also barring anything that would be considered a bit pornographic. Maybe the censors simply assumed that any detail here would be on the screen for just a second or two quickly gone (this is TV, for goodness sakes), or would be completely lost in the low definition of broadcast TV then.

At the time the Dallas show aired, Christopher Atkins already had quite a reputation for his sexual escapades in the movie, “the Blue Lagoon”, and that movie had been very successful at the box office, largely on the looks and bodies of the two stars, Brook Shields and Christopher Atkins, marooned and cavorting in and out of their clothes on a deserted tropical island. That movie was released in 1980, and Atkins probably had just turned 18 when it was filmed (although he looked somewhat younger than that).

The Dallas episodes featuring Atkins (Played as a character named Peter Richards, a fine name choice given the Speedo photos. Also, the Atkins character in the Blue Lagoon had a first name of Richard, so somehow the name “Peter Richards” seemed completely logical and fitting) aired in 1984. Atkins (Peter Richards) was probably 22 years old when the Dallas episodes were filmed.

One would not have expected Dallas to hire Atkins with the idea that he would now be fully clothed in all the episodes, and the story line making Peter Richards a camp counselor who taught the young campers how to swim was perfect. Besides, Network TV is all about getting the ratings, and presumably seeing Peter Richards, clad only in a blue Speedo and a semi hard-on, would send the (mainly female) viewers into a frenzy. That had to be good for the show’s ratings. And, six years into its run, a lot of the Dallas plot lines had already been explored. J.R. Ewing, had already had affairs with most of the rest of the female cast, usually a different cast member in each episode, but the idea of Sue Ellen, JR’s wife and Linda Gray’s character, having an affair with the young and semi-erect and Speedo-clad Peter Richards was just too good to pass up.

The stills of the episodes showing Peter Richards in his semi-enlarged condition on the Internet have all been captured and preserved for posterity. I have no idea whether or not females still find these photos to be sexually arousing. I would think so, but I do not know that for a fact.

The other question is what do the guys think of these photos, and, in particular, do guys find them in any way interesting and perhaps even arousing? I suppose that many of my readers think that the answer to that question would depend on whether the guy seeing the photos is straight or gay, with gay guys finding them arousing but straight guys not.

That would be a simple analysis, but I think that oversimplifies to the point of being inaccurate. If you have been reading my stories this far, you no doubt realize that I am very aware of the fact that the underside of a guy’s penis is almost invariably more sensitive to touch than the other sides, and as a guy gets erect this effect only increases. Second, the slick fabric of the royal blue swim brief touching the penis underside should only increase the sensations, but especially so if the guy is semi-erect, as Peter is in the photos.

Finally, there is something really interesting seeing another guy in this condition and position wearing a swim brief. One might think that this would clearly be a “gay thing”. In other words, gay guys might think this is arousing but straight guys, being perfectly straight, would not This is some of the same stuff Josh and Dylan have been trying to cope with in the story. A particular item of clothing such as a bright blue swim brief, semi-hard, penis pointed up, might be sexually arousing for me, but if I know you, my buddy, in a similar condition, similarly clad, is also experiencing something similar that must be equally arousing for him, the fun for both of us is doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Is this just a gay male thing, or does this somehow also apply to most guys who claim to be straight? That is a fascinating question to pose. I hold the view that this is all nearly universal among all guys, but I cannot prove it. If my view is right, this is not just a gay thing at all. There is a lot more going on here than that. If I could figure this all out, I would be able to find the answer to the basic question as to why guys are often attracted to the idea of wearing a swim brief and yet very fearful. Does a guy worry that he will somehow look like Peter Richards and then what? Does this fear turn into repulsion? Women who object to men wearing swim briefs seem to really have a core objection to seeing the covered male anatomy under the brief. But are they being turned on at the same time, and is the turn-on that they find at once fun and exciting but somehow repulsive?

Complicated questions, all.

To be continued…