The other day, watching some adolescents flirting and teasing, I remembered with nostalgia my own first sexual experience. As unsophisticated and fumbling as it was. it played a very special part in my growing up It did not involve intercourse, but it was the first time I ever felt an erect male penis.

I was a nubile eighteen year-old, as unaware of my charms as only a eighteen year-old in the late 1950's could be. A classmate, Mark, who lived a few blocks away from me, was a casual friend. I thought him attractive, but I was shy and we had never gone out. One summer afternoon, as I was walking past Mark's house, he called out from the door of his garage. “What are you doing?” he asked as I strolled over. I thought how nice he looked in his tight chinos and blue shirt. I was wearing shorts and a sleeveless... Read More