Angelic babies, we
were not
When we were sent to
boarding school, it was presumed we were innocent, unaware, unspoilt, and undefiled.
Yet, nothing to be further from the truth about the kind of knowledge we all had as adolescence and puberty had hormones raging in our bodies that the
more precocious and adventurous amongst us found outlets for.
Rumours abounded of
boys meeting girls, seniors finding impressionable girls to exploit in the dark
classrooms late at night, there was even one instance though unconfirmed of
penis captivus
where the parties could not be separated after intercourse for a while, the
male participant allegedly the son of the principal.
Denial and hypocrisy around
us
Sometimes, the girls
disappeared for a while, recorded as ill with apparent tuberculosis whilst most
definitely, a pregnancy was terminated. The female teachers in school were
matrons of ovulatory expertise, they could tell if a girl was pregnant from the
whites of her eyes, her continual spitting, and some other natural sign of divination
before inquiring wether the pregnancy was caught by contagion if no name of the
sexual partner was forthcoming.
I do not think any male
got called out for sexual intercourse except in our last year when two girls
were gang-raped by a group of boys with whom at least one had provided times of
intimacy years before.
All ready to do
something
For those of us who
were not daring enough to approach the opposite sex, we were not entirely sexless.
My first exploration was when a classmate during a moment of being alone
together asked if we could copulate. I did not know what copulate meant even
though from an earlier age I seemed to have some excitement looking up words
that began with sex. I had eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
from 7 and after that, pederasty did occur at home with people employed to care
for us.
He soon left the
boarding school as he just did not cope with the environment. In terms, it was
harsh for many of us leaving home for the first time, but we found ways to
adapt. Being one of the youngest of my class, I was quite developed for my age,
taller with pubic hair that others thought I had acquired by the application of
methylated spirit. I do not know where the idea of hair growth by methylated
spirit came from.
The fundamentals of
fluid mechanics
Soon, there were
partners my age mates were in a lower class but full of sexual needs and
seeking some partnership in which I found a few to fumble or frot. Later, there
was one, a classmate, with whom fumbling led to fellatio with the experience of
ejaculation, he called fluid. That even went on until two or three years after
we left school.
I never met with the
ones who had homosexual inclinations, at least, not until I began seeing
them in pubs, clubs, and parties in the UK. I cannot speak for their
experiences as they all seem to want to avoid engagement even as it was quite obvious,
they did not miss their way into those places of encounter.
All the others are
married, the ones I still remember and are even grandparents. We can agree that
those days of our youth were just experimenting in practical fluid mechanics;
the physics, the chemistry, and the biology of it, the subject of memories of old
mischief.
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