I met my first penis when I was eighteen years old. It was quite by accidentโor perhaps it wasn'tโand it belonged to a high school friend by the name of Robby.
This first chance encounter also occurred just days after I snuck a copy of the Village Voice under my bed sheets, and read a sex column.
First about the sex column:
A man wrote in that every time he urinates, some droplets always seem to splatter in his shorts no matter how man times he shakes his penis afterward. What should he do? The answer, surprisingly, came from a woman. She said she loves to relieve her boyfriends of this issue, and has a tried and true method of saving them from such spillage: She takes two fingers, and presses the muscle on underside of the penis, between the scrotum and the anus. She then pushes forward. "Never fails," she wrote.
Now back to Robby.
Robby was a girlish boy. He was small- framed with porcelain white skin and jet black hair and the girls in high school loved him. They never felt threatened by him. Robby was just a great kid, one anyone could confide in. Your secret was close with him. That's just the way he was.
And days before he headed off to the University of Rochester, and me to Princeton, we took a walk in the apple orchards near where I grew up and lounged by the stream, which is something we often did. He was just a friend, and I loved him dearly. I never looked at Robby as anything sexual. I was going to miss him terribly.
We laid down on the roots of this large oak tree and chatted and watched the stream go by talking about college and what it was going to be like leaving home. And he started to shuffle and said, "I have to pee really bad, just a sec." And he stood and went around the bushes.
I won't lie. I never saw a man pee. I had never even seen a real man naked. So I snuck around the bush and I spied on my friend Robby. He was just standing there, a penis sticking out of his pants, urinating on another tree.
"Hey, stop peaking!" He hollered, and circled around so I wouldn't see him. But my curiosity was incurable.
So I giggled and stood next to him and as he kept trying to hide, I kept grabbing him, until I finally grabbed his penis to hold him still.
"Sierra, cut it out!"
I was laughing, but he grew hard in my hand. I learned this would later happen. Rare is the instance where a woman gets to watch a man pee, because they will always get an erection.
"Crap. I can't finish!"
"Oh, I'm just teasing," I said, and removed my hand.