My son was an accident. His mother and I were completely unprepared to be small-town teenage parents. Sure, I did the honorable thing and married her, but we fought over everything, from my son's circumcision to what we were having for dinner. Her rich and conservative farming family hated me. We divorced when our son was two, his mother gained sole custody, and I moved to the city so I could find a decent job. She became a born-again evangelical Christian and remarried. Meanwhile, alone in the big city, I discovered I preferred men over the ladies. To say we'd drifted apart would be an understatement.
Still, I couldn't quite let go. For one thing, I hated what my ex-wife and her family were doing to my son. By the time he was thirteen, they'd drilled into Mikey that homosexuality was evil, that onanismโbetter known as masturbationโwas a sinful precursor to homosexuality, and that sex was only for procreation. I didn't agree with any of it, but given how little I got to see my son, I had to resign myself to the fact that there wasn't much I could do about how he was being raised. This was the 80's and I wasn't out. I was hardly going to take on my ex-wife's high-powered lawyers with my modest wages going towards child-support payments. Besides, my son seemed destined to take over his mother's family farm, which in all fairness seemed like for the best, given that he was growing up hard-working and good with animals.
As for Mikey, well, he wanted to become a vet. This was all fine in principle for my ex. After all, vets were highly respected members of farming communities. What she couldn't understand was why he needed to start his undergraduate at university. It wasn't about the money; they could afford it. It was the drinking, partying, and sex that worried her. No son of hers was living in the den of sin that was dormitory life.
So that was how my country-raised son ended up staying with me in the big city. Mikey moved into my apartment the day before his first class. I let him drive my car, and he took full advantage of my gym, which had the perk of free access for member family. All in all my son was settling in just fine.
There was just one problem.
Despite only having turned eighteen a few days earlier, Mikey was already bigger and stronger than other kids his age. I knew it was partly from farm work, but I knew my genes played a big role tooโI was closer to seven foot than six, and Mikey's height was only a few inches shy of mine. We had the same straw-colored hair, the same shade of blue eyes. You couldn't miss the family resemblance even if you tried.
What concerned me, however, wasn't so much our physical similarities as our analogous physiology. I knew a dog when I saw one, being one myself, and Mikey radiated sexual energy like a goddamn furnace. It wasn't anything he did. He didn't stare or sport a hard-on. Heck, I doubted he was even aware of the vibe his body was giving off. And yet I could sense its ebb and flow even with my back turned. The boy seriously needed to get laid.
It would have been an easy problem to solve if Mikey weren't so stubborn about adhering to his mother's no-sex-without-procreation rule. He refused to even masturbate. No gentle prodding by me could shake his conviction that straying from the path of purity would turn him 'homosexual'. By the hushed, embarrassed way he spoke the word, I reckoned that in his mind's eye there was nothing worse.
Yup, his mother had fucked my son up real good and it pissed me off. But there seemed nothing I could do about it. Nothing, that is, until one day I came home to find Mikey shirtless on all four vacuuming underneath the sofa. An idea was born, and like all bad ideas, from then on it took a life of its own.
Two months into Mikey's semester, I decided to put my plan into action. Just as we were finishing dinner, I asked my son if he intended on saving up any of his money from his part-time job at the diner.
"Yeah, I'm fixing to get that car," he told me. Mikey's mother had told him he'd have to earn it himself, and for once I'd agreed with her.
I made a show of debating whether to tell him, before saying, "What if I told you, you could make fifty bucks right now, and it would only take you ten minutes?"
"I'd say I'm all ears, Dad," he responded enthusiastically.
I took a sip of beer. "You could donate sperm," I told him matter-of-factly. A pregnant pause followed.
Mikey exclaimed in disbelief, "You must be off your rocker if you thinkโ"
"It's what I did when I first moved here," I shrugged. "It helped pay for college." It was true.
"Dad, that's..." he frowned. "Wait, wait, you saying I've got some brothers and sisters I don't know about?"
I shrugged again, "Probably. It's all anonymous."
Mikey went quiet. When he spoke it was in a hushed tone. "Doesn't it involve... y'know, onanism?"
"There are other ways."
"What other ways?"
"You know how when you want bull sperm you insert the electric probe? It's similar with guys but you only need someone else's fingers."
"You let someone do that?" Mikey asked, wide-eyed.
"Sure. Some of the nurses at the sperm bank do it. The doctors do similar when folks come in for their physicals. I'm fairly certain you'll be sticking you fingers up a lot of animal bums if you're going to be a vet, Mikey, so you might as well get used to the idea."
"Yeah but that's different..."
"How much is the average price for bull sperm, Mikey?"
"About fifty dollars."
"There you go. Same price. Like I said, it's not all that different."
I paused. We'd reached a critical juncture. "Listen, here's what we'll do. I'll pick up the kit from the sperm bank tomorrow and I'll help you out, right here at home. Just the two of us. You decide how far you want to go. Sound good, Mikey?"
Before my stunned son could reply, I patted his chest and said, "Alright, I'm off to take a shower. We'll talk more tomorrow."
With that, I walked away, in part to forestall further discussion, but also to conceal my growing arousal. I stepped into the bathroom and closed the door behind me. Looking at myself in the mirror, I wondered what the fuck was I doing. Was this about getting back at my ex, helping my son, or was it just about helping myself to forbidden fruit? I chuckled softly. Whatever it was, I couldn't wait for tomorrow.
Work the next day was a constant battle to keep my mind occupied so I wouldn't spout a stiffy. I was out of the office by five-o-clock sharp, at the sperm bank by five-twenty, and home by a quarter before six. I hollered, "Mikey I got KFC!" and my son trotted out of his room wearing cargo shorts and a white tank top that read, 'Mud up or shut up'.
"Mmm! Nice!" he smiled, excited by the food.
Nice