"We'll have our model, Kirk, here for two forty-five-minute sessions," the art instructor, Dex, told the attendees at the community education center art class. "This week, get whatever you're painting outlined. Next week will be for filling it out."
Kirk, twenty, almost too pretty to be male, but hard-bodied and divinely built on a five-foot-five frame, was stretched pit on a blue velvet-draped dais, completely nude. He was posed sensuously on his side, his reclining torso supported on an arm bent at the elbow, with the hand of the other arm shielding his genitals. Most of the art students were sketching him from behind—and a very nice behind he had, too. A couple of artists, though, including a blowsy earth-mother type in her fifties and a tall, trim, distinguished-looking handsome man in his late forties, were sketching from the young man's front. Both of them were giving the dark-haired and sultry young man possessing looks as they sketched. Both were obviously more interested in the prospect of making him than painting him. Both of them were contemplating whether to be as bold as to show what was behind his hand in how they chose to paint him.
Fifty minutes later, Kirk had been released from his pose and was in an adjoining room, pulling on his briefs, jeans, and Henley pull-over shirt and black leather boots as the man who had been sketching him, Carl, leaned into the doorframe and watched him. Kirk looked up periodically to give the man a shy smile. It hadn't escaped his notice how closely the man had been scrutinizing him while he was in the nude and posing. And when he'd passed the man's easel on the way to getting dressed, he'd notice both that the man hadn't been doing much sketching and that his eyes dropped to see what he could of Kirk's package. Kirk had been interested enough to take his hand away and let the man get a good look.
"May I paint it that way?" the man had asked.
Kirk had laughed and said, "As you wish." If the man was making a pass, Kirk was game. He often made more from the man he left the studio with after one of these sessions than he did from the model fee. He could have profited equally from the women if he swung that way—and when times were tough, he was willing to do that.
"You're a beautiful young man," Carl said from his leaning stance in the changing room doorway. "It's a pleasure sketching you."
"Thanks," Kirk said, taking extra time he probably didn't need to zip up the side of his left boot and smooth out the leather.
"Do you enjoy modeling—in the nude like this?" Carl asked.
"It pays well—and I need the money. And I don't mind showing off my body. I guess I'm somewhat of what you'd call an exhibitionist." Finished with the left boot, he slid his foot into the right one and placed his food on the seat of a wooden chair. He was still taking his time—still posing.
"You have a great body. It's right that you show it off." And the young man did have a great body. He was a little guy, but he was perfectly proportioned and toned. "You must work out a lot."
"Thanks. Yeah, I spend a lot of time at the gym. Pete's Gym over on Elm."
"I know that gym." There was a pause while Carl contemplated whether he should go for it. He decided he might as well. The guy was showing every sign of interest. "Dex tells me that you're approachable."
"Did he?" Kirk asked, giving Carl a smile. Kirk understood perfectly what Carl was asking and what Dex had told him. Dex got a cut for any referrals. "Well, as I said, I need the money. College ain't cheap."
Carl pulled a hand to the surface of his trousers pocket, showing a small wad of greenbacks. "I understand that two hundred would do it."
"Barely," Kirk said.
"Would you like to go get some dinner with me? I'll pay, of course. On top of the other."
"Sure, I guess."
Carl was driving an imposing, late-model black Chrysler 300 sedan. He drove them out beyond the outskirts of the town to a country inn sort of place with small dining rooms providing cubby-hole recesses for tables in the shadows. Dim, filtered light was provided by table candles. The food was by choice—you could eat hearty or like a bird—but all of it was expensive. The conversation was comfortable although studiously unrevealing on both sides other than issues of national football and basketball and body-building techniques. Carl was making a show to indicate he was a man's man—that he wasn't a sissy. Kirk thought that the man was maybe trying too hard on that, but he didn't care. For the fee, he became whatever the man wanted.
They didn't stand out in the restaurant. There were more male couples than mixed ones at the tables.
Carl probed on Kirk's background and current situation but didn't get anywhere. Kirk didn't bother to probe into what made Carl tick at all. The wad of cash the man had flashed was enough to make Kirk tick. For now, tonight, he knew precisely what was making Carl tick—what Carl wanted. Carl's occasional grip of the young man's knee under the table told Kirk what Carl wanted and that Carl wanted to top.
"Do you do a lot of work in the nude?" Carl asked.
"Yes," Kirk answered, and, giving the man a saucy look, added, "And some of it is as an artists' model."
Carl smiled and squeezed Kirk's knee under the table. "So you do private modeling."
"Sure, if that is what is wanted."
In the nude, Kirk was thinking. The man wants me to strut around for him in the nude before sticking it in me. Well, Kirk needed the money and this was one fine-looking man—older, yes, but tall, good-looking, sinewy, and quite intellectual. He had a good vocabulary and a nice smile, and he smelled of refinement and wealth. If Kirk pleased him, he thought there would be something steady here—more than the initial trial two hundred, he hoped. College expenses were going up and there were added expenses of staying on the college lacrosse team. Posing in the nude as a buildup to sex wasn't all that kinky.
All that needed to be determined was how well the man was endowed and how easily could he get it up and keep it up. How much work would Kirk have to do for the money? He moved a hand to the man's inner thigh under the table. Carl gave him a warm smile and parted his legs, as Kirk moved his hand up, finding which way the man dressed—finding not only that he was able to attain an erection on his own but that he also was godawful long.
"Satisfied?" he asked.