My daughter, Adrian, having pushed a bar of soap halfway up my rectum, said, "Give me your credit card and I'll go to that sex shop down the street and buy a strap-on."
"A what?"
"Strap-on. Is it [the sex shop] still in the same place?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You don't think Lesbians want cock? Same principle..."
I was confused. Was my daughter confessing she was a Lesbian? And why was she in the shower with me? She'd dropped her mother's terrycloth robe outside the frosted door and simply...climbed in.
I professed to be outraged. "What are you doing?"
"Joining you," she smiled. "Hi, daddy. It's so good to be back home again!"
"But..."
Almost immediately my 24-year-old daughter turned me around and grabbed the wet bar of soap and started pushing. In me.
"What...what are you doing?"
"Pleasing you. Isn't this what you like?"
"I...No!"
"That's why I've got to go to the sex shop and get a strap-on. A dildo at any rate. I'll need your credit card..."
My daughter, it seemed, was all about money. She'd called me the previous evening, while I was already in bed masturbating, and told me she was on a red-eye flight from SFO. Scheduled arrival time: 2:30 a.m. "Can you pick me up please? Daddy?"
What could I say. I hadn't seen my long-lost daughter in nearly two years. She'd dropped out of grad school, locally, and fled to California. Last I heard (from her mother) she was living somewhere in Mendocino. In a harem. Not a harem, excuse me; in a commune.
And shortly after my daughter left, her mother had followed. On the back of a Harley with a bearded guy half her age. They too headed west, though further south, in L.A. There was no mother-daughter reconciliation, apparently. Adrian seemed to despise both of us, equally. Or maybe not equally, but...
"Is this what you want, dad?" she asked, the next day, in the shower. The fake jelly penis, attached to a strap-on, was all the way inside me, and I couldn't control myself. My emotions.
"Oh, yes! YES! Please!"
"I knew it! Mom told me about catching you in bed...with another man. With you on the bottom..."
"Darling...you have to understand what happens to a man when...he reaches a certain--"