At what point does curiosity become an obsession? When does a want become a need?
The curiosity started with another taboo, the reading of someone else's diary. Memories were rekindled, teenage fantasies recalled and, initially at least, occasional and idle thoughts were born.
A few days after the initial shock, the first idle thoughts of "I wonder if I could, I wonder if I should" were easily defeated by "NO! I shouldn't even be thinking of it".
Most of the musings in those early days were less confrontational to think about; the irony of it; after all these years and now I have one right here under my own nose. I guess that in a way it means I got what I've always wanted and I didn't even know it.
Overcoming the taboo of the diary had been easy. The first time she had found it, it was unlocked, and besides, how else was she to understand the life and dreams of a son she'd never known. He rarely spoke of those years, except to say that "Dad always looked after me, it's just that the life wasn't for me"; and when she asked about his loves and wishes for the future, he seemed either too shy or too naive of the world to know what was out there to want.
She had no doubt his body and soul would have been well cared for, but under the cloistered religious care of his zealot father, his social skills had never developed. His shyness was not borne from timidity; it came from not knowing a world of choice. With his father, there was a choice to retreat from the rare social interactions with others or to remain and minister the lord's word. If he chose to retreat, he was encouraged to spend the time in quiet prayer. When he reached puberty, more often than not when he retreated, he would spend the time masturbating.
When he turned 18 his father allowed him a new choice, to stay and minister the lord in manly partnership, or to cast himself out into the sea of sinners. He chose the latter. Two days later he turned up on the doorstep of the mother he'd been taken from at age 3 and begged forgiveness and a place to stay till he learned how to earn his own money.
After three months they were getting comfortable in each others company and becoming more a family than the two strangers who had hugged and cried through the first week and then spent the next weeks not sure what to say.
His politeness still held a shyness that would remain forever at the front of his character, but each day he explored more and more of the world around him. He said what he did and didn't like about a certain TV show, he decided he wanted to learn to play golf, and more and more often she saw him shyly glancing and smiling at girls at the local mall.
The day before she saw the diary, he conceded he'd never had a girlfriend but that he hoped one day he would get married "to someone as beautiful as you Mrs Robinson". He still did that, occasionally lapsing into formalities and forgetting Mrs Robinson was actually "mom".
At first the diary was a disappointment. She had hoped to discover stories of his youth but it appeared he had bought the thing as a personal present on his 18th birthday. Apart from a dreary description of the two day bus ride to meet her, the rest was about a life she already knew; the one in this house over the past three months. She was pleased that by the second month, he was beginning to express himself more and write about his feelings and interests. He was developing quickly and she was proud of the career aspirations he wrote of and the things he saw as important in a given day.
Three weeks ago the diary writings had changed, and with it the embryo of an obsession began to gestate inside her.
He wrote; "I like to jerk off" (the word masturbate had been written first but then crossed out) "so I've decided that in future I'll write about some of the things I like to jerk off about". He had written once or twice before about masturbating but it was the words following that had an affect on her. "Jerking off today was different from usual because I found out something about my penis today (entries in a few weeks would see the word written as "cock"); it felt different because today I found out my penis is bigger than normal. I saw a show on TV that said the average length of an erect penis is around 6 inches. After the show I got hard and measured mine and it is 9 inches. I don't know if that is much bigger than normal or if there is just a lot at 9 inches and a lot at 3 inches, but it made me feel good to know it is above average."
My god, he's huge, she thought. That's my boy. She was proud of him and for him. She put the diary back and considered she had invaded his privacy enough, and thought no more about it; until bedtime, when an idle memory popped into her head. She had always fantasised about sex with a giant cock. As luck would have it, she'd only ever bedded Mr Average, or his junior. She'd never seen, touched, or fucked, a cock bigger than 6 and half inches.
As the years and lovers went by, she'd forgotten about those younger girls passions; she'd had fantastic orgasms with 3 inch cocks and was no more excited when they were twice that length inside her. Experience had taught her that size doesn't matter, but still she laughed at the irony that she literally had given birth to her teenage dream.
She was reminded of it two or three times over the next day or so. The first time she saw him after she'd read the diary she felt a tinge of embarrassment but still couldn't stop herself glancing at his groin. When she heard him in the shower the next morning she was reminded and wondered how long a limp giant is when dangling freely down a wet leg; and those teenage fantasies came into her head for no apparent reason when she was watching TV. Each time, she thought nothing sexual of her son; it was just a distant memory prompted then forgotten; she saw the cock and never the face neither her sons nor any other face). It was a large cock she wanted not the man attached to it.
After a while she began to wonder whether her imagination was the same as the reality, would a cock that is 9 inches erect be as long as she imagined when limp? She wasn't aware of any rule (divide length of erect cock by two to work out limp length); indeed she was sure she'd seen some cocks hardly grow at all and some seemed to swell to 10 times there size.
How long is my sons cock when limp, how wide across? Why hadn't he written those dimensions in the diary? She tried to imagine her sons cock limp and then couldn't remember if it was circumcised or not; there were religious considerations and that meant his father would have been in charge of decisions to cut or not cut. She tried to imagine limp circumcised and limp uncut cocks, but she couldn't conjure up a satisfactorily clear enough image of either; not of one that would swell to nine inches anyway.
By the morning of the third day she had the first idle thoughts of "I wonder if I could, I wonder if I should, I wonder if I can, find a way to see his cock".