I was sitting on the couch with my wife at around 4:30 on a Friday afternoon. I worked from home and would usually "clock out" around 4 on Fridays. I was flipping through the options on Netflix while my lovely wife, Cassandra, was reading a book on the couch next to me.
"Hey, babe!" I called out to our daughter, Brittany, a moment after we heard her come in through the front door and set her bags down on the floor.
"Heyyy," she called out weakly in her usual awkward teenagerly way as she walked over to the living room where her mother and I were hanging out.
"How was school, honey?" Cassandra asked, setting her book down over her thigh.
"It was all right. Hey, can I ask you guys something?" Britt looked at us doubtfully.
"Anything, babe," I said absently, still flipping through options on Netflix.
"What's a... cumslut?" Brittany asked awkwardly.
I felt my wife grab my thigh. She had a funny look on her face, one eyebrow raised. I probably looked about the same.
"Hon," Cassandra said sweetly, "Where'd you hear a word like that?"
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Brittany was a senior in high school and over the age of eighteen now, so it wasn't too surprising to me that she may have heard a term like that at school. What was a little surprising, though, was Brittany not understanding what the term means.
Actually, maybe it's not all that surprising. Brittany had never brought any boys home. I'd never caught her looking at porn. Was it possible that she just wasn't interested in that stuff? As her father, that idea didn't really bother me.
Ever since our daughter was old enough to dress herself, she's always dressed kind of nerdy. Even when she entered her teenage years, and most of her friends began dressing more "adult," or "edgy," Brittany chose to continue wearing cute floral dresses, overalls, and stuff like that.
She always chose the thicker-framed glasses whenever she went with her mom to the mall to get new frames. Cass would always get the same basic wireframes. Britt and her Mom both needed glasses, but I'm lucky enough not to. 20/20 for life! Nah, I know it won't last forever.
Britt had long wavy black hair that went down to her butt, and bangs that went down to just above her eyebrows. Cass had attempted to get Britt to try other more modern ways of wearing her hair, but Britt liked it like this.
Britt's body is relatively petite. Actually, extremely petite. She's a few inches shorter than her peers, and she's skinny enough that her ribs are visible when she's in a bathing suit. Her breasts are smallish, but they do exist. Her little bras have a capital A on the tag, whatever that means.
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"Oh, someone from the back of the bus yelled it at me when I got off up the street just now," Britt explained plainly. What the fuck? Kids are getting so nasty these days.
"Babe, don't worry about it. It doesn't mean anything," I said, hoping we could drop the subject.
"Britt, cum is semen. Remember sex ed?" Cass said. I gave her a disapproving glance. I didn't want to talk about this with Britt.
Brittany thought for just a moment. "So a cumslut is just someone who likes to have sex," she stated.
"That's ri-" I began to say, but my wife interrupted me: "Not really," she explained. "You can have sex without liking the taste of semen."
"But, I thought..." Britt trailed off.
Britt had done sex ed in middle school. I had no idea exactly what she had learned -- I just remembered signing the permission slip for her back then. It was a long time ago, so she had to struggle a little to remember specifics.
"I thought the semen went in the vagina," she finally said.
"That's right, babe," I said, and I looked over at my wife again, and I tried to tell her with my eyes to just, please, let us leave it at that.
"It doesn't have to, though," Cass contradicted, grinning at me. Jesus christ. Fuck. "You only do that if you want to get pregnant," she added.
Britt gave her mom a curious look.
"Your father and I do it in lots of different ways," Cass explained. I looked at her with abject horror now.
I glanced over at Britt, expecting her face to be squished into a grimace of unbearable disgust. But she just looked curious, maybe a little excited. She was standing in the entryway to the living room, and now she walked over and sat down in the recliner chair that's across from the couch, turning it slightly so she could face her parents.
"Like how?" Britt asked as she settled into position.
"Baby, that's not something you want to know about..." I sighed. I had a bad feeling that my wife was going to elaborate anyway. She did:
"That depends. If he's cumming from me going down on him then I'll usually just make him cum in my mouth," she explained.
"Semen can go in your mouth?" Britt asked, and a slight smile was beginning to creep onto her face. Was she really this naive?
"It can go anywhere you want," Cass explained, and Britt's smile widened. "If it goes in my mouth, I like to swallow it. But that's just me."
"Mom, are you a cumslut?" Britt asked cautiously.