orangetoughguy | phone post

Good answer.

[Hands. They're waving and flapping.] If you ain't ever done it before you're gonna want a lot of lube. You gotta get relaxed and take it slow. Keep your nails short and clean cause fingers usually go first. I mean you can use other shit but these guys right here got a lot of control.

[Look at him waggle his fingers.

[Steve is taking mental notes because if he does that he won't freak out.]

Fingers first.

[Said with the surety of someone paying attention]

And use a lot of lube. I'm guessing you don't mean the kind I'd use to grease up a car.

Back in your day I wouldn't be surprised if that's what was laying around. Now you can pick that shit up at the supermarket, moral decay of society or whatever. It's always by the condoms.

[Speaking of.]

You two thinkin' about seein' other people at all?

Next to the condoms.

[Wait.]

No. Why?

It's called protection.

[Duh.] What's his history like, do you know?

Protection from what?

[Freddy be nice he is pre-HIV okay]

I've known him since we were kids, of course I know his history.

....Diseases, man.

[Looking at you now, Steve. Come on didn't they teach you guys to be careful with women abroad? Freddy might not know his history that well but come on, and that's not even approaching HIV which he'll get into. Maybe.]

Wait.

Like...fighting fifth?

[He means syphilis.]

No, no, we're not sick. I don't even think I can get sick even if I-

Which I haven't.

Just cause you don't get drunk doesn't mean there's no alcohol going in you. [The implication being if he doesn't know he could be a carrier he'll never know he just passed it on.]

You should keep'em around even if you're taking the all-exclusive monogamous high road. Just in case. Curses happen. Shit happens.

[Well, Freddy is the expert and Steve accepts that]

All right. Lube, condoms.

[Maybe he can bypass the health talk after all.]

You're sure it's just you two? I'm not doubting your bonded loyalty or anything, just you know...when I'm from it's a big deal.

[He nods]

I'm sure.

[That might be Steve being naive, but he honestly believes it. He hasn't had enough exposure to a world where romance isn't always perfect yet. His own have only been tragic.]

Guess it must be, if you're thinking to bring it up.

You might be getting out of having kids by sleeping with dudes but that don't mean you get out of any other life sentence.

[That's that. Fingers gesturing.]

Anyway get all the lube on there, start small, work your way up to the real thing. Every guy's gonna be different, you're gonna know when it's okay to bump the gauge up. Man I should get you a movie.

[He's paying attention - this may be a little embarrassing but it's necessary and-]

Like a blue movie?

People in your time sure watch a lot of them. Amy kept trying to get Bucky to watch one.

[A blue movie he says...]

People in my time watch a lot of movies and TV period. Did he refuse?

[Because if he did that is a big surprise to Freddy.]

He didn't want to watch one with Amy.

[Gosh how embarrassing to watch it with a dame, even one like Amy.]

But watching one with you is....?

[Help him out here, Steve.]

[He's kind of quiet about it for a second]

He wanted to, back home, a couple of times. Like, not with me, not...he tried to convince me to go along but it's illegal, you know, when I'm from, so I talked him out of it.

I guess I don't know what to think about it here.

Ouch.

[No shit it's illegal, Newendyke. Sorry Steve he has to let that one sink in. A time when porn's illegal? Freddy would starve.]

Well it's not illegal here, especially not the kind I think you could use. I could talk to you about fucking ass all day but you gotta...you gotta see it and try it out with your guy, you know?

And I don't even think that the kind you think we would watch to try it out would even exist.

[A pause because, well.]

I've got to talk to him about all this anyway.

You don't even have to worry about hiding your face when you go to the porn store. I got all kinds of shit, as your friend I'll let you borrow one.

I-

[Say Thank You, Steve, his upbringing is insisting]

Thank you.

For everything. For talking to me about it.

Don't sweat it. Like I said, it's kind of an individual thing, but when you take the time to get it in it feels fucking fantastic.

[Notice how he likes to talk about this part the most.]

Guys back home talk about this kind of thing all the time - well, with dames, not fellas - but I never really joined in.

I'm sort of boring that way.

They talk about it with fellas, probably where you can't hear if you're not in the know, you know?

[Awwwwwwww Steeeeeeeeeeve.] Come on, you're not boring, you're just a tiny bit different. All guys are a little different. I was fuckin' fifteen when I slept with a girl, you think I did it because I really really liked her? I did it so the guys would think I'm hot shit. Maybe it kept me from being boring but I think that also kinda made me a little asshole at the time.

[Well, he sort of did like her but not as much as he liked the approval from other boys.]

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