Some homosexual encounters involve limited touching or fondling and
some are fleeting; some involve group participation.
Another form of physical homosexuality in my
youth came with the desire to touch another
boy's genital area. We did this in an effort to
hurt each other. In the toilet or outside somewhere,
we would try to hit each other in the
genital area.
When I was about twelve, I had a completely
different experience concerning homosexuality.
About six of the boys got together one night and
we had a 'circle jerk.' A 'circle jerk' is when
the boys stand around in a circle holding on to
the boy's penis in back of him.
I (age 12) was invited to an all boy slumber
party at one of my friend's homes.... I laid
down next to Jim, and we talked for a long time
and I remember scratching his back and then I
remember him asking if I would itch his "cock."
I guess it was more curiosity at his big organ
than anything that led me to comply and I did. I
had heard the word masturbate before, but I had
no idea what it meant. (I honestly looked it up
in the dictionary once under Master Bait).
Anyway, I was stimulating him and he all of a sudden
insisted that I stop. I didn't know why at
the time, but I did what he said. He then suggested
that he return the favor. Well, he began
to manually stimulate me, and the sensation was
so great at orgasm I honestly remember that I
made him stop for a second. Then I asked him to
start again and the sensation came back and I
made him stop again. I was too young to ejaculate
anything, but it sure felt good. We
repeated the cycle at least ten times before we
quit. If Baden Powell knew what perverted acts and
latent homosexual tendencies came about on Boy
Scout camping trips, he would probably roll over
in his grave.
According to Reevy (1967), among females there is a steady increase
from about 6 percent at the age of five to 33 percent at adolescence
who have had homosexual encounters, while approximately 60
percent of males have had homosexual play in preadolescent years. If
genital exhibition is regarded as sexual encounter then approximately
99 percent of the females and 99.8 percent of the males report homosexual
behavior. (Reevy, 1967). For both sexes, after genital exhibition,
manual manipulation was the sort of homosexual encounter next in order
of incidence, as reported by Kinsey.
Mouth-genital contacts were reported
by 3 percent of the females and 16 percent of the males with homosexual
play experience. Vaginal insertions were reported by 18
percent of the girls, and 17 percent of the boys admitted to anal intercourse.
For the girls homosexual play was in the great majority of
cases confined to one year and often to one or two such experiences.
Some of the females in the Kinsey sample reportedly had begun masturbating
as a result of homosexual encounters in preadolescence.(Kinsey,
1953, p. 140).
An experience with the same sex (two girls) was
with my best friend. We were both at the age of
twelve. I stayed with her at night a lot because
her mother worked nights and her father was not
living. One evening, in bed together, we (age
twelve) started to talk of sex.... We ended up
playing the whole sex act, until we decided that
what we were doing was foolish. We remained best
friends all through school, and never discussed
the subject again.
Sue dared me to touch her breasts. I was very
afraid and repulsed by the idea, but I did do it
because I didn't want her to see I was afraid.
When she touched my breasts, I really enjoyed
it. I felt a tingling all over my body that I
had never felt before.