We need a new story!!!

[sebbie]

I'm thinking, maybe a cooperative venture, one in which each of us adds a paragraph or two as we want. and the story will just go where each of us takes it.

I'll start, and anyone is welcome to add some to it...


"I'm going to have to get my body into THAT?, James murmored to his friend, Bryan. James was only a freshman high school, and was just starting to understand what it meant to be a guy going through puberty. He had never swum on a team before. Bryan, on the other hand, was an old hand at it, a sophomore, and he "knew the ropes" of what it was like to be a competitive swimmer for the Tornados. He had swum last year, and was comfortable with what a swimmer seeking to be competitive needed to do....especially the early morning workouts in the pool. Bryan had been starting to use the weightlifting equipment at the gym at his high school too, and the results were beginning to show.

Jim, on the other hand, thought of himself as a scrawny kid, more of an ectomorph than a mesomorph. James had high hopes that swimming could help him make his body into a shape he admired rather than how he saw himself in the mirror as a barely 14-year old. James thought to himself "I hope I don't embarrass the Tornados this year!" Those guys are all bigger and more muscular than I am.


OK guys, you are next to take this story somewhere.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

“Just put it on,” Bryan said the Jimmy, encouraging him to try on the new team swimsuit. “Once you do, you’ll actually like it.” The two young men were alone in Jimmy’s bedroom, having just come from the first swim team meeting, the one where they got their new team suits .

“I don’t know, it sure looks tiny,” Jimmy said. “Not at all like my jammers.” Jimmy had been swimming on a YMCA team for three years now, but the team was less restrictive than the high school team. The guys could wear what they wanted, and none of them wore briefs. Jimmy had finally switched to jammers when the loose shorts started to really bother him. He thought the jammers showed too much of his crotch, but at least they covered more than just a two inch band around his privates.

Bryan and Jimmy were long time friends, since kindergarten. Bryan was always the rambunctious one, while Jimmy was the quiet, serious one. Their opposite personalities actually played well together. Sort of a funny blend of impulsive rationality. Bryan was always getting into things, trying new things. Jimmy was the voice of influence. But, Bryan knew Jimmy had a wild streak in him. While Bryan was far more muscular developed than Jimmy, there was one area where Jimmy was much more endowed. Bryan wanted to see exactly how Jimmy was going to fit that endowment into the tiny swimsuit, too.

Jimmy slipped off his shorts, getting totally naked from the waist down. The two guys had seen each other naked so many times that Jimmy had no hesitation stripping his clothes off in front of Bryan. He grabbed the tiny Agon brand swimsuit, a Euro cut racer brief, white background with a powerful image of a tornado that ran right up from the crotch. It was perfectly positioned, both eliminating the show risk of a white suit, and when wrapped around the bulging male parts the tornado really stood out. Jimmy slid the suit up his skinny legs, his anatomy getting a bit aroused. He pulled the suit over his hips and waist and then tucked his parts inside. He tied the suit tight. The fit was snug, and the tight grasp on his man parts was erotic, although Jimmy was not really thinking that. He was more worried about the erect state that had rapidly erupted from his young body.

The suit struggled to keep Jimmy contained. He turned to face Bryan. “Feels pretty ####ing tight,” He said, his hand somewhat hiding his bulging crotch section.

“Dude, move your hand,” Bryan replied. “You look great in that suit.” Jimmy really did. Despite his ectomorph body style, the tiny suit really showed off his best parts well. Jimmy really wasn’t as scrawny as he thought, he had well defined muscles and a very fit chest and abs. He was never going to be the body builder image, he was just not made that way. However, he could fill our a swim suit well and he had a cute face and smile. “Man, you really are packing that suit well, not much room left.” Bryan added.

“It does feel kind of neat,” Jimmy replied. “A whole lot tighter than my jammers, though.” Jimmy eyed himself in the full length mirror on his door. He rubbed across his bulge. The blue tornado against the while background really looked amazing. On the back a similar tornado, with the Tornado team emblem to one side. “Try yours on,” Jimmy instructed Bryan.

Bryan quickly grabbed his suit and ……

[sebbie]

Bryan realized that his body parts down there felt good when he touched or rubbed them in a certain way, but a lot of the sensations he experienced every time he did that were still shrouded in mystery. If he was touching down there, why did he suddenly feel so good in his head? His head is surely a very long ways away from where he was touching. When he did that, it was almost if all of the ordinary things he faced as a high school student just melted away in a heap of nothingness. And why did he like watching Jimmy struggle with getting into his little suit so much? What did this have to do with anything, anyway?

For Bryan too, what was happening to him as he was growing was mostly still a great mystery. He knew there was something special that he liked about putting himself into the little Tornado team swimsuit, but what exactly was that? He was used to wearing cotton briefs (also called tighty whiteis) and sometimes, the longer-legged "boxer briefs". But just pulling on his cotton underwear each morning did not bring up the same set of nearly out-of-body feelings that seemed to occur every time he got ready for swim-team practice. He knew at once that the material in his swim team brief felt a whole lot different when pressed snuggly against his anatomy than his cotton briefs did. And he knew he really liked these sensations,...a lot.

Unlike a lot of the boys his age, Bryan had never been a fan of loose-fitting cotton boxers that most of the others his age seemed to favor. Given how many of his team mates showed up in the locker room wearing clunky and dorky-looking loose-fitting boxers, he wondered if the others getting into their swim briefs were experiencing the same feelings he was experiencing every time he pulled on his suit for practice, thogh he dared not say anything about it out loud. There are a few topics he knew guys just would not talk about with their friends, and this was certainly one of them. Even so, most boys Bryan's age are in fact equally as curious as Bryan about exactly what their male freinds are experiencing as they get older. Bryan wondered, but, like most boys, he was just too shy, uneasy and uncertain to even think about raising the topic with his team-mates.

But now, here was James, standing there right if front of him. James was doing something he had never once done before, getting himself into the tiny tornado pactice team suit. As Bryan watched Jimmy, he was starting to first-hand get some answers to some questions he had obviously wondered a lot about about but had not dared utter out loud. Was Jimmy's body going to "react" the same way to the look and feel of the little Lycra suit that his body did? Bryan especially remembered the first time he did the same, much as a flashback. Some things you just never forget, and for Bryan, this was one of those really interesting moments, mixing unbridled elation and sheer terror, in nearly equal parts. If so, how was Jimmy going to be able to deal with the situation he was finding himself in? Even more interestingly, as Bryan watched Jimmy struggle with getting into the little suit why was Bryan himself starting to starting to feel a little tenser even than usual down there? Did any of this at all make any sense?

[Dooley67]

OK, I'll give it a try - my first attempt at fiction. Great idea, Sebbie.

D67

Bryan's tension mounted as he heard Jimmy's instructions that were pretty clear, "try yours on now." Bryan was really confused about what he was feeling while watching Jimmy put on and adjust himself in the Tornado practice suit. He could see that Jimmy's "endowment" really stood out in the suit because Jimmy had gotten an erection while putting on a speedo on for the first time and really seeming to enjoy the feeling of the tight fabric around his bulging crotch. Seeing Jimmy's bulge made Bryan wonder how he would compare to Jimmy in his. He had never felt this way about putting on a brief suit - it had become second nature to him, but this time it felt different. Bryan hesitated, thinking "am I going to get hard too?" That hadn't happened to Bryan for a long time. Finally, Bryan's thoughts were interrupted by Jimmy - "come on Bryan, this is my first time, but you've worn a brief suit hundreds of times, try it on."


With that, Bryan took the plunge. He stripped completely and slowly stepped into the Tornado suit, pulled it on and then adjusted himself before he tied the strings. While Jimmy was bigger than Bryan, Bryan still knew that he filled out the suit pretty well, and to his surprise and puzzlement, he had sprung an erection as he adjusted himself. "Bryan, you really look terrific in that suit and you really fill it out", said Jimmy. Bryan was pleased by Jimmy's compliment, remembering that he had said something very similar to Jimmy, wanting to make Jimmy feel comfortable trying a brief on for the first time. Bryan looked at himself in the mirror, admiring his build, his bigger than usual bulge, and thought,"I really do look hot in this suit."

Somehow for Bryan, putting his suit on in front of Jimmy felt different from the other times. He felt a little bold and said to Jimmy, "hey, take off your t shirt so I can see how you look just in the speedo." Jimmy didn't hesitate for a second and whipped off his shirt, stood next to Bryan, looked at the two of them in the mirror, and blurted out, "we are really two hot looking dudes!" Bryan was taken aback by Jimmy's outburst and so was Jimmy. "Did I really just say that? I don't know where that came from. I just was so excited by how this suit feels and looks that I got carried away." For some reason, Jimmy's exuberance seemed to lower Bryan's tension and at the same time the crotch of his suit felt a bit roomier and he replied......

[sebbie]

Yes we are!

This was a moment of great conflict for both Jimmy and Bryan. Now they both thought of themselves as being past puberty, even though their first wet dreams where they had first experienced real erections culminating in orgasms seemed to both of them not that long ago. Both Jimmy and Bryan were starting to understand that there were a few places where a noticeable erection would be considered acceptable, but many places where such an occurrence would be considered unfortunate and embarrassing. Having an undisputable erection while in the company of several male friends near your age certainly fell into the latter category.

Still, this situation was a little different from that. James and Bryan indeed had known each other since kindergarten, and they had shared life experiences of all kinds over the years of their friendship. Bryan, being a year older, liked to play the role of acting as if he knew all about the world out there, including the subject of sex. But if the truth were known, Bryan was just as confused on a lot of issues as Jimmy was.

Both Bryan and Jimmy had been through the standard class given to the 8th graders at school dealing with basic "health" issues. You know the stuff, the mechanics of how humans mate, egg and sperm, copulation, things like that. The problem was that while this information was technically accurate, it really didn't address any of what Jimmy and Bryan both surely wanted to know.

A simple statement of in the health education class was that when a guy and a girl meet, they may discover that they like each other, perhaps very much. The guy gets "turned on"by this, and his penis starts to grow. The girl somehow senses this and suddenly realizes that she has sexual feelings of her own, and she becomes fixated on having the guy's now-engourged penis enter her vagina. If all goes along according to the health education book, they have sex in which he deposits his semen in her vagina, and they both end their encounter by sharing with each other that they enjoyed themselves immensely. Of course, there are a bunch of asterisks and footnotes to all of this, but that is the basic idea.

For Bryan and Jimmy both, there was nothing in the health class that was in any way helpful or the least bit illuminating for dealing with the situation they both suddenly found themselves in. First, James and Bryan were both guys. Second, there was certainly nothing in the health class that had in any way, shape or form prepared them for the idea that they were going to get aroused just getting into a little Lycra swimsuit. And why were they seemingly getting so many strange but pleasant feelings just by seeing each other clad only in their respective little suits? These guys had been around each other since kindergarten. Clearly, there was a lot more going on here that they did not understand both physically and emotionaly than was covered in their health class. What now???

[Dooley67]

After Jimmy's impulsive spontaneous outburst, his face turned a bright red because he was so embarrassed, but Bryan said, "don't worry about it dude, you know, we do both look pretty hot", a rare admission for Bryan. He rarely told another guy that he looked good in a brief suit, but after all, Jimmy was a friend since kindergarten, they were practically like brothers.

Hearing Bryan's reply, Jimmy said, "You're not mad at me? As soon as I realized what I said, I thought you were going to be all mad or something. Guys don't usually say those kind of things to other guys. Thanks for being so understanding."

Bryan just chalked it up to Jimmy's trepidation about putting on such a tiny suit, and then once he had it on, feeling so good in it, in more ways than one. Bryan remembered how he felt just last year when his voice got deeper, when he grew almost 5 inches in one year, when he started growing hair in his private area, and when he began to get erections more often when he put his suit on. So he really understood how Jimmy felt. But Bryan wondered, "why did I get those feelings watching Jimmy, and why did I get hard now after almost a year? I can't figure it out, but I'm not going to get all hot and bothered about it now. Gotta think about starting swim practice tomorrow."

Jimmy appeared to be fully over his embarrassment as his color returned to normal. He said, "let's get dressed and go downstairs and get something to eat, I'm starved. Then you can tell me everything I need to know about swim team."

"Cool, yeah I'm starved too," Bryan answered.

The guys went downstairs and while they were snacking, Jimmy asked, "what happens on the first day of practice, like are the upperclassmen going to make us freshmen do all kinds of things, like initiating us?"

"Not really," Bryan replied, "last year when I was a freshman, they sort of made us be their servants, like getting them towels and stuff, but it really wasn't too bad. Coach wouldn't allow anything more than the little stuff, he doesn't let anything get by him and he wouldn't let anyone take advantage of the younger guys."

"But, Bryan, what do I do if the same thing happens again when I put my suit on, what am I supposed to do then?" Jimmy asked, really wanting to know what to do to cover his embarrassment, and other things too.

"Relax, Jimmy, I think it happens to all guys."

"But what if it happens in front of the other guys on the team. They'll think there's something wrong with me, like that I'm gay."

"No they won't, like I said, it happens to everyone at some time, especially swimmers in brief suits. You only wore Jammers and that's completely different from wearing a tiny brief. Let me tell you about something that happened last year at the first team practice."

.....to be continued

[sebbie]

To the members of the Tornado swim team from their coach

"Swimming on a team is all about moving through the water quickly, using good form and proper technique. But there is more to swimming than that, a lot more.

The swimmers who get really good at moving through the water quickly combine proper technique along with strength and conditioning. Some of this strength and conditioning is accomplished in the pool, but a lot of it happens out of the pool.

All Tornado athletes have access to a fine gym facility, just across from where the pool is located. In this gym there is an array of equipment all designed to improve your strength and conditioning so that when you do go in the water, you will be able to swim faster.

Each of the Tonado team sports has a specific daily time during the where their sport will have access to the gym. For us, it is just after our normal swimming time, from 7:30 to 8:00 AM.

As a team member you will be on a rigid schedule, with simming from 6:30-7:30 AM, followed by half hour workouts in the gym. We will follow this schedule daily, assuming it appears to be working with respect to strength conditioning and improved swim times."

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

“Hey, you were going tell me about swimming last year,” Jimmy said as the guys wrapped up their snacks and were cleaning up the mess they had made of the kitchen table.

“Oh yeah,” Bryan answered. “It is kind of embarrassing, so don’t give me a hard time.” Bryan added sheepishly.

“Okay, I promise,” Jimmy replied.

“You know that cute girl I like on swim team, Stephanie,” Bryan started out.

“Yeah, the red head, she is really hot.” Jimmy replied. “All the guys think so. She likes you, too”

“Well, the boys and girls teams don’t usually swim together, but at the first practice we do. Coach does it so we all get to know each other.” Bryan continued. Jimmy got this shocked look on his face.

“Wait, you mean I have to wear this tiny swimsuit in front of girls?” Jimmy interrupted. “Holy crap, that is really bad. I mean my underwear covers more and I’d never wear just my underwear in front of a girl.” Jimmy was really concerned.

“Yeah, it is strange at first, but you know, after the first time you get used to it. Plus at the meets there will be lots of girls there. In the stands and they take pictures with their phones. Plus all the guys will be in the same swimsuits,” Bryan diverted off course. “But, let me get back to my story.”

“Sorry,” Jimmy replied.

“So anyway, we get there early and I go in and change in the boys locker room. I had on last years swimsuit, which was just as tiny as this years. It showed everything.” Bryan resumed the story. “So, I go out to the pool and it was a really nice day. I had about fifteen minutes before practice, so I took a seat in the bleachers. A couple of the guys were there already so we sat together.”

“Were all of you in your Speedos?” Jimmy asked.

“Yeah, of course. And we all were saying how they fit really tight and we were teasing each other about getting boners.” Bryan continued.

“Let me guess, you got one.” Jimmy injected into the story.

“No, not with the guys, but I was pretty sure Tom had a boner going on, I mean he is big down there, but he looked like he was bigger than usual.” Bryan added. “So, after a few minutes, Stephanie comes out. She was the first girl there. She looked so cute and pretty in the sunshine. I know I lit up when I saw her. And guess what…” Bryan waited for Jimmy to reply.

“I can’t wait, what did she do?”

“Well, she comes cover and sits right next to me. She could have picked any guy and she sat next to me,” Bryan beamed a big smile. “She said she liked the guys swimsuits and she asked me to stand up so she could see it better. So I did and stood in front of her. I felt so naked with this cute girl checking me out, but what was I going to say?”

“Oh man, dude, that must have been weird.” Jimmy replied.

“So, I sat back down and we started talking. Her leg was right against mine and so our knees and stuff were touching. I mean not intentional, but just happened. Here I was almost naked with this dinky swimsuit on and sweet Stephanie right next to me and I can feel her soft leg against mine. I kind of made sure I kept mine against her. I told her I liked her swimsuit and that she looked nice” Bryan added.

“Wow, I would have had to jump in the pool after all that.” Jimmy added.

“Couldn’t, the varsity boys were still in the pool.” Bryan pointed out.

“So, what happened?”

“Well, you ever had a boner just pop out of nowhere?” Bryan asked. “I mean like in math class or something? You know, like in an instant it is there?”

“Yeah, I guess,” Jimmy replied. He had, but he felt weird admitting it.

“All of a sudden I got a boner, I mean a big boner, right there sitting next to her. You cold see everything. I tried to hide it, but it was so obvious.” Bryan replied. “I mean I was trying to make it go away and it kept getting bigger and harder. I was afraid it was gong to rip out of my swimsuit or come out the top. It was that bad.”

“Holy crap, what did you do?”

“Well, I tried to wiggle my legs and stuff, but in that tight suit it just made it worse, and Stephanie was right next to me. I was trapped.” Bryan replied. “I tried to cover it with my had, but touching it made it feel really, I don’t know, something.”

“Did she see it?” Jimmy asked.

“She had to of, you could not miss it. She did not say anything, but I am sure she knew. I wanted to hide. I mean if she looked at me there, it was right there obvious. You could see the outline and all.”

“How did you get rid of it?” Jimmy asked, in his own shorts he was getting aroused just hearing the story.

“Well, I waited and tried to act normal, even though I could feel myself down there and had these weird feelings in that part of me, like I am not sure what. Finally, the pool started to empty, so I just got up real fast and jumped in the pool.”

“What did she do?” Jimmy asked

“When I jumped in, I turned around and told her to come in, too.” Bryan replied. “That cool water felt really great, and I finally got back to normal.”

“Wow, I hope that never happens to me,” Jimmy replied. “Has that happened again?”

“Not really, I guess now I am used to being in front of girls in my swimsuits.” Bryan replied confidently. “You can’t tell anyone that story.”

“Promise,” Jimmy replied.

[Dooley67]

STS,

Glad you picked up where I had left off because I hadn't figured out yet what Bryan was going to tell Jimmy about what happened last year. I'm going to try to continue the story later today.

D67

[Dooley67]

Jimmy promised Bryan that he wouldn't breathe a word to anyone about Bryan's boner sitting next to Stephanie. After all, they were such close friends and Bryan knew he could trust Jimmy to keep his secret.

Jimmy thought more about what Bryan had said about acting normal and said, "act normal, how can you act normal when you throw a boner sitting next to a girl. You can't very well cover yourself with your hands, that's way too obvious and way too dangerous - one touch too many and you've shot your wad."

"I mean act normal like it doesn't bother you, like you don't think it's a big deal" answered Bryan.

"Not a big deal, are you crazy, getting hard in front of a girl, especially one that you like and that likes you, that sure is a big deal to me," Jimmy cried. "Seriously dude, how often does that happen to you."

Bryan decided to be completely honest and said, "Well, it happened a few more times than I said last season. You know, it's hard to avoid in the tiny suits, and when I sit next to Stephanie, well, you can figure it out. But, it really got easier because Stephanie knew what was happening and she certainly has seen lots of guys in tiny suits with their manhood clearly outlined."

"I'm just going to stay away from the girls so it doesn't happen to me. If I got a boner in public like that, I think I would just die."

"Hey dude, don't worry about it, like I said, it happens to every guy who swims in a tiny brief."

Jimmy listened to Bryan and thought, "easy for him to say, he's not as big as I am" as he remembered what happened when he put on the team suit for the first time, "I'm afraid I might come right out of the suit and I know I'll never be comfortable in front of girls in a team suit."

Bryan decided to change the subject and said, "Jimmy, if you keep worrying about it, you're going to make yourself crazy, let's talk about the first day of practice and what to expect."

"Sure, I'm going to go nuts anyway, but yeah, let's talk about the first practice."

Bryan told Jimmy about the coach's expectations that were written down in the notice he sent to all the swimmers. "Coach is tough but very fair and you can always go and talk to him if something is going on with you."

"You mean if I'm having trouble with some of the workouts or the working out with the weights, I can go to Coach and talk to him about it", asked Jimmy.

"Coach will listen to you if you need to talk to him about the workouts and weight training, but you gotta work your butt off so he knows that you're really trying."

"What if Coach doesn't think I'm trying hard and I'm working my butt off, what do I do then?"

"Then you work even harder. I found out last year that when I thought I was doing my best, something in me made me work harder and I dropped my times every single meet. So, dude, you can do it. Just don't worry so much. It's going to be OK."

"I hope so", thought Jimmy. "I'm really nervous, but I'm also ready to start swimming. I just hope I don't pop a boner because...."


To be continued

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

Jimmy was fitful all through school, He could not concentrate well in class, at times almost gasping for air with panic. Swim practice was right after school, at 2:50PM. The school was large, almost 3,000 students in South Florida, Fort Myers to be exact. There were four swim teams, two for the girls and two for the guys. The guys team was not quite as popular as the girls, but with the success of US Swimmer Michael Phelps, guys swimming was making a big comeback, even with the brief swimsuit requirement. Phelps and Ryan Lochte are what made Jimmy want to be a swimmer. He idolized both guys and Britich diver Tom Daley, even if Tom might be gay. What was really racing through Jimmy’s mind was all the stuff Bryan had said about boners and, of course, being in front of girls in something that was way smaller than his white Fruit of the Loom briefs. He couldn’t even show his swimsuit on for his mom, despite her urging.

Final period ended and Jimmy raced to the locker room. Bryan and Jimmy almost collided in the atheltics corridor leading to the pool locker rooms. Jimmy wondered why they all had such big bags when the swimsuit was so small. It was funny, he thought.

The guys in the locker room were carrying on like the adolescents they were. The banter was free flowing and, at times, downright dirty, but sex was on the minds of young men this age. The pent up sexual tension and energy was obvious. Hormone raged teens and tiny speedos did that. Add cute girls and the juices really started to flow, so to speak.

“I heard you jacked off in algebra,” one guy said to another.

“Yeah, well at least I can get it hard,” came the reply.

“Yeah, well wait til you get hard in your Speedo,” yelled a third.

It was all kind of funny, Jimmy thought. The guys were all nervous about the same thing.

“Hey, you must be new on the team,” asked the guy next to Jimmy.

“Yes, first time,” Jimmy replied.

“My name is Nick, welcome to the team.” answered the young man, a fairly short, stocky young guy. A ball of muscles and energy. “It is lots of fun, and you will really learn to swim good,” Nick added.

“Cool, my name is James, but everyone just calls me Jimmy,” extended hand in reply.

Nick was already in his swimsuit and Jimmy actually thought he looked good in it. Really good. Jimmy wasn’t sure why he thought that, but he did.

Jimmy slipped on his suit and tied up the strings. “These suits sure are small,” Jimmy said.

“Yeah, they don’t leave us guys much space,” Nick replied. “Well, you ready to go swimming?”

“Sure am, let me just find my pal, Bryan,” Jimmy replied. Both guys spotted Bryan at the sink. He was throwing cold water on his speedo clad crotch.

“Dude, what are you doing?” Jimmy asked.

“Hey Nick,” Bryan replied. “Just some cold water, call it insurance,” Bryan continued, answering Jimmy.

“Oh yeah, you are the boner guy,” Nick teased.

“Shut up,” Bryan replied. “I can’t help it if girls make me get hard.”

That set off a rage of banter between the three guys as they headed out the door. The girls were already out at the pool. Stephanie looked as cute as ever. In fact, they all looked cute. As the guys came out, all the girls stopped and watched. The boys always looked hot in their Speedos, but one guy in particular looked amazing. He was new, and he really filled out the tornado well. Whispers began between the girls about exactly who

[sebbie]

These poor guys are going to be in the water so much they might even develop gills. Coach on his notice has practice in the water scheduled daily at 6:30-7:30 AM...Then they are in the water again at 2:50, all on a daily basis. Might as well just wear their Speedos to class, too.

[Dooley67]

As Bryan, Jimmy and Nick walked from the locker room to the pool deck, Jimmy laughed, "you really are the boner guy, you think that splashing cold water on your crotch is going to prevent a boner."

"Jimmy, give it a rest", said Bryan, "the only time I get a boner is when I sit near Stephanie, it doesn't happen all the time."

"Well, I know what I'm going to do, I'm not going to be anywhere near any girls, not unless it's absolutely necessary."

As the three guys emerged from the locker room and onto the pool deck, Jimmy cried with absolute terror, "Bryan, all the girls are looking right at my crotch, I hope I don't bone up. I'm going to stand behind you and Nick until the coach says to get in the water."

"Dude, you can't just stand behind us, everyone will know that either you have a boner or you're one of those timid freshmen," said Bryan.

"He's right you know Jimmy," added Nick.

"I don't care, I'm not moving out from behind you guys."

Once all three of them came out onto the pool deck, Stephanie and Patty approached Bryan. Stephanie said, "Hey Bry, you look great in that team suit, so do you, Nick." To Jimmy, Stephanie said, "Hi, I'm Stephanie and this is Patty, you must be new this year, welcome to the Tornadoes."

Patty said, "yeah, welcome to the Tornadoes, why don't you come from behind the guys so we can see how you look in your suit."

Jimmy was mortified, frozen, couldn't move, couldn't speak, didn't know what to do because he was beginning to feel a stirring in his package. "My friend here is James, but he goes by Jimmy. We've been buddies since kindergarten. He's pretty shy, but he's a really good guy", said Bryan. With that, Bryan and Nick parted and moved a step back so that they were in line with Jimmy.

Jimmy couldn't believe that Stephanie had been so direct and that Nick and Bryan wouldn't shield him. He screwed up his courage and stuttered, "I'm pretty nervous about the first practice and Bryan's right, I am pretty shy. I've also only worn jammers on the Y team, this is my first time wearing such a tiny suit."

"There's no reason to be nervous Jimmy", said Patty, "I kind of like guys who are shy, and, you really look hot in your swimsuit even if it is the first time you've worn one."

Jimmy felt like he was beet red and began to feel even more stirrings in his suit. In a barely audible voice he said, "thanks."

What was he going to do, he knew he was going to pop a boner, a really hard one and no longer had the protection of Nick and Bryan? What if Patty wanted to talk with him some more? Just then, the coach said, "OK everybody into the pool, do some warm ups and then we'll have you do some drills and see what you can do."

Jimmy was never so happy to jump into the pool - he was just about the first one in. Saved by the coolness of the water. He clearly had been embarrassed and thought, "did Stephanie and Patty see what was happening to me? They didn't say anything, they didn't act like they saw me growing inside my suit, I just hope nobody saw, I don't want to be known as the next boner guy and the freshman who boned up on the first day of practice."

Soon Jimmy was back to normal but he knew that he was going to get an earful from Bryan and Nick in the locker room. Maybe not from Nick who seemed like a really nice kid, but Bryan, well, that was a different story. It would be payback for the teasing that he took from Jimmy earlier. He decided to go ahead with his warm up and just think about swimming for the next hour.

But something lingered in his mind, why did he think that Nick looked good in his suit, looked very good?

[sebbie]

"You've never worked out in a gym before, with weights, have you?" Bryan said to James as they were walking down the school hallway.

"No, I haven't" Jimmy replied.

"Well, there will be a few things that will be all new to you then" Bryan smiled as he said that.

"What will the routine be?" said Jimmy.

"Well," Bryan said, "There are two parts to swimming fast. The two parts are conditioning and strength. It used to be that swimming was the sport that guys who knew they were not big enough or strong enough to play high school football, and certainly not tall enough to be really good at basketball. But a lot of that has changed."

"What do you mean?" responded Jimmy.

Bryan said."Look at all of those really successful swimmers you admire so much. They are obviously well-conditioned athletes in all sorts of ways. But the really good ones, the ones that end up as national champions and olympic hopefuls, have strong bodies, really strong. Take Michael Phelps: he has a huge chest and big arms too."

"Didn't he get that way just swimming in a pool a lot?" Jimmy responded.

"I suppose to a certain degree, but equally important is that his training invoved spending lots of time out of the water, in the gym, lifting weights and using other strength and conditioning equipent on dry land not in the pool." Coach thinks how we spend our time in the gym is at least as important for our swim times as our time in the pool." Bryan said'

"So, how is this going to work for us?"

"Well, you know that we have gym time scheduled early in the moring every day. There is all sorts of equipment to learn how to use. A lot of it involves weights and is used to build strength. But there is conditioning equipment you can use too. We have our first gym time scheduled Monday morning. One of the senior swimmers, Chad, works as a student assistant with the coach, and he will be meeting with us Monday morning to show us how to use each of the pieces of gym equipment.You can injure yourself pretty easily if you don't know what you are doing, so learning how to use the equipment right is in part ways to avoid hurting yourself and setting yourself back' said Bryan.

"But I thought that the way you built muscles was to make them hurt, to intentionally injure yourself?"

"Yes, that is true, to a certain degree, but you need to be able to tell a good hurt from a bad hurt. A sore muscle recovers quickly, a pulled tendon might take a while to heal, and that will not be good for your swimming at all. You need to know when your training is working and when you are on the verge of injuring yourself and setting your training backwards not forwards."

"I see. I have one more stupid question. What do I wear for gym?"

Well a lot of the guys like compression tees and shorts, the reason being these provide support and make muscles and tendons less prone to injury when you are working out. But you also need extra support in your groin area. Some of the guys wear one of their racing briefs under a pair of compression shorts, and then maybe a pair of looser fitting shorts over all of that. There is, of course, another option to wearing your swimsuit in the morning."

"What's that?" said Jimmy.

"Well, a few of the guys still like to wear a real athletic supporter, a jock strap, when they work out in the gym. They claim it supports their private parts better than a swimming brief" Bryan responded.

Jimmy said "I see, I've never worn one of those."

"Well, that's certainly an option for you to try. It might not work for you, but you should at least keep it open as a possibility." ....

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

“Great practice today,” said Coach O’Reilly to the guys as they all huddled at the deep end of the pool. “So, I have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?”

The answer was a muddled mix of the two. The coach settled on the good news first. “Coach Melanie and I think the two teams should practice together once a week. So, on Wednesday afternoons we will join the ladies for their practice from 2:50PM to 4:30PM, just like today. I know you guys enjoy swimming with the ladies, so you get to do it weekly. That’s the good news.”

Bryan looked at Jimmy and smiled. “That’s cool,” Bryan said aloud, mostly to Jimmy, but also for anyone who was listening. A couple of guys high fived. It was a great way to meet cute girls and they were all mostly happy about that.

“Okay, now the bad news. There was a typo in the notice I sent out. Sorry, guys, but practice for us starts at 5:30AM, not at 6:30. Those of you from years past know that. It’s the only pool time we could get. We will still follow with some weight work. ON Wednesday, I’ll give you a break and we can start at six, since we will do double sessions that day. Any questions?” The guys all seemed to nod their heads in consent. “Okay, go get changed. See you back here tomorrow morning, early.”

The guys all climbed out of the pool. The girls team was also just breaking up from a quick huddle with their coach. Bryan nodded at Stephanie as the two teams headed off to the locker rooms. The teams were both ready for a hot shower. “We might as well stay here,” Jimmy said aloud. “Five thirty will come awfully early,”

“Yeah, it sucks,” came a reply. “Just sleep in your Speedo, then you can roll right out into the pool!” All the guys laughed at the thought.

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The alarm clock rang out loud at 4:45am. Jimmy rolled over and hit the snooze. “Five more minutes,” he mumbled to himself. Within a minute his cell phone was vibrating on the nightstand.

“Dude, you awake?” came the voice at Jimmy flicked the answer swipe on the iPhone. Bryan’s picture was staring back at him.

“F---, not really,” came Jimmy’s reply. “This sucks!”

“Welcome to the dark side of swimming,” Jimmy teased. “Get on your Speedo and get out front in ten minutes.” Bryan’s dad was going to pick drop them at the pool on his way to work. Jimmy quickly hopped from bed and slid himself into the tiny swimsuit. It was still damp from the night before, the cold material chilling him. Jimmy was too tired to take time to position himself in the suit, his parts landing however they were as the suit was pulled up. He tossed on a sweatshirt and grabbed his gym bag of clothes for school. It was till dark outside, the sun not even hinting at rising.

“Dude, shouldn’t you wear shorts ort something,” Bryan said as Jimmy jumped in the car.

“I figured I was just going to take them right back off,” Jimmy replied.

“Better hope we don’t get in a wreck,” Bryan replied. His father chuckled.

“I don’t blame you, Jimmy,” the dad said. “Very efficient.”

Jimmy took out his iPhone and opened up Facebook. “Check this out,” he said to Bryan as they rode to the pool. He handed the phone over to Bryan.

“What am I looking at?” Bryan asked.

“Dude, look at the picture, that’s Patty, she asked me to be friends on Facebook. I got it last night, she must have looked me up.”

“Jimmy’s got a girlfriend!” Bryan teased. “See, show a girl yourself in a Speedo and good stuff happens,” Bryan teased. “She must like how you look almost naked.”

“Shut up!,” Jimmy shot back. He gave Bryan a shove on his shoulder.

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The pool was dark and quiet. The guys in the locker room were also pretty subdued, little of the usual banter. Nick arrived just as Jimmy was ready to head out to the pool deck to help coach pull the covers. Jimmy’s eyes met his and they both smiled. Nick had on a pair of long Nylon Nike sport pants, the kind that can just tear away, which he did as he walked to his locker. Underneath he was wearing a black and green Nike swimsuit, the kind with a seam up the back. The way the suit fit his back side grabbed Jimmy’s attention.

“Hey Nick,” Jimmy said as he walked back toward him.

“Hi Jimmy,” Nick replied. “Ready for our first real practice?” Nick asked as he tied up the swimsuit under Jimmy’s watchful eye.

“I hope so,” Jimmy replied. “I thought we could only wear team suits?” Jimmy asked.

“No, we can wear any swimsuits at practice, I mean if we had to just wear the team suit all the time it would wear out and it would always be wet.” Nick replied. “You’ll see, most guys will have on different suits. Just no shorts and jammers, coach doesn‘t like those”

Jimmy turned around and looked and sure enough, some of the guys had on the team swimsuit, but about half had on others. They two headed out to the pool. “I guess I need to go get some more swimsuits,” Jimmy replied.

“Wanna go after school, we can go over to Varsity Swim,” Nick suggested. “It is a cool shop and they got lots of great stuff,” Nick added.

“Sure,” Jimmy replied. The two guys headed out to the pool. Bryan and most of the rest of the guys were already out there. Jimmy watched as Nick walked slightly ahead of him As much as he thought Patty was cute, he had this weird feeling about Nick, one he could not describe. He thought Nick was cute, and he loved how his smooth chest and legs looked in the tiny Nike swimsuit. Jimmy had never thought about a guy in the ways he was feeling as they headed to the pool. He was even feeling the same urges between his legs as his body started to respond to the stimuli of the handsome young man in the ever so cute swimsuit.

Practice was intense. The 20 guys were three to a lane in the center six lanes of the pool with two single swimmers in the shoulder lanes. The shoulder lane swimmers were the long distance guys, so they would swim a slightly different workout. The center lanes were broken down by a combination of pace and events. Since coach had not slotted the six new swimmers into events, this first practice was mostly pace. Jimmy was in lane two, along with Nick and a guy named Armand, who went by the nick name AJ. AJ was also a freshman, but he was already much taller than the other two, and he was skinny as a rail. He had shot up, but had not filled out. He looked more like a long distance runner than a swimmer. Like Jimmy, he was wearing the team suit. As they started the warm up 300, Jimmy waited to go after Nick. AJ led off, Nick followed by about a third of the pool, and Nick followed by about the same. The views of the swimmers going by, especially Nick kept catching Jimmy’s attention. He watched as the Forms and outline of their bodies would go by.

“Jimmy, how come you keep looking around?” Coach called him out. “Keep your head down and straight! What are you looking at?”

“I don’t know coach, sorry.” Jimmy replied, busted. "I'll do better." Jimmy’s was filled with embarrassment, he could easily admit to coach the truth. He could hardly admit it to himself.

[Dooley67]

Jimmy was really confused about what he was feeling towards Nick, as well as about his looking at the other guys as they lined up and took off. He hadn't felt those stirrings in his groin in the weight room, but then again, all the guys were wearing shorts and either T's or tank tops. But he wondered, "what are they wearing underneath the shorts - swimsuits, compression shorts, jockstraps that Bryan had described to him?"

For now, he had to get through the day at school and then he and Nick were heading over to Varsity Swim to get some more brief suits. Having swum in Jammers at the Y, Jimmy didn't have any speedo type suits and Nick was right, he would wear out the team suit if he wore it to practice all the time.

Jimmy had a hard time focusing on school. Not only was he tired, but he was also looking forward to going to get some swimsuits with Nick after school. There was no afternoon practice today because it was a Thursday and the only day for double practices was Wednesday with the girls. While Jimmy was looking forward to those practices, especially because Patty had friended him on Facebook, he was still a bit nervous about getting a boner. But, he would deal with that next week.

The time at school passed very slowly, but finally the bell rang and it was 2:30, time to meet up with Nick to go swimsuit shopping.

"He dude, ready to go and get some swimsuits?", said Nick when he met up with Jimmy in front of the locker room.

"Yeah, I'm ready, but I don't know exactly what to look for in the swimsuits - I've never bought a tiny suit before, so I'm really clueless," said Jimmy.

"Don't worry dude, I've been wearing brief suits since I was 7 years old and I've been buying my own since I was 12 so I know what looks good and how they should fit. Have no fear, I am here," Nick cracked.

"I'll bet Nick knows what looks good, I certainly keep on seeing what looks good on him," Jimmy thought a bit embarrassed that he even thought that. "Thanks, man, I'm really going to need your help."

"Ready and willing," laughed Nick.

The guys approached Varsity Swim, went inside, and Nick was immediately greeted by Bart, the owner of the swimsuit shop. "Hey, Nick, good to see you, haven't seen you since the summer."

"Swim team just started practicing yesterday and I brought my buddy James, who goes by Jimmy, to get some suits."

Bart stuck out his hand and said, "nice to meet you James, who goes by Jimmy."

Jimmy laughed and shook Bart's hand and said, "I used to swim for the Y and always wore jammers, so except for the team suit, I don't have any brief suits and I need to get some."

"Well, you came to the right place and Nick's the perfect guy to help you choose - you know he has a pretty big collection of speedo type suits and he knows what fits and looks good."

"Thanks, Bart," said Nick. "I may even get a couple myself. Okay, Jimmy, what kind of suits are you looking for, solids, prints, 2", sides, 3" sides, high cut, low cut?"

"I have no clue, Nick. You tell me."

"What do you think, Bart," asked Nick. "Jimmy's pretty tall and thin, he could wear almost any type of suit, what's your waist size?"

"Probably 28 or 30, maybe 26," replied Jimmy.

'"Jimmy, if I were you, I'd try on all types and see which ones look the best and feel most comfortable - try both 28 and 30," said Bart.

"Sounds like a plan," answered Jimmy.

"OK, let's check out these hanging up over here," said Nick.

The two guys looked through the suits hanging up; Jimmy was overwhelmed with the choices - he had never seen so many brief suits before. He went through the racks and picked out six suits to try on, some solids, some bold prints with varying length of the side seams. Nick also picked out several that he was going to try on as well and then they headed for the dressing room which was pretty spacious, big enough for both off them.

Jimmy tried on a red print Tyr, 2" sides, size 28. It fit him like a glove. "That suit looks great on you, let's see how you look in the 30." Jimmy tried on the 30 which was really too big for him and Nick gave it a thumbs down.

"Jimmy, the 28 is the right one for you, the 30 is definitely too big."

"It's so low cut in front and has such narrow sides, Nick, I can see myself popping a boner every time I put it on." As he said this, Jimmy's package began to increase in size and his face began to turn a little red. "Dude, don't worry about that, it happens to everyone when they try on brief suits. But this one is definitely for you."

Jimmy continued trying on suits along side Nick who was doing the same. At one point, while putting on a green size 30 Sporti, Nick's bulge began to get bigger; seeing that, Jimmy's bulge in the 28 Nike he had on, also started to grow. " You see," said Nick, "it happens to me too." To Jimmy, Nick seemed so self-assured and matter of fact about it while Jimmy was somewhat embarrassed.

Jimmy felt better seeing Nick getting hard also, but he wondered, "is Nick getting hard just because he's trying on suits, or is it, like me, is he getting hard looking at me in a brief suit?"

Puzzled still again, Jimmy changed out of the Nike suit into his clothes, having decided to get the Tyr, the Nike, and a blue Sporti, all suits with 2" sides seams. Nick got two suits, another 2" Tyr, and a 1" Speedo solar.

"Gentlemen, I think you made some really good choices, and you're going to look great in these suits. And the girls will think you look really hot. Hope to see you guys again real soon."

"The girls will think I really look hot, that's what I'm afraid of," thought Jimmy as he and Nick paid for their suits and left the store.

[sebbie]

James' parents were pretty well off, but they both worked and they generally were not home until after 5 PM. James was an only child, too.That meant that his parents doted on him and what he was doing, but also watched every move he made. He was long past the age where he needed to have someone stay with him after school. He knew he would be alone when he got home, and have an hour, maybe more, before his parents showed up from work.

James thought to himself that this was going to be a special day, given the three suits he had just bought. Sometimes a guy just needs some time alone, and James was going to have at least an hour to try on the suits he had bought, and perhaps experiment a bit with ways to wear them.

Jimmy was feeling just a bit excited mixed with apprehension as he walked home from school, carrying a plastic bag with the three suits he had purchased...somehow he could feel it in the pit of his stomach.He could sense a bit of tension in other places too, not anything of an erection as such, but he didn't feel quite normal down there, as if he was a bit on the edge of something. He did not quite know how to react to what he was sensing. He was not in any situation where he was near having an orgasm, but something was going on.

Once Jimmy got home, he went straight upstairs to his room. He quickly decided that it would not be a good thing to have these feelings of apprehension and uncertainty pulling on new swimsuits in the swim team locker room, and that would likely happen if he waited to try on his new suits for the first time there.

And he was too embarrassed to call Bryan and tell Bryan how he was feeling. No, the only option was to experiment by trying on his three new suits, one at a time, and then carefully observe how his body responded to each suit, in private. If something happened, even inadvertently, it would happen in private.

So, James laid out the three suits on the edge of his bed, more opr less in ascending order with respect to how tiny and snug-fitting they were.That order turned out to be the Tyr, then the Nike, then thwe little Sporti. James hadn't noticed,but the Sporti said "Euro" on the tag.

James thought to himself, "The Tyr really looks similar in size to our swim team brief. I should be able to get myself into that one, no problem at all. James quickly pulled off his Jeans and white briefs, and slid into the Tyr. Well, not quite. "Even this suit doesnt leave me much room, less even than the team suit." James quickly discovered that it was going to take some effort to get his package into a position where he was comfortable and the suit looked right. He experimented with positions, first down, then sideways to the left, then up. Up felt most comfortable to him, but it also showed the biggest and most obvious bulge. Worse, when he positioned himself in the up position he noticed something weird. There was a tiny wet spot, no bigger than a dime, right where the tip of his penis touched the suit.

James thought to himself "what is going on here? I'm not peeing and I know I am not having an orgasm, but where in the world is this wet spot coming from?" He quickly pulled off the Tyr suit, and pulled on the Nike.

That was interesting.The Nike left more room for his package, but looked skimpier on him overall. For starters, the sides were quite a bit narrower than the Tyr. Same problem. James was dripping something and this time creating not one but three tiny wet spots on the front of the suit. "I'm going to need to hop into the pool quickly to cover that up" James thought to himself.

James said to himself "I might as well try on the Sporti too."By this point, with all the fiddling around positioning his stuff, James was now starting to get a considerable erection. Of course, if there was ever a suit that does not leave room for a significant expansion, its a Sporti Euro brief. Even worse, in an up position there is a real possibility that the tip of an erect penis would pop right out over the top of the waistband. Sporti Euros are cut really low and that is a distinct possibility. James pulled the suit on, and quickly discovered that if he tried to position his (now erect) penis in the down position, he could no longer pull the rear of the suit high enough to cover all of his butt crack. Sideways there was a little more room but not much. Up was the only position that seemed to work for covering his butt crack.

James had been repositioning and fondling himself in the process of trying to find the perfect postion for some thirty moinutes or more.The dripping that had been occurring had suddeny stopped cold, but he was getting really really hard. He had his penis in the up position and the tip was nearly at the top of the waistband now. "Ohhh Myyyy GAWWWWWWWD.....I'm starting to coooooommmmmme. James screamed as he began to shoot loads of semen out of his now very erect penis over the top of the Sporti waistband.

To be continued....

[sebbie]

James was baffled. Really baffled. He got up for school the next day and he couldn’t help but keep thinking about all that had happened to him when he had tried on his new swimsuits in his room. He thought he already understood everything he needed to know about being a guy, but now clearly not. There was still stuff to be learned. His body was playing stupid tricks on him, doing things he didn’t know would ever happen. What was going on, anyway?

To start with, why should just trying on a few swimsuits get him so excited “down there”. It was if his private parts had a mind of their own, and were telling his brain what they were thinking. Just the thought of shoving his private parts into a little swimsuit suit was somehow extraordinarily exciting. James was apprehensive, but in a weird way, he felt really good. He was suddenly hooked on the whole idea of just getting into a suit.

The connection between all of this and getting aroused by being with a partner was equally a mystery. Why did he think it was so much fun the other day to watch Bryan also struggle to get into his own little suit, perhaps struggling with the exact same feelings and sensations James was struggling with? Did this mean that James had a “gay” side? And why did the girls at school who had not before paid any attention to him suddenly seems so interested in James when they saw him wearing his team suit? All a great mystery.

There were other puzzles. Never before had he observed a wet spot quite like the one he saw at the tip of his penis when he got into his first new suit. The wet spot was definitely not pee. And he knew it was not semen either, as he wasn’t even erect or certainly not having an orgasm. Instead, it was a clear, gloppy, viscous liquid that looked almost like his plastic model-building cement coming out of a tube. No one had mentioned anything about that in his 8th grade health education course. What a puzzle!

James would have loved to understand all of this better by doing a Google search on the Internet. But he did not dare. The school was very fussy about not letting students do any searching on the school computers on any subject remotely related to sex. That was unfortunate. His other option was to go to the school library and pull down an encyclopedia. The encyclopedias they still had in a dusty corner of the school library were old, and out of date. Besides, what article title was he supposed to look for? Certainly there was not an article titled “Getting aroused by pulling on a swimsuit.”

James was baffled by a host of issues. Really baffled. He only knew two things for sure. First, if he was going to wear one of his new suits for swim team practice, he had better steer clear of that little Sporti for now, at least, and second, he really wanted to repeat the same “experiment” he had conducted with the three suits the day before another time, to see if his body would again respond in the same way, as soon as he thought he could once again be in private. James kept thinking about this, with the same thoughts somehow going over and over again in his mind. And he certainly did not want to tell Bryan what happened to him. Bryan would likely just laugh. Or maybe mutter something like “if that happens to you, get into the pool as fast as possible.”

[sebbie]

I'm debating where to take this story line next. I'm not able to write story lines involving swim-team shenanigans, and I am probably not the most knowledgable on the subject of first love infatuations. What i do feel comfortable writing usually ends up learning about and discovering ones' own body while going through and just after puberty. I think I can clearly understand what is going on inside Jimmy's head, but I am open to ideas. What do you think? Jimmy clearly needs to do some research on the issues about his body that are puzzling him right now. This can run as a story line parallel to the swim-team exploits. OK, so he finds a tattered-but-interesting book in a dusty corner of the school library no one apparently knew was there.

[Dooley67]

I'm debating where to take this story line next. I'm not able to write story lines involving swim-team shenanigans, and I am probably not the most knowledgable on the subject of first love infatuations. What i do feel comfortable writing usually ends up learning about and discovering ones' own body while going through and just after puberty. I think I can clearly understand what is going on inside Jimmy's head, but I am open to ideas. What do you think? Jimmy clearly needs to do some research on the issues about his body that are puzzling him right now. This can run as a story line parallel to the swim-team exploits. OK, so he finds a tattered-but-interesting book in a dusty corner of the school library no one apparently knew was there.

Sebbie,

While I think that going through puberty while discovering one's own body is very important, I'm uncomfortable with it when the subject itself involves text with sexual overtones with minors involved. I think that gets into risky territory. I'd rather see the story continue about interactions with team members, attractions to girls or boys, whatever the case might be, testing the limits as far as rules are concerned, similar to how STS continued the story and I piggybacked on it. It's the whole idea of coming of age and what all that entails. This has been my very first attempt at fiction and I'm just feeling my way along. I don't know if this has been helpful to you - I hope it has.

D67

[sebbie]

I confess that I'm a bit lost here as I was not thinking of heading in that direction at all. I was thinking of moving this in the direction of how a young person learns about his own body growing up in the current world with all its fears and restrictions. I was definitely not thinking about writing details describing sexual contact between individuals underage or not regardless of gender. As I indicated, I couldn't compose a suitable story line of that sort anyway.

i guess maybe one option is to just stop the story line where it is now.

But, young people really do need accurate information in order to understand what is going on. Growing up, my main source was encyclopedias and other old books. But currently, schools are so sensitive about having anything in their libraries that would be regarded as sexually explicit by any possibly-somehow-offended parent that they have cleaned out any of these materials as well.

I can go on Amazon and find any number of recently-written paperback books written by authors directed to teen youth with the expressed objective of providing underage youth with positive information about human sexuality along with details about how sex works in both sexes. Some of these books are quite good, but also would be considered by many people to be quite explicit. And the underage kids who need the information are not going to be able to flip out a credit card and somehow privately order a copy of what they want to read and have the book delivered to their home without their parents finding out. Their parents might think the book is explicit as in offensively explicit.

Nor are they likely to have the courage to go to their parents and say "I need you to order me this book because I have questions I am too embarrassed to ask you" So all sorts of questions go unanswered---questions where accurate information is very much needed. The youth are forced to rely on bits and pieces of information mainly picked up from peers who are equally uninformed.

Alternately, some of this same educational information is readily available on the Web, including some Web sites purposely set up to provide detailed sex information for young people. But then schools are so sensitive to the notion that students should not be able to search the Web and find "sexually explicit" materials that they use electronic screeners to prohibit students from finding ANY site that discusses sex or sexuality regardless of purpose or intent. The sites designed for sex education get screened out the exact same way a pornographic site would get screened out. For example, searching on even a simple term like "masturbation" would likely get screened no matter what.

I now feel badly about the sexual education mess we have gotten ourselves into where adolescents cannot now find any reliable source of information related to sex without someone calling out that this could somehow be interpreted as a form of "sexual abuse". Are even parents comfortable now living in a world that labels any detailed sexual information as a form of sexual abuse?

The young people are back to pretty much stuck relying on peer friends for information, and we all know how accurate that is.

Swim team escapades are an ok story line I guess but have almost nothing to do with the story line I was thinking of here, which was related directly to the dilemma young people seeking information about sex and sexuality now find themselves in. This has never been easy for young people, and quality information has never been as accessible as it should be, but things are getting worse in this regard not better.

OK, so Jimmy finds a book, a book in a dusty corner of the school library no adult seemed to know was there, and somehow didn't get tossed in the last "purge" of materials from the school library that the school board decided was to be banned because it was "sexually explicit." Can Jimmy ever get access to a computer to search terms he wants on the Web without having them screened? That is a related story line. Maybe the book will prove useful in coming up with terms that the school screener doesn't catch. Or, maybe not.

Sebbie

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

Swim team escapades are an ok story line I guess but have almost nothing to do with the story line I was thinking of here, which was related directly to the dilemma young people seeking information about sex and sexuality now find themselves in.


Sebbie, I guess I am really confused. If you had a plan and a plot that you wanted to write about then why did you ask other members to join in (and you never gave any plot rules)? If you did not want it about swim team why did your very first chapter start with a swim team named the Tornados? Once you gave the story a "take it from here" invite, you opened it up to flow where the next writer was going to take it. Since there are only a small number of members who actually write stories on the board, and the plot lines of many of those stories are very consistent to how you started this one, I would say you got exactly what you asked for.

My suggestion, you simply take the story exclusively from here. It sounds like that is what you wanted all along. D67 and I, along with any others who want to jump in, can continue the Tornados story line at its new home, under the a title that more reflects the story than "We need a new story".

STS

[sebbie]

I'm ok with that, I guess....I thought I could keep up a subplot to the story going irrespective of where the story headed on a continuing basis, and was hoping another writer or two would be able to and want to add to that plot as well, but apparently that isn't going to happen. As you might expect a some of this is tied to my own experiences growing up in dealing with these issues with a character built around that, and I expected others would add elements as they worked as well from their own experiences growing up. My problem is that I have never been on a high school or college swim team so I can only vaguely relate to that. The stuff I write about is very real to me as I have been in that situation not knowing and voraciously seeking out information wherever I could find it.