While my short tenure on campus blazed the path my future would take, the life of a college student was not for me. Unlike high school, which was a daily ordeal of ridicule and torture, even the teachers joining in on the fun of tormenting me, my collegiate academic record was impressive. I just couldn’t fathom why the other students whined so much about how difficult their classes were. All I needed to do was to read the books, and I loved reading.
However, although I was far too self-centered to realize why at the time, changing my locale and peers did not have the effect I craved. Before the middle of my first, Freshman semester, my nickname, Hippie Chick, had evolved into Hippie Slut Chick. My promiscuity became a local legend. I cannot say that I was proud, but I, at the very least, pretended that it didn’t bother me. I had become two separate entities, a budding, intelligent young woman discovering herself and a dirty, kinky, insatiable slut on an endless quest for sex.
Over those months, I began distancing myself from nearly everything and everyone. My parents, X-rated cartoon characters lost in the fairy tale of their lives, became a source of embarrassment as well as the reason that I was the way I turned out. By making myself the victim of their circumstances and pointing the finger outward, I could manage to live with myself. Within that mindset, I wasn’t responsible for my place in life, it was other people’s fault.
Still, my self-loathing continued to grow. Along with it came the knowledge that something inside of me was terribly broken. Other, regular people, the type I was trying to be accepted by, could go for more than a couple of hours without an orgasm. Sane women didn’t have emotional outbursts at the drop of a hat, and they also didn’t prowl the campus bars every night, looking for a hard cock to please them, sometimes two or three times a night.
Tommy and I became friends, very close friends, soon after my first ex-boyfriend, Brent, found out that Tommy and I not only remained friends but also used the optional, benefits rider. It was through Tommy that I met Dave, and, while it may seem a little shallow, or sad and weepy, Dave was the final, slutty straw that broke the bimbo’s back.
By that time, I’d developed a physical preference for my myriad lovers. I liked masculine, lean, and muscular men with hypnotic eyes, a bad-boy aura, and a respectful outlook. The hundreds, if not thousands, of romance novels I’d absorbed formed my ideal of the perfect man. Mister Right did not exist on campus, but there were plenty of beginner models for me to test drive.
Contrasting with my penchant for manly men with golden hearts, especially if they were musicians, had long hair, or, better yet, were long-haired musicians, I preferred my female playmates to be very feminine. I liked women who were iconic in their femininity. Long hair, symmetrical features, and an exuberant personality were my preferences for ladies. As I added about a dozen girl-on-girl encounters to my list, I still convinced myself that I was merely curious and experimenting, because that’s what one did in college.
Dave wasn’t masculine, nor did he have long hair. He was effeminate, his brown locks cut extremely short, always perfectly trimmed. He was tall and lean, with no muscles to speak of, and he was prim, proper, and polished around the edges, the polar opposite of my preferences. What Dave was, however, included being kind and sweet, accepting of me, having a razor-sharp wit, and he was into a lot of the same things I was. He did look cute in his bifocals, though, just not pussy-dampening sexy.
Tommy, not only played role-playing games, but he also returned the dice I’d lent to Brent, and then, he invited me to join his gaming group. Dave played a wizard character, Lord Escavael. Dave was a grad student who had recently finished his Master’s Degree in computers and was hanging around as a teaching assistant while his company startup was getting underway.
Dave was both one of the best things to happen in my life and my worst decision. Dave was unlike any man I’d ever met. He had real goals and was taking action to fulfill his life’s ambitions. He also came from major money, whereas I grew up so poor that the clothes I wore were older than Dave’s luxury car. He also treated me with chivalry, honor, and respect.
My little, shoebox-sized dorm room was on the way to his luxury apartment, so we’d walk home, together, after game nights. I learned that he wasn’t very experienced with sex, was bisexual, and didn’t know his way around a woman’s body. I was more than happy to teach him, as I was still discovering what I liked, both mentally and physically.
When his teaching-assistant obligations ended, Dave readied to leave campus, but he had one major hurdle before he could launch his business. Dave was relying on his parents’ money for his education and the funding of his entrepreneurial endeavors. Their stringent, controlling conditions were nearly met. Dave would receive no business financing until he had graduated with at least a master’s, had everything fully set up, and had gotten married. As an aside, I met his parents on more than a few occasions, and they were as domineering and vile as their conditions sounded. They held their money over their son’s head to control him.
After a stoned, drunken threesome, which marked a few firsts for me, Dave proposed, and I accepted. That night marked my first threesome, the first time I’d let a guy cum on my face, the first time anybody ever licked cum off of me—which was fucking hot—and the first time I ever saw two males pleasing each other.
When I agreed, I knew it was a terrible mistake. My intellectual parts warned me that something was wrong. Sure, Dave and I were great friends, even lovers, but something was amiss. The rest of me told that voice of reason perched upon my shoulder to fuck the hell off.
My walks across campus were growing increasingly uncomfortable, and my slutty reputation was becoming the talk of the quad. Escaping my old life didn’t cure the accusations, tittering behind my back, or the guys thinking that I was a sure thing. Rather than change my slutty behavior or own up to it, I abandoned my collegiate life and became Mrs. Dave for a few months. It was ill-fated from the onset, and we both knew but denied it.
I hadn’t even turned nineteen years old, and I was already exactly where the romance novels ended, the happily ever after stage. All the warning signs were there, stereotypical signs, but I ignored them. As a wedding gift, his filthy-rich parents bought him a newly built house out in the country. It sat on a few acres of land, atop a hill that overlooked the countryside.
Dave’s parents hated me, which mirrored my feelings toward the Harpy and Beelzebub, as I called them. They felt that a “poor, trashy slut,” in their actual words, was beneath Dave. They didn’t find my comment, “He likes me on top, so he’s usually beneath me,” anywhere close to the hilarity that I did.
Their wish that their only son not marry a cheap slut from the wrong side of the tracks was granted a short time later. Sex with Dave was comfortable, that’s the best thing I could say about it. I didn’t mind, at the time. I was married to a man of means who was going places, and we had this new, gargantuan house that cost more money than my parents made in their entire lifetimes. If the sex was lackluster, I had fingers, and Dave didn’t mind buying me a couple of toys. If his parents only knew that he bought a special one for his ass!
We had sex only once during our honeymoon, and getting some cock after that took the vast majority of a bottle of booze, some weed, lots of begging and coaxing, and divine intervention. Within weeks, I’d grown accustomed to taking care of business myself. I’d wake up horny and masturbate, masturbate most of the day, and my evenings, after Dave went to bed, always ended in a marathon masturbation session. That led to my first episode of cheating.
I was lonely, bored, and very disillusioned. Rather than fix myself, I sought validation elsewhere. I took a part-time job as a waitress, following in my mother’s footsteps, just to have something to do. A guy my age, Rich, was into a lot of the same things I was. He loved 80s Hair Metal, just like me, and knew all the bands. We had similar senses of humor, and he was ruggedly built, with lean muscles, hot as fuck, and he appeared to be well-endowed.
Email conversations turned into real-time chat, which led to some keyboard-typed romance during one slightly drunk, extremely stoned evening. With my husband leaving early and working late to build his company, our online activity became a physical affair less than forty-eight hours after his typed words got me off. My confession to Dave, two weeks later, did not have the effect I had assumed.
I was seated at my desk on that fateful night, fingering myself while I looked at erotic pictures. My fervent, physical needs had finally conquered my need to be accepted in society’s eyes. The slut had vanquished the prim and proper lady of my aspirations. I’d forced myself to gain the courage, from weed and alcohol, to confess my extra-marital tryst. From the look on his face, I knew he was in a serious mood when he got home, but I forced the issue.
“Dave,” I said, sternly, as soon as he’d loosened his tie, “we need to have a serious talk.”
“I know what this is about,” he began.
“You know I’m having an affair?”
“You’re what? Does he have a big cock? Tell me all about it. That’s hot.”
As it turned out, the reason for Dave’s glowering was that he had also been struggling with a confession of his own. Unknown to me, Dave had been struggling with his identity for a long while—for years. He’d kept up a public facade, hiding his true self from everyone. Perhaps that’s why we felt such an affinity toward one another; I was doing the same thing, concealing my true nature to gain acceptance.
Dave had decided that he was no longer bisexual; he came out to me, right then and there. He’d also been having an affair with his friend and business partner, Jeremy. Dave finally admitted to himself that he was gay. The massive blowout, rage, and heartbreak I’d been expecting from my trespasses didn’t occur. Instead, Dave and I agreed on every front. We were wonderful friends and loved each other, just not romantically. We discussed staying together, me letting him suck and fuck as much cock as he wanted, provided I received that same luxury.
Over the night, which we spent laughing, drinking, and smoking, we’d worked out a plan that solved both of our problems. Having been married for almost zero time, we’d annul the union. However, that still kept his parents lording their money over him, and Dave’s IT business was just beginning. It looked promising, because he and his partner, now his lover, were very talented. I had college money left over, so, in exchange for the house, which his parents put into Dave’s name, I’d give him all my cash to save his business. Additionally, I get a few percentage points of all profits, in perpetuity, once the money from Dave’s business started rolling in. The house and residual income were Dave’s idea; I would have been more than happy to just fund his endeavor, but he insisted.
The result was that Dave could finally openly admit his sexuality without his parents exerting forceful control over him, and I had a paid-for house and residual income. However, I couldn’t even legally buy booze, yet, and I realized that I was an utter failure. My already-spiraling self-esteem nose-dived into despair.
Not only was I such a torridly dirty, trashy slut, but I was such a terrible woman that the one man who gave me a shot at happiness went gay in lieu of fucking me. On top of that, I was destitute, except for the house, and couldn’t afford to re-enroll in school unless I sold the mini-mansion, which would have left me homeless. I could have crawled back to my mommy, but the relationship with my parents was already strained, made worse by my insistence on marrying Dave, despite them both telling me that it was a huge mistake.
Being young, lost, aimless, and having already scuttled your life is an odd sensation, especially when it’s coupled with emotional damage and rock-bottom self-esteem. What little money I had left was spent on ill-begotten booze. Rather than eat my feelings, as I had done before, I drank away my sorrows. It was more like I drank until I passed out, so my troubles no longer materialized in my brain.
Dave moved out and away, and he and Jeremy rebuilt their life, together, on my dime. They moved to the Midwest, one of the least-friendly places for homosexual men, but their business ultimately flourished, as did their love for one another. That, however, left me in a very lonely, miserable place. Some might be jealous, or tell me to count my blessings, but I didn’t see any positivity. I had nothing, was nothing. I possessed two things: a house and my freedom.
I used the freedom to embrace my slutty side. I loathed the fact that I was a slut while reveling in its power. I hated being labeled a slut while never being able to get enough sex. I found the accusations of being a nasty, dirty whore abhorrent, but just thinking about the things I did or wanted to do made me so fucking horny that I had to finger myself to orgasm. Nobody needed to slut-shame me; I was ashamed of what I’d become. Every insult and ridiculing jibe hurled at me had become a prophecy.
I won’t lie; it took over a month before I could face the world, once more. Had I been any more efficient at destroying my life, I’d have made a record book, someplace. My heart was fractured, my soul was shattered, and I was both friendless and filled with self-loathing. Of course, that didn’t stop the slutty slut within my psyche; it didn’t even slow her down.
My waitress job grew to be too uncomfortable. When Rich and I were fooling around behind Dave’s back, it seemed to be all fun and games. I had a hunger for the forbidden and slightly taboo, and it was just taking root in my essence and blooming quite nicely. Once the naughtiness of cheating was removed, it just became awkward and uncomfortable. I didn’t want a love affair; I’d realized that I was sexy enough to get almost any guy I looked at to fuck me. I wanted the forbidden aspect as well. Later in life, I realized that I craved sexual adventure. I was just too young, inexperienced, and naive to realize it.