My teen years
Who am I? I am scared to share my feelings. I feel less than. I am often sad.
If I bring home a "B" from school, I am punished. If I falter in one of my chores, I am punished. If I express an opinion instead of silently obeying, I am punished.
The worse thing I endure is the disappointment in my parent's eyes when I fall short of perfection. If I am not perfect, I am a failure.
Feeling like you can't live up to something does not produce a happy person. The bright spot in my life is the circus. I remember when I first saw the clowns. I noticed right away how happy they were. Their faces were painted in frowns, but they exuded happiness. And I noticed when they stumbled, they hopped right back up laughing. Their clown friends laughed when they fell off their bicycle or dropped something. No one scolded them. There was no sign of disappointment on their painted faces. I fell in love with clowns during my first circus.
My tears flow before he even starts. I am seventeen years old, about to be paddled by Father.
I lay in wait, crying.
"Be smack a smack good smack girl smack. Be smack a smack good smack girl smack. Be smack a smack good smack girl smack."
Father walks out of my bedroom, still tightly gripping the paddle. As soon as the door shuts, I roll over clutching my pillow sobbing.
After my humiliating punishment, I head to the bathroom and start my bath. I was just caught wearing makeup, considered trashy by my parents at seventeen, but I spy my mother's lipstick on the counter by the sink, and an idea pops into my head. Picking up her lipstick, I paint a circle on my nose tip, and carefully outline my downturned lips in a huge smile.
Up until now, it has been hard for me to look in the mirror. I guess it is shame and self-consciousness... always fearing I will mess up. But now, I like what I see. I stand there staring into the mirror for so long, my bathwater runs cold. My mind turns to clowns.
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My college years
Being raised with sharp criticism and judgment takes its toll on a person. If you feel like you can never live up, you might quit trying. This is what happens to me in college. Safely out of their grasps and watchful eyes, I run wild. My roommate introduces me to alcohol. And you know alcohol can become a great escape, deadening your pain. The problem is when you sober up, your pain returns stronger than ever. It's like pain knows you tried to stifle it - it doesn't want to be stifled.
At the fraternity party, I am buzzing from my rum shots and we are playing Fuck, Marry, or Kill. It is my turn. With inhibitions lowered, I blurt out, "Fuck, marry, or kill Krusty the Clown, Bozo, or Pennywise."
Everyone pauses then laughs saying I have had too much to drink. No one answers my question. Just so you know, I would fuck Pennywise, marry Bozo, and kill Krusty. But no one wants to know my answer. I proceed to get trashed, feeling very alone.
I wake up in my dorm room, still wearing the clothes from the night before. I can't recall anything that happened last night after we were playing games, and it scares me. I don't drink another drop from that day forward. I discover porn to replace alcohol.
Lucky for me, clowns are in style right now. Gone are the silly, goofy clowns - make way for the creepy clowns. Movies and haunted houses now feature dark clowns, evil and terrifying. So, an effect is a rise in clown porn. Oh, it's out there. Google it. I discover my sexual side watching clown porn - hours and hours of clown porn. Clowns' don't-give-a-shit attitude further attracts me to them. They have confidence and make sex fun with lots of different toys - inhibitions are left at the door. They paint their faces, wear crazy wigs, sport baggy, colorful, unconventional clothing. And of course, their red noses turn me on like nothing else in this world. I want to have sex with a clown.
I am told I am attractive, but I do not date. My reasons for not dating are two-fold: I can't shake my feelings of inadequacy in other's eyes and I am more attracted to clowns than everyday boys. My parents would be shocked beyond belief at my clown obsession.
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My young adult years
Stephen King's clown movie, It, comes out at our local movie theater. During its stint at the theatre, I buy a ticket every Wednesday afternoon when I get off work and go see this movie. My routine never changes. I bring a jacket and sit in my comfy reclining chair somewhere isolated in the theater. No need for popcorn, as my fingers will be busy. I edge myself over and over.
Under the cover of my jacket, my fingertips gently stroke my clit ... not too hard or fast to stay my orgasm. My fingers rarely venture inside my pussy. His appearance arouses me beyond words. The scenes on the big screen become scenes of him touching me, probing me, licking me, and then fucking me. His red nose attracts me the most.
I know which scene to turn up the pressure. I need to cum at just the right time when his face turns and looks directly at me. Strumming harder, harder, harder, my hips lift up and I cum. Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! My bottom doesn't touch my seat again until the waves stop.
I am always the last one out of the theatre, not wanting my time with him to be over.
I am invited to a friend's apartment for her surprise thirtieth birthday party. Clown phobias have become mainstream. I seemingly exist alone in my coulrophilia. My friend's roommates arrange for a clown to come to her party to freak her out. She has a huge clown phobia.
Upon hearing a knock at the door, I walk over to open it. Stunned at the sight before me, I stand motionless. Others rush over to usher him into the apartment. My friend screams in terror as he enters the room. Everyone else cheers and laughs. A living, breathing clown has entered the apartment, just a few feet from me. He immediately seeks out the birthday girl and sings her happy birthday.
While she is still running around yelling about how freaked out she is, he grabs a chair from the kitchen table and sets it in the middle of the room. He bends down to pull a large plastic toy flyswatter out of his brown bag. He loudly exclaims he came to give the birthday girl her spanking.
The clown sits in the chair, patting his lap, while friends drag her over to him. She still squeals and protests. He pulls her over his lap and gives her a spank with his flyswatter. While she hollers, I flinch. He swats her again and again, intending to count up to thirty. My upper body jerks as my shoulders scrunch together with each of the first five swats. Scenes from my childhood rush into my head, and I flee the apartment. My beloved clown is punishing my friend.
I see him walk down the stairs as I sit alone on the bench outside the apartment. I can't stop looking at him, his bright orange hair, painted white face, purple painted teardrops, black eyeliner, red circled mouth, and of course red nose.
He says, "Hi," as he walks by. I reply with an obsessed stare.
After a few steps, he pauses and turns around and walks back to me.
Unable to speak, I continue to stare at him.
"You okay, babe? I noticed you flinching as I gave your friend her birthday spanking. You know I wasn't hurting her, right?"
"I know," I say softly.
"Wow, babe. What's wrong?" he says sitting down beside me. "You can tell me."
I can't help staring at his baggy clown pants, wondering what size cock lurks inside. I long for his red nose, just a foot from me, to touch me somewhere - anywhere.
"I love clowns," I say softly.
"You do? That is unusual nowadays. Most people are fucking terrified of us. I love clowns too, which is why I picked up this little side gig. I have one tomorrow where I get to cream pie people. Now that is fun!"