Sex Ed, Measuring, and Masturbation...

I was a late bloomer in terms of development, but it didn't mean that I didn't experience all of the things that a young teen did.  I had constant erections at school, although I couldn't figure out why.  I mainly hoped they'd go down or I'd push them into a place where they'd be less visible.

We had a short sex ed curriculum -- consisting of 2 days of boys-only and girls-only lessons.  Naturally, I was very hard through these, but what's funny is that I thought I was the only one -- I'm sure every boy in the room had an erection as painfully hard as mine.

After the lessons were over, we were given a pamphlet that answered questions about penis size and masturbation.  I immediately became curious about how I measured up and I also wanted to see what this masturbation thing was all about.  I still remember that the pamphlet described masturbation as "something that causes a pleasurable feeling and also causes an erection."  Well, I thought to myself that I didn't need anything to cause an erection -- I had one while I was reading the pamphlet.  It also said that the average erect penis was 4 to 7 inches long on an adult.  In retrospect, that's a pretty big range, but I needed to know how I measured up.

The next day when my parents went to work (I had the house to myself for an hour every morning), I watched to make sure the cars left and I stripped right down.  My penis was already very hard in anticipation, and I took a ruler and measured the length.  I checked in at just over 4 inches and I thought that even if it didn't grow any more, I was already in the "average adult" range.  In retrospect, my penis was probably pretty typical of someone in my stage of development -- it had no girth at all and wouldn't for quite some time, so it seemed longer than it was.  (As an adult, I still have more length than girth -- I'm about 7.25" long, but only 5" in circumference.)

I was fascinated with how my erection throbbed with every heartbeat -- years later, I still am.  I held my erection by the base in one hand and I wet the palm of the other and rubbed it over the glans.....back and forth and back and forth.  If my hand started to dry, I added more saliva to it.  It certainly did feel good, and the feeling built and built until I let it go as I couldn't take any more. I watched as my penis jumped -- it went throb, throb, throb and I thought it was the most amazing feeling ever.  The whole thing probably took less than two minutes.  It was a completely dry orgasm -- I was a late bloomer in every way.

Once my penis stopped throbbing, it was still very hard, so I started again.  Every morning for quite some time I did this routine at least 3 times, sometimes more.  I had virtually no refractory period then and I probably, between my morning and nighttime play, had 6-7 orgasms a day.  The only reason I'd stop is cause I didn't want to be late for school.

Eventually, I started puberty (although I wondered if I would ever) and the frequency of my masturbation slowed, although I still did it every morning and every night, just with the need to clean up and no desire to do it more than once most of the time. 

In retrospect, I wish I had been more open about it with my friends.  I'm guessing many of them were discovering similar things I was.  Then again, I grew up at a time where people didn't even admit they did it, let alone with someone of the same sex.