A writer, right?” Sam was an engineer, not an English major. Damn, it’s even turning me on a bit. Sex A cherry; she doesn’t have a cherry.”
“But you said…”
“I know; she’s still a virgin, but a couple of years ago she was with her cousins at their ranch, riding their horses, and she took a particularly hard bump on the saddle and…no more cherry.”
“Are you kidding? But there are a lot of kinds of love; I love you as a brother, obviously, and I love you as a friend. And it’s wrong. No real experience about attraction, sex, love.”
Without thinking he replied “I love you, Sammy, and I always have. But after her mind processed her pleasure, then her resistance to what had happened, her final and triumphant memory was of the power she had suddenly discovered, the sheer, overwhelming, electric force that had powered through her whole body, the unprecedented feeling, the understanding, that had preceded her orgasm by mere seconds. He was surprised to feel her hand on his. In fact he was put on trial and convicted for it.”
“What’s that got to do with…”
“At one point he referred to his gay relationship as ‘the love that dare not speak its name’; it was impossible at the time to speak of homosexual relationships.
