![]() ![]() You can catch her weekly column at Monkeybicycle and other print work on Huffington Post, Exquisite Corpse, or here. She collects vintage tchotch, not bodies, which is surprising considering her obsession with death humor. Katie Schwartz is a comedy writer, producer and essayist, among other writerly things. that and having met hundreds of women in my life, I wonder if I’ll ever meet a woman who wasn’t sexually interrupted. Often, I worry about how many of us girls realize we’re girls because someone fondled us. From time to time, I think about how my sexual and life trajectory would have been impacted if he felt my lady parts or took my virginity. Believe it or not, I regard myself as lucky. Sure, it impacted the framework for a couple of years, but not enough to destroy me. That “beat” in my life didn’t define my sexual future. However, eventually, I found my way and came into my own as a whole person. Unknowingly, I was hyper-focused, bordering on obsessed with the fact that I was a girl. Mostly what I gleaned from being felt up by my grandfather was multi-fold. Why the fuck couldn’t he see that?! Man, it took, I don’t remember how long for me to entertain his perspective. His insistence that I was molested was met with fierce defiance and persistence that I was felt up. OH MY GOD, we fought like pigeons on a playground. (Sidebar: I really hope my parents aren’t reading this.)įor unrelated issues, during a session with my psychiatrist my experience being felt up surfaced. I found my inner sluttiness and loved my sex life without guilt or reservation. Eventually, sexually, I came into my own. Years later, I realized that I didn’t agree with his philosophy about sex. So, people fuck to achieve a level of closeness? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?! We’ve been dating for a while and I want to be close to you.” His response at the time was fascinating, although in hindsight it was pretty generic: he just wanted to get in my pants and said, “I like you. Was it a matter of taste? Did I have limited sex appeal? Without revealing what happened, I asked him why he wanted to fuck me (not my grandfather, the guy). While that sounds insane on too many inexplicable levels, it was abundantly real to me. When a man did want to fuck me, finally, all I could think about was the time my grandfather felt me up and why I was unfuckable to him. Oh well, at least I had new conundrums to stew in. Holy shit, I thought, maybe I am fuckable! Regrettably, at the time, to him I was only fingerbangable. At sixteen, a guy I was dating shoved his hand down my pants. If that were the case, would it mean I was doomed to a sexless life, only being felt up? Questions about my sexual future remained in a vortex of fear and curiosity and self loathing (about the boobsie twins).Īt fourteen, after putting my bra on, I’d wrap Ace bandages around my rack. I genuinely thought my smaller breasted cousins might be sexier and more doable than my breasty self. For many years, I deliberated why my big breasts were good enough to fondle, yet didn’t equate to an attractive enough physique to fuck. But my grandfather feeling me up, NOW THAT WAS MEMORABLE. At twelve, I was teetering between a “B” and “C.” Technically, the surgeon was the first time I was felt up. When I was ten, my parents took me to a breast surgeon fearing that I had breast cancer. The first time I got felt up, well, that’s a stunning yarn. No, that was a shame lavosh wrapped around pimiento olives, cream cheese, pastrami and pancetta, cloaked in a kangaroo pouch and served to a herd of famished, piranha-toothed gnomes, mercilessly scratching the crabs from their loins in a North Korean prison. My first kiss wasn’t decadent like holding hands with “David”. Still, I ruminate about what became of him and hope that his parents didn’t beat the kindness from his soul and the pulse from his life. I knew in that moment, I would never see him again. Whispers surfaced about them physically abusing him. While closing the door behind her, she said his parents took him back. I asked his grandmother where he was and vaguely remember a forlorn, almost defeated look in her eyes. One morning, after two weeks, he disappeared. David was unlike any boy our age I’d ever known he treated me with respect and kindness, in words and actions. My skin wanted to leap off of me and fling itself around his body. After a few days, he scooped my hand in his. At sunset, we would share a lawn chair and talk. We were inseparable from dawn until dusk. To this day he remains one of the loveliest boys I’ve ever met. The first boy who held my hand was “David.” For two weeks one summer we fell in tweenage love. Oh, those tweener years stolen glances led to brief flirtations, holding hands beget socially awkward relationships. When I ask my girlfriends about their firsts, sexually speaking, like me they remember. ![]()
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