Bathtub, bubbles and nothing in between
So here’s another skeleton out of the closet from me. Its either going to make you sick or you’re going to get a laugh.The first time I ever saw a pornographic movie was when I was 10 years old.
In fact, since it was the first time, I remember it vividly. It was one of those trips up north to see my mother. Back then, my brother and I were still friendly with our neighbours. There was one particular neighbour which my brother and I were particularly close with. The 2 boys and us 2 boys reared fish together, played games together, and even went to the same school. Even back then, my mother was already obsessed with saving money, so she forbade us from turning on any lights or the fan, or even to watch TV. We were told to just sit in the darkness, don’t move so much since it will make you hot, and if you were hungry, there was water in the fridge. Being 12 & 10 year old boys, boredom kills. As luck would have it, our old buddy from a few doors away invited us over for a chat, plus the parents weren’t hope.
I didn’t really know what was going on, and I think neither did my brother. Then, very suspiciously, our buddy asked us a strange question “Do you want to watch something special?” Naturally, we just said yes. But nothing happened. Instead, we sat down at his living room watching NBA on television for the next 15 minutes. For a moment there, I thought that was the special something; watching the Chicago Bulls on TV. Then, our neighbour proceeded to take out a VCR tape (no cds in those days) well hidden underneath the sofa and proceeded to play the tape.
From watching Michael Jordan doing slam dunks, I’m suddenly watching a very fat & old chinese man, in a bathtub caressing a young, slender woman with nothing but some well placed bubbles covering here and there. It’s funny; my cheeks were burning red. I turned my face away from the television, trying to tear myself away from it, willing myself not to watch, but my eyes kept on straying back to the television. I wanted to get up and run out of there, but my butt seemed glued to the chair, plus I couldn’t stand up without showing everybody the little tent that sprung up at my trousers. I think my neighbour got a kick out of watching my struggle, because he was grinning from ear to ear watching my internal struggle manifesting into my head turning left but my eye so obviously going right.
So for the next 30 minutes, we continued watching the video, some in fast forward, and some in slow motion, courtesy of my friends insistence of emphasising the good parts. Actually, you couldn’t see much beyond the woman’s breast since it was just soft porn, but being 10 years old, that’s as heavy as it gets before your brain overheats. It all came to an abrupt end when my neighbours parents came home, and as soon as he saw the car, with the agility of a cat he scooped out the tape, changed the channel and hid the tape. So the parents came home to see us grinning with relief, watching basketball on TV, and after a while, we made our way home to our dark house. My brother and I never spoke about the matter before for some reason. We just went home, and pretended that nothing had ever happened.
I didn’t see another one of those until 2 years later, when I was 12 years old and accidentally discovered my fathers rather carelessly kept stash at home……. But that’s another story.
So there you have it, yet another skeleton out of my past! Shared exclusively on this blog.
posted by Compulsive Blogger @ 12:57 am
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