“'I guess not,' I said uncertainly. I wasn't sure of that part.
“Suddenly something else occurred to me. 'He gave you a whole mess of money to do it to you. And he did it to me for nothing.'
“Dolores grinned. 'Live and learn,' she said. She reached in her pocket, took out the green bills, unfolded and counted them. 'Yes,' she said, 'if he wants to do that again I'll probably let him, but hell have to pay.'
“'I should make him pay me the next time, too,' I said.
“'That's up to you.'
“After I thought about it, though, I was glad I hadn't taken any money for it, because then I'd be a prostitute. That's what Dolores must be. I'd just rather do it because I like it myself. Sex is nice, I decided, and if you do it that way, you don't have to worry about having a baby or anything. You can just enjoy the whole thing. I began thinking about Dolores's brother. That would be sort of fun, all three of us doing stuff together. I decided that I wanted to.”
Rosalind's case illustrates two fairly common situations involving anal eroticism. She was introduced to analism by an older youth who was a stranger to her, and she experienced it with another girl around her own age. The whole experience was an experimental one, coming in very early adolescence, at a time when young people of both sexes are very curious about sexual practice. She was actually more innocent than her friend who had been feigning ignorance and who had been actually engaged in acts of incest. Once again, Dolores preferred anal intercourse initially because of the risks involved in normal intercourse. After a few experiences, she came to prefer it for its own sake. Rosalind's initial experience was so very gratifying that it is not surprising that she wanted it repeated.
Havelock Ellis's classical Studies in the Psychology of Sex mentions several cases of anal intercourse, as does Krafft-Ebing. According to Kinsey, however, (Sexual Behavior of the Human Female) the anus is erotically responsive in some persons. “As many as half or more of the population may find some degree of erotic satisfaction in anal stimulation, but good incidence data are not available.” Kinsey goes on to suggest that “the erotic sensitivity of the anal region depends upon the fact that there are abundant end organs of touch throughout the anal surfaces, and in part upon the fact that reactions of the muscles, (the anal sphincters) which normally keep the anus closed, may be erotically stimulating.”
Both Rosalind and Dolores belong to that fifty percent of the population responsive to anal stimulation. A chance experience in both cases led to the discovery that anal penetration was pleasurable. However, what caused them to experiment in the first place was a combination of curiosity and desire for adventure. They wanted something to happen. To young adolescent girls, like these two, sex as yet had little or nothing to do with courtship or procreation. Unless their anal eroticism developed into a distinct deviation, all of that would come a year or two later. At this point, midway between childhood and puberty, sex was still mostly a game, like playing “house” or “high heels,” but more exciting because it involved disrobing, the anticipation of something new, both pleasurable and painful. There is evidence of masochism here. The very painfulness of anal penetration seems to have added to their delight. But ultimately, because of the stimulus of that bundle of nerve endings, the experience was pleasurable to the point of ecstasy, so very pleasurable, in fact, that both could only anticipate a repetition with shameless enthusiasm.
But alongside the purely physical pleasure, and the adventurousness, went the fact that this was something “naughty.” It was not exactly bad or sinful. The backgrounds of both of these girls were not such as to inspire great guilt. Their parents were professional people, educated and affluent, liberal in outlook, especially where social and sex mores were concerned. They lived in the wealthier part of a small Southern city where many, if not all, of their neighbors shared the same values, those of the permissive society. Rosalind's mother never taught her that sex was bad, only that there were reasons, perhaps, to wait until she met the man she wanted to marry. She knew about the variations, in general, at least; her parents practiced them as foreplay, although she was only vaguely aware of that. Sex was, to her, a natural thing, part of life, interesting, somewhat “naughty,” to be sure, but not “dirty.” Dolores's parents were somewhat more conservative and both she and her brother were much more secretive, but she shared the attitudes of her peers, even though she pretended not to, if only because she enjoyed tantalizing and confusing them.
For Rosalind this experience in the park was her first remembered sexual experience, if one omits the occasional situations when she was very young and disrobed with other children. Part of the enjoyment of the sodomy performed on her was the fact that she had to disrobe and relive, therefore, those vague childhood experiences. But mostly, her enjoyment was in the sheer physical pleasure of having the boy's penis thrust up her rectum, a stimulus that caused her to have her first orgasm. No other form of sex thereafter would ever be quite as sweet. That one experience was enough to veer Rosalind toward anal eroticism. She had never experienced anal intercourse before, had never been given an enema, nor had had any sort of anal masturbation performed on her. But, latently, the anal tendencies must have been there to be triggered, and were strong enough to cause her to- set aside all modesty, moral inhibitions, and self-restraint, and participate in an act usually considered degrading, with a perfect stranger and the assistance of another girl.
Her participation in the act of anal intercourse cannot be explained by referring to previous experiences, or at least to none which she recalls. Yet something, of necessity, must have preceded it.
Freud's discovery of the sexuality of the child opened up a new era of research and investigation as well as fresh understanding concerning the sexual impulse. Freud exploded the old notions about childhood “innocence” and showed that the most basic impulse in the child is a biologically based pleasure principle. As he indicated in such works as his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, “a child is born without a sense of shame. He has to be trained into correct habits.” A happy infant lives in a state of joy and bliss which he will never again experience. But gradually the sources of his enjoyment are removed, first his mother's breast, and then, with the beginning of toilet training, the pleasure of prolonging the surrender of excrement. The longing to return to the earlier pleasures, to regress to the joys of infancy may remain unconscious for some considerable time. The first anal experience, however, may arouse them. That might happen when the child is fairly young, and is given an enema for the first time, or repeatedly, or, as in Rosalind's case, it might be postponed until early puberty when, more or less by accident, the first sexual experience happens to be anal. The effect of the boy's penis in her rectum was somewhat like that of retained feces in the infant. The first was recalled by the second with orgasmic consequences.
We do not know what Dolores's background may have been because we have only what Rosalind has told us. But anal experiments with her brother were the immediate cause, preceded, perhaps, by other experiences.
Rosalind's analism was confirmed by a second experience that followed soon after the first and, thereafter, her sexual interest was entirely displaced to the rear. This is how she describes it.
“About a week after that thing that happened in the park, I wandered over to Dolores's house. I was wearing my green slacks that are real tight-fitting, and a tight-fitting blouse. I hoped Dolores would be there, and that maybe her brother would be, too. I was pretty ashamed of what we had done in the park, but what made me more ashamed than anything was the fact that I'd liked it and that I wanted it to happen again.
“Dolores was home, and so was her brother Dick. He was about sixteen and tall and kind of good-looking, but there was something about him that was sort of sissy. You can sense that about a guy. The guy in the park was a little like that, too. We just talked and crapped around down in their playroom in the basement at first. They have this pool table down there, and Dick taught me how to play pool. When he was pressing over me, showing me how to hold my cue, I could feel his dong pushing against my rear, and, boy, it sure turned me on. I was just dying to have him shove that thing up me. But I didn't let on.
“Then we started fooling around, chasing each other and stuff, and Dick goosed me. Wow! I just about died when he did that. He and Dolores saw the funny look that I must have had on my face, and they both laughed, and I just blushed right to the roots of my hair.
“Dolores disappeared upstairs and came back down with a jar of cold cream. I felt funny-especially when I saw the look in Dick's eyes-and I stood leaning my fanny against the pool table, staring at him. Both of our voices were real husky when we tried to talk about stupid stuff like school. We both knew what was going to happen. Dolores, I figured, really runs things between those two. She's really bossy.
“'Okay, you guys, this is it,' she said. 'Both of you, take your pants off.'
“Dick and I both sort of choked up. Then he started undoing his belt, and after he did that, I started on my zipper, and pretty soon we were standing there in our birthday suits. Dolores made us strip naked. I kept worrying
