Chapter 2

Harriet then began to tell her story. When their eldest son started to have wet dreams, Harriet was concerned that Mike, their son, had some type of medical problem. When she tried to discuss this with her husband, all he could say was "Talk to our minister. He'll fill you in."

She had no intentions of discussing such a intimate medical problem ( or so she thought) with her stuffed shirt minister.

Harriet had the good fortune to have as her OB/GYN a female doctor (one of the first). So she took her problem to doctor. To make a somewhat trying discussion short, Her doctor explained that wet dreams were normal for boys going thru puberty. The mess of soiled pj's would be solved when her son learned to masturbate.

This information caused Harriet some guilt when she told Dennis. Dennis stated in no uncertain terms that HE was not going to teach his son THAT! He (sic his son) would have to learn the hard way just like he had. After all he had survived the cane when he was growing up. Harriet was then forced to find other sources of guidance. Fortunately, she was able to find a book that explained the process. The book theorized that Mothers formed the shape of their offspring's sexual orientation in how they treated the passage of puberty. This formulated a plan in her mind. Dennis occasionally had to visit a supplier in the next state. When he did, he was gone for several nights.

The next time Dennis left on a business trip, Harriet took action. First she put the younger children to bed. Then she fortified herself with several glasses of wine. She next summoned Mike to the den. She had prepared herself and things earlier. Harriet had put a clean hand towel and a bottle of her best hand lotion in the drawer of Mike's night stand. The last item she needed was hidden under her house coat. It was a copy of a magazine called Playboy.

When Mike entered the room she asked him to join her on the sofa. When he did, she told him that she needed to show him something and tell him some important things. Not quite certain how to accomplish her mission, she told her son to move over beside her.

Harriet started off by telling her son that she had noted that he had been having some difficulty keeping his pj's clean. Her son reacted by becoming very fearful. He stammered how sorry he was and promised he would try not to cause her extra work in the future. She asked if he knew how and why he was spoiling his pj's. The poor boy did not know how to respond without getting into more trouble. Fortunately Harriet sensed his problem. She reached over and pulled her son close. While holding him, she told him that she was not upset with him. She told him that she had some things that she needed to tell him. But first he needed to tell her truthfully what he experienced when he "had a wet dream". She sensed immediately that her son was grateful for something to call it other than messing his night clothes. Harriet spent the next half hour getting her son to tell her what he was experiencing. Mike related his dreams that revolved around girls and women in various states of undress. She was relieved that he did not mention men or boys. After many false starts she realized that her son had no real information and was relying on a few glimpses and his imagination. When she asked him directly, he had no real idea what a female looked like without her clothes or why he was wanted to. After all girls were YUCKY! She then pulled out the Playboy. Harriet told the boy that she was going to explain the differences between boys and girls. Harriet began by cautioning Doug that he mustn't tell anyone what she had shown him, especially his dad. Harriet was not going to allow Dennis's idea of "sex being something that had to be tolerated for the sake of mankind's continuation" to be passed onto her child. She opened the magazine to one of the pictorials. She pointed to the women's breasts and explained that they served two functions that were somewhat related. One was to feed an infant. The other was to be a pleasure center for a woman. The sensations caused when they were fondled or when the nipples were touched enticed the woman to feed her infant and or to make her receptive to having sex. As she explained this, a thought occurred to her. She hesitantly suggested that they could function as a lure for males, at least in the culture they lived in.

This idea seemed to cause Mike some difficulty. He said that he thought girls didn't want boys to look at them or want them anywhere near their bodies. He thought that any decent girl didn't want anything to even hint of sex. Harriet explained to Mike that girls really enjoyed sex no matter what those prudes at church tried to frost off on him. She asked her son why God would make sex so much fun if he didn't want people to do it? They then spent the next hour looking thru the magazine and talking about the various women and how they were posed. When they reached the end of the magazine, she asked Mike if there was any questions he needed the answers to. His reply was exactly what she hoped he would ask. He wanted to know how come his mom was showing him things that made him feel like he was going to have a wet dream when she had said that she wanted to teach him how not to mess his pj's. Things were progressing better than Harriet could have hoped it would. It was important to Harriet that her son ask for the information rather than to force it on him.

Harriet told Mike that she was indeed going to help him with his problem. She arose from the couch. Standing in front of her young son she asked him if he could help her clean up the room by taking the plates that had held the nibbles that they had been pecking at all evening to the kitchen. She straightened up the room and waited for Mike's return.

When Mike returned, she told him to go upstairs and get ready to take his shower, adding that she would be along in a minute. Mike did as he was instructed with some hesitation. He was still not sure where this lesson was leading. He was sensing that were ever it was going, it probably was going to turn out OK. He went to his room carrying his newly acquired treasure, the copy of Playboy that his mother had handed him on the way out of the room. When he was in his room, he removed all his clothes other than his jockey shorts. He put on the robe just like he always did. He then sat on his bed awaiting his mother.

As Mike went upstairs, Harriet went to the kitchen to get another glass of wine. She was feeling very guilty about showing Mike those pictures. Mixed with this guilt was a strong current of excitement. She had long ago found that being a little naughty brought with it a degree of excitement that was almost as good as when Dennis 'did' (only now she would have said 'fucked' or 'screwed') her. Having fortified herself (she was only a little tipsy), she proceeded upstairs.

Entering Mike's room, she told him that she was now going to teach him how to prevent the mess that the wet dreams were causing. She crossed over to the bed and sat down next to her son. She asked Mike to stand up, then remove his shorts. Mike was extremely embarrassed but complied with his mother's wishes. His penis had returned to its soft state earlier and his embarrassment and trepidation as to what was going to happen caused it to shrink even more. He attempted to cover his privates with his hands. Harriet told him to relax. She knew from her reading that approval and compliments were the order of the day.

"Oh, Mike, I didn't know that you had become so manly! Please put your hands at your sides and turn around slowly so that I can see all of you."

Mike for his part thought, this isn't any worse than the appraisal he received when he had to put on a new suit to go to some family function. He dutifully rotated himself before his mother.