The following is the apparent final update by the Dad who's son, is coping with an extra curious friend. Which you can read up on previous events of their First Sleepover and the sons next Sleepover with a different Buddy. This post represents the details of a daring second Sleepover with the overtly curious and busy handed friend. This shows a great deal of courage by the young man, willing to forgive his friends invasive hands, and challenging him to summon a level respect in their friendship. I also suspect the author's son allowed his own curious mind to reach exploration mode, just slightly.
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I think I can end this now by telling all your readers that Friday night's sleepover went surprisingly well.They hung around our house most all day on Saturday like they had become best buddies. And shockingly, I heard them showering together on Saturday morning! So yesterday I asked my son how the sleepover went, and that I heard them both in the shower together. (My son had already made it clear to this boy in advance that if he came over there would be "no funny business" like he tried last time.)
My son said, on Friday night when they were getting ready for bed, he said to his friend, "If you want to see it, here, look at it, but that's all. Okay?" and with that my son took off his underpants and just stood there before putting on the shorts he was going to sleep in. He said his friend then asked him if he wanted to see his, and my son said, "Not really, but okay if you want to." (Then my son smiled and proudly said to me, "Dad, mine's a lot bigger than his!") He said they talked a lot more in bed, but absolutely no touching or anything else. But they decided from what they know is normal in school, that guys seeing each other naked is okay, and guys showering together is okay. But touching is not.
I have no idea where this relationship will go from here, but I think my son has grown a lot in the last couple of months in understating different people can think differently, and that's okay.
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Judging only from my own experience, i never knew of two boys discussing the subject as these boys did.
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ReplyDeleteNot sure exactly what this reader indicates, however I personally appreciated this series of posts. It was a refreshing new spin for our topics here.
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I clicked on the hyperlinks to the other stories but it says “page not available” is this just me or is anyone else having trouble?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that I missed all of this in 2017 when it was all being posted and discussed. For me, it brought back the uncomfortable memories of me being the boy at the sleepover trying to touch my friend to the point that he finally angrily objected. After that night, I never again ever made the first move with a friend. And I agree that at the time I was passing through those years and at that age we had no idea about what "gay" was.
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