The Jack of All Trades
Heres a story by myself thats rated IQ-17: It can be appreciated
only by people with an IQ under 17. The story has no copyright.
Unless his father is rich, a graduate student in computer science will
most likely end up supporting himself by working on university research
projects or, if he doesnt speak English, by teaching undergraduates. These
students make less than a freelance can recycler. A few students work
part-time at a useful craft or trade that supports them in comfort. I
decided that I would practice such a trade: Professional sperm donation, the
jack of all trades.
During my first visit to the sperm bank, I was taken to the office of
the doctor in charge. His walls were covered by medical degrees and citations
for his achievements in sperm preservation. One of the citations said
Honorable Discharge, which I thought was a bit grandiose.
It is of the utmost importance that semen samples remain sterile,
the doctor explained.
Sterile semen? I oxymoroned.
Thus, samples must be produced by unassisted direct manual
stimulation of the genital protuberance.
Huh?
Choke the purple-helmeted love nazi.
Oh.
Furthermore, before the production of each sample, there must be
three days of abstinence.
Three days? 4320 minutes! Is that really a good idea? I had
visions of being rushed to the emergency room to have my scrotum lanced and
drained as it expanded like a Jiffy Pop bag. Im no doctor, but I think an
hour of abstinence is enough. I mean, were not aging a fine wine, are
we?…
I was scheduled for a donor room, where I would have to deliver
samples, piping hot, in 30 minutes or less. I didnt know if I could become
aroused under such conditions. I was of an impressionable age when I first
saw Racquel Welch in Fantastic Voyage, and afterward I could only be aroused
by women who wore rubber diving suits and were covered by foot-long
antibodies. (These days, having your partner in a rubber suit covered with
large antibodies is not a bad idea.) Ive since grown out of this habit.
Although now I can only become aroused by a woman if she turns the letters on
my Wheel of Fortune board game. I decided to get some mens magazines for
immoral support.
As a teenager I found Penthouse to be highly stimulating. (As a
teenager I found everything to be highly stimulating. I had to take up tennis
just to explain my tennis elbow.) However, Penthouse photographs are often
rendered in a diffused soft focus, which is why you go blind. Eyestrain is
the reason you often see men crying when they read the magazine.
Once, when I was fourteen, my father wondered if he should get a
subscription to Penthouse. Great idea! I panted. It offers an insightful
editorial posture and interviews with personalities of topical interest.
He shrugged indifferently.
You have to get it! You absolutely have to! It offers guides to
fashion and accessories, goddammit! I shrieked before passing out. Now Ive
started to actually read those articles. I used to put magazines under my
mattress so they wouldnt be found; now theyre there for lower back support.
I thought that, if Im going to be a professional in a medical
facility, I should forget the over-the-counter products like Penthouse and
look for more potent prescription remedies in the shops of the red light
district.
These magazines did not have interviews with personalities of topical
interest. Their titles generally were the names of female body parts. One
was called Female Body Parts. The magazines might serve a medical
professional as references of female anatomy and its many diseases, but they
were too much for me. I settled for this months issue of NBC Anchorwomen
in Chains.
As it turned out, I was able to wield Excalibur without anxiety in the
clinics donor room, and I looked forward to returning there on my
twice-weekly visits. I didnt appreciate it at first, but I eventually
realized what a terrific room it was. It had a wicked, shameless chair, a
voluptuous, come-hither lamp and a coy, pouting paper towel dispenser.
However, the room was small, or perhaps it only seemed so because when there
I was usually homo erectus, so I was constantly upsetting lamps and clearing
shelves. Okay, maybe not.
I produced so many test specimens that the doctor could have built an
infant from scratch and avoided conception altogether. But after several
weeks, the testing was over and I was sent back to the doctors office.
He said that I had been accepted into the program: my sperm count was
five times higher than average.
There it was. In seconds, I had become an awesome engine of
fertility, a sexual force to be feared. Condoms and diaphragms could be
shredded by my Zulu sperm cells as their superior numbers overwhelmed the
British outpost of the ovum. My minions could overcome any female
contraceptive resistance and commit countless acts of microscopic date rape.
My ego was further engorged by the fact Id finally met someone who
wanted me just for my body. I was a sex object, meat on the hoof. The doctor
obliged by talking about me in the cold quantities of sperm counts and
motilities, reciting my tale of the tape as us pro athletes call it. He
also referred to donor candidates by number instead of name to preserve
anonymity. To the doctor I was The Man With No Name, a hired gun.
A hunrd and ten million! Thats pretty good shootin, stranger.
Whatd you say your name was again?
I didnt say….
From now on, I would be paid. My one-armed bandit had consistently
hit the jackpot, and now I was going to cash in. Some guys think their penis
has a mind of its own. Mine had a career of its own.
It was during my next visit, as I approached the main desk, that I
first saw her: Candy the candystriper.
I had never been particular about my women. Two X chromosomes
sufficed. But Candy was different. Perhaps it was the three days of fluid
backing up into my brain that made her look like an angel floating toward me.
Perhaps it was her helium breast implants. All I knew was that I wanted to
suckle that bosom till I talked like Donald Duck.
She noticed my groin, which bulged handsomely due to the bag of ice
I put in my pants to keep down the swelling.
She gave me a specimen cup and I went into the donor room, where I was
great. A minute later I returned.
My headache was gone. I sauntered over to Candys desk and turned
on the charm, which I can do pretty much at will.
Sorry, but my cup runneth over with love.
She smiled the dazzling smile that is the gift of a woman with braces.
She said, You might want to zip up your fly.
Why, you eagle-eyed minx, I teased. Youve been watching my fly,
havent you, like a photographer waiting for a glimpse of the Loch Ness
monster.
She giggled. So, what do you do?
Here? Um, I do what all the other guys do. But better.
I mean, what do you do for a living?
I hung my head. Im a computer science graduate student.
Really? Can you say something in computerese?
Awk grep sed lex yacc?
She squealed with delight, and her sudden increase in body heat caused
her implants to expand. I had it made.
On our first date, I learned all about her. A woman of compassion,
she had bought a water bed because it made the fleet feel more at home. She
had also bought a high-tech, no-mess vibrator, only to learn it was an
electric orange juicer.
I thought it would be responsible of me to inquire about her medical
history. Her gynecologist had said that, though she needed retreads, she
didnt have any social diseases. This was a relief because it meant the
president wouldnt have to order a stand down of all naval operations. Her
neurologist had said that her brain was still a virgin, its fragile tissues
untouched by knowledge.
Her favorite literary work was Kafkas Metamorphosis. She hadnt
read it, but she had seen an ad for the promo of the music video. She could
empathize with a human mind that finds itself trapped inside the body of an
insect, because she suffered the opposite problem.
She was the girl of my dreams.
Toward the end of the evening, I made my move. Pound bang slash bin
slash cush semi ell ess minus ell splat.
She fell against me, nearly swooning. Should I strike while the iron
is hot? The sperm bank had already scheduled to within 4 minutes every
ejaculation I would have in the next year. But how often does a man find true
love? I decided I would service both Candy and the sperm bank, spreading
myself thin, so to speak.
Candy, would you like to go to my place and view my itchings? We
could practice CPR. Ill check you for tumors. Maybe a lower GI series?
We got to my apartment and with a flourish I opened the door to my
my lair of lust. Welcome to my Altar of Ecstasy, my Boudoir of Bliss.
Gee, it looks just like a sperm donor room.
We wasted no time. She was so hot her bust deployed like a Chrysler
air bag. All night it was twiddle twiddle twiddle pipe mount socket pound
bang pound bang splat return. Consummate, consummate, consummate.
In the morning I staggered to the sperm bank. The vigor of youth had
abandoned me. I needed a heavy styling mousse to achieve the hardness needed
to raise my flag over Iwo Jima and produce a specimen. The cup wouldve held
more microbes if it was filled with Jersey tapwater.
Unfortunately, the doctor chose that day for a spot check of my
handiwork. He looked at my specimen under a microscope, but couldnt find
anything. He continued hunting for Red October and finally found a sperm.
It tried to swim, but then it grabbed its chest and rolled over.
So, my career ended as soon as it started. But my romance has
flourished. Candy has proven to be a challenging libidinal dynamo, but
nothing me and some new vacuum cleaner attachments cant handle.