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Commentarium (18 Comments)

Jun 17 03 - 12:57am
cj

When I was in college, I know for a fact that I missed a number of opportunities like this. Senior Women who thought I was cute and funny and harmless, like a little brother (I am a little brother) and would say anything to each other while i was there. They would involve me in avant guard dance performances, make me rate which bra was the best,get me drunk and then... I would have to go somewhere. To bed, to study, to work in the studio, to work, etc. And nothing ever happened with them. I watched porn with three of them once, but then a girl in my class came by and I went off with her. Damn! Damn! Damn! Slippy lucked out, the mother fucker.

Jun 17 03 - 11:29pm
CC

One of two items that I've read on Nerve which have been disturbingly true to life...brought back a lot of fond college memories.

Thanks

Jun 17 03 - 11:45pm
FU

wow, that was really cool, nice little flashback to MDMA, haven't been in years... miss the trip

Jun 17 03 - 5:05pm
ee

booooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jun 17 03 - 6:02pm
GC

That's beautiful writing, the way you took something that could be construed as erotic and turned it gushy, but without cheesing it up. Nicely done.

Jun 17 03 - 9:44pm
tca

reads well, makes me think about going back to school...

Jun 18 03 - 2:39am
def

THis is why Casteneda could ruin half the planet with a book on drug use. Tame like a lion in the usual straight chains

Jun 18 03 - 1:45pm
mt

I loved everything--excellent.

Jun 18 03 - 2:33pm
bk1

OMG,_thank you_ so much for this story, steve! i loved every sentence of it. i cried, laughed, and could relate to all of it 100%. great work.

Jun 18 03 - 4:08pm
BRE

I wish one of the blonds had stripped the writer down and as both were naked, the girl had shown the other two how to take charge, kneel down and slowly tease, lick and look up as she ever so slowly engulfs his jewel. Many men forget to ask their girl to enjoy his balls as she grasps and spanks his buns, extending foreplay which women love to engage in. She can then push him back onto the bed so that she can slowly mount her man so that his cock can rub up and down her crotch before she begs for some very hot screwing.

Jun 18 03 - 6:37pm
ES

This is my favorite story I've read on Nerve. I have my selfish reasons: being a female engineering major I have always dealt with the nerd factor so Slippy being liked for being himself made me smile, and also having never done drugs at all but being curious about ecstasy, the description did a lot for me.

Mostly though, I liked the lightheartedness of the story, the confidence of Slippy, and how quickly the author was able to let me connect with the main character. I hope to read more of his work.

Jun 18 03 - 7:43pm
SN

Wow, that was beautiful. The author did an excellent job at balancing the eroticism of the events with the thought and feelings going on during them. Very different, and intriguing.

Jun 19 03 - 11:42pm
TG

This is a very touching and beautiful essay. I really dig that Nerve comes through with stuff like this.

(You should run a spell-check before you publish, though. There are a half-dozen spelling and punctuation mistakes in this.)

It's still great reading.

Jun 19 03 - 12:02pm
HAE

Fantastic story, really capturing how fun ecstacy is, and the power of it to bring people together.
Long before the right-wingers decided all drugs are bad.
I mean, the same people who are saying just say no, are the people who should be pulling the sticks out of their collective asses and saying yes now and then.

Jun 20 03 - 10:08pm
A333

That was a gorgeously descriptive portrayal. More people should be reading you stuff.

Jun 23 03 - 10:11pm
KH

Grant Stoddard should be ashamed of the way he betrayed the people who welcomed him to Leather Retreat!!! Nerve apprently supports tabloid style reporting that is less then honest.

Jun 24 03 - 3:11pm
JLH

that story is the shit. seriously. made my day at work a whole hell of a lot better. thanks.

Jun 29 03 - 2:16am
ii

I hadn't realized that this was a piece of fiction when I first read it. It's very good, which isn't surprising, considering the general level of quality present at nerve. It's also a different take on drug use than I've read in awhile. It lacks all those hackneyed 'Trainspotting' style things, you know, gritty urban detail and the like, that have become so popular. Lastly, I've been a 'nerd' for as long as I can remember, but the nicest girls to me in high school and college were either the fat, zit-faced social rejects, or the pretty cheerleaders/eventual sorority girls, both of whom I will defend to my dying day.

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