Puberty was a motherfucker

What the hell was happening to us? I was the first guy in my PE class to have pubic hair. All the guys marveled at my bush and hairy balls. Most of us had dark hairy legs. Our armpits started sprouting. We started getting erections for no reason. It was most embarrassing in the shower or locker area. One guy got his dick caught in his zipper. Then we would get morning woodies. We were so ignorant, we didn't know what an erection was for until an 8th grader explained to us that if you rubbed your dick you would get this white stuff coming out - and it felt so good!

Once I had to go to the doctor about swollen lymph glands in my groin. He told me to strip and lie down on the examining table. Then I noticed -- eh gads, toilet paper stuck to my cock head from where I cleaned up after ejaculating. The doctor was cool, he said nothing. I guess we both belonged to the special fraternity of males But after that I made sure my helmet was clean before going to the doctor.

The most embarrassing thing was being called to the blackboard to solve a problem - and have a woodie that stuck out like a signal flag . Shit! What to do? I took my notebook with me and held it in front of my groin.

As puberty advance, hair appeared around my nipples and a line of dark hard spread from my pubic bush to my navel. Then it crept from my armpits to my nipples then formed a patch that joined with my navel. Pretty soon I was fairly well thatched in front and my taint was quite fuzzy.

What had started out as an embarrassment became a thing that thrilled me every time I looked in the mirror. It was my compensation for what was the real scourge of puberty - acne. What a curse that was - but lets not go there. Thank God by the time I was 20 the process was pretty well complete.

Then came the real rite of transition for males of my generation: military service. BTW imagine a barracks with forty guys in one room, on creaky old metal bunks, most of us jacking off after lights out. IN basic training there is no privacy. The shitters were all lined up in a room, no partitions, and in the same room was a trough for pissing in.. The showers were gang showers and because we were on the same schedule, we all showered at the same time. Naked guys lined up with a towel and soap. ((Gone were the good old days of jacking off with soap in the shower!). A cum rag was a must, we couldn't stain our sheets - each day we had a different style of making our bunks and one of them exposed our sheets to view.

But when we finished basic we knew we were men. The awkward adolescent was no more.