It's OK, I'm giving you permissionHey, I know...
It's OK,
I'm giving you permissionHey, I know what! Next time I'll get on the
phone with you: "Oh, oh, that's great Stop, I'm gonna
come Oh, don't do that!' I'll say stuff like that to you while you're
doing it
"The dormitory phone is in the lobby by the front door, with people
coming in and out all the time," I explained"The dorm Head would
kill me with his bare hands if he saw me wanking in a place like that
"Never mind," I said"I'll try again by myself one of these days
"Give it your best shot," said Midori
"I wonder if it's me," she said"Maybe I'm just not Innately
"That's not it," I assured her"It's more a question of attitude
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"You know," she said, "I have this tremendously sensitive backThe
soft touch of fingers all over "I'll keep that in mind
"Hey, classic chanel quilted bag why don't we go now and see a dirty film?" Midori suggested
"A really filthy S&M one
We went from the bar to an eel shop, and from there to one of
Shinjuku's most run-down adult cinemas to see a triple billIt was the
only place we could find in the paper that was showing S&M stuff
Inside, the cinema had some kind of indefinable smellOur timing
was good: the S&M film was just starting as we took our seatsIt was
the story of a secretary and her schoolgirl sister being kidnapped by a
bunch of men and subjected to sadistic torturesThe men made the
older one to do all kinds of awful things by threatening to rape the
sister, but soon the older sister is transformed into a raging masochist,
and the younger one gets really turned on from having to watch all the
contortions cartier clock they put her throughIt was such a gloomy, repetitive film,
I got bored after a while
"If I were the younger sister, I wouldn't get worked up so easily," said
Midori
"I'm sure you would," I said
"And anyway, don't you think her nipples are too dark for a schoolgirl
- a virgin?"
"Absolutely
Midori's eyes were glued to the screenI was impressed: anyone
watching a film with such fierce intensity was getting more than her
money's worthShe kept reporting her thoughts to me: "Oh my God,
will you look at that!" or "Three guys at once! They're going to tear
her apart!" or "I'd like to try that on somebody, Watanabe I was
enjoying Midori a lot more than the film
When the lights went up during the intermission, I realized there were
no other women in the placeOne young man knock off chanel sitting near us -
probably a student - took one look at Midori and changed his seat to
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the far side
"Tell me, Watanabe, do you get hard watching this kind of stuff?"
"Well, yeah, sometimes," I said"That's why they make these films
"So what you're saying is, every time one of those scenes starts, every
man in the cinema has his thing standing to attention? Thirty or forty
of them sticking up all at once? It's so weird if you stop and think
about it, don't you think?"
"Yeah, I guess so, now you mention it
The second feature was a fairly normal porn flick, which meant it was
even more boring than the firstIt had lots of oral sex scenes, and
every time they started doing fellatio or cunnilingus or sixty-nine the
soundtrack would fill the cinema with loud sucking or gucci paolo watch slurping sound
effectsListening to them, I felt strangely moved to think that I was
living out my life on this bizarre planet of ours
"Who comes up with these sounds, I wonder," I said to Midori
"I think they're great!" she said
There was also a sound for a penis moving in and out of a vaginaI
had never realized that such sounds even existedThe man was into a
lot of heavy breathing, and the woman came up with the usual sort of
expressions - "Yes!" or "More!" - as she writhed under himYou
could also hear the bed creakingThese scenes just went on and on
Midori seemed to be enjoying them at first, but even she got bored
after a while and suggested we leaveWe went outside and took a few
deep breathsThis was the first time in my life the outside air of
Shinjuku felt healthy to chanel pearl necklace me