Oh, and in case you don't look at the comments from other readers, here's a real corker in response to my post about having my first orgasm courtesy of a '70s sex guide for women:

My first time to orgasm was when I was 15 (yeah, I was a late bloomer). I had been masturbating - sort of - for a couple of years. But I hadn't actually wrapped my hand around my dick and stroked. Don't ask me why this never occured to me. Anyway, I was staying overnight at my grandmothers. She was asleep and as usual I was up late with a hard on. I started playing wiht myself and remembered something I had read in a mens magazine about using lotion. So I stealthily crept naked past my grans room to the bathroom and got some lotion. I returned to my room and laid down on the floor and started rubbing lotion on my throbbing cock. Man it felt so good. I couldn't believe I had never done this. It kept feeling better and better and all of a sudden I felt this really weird sensation. I felt like I should stop but I just couldn't. Then BLAM! My cock erupted in several spurts of hot cream. I shot way past my head and landed on the carpet behind me. It was all over my chest. I was dumbfounded. I had no idea this could happen. Wow, just the beginning of a long love affair with masturbation.

As I said, my first orgasm was dry, and I continued to shoot blanks for several months, although in retrospect it may have been that simply stopped stroking too soon, because the pleasure was so intense I thought my skull was gonna go all Scanners. But I knew, courtesy of my parents' sex guidebooks, that something white was supposed to shoot out of a guy's dick along with orgasm. So when it finally happened, I wasn't dumbfounded; just absolutely thrilled that everything was in working condition. And I'm pretty sure I thought something along the lines of ''Wow, I'm becoming a man...''