On the "Postcards from Europe" episode of the Hot Girls Talks podcast (Aug 18, 2022), Carly shared with Halley and Jaz:
"If you went to camp, you'd know that you saw plenty of vaginas in a lifetime and probably the inside of them [...] because at camp you just are, like, crazy. Yeah, it's just a thing. I don't know, like, people that went to camp know. Just camp things."
After Carly related that she saw “plenty of vaginas”, “probably the inside of them”, during summer camp, I recalled some previous posts that I wrote on nymphets engaged in oral sex, lipstick lesbianism, and age-gap relationships - all during summer camps.
For example, I related that Dominique Sisley shared in a Mel Magazine post "Why Was Summer Camp Sex So Hot?" that camp: “[...] is a mythical, esteemed rite of passage in American culture” with over 14 million tweens and teens attending every summer for: “[...] fancy-free fucking under the stars.”
Sisley wrote that even the (older) teen counselors and apprentices: “[...] get a chance to have abundant, post-pubescent sex in a variety of sandy and/or mosquito-ridden locations.”
Sisley referenced the question “Camp counselors, what's the most NSFW thing you've caught CAMP COUNSELORS doing?” that was asked on r/AskReddit. Per users, u/cdncbn and u/Sandstar643, camp sex ranged from “Sex in the washroom back closet” to lipstick lesbian sex.
u/cdncbnSex in the washroom back closetSex in the dining roomSex in the busSex in the senior staff girls roomSex at the Friday night campfire ceremonyetcu/Sandstar643Camper here, I was in grade 6 on a school camping trip when we walked into the cabin. Our cabin leader wasn't there, so we checked her room only to find her lying on her bed with another counselor going at it. They were both female. I'm a male.
In addition, Sisley related that Redditors posted: “[...] talk of lost virginity [...] and late-night lesbian erotica readings.” And that when Clarrisa was a 15-year-old apprentice counselor, she and her crush, and other campers: “[...] would make out and feel each other up at night” while some of the other campers had sex - in the woods.
“Me and the other [teen] apprentices were completely unsupervised at night,” she says. “I had one camp crush. We didn't end up having sex, but we would make out and feel each other up at night. I could always hear other people doing the same thing. Once or twice a couple of people would just go off into the woods together for more serious stuff. I felt like I got no sleep at all that summer.”
Of course, the teen sex wasn’t confined to the woods. In response to the question: “Camp counselors of reddit, what is the most nsfw thing that happened at camp? [NSFW]”, one Redditor and former camp counselor posted that during "campout night", he caught two 17-year-old campers “fucking like rabbits”:
We had a "campout night" where you would sleep in tents instead of the cabins. I was a rover one night and there was an unusual amount of movement coming from a tent that wasn't with the others. I shined my light on it and it still kept moving. I went over an [sic] announced myself and opened the tent. Two of my staff members were fucking like rabbits. I quickly told them to stop and I let them get dressed. They were both 17 and I had to fire them and call their parents. Very awkward.
In the end, in response to the question, “Camp counselers [sic], what are the worst, most outrageous, or NSFW things that happen at summer camp? [Serious]”, another Redditor and former New Hampshire camp counselor posted that (some) nymphet campers may felt pressured into preteen (oral) sex due to a desire for attention and acceptance.
Oh my god, I worked at this camp in New Hampshire for two summers. Three main things.
One: everyone fucks everyone [...]
Two: half the counselor a [sic] were high the whole summer [...].
Three: it is the worst place to send your preteen daughter. The pressure that 10-13 year olds are under to perform sex acts is unimaginable. Most of them give in and then end up crying about it later [...] I caught a 11 year old giving a blow job to 16 year old.
Moving away from Reddit to literature, 17-year-old Danielle confessed in “Reality Check From Young Voices”, a chapter in Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney’s Cappiello’s Slut: A Play and Guidebook, that “lots of sexual firsts” happened at her “typical Jewish summer camp” like the filming (oral) sex tapes:
“I go to this, where promiscuous behavior is practically encouraged and cultivated [...] with no parental supervision, there are lots of sexual firsts for everyone [...] There is one girl in particular, Georgia, who is really petite and very pretty [...] Josh and another boy coerced - basically forced - Georgia to give them blow jobs, while others filmed it on their phones.”
Lena Dunham shared in her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, that when she was a teen summer camper she could not stop staring at her camp counselor’s: “[...] tits swing as she changed.” And Dunham wrote that she lusted after a college student, flirted with her Australian 'bunk uncle', and discovered her “truest love” in 22-year-old Johnny:
“[...] couldn't stop eyeing everyone else, staring at their round asses as they dressed, the dusky hairs emerging from the bathing suits. “You are so bicurious!” Lena's camp counselor said after she caught Lena “[...] watching her tits swing as she changed.” And Lena: “[...] lusted after a college student and flirted with her “Australian 'bunk uncle'”.The following summer, at the age of fourteen, Dunham found her “truest love”. “[Johnny] was blond, from South Carolina, and just shy of twenty-two.” In her bunk, Lena fantasized about discarding her “[...] clothes, approaching Johnny, and letting him put his hands all over [...]” her body.
And in E.R. Frank's Friction, a novella, while on a camping trip, 13-year-old Alex accidentally saw her teacher’s penis. In other words, "[...] his rain-slicked wet thing above a jiggling sack of skin, and a nest of brown hair. Everything." Consequently, Alex couldn't get her science teacher's, "[...] thick-looking and sluggy [...]" thing out of her head.
Possibly taking a cue from Reddit, to commence The Cut’s 2014 Summer Sex Week, Maureen O'Connor posted, in the True Stories feature, “10 Awkward, Nostalgic Stories of Summer-Camp Sexual Awakenings” (July 7, 2014). Here are some of the stories of summer-camp sexual awakenings, which includes bestiality, age-gap making out, lipstick lesbianism, masturbation, kibbutz camp sex, and oral sex - all performed by tween and teen campers:
Fake Orgasms Sweep Horse Camp
When I was 11, there was a fake-orgasm craze at Camp Rim Rock’s horseback riding camp for girls. It started when Lauren Petersen asked if anyone else had “tickling feelings” while grinding on a Western saddle. Lauren was the alpha girl of my cabin. She was cool and tough and came from New York and had a Beastie Boys cassette [...] If Lauren Petersen felt tickles on horses, then feeling tickles on horses was cool. Soon everyone was feeling tickles, or trying to feel them, or faking them. It was like the Salem Witch Trials. I will never say whether my horsegasms were fake.
[Note: This is not the first time we’ve written about “horsegasms”. For example, on “They’re Just Not That Into You...” episode of the Hot Girls Talk podcast (August 4, 22), Halley shared with Carly and Jaz: “You can also pop your cherry by riding a fucking horse. One of my friends […] she literally told all of us when we were like 9-years-old, ‘Yeah I popped my cherry by riding this horse.’”
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| Cruel Intentions 2 (2000) |
And in Cruel Intentions 2 (2000), Cherie Claymon, a prep school freshman, masturbated upon a horse in Central Park, which was all part of Kathryn's plot to turn Cherie into the "[...] premier slut of Manchester Prep."]
Camp Spirit or Furry Fetish?
All camp hookups, in my experience, were a little predator-prey. I was 15 when a 20-year-old counselor convinced me it would be hilarious if we stole full-body squirrel costumes from the drama supply closet (the squirrel was our camp mascot) and snuck through the woods to terrorize kids who were camping in tents that night. So we put on the costumes and hiked to the campsite — and ended up making out on a picnic table in full-body fur suits, squirrel heads perched beside us.
Sexual Shaving Rituals
We always shaved our 12-year-old legs outside where the boys could see, sitting on towels spread over the pavement that connected the girls’ camp to the boys’ camp. When I was 13, my counselor got me and another camper to shave her vag before she met up with her boyfriend. We did it outside on the porch, her lying down and us on either side of her, giggling [...] I think the counselor got a perverse kick out if it [sic], even though she is straight [...]
The Girl Who Discovered Orgasms
I had my first orgasm at Jewish summer camp, the result of dry-humping against a cabin. A few years later I lost my virginity at a summer camp on a kibbutz. I had sex five times that night, including in the shower, and came every time! Talk about getting off to a good (blessed?) start.
The Birth of a Teen Hussy
The summer after seventh grade, I went on a bike tour from Vermont and into Canada.
Somewhere around the border of Canada, we camped on a beach [...] I waited until the counselor fell asleep, then snuck out of our tent and walked toward the party. It was a big bonfire, loads of booze, local teens. I met a very cute, blond 16-year-old and told him I was 15. (I was 13.) He took me into the woods, and, chalk it up to boredom or my first taste of anonymous hooking up, but I decided that I would give this stranger my first ever blow job. I didn’t tell him. I just went for it.
When I returned to my tent [...] I was promptly kicked off the bike tour, sent alone by Greyhound bus back to Port Authority for my parents to retrieve me [...] It was the beginning of many years as a teen hussy.
First Kiss: A Tale of Minor Tragedy
I had my first kiss at summer camp. “Wanna blow me?” he asked a few seconds later. I didn’t know what “blow” meant so I didn’t respond, but after a few more seconds of kissing, I knew I would do anything for this boy. He was the love of my life. So that night I asked an older girl to explain “blowing.” I’d barely processed the information when I walked into the cafeteria the next morning and saw the older girl holding hands with the love of my life. She had somehow managed to track him down and blow him before breakfast.
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As was mentioned, it’s not uncommon in both fiction and non-fiction for sexual acts to occur on the bus to and from camp. For example, in the “Camp” chapter of James Franco’s Palo Alto: Stories, at the YMCA water-ski camp, some 12 and 13-year-old boys dared Howard to "make out" with Angela, a Black girl, in the back of the bus. Consequently, Howard kissed Angela, the other boys saw Howard feel Angela's "small breasts", and under the towel he felt her Angela’s vagina.
Per Franco, some teens even play camping. For instance, in "Part 1: Vietnam" of "Chinatown In Three Parts", after smoking "a lot of pot" at Tom's house, Roberto suggested to Pam, "Let's play 'Camping'!" Roberto shared what he did to Pam while “Camping”:
[...] I took her pants off. [...] Her ass was fantastic, very hard. And her tits were big for an Asian. I spit on my hand, and then I put my dick inside her. It was good [...]"
Vera Papisova's Teen Vogue post "23 Masturbation Stories: Girls Get Real About Self-Love" (AUGUST 4, 2020) is a compilation of preteen and teen masturbation stories. And, of course, teen masturbation at camp was mentioned by Lindsay who shared with Papisova that, other than her "freaky camp friend", she had to wait until college to learn "[...] that other girls masturbate, too!"
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| Kendall Jenner with Tonight I'm Someone Else |
We were (indirectly) directed to Chelsea Hodson’s Tonight I'm Someone Else by none other than Kendall Jenner whom was spotted reading Hodson’s essays poolside. Hodson wrote that she met "effortlessly cool" Bianca, a blonde 13-year-old, at a beach camp on Catalina Island.
Bianca shared while laughing, "So then he [i.e. Brandon, a middle-school bully] says to her [i.e. 11-year-old Dawn], three o'clock, I'm gonna rape you."And Bianca inquired empathetically, "What's under your towel anyway, Will? Chelsea's never seen a dick; let her see it."
But after camp ended, Hodson regretted not having a teen lipstick lesbian affair with Bianca: "I wish I could say Bianca and I traveled through the night and the tall grass, desire clearing our path, stronger than a machete. I wish I could say we held hands or kissed or touched in some way as soon as we were alone." (Interestingly, Welcome to the Dollhouse was Bianca’s favorite (age-gap) film.)
Hodson may not have gotten her teen lipstick lesbian fantasy fulfilled, but Liara Roux related in Whore of New York: A Confession that in fifth grade (≈ 10-years-old), she had (lipstick) lesbian sex with the "very beautiful" Melissa. Outdoors. In the woods. During a youth retreat slash camp in the Catskills. The nubile nymphets met by the bonfire before Melissa looked into Roux's and licked Roux's fingers:
One day, when we were walking to whatever activity was next, she asked me if I wanted to skip it [...] As we got further away from the camp, she stepped off the trail. I followed her. We wandered through the trees, and I tripped over a rock hidden under the snow.We got to a clearing and she plopped on the ground, then started making a snow angel. “What about your pants?” I asked. “Won’t they get wet?” [...] “They already are.” I blushed at the implication. Seeing my flushed face, she stood up, walked to me, and kissed me [...] I couldn’t hold myself back. I kissed her, putting my hands around her neck, pulling her in.[...] I pressed myself against her and we fell in the snow [...] I rolled on top of her, kissed her again [...] She wiggled, unzipping her coat, unzipping mine, and our hands were on each other’s chests, grasping at softness. I kissed her neck; she moaned and put my breast in her mouth [...] After much maneuvering, she pulled off her glove and stuck her hand down my pants. The chill of her fingertips pressing into me.“We walked back to camp, our faces flushed.”
As we mentioned, shockingly, sexual shannangins at camp can happen among early preteens as well. For instance, E. Jean Carroll wrote in her New York magazine piece “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal” (June 24-July 7, 2019) that she was raped by President Trump in Bergdorf Goodman, but she also discussed that, while on a family camping trip, James, an approximately 7-year-old, shoved objects into her vagina.
One day my parents gave a party. Everyone brought their kids. Arthur and Evelyn drove up from Indianapolis with James to the redbrick schoolhouse where we lived, deep in the hills north of Fort Wayne. As the parents drank cocktails in our big yard with the scent of the blooming wads of cash infusing every inch of Indiana just after WWII, the kids played up on the hill beside the schoolhouse.James was 7 and a half or 8, a bloodthirsty, beautiful, relentless boy. He ordered everyone around, even the older kids. To me he said, “I’m going to shove this up you again.”We’d played this game before. Our families had gone on a camping trip to Pokagon State Park, and I learned that an object could be shoved up the place where I tinkled. I don’t remember now what it was, probably a stick, or maybe a rock. It felt like being cut with a knife. I remember I bled.
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| Better Things |
(Note: Carroll’s camp story reminded me of an episode of Better Things where, in a game of Truth or Dare, Duke dared another pre-teen, "Put four Monopoly pieces in your vagina." She did!)
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| The Secret Life of the American Teenager |
On ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, the schoolgirls were enthralled by Mr. Molina - the new Grant High School guidance counselor. Madison shared with Amy that Mr. Molina was new, single and delicious, but Amy shared with Madison and Lauren that she impregnated on the second day of band camp.
In Megan Abbott's Dare Me, nymphets shared shocking stories of "kissing their babysitters", but more relevantly, during the summer after seventh grade, Beth received a "ringlet of hickeys from a counselor".
And in the controversial National Bestseller The End of Alice, imprisoned Chappy shared a story about his teen penpal whom witnessed her cabin mates, “two little girls from Louisville, Kentucky” involved in some lipstick lesbian foreplay:
She writes of the memory of one particular afternoon [...] The story is of coming into the cabin to collect her tennis racket and finding the two little girls from Louisville, Kentucky [...] lying across the top bunk, head to toe, the brunette’s narrow foot sweeping back and forth across the strawberry blonde’s nipple, the blonde’s jumpsuit unzipped and parted to the waist. When the lovebirds sighted the girl and smiled at her, there was a flash of light like an explosion, as the sun, reflecting off the brunette’s metal tooth-braces [...]
While what I related are from recent sources, unsurprisingly, teen camp sex isn’t novel as Lolita’s Humbert noted about Lolita’s “sapphic diversions” during the late 1940s with a tent-mate:
Her astounding tale started with an introductory mention of her tent-mate of the previous summer, at another camp, a “very select” one as she put it. The tent-mate [...] instructed her in various manipulations. [...] I wanted to know if either mother learned of those sapphic diversions? “Gosh no,” exhaled limp Lo [...]
In the end, Sisley wrote that summer camp (pre) teen sex is simply a result of mixing of the sexes, which is something that orthodox Jews and Muslims have been proclaiming for centuries.
Communal sleeping, shared showers, and minimal supervision — often at the hands of slightly older and even hornier youths — add up to a pressure cooker of hormones, humiliation, awkward fumbling, and memorable discoveries.
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