074. Seduction (2)

When was it exactly that I first realized my body was sexy?

I started noticing unpleasant gazes around the time I graduated middle school, but I was young then and never thought deeply about what they meant.

But once I became a high school student, I gradually came to understand the way men looked at me.

Even the boys in my class who had never done anything particularly nice for me.

Even the creepy middle-aged men I encountered on the subway.

Even teachers who looked perfectly respectable and were married.

Sticky, filthy, disgusting.

The lecherous gazes were beyond vile.

After I understood what they meant, I sometimes tried covering my breasts by layering something over them.

But I quickly realized that all that did was shift their gazes to my skirt...