Just get through this -- somehow

The screen continued to rise for a few moments, before stopping about five feet off the ground – keeping the heads of the three young men concealed, but putting their toweled bodies on full display.

The auditorium was silent for a full ten seconds before it erupted into excited whispering. The acoustics even allowed Nate to make out snippets from different conversations from the first row.

“I thought Professor Walford was just yanking our chains with this live-demonstration shit. But here we are and there’re three guys in towels up on stage.”

“Do you think they’ll actually get naked? I hope so....”

“The guy on the left is sexy as fuck. Middle... okay but a little skinny for my taste. The third one’s kind of a runt.”

“Quiet please, class.” It was the Professor’s authoritative voice.

“I know this is an unusual lesson, but I’d ask you to maintain your composure and take the subject matter seriously.”

“So, what are your initial impressions of our three brave volunteers? First the one on the left.”

“Hot,” someone yelled, triggering some laughter.

More adjectives were thrown into the mix: “Muscular,” “jock,” “studly.”

“Very well. I think we can all agree he possesses a well-defined physique, the classic six-pack abs, a ‘ripped’ body, as you students might say. Perhaps 5’10”. A light coating of reddish-blond body hair.” Nate could hear Professor Walford writing on the chalkboard as she spoke. “And our middle volunteer?”

“Skinny,” “lanky,” “tall,” came the audience’s humiliating appraisal of Nate’s body.

“Would it change your perception if I told you he wore glasses?”

Nate bit his lip angrily. Why would she give away such a detail about his identity?

“Nerd!” someone yelled.

“Asshole,” Nate whispered to himself.

“Yes, he is a classic nerd. Slim physique with only some slight definition. About six feet tall. Some areas of curly brown body hair betwixt the nipples, and also around the navel.”

“And the third.”

“Short,” “little,” “looks like a stiff breeze’d knock him over.”

“Indeed, class, he is a wisp of a fellow. Scarcely any body hair. Virtually no definition at all. About 5’7” tall.”

Nate smirked a little and glanced over at Denny, feeling glad that Denny was in the lineup to bear the brunt of the humiliating assessments.

“What if I asked you....” She paused dramatically. “To surmise the dimensions of their sexual organs?”

“Y- you mean?” came a halting voice from the front row.

“Yes, their penises.”

There were scattered giggles. Nate frowned. A part of him kept hoping the Professor wouldn’t go through with this.

There was a somewhat surprising consensus that Randy’s was “thick” but “not particularly long.” Denny’s was thought to be “very very small.”

“And our nerd?”

“Hung!” some guy yelled out, to Nate’s chagrin and the class’s great amusement.

“Yeah, he’s got the biggest dick, no doubt,” came a woman’s voice.

“Good, good. We have a consensus then. Let me just make some notations on the board. Now, as any good scientist, we must test our hypotheses against empirical observation.”

Nate groaned softly. He could see Randy and Denny were looking quite scared themselves.

“Will our three subjects please release their towels and place their hands at their sides.”