This is a work of fiction. All characters are 18 years old or over.
Joyce was a willowy Irish catholic and a mixture of adventurousness and naivety. We had met when I worked in Dublin and she had returned to Wales with me to a cottage in Pembrokeshire, surrounded by old woodland at the end of a quarter of a mile of earth track.
I was working long hours, subcontracting to the local farmers, and would return home most evenings dog tired but we were both young and so sex was frequent, if a little predictable. If I tried anything unusual, she would be pleasantly accommodating but would seldom be overly enthusiastic. The height of passion was usually for her to cry don't stop just as I was at the point of no return and a few strokes away from stopping. Sex was pleasant but nothing to set the world ablaze.
One Friday I had finished early and headed for the bath. As I opened the bathroom door, she was stooping over the bath, wrapped in a towel, a mixture of confusion and embarrassment. She was blushing furiously from underneath the towel wrapped around her wet hair. I started dropping my work clothes into the washing basket.
I knew that the ancient water heater would not support two baths of water, so I slipped gratefully into the water she had vacated and topped it up with the hot water that remained- not as much as I had expected. The bathroom was pleasantly warm as she washed the grime from my back. Soon she had abandoned her towel and started gently soaping and fondling me.
We tumbled into the bedroom and without any foreplay I thrust slowly into her. As the swollen end of my prick moved passed her pussy lips I was engulfed by her sweet, firm wetness She must have been on a hair trigger because as I slid in, her internal muscles started to spasm and flutter, gripping me wetly. The wet slapping sounds rapidly increased in speed and volume as my body, still wet from the bath, dragged me, and thrust her towards a shuddering, grinding, liquid orgasm.
I looked across at her, tangled in the sheets. "So did you enjoy your bath?"
She looked away and muttered something. I guessed that she had made her bath had been more fun than usual- hence her hair trigger reaction.
"Were you having impure thoughts?" I gently teased.
She was quite for a while then said in a low voice, "I get so confused. All day I have erotic thoughts, I used to confess to a priest and do penance, but not for anything like this. The penance did make me feel better though," she finished shyly.
The cooker timer rang from the kitchen and Joyce jumped out of bed and pulled on her clothes. When I followed several minutes later, she was putting dinner on the table, with a bottle of wine. I ate dinner in a quite post-coital glow, absently thinking about catholic guilt. Joyce was quiet but looked as if she was waiting for something.
"What?" I asked quietly.
"I don't know," she replied as she cleared the table.
"Do you want to go to confession?"
"No; I couldn't tell anyone else, and a priest would have a fit. He could hardly just tell me to say 20 Hail Marys. He would insist that we stopped"
I moved to the armchair, she came back into the room, and swallowed a large mouthful of wine. I held out my hand and she knelt beside me.
"How long has it been since your last confession?" I asked quietly. She looked at me quizzically. "Do you have impure thoughts?" I continued.
After a long silence, she replied in a low voice "Do you mean 'forgive me for I have sinned'?"
"Tell me what you think about"
After a long pause she continued, "I think about what we do in bed, and it makes me excited. It also makes me feel guilty and that makes me more excited. That makes me feel wicked"
Listening to her made me feel excited and she was breathing with rapid shallow breaths.
I took a risk.
"I think that you are confused, you talk about what we do. I know that you mean 'what you do with your boyfriend, not with me'. try thinking of me as your confessor."
She looked up startled, so I told her to close her eyes and keep them closed. I Talked to her quietly reminding her that she had not been to confession for a long time. "You need to tell me what you think about."
She was quite for several seconds and then in a quiet voice started to tell me about her thoughts. Remembering that her boyfriend stroked her breasts. She paused.
"Does he stroke your nipples?" I asked, "Tell me about what you remember."
"He strokes and rolls them in his fingers, when he does, I feel it in my belly, and lower down."
"What else, do you think about him doing with your breasts?"
"He squeezes my nipples and flicks them with his fingertips; it hurts a bit, but I like that as well." Then in a low whisper, "Sometimes I want him to squeeze harder."
"I think that this confessing makes you excited."
"No," she murmured.
"I think that your nipples are hard and aching now. Take of your shirt slowly so that they have a chance to soften."