For nearly ten years I worked as a traveling salesman. My territory included the entire state of New Mexico and a small portion of Arizona, Utah, and Colorado in the immediate Four Corners vicinity. I usually confined my travel to New Mexico because the few communities in the Four Corners are small and widely separated. Actually, I had only three clients there so I went to see them only when they called me and asked me to visit.
When in Gallup, I usually stayed at the Holiday Inn or one of the two Day's Inns. All are within less than a mile of one another on old Highway 66 on the west side of town.
There is an adult book store and video theater across the highway and a few hundred yards east of the Holiday Inn. One evening, I was in there looking for something to read in my hotel room that night. I hadn't found anything interesting, but was standing there talking with the fellow who owns the store. We were just BSing as men will do when they have nothing better to occupy their time when a fairly attractive woman in her early thirties came in.
Although women do patronize such places, they are usually in the company of their husband or a boy friend. This woman was alone. She went over to the shelves where the porn videotapes were displayed and began pulling boxes down from the shelf to read the blurbs on the backs.
The manager excused himself and went over to the woman. "May I help you find something," he asked." "Oh, I guess. I'm just looking for something to stimulate me while I play with myself."
The manager did a double take and said, "You mean that an woman as attractive as you are can't get someone else to make her feel good?"
"I'm married. I'm not on the pill; I can't take it, and my husband refuses to wear a rubber. He say's he's allergic to latex."
"Are you sure he's not giving you a line of crap," the manager asked.
At that point I walked over and joined the conversation. "He may not be," I said. "When I was in the medics and working in surgery, I knew several surgeons who had to wear cotton gloves inside their surgical gloves because they were allergic to latex."
"Damn, I've never heard that before," was the manager's reply.
"Yeah," the woman said. "And the miserable lout won't eat me or do anything else to make me come, and I'm so horny that I've just got to do something."
She was no Heddy Lamar or Ingrid Bergmann, but she was not so bad looking that I'd make her put a sack over her head before taking her to bed, so I pointed to the display rack holding a variety of different colored and textured condoms, and said, "If you're interested, why don't you pick a couple of these and go to my hotel room with me for a little fun."
She looked at me a little strangely, chewed her lower lip, and then walked over to the condom display. She picked three: a bright red one, one that had raised bumps all along its length, and one with little finger-like projections at the end. "Are these okay?"
"They're fine, but I don't think you'd find the one with the little fingers at the tip very exciting. There really aren't any nerve endings inside your vagina that would be able to feel them."
"Oh, and how do you know that?"
"Like I said a few minutes ago, I was a medic in the military. I studied a lot of anatomy and physiology as part of my job. Also, to satisfy my own curiosity, I learned everything I could about a woman's genitals and her physiological response to various kinds of sexual stimulation."