I married Paul when I was twenty. We were both virgins, and very proud of it. Looking back over the last decade, I believe we were both stupid. Neither of us knew anything about sex beyond inserting tab A into slot B. The only thing either of us knew was that we should be naked when we did it. I had never been undressed in front of a man before. He had never stripped in front of a woman. We were both scared silly on our first try. We kept our backs to each other while we undressed and got under the covers. "Now what do we do?" Paul asked me.
"I think we are supposed to kiss," I said.
"We did that at the altar."
"We did it a lot before the ceremony too. I think it's okay." To this day, I don't know why, but he laid his hand gently on my cheek. "You have never done that before. It feels good." His lips briefly touched mine. That was our first tender moment. He kissed me again, and a third time. Next, he kissed my neck twice on both sides.
Eventually he got his erection. I got onto my back with my legs spread apart. We were both nervous about what we would do next. I feared the pain of being deflowered. He hated the thought of hurting me. Finally, I told him to just shove it into me. I yelped in agony as he broke my hymen. He ejaculated in me soon afterwards, probably because he was so excited about having sex for the first time.
Over the next few months, we became more comfortable being naked around each other. Except for the first-time pain, our sex continued unchanged. We caressed each other. Always we began with three kisses on the lips followed by four kisses on my neck. It's all we knew. Neither of us had any desire to view any porn to try to learn something else. It didn't occur to us to do so. We had sex three times a week. About once a month I had an orgasm. Life was pretty good.
After college, I found a part-time job as a paralegal. Paul had a well-paying job as an engineer. We didn't lack for money. He had Irish ancestry, so we went to Dublin on our tenth anniversary.
When I returned to work, I had lunch with a couple other women in the break room. "Did you guys join the club?" Shelly asked me.
I gave her a quizzical look. "What club?" I replied.
Both rolled their eyes at me. "You know," Mary said.
"I'm lost. Is there a club for people visiting Ireland?"
Both laughed. Mary leaned toward me and lowered her voice. "The mile high club," she whispered.
"What's that?"
Again, both laughed. "Mary," Shelly said, "I think we have a virgin bride on our hands."
"Yes, I was a virgin bride," I said, "and I'm proud that I saved myself for my husband."
Mary kept her voice soft. "Sarah, this is just between the three of us," she whispered. "No one else will never know about this conversation. Be honest. How often do you and Paul have sex?"
I was stunned by the impertinent question. "I don't see where that is any of your business. I don't pry into your private life."
"Mike and I get it on every night," Shelly said. "Occasionally we meet on our lunch breaks for a quickie. We are always hot for each other."
I took a deep breath. "Okay, we do it three times a week."
"How often do you orgasm?" Mary asked.
"About once a month. Sometimes twice."
"Girl, you are so deprived. You sound like a nun."
"I don't understand any of this. Paul and I have followed the same routine ever since we got married."
"Don't you ever do anything risquΓ©?" Shelly asked.
"Like what?"
"Joining the mile high club, for example. Mike and I joined on our trip to Las Vegas last year. It took some planning because we would be doing it in our seats. We even practiced. We got a red-eye flight because we knew the cabin lights would be off once we were airborne. I didn't wear panties or a bra. Paul had the window seat; I had the center one. Some man had the aisle seat, so I was between them. To this day, I don't know his name. Once the lights were off, I turned my back to Mike and raised the back of my skirt. He didn't move. He had been working hard all day and was exhausted. He fell asleep. I figured we'd do it on our way home, so I sat upright to try to sleep too. I felt a hand on my left leg moving slowly up from my knee to under my skirt. Why pass up the opportunity? I turned my back to the man, and he and I joined the club."
"You had sex with a stranger right next to your sleeping husband? That's disgusting!"
"It was the most exciting fuck I've ever had. I'm getting wet just thinking about it."