"Are you comfortable?" asked the doctor.
"Yes, thank you."
"And are you sure you're ready to talk to me?"
"Oh yes. I want to tell you everything."
"That's good. Begin then, when you're ready."
I relaxed as much as I could. The couch I was reclining on was very comfortable. It had obviously been bought or even specially made to make its occupants feel comfortable and at ease. Its covering was warm and soft, the springing or foam just the right consistency.
"I don't know quite where to start, Doctor."
She didn't say anything, she just looked at me in a very unthreatening and patient way as if to say, "wherever seems best to you. But start."
So I did.
"I'm a very ordinary sort of girl, well, woman..."
The doctor interrupted, "There's just the two of us here, and we don't need to worry about political correctness. If you want to use the word girl, please do so."
"Ok. He calls me a girl. As I was saying, I'm very ordinary. I didn't have a boyfriend until I went to Uni at eighteen for instance. I had just two boyfriends at Uni. The second one became a long-term one. I slept with them both. Oh! Not at the same time!" I hurriedly added. I didn't want her to think of me as, well, as a tart. This might seem strange when you read what follows.
The doctor smiled, "Go on."
"I did ok at Uni, I got my degree and started work in the hotel business. I didn't have much ambition, I don't know why, I never have had. I ended up working at a small rather run-down hotel locally. Part of a big chain, but one of their lesser establishments. It was a business hotel. I was supposed to be on a management trainee scheme, but really we, the staff, were just dogsbodies. Doing everything, even cleaning sometimes. But I didn't mind. I had my boyfriend. He's a very nice man with a good job. I assumed we'd get married soon..."
I trailed off.
"What is it, dear?"
"Well, as I say this I begin to understand myself a little. It sounds like a deadly dull life. And it was. My boyfriend was dull. We did the same things each weekend at the same places. He stayed over Friday and Saturday nights..."
"Tell me about that."
"Oh, there's little to tell. We'd go out for a meal or a drink. We didn't drink too much, of course, then we'd go back to my place to bed where we'd have sex. Always the missionary position. It never lasted very long and only ever once a night. But I thought that was ok, you know? I thought that was normal. I never had an orgasm, until I began inducing them myself..." I trailed off...
"This is no place for embarrassment. Tell me about your masturbation."
"I started out of frustration at my relationship. I tried it, but I wasn't very good at it then. I didn't know how to pleasure myself. And I felt horribly guilty. So guilty that I stopped doing it. Until..." I trailed off again.
"Yes? Until what? You must tell me everything!"
I stretched on the couch, moving slightly to get comfortable.
"I've got ahead of myself a little. There had always been something at the back of my mind telling me that I was missing out somehow. I'd never done anything dangerous or exciting. It was beginning to bother me. I looked things up on the internet, but I didn't want to go skydiving, or bungee-jumping or anything like that. I read quite a lot, so I expanded my reading taste. That helped a little, but it wasn't enough. I tried dance and exercise classes, but they didn't suit, though I met some interesting people. People who had a much more interesting life than mine, it sounded like. Especially their sex lives. I could hardly believe some of the things they claimed they were doing. I became curious. One of them mentioned a website called Literotica, that had lots of, you know, raunchy stories. I looked at it one night. I had to pluck up my courage. Well, a lot of it is awful; very badly written unrealistic male fantasy. Sometimes very misogynistic, too. But some of it is...interesting," I took a deep breath here, "some of it I found...exciting. Arousing, if I'm honest. The accounts of deep, absorbing sex; shattering orgasms, profound relationships based on...well, all sorts of things. I knew it was fiction, but I wanted something like that. I wanted erotic adventures. That's when I discovered masturbation; I had to relieve the arousal I felt. I got better at it; I had orgasms.
"This all sounds dreadful, doesn't it? So...naff! But it's the truth. There I was, twenty-three with a boring life and a nothing job, frigging myself off every night and dreaming of having real sex. The saddest thing was that the masturbation was far better than the real sex I was having."
I paused to gather my thoughts. The recollection of my self-induced orgasms was giving me slight tinglings in my crotch. I squirmed very slightly. I'm sure the doctor noticed.
"Please go on, my dear."
"I tried to improve my sex life with my boyfriend, but not only did he not seem to want to have better sex, he disapproved of me wanting it. He virtually told me I was an immoral slut! I tried to settle back down but it was no use. In the end I broke up with him. Neither of us was deeply upset, I don't think.
"The trouble was I was now left with no sex at all. I'd discovered that I had a longing inside me for good sex. Masturbation wouldn't cut it, so I began experimenting. I told you that the Hotel I worked in was a business one, didn't I? So there was no shortage of lonely men around. It was easy to get myself picked up and fucked. Oh!, you know I would never have used that word two years ago! But it's the only word that really fits. I was getting men who didn't care about me to fuck me. But it wasn't much better than it had been with Wayne. Mostly they only lasted two minutes then insisted on telling me how wonderful their wives were! Occasionally there was one who was better than the others, but I was still deeply frustrated. So, the day that changed my life for ever....
"Oh! Wait! I have to tell you this first! I said, didn't I that the hotel was a little run down; it didn't make much money? Ok, well, one of its uses was as a....brothel is not right. But it was used by working girls to bring their clients back. We usually let them use rooms in the side annexe of the hotel. It was discreet. Upper management had told us to turn a blind eye just as long as the money came in. There were also call-girls in and out quite often, visiting men in the other rooms. I was shocked at first, but I got used to it. The girls soon became quite familiar, we used to exchange greetings. I often wondered what it would be like to have sex with a stranger. Did they enjoy it? Wasn't it dangerous? Well, on that last point, I was never aware of any...unpleasantness while I was on duty. I was occasionally asked by a man if I knew 'where there was any excitement available' or 'is there an escort agency around here' but I always claimed ignorance. I didn't want to be involved in that. I still thought it was a little distasteful, despite the thrill I got from fantasising about it."
I stopped, stretched again, feeling decidedly aroused. I squirmed a little harder to try and generate some friction between my thighs. But I couldn't really do much just then.
"This is fascinating, my dear. Do please go on. I sense we're getting to the crux of the matter."
"Hm. One day I was just finishing a shift on the reception desk. It would be about two o'clock. One of the other staff members relieved me so I went upstairs to get changed. Our staff changing room is on the upper floor, you see. Well, I showered, changed and was on my way back down. I was wearing a really nice red dress. It wasn't very revealing or anything, but it suited me well, showing off my body, such as it is..."
"Don't be coy, my dear, you have a lovely body," said the doctor with a smile.