This is a love story, of remembrance. Most of us, unless we are hermits or die-hard, unreconstructed auto-eroticists, have had at least one lover, someone who taught us the dance of erotic delights, introduced us to intimacy, shared in excitements and discoveries, and produced pleasures of searing intensity. Life is quite capable of providing more than one love interest, so there may be a parade, long or short, lively or complicated, but inevitably entirely worthy of reflection.
These are my memories of the Seven Quims who informed and enriched my romantic and erotic life. To each I owe a debt, and thus my recollections shall be partial, quite inadequate, repayment for our intertwined histories. Names are altered, the events authentic.
Marla was not my first love, but close. A brief, intense high-school fling had spun me around and tossed me into a ditch, but a few months later, just as I turned eighteen, I met Marla at a beach town on the coast of New England.
My recollections of Marla are relayed in greater detail in the story
First Lick
, which describes my enraptured entry into the world of oral sex. There I also relate how Marla's distaste for the word "cunt" led me to refer to her nether regions as her "quim," a Victorian word that I continue to employ -- a more dignified and sonorous term for a woman's exquisite palace of pleasure.
Subsequent lovers have not have found reason to spurn it as a term of endearment so I have continued its use -- an elegant, mellifluous word. I loved the quims I have befriended over the years, worshipping them, devoting my attentions to their pleasures and well-being.
Marla was a year older than I, two inches taller, slender, with soft, dark eyes and thick, long hair often braided down her back.
Our explorations, once we discovered the pleasures that mouths and tongues could offer to sensitive bodily organs constructed specifically to encourage the spread of the species, were intense, lively, endlessly entertaining. Her religious upbringing prohibited copulation before marriage, so we found ways to do just about everything else.
Her quim, my first truly intimate one, although I had slipped a hand down a few pairs of shorts before, was well-furred, with lovely full lips that easily grew swollen and slippery. Her taste and smell was earthy, intoxicating. I would dally for long periods between her thighs, licking, teasing, leading her to the edge of orgasm and keeping her there, until hip thrashings and overheated breathing took her over the precipice, while her quim clamped down on my tongue, her ass squeezed in pleasure, and afterward it became my turn.
Marla's mouth was the first to engulf my erection, the first tongue to glide along my cock-head, ease my sperm forth. I shall never forget those early times, which felt like claiming a new continent, uncorking a fine wine, stumbling onto the perfect, out-of-the-way vacation spot.
Best of all for us was discovering the "sixty-nine" position, her on top, while I licked her to orgasm and she kept my cock in her mouth. The violence of her pelvis pushing into my face when she climaxed was intoxicating, soaking my face with her juices. Aroused by her own pleasure, I usually erupted immediately after her.
Our relationship, while relatively long-lived for a college couple, had its ups and downs, and we broke up and got back together several times, luckily for me with intervening partners.
Here are the rest of my Seven Deadly Quims.
Rachel was one of my oddest pairings, not a one-night stand, it was no more than five or six times that we slept together. We were introduced by mutual friends in our college dining hall. Her family was old-money Virginia, her voice lilting with charm and grace.
She found ways to stop by my room late at night, ostensibly on the way home from visiting other friends down the hall. One night we talked late over a bottle of wine. She appeared reluctant to return to her own room. I was incapable of avoiding temptation.
We were awkward removing clothes and settling in together. I wish I had known then what later was revealed to me by a confiding friend of hers -- that I strongly resembled in both appearance (small, tight-knit body) and demeanor (attentive, thoughtful) her high-school sweetie, still an ongoing although long-distance relationship for her. She did not want to "cheat" on him but found me irresistible. This knowledge would have explained all manner of behaviors, and my actions and thoughts would have played out quite differently had I possessed that intelligence.
So it was not erotic attraction that drew her to me, but a desire to simulate affection with her "real" lover, generate warmth, an easy romantic connection -- and yet I was a substitute. Instead I interpreted her interest as sexual, which I clumsily attempted to exploit.
Her body is one of the most extraordinary I have ever encountered. She was taller than me by an inch or two, with glorious. silky shoulder-length brown hair and an aristocratic face with full lips and wide eyes. Her body's skin was impossibly taut to the touch. Not muscular but firm all over. Her breasts were far larger than would be guessed by the clothes she favored -- long skirts and loose elegant blouses.
Even that softest part of anyone's anatomy, the ass-cheeks, on her were taut, firm, almost rubbery in their resistance to touch, like well-kneaded bread dough that pushes back against the impression of a finger. Firm, solid, supple, her warm enthusiastic body would inevitably satisfy some charmed man somewhere along the line, just not me, not now.
We thrashed. She defended my assaults yet remained affectionate. She was kind but firm in her refusals. I had learned long before with others the fine line that separates assertive from aggressive, and if the goal was pleasure, it was unwise to press too hard. Friendship -- and sex -- need to be mutual. We kissed and groped, no more than that on that first night.
We talked at dinner a few weeks later, the attraction still strong. A long walk together along the forest trails ringing the campus, hand-in-hand, sharing confidences, and then back to her room this time. I could not figure out what was going on, the signals were all over the map.
Again we were intimate but with unfathomable boundaries. Her skin was so elegant, her kisses so tender, the embraces so warm, that it all was fine.
In the morning, chatting in bed, I could not take my eyes off her chest. Her curving supple breasts had a firmness that defied all my earlier experiences. And I had been given freedom to see them, feel them, if not other unreachable parts of her.
Our last night was at her place. Another exciting but ultimately unsatisfying night. We slept with arms around each other. I woke with my erection in an impossible state. I was determined. I nestled down between her thighs and began a tongue exploration.
Her lips were thin, elastic, her groin hair sparse but silky. Her smell was faint, distant. I was unable to get her aroused. She was tense, uncomfortable. I had crossed some boundary, my attention unwelcome. I did not try for long.
It was clear intimacies would progress no further. I could not bring myself to tarry in bed but left abruptly, furiously aroused, back to my room and an energetic if only faintly compensatory wank, at last spilling my urgent denied sperm all over my hands.
She avoided me afterward. Uninformed and quite clueless, I had squandered an opportunity. I wonder what ever happened to her?
I had spotted Elizabeth early in my junior year at my rural college, well before she knew I existed. I studied her as she crossed campus, aloof, independent, a glide to her step, strangely alluring. We had no mutual friends so no easy introduction offered itself. Tall, exceedingly slender, with long, straight, light-brown hair, she wore an enigmatic expression I never quite learned to decipher. I longed for her from afar.
Our paths were thrown together in the midst of a mid-year housing crisis. My on-campus apartment was prematurely breaking up, hers had lost a tenant and needed a replacement. Even in those student days, with no more possessions than could be fitted into a small car, I hated moving. But I needed a spot.
Elizabeth, more or less the apartment queen, introduced me around during my "interview" at the flat in January. It was an agreeable enough crew, and after moving in I began the slow process of becoming acquainted with the other flat dwellers, all well enough known to each other.
In mid-February a high school friend rang me up, said he had a free place to stay at a weekend ski resort in Vermont with a former girlfriend, would I be interested in joining them? There was room for someone else too.
I queried the apartment, any takers? Elizabeth was the only skier amongst them with spare time and inclination, and even better, she owned a car. We drove up early Saturday.
Our skiing levels matched fairly well and we had a grand time on the slopes, talking on the lift rides up, our familiarity edging beyond the frontiers of new acquaintances.
After our day on the trails we followed Jimbo's van along narrow, snowy roads to the tiny ski cottage, which belonged to some friends of his parents, and rustled up a simple dinner there. The heating was inadequate, it remained quite cold inside. Jimbo saw me scrutinize the cozy accommodations, only two small bedrooms, one narrow bed in each.
I eyed him closely. "Yep, two folks to a bed, it's warmer that way however you manage it." He gave me a squinty smile. I had not bargained on this part.