There is a common notion that sexual desire wanes with age. Not in my case: I was as eager in my sixties as in my twenties. What decreases is the opportunity, partly because with advancing years there is lessening allure, and partly because there may be fewer contexts in which to make operate. I'm thinking of a time in my mid-sixties when I was especially frustrated with a dearth of outlets. Fortunately, a member of the sisterhood came to my aid, even, initially, against her current orientation, or so it seemed.
Though a physical education tutor, Gina, was also a frequent colleague on weekend and vacation courses for English-language teachers, A fervent hetero, twenty years younger than me, we had become close through our shared interest in language, and while she pursued liaisons with male participants, I sought satisfaction with man woman or transwoman;
Such encounters were not always available, and I recall a particular event when neither of us could find a partner. A situation which seemed to be troubling me more than her when, on the second evening, we met in her room for conversation and cocoa. Neither commented on the situation until she broke off her account of the young lover whose determinedly virgin girlfriend encouraged him to seek satisfaction in Gina's arms to remark:
'This sort of story isn't helping you at all, is it, Norma?'
'Well, no, but it might help me help myself in due course.'
'You mean you'll frot yourself off later in bed?'
'Though that doesn't much help at present.'
She said, 'You mean you're so choked up you need someone else to do it?'
'That's right. But I suspect you may be doing it, too.'
'Probably. Especially now I've called up young Tom. I can think about him -'
I risked alienating her by asking, 'Why don't we do it together, right now?'
'Oh. That would be a first for me, but it might help you to see me doing it, too?'
'Yes. It would,' I said,
'You want to watch me do it, while you do yourself?'
'That's right. But of course you may not fancy that at all.'
She thought about it. 'What did we long ago agree? A woman should always help another woman, in any way, if at all possible.'
'Correct. But not if she has scruples.'
'I'm not sure I'll be able to come, but...never mind, tell me what to do.'
I told her to sit in the one armchair facing the bed, on which, having removed my knickers, I disposed myself, leaning on a pillow against the headboard. She was to draw up her skirt, open her legs and finger her clitoris - whatever she usually did. As she obeyed I drew up my skirt and felt into my already damp fuzz. Then I said, 'Do you normally do it through the gusset?'
'Ah,' she said, 'You want me to take off my knicks?'
'Are you too shy?'
'You want to see my prickety bush?'
'Of course. You know I've been longing to see it for years.'
'You never said.'
'No, but you knew didn't you?'
She laughed, 'Of course I did, and I wondered why you didn't say. After all, we could always have had a shower together.'
'I didn't want to embarrass you with my lesbian lusts.'
She stood up, stripped off her blue cotton panties, sat down again and parted her thighs. 'This is a first, dear Norma, showing my fernery to another woman. For sexual reasons, that is. Other women have seen it in changing rooms and showers, but..'
'It's delightful, delightful. With a crew-cut, trimmed for action.'
'Convenient for PE. Nothing to escape the elastic, or pull when riding the pommel-horse. Shall I go on nudging the nubbin?'
'Please. I'm noodling mine along nicely.'
'So I see. Well, actually I don't see in that little forest. But I'll need to concentrate now if you want me to come.'
'I do want you to come. I want you to tell me how it's going, whether it's gathering..'
That'll help you to come?'
'Yes. I need someone else's arousal.'
'All right. I'll go on about Tom and his girlfriend, then, because that might help me. She's determined to stay virgin till they're married. She wants a white wedding and deflowering after. She thinks that's romantic. But she wants Tom to be experienced, so he can give her multiple orgasms that night and evermore. So, he's to learn all I can teach him.'
'And you're happy about that?'
'Tom is a quick learner, with stamina, and he can make me come, time after time.'
'Tell me about him. What you do.'
'That's what Sally asks, both of us. Well, he's medium-sized, very dark, slim and well-muscled, with an average length but quite thick tool, which can stay hard a long time and erect again soon after coming. He has lovely hazel eyes, which seem to smile when he's inside me. He loves my breasts, which are about half the size of Sally's. She's a big bouncing, buxom blonde. He mustn't touch hers, or even see them bare, though he has been permitted to view them stoutly bra'd.'
'She sounds like a teaser.'
'Tom loves her, and he's allowed to kiss her. He can stroke her bottom inside her knickers. She likes that, and has her own hand inside them as well, Tom says, rubbing what she calls her "clistoris." We don't correct her.'
'Does she come?'
'Tom says she says she does. She does a lot of squealing, anyway.'
We fell silent and our fingers were busy. As we were positioned her hand was shielding her vulva from view, and I badly wanted to see it. However, after a while I did come, though it was a half-hearted, or half-clitted effort. She said, 'Did you just come?'
'Sort of. Pretty feeble.It would help if you were naked. Can I undress you?'
'Anything that helps, sister.'
We stood up and I undid her skirt to let it drop round her ankles. 'There you are, the crew-cut clistoris.'
'Not quite. Could you part those lovely labia?'
She did so. 'Another first. Never done this for another woman.'
'It's charming. Sticks straight out.'
'Tom says it's like a tiny penis.'
'Turn round. I've been longing to see that tidy bottom for years.'
She turned and shook the tidy bottom. It hardly moved. No wobble, no sway, as if it were marble not flesh. 'All muscle,' I said, 'But so sweetly rounded.'
'Tom says that if he spanked me it would bruise his hand.'
I turned her back and drew her shirt off over her head. And there were her tidy titmice, nesting in a modest sports-bra. She said, 'They're not very impressive, I'm afraid. About half the size of yours, I should think. But if you want to see them...' She reached behind to undo it. Her breasts were as tight and tidy as her bottom. They touched together at the top, emerging from her ribs, then parted, like two pears on one stalk. The nipples were pointed, emerging from perfectly circular areolas, so firm that even her jumping up and down would hardly have jostled them. 'Those are absolutely beautiful,' I said, ' I was sure they would be.'
'Tom calls them "rubbery," because they don't bounce.'
'Your body is perfect,' I told her. 'You are the prototype woman. If there was an Eve, she was as you are. Everything essential, nothing superfluous, shaped to perfection. Tight, trim and tidy. Put a foot on the bed.' I bent to look and confirmed my suspicion. 'Even your labia are tight, trim and tidy. Symmetrical.'
'What do you mean?'
'Most women's labia are uneven. They don't mirror each other. One protrudes further than the other.'
'You should know, having seen a good few. I've not done the research. Let me see yours, then. You've got me curious.'
I lay on the bed and, drew up my knees and parted my thighs. She bent to inspect. 'Yes, I see what you mean. The left lip is a bit longer than the right.'
She stood up again, and said, 'What next, dear sister? Can you get off if I show you my perfect pussy like this?' She stood over me, leaning back to push her perfect pudenda forward and holding her labia open with a hand either side. Then she said, 'But you said you needed someone else to do it for you, didn't you?'
'Yes. Are you saying...'
'It's really not much to ask of a sister. Just tell me how you like it.'
'However you do yourself.'
I lowered my legs, keeping them well apart and she laid the fingers of her right hand on my stomach and lightly traced the way down to the fringe of my fuzz. 'I'll need a map to penetrate this little forest,' she said.
'Find the grotto at the rear and glide up the valley,' I instructed. 'The landscape, or quimscape, is much like your own, though wilder and woollier.'
She laughed. 'Here I go, then. Slowly is probably best...'
The feeling of her finger-tip parting my labia and inching towards my clit was so intense I cried out.
'You seem to like that,' she said. 'Another first for me, giving a woman pleasure.'
'Can I hold your bottom, dear sister?' I asked.
'Why not? That won't hurt the sister.'
I reached up with my nearer hand and settled it across the cheeks. 'I'm going to stroke it,' I said. 'That won't hurt, I promise.'
'Actually it feels rather nice. Tom loves to hold it when he comes, and I like it.'
By now the tips of her first two fingers were caressing my clitoris, being careful to avoid its glans, and a hot flush of sensation was spreading into my bottom and thighs, then up my body, tingling and teasing every nerve as it went. 'Lovely, lovely!' I gasped, as the hand on her bottom edged between the cheeks and its fingers felt their way past her anus and vestibule and lodged in her vulva, which was, slightly to my surprise, slippery. Since she made no objection the fingers moved on between those perfect labia and homed in on that protruding clitoris.
'That's rather nice, you know, Norma,' she said. 'Yet another first, a woman working my sisteris.'
'Which is yours and which is mine?' I asked, as the orgasm gathered.
'You're going to come, aren't you, darling?' she said.