Carla and Troy set up a very different type of club.
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Author's notes:
1. This is a work of fiction. The activities and practices described in this story are not necessarily either condoned or recommended. If you choose to do anything described in real life with real people you do so at your own risk.
2. All characters are fictional and are 18 years or older; any likeness to any living person is purely coincidental. The story is purely imaginary and, to the author's knowledge, bears no relationship to any factual occurrence.
3. This story is self-contained but follows on from Summer Camp. To find out how Carla and Troy first met and fell in love, it is suggested that you read Summer Camp first.
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The last ten years have simply vanished. Looking back, it has been an interesting and, at times traumatic period in my life. Troy and I married a year after we met at summer school, at the end of our freshman year at college. Our marriage vows included the provision that we could introduce others into our relationship, neither of us wanting the ties of monogamy, which was fine when the average lifespan was 30-40 years, but we did not want to end up after 50 years of marriage hating each other. Variety, after all, is the spice of life and monogamy by compulsion or a feeling of duty can easily lead to resentment, which is hardly conducive to a loving, fulfilling relationship.
Our choices of study were interesting, Troy studying medicine while I studied psychology; without realizing it at the time, they seemed to tempt the Universe to throw the health book at us, and it did. First off, we decided to have a baby. I ditched the contraceptives and swore off extra-marital liaisons, increasing my nutrition and making love exclusively with Troy to ensure it would be his baby I would carry. After a year, nothing! I had some tests and the doctors found a problem; my eggs were not maturing before they were released. It was thought to be due to a hormone imbalance, was thought to be genetic and was thought to be incurable.
I went into a very dark place. Who was I if I could not achieve the very essence of womanhood, conceiving, carrying and giving birth to new life? I went through a phase of self-harm, fortunately cared for during this time by Troy who, with his medical knowledge, was able to prevent me actually killing myself. If my body couldn't bear children, then at least I could adorn it. I pierced everything; nipples, lips, ears, nose, eyebrows, naval, breasts, labia, clit hood and finally the clit itself, the most painful experience I have ever felt but one which, at the time, I felt I deserved. I refused anaesthetic; I was, after all, punishing myself, so why would I reduce the pain? I swore off sex; sex was for procreation and I couldn't procreate, therefore I would no longer have sex. Troy spent nights with me but relieved his sexual desires with other willing participants, much to their pleasure and envy of me despite my behavior, which to them was incomprehensible.
It took a year to come out of this phase, a year of frustration as my sexual desires remained unfulfilled, a year of total depression, a year of counselling, ironic since sexual psychology and counselling were my chosen specialist areas of study. On many occasions during that year I wondered bitterly who counsels the counsellors? Perhaps when we're choosing to work with others, we need to have experienced their situations first hand before we can completely connect with them and heal them. Perhaps these experiences were for my learning.
I don't know what changed; it was as though one Sunday morning I awoke and I was a different person. I looked at myself in the mirror and was appalled to see my emaciated, decorated body. What had I done to myself? I actually berated Troy for not protecting me from myself, but, as he rightly pointed out, he had tried and he had kept me alive, and it was a journey I needed to go through to arrive at the end; you cannot reach the goal without doing the journey. So, he saw his role as preventing me from doing myself permanent harm, which he did when I had insisted that I needed a full and complete hysterectomy including removal of my vagina and permanent sewing and joining of my labia, operations which he had adamantly refused to do or allow to be done.
With Troy's help, I removed most of the piercings, keeping my nipple piercings holding beautiful diamond encrusted rings that encircled my nipples and were held in place by vertical pins through my nipple piercings, and my clit and clit-hood piercings, these having been gained through too much pain for me to easily forego them. I decided to retain them to remind me of this time so that I knew I would never need to go here again. We then made sweet, slow, careful and very passionate love. I really enjoyed the feeling of his cock sliding inside my sex-starved vagina again as he brought me to many intense orgasms during our day-long lovemaking session. What had I been thinking to voluntarily give this up for a year? I sobbed from joy and regret for the past year as Troy brought me to orgasm after massive orgasm. To a large extent, I think our lovemaking that day was cathartic and assisted greatly in my rapid recovery.
I applied myself to my studies with a vengeance, catching up on the work I had missed due to my desultory efforts, graduating at the same time as Troy near the top of my class at the end of my fourth year. Troy's future path was clear as he simply followed the medical option, deciding to specialize in surgery, dealing in particular with issues relating to human sexuality. We had already discussed the possibility of setting up a clinic for those with sexual problems, having experienced first-hand the lack of any knowledgeable, comprehensive assistance in that area. Troy was also concerned at the number of cases of self-harm he heard about on his course, cases which never needed to happen if some advice and competent assistance had been available earlier. Therefore, I commenced a Masters course specializing in sexual psychology, while he studied the more physical aspects of the same topic. We had no idea how, where or when we would use these skills but we trusted that opportunities would present themselves when they would be invaluable. Meanwhile, spending all day hands-on with sexual dysfunctions, either physically or mentally and emotionally, meant we both returned home quite horny each evening, leading to many sessions resulting in joint sexual fulfilment. In addition, we joined a local group for those interested in polyamory and partner swapping, so we found sexual pleasures with others and brought additional people and couples into our bedroom. I guess it would not be an overstatement to say that for a few years we lived and breathed sex; we wouldn't have had it any other way.
Tragedy struck us again when Troy's parents were killed in a huge traffic pile up on the interstate which involved two massive trucks and several cars. The double closed-casket funeral was very moving and very sad, attended by a large number of people. Both Troy's parents had been very active in the community and, having made a fortune in industry, had supported many charities. After the funeral, we took several weeks away from our studies to tidy things up and attend a meeting with the attorney for the reading of the Wills. We were stunned. Troy was an only child and so was sole heir to what turned out to be, from our perspective, a vast fortune. As students, anything over a thousand dollars was a fortune, so an inheritance of over twenty million dollars in cash, assets and shares was incomprehensible to us. In addition to that was their house and a beautiful car. We were set for life, we thought, and did, for a moment, contemplate stopping our studies, investing the money and living off the income. But where is the fun in that, we asked; where was the challenge? So, we kept the investments, put the house on the market, paid off our student loans, and returned to study.
I graduated with a Master's degree in psychology, with sexuality being my major focus, and had written my thesis, not surprisingly, on the psychological effects of sterility in women. I then began study towards a Ph.D. in sexual deviancy, investigating the apparent need some people had for genital modification and, to their minds, enhancement, a subject with which I was all too familiar. Troy continued his learning and work as a surgeon in a clinic specializing in reconstructive surgery following traumatic injuries from accidents, self-harm, physical traumas and medical misadventures. He also carried out several sex-change operations, a type of surgery for which there appeared to be a growing demand.
Our trials during this ten-year period were not over yet. Shortly after my Master's graduation, my mother died of breast cancer, despite the best that doctors could do to treat her, and my father, who had increasingly severe dementia for several years and who had relied totally on my mother for support, was hospitalized in a private clinic, whose exorbitant charges we were fortunately able to afford. My father wasted away slowly but inevitably; we found the saddest part of dementia was that you simply do not know who your loved ones are any more. Each visit we spent the first ten minutes explaining who we were, receiving only looks of incomprehension in reply. I would hate that way of dying, so quite possibly, from his perspective, death was a blessing. As the sole heir, I inherited everything from my parents, so we sold the house, gave away most of his and Mom's possessions to charity shops and once again we were in the favorable position of inheriting considerable wealth.