I left Bangkok when I was forty-two years old. Enroute to a new assignment in an African country I joined a tour group for a visit to China. This was 1984 and China was still relatively new and exotic for tourists.
I was worried that my life was spinning out of control. I was drinking more and recalling less. Shortly before I left Bangkok, I woke up in an unfamiliar bed with a man of whom I had absolutely no recollection. That scared me. It was time to curtail -- but not halt -- my drinking and become more selective in my sexual partners. In addition, AIDs and genital herpes had become rampant, shutting down the permissive sexual environment of the 1970s. So, China was to be a drying out time for me. I hoped to find sex among my tour partners, but I would enjoy it soberly and sanely.
I like to watch other people have sex. Especially if they don't know I'm watching, or if they are oblivious to my presence. It's a window into unguarded and personal moments when people are at their most intimate and exposed. I had indulged my voyeurism in Bangkok, spending weekends with my friend Dick, sleeping drunk in his bed and waking up to watch him have sex beside me with one or another Thai bargirl. Moreover, I had often watched Dick or his friends have sex through a louvered door that looked into his bedroom. Dick had known I was watching; his friends hadn't -- and that made it more exciting. Dick had also watched me have sex with several different men, and I had enjoyed knowing that he was watching.
On the China tour I shared a hotel room with a sweet attractive 30 year old woman named Mandy. She and a handsome single man on the tour of the same age became enamored with each other. The third night of the tour -- we were in Xian -- my roomie broached the subject with me.
"Becky, this is embarrassing to ask, but would you mind if Randy came to the room tonight?"
"No," answered I, not offended but a little jealous. There were no men in this group for me. A sex-less two weeks loomed ahead. And I was already edgy from a lack of alcohol.
Well, Randy came to our room that night and the two of them made the earth move. The room was small and our two single beds were separated only by a small lamp table. Randy and Mandy bounced up and down on that little bed for an hour while I pretended to sleep -- and secretly brought myself to a quiet climax just about the same time they did. After they finished with sex John departed for his own room.
That set the pattern for the next several nights. They fucked and I pretended to be asleep. I especially enjoyed watching them one night when moonlight flooded the room. They did a 69 and there was enough light for me to see his erect penis as she took him in her mouth and brought him slowly to climax. I was worried that their bed would collapse when he cummed in her mouth while her hips were bouncing up and down over his face. They paid no attention to me during their revels. When they finished he sat on the edge of the bed facing me and I could have reached out and taken his limp penis in my hand. In my pretend sleep I had loosed a button on my night dress and one of my breasts was exposed in the moonlight while I slumbered innocently. He didn't seem to notice. My invisibility both irritated and excited me.