The following evening, Susan, wearing her nightgown under her robe, arrived to, as she said, "baby sit" with Jean. Both women had looked with great anticipation to being together for the night, but still were a bit apprehensive in what was a new situation. Still, the idea of "sleeping together" as opposed to merely sleeping in the same bed, had stimulated them all day. Susan had even gone so far as to wear a very revealing shorty nightgown that she had sworn that she could never wear in front of anyone but Jim. Great minds obviously ran in the same channels, for Jean was similarly, if, oddly enough, somewhat more modesty attired. When Susan removed her robe, Jean gasped, "You're beautiful!" Those words could not have been better selected, and Susan beamed and, very daringly, pirouetted rapidly to show the entire gown. The skirt flared up in a circle, revealing minuscule panties that did more to focus attention than to conceal, causing Jean to gasp again. "I didn't think I would ever get hot looking at another woman, honey, but you are just too much! I'm surprised that Jim will let you spend a night away from him! You are lovely and sexy."
"Actually, Jim is so immersed in work right now that I could walk naked in front of him and he wouldn't notice me. He spends all week making up lectures for his new courses, grading exams and reading papers. Then he has to spend most of the weekend concentrating on researching and writing his dissertation. It's really too much for him, trying to do both at the same time. He's actually looking forward to the National Guard encampment in July to get away from academic work. In any case, he reserves Friday night, after movies, for us, leaving the other six days for work. Anyhow, I'm glad you like the way I look. It's funny, I look in the mirror and, to be honest, I like what I see and I think other people would also, but I just can't believe that someone would be turned on by me because I just don't think of me as sexy." '
"Well I'll tell you, honey, seeing you does tum me on, and if Don were here, he definitely would have a hardon!"
"A hardon? What on earth is that?"
"Oh, that's one of those dumb words men use to say that their cock is hard. Seeing you in the sheer nightgown with those transparent panties would make him hard as a rock!"
Susan blushed and stammered, "You...you mean that Don would be that excited from seeing me like this? That makes me feel sort of peculiar, flattered I guess. Would it make you feel funny if he did get hard if he saw me?"
"Jealous, you mean? Of course not! Frankly, any man who wouldn't react to you has something wrong with him, and I certainly wouldn't want a husband who wasn't attracted by a beautiful woman who was almost nude! I assure you that Don would not only get hard, he would want to do something about it!"
"You stop that now! You're going to get me hot! In any case, nobody has ever seen me like this but Jim and you, and I intend to keep it that way. Even the thought of people seeing me undressed embarrasses me, a holdover from my mother and family, I suppose. From the time I was a little girl, it was drummed into me that my body always should be concealed. I've always worn longer skirts than most women, fuller blouses to hide my breasts, thick bras so my nipples won't show through -- things like that. They always stressed keeping my knees locked together, feet on the floor and, heaven help me if a thigh or hose top showed. I know all this stuff is conditioning, but it worked! I'm just not comfortable unless everything is hidden, even if, on occasion, I'm tempted to wear something more daring or revealing."
"It's amazing how childhood training carries over and the inhibitions parents create are hard to break. Haven't you ever shown anything?"
"Only one time, to my knowledge, and it happened, completely by accident, with Jim. It was in that class where I first met him. My jacket fell on the back of my chair, and I had to reach around and down to get it. Evidently, as I strained to reach it, my legs spread wide enough for him to see right to my panties! He told me about it long afterwards when we were going together and I was horribly embarrassed about it even then. Look, I'm blushing even now! I just can't even think of exposing myself without being embarrassed! Incidentally," Susan giggled, "he had a tremendous erection after seeing me and had to hide it behind the lectern! I don't know what I would have done if I had known then that he had seen up me or the effect it had on him!"
"Susan, honey, are you telling me that in your entire adult life that is the only time anyone has seen up your skirt."
"Sure. Of course, I didn't know about Jim seeing until much later, so it's quite possible that something similar happened some other time, but, if so, I don't know about it. I'm very careful, because of my background and the fact that I would be positively humiliated if I knew that even my hose tops and supporters had been seen. Of course, pantyhose eliminates that problem even if I don't like to wear them."
"That is completely unbelievable. In the first place, everyone falls down, has the wind blow their skirt up, gets out of the car awkwardly -- or something!"
"Oh, Jean, I know that I'm more careful than most women because I have such a horror of being embarrassed, probably excessively so, I'll admit, but surely other women have the same fears and avoid those accidents!
"Susan, I can't believe that any woman who wears regular skirts hasn't been embarrassed by having her skirt up to her neck, figuratively speaking, at some time in her life. Also, I'm sure that almost all women, at one time or another, have "accidentally" spread their legs when a man is looking, exposing their panties or even their cunt!" Seeing a stunned look on Susan's face, Jean added, "I don't want to shock you, honey, but I think most women enjoy a little innocent exhibitionism: raising their leg higher than necessary when trying on shoes, fixing a supporter or straightening their hose, not closing the curtain on a dressing room completely. Oh, I don't know, there is any number of ways of 'innocently' exposing yourself with no embarrassment, and, it feels very sexy and no one is hurt. In fact, the man almost certainly will enjoy the view, and the woman gets a nice tingle in her cunt!"
"Oh, my heavens, Jean! I guess I am inhibited and naive. I just can't believe that you could get excitement out of letting someone see up your skirt. I would be so flustered and embarrassed that, rather than be excited, I'd probably faint! Have you actually done that?"
"It seems that all I do these days is shock and upset you. I'm worried that you will think less of me since I'm more of a libertine than you, but, then, I'm afraid most people are. I'm afraid that I've done a number of things that you wouldn't understand or approve of. Since you ask, yes, I have exposed myself many times, and it is fun. I am embarrassed as you would be when a real accident happens, but when I do it intentionally, it does excite me. Just last week, I had finished taking a shower when I heard the UPS truck coming down the drive. The driver always rings the bell and leaves the package on the front deck, so I put on a short robe, without bothering to tie the sash, and went down to bring it in. Holding my robe partly closed, I opened the door just as the driver, a nice looking young man, started to ring the bell for the second time. He was delivering my new monitor and a signature was required, so he handed me his clip board to sign. I knew that probably he had seen something as the door opened, and that aroused me a bit, so I decided to have some fun with it. Holding my robe with my left elbow, I took the board in my left hand and started to write with my right. As I signed, I deliberately relaxed my elbow pressure and my robe came open, exposing my right side from my breast all the way down. I pretended not to notice as I signed, and innocently pulled it back closed as I handed the board back. Then, I bent down to get the monitor inside and let the robe come completely open and, "embarrassed," I straightened up and closed it hurriedly, clutching it tightly at the neck, "unaware" that the robe flared open down below, giving him a full view of my cunt as he put the monitor inside. The whole thing lasted for only three or four minutes, but I surely was hot afterwards, and I'll bet he thought about it all day!"
Susan had an expression on her face like that of a woman seeing her first X-rated movie, shocked and repelled, yet fascinated and aroused. "I...I don't know what to say. Of course, I don't think anything bad about you, but I still can't believe that you could do that. Aside from any question of morality, I would have been absolutely petrified! Weren't you worried that he would try something? Did he actually think it was an accident? How did you have the nerve? Do other women do things like that'? Gods, all I have is questions, and the things I ask don't really matter. The truth is I seem to have a split personality in this. One side, the "moral" side, tells me that what you just described is terrible, even depraved, not something a "nice" person ever would do. The other side is fascinated and excited by your story and, I have to admit that while you were telling it, I was wishing I could have seen the whole thing! Oh, my mind is in a muddle! All I know for sure is that I couldn't do it! I...I don't want you ever to think that I'm criticizing your actions, sexual or otherwise, honey, so I have a confession to make, and I guess this is a good time for it.