The next day after lunch and having finished their morning chores the Laaning sisters by mutual agreement got together in Vivian's room in the barn. Sitting side by side on the bed they set out to discuss and reminisce their previous day's outing. The part of the conversation reviewing their mutual threesome sex with Matt English was readily most enjoyable. However the mood changed as Vivian related to her sister her subsequent encounter with Ray Gainer. After recounting that last meeting with her first time lover, Vivian wailed:
"He called me a filthy slut and a skank. Why does he have to call me names? Why does what I do in sex with others affect him? It's not like we are married or even in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship."
Erica replied:
"It's all about the male psyche. I think guys think either we girls are sluts and whores or are pure and chaste. They don't mind fucking the former but want to marry the latter. You told me that he indicated he had confessed to you of a fleeting notion of wanting to marry you. Considering that you've had no history with him before your birthday, that was an obvious rash and premature consideration on his part. Still, it seems like Ray had you pegged as of the pure and chaste kind, and to discover that you are not must have been devastating to him."
Ignoring and even undeterred by her sister's implied negative characterization of her morals, Vivian could not help asking:
"That baffles me. Guys do want to fuck don't they?"
"Of course. That's all they think about. Except perhaps sports."
"Then why would they want to marry the chaste and pure and treat with disdain the sluts and whores? Being chaste and pure suggests not much fucking."
"Well Vivian I can't claim to be an expert on the male mind; psychology isn't my thing. I might though hazard a guess: that once they marry a pure and chaste girl, they think they can convert her to be a slut and whore but only to him. Of course it does not dawn on them that once they have successfully turned a pure and chaste into a slut and whore that she might not want to stay strictly exclusive to him.
"By contrast I do think that we women are very straight forward. We are much easier to understand contrary to the male chauvinistic claims otherwise, and notwithstanding the Hawaiian bridge joke."
Vivian asked:
"What's the Hawaiian bridge joke?"
Erica answered:
"Well it goes like this. A young man in California was going through the house he had just inherited from his recently deceased grandmother. In the attic he discovered an old lamp and of course he rubbed it and out popped a genie.
"The genie exclaimed: 'Thank you master for freeing me from my thousand years captivity. As a reward I grant you one wish!'
"The young man replied: 'One wish? What happened to the traditional three wishes?'
"The genie replied: 'Don't be greedy. Times are tough and we genies have negotiated a more lenient payment schedule for winning our freedom.'
"So the young man demanded, 'Well OK. I've always wanted to go to Hawaii. But I'm afraid of flying in an airplane. And I get sea sick when on a ship on the high seas. So why don't you build a bridge from say San Diego to one of the Hawaiian islands so that I can then drive there.'
"The genie almost choked and rasped, 'Oh come on let's get serious. Never mind the laboriousness of completing such a horrendous task but do you realize how many permits I have to pull to even get government approvals? Not to mention the multiple environmental impact studies needed to be conducted in order to gain the permission for such a project? So let's get real and be sensible. Give me a more realistic wish.'
"So the young man amended his wish, 'OK then! You know I've always loved women and want to get along with them and get them to like me. But I haven't succeeded in understanding them and I just haven't scored. So my wish is that you divulge to me the secret in understanding the mind of a woman so I can get along with them successfully.'
"The genie stroked his beard as he contemplated the young man's wish. Finally he answered: "Do you require four lanes or will you be satisfied with just two lanes?'"
After Vivian finished laughing at the joke, Erica resumed the previous topic of conversation:
"Incidently that difference of mindset between the sexes is the reason why I think there are lesbians. They find sex easier because it is free of the inherent sometimes acute sexual tension involved in heterosexual sex. Of course since we all are unique individuals lesbian couples are not immune from the everyday problems and conflicts arising from a committed relationship."
Vivian replied:
"Well I guess that is true. Yesterday's sex between you and me certainly was exciting. However I can't see myself wanting sex to be exclusively with women. Besides I have a nagging guilt that we were committing incest."
Erica responded:
"You know sis that is a tricky conundrum. As you know the modern moral standard is that anything that is engaged sexually between consenting adults is permissible and even approved so long as no harm or injury results. That is why homosexual sex is no longer frowned upon despite historical and religious opposition.
"However there is a practical and rational condemnation of incest. Science and historical experience suggests that offspring of incestuous copulations tend to experience more frequently undesirous birth complications such as insanity and hemophilia. Mind you birth control obviously negates such risk but since incestuous activity usually occurs as a spur of the moment passion such safeguard does not always avail. Besides birth control measures even the Pill are not a 100% guarantee for avoidance of pregnancy.
"However lesbian incest such as sex between sisters or mothers and daughters obviously is free of such complications."
To all this Vivian could only respond: