It had been several months since I realized what a turn on it was to have men looking at my body and thinking they were getting away with something. I was still working at the library during the day time and I had managed to give a few guys a pretty good look down my shirt while helping them there. I had spent a week or so wearing no bra at all, but that hadn't worked as well as my old lace one, because it was just too hard to hide the fact that my breasts were free underneath my shirt when I had my sweater off.
I had nearly been caught one day by one of the other staff when I had walked around the corner of the book stacks in just my shirt so that I could come back directly toward three college-aged guys sitting at a table by the back windows. I had practiced walking at home so that my breasts bounced just enough to be noticed, and I knew that if one of them looked up at the right time, I'd have them hooked. While I was hidden by the books, I gave my nipples a hard twist through my shirt to make sure they were really hard, and I walked back around the corner with boobs swinging - right into Richard, the other research assistant. Thankfully I was carrying a book, and I hugged it to my chest and managed to cover myself with the combination of the book and my crossed arms. I stammered something about being in a hurry, and kept right on going, picking up my sweater on the way past. I didn't want him saying something about the way I dressed to the other staff, or I was afraid I'd lose my job. Even though I'm obviously not a prude, some of them definitely were!
It was about a month after this that I had one of my best experiences as an exhibitionist. It was summer, and the kids were at my parents' place for a couple of weeks. My friend Beth had a cabin upstate that she owned together with her brother and sister, and she had invited me to come and stay with her for a week to just kick back and enjoy the sun. Beth explained that some of her extended family were at the cabin, and that she wanted someone else there to give her a break from them; I thought she was feeling sorry for me because of my recent divorce, but the cabin sounded cool so I didn't really care why she had asked me.
I hadn't had time to go swimming for years, and I couldn't even find a bathing suit in my drawer, so I had bought four that looked like they might fit from a store in a mall. The day before we were leaving, Beth was over helping me pick clothes to take, and I showed her all of the suits, explaining that I would pick one or two that I liked and return the rest. She offered to be my fashion assistant, and I said that would be great. We had been in my bedroom and she made no move to leave so I could change, so I began gathering up the suits to take them into the bathroom. I was halfway across the room with them when I changed my mind and started hanging them on the hooks on the back of my door. I hadn't been naked in front of a woman other than my doctor since I was a kid and I thought it might be interesting to see what it felt like.
I told Beth that she could pick the first suit. She grabbed a light green two piece with bikini bottoms and a tank top with straps, and sat back down on my bed. My room isn't really big, and she was right in the middle of it, so I was only about five feet away from her as I began to undress. I was wearing shorts and an old t shirt, and I pulled off my shorts and my underwear at the same time. I tossed them on the bed, and pulled the shirt over my head, aware that Beth was holding up the bottom of the suit and looking back and forth from it to me. I faced her as I reached behind me to undo my bra, and asked her what she was thinking as I shrugged my shoulders and breasts out of it. As my nipples moved from the warmth of the bra to the cool air of my room, I felt them harden as goosebumps covered my breasts. It was a relief to be out of the bra, and I scratched the underside of my breasts absently as she replied.
Beth grinned. "You'll need to do some shaving if you're going to wear that one." I cupped my breasts in my hands, looked down past them at the hair between my legs and realized that all of the suits I had bought had pretty skimpy bottoms, and that I would need to do some trimming before I wore them without a pair of shorts over top. I wasn't really hairy, and my pubic hair was only a bit darker than my blond hair, but even so, it would show past the edge of the green suit. I told her to imagine me shaved as she judged the suits, grabbed the bottoms from her hand and put them on. As I bent over to put my feet through the holes, my breasts dangled and shook, and I was aware of Beth's gaze as I straightened up. It was different somehow than with a guy getting a look, but I couldn't tell if it was because Beth was a friend or a woman, or because I was openly allowing her to see my body instead of making her think she was seeing something she wasn't supposed to. Whatever the reason, I didn't feel either turned on or nervous - just on display.
I could tell right away that the bottoms weren't going to fit right, because they were too low on the sides and too big overall. I am 5'7", so my legs are fairly long, and I need a suit that shows off my thighs, which are in good shape. I have a bit of extra flesh on my buttocks, although not enough to really worry about, and my calves are a bit too heavy to be perfect, so my thought has always been to draw attention to my thighs and upper body. I looked in the mirror, and then turned and inspected my bum. I leaned over and put my hands on the bed, and then turned my head around and looked in the mirror again. Sure enough, when I bent over, I could see a tuft of hair on both sides right where the bottoms covered my vagina. I looked at Beth, who shook her head, but she handed me the top anyway. She said we might as well see what the top looked like, even if the bottoms weren't quite right.
I took the top from her, and we talked about the perfect suits for our bodies while I figured out how the straps had to go. The top was just a tube with a shelf bra at the top, and braided straps that went over the shoulders. I finally got the straps where they needed to be, and put the whole thing over my head. It was supposed to fit tight, and it did! I had to pull the whole thing down to my waist so that my arms were free enough to get through the straps, and my breasts bounced around like crazy as the suit came down past them. I stuck my arms through the holes, and then pulled the top back up where it belonged. I had to bend over again and hold the top of it away from my chest so that my breasts fell properly into the cups, and once that was done, I looked again at Beth. I turned and she inspected the suit. "Well, I like the top more than the bottoms" she said. I asked her what she meant, and she said that the bottoms were the wrong cut, which I already knew. Then she asked me to face her again and she looked right at my chest. "How thick is the bra on that thing?" she asked. "I can see as much of your nipples now as I could before you put it on! Is it going to be see-through when it gets wet?" I looked down again and saw that my nipples were sticking way out, and I pulled the neck away from my chest to look at the bra. It definitely wasn't as thick as the padded ones I wore most days, but I thought it was thick enough that the color of my nipples wouldn't show through, even though the shape of them did. I pulled the top down off of one breast and turned it inside out for Beth to see.
"I don't think it will be see-through." I said, pushing my thumb into the fabric. "Maybe it is too thin, though." I used the thumb and middle finger of my other hand to stretch my nipple from top to bottom, hoping it would soften enough to see what the suit would look like when my nipples weren't fully erect, but the rough handling only made it harder. Now the areola was completely puckered as well, and not much bigger than the nipple itself. I shook my head and pulled the suit up again for a final look in the mirror.
"I didn't realize your nipples were that big." said Beth. "I think this one has a bit more padding - why don't you try it?" She held up a sky blue two piece with a bra top, which I had liked better anyway. I started taking off the green suit, bottoms first, and then she surprised me. "Maybe I should try on that one." she said. "I think the bottoms will fit me better, and I won't have the same trouble with the top." I was a bit surprised, because I knew you weren't supposed to try swimwear on next to your skin as I had, and I thought it was a bit odd that she would put it on so soon after I had been wearing it, but we had been close friends for years, so I guess she didn't worry about things like that.
"Sure" I said, handing her the bottoms. I stripped the top off and tossed it on the bed, and put the blue bottoms on as she began to undress. It didn't take her long and I was still trying to lengthen the straps on the new top when she started putting on the green suit.