Author's note: This is the second installment of Elizabeth Boyer's sexual memoir. The actual document is lovingly bound in a royal purple folio with a gold border. Each page is heavy linen stock and is written in Liz's small delicate hand. Pictures, when they've been included, have paper frames and are covered by acetate film. It's obvious that she has taken great pains to produce something that she considers larger than herself. I'm sure many would describe it as the work of a consummate narcissist. A charge that I think Liz herself might well agree with. I'm deeply moved by her willingness to share this with me, and my only regret is that I am unable to share the pictures which reveal a seriously beautiful woman.
My Life
It seems a bit silly to include a biography in my memoir, after all this is intended to be my secret and just for me. However, as much as I may wish to just go on to other, and more interesting, things I have a nagging feeling that this part is necessary. So I will do my best to keep it brief.
I was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1933. My father was a prominent businessman in the city and my mother was from one of the old line Savannah families that traced their roots back before the Revolutionary War. I had two older brothers and I was raised to be a southern lady. I attended St. Anselmo Prep and was a good, but not great student. I dated a few times before my debutante ball, but nothing serious.
I had never really thought about what I wanted to do when I grew up because my path seemed obvious. Like all of the girls in my circle, we were being raised with the idea that we would marry a man from our social class. He would earn a living and my role would be to bear his children and ensure his happiness. There was never any allowance that I might desire to walk a different path. Looking back on my adolescent years, I'm embarrassed by how shallow and self-indulgent I was.
As I blossomed into adulthood and stopped growing, I topped out at five-five and one hundred and twenty pounds. I had my mother's light brown hair and my father's green eyes. My pale skin was flawless and my breasts required a C-cup. I felt quite at home in the body that God had given me, and I rejoiced in my femininity.
After high school, I was admitted to the College of Charleston. I chose general studies because I didn't see my attendance as critical to selecting a career as it was to selecting a husband. But it was there that life threw me a curveball.
During a routine gyno exam, it was discovered that I displayed symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS. It was treatable but not curable. The bottom line was that I was infertile. I would never bear children. I cried for days and when I told my parents, I thought my mother was going to die. I withdrew from college and for the next two years, I worked for my father in the family business where I learned that I have a rare skill. It seems that I have a talent for explaining complicated things in simple and understandable ways.
In the mid-1950s, computers were just beginning to come on the scene as something that businesses could actually use and I got in on the ground floor. Over the next twenty years, I worked for eight different companies and my job was to explain their products to their customers. Today those people are called Tech Reps, but I did so much more. I was introducing a whole new concept to the business world and I got paid well for my efforts.
I traveled a lot in those years and I used the opportunity to indulge my exhibitionist fetish. I'll be describing some of my more memorable experiences later in this memoir, as well as some of the sexual partners I found along the way.
I was almost forty when I met Ben Boyer. Ben was one of the five commissioners in the Federal Trade Commission and I met him when they were investigating the computer industry for antitrust allegations. He was from Georgia like me and was married with three kids. We had a hot and heavy affair for two years before his wife found out. After their divorce, he asked me to marry him and like a fool, I did. I moved to Washington and quit my job.
It was Ben who introduced me to the Freyja Club and that ended up being a turning point in my life. Never had I felt so complete. I was finally able to fully explore all of the elements of my sexuality safely and securely and my happiness blossomed. For a while, Ben and I were regulars at the club until one day Ben told me that he was leaving me for his secretary. The divorce was messy. I hired the best lawyer in town and by the time we settled, I had the house in Washington and seventy percent of our investments. I had more money than I could ever possibly spend in this lifetime. Ben moved to California and I understand has squandered his money and become an alcoholic. I like to think I had something to do with that. I don't think very much about Ben anymore, but when I do the words that most come to mind are... "Good riddance."
Since Ben left, I've become involved in a number of social and philanthropic associations and my network of friends has expanded. One of my more enjoyable endeavors is finding young men for the position of steward in the Freyja Club. I will be discussing this new and interesting activity in much more detail later in this memoir, but now, at the age of fifty-four, I am as happy as I've ever been. Sometimes I do look longingly back at the roads not taken and I do wish I could have experienced motherhood, but all-in-all, I am content.
My Mirrors and a Camera
Are all exhibitionists narcissists? I think so and I know that I am. I am fascinated with the image of myself that I could see every day in the mirror.