Sandy and I had spent a full hedonistic weekend in sexual excess. That may not seem strange to many of you who live liberated lifestyles or just dream of glutinous promiscuity. I was raised in a strict religious culture and was married and remained loyal to my marriage vows for more than twenty five years. It's true that I was married to two different women, two very sexually different women indeed and need. That's the reason I had sex with two women in my life, so having sex, over and over for even a weekend with a woman I wasn't married to any longer was as dramatic a departure for me as possible.
Those of you who read the first part of this story, "The Road Ahead", realize I had been tenderized through an immense curiosity about sex that thrived in the banquet of pornography freely available on the internet. Mentally I had become motivated by lust and susceptible to extramarital sex with the first available hot blooded female who was likeminded or at least receptive. Sandy was much more than that, she had been my first wife, and was the real architect of our divorce many years previous because she had opened the door to sexual addiction in her own life, and left me behind then, early in our marriage. I was locked in a warm comfortable prison of provinciality of my own making.
Now I was much older, and regretted the fact that in my own personality makeup, I had never allowed room for me to be a self centered "bad boy" who could take sexual pleasure any way he wanted, and without concern for consequence; I didn't have a clue as to how I could change. Even now in my life, I was too obsessed with the need to understand how and why people fell under the spell of sexual need, to learn how to simply take what I wanted. I was too interested in what other people wanted to just assume control over them, even though that's what I wanted to do.
When I was a young man I learned to have faith in myself and those around me by not questioning the if's in life and history, I accepted the if's in life, and worked to understand the why's and how's. This was most notable in Old Testament Bible class. While friends around me questioned IF the miraculous events described in the Old Testament actually happened, I assumed they did, and then worked to understand how and why they happened. I felt like I came out miles ahead in understanding and attitude, and I believed that the same thing might work in a strange way now.
As I read the sexy stories I've referred to, I stopped making judgments about people's honesty or character, I assumed what they said was true and honest to themselves (even if it happened to be just fantasy) and then I tried to understand how they could say the things they said and feel the things they claimed they felt, and at the same time do the things they did. I started to read the public comments about stories whenever I could, and tried to interview or talk to authors or characters whenever possible to expand my understanding; I knew just where to begin.
THE INTERVIEWS
#1 - Sandy
It was natural that the first subject of my curiosity would be Sandy, my ex-wife and first extramarital sex partner, be my first target or subject. It was a good step I thought, because I had enough personal knowledge of her early sexual awakening to gauge how honest and open she was. Sandy was a little suspicious of me at first, I think there was still something in the back of her mind that made her apprehensive, maybe she was still afraid that the hurt and pain she thought she laid on me still simmered way down deep inside, and that revisiting details would open wounds in me that she hoped would stay closed and healed, and not come between us again.
Reluctantly she started to relate the old stories and watched closely for signs in my reaction. I was first curious about the stat of mind that led her to consider violating the vows we made to each other the first time.
"I didn't think I considered the possibility of my unfaithfulness at the beginning." She said. "I simply allowed myself to feel unsatisfied with the way things were going in our life...in my life really. I guess to be honest; I was starting to become selfish." She admitted. "The more I thought about my life, the more selfish I became and the more unsatisfied I was with our life."
I asked her what role sex itself played in her surrender to selfishness.
"In some ways, I think my views about love, romance and sex are different from most women. I reasoned, in my own mind." She said. "That real sexual pleasure and love or romance were somehow incompatible. To me, sex could only be at its best and fullest, if it had nothing to do with love, if it was only committed under the power of lust and self need. In that frame of mind, I believed I would never experience full sexual fulfillment unless it was in some illicit adulterous form. Even then, I was convinced that I would remain loyal and true to you, I was resigned to giving up sexual fulfillment forever as a reasonable sacrifice for a successful marriage. As I look back now, I think I felt like some kind of a martyr, and somehow pure and saintly because of it.
"If that's true then, how did you let yourself go with Darren?" I asked. When I mentioned his name with such recollection and familiarity it seemed to shock her and bring us closer to the intimacy in her seduction.
"I realize now, more than I would have admitted then, that I was really attracted to Darren in a purely sexual way." Sandy said. "I should have been much more afraid than I was, but in reality, I think I sensed what was happening, and wanted to be led into wickedness. I was terrified of complete sexual fulfillment and thought if I experienced it even once, I would be lost to the need of it forever, but way down deep inside, I really wanted to be lost."
"I had teased and flirted shamelessly with him for days and I knew I was playing with fire. When I stood close to him I wanted him to get fresh with me. When he put his hand on my leg I almost screamed yes, that I wanted him to touch me, any way he wanted."