Home alone with the wife conveniently out of town for the next four days, Mark wanted badly - badly - to act on his urges to be intimate with a man, to hug, kiss, touch, rub, stroke, suck, the whole progression of lovemaking. He was starting from scratch, as his gay friends also were his wife's friends and he didn't want to take a chance that a careless word might slip.
(He found it humorous that his wife had an affinity for gay men and claimed she had highly developed gaydar, when her partner secretly longed to have gay sex and for years had been feeling the cravings he was feeling tonight.)
Mark wanted the hookup on his own terms. That meant at home, his or the other man's, in bed, not a car in a poorly lit section of some park or a rest stop on the interstate. So he did what he believed to be the only thing he could do: troll Craigslist for a man looking for the same thing he wanted.
It was midafternoon, after he'd dropped his wife at the airport, and he sent messages to a half-dozen men who he thought he could turn on. To try to seal the deal he attached a photo to each message: one showing him lying on his back, grasping his erect dick, another showing his whole fat body in the woods in a park an hour from his house that he'd taken in the summer. In fact he had been sending that and other pictures from that memorable afternoon in the park to many emails before now. There were some response but no meetings, and that's how it was going tonight.
Okay, screw it, Mark thought to himself as he checked his inbox for the tenth time and saw nothing for a tenth time. I have to do something about this horniness enhanced by several ounces of vodka. I'll dress up.
He went upstairs to his bedroom closet and removed his sweaters from a shelf to reveal his treasures in a shopping bag. Emptying the bag on his bed, Mark admired his women's underwear:
- the first thing he bought, a Playtex 18-hour longline bra with a dozen snaps that he'd gotten at a thrift store. (He had lied to the clerk that he was in a play and had to dress as a woman.)