Mark tried to explain it to his friend, and he realized it was futile, because his buddy was not able to get it. "You mean," and he squinted, "you mean she wants to, she really wants have sex with somebody else, and she really doesn't care who it is?"
"That's about it," Mark said with a shrug. "She thinks it will help her find who she is," he said.
"She is your wife, that's who she is," he said. "Mrs. Marcus Grant. She's Mrs. Grant. That's who she is. Simple as that," he said.
"Women need, at least some of them do, to find out who they are down deep, inside, what kind of person they really are," he said to his friend. "She wants to find out who she actually is and what she believes, what she wants in life, and what she personally likes doing. You see she has always done what other people wanted her to do," he said. "Always."
"So why doesn't she know what she likes to do?" the friend said, not understanding what his pal was trying to say, not being able to think deeply enough about people's search for themselves to understand what it meant to them personally.
"Don't worry about it," Mark said, realizing he was in a losing battle. "It is just between the two of us, so nobody else has to understand it." The damage had been done. His friend was fixated on the idea that Marks wife was "crazy" and nothing he could say would console him or convince him she was not certifiable.
Mark's wife, Claire, had decided she needed to experience things: to travel, to read, do things she'd never done, and one of those things was to experience sex that she never had, to be with other people, other men who could give her unique experiences she hadn't seen before. Claire, on the other hand had grown up in a small town, had been with only him, and had not been out of the county. She was inexperienced and naive, and knew how unsophisticated she was. She barely knew the names to her body parts, and she was nearly twenty when she found out for sure where babies came from.
She went online and found a facility that sounded promising. They vowed to design a program just for her, and assigned personal staff just for her. When she arrived they had her ten pieces of luggage taken to her room, then had her come down to an orientation meeting in the office.
"Here you will be assigned activities everyday for two weeks and you will leave here a new person," the director told her. "You will be given reading assignment you'll be expected to complete everyday. The activities are mandatory, but your social activities are totally up to you. If you are asked to have sex with someone you are not interested in, then we advise you to politely decline," the director said. "There will be no Mercy Fucks here," he said.
She was given a program of activities and asked to read over it in her room. Later, she read through the assigned activities and saw she was selected for some sexual exercises with a team of specialists and it said they were mandatory. If she failed to comply then her contract with them would be voided and she would be asked to leave.
The first was a body defining naked massage in front of the other participants. She had no intention of spending this much money without committing to the program, even as difficult as it seemed. The second was a genital exploration she also had conducted before an audience.
Then something stood out to her. On her second day she was scheduled for a 'sexual experience' with another participant and a body washing, again in front of an audience. There were things like: naked run, calisthenics, watching couples copulating, visual assessment, and individual sexual intercourse training.
She was a little intimidated by the assignments, but she was also eager to get started. She woke up the next morning raring to go and went down to breakfast at eight. There were about ten other "guests" at breakfast in her groups, although there other groups in different parts of the facility, and she noted an exact split in genders, one male for each female. She assessed the men and found them all attractive and about her age. She figured that was by design and was eager to get started. She had an omelet, some bacon, and orange juice and toast, then went into the lecture hall where her classes would be held. She was put into a group with six men and six women, including her. When her first session started they watched a film on the body, where a naked model was marked with marker, identifying each part of the body by name. The film narrator detailed each body part with graphic illustrated sections telling about each portion of the body.
When the session began the instructor put them in pairs and had them do 'feeling exercises' where they massaged and identified the body part of their partner, allowing the partner to feel and explore them freely. Much time was spent on the genitals and they were in outraged to feel, massage, and taste the genitals of each partner.
It took a long time because as each pair explored one another, the others were instructed to watch. It was actually very exciting for Claire to have her partner explore and inspect her vagina in a way no one had ever done to her. When it was her turn she held, fondled, and caressed his penis with dedicated resolve, enjoying the feel and the taste, which surprised her that she liked it.
It also aroused her incredibly when her partner, Jason, inspected, explored deeply, and tasted her vagina. Pussy they called it. She had never heard it referred to as a pussy, but she liked the term and became comfortable with the name quickly.
She realized she had never been naked before in front of one person at a time, but when she thought about it she recognized the fact that she had never been naked in front of anyone besides her husband before. In fact she had never been nude around her brothers or sisters, not even her mother and father except when she was a baby. She didn't know if she liked sex because she had only had it with one person and that didn't seem all that earth shaking.
The second morning after breakfast she was excited about the sexual experience session and hoped she had the same partner as she'd had the first day. Before the session began they had a 'naked' run and she found it exhilarating to run naked with others. She enjoyed the feeling of freedom it gave her and being with other naked people made her feel truly a part of their group.
When her session began she was pleased she again had Jason as a partner. They were told to at first just touch each other's body and 'get to know' it. She liked getting to "know" Jason's body, after all she had liked the taste and feel of it the day before. They were told to explore genital, oral, and visual sex with their partner. Taking time to admire his or her body, to penetrate the vagina of the woman, and for the women to masturbate and pleasure their partner creatively.