If she wanted sex with other guys, she didn't mention it before we were married and off on a vacation with another couple who had, rumor has it, been physical with some other couples in the past. We were out dancing with Gail and Trevor when she got this funny look on her face and asked me if I cared if she danced with Gail's husband. He had been looking up and down my wife's body all night and I knew he had more than dancing on his mind. They danced and he could not have gotten closer if he had been tattooed on her chest.
"Did he have an erection out there," I asked her when she got back to the table. She gave me a dirty look, but dirty looks don't get anyone pregnant or hospitalized, so I dismissed it. "He was trying to fuck you standing up," I said. She scoffed and gave me another in the dirty looks department.
"Gail says sex outside of marriage can be liberating," she said.
"Especially if it's on the dance floor," I said sarcastically. I guess sarcasm is not the best strategy when your wife is being wooed by the other woman's husband. I liked Gail and Trevor, but he was more than a little obvious in the seducing the other fellow's wife department.
When we got home, undressed and in bed, Claire asked me if I could ever consider sex with someone other than her. "Sure," I said, "if you left me for some other dude."
"I mean it," she said. "Could you ever consider mate-swapping with another couple?" I asked who she had in mind. "Well, Trevor and Gail," she said, "for starters."
I told her that it had risks, that I would be worried about the dangers. "Gail says if it is just sex," Claire said, "Then risks are slight."
"That is just it. How do you know if it's just sex, until it is too late. You find out it is not just sex after you have it."
"You make that pledge, that vow that you won't let it get beyond the 'just sex' stage. You commit to each other."
"Sounds like you are wanting to," I said. "Are you hot for Trevor?"
She blushed, but said she liked him, yes. "I am attracted to him," she said with a grin. "I think we could do it and be fine."
"You won't be running off with him, right?" I said. "It would be just sex?"
She nodded, then smiled. "It would be just sex, yes. I know it would. Gail says they already have had sex with three couples, and nobody ran off with anyone."
"You are a advocate," I said. "You sound like an apostle," I said. "You are convinced? If you really want, I will do whatever you want, whatever. You would be okay with me fucking Gail?"
"Gail says... " then she paused, hearing herself repeatedly quoting Gail. "I think sex is something we could enjoy with others and still be a happily married couple. I will if you will," she said.
"Okay, what are the rules?" I asked.
"We should have a safe word. A word we both agree means 'let's stop.' If either of us says it, then we agree to stop. No questions."
"What if one person doesn't want to stop?" I asked. "What then?"
"Both people would have to agree to honor that rule," she said.
"Would oral be okay?" I asked.
"That would be up to each person," she said.