Aaron and Rachel had just turned 18 when the elders of their religious community brought them together and asked if they wanted to be man and wife. They were both part of a very small religious community living in adjoining valleys where everybody made their living based on agriculture. They were part of that great westward move from Philadelphia and New York in the 1840s where everything was based on the Bible and the word of God.
The communities seemed to be based on praying and prohibitions; no nudity, no masturbation, no alcohol, no sex outside marriage, no sex before marriage, no dancing, no touching and so it went on. Once the couple agreed that they would be married, the community set about making them a small dwelling that they could move straight into after the wedding. The elders had adopted a policy of staying in the past except when it helped to make money for the community and then it was only limited to those who could benefit most. There were a few vehicles, the very small use of electricity, a few phones and that was it.
Sex was never mentioned and there was hardly any sex education for growing children. Real names for organs were never used, just blanket terms "down there" used instead. And so it was that on the morning of the wedding Rachel's mother gave her advice on what to do now that she was going to be married.
"Do you know where your love button is?"
"No. Not really."
"Have you ever accidentally touched that little place between your legs and it feels nice?"
"Yes, just a few times."
"Your husband should rub that and that will make things easier. Do you know he has got a hard thing between his legs and is going to push it into you and that will make babies? It might hurt a little bit the first time but after that it won't hurt anymore and you should like doing it. If it hurts a little bit just bear the pain and get it done and over with quickly. Better to feel a short pain than a long pain. He will know what to do."
That was more or less it. Aaron's father took him aside with a simple message. "You know how down there gets hard sometimes? Well, when you are in bed with your wife it will get hard again and you should try and find the place in her body to put it in and that's how you make babies. You will manage somehow. Good luck. Go forth and multiply."
There was no sense of anxiety or foreboding for both Rachel and Aaron. Marriage had been ordained as holy by God and everything would be taken care of. Nobody talked about sex and so there was never any discussion about the intricacies and pleasures of making love. It was something that you did because it was natural and God commanded you to do it.
There was a church wedding where all the relatives and congregation came to wish the new couple Godspeed and many children. When they were pronounced man and wife, Aaron and Rachel kissed for the first time and had to be separated. A great feast followed but no dancing and afterwards the whole congregation accompanied the couple to the new dwelling and clapped and as they were led in to the dark house without light. It was custom that there was no lighting allowed on the first night.
Aaron and Rachel entered the dwelling. They knew where the bedroom was and moved to it. It was already dark and they could hardly see each other. Rachel had enjoyed the kiss in the church and pulled Aaron towards her and gave him a long passionate kiss. It was then that she felt something sticking into her stomach. She knew that he was going to put it into her. They kept kissing and she said, "I think we should get undressed and go to bed."
Silently she removed her top and dress and pulled down her panties and stood naked in front of him. Aaron did the same but it was so dark they could not see each other at all. They could sense each other's breathing and drew their heads together so that they could kiss again.
The symbolic nature of what they had just done was not lost on either Rachel or Aaron. It brought to Rachel's mind the picture of Eve in the Garden of Eden covering the patch of hair in front of down there. Whatever it was that Eve was hiding, Rachel knew that she was hiding the same thing. Removing her panties in the light of day would have revealed everything to Aaron but in the darkness he could see nothing. But it wasn't only the view that it was protecting. Her panties were acting as a physical barrier to whatever it was that had to be hidden. By taking them down herself she was now volunteering to do what God had ordained that only married couples could do.
Aaron was also aware of what it meant - Rachel had lowered her moat and this would allow his troops to enter her castle. Just exactly how the troops would enter the moat he wasn't sure, but he knew that was the end game
"It's getting cool. I think we should get under the covers."
They lay under the covers and kissed and their bodies were pressed against each other. Rachel enjoyed his body touching her breasts and drew his hand up to touch one. Aaron's hand touched the soft hair on her pubic mound and riffled around enjoying the special feeling that only comes from pubic hair. He soon realised that there was a slit between her legs and his finger probed there. Aaron followed his natural instincts and began rubbing and squeezing the nipple which got harder and harder. Meanwhile Rachel's hand descended down to Aaron's penis and held it. Even in the dark she knew that he liked it just from his breathing. She remembered her mother's advice and drew his hand down to her love button.
Just as a male can see that his erect penis it designed like a spear for penetration, so it is not unusual to imagine that a woman has similar instinctive feelings about her body, even if she is unaware of the physical nature of her body which allows a penis to enter her. Rachel, who was totally ignorant about making love, nevertheless had natural instincts which propelled her to do things and position her body so that it could receive Aaron's penis. It mattered not that she did not know which end went in first or even that there was an end, instinct determined her reactions in the interests of making a baby.
"Mother said you should touch me there and I would enjoy it. It is nice. Just keep rubbing gently."
Rachel could feel that it was getting harder and harder and she was getting wetter in that place where babies came out.
Aaron said, "What do we do now?"
"I think you're supposed to put it in to my hole down there but you'll have to get a lot closer before you can do that. You have to get it to touch me first. I think you should get between my knees."
Aaron found his way between her knees in the dark while Rachel opened her legs to give him access to her love hole.
"I can feel you touching me. Just push a little so that I can feel you. It feels nice. Just push a little more. That feels good. I'm tight. Push a little more. That hurts a little bit. Push a little more. It doesn't hurt me anymore. Just keep pushing. It's very tight. Keep pushing. I can't believe you are all the way in but you are. I can feel your thighs hard up against mine."