Life was wonderful. I was successful, we lived in a fantastic house, my wife was still exceptionally beautiful and we had two healthy, intelligent, almost fully-grown children. Then the word caved in. At the age of forty, Beverly suffered a very early menopause and it happened with devastating speed. The good side was that she did not suffer any of the usual side effects so had no need of drugs but her sex drive disappeared completely. From a constant 100% throughout the marriage, it went down to zero virtually overnight. She did not deny me sex and we continued to screw almost as often as before but it was like making love to a lump of wood.
I could not believe that her desire had gone for ever and tried everything that I knew that might create the spark to set her alight again. Nothing worked. Then I started having my own problems. After trying for ages to warm her up I found that the lack of any response from her made it hard for me to cum. Some nights I had to go on humping for a very long time before I could conjure up some mental image that would allow me to bring matters to a successful conclusion.
Three years later, I was only a year away from hitting the half-century in age, the kids had left home, (daughter married, son to university) and my wife was still frigid. At this point, Beverly decided to put our lives on a different basis. One evening shortly before bedtime, she sat me down and said solemnly, "Pete, I will never deny you sex completely but I can't go on like we are because it's getting me down. I love you and even though I feel nothing, I do like making you happy in bed but you go on so long. When you seem to be panting on top of me for what seems like a year and a day, I get so that I want to scream. It's making things worse because every night as it gets near to time to go upstairs; I get so tense dreading what is to come. I'm going to have to ration you to one night a week. Perhaps if you have had to wait for seven days you might be able to get it over with a bit quicker. This needn't be a permanent arrangement; if it works then perhaps I might increase you to twice a week."
The only answer that I could see was to start having a bit on the side but to do this I faced big difficulties. I had been living a fixed routine for so long that should I suddenly start having absences from home my wife was bound to become suspicious. The fear was that should she find out that I had been doing anything like that Beverly would close her legs on me completely and I still held on to a deep seated hope that the good old days would magically reappear.
The answer came from an old pal when I met him again for the first time in over ten years. The Terry I knew was an incorrigible womaniser and virtually lived in the night-clubs and discos of the city. I remember once asking him if he ever planned to marry and settle down. "It wouldn't be fair," he told me honestly, "- every time that a woman looks at me in a certain way, I just have to try my luck and it wouldn't matter a damn whether I was married or not."
I bumped into him in a pub when he was on a flying visit from his current home in the south to visit a sick relative. When I asked if he still spent his evenings prowling the night scene he shook his head and said that damage to his knees in a car crash had forced him to give it up. "But I still manage to get my share of the other," he assured me with a grin. Terry went on to explain that he could no longer work and was in receipt of a disability allowance but that this left him short of cash for entertainment. I gathered that he could not run at all, only walk slowly and not very far. I sympathetically told him that sounded nasty but he happily assured me that his injuries had not stopped him doing what was important. "So how do you manage to find your lady friends now?" I asked and this prompted him to tell me the following:-.
'At this party I met a girl called Rachel and I was really smitten with her. Now women always either love me or hate me with no in between - but I can always tell very quickly. Having said that, I don't always score with the first lot and there have been occasions over the years when I have made it with birds that started off in the second category. Rachel was different - she seemed completely immune to me. I saw that as a challenge and became determined to make her react in one way or the other - so I made enquiries to find out where she lived, what she did for a living and how she spent her evenings. Nobody knew anything except for one girl who thought that Rachel did voluntary work for an organisation rescuing battered wives.
So next day found me at the charity office offering my services. To start with they were dubious saying that it was a mainly female organisation but then one of the interviewers got the idea that being single at my age meant that I had to be gay. Having gained that impression it semingly made me more acceptable, I did not disabuse her, so they took me on and I found myself in the happy hunting grounds. You see it was true - all the people working there except one were female and by definition, all the clients were too. A large proportion of my fellow helpers were feminists and a great many were lesbians as well but I am happy to report that most of the ones that would be classified as 'fem's' were more than happy to swing both ways. The main thing was that there was a very free and easy attitude to sex, particularly after some traumatic incident or a successful conclusion, when everybody's adrenaline was running high.
The premises consisted of a large office, a kitchen, a storeroom and a rescue bedroom containing a bed, armchair and shower. The office was manned twenty-four hours a day with the staff being a mixture of paid helpers (badly paid) and volunteers. There were lots of people in during the day working staggered shifts between 8a.m. and 8 p.m. but a single three person team provided the cover each day on the twelve hour night shift. The theory was that, with three on the shift, each could work 8 hours on, 4 hours off - with the third person always available if needed.
I dropped in a few times to help during the day but my main commitment was to be part of the night shift twice a week. For the first few months I did all right making dates with fellow helpers for other nights but there was no sex 'on the job' so to speak. This changed when I started working regularly with the same two women. In their twenties, they were university graduates and both had steady boy friends. Although we got on well, each in turn refused to meet me away from work. This situation lasted for a couple of weeks until, during a particularly slack night, one intimated that her refusal to date did not mean she was unwilling to enjoy a quick lie down with me on the rescue bed. During my next shift I shagged the other one and from then on, without any jealousy, every shift I fucked one or the other (sometimes both when they switched over at half time).