Deanna emerged from the shower to find her husband finally awakening from his deep slumber. Although she craved yet another round, she didn't begrudge him his rest. She glanced at the clock with hopeful curiosity. Unfortunately; the clock confirmed that they didn't have enough time before they had to be at Doctor Binder's, even for a quickie. She sighed with frustration. She was becoming a nymphomaniac.
As David stumbled into the shower, Deanna slipped into a fresh camisole then walked to the kitchen to put some bread in the toaster. As many others had done, they had built a chicken coop in their back yard. Unfortunately; chicken feed had become almost impossible to find. She had given up on raising her own eggs when human rather than animal marauders had slaughtered her flock. It had been months since she'd even seen a fresh egg. As the bread was toasting, she went to the laundry room in search of a clean panty and scrubs.
Deanna was blinded from pulling a top over her head when she felt David's hands caressing her naked butt and pubic mound. The demonstration of his desire was reassuring as well as arousing. She held onto the dryer to brace herself as his fingers worked their magic. Minutes later, she was sitting on the dryer savoring the sensations as her husband's lips and tongue ministered to her. Unfortunately; as her orgasm subsided she realized that his penis was only partially erect. While she was getting to an age when nymphomania seemed to be overwhelming her, he was getting to an age when he wasn't as virile as he once was.
With their abortive lovemaking over, Deanna slipped on her panty and scrub bottoms. She then went to the kitchen to finish their meager breakfast. Fortunately; peanut butter was not as scarce as butter.
They drove to their church in silence. They passed a semi truck arriving at the grocery store escorted by two car loads of security as well as a guard riding shotgun with the driver in the uparmored cab. The guards kept watch as the driver backed the trailer into the walled sally port that had been built around the loading dock. Like most trailers these days, the trailer had remotely operated landing gear jacks and latch for the fifth wheel. The glad hands and umbilicals disconnected as the truck pulled away then the guards kept potential looters at bay as the armored gates swung closed. It was almost like a scene from The Road Warrior. Deanna was grateful that her husband was home to go shopping while she was at work. The shelves would be bare again before her shift was over.
Doctor Binder's office was tucked away in the church basement. The doctor was well dressed in spite of the informal venue. The psychologist was about a dozen years older than Deanna. Although it was indisputable that her youth was behind her, she remained an attractive woman. She continued her practice as a sex surrogate as well as a therapist and counselor.
Doctor Binder didn't waste time with frivolities. "Deanna, your husband informs me that you have been unfaithful to him. Your infidelities have been ongoing for a few months. He also tells me that you don't deny your adultery. Is this correct?"
"Yes. It's true," Deanna confirmed. "I have been cheating on my husband for a... few months," she replied with less than perfect candor.
"Thank you for your candor Deanna. Counseling couples is so much easier when people are honest with me," Doctor Binder responded. "As for candor, David has not been honest enough to admit that he has sought counseling mostly because he has been so confused by and ashamed of his reactions to the realization that his wife has been having sex with other men. He is amazed that he hasn't divorced you or even became violent. He is unwilling to confess that your infidelities provoke his arousal as well as his jealousy and anger."
David became red faced with embarrassment and anger. He angrily asserted, "her cheating doesn't turn me on!"
"Really," Doctor Binder replied. "How many times have you had sex with Deanna since you confronted her about her infidelities and she confessed? How many times did you have sex with your wife after you realized that she was cheating on you but before you confronted her? How many times did you have sex with your wife during the time that you suspected that she was an adulteress but had not yet confirmed it? Would you expect Deanna and I to believe that you'd be so eager to have sex with your adulterous wife if her infidelities didn't arouse you?"
David's silence was eloquent. However; after prodding from Doctor Binder he reluctantly confessed, "yes. I guess for some perverse reason, her cheating does turn me on."
"I'm glad we have that settled. Now we need to help you to understand that your reaction is far from an aberration," Doctor Binder explained. "Have you ever been into pornography?"
David shifted uncomfortably in his chair and stammered before confessing, "yes. I discovered my Uncle's collection of vintage Penthouse magazines back when I was an adolescent."
"Did you ever buy Penthouse or similar magazines as you got older?"
"Yes," David confessed nervously.
"Which magazines?"
"Sometimes Playboy but usually Penthouse or Penthouse Letters," David nervously confessed.
"Obviously; you didn't just look at the pictures," Doctor Binder observed.
"No. I didn't just look at the photos. I liked to read the erotic stories and letters," David acknowledged.
"Thank you for being so candid. Your honesty makes this so much easier," Doctor Binder encouraged David. "Did you notice that by far the most frequent topic of these erotic letters was female infidelity? Did you notice that Penthouse Letters even publishes an annual special on the topic? Have you noticed the many porn sites such as Literotica.com have sections that focus on wives who are not monogamous?"
"Yes," David acknowledged. "Did reading these letters somehow condition me to be turned on by Deanna's adultery?"
"Reading those letters probably reinforced the idea in your mind, but they were merely an expression of almost every man's primal phobia," Doctor Binder explained.
"If those letters are expression of my primal phobia, why did I find them so erotic? They should have terrified or enraged me," David replied.
"Reading those letters did terrify you and enrage you. However; your mind sublimated your fear and anger into arousal. It is really quite easy to understand once you look at it from a Darwinian perspective," Doctor Binder insisted.
"It is sort of odd hearing a Christian counselor analyze Infidelity from a Darwinian perspective," Deanna observed sarcastically.
"Darwin was a devout Christian. Darwin never suggested that the processes of natural selection and evolution disproved the existence of God. Evolution is merely one of the tools that God employs to fine tune his creation. Darwin was merely peeking behind the curtain to see how God the magician performed the magic trick," Doctor Binder asserted. "The only people who don't understand this are the young Earth creationists and the even more irrational secular humanists."
Doctor Binder leaned back as she began to lecture. "Consider some of our closest cousins, the Gorillas and the Chimpanzees. The sexual behavior of Guerillas is the easiest to understand from our Judeo Christian, moralistic perspective. An Alpha male, Silverback guerilla is very much like the dominant bull of a herd of cows. He massively outweighs the cows, so they never challenge him or defy him. The lessor males are either young enough and small enough to be subjugated, or they have been driven away. A male guerilla does not have to confront the issue of female infidelity because it doesn't happen. A male guerilla is a king with a harem."
Doctor Binder continued her lecture, "now consider the behavior of Chimpanzees. Their social and sexual behavior is far more complex than that of the Guerilla. Male Chimpanzees outweigh the females, but not as extremely. The females have more autonomy to choose their sexual partners. As a result, most female chimpanzees are extremely promiscuous as are the more dominant males. This promiscuity actually tends to reduce the level of violence within groups of chimps. They usually fornicate rather than fight. However; their violent death rate is still extremely high. Sometimes, the violence is so pervasive that it threatens the survival of the species."
Doctor Binder continued, "humans fall somewhere in between guerillas and chimpanzees both physiologically and behaviorally. Human males typically outweigh the females, but not by an extreme margin. One of the most common family structures for humans is extreme polygamy combined with violence to cull out or drive away surplus males. I offer King David and King Solomon as examples. Both of the kings of Israel had enormous harems. Both kings presided over genocidal wars against the Philistines and other gentile tribes which resulted in an extremely high mortality rate for Jewish males. The royal harems were as much a social safety net to ensure that the widows and children of fallen soldiers were well cared for as a royal prerogative. King David's murder of Uriah to be with Beersheba is a the most famous aberration. Of course Genghis Kahn is an even more extreme example. Almost every male in China has inherited their X-chromosome from Genghis and his close kin because Genghis and his hoard systematically exterminated or castrated the conquered males then impregnated their women."
