The beach is somewhere between Newcastle and Berwick. It's not a secret; just a place whose name you wouldn't recognise, where the sand occasionally has a blackish hue from tiny grains of coal washed ashore, and where the skyline to the south is broken only by a small wind farm, a mile out to sea.
It's a long beach; you get lots of day visitors at the southern end during summer weekends, but less during the week. I'm not lying at the southern end; I'm further north, in a hollow curve of the dunes, with a small sun tent erected to shield me from the view of anyone coming straight over the top of the dunes.
It's not that I don't want to be seen. Not at all. John has taken thirty pictures of me already, and is changing the memory card in his camera while I read my book. It's just that if you want to see me you have to play by our rules. John will publish a few of these pictures on bulletin boards, inviting people to email him for more pictures. He encourages them to tell me, in the emails, what it feels like to look at me, naked. The more explicit their emails, the more pics he sends them by return.
So it is with real life voyeurs on the beach. He wants me to see them, to know that they're there. He knows they arouse me. I can't help this streak of exhibitionism. It's just one of the isms I've discovered about myself since John came into my life. I don't want to write my biography. Not yet, anyway. That's not what this story is for, but I do want to tell you about my life. Exhibitionism in words maybe.
I'd never sunbathed naked before John. I still wouldn't, without his presence or knowledge. I'd have continued to buy old fashioned bikinis at shops my mother would approve of. I still do buy bikinis, but Wicked Weasel isn't a brand my mother's acquainted with.
I wear them to the beach, or in the car, or walking through the dunes as I did today, teamed with a sarong to keep the peace. I wear them at homes sometimes, if the girls are at their father's and John is visiting. Once, at a barbeque John hosted at his house near Edinburgh, I wore the smallest bikini and a denim skirt with high heeled mules, or come fuck me shoes as John calls them. I may tell you what happened there later.
Anyway, back to the story.
I'm lying on the beach, one leg bent, the other straight out in front of me. I'm looking over my book at a man who's trying to be surreptitious, about thirty feet away. He doesn't want to be caught looking, but he can't keep his eyes away from me. I'm delighted. I don't need any more suntan oil, but I start to make a pretence of rubbing some more in. I love the way I look since John took me on. Still slim, suntanned, cared for; nails polished, feet pedicured regularly – I'm a different woman to the one who got divorced years ago.
Different in another physical way; I wear more jewellery on the beach, naked, than I ever wore during my marriage. One gold ring, in each nipple. One gold and diamond stud, in each ear. A gold and emerald belly bar, piercing the top edge of my navel. A gold barbell piercing each labia, quite low down so that I feel them if I squat or walk vigorously. A gold ring through the hood of my clit, hanging down. John loves to suck my clit through the ring - the result is an exquisite sensitivity that brings on the most painful and blissful orgasms.
And that's just the jewellery I wear all the time. This is one of my naked days so I'm wearing silver torque bracelets around my ankles; they bend into shape and have tiny hooks to keep them closed. On the second toe of each foot is a silver ring. I miss my collar or the solid necklaces I wear when it's not a beach day; the ankle bracelets have a way of reminding me that I'm different.
So that's the woman the man on the dunes is looking at. Different. Different in the way I look, and different in the way I behave. I turn to look at men on the beach, try to see if I can make them hard. I part my legs in clear gestures; women who like to be fucked do this, my body says. Sunbathers don't do this. Today's watcher is a typical voyeur; he doesn't want to come forward, has no desire to fuck me, just wants to watch and wank. I don't want to settle for that just yet. So I turn my back on him, and pick up my book.
It only takes about ten minutes for him to move round to a position further down the beach where he can see a little of me again, but until he comes closer or shows he's interested I'm not playing. I'm more interested in the couple making their way down the beach. They look vaguely uncomfortable, like they've not been to a nudist beach before. So I wave at them. Unsure, insecure, whatever the emotion, they make their way towards me. The wife is in her mid thirties, blonde, shoulder length hair, wearing plain bikini bottoms and a scarf tied round her tits. Her husband is naked, a cut cock bobbing against his thigh, suntanned and more confident.
He looks happy to share the spot, spreading towels out, half burying a cool bag of drinks, offering his wife the suntan lotion. She looks confused by the pace things are happening at, as if she wishes she had more time. She's not comfortable with the watcher either. The husband looks comfortable though, and is chatting to me as if we're new neighbours who've just met over the garden fence.
It's maybe ten minutes before the wife is happy to take the scarf off her boobs. And they're gorgeous. Full pink nippled boobs, slightly pendulous, but perfect if you like firm mature boobs. I do. I don't mind smaller boobs like mine, but there's something about having a handful of breast that makes bisexuality real fun.
She knows I'm looking at her boobs. She knows her husband is making small talk at me as if he has to impress me. And she knows I'm glistening with oil while her body looks a little dry already. So it's almost natural to shut her husband out and talk to her about the need to protect her sensitive skin. We're away and talking, and her husband is shut out. He wanders away to where John is sitting, and strikes up a conversation with him.
It's not a chance encounter of course. She talks in a quieter voice about her husband wanting to see her with another woman, about the emails between her hubby and John. She's not confident about the situation. I try and explain to her that I'm never confident about what will happen. I'm never sure that I'll make people come. It's why I love the repetition, the experience of being able to do it again and again. And the variety, the range of men and women I can turn on and please.