Things were very different in the late sixties in our little section of Nebraska when I married. At least in my area of Nebraska where the bible still ruled over everything; women were expected to be a housewife and the husband was the lord of his castle for the bible says:
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
That was the way it was with my parents and my older siblings. I had been working in a department store when I met my future husband. He was a lawyer and a deacon in our little church which is where we met. He knew every word of the bible and quoted it often.
We dated for six months before we married, and it was clear long before he proposed that his wife would never work outside the home. My job would be to take care of him and our future family. I did not expect anything different. It was the way I was raised.
Except for some groping when making out, we did not have sex before our wedding night. I came to our wedding bed a virgin and awoke the next morning feeling the same as I did every morning. It seemed to me that sex was overrated.
We were not able to go on a proper honeymoon, as my husband called it because of his commitments with his law practice. We spent the first few months of our marriage in our small town. I got up before him, made breakfast, packed his lunch, cleaned the house and made him dinner. Most nights he would work on a legal brief, and I would read a book. We had sex several times a week in the beginning using the missionary position. I did not realize there was any other positions except that, and the way animals had sex.
We went on our honeymoon several months later to some island in the Caribbean. My husband was happy because he had just won some big case and we could go first class all the way. I was happy because for the first time in my life, not only was I going to fly, but I was going to see the ocean. My husband had flown several times in the military and while he was going to law school. He called me a nervous nelly on the two-hour ride to the airport and we had to change planes in Chicago. There were so many people of color in Chicago. There was only one black family in our whole town. And there were so many other races of people I had never seen before. The island was more of the same, it was almost like white was not the majority and many of the people who were white didn't speak English.
The other thing that made me happy about this trip was my husband's suggestion that it was time we started a family. I had been looking forward to having children forever and was disappointed when he told me he wanted to wait on our wedding night.
The ocean blew me away, I could see forever. Our room looked out over the beach, and I was so content, just standing on our balcony and watching the waves. My husband teased me and suggested that instead of just looking at it, we should go swimming. I put on my only bathing suit, a one-piece I had for years. The look of disappointment on my husband's face cannot be described.
He said, "Honey, we are thousands of miles away from anyone we know. This is an opportunity to relax. Let's go down to the store in the hotel and buy you a new suit, something like the other woman on the beach are wearing."
I put my street clothes back on and we headed down to the lobby not knowing what my husband had in mind. Was he going to suggest a two piece? We entered the store, and I started scanning the racks of bathing suits. They did not carry any one-piece suits, so I started going through what they had. None of their suits would cover much of my body. My bra and panties covered more than any suit in the store. My husband, who had disappeared when we entered the store came up to me with a handful of string bikinis, he wanted me to try on. I tried to disagree, but he quoted some bible verse that a wife's body belongs to the husband and that I was disrespecting him and God, by not trying on the suits.
Although the bikini had been around for a while by the mid-60s, they had not made it to Nebraska and the ones my husband had handed me were more scandalous than those seen on Hollywood stars. But once he started quoting the bible, I knew it was pointless to argue. I felt naked when I donned the first suit. My husband wanted me to step out of the dressing room to show him, but I was too embarrassed. He insisted so I just opened the curtain so he could look in. Most of my breasts were visible and much of my butt. I also had pubic hair sticking out of the bottoms.
I expected him to order me back into the room, but he insisted that the suit was perfect, and I should shave my private area before we went to the beach. We repeated the same process for two other suits. We would look for other suits over the ten days we were going to be here. I also looked for a cover up to wear while traveling between our room and the beach. My husband took the one I had picked out and handed me his choice, something that was almost transparent and barely covered my ass.
As I was changing in our room, my husband insisted that I shave my entire private area. He inspected my privates after we were done. After which, he pulled me over his knee and spanked me for being disobedient in the store. Several sharp smacks were administered to each of my cheeks which left me in shock. The material of the bikini did little to shield my flesh from his blows. Most of all, I was in shock that my husband had actually punished me in that fashion. It was certainly in his rights, but I was not expecting it, especially on our honeymoon.
We headed down to the beach while I tried to stay behind my husband and hide my nakedness and red butt. I felt little more comfortable once we settled into our beach chairs. I noticed that most of the women were in similar suits, so I did not feel out of place. I also noticed that some of the women were topless, something my husband definitely noticed. Feeling a little more comfortable, I finally removed my coverup.
My husband offered me encouraging words and began to apply sunscreen on my body. It felt weird being almost naked in front of so many people and my husband's hands rubbing my almost naked body in front of those people seemed pornographic. Occasionally his hands would wonder onto my ass or touch my breasts.
I was laying on my back, almost asleep, when a waiter came by to take our order. Standing over me was this incredibly well-built black man. I felt his eyes running over my nearly naked body as my husband ordered us two alcoholic beverages. As he turned to leave, I realized that when my husband had applied sunscreen, he had shifted the cups of my bra so that my top barely covered my nipples, and the bottom of the suit was barely covering my pubic mound. My nipples were aching hard, and I cannot describe what was going on in my vagina.
I rarely drank alcohol and between the sun and the drinks, I felt myself falling asleep. My husband encouraged me to roll over and I remember him rubbing fresh sunscreen on my back. I was still on my back when the waiter returned, and I asked my husband if I could have a coffee to help wake me up. I sat up when the waiter came back with my coffee and the top of my suit fell off revealing my breasts. I was flabbergasted. The waiter seemed nonchalant out my nakedness and left, but the tingling in my vagina had returned. My husband apologized saying that he had undone my top when applying the sunscreen and thought I knew that. Besides he said, many of the women on the beach were topless. He seemed happy about my nakedness. As I drank my coffee, I realized there was something amiss with my bottoms. While applying sunscreen, my husband had pushed the bulk of my swimsuit between my butt cheeks exposing most of my ass, a view our waiter must have enjoyed when he took our order.
My husband announced it was time to get ready for dinner and we headed back to our room. He kept me in front of him as we walked, and I felt like I was in a parade, and everyone was looking at me. When we got to the room, he positioned me in front of the bed.
He said, "I want to commend you for being obedient after our little upset this morning and I want to reward you."
My husband pushed the bottom of my suit to the floor and gently pushed me onto the bed. I spread my legs expecting him to enter me but instead he knelt at the floor with his face between my legs. I was almost expecting him to start praying.
"I like your vagina like this, so nice and smooth. I am ordering you to keep it like this, even when we return to Nebraska."