Joy and Mark have been living the happy but catatonic suburban life together for a decade. Both are in their 40's, prosperous and would have to be considered very attractive and social by nature but they've perfected the middle aged malaise. Sure, Joy has always had a flair for the dramatic surprise but we know how it can be after so many years when your romantic life is pushed aside by family and friends. They live in one of those manufactured communities perfect by design, perfect in attitude and perfectly suited to Prozac.
Last Friday Joy walked across the street with a pitcher of Manhattan's to her best friend Annie's house. Now dear reader, Prozac thresholds be damned this is not a happy sign as Joy has essentially reached her limit of tolerance. Her purchases of lingerie, candles and even some naughty porn for Mark have gone for naught. But both wives and husbands are best of friends with each other and by and large that can make them golf widows for days and weekends on end.
Joy commiserating over her second drink: "Annie, I need to do something. I had it out with Mark the other morning when he told me that he was paired with a foursome at the club. I just blurted out to him: What would you rather do, play golf or have a twosome with me on a Saturday morning? And you know what Annie, the dumb jerk actually hesitated for a second!"
"I've reached the point where I spend more time thinking about the Good Vibrations website than I do my husband!"
Now what's a friend to do at a moment like this? Should she talk about the weather, look at the activity schedule for the Junior League or fess up to what she and Daniel have been up to for the last year. Annie knows that there's no going back if she opens herself up to Joy. She and Daniel were in a similar predicament a while back too so she relates. Can this be a secret between the two of them? Is Joy the type to get on the phone with mutual friends within minutes spilling the details? All good questions; which was why Annie was having a pensive moment looking out the living room window.
"Joy, you know that Daniel and I had pretty much the same issue last year remember?"
"Yes, but I haven't heard you mention a thing since last Spring...did you work it out with Dan?"
"In a way we did, but it has changed us forever. I don't mind his golf trips as much as I used to anymore, when he comes back home one of the first things he does is grab my hand and fucks me in a way that always reminds me of the time before we married,"
"Oh puhleeeeze, I'm serious Annie. I don't know if the problem with Mark is about me, or what? Mark couldn't care less about the effects of Viagra. Sometimes I think the only club he cares about is his Driver. So I'm thinking its something about me."
"Joy there's a club in town that meets once every two weeks. Its filled with people just like us: sexy and very attractive and. .........formerly very frustrated."
"It's a club just for couples, couples that would like to spice things up in their bedroom."
"What do you mean by that?"
"It's a club pretty much run by the women although you'd never see an unhappy guy there. The women meet at a members house once a week and talk about ideas to spice up their love lives"
"You mean they really talk about sex to each other?"
"Yes, and there's something else too. Members are sworn to secrecy but we all help each other out in any way we can when it comes to helping a member."
"Oh gawd, that sounds like a Sex Co-op, where is this? It sounds perfect for Boulder."
"No, silly woman its here and its members are all around you. Daniel and I were introduced last year and I can say that it has had an amazing effect on us. Daniel now calls me his "love slave" and can't keep his hands off me."
"Tell me more"
"Not now, there's a meeting next week and if you're up to it I'll ask the other women if we can have one more couple as members, and if they say yes I'd like just for you to come."
Annie did what she promised and the girls got together at another members house over drinks and discussion where they accepted the idea and responsibility of another couple".
The next week the women invited Joy over for drinks and talk:
"Joy, we consider ourselves philanthropic organization of desire. What I mean is it's our role to allow each member to experience their desires and fantasies to the limit."
"Wait, are you telling me that you're a Swing Club?"
"No, that's not our role although I have to admit more than one member here would like to do just that."
"You mean that if I become a member any fantasy that Mark and I have you'll see to it that it actually happens?"
"Yes, that's right. We all have fantasies whether we admit it to ourselves or not that have gone unfulfilled. Usually it's because we're all too shy to admit it to ourselves, or our husbands. I mean, we all know what our husbands can be like and none of us here wants to be divorced so we focus on helping each other out. So far not one couple has ever divorced that's joined our little club."
"But Joy, if you and Mark are going to be real members you're going to have to tell us something about yourself."