My wife and I had been married 25 years when our youngest child left home for college, leaving us with the dreaded "empty nest."
Our marriage relationship had had its ups and downs emotionally over the years like most couples', but our sexual relationship had never suffered – we enjoyed pleasing each other, though she was more conservative than I have always wished, being unwilling to bring me to an orgasm during blow jobs, and refusing anal intercourse, although she did allow an occasional anal finger job, and even once or twice a butt plug or small vibrator.
To offset any possible mid-life crises, we decided to try social nudity as a way to introduce something new to our relationship that hopefully would offset any insecurities of growing older and seeing our children leave home.
Denise, my petite 5'1" wife, was no longer the thin, pale college girl with perky A cups that I had fallen in love with, but was still very attractive, and even more appealing after two children and 25 years, with a full, but still shapely figure, and 36B breasts that begged to be handled and sucked.
Over the years she had grown to appreciate my voyeuristic instincts, and would occasionally agree to go out to eat braless in a see-thru blouse and short skirt, or with several buttons undone allowing a good view of her beautiful breasts for alert voyeurs. She had even done some flashing, and had posed nude for me for years, with both of us knowing that some guy in the photo developing studio was getting to see more of her than anyone but me.
We began to visit Haulover Beach in Miami, a totally-nude beach that was always a thrill for us whenever we went. We also joined a nudist club farther north on the coast and frequented it two or three weekends a month, enjoying the freedom of totally nudity – and the thrill of seeing and being seen by other equally free-thinking persons.
At the same time Denise changed careers, moving to a field that requires long hours in close proximity of body and soul, and which is notorious for broken marriages and relationships.
I have always – like most men – had the hidden fantasy of seeing my wife have sex with another man, but did not want to lose this wonderful lady to someone who simply wanted to get in her pants regularly.
One evening, after making love and while we were sitting naked in the back yard looking at the stars, I decided to broach the subject of extramarital sex – partly to protect our relationship from any potential damage, and also to verbalize my fantasy in hopes she may pick up on it.
"I know in this new job that you are going to be working closely with some neat guys, and under stressful situations," I began. "If the time ever came that you and one of the guys became really attracted to each other, I would understand, and would not stand in your way if you wanted to fulfill each other's desires – as long as you let me know about in and didn't try to hide it from me."
She looked at me evenly, wondering with her eyes why I had brought up such a thought.
"And you don't think that would come between us and ruin our marriage?" she asked, almost incredulously.
"To the contrary, I think it might save our marriage," I responded, telling her of a conversation I had with a friend whose wife had made a similar career change and saw his marriage end with divorce. "If I know that you love me more than anyone else, and that you are not keeping any secrets from me and shutting me out of part of your life, I think I could live with you having occasional sex with someone you had grown to care about."
She looked away at the stars for a while, and I thought I had offended her; but when she turned back to me it was with an impish smile on her face.
"And I suppose you would want to come along and watch everything that happens, huh?"
I couldn't help but laugh, she knew me so well.
"No, that wouldn't be necessary, and I wouldn't even want a blow-by-blow account, pardon the pun, but I would want to know how far you go with another guy so there would be no future surprises and I would not have to fear the unknown in our relationship."
She shook her head in astonishment and snuggled up close to me, kissing me softly on the mouth.
"There is no one I work with that even starts to turn me on," she said softly. "There is no one there that compares with you, or that I would ever let come between me and you. You have nothing to fear."
A couple of months later, while we were sitting on the couch sniffling over a movie about lost love and broken vows, I reminded her that we should never let our relationship be damaged just because of a sexual fling or temporary release to animal lust.
"Are you having an affair I don't know about," she asked teasingly, knowing full well what I meant.
"No," I said, "I am totally fulfilled, but I am not in a situation that might prompt closeness with another co-worker, or camaraderie that might accidentally evolve into a sexual situation. I just want you to know that if you are always open and honest with me that you have total freedom to do with your body whatever you want."
She looked deep in my eyes, looking for any hidden motive or guilt.
"Do you want me to have sex with another man?" she asked. "Is that what all this talk is about?"
"I don't think so," I answered honestly. "I am just not sure about your career change and don't want to lose you the way Fred lost his wife. Though, I have to admit, I am like a lot of other guys in that I fantasize every now and then of watching you give in to another guy's request and give him what he wants. I even fantasize about you initiating it with some guy that really impresses you."
"Are you so sure other guys fantasize about the same things you do?" she asked quizzically.
"Absolutely, if you read the stuff in the magazines and on the internet," I said.
She was quiet then, leaning into me for warmth as I put my arm around her and hugged her to me. After a while she broke the silence again, surprising me by keeping on the same subject.
"I promise you this," she said seriously, turning to face me and looking me in the eye. "If I ever let another man so much as touch me, it will only be with you present, or with your prior approval. I don't think I will ever want to, but I have fantasies of my own from time to time – not like yours, more romantic and less sexual. It would have to be someone like you who is gentle and loving, and caring how I feel – and I don't work with people like that. Every man I work with is aggressive and demanding. Does that put your mind at ease?" she asked, watching my face for response.
I nodded, showing the relief on my face that I felt in my heart. I loved this woman and never wanted there to be a chance of losing her.
We cuddled again for a while on the couch and then went to the bedroom and had wonderful sex. I don't know if any fantasies crossed her mind as we made passionate love, but once or twice I looked down at her underneath me, giving herself to me without reservation, and wondered what it would be like to see her doing the same thing with someone else, some faceless man who would gently stroke her and give her butterfly kisses as he moved in and out of her body.
We continued to visit the nude beach occasionally, and she always allowed me to control the situation. Once we let a passerby stop and sit by us as I rubbed oil into her body – every inch of her body. The man was almost salivating by the time I had ended, and asked if she would put some oil on him. Wrong thing to say – we sent him packing.
Another time a couple settled down just a few yards in front of us and the man lay on his stomach looking right up between my wife's legs as she lay reading. After shooting me a questioning glance and getting my approval, she carefully opened up entirely, allowing the poor fellow to see everything he wanted for an hour or more.
At the nudist park, we regularly sat around the hot tub in the evening carrying on conversations with the park regulars, or any visitor who may have stopped by for a day or two. Denise knew that I liked her to get up and sit on the side occasionally, "cooling off" in her terms, but innocently letting the men across from us clearly see all that there was to see of her beautiful body.
Once she surprised me with a special gift. The four-head shower stall was on the back side of the pool house, facing the hot tub. One evening a young man staying at the park stepped into the stall for his evening shower.
Denise, who always brings her soap and shampoo for a shower before we leave for the camping trailer, suddenly stood up, gathered up her toiletries and stepped into the stall with the young man.
He was using one of the two inside shower heads, and she stepped to the other one, almost brushing shoulders with him as she did.
"Be careful, I'm turning on the hot," she said.
He looked at her slightly confused for a second, and then nodded his head and stepped back so as not to get hit with freezing cold water.
Denise adjusted her shower and then stepped into it.
"It's okay, now," she said, and the young many stepped back under his shower stream, facing her as he did.
The two carried on a lively conversation as they bathed, with Denise first washing her hair and then carefully washing her entire body as the young man tried not to stare. She even bent over and spread her vaginal lips, washing them as she knows I love to watch her do, but acting as if nothing unusual was going on.
When the two shower heads quit flowing, the two stood toweling off and talking for a few minutes before the man said his farewell and left. Denise returned to the dark hot tub with a smile on her face and sat down next to me, running her hand down my thigh to measure my hard-on.
"I see you enjoyed that little performance," she said slyly.
I nodded.
"And I think someone else did, too," I responded, chuckling softly. "You are one awesome woman, Girl. The only thing that would have made that better would be if I had a video camera. But, never mind, I have it all memorized, I think."