Anita's story
I woke up the next morning to the sound of the shower. The fog cleared from my brain and the delicious events of the previous evening swam into my mind. A bashful bath-robed Anita appeared from the bathroom and began to speak
"I... I don't know quite what..."
"I don't know either" I interrupted, "but it was wonderful."
We smiled at each other.
"Perhaps it might be better if there was no explanation, for now."
"OK" Anita replied "but I want to, I just don't know where to begin at the moment."
So we left it that and with some awkwardness returned to the real world. Later on that afternoon, once we got home, my wife said that she wanted to explain, but couldn't find the words to do her feelings justice. And anyway the idea of talking so candidly didn't come easily, so she said she'd try to write it all down.
"Sounds good to me, I look forward to it."
A couple of weeks later, and after some renewed bouts of passion, although nothing quite so brazen as what took place in that hotel room, one morning Anita shyly passed me a memory stick and left for her volunteering job in a local charity shop. Over a coffee, this is what I read:
I really don't know where to start. I could say that I don't know what came over me, but that would not be true. I should probably start at the beginning. It's all Zoe's fault.
That week when you were on your last golf trip with your mates, Zoe and I were sorting through some boxes of books that had been left at the shop, when I found several dirty mags, as we used call them. Taken aback, I called out
"Urgh! Hey, Zoe, look what's been left in with these books."
She came over to see.
"Someone has not been very careful with their sorting out, have they? Let's have a look."
and she started flipping through.
"Hmm, 1980's and 90's. I wonder I'm in any of them?"
"What?! Seriously?!" I gasped.
You don't know Zoe, she's quite new at the shop and for the last few weeks I've started to share some of my shifts with her. She has the appearance of the sort of girl someone might derogatively call a brassy blonde. But she's not like that stereotype at all, she is very bright, has a great sense of humour and is really friendly with the public. I've found myself looking forward to spending a morning or afternoon working with her. When she's in the shop it is a happier place and we seem to get more male customers for some reason! You have not met her, but I expect that you'll be interested in her looks - don't deny it, I've seen how you eye all the women! Zoe is early fifties, but looks ten years younger. She's got a nice figure, and shows it off well, but in a classy way. Her husband sadly died a year or so ago.
"Fiesta? I don't think I did anything for them, I worked mostly with photographers for Men Only or escort."
Zoe hastily put the ageing well-thumbed magazine under the counter as a pair of students entered the shop. This gave me time to gather my thoughts. How could any self-respecting woman pose half-naked or worse for the gratification of dirty old men?! After the students had left Zoe eyed me
"Are you shocked?"
"Well, perhaps you were hard-up at the time..." I began.
She laughed "Not at all. I did it because I enjoyed it, still do!"
My eyes widened.
"Look, some women think stripping off and posing for the camera is just being exploited by men. I see it the other way round. I'm an out-going person, always been pretty confident of my body and, yes, I made some money out of it, but I actually liked the idea that I could make some lonely chap happy for an hour or so. If anything, it was me who was exploiting the men. I'll admit that only a fraction of the money being made from what went on between the camera and the magazine on the top shelf found its way to me, but that's just how normal business works. Nowadays, with the Internet, that middle man can be by-passed, and the relationship is much more direct between the producer and the consumer."
I gaped at her.
"I must sound like an after-the-nine o'clock threshold version of the Money Programme. I'm sorry if I've shocked you, Anita, I really am, but it is something I feel passionately about."
"No, no, not at all. I had no idea you, er... Not that there's anything wrong with... Sorry, it's just taken me a bit by surprise." I gabbled.
"I'll make a cup of tea" she smiled.
After shutting up the shop at lunchtime as it was early-closing, we lingered in the back and chatted some more about a world I had absolutely no experience of. She said she had been running her own website for several years, and enjoyed chatting with her online friends, and showing herself to them. It was intriguing, seeing her eyes light up, talking about how empowered she felt in front of the camera, bringing, as she put it, relief and happiness to men and women. She was almost evangelical.
"Well Anita, you are asking plenty of questions here!"
she said, as we made to go our separate ways,
"I've actually got a photo shoot arranged for later this afternoon with a girl-friend. She's a lady photographer - she's really nice. As your husband is away and if you have nothing else on, why don't you come along to see what goes on for yourself? It'll be fun!"
I quickly shook my head and said that really I couldn't see myself being comfortable in that environment, but thanked her for asking.
I got home to our empty house, and could not get our conversation out of my mind, nor the pics of Zoe that she had showed me on her phone, some from years ago, and others clearly that were quite recent. I mooched around the house, had a snack, did some washing. The image of Zoe, barely clothed in front of a camera, and the thought of hundreds of men rubbing their cocks over her pictures would not leave my mind. I happened to be leaning over the washing machine to reach into the cupboard... it was during the spin cycle... the top of my legs pressed against the vibration, and within seconds a pleasant tingle became a shock wave that blasted through my body as I involuntarily pressed my pubic bone against the washing machine. I was gripping the work top and gasping for breath. On reflection, it must have been the re-ignition of a pent-up sexual tension, of how many years?, that had burst through.
The next thing I know I was upstairs slowly undressing. I stood in front of the full-length mirror in our bedroom inspecting myself. This plain bra and knickers set would have to go. Rifling through my underwear drawer I found at the bottom a long-forgotten flimsy thong and suspender belt. The matching bra was nowhere to be seen, but perhaps I still had some stockings tucked away. Yes here they were, not worn for twenty years or more, probably. I took some delicious time in gliding the sheer stockings up my legs and over my thighs. My shaking fingers struggled with the hooks on the suspenders, and then smoothed the tiny triangle of lace over my by-now throbbing pubic mound. I sat at the dressing table and brushed my hair. All the while I thought of what this must this feel like with a camera clicking away with every move? The final addition was a pair of high heels, which I noticed in her photos, that Zoe informed me was de rigeur for all models when they are on their feet, and, she added with a smirk, on their backs!
I stood in front of the mirror again - topless, stockings, thong and suspenders. I wiggled my hips this way and that, turned and looked over my shoulder to appraise my bum. Not bad if I say so myself - the years in the gym had not been without reward. I was still shaking with a re-awaken sexual excitement that I had not felt for years. What to do? Even if you were at home I doubt if I could have initiated anything, such was the state our relationship had got into. I was sure that I still loved you, but I suppose it was a case of what they say about the spark having gone out.
What the hell! I had nothing to lose by just watching my friend Zoe pose for a few photographs. Trembling, I sent her a text to ask if her offer was still on. Five minutes later she replied
"Great! So pleased you have changed you mind. I'll pick you up at 4."