Surfing the net through the "amateurs'" pages, I have been delighted to find a number of sites dedicated to "mature" women - i.e., those over 40. Some of them, admittedly, should have kept their photographs to themselves, but then there are some incredibly attractive and sexy "older" women.
Looking at them made me recall my first experience with a woman many years older than I - it happened when I was 33, and the woman was, as she put it, "approaching 50".
Her name was Lorraine, and she was the personal secretary to the senior officer under whom I was working at the Department of Defence in Canberra. Everybody knew she was divorced, and quite a few guys tried to hit on her - both seriously and in fun. I was always the epitome of politeness and good manners with her, and must have been one of the very few naval officers who didn't try to chat her up.
On one of my visits to her office, after I'd been in the job for a few months, she asked me why I didn't like her. I was a bit taken aback, and asked her what she meant. She replied that I was always very business-like in my dealings with her, and never hung around for a friendly chat - so she had assumed that there must be something about her that I didn't like.
I assured her that that was not the case, that I was just being "an officer and a gentleman" - and the last thing I wanted to do was make an enemy of my boss's personal secretary! She said I needn't worry about that, as there were many others who had come very close to offending her - but she had been able to deal with them without going to the boss.
So, nothing ventured, nothing gained - and I asked her how could I really know if I liked or not if our dealings were restricted to "purely business". She said I could fix that by taking her out for a drink after work.
Well, "after work" for her was about an hour after everyone else finished, so I had to hang around my office on some pretext while I waited for her. Eventually she knocked on my open door, and asked,
"Ready?"
Not making a point of looking at my watch, I replied, "Sure - my car or yours?"
"Mine, I think," she decided, with a slight smile. "That way I know that I'll get home."
The problem then was to find a "watering hole" that was not frequented by people we both knew - otherwise word of our meeting would be all over the place the next morning. Lorraine said she knew just the place - a quite little bar in a very exclusive guest-house on the outskirts of the city. (It was the sort of place where if you had to ask what the tariff was, you couldn't afford it!") I was dreading what the drink prices might be, but I went along with her.
For our first couple of drinks we sat on the comfortable padded stools at the bar, then Lorraine suggested moving to one of the rather secluded booths by the wall. The place was furnished in dark wood (mahogany, I think), added to which it was very dimly lit - making it perfect for a discreet assignation.
Lorraine slid into the booth first, and as she said she allowed her tight skirt to slide well up her thigh - and show me that she was wearing stockings and suspenders, not panty-hose. That got me very interested right away, but when I sat down next to her she shuffled closer so that our thighs were touching.
Then she asked me the story of my life; I asked her did she want the full version, which would keep us there until after midnight, or the abridged version which take only a couple of drinks. She said the abridged version would do for now - I could tell her the full story later.
Later...?
So I gave her a brief run-down of my 18-year naval career to that date, leaving out most of the "juicy bits", but including the fact that I had a wife and two kids living in Queensland - 800 miles away. She said that I must get pretty lonely - and I knew what she meant by "lonely". So I replied that I didn't really get lonely - just horny. At which point she said,
"Tell me about it!" and took a long sip of her drink.
Taking my cue, I said that surely she wasn't "lonely" - she was a very attractive lady of "independent means" and should have plenty of male friends.
She just shook her head wistfully, and said she wished that were so. She knew that all the guys at work who tried to pick her up would run a mile if she accepted, and that the only other ones who were "available" were just kids - that is, aged 25 to 30.
I replied that I was not much over 30 myself, to which she replied,
"I know - I've got all your personal details on file, remember!"
So then I asked her why she had wanted to hear them from me, and she replied,
"Just to see if you would try to bullshit me - like about being married."
So she had known that I had a wife - my "next-of-kin" - and that she was a very long way away.
"Just testing, huh?" I asked.
"Yep," she answered, over the rim of her glass. "And you passed."
So then I asked her what was her story - and it was a little sad. She had not married until she was in her early 30s, and her husband desperately wanted kids - more than she did, actually. But it turned out she could not conceive, and eventually her husband divorced her to go and find a "fertile" woman. Adoption had been out of the question, apparently - he wanted his kids.
He had, however, given her a generous settlement, which included a house in an inner suburb in Sydney. She had sold that when she got a job in Canberra, and had quite a bit left over after buying her own unit quite close to the city centre. She didn't really have to work, she said, but if she didn't she'd go nuts!
Since her divorce she'd had a couple of long-term relationships, but they had not developed into anything permanent.
I asked her what she did with her spare time, and she said she "worked out" three evenings a week, saw every movie that came through town, and did a lot of reading. She was often asked to dinner-parties to "make up the numbers" - that is, to help make the number of males equal the number of females, and she had a couple of women friends who were always trying to find "the right man" for her. So far, they had not succeeded.
"But sometimes," she admitted, "I'll go to bed with one - just to ease the frustration! Unfortunately, more often than not I end up more frustrated - you know, 'wham-bam, thank you, mam'!"
By this stage, by my count, she'd knocked back six drinks - and it was beginning to show.
"Two-minute wonders, eh?" I suggested.
"Two minutes? I wish!" she replied. "If it weren't for my faithful vibrator..."
I must confess that I was starting to feel a little uncomfortable with the way the conversation was going, and I tried to look for a tactful way out of it. I made a point of looking at my watch, and Lorraine asked,
"Anywhere you have to be?"
"No," I replied. "I was just thinking that it's way past my dinner time - got to put something in to soak up all this booze!"
Lorraine put down her drink, placed a hand on the top of my thigh, squeezed gently, looked me straight in the eye, and asked,
"Would you like to eat me?"