Mrs. Stetler had been going on about her husband's stroke for about ten minutes: how it had left him so impaired, how their life together had been so devastated, the many hours she'd spent in performing home rehab, to the point that she was now awakening during the night with hands numb and tingly. Hence, the referral by her geriatrician to the neurologist to check her for carpal tunnel syndrome.
"We have no intimacy anymore, none whatsoever," she said.
"Sex, you mean?"
"Yes, of course."
This strange admission, coming seemingly from out of nowhere, caught the neurologist completely off guard. After all, Mrs. Mildred Stetler - "Millie" to her friends -- was nearly 70-years old -- scarcely the sort of complaint you'd expect from someone her age. The neurologist stopped setting up his equipment to take a good look at her as she lay there on the padded exam table beside him.
This retired businesswoman (she'd once been vice-president of a bank) was a medium-sized Caucasian female, a trifle overweight, but remarkably fit for someone her age. Kept herself up out of vanity, he supposed.
He estimated she had a mental image of herself as a perennial 50 year-old, although in truth she looked facially more her true age. Her hair was cut short and bristly and tinted a punky shade of red -- an elderly hip sort of "do". In her youth she must have been a real looker -- still not bad for an old dame. Her face was artfully made up, highlighting her best features. Although she had her fair share of lines and wrinkles, her facial bone structure was striking. And her perfume was sweetly musky and alluring.
She had no history of heart problems, diabetes, or other significant disease - just a little hypertension that was adequately controlled with medication. And then there were the seven pregnancies with as many successful deliveries. (Obviously, she and her husband had enjoyed a good bit of humping in their younger years.) Her only surgical history was a tonsillectomy in childhood and a hysterectomy.
They'd done a good job rearing their kids, all of whom had turned out to be great successes: two doctors, one corporate attorney, a judge, the dean of a law school, a bank president, and a state legislator. She had ten grandchildren on whom she doted, and she'd just been informed that she was the new great grandma of a set of twin girls.
She still enjoyed a cocktail once in a while. She had smoked a pack every other day or so until three years ago when she'd learned that cigarettes could give you "smoker's face". That she had quit smoking out of fear of getting more lines and wrinkles, he thought, was a signature of her vanity. Her hands, despite some mild evidence of arthritis, were pretty, velvety soft, and expensively manicured. Her fingernails and toenails were painted a sexy shade of soft plum.
She took moderate exercise on a regular basis to maintain her figure -- used a stationary bicycle and treadmill three times a week, some free weights, and even had a personal trainer. Her abdomen was slightly protuberant but reasonably firm. During the earlier physical exam, he noted she had a sensuous back, which tapered down to a remarkably good ass. Ben Franklin was right, he thought: a woman does age from the head down.
He slyly ogled her lying there. Her breasts jutted stupendously upward and spilled out through the armholes of the sleeveless blue paper gown. He found himself envying her husband who'd had these mammoth playthings to enjoy for so many years.
The doctor's prurient curiosity had been kindled by her previous remark, and so he couldn't resist following it up now with this question: "Do you miss having sex?"
"Well," she said, a bit hesitantly, "after so many years of an active love life, that is something one misses."
"And you and your husband had sexual relations up until when?"
"Well, before his illness, my husband and I would make love -- I don't know -- maybe once or twice a month. Not nearly as often as I would've liked. But all our married life, I was always the one more interested in sex. If I'd had my way, we'd have made love at least two or three times a week. More. Actually, a lot more."
This old broad's plenty horny, thought the doctor. To her he said, "Did he have problems with impotence - your husband?"
"Not until after his prostate surgery, no. They didn't do nerve sparing procedures back then. I encouraged him to talk to his urologist about getting a penile implant, but he didn't want another surgery. And they didn't have such a thing as Viagra back then. So, we experimented with other means to help him get an erection."
The doctor suspected he already knew the answer but asked anyway: "Such as -- if you don't mind my asking?" He looked out of the corner of his eye for her response.
She gave him a sideways glance, and then fixed her eyes on the ceiling.
"Well, sometimes I would use my hand." She made an amusing little masturbatory gesture. "Or, sometimes..." and here she hesitated, "sometimes I would perform ... well ... oral."
She colored a bit. "I don't know how many women my age will admit that they're into that sort of thing. My blue haired old lady friends at the garden society don't discuss these matters," she smiled with a hint of embarrassment.
"Did you find it distasteful -- oral sex?"
"Oh, no, not at all. I must be honest: it excited me." She paused. "I'm sure you must think that sounds disgraceful coming from an old lady."
"No, not at all," he assured her. Actually, he thought it sounded pretty damn good.
"Do you think I'm perverted because I enjoy that?"
"Oh, not in the least," the doctor said with as much of a professional tone as he could muster. Truthfully, he was getting more than a little aroused by this buxom old lady's talk of fucking and sucking.
He focused now on her lip-sticked mouth, with the little fine lines and cracks radiating away from her lips, and tried envisioning them wrapped around her husband's limp dick, trying to tease it into wakefulness, leaving lipstick imprints on the head and shaft. As she briefly moistened her lips with her tongue, he thought of it flicking over the end of his own cock. The mental image made the doctor's dick start to swell.