I am a black man in his 40s. A bit jaded now, in the year 2024. But this story is about a time in my life when I was just 20. The world was a different place then. The 21st century hadn't yet arrived. Race relations weren't where are now. To make matters stranger to the modern reader, I was in a small town in Texas. I was all of 20 and heavily built, a student on an athletic scholarship.
For some extra dough I used to work evenings at a private book club, For a monthly fee, the establishment rented out books to members.
It was a quiet, boring gig. But I was happy because it gave me time to catch up on coursework, Sometimes, I got time to read for pleasure as well. The assortment was an eclectic mix. There were classics of the western canon, American literature - Cormac and all that, but also romance novels.
Inevitably, the patrons of romance novels were middle aged, somewhat matronly ladies.
There's one in particular who caught my eye though. She was about 50. Petit, Barely 5'2". But that frail frame hosted two jiggly juicy breasts, which were inevitably covered by tight sweaters.
She was a real connoisseur of romance novels, and those titles were the only kind she ever took home. One evening, right after a semester I ended up going through her records and picked up several books she had borrowed in the past.
I spent the weekend going through the titles. Several things became known.
The books this mysterious white lady liked were all raunchy. They weren't really romantic in the conventional sense. But about some big, Γbermensch style guy fucking a woman in every hole.
The second thing I learned was that the books were all the same - variants of the same theme, a conservative church lady finally submitting to her impulses. The man fucking was never the husband.
The third thing I learned was that the books were really been read, plenty of covers that had seen better days and dog-eared pages.