Two years ago.
Olivia flipped listlessly through the latest catalogue of the gigolo agency.
Although she was 53 and beyond menopause, she still needed to have sex with a man every few days to feel good and be able to cope with her aging in her own view.
To be honest, Olivia was very well preserved! She had not born children and had always been active in sports.
Her huge bosom had impeded her from playing tennis or golf, but she excelled at swimming as a student she performed selected fitness exercises regularly during her entire adult life. The best gym teacher in town personally coached her.
That had given her a well-toned, muscular body.
She took great care of her overall appearance, and she was a longtime client of the best beauty institute in town.
Olivia had always resisted the advice to undergo a breast reduction, and she stayed proud of her huge, pear shaped breasts. Men had told her that they dreamed about her breasts...
In Olivia's mind, the one factor that really preserved her as a woman was sex; frequent vigorous sex with virile males.
She adored sex and considered it as a 'gift of life', a beautiful and highly beneficial activity of healthy living beings.
As long as she had been living with her former husband, Henri, he had always condoned her many affairs and her hiring of male prostitutes to satisfy her cravings for sex.
He could hardly fault her as he himself had many affairs from the very start of their marriage and often visited luxury brothels and took part in sex parties.
Henri was an unimpressive, balding male in a serious midlife crisis, in spite of his highly successful business career.
He had problems with his prostate and hence his masculinity in an early stage and resorted, like many males in his situation, to a kind of compensatory behaviour. He had a piercing set in his ear and bought a Porsche sportscar in an attempt to boost his masculine image.
Which made him actually look childish and ridiculous in the eyes of Olivia and other mature women.
Moreover, he was absent from home most of the time on business travel and that also contributed to his alienation from Olivia.
As part of their divorce arrangements, he had paid Olivia six hundred million Euros.
That enabled her to live her life as she liked without any financial restrictions.
As she had more than enough of the many men who wanted an affair with her in the hope of benefitting from her wealth, she resorted to gigolos to meet her needs. She had the means to pay for them.
That is why she had received the latest catalogue from the agency where she was a longtime client.
In it she read:
'Dave, a well-bred and well-endowed true male is very keen to meet all your wishes'
'Ken, your dream of a man come true; your wishes are his commands'
Etcetera, etcetera.
Every description in the catalogue was accompanied by a photograph of the man who was presented. Each one more handsome than the next!
Olivia knew quite a number of them as she had hired them to sleep with her.
But the strange thing was that when she tried to remember how the particular man behind the male really was, she could not form a good picture in her mind.
She could not even remember the details of 'the business side': the size of his penis, his stamina, his skills as a lover...
They all seemed so very similar in the end, with not much worth remembering.
Suddenly she was overwhelmed by a strong emotion: a sudden revulsion of this glib, commercial way of meeting her sexual needs.
She shrugged her shoulders, flung the catalogue aside and went to the house bar to pour herself a whiskey.
Her sexual needs, her cravings were still there and very pressing at times. That was abundantly clear!
For a while there had been a nucleus of an idea in her mind, and it came up again at this particular moment.
It had its origin in something she had heard from one of her intimate friends.
Angela was one of her circle of five real friends who knew each other from boarding school and had kept in close contact ever since.
They were of the same age as Olivia and all were divorced. All were career women, who had no children.
The 'big girls', as they referred to themselves met each fortnight over lunch or drinks in the evening and exchanged their views and information on their lives.
Angela, one of them, was in a situation broadly comparable to that of Olivia. Her divorce had also left her well of.
She had told the group of friends that she was dating a young man, aged 19, and that the sex they had was extremely satisfying, in spite of their 45 years age difference.
She described their love making as pure, not contaminated by conventions and experiences and as truly vitalising.
To see and feel the potent and virile young male enjoying her body greatly aroused her as an experienced mature woman.