Well, this isn't where I expected to find myself: in my mid-40s and newly divorced. No great scandal to it; we got together very young, and as we grew older, we grew apart. We were still great friends, but there was no spark left, and we made the decision to split before resentment could spoil the friendship. After all, due to the kids, we were always going to be in one another's lives in some way.
So, I find myself single and completely at a loss as to how to be single. I have absolutely no desire to get back into a committed relationship, but my libido is through the roof.
I find myself watching so much porn that you could have easily mistaken me for someone less than half my age.
It was during one of my trips to my favorite site that I saw an ad for a hookup site, which I thought was worth a try. The idea of a mutually beneficial relationship without the risk of commitment or leading anyone on sounded like the perfect solution to my current predicament.
Having signed up, I was overwhelmed by the number of people messaging me. It was too good to be true. Literally, within a matter of minutes, 15 beautiful "women" all wanted a piece of me. It became instantly apparent that the site was a scam. I had to buy credits to reply to these messages. It was amazing how many of the women messaging me fell into the categories of blonde or brunette, whose facial features were so alike, it almost felt like AI had a hand in their creation.
Well, while it wasn't what I was hoping for, I'd realized before I had spent a penny. I felt like I'd had a lucky escape.
As the days rolled on, the notifications kept coming. I'm not going to lie; despite the fact I didn't believe it was genuine, some of the messages and images became great "wank bank" fodder. So, despite having no intention of spending a penny, I'd regularly check the messages one-handed.
This continued for a couple of weeks, and in their defense, I'm not convinced it was just porn bots. I still wasn't getting genuine vibes until Katie.
Katie's message was super underwhelming. It was a "flirt" (a small preset message that can be sent free of charge) saying she was close to my hometown. However, for all the uninspiring aspects of her message, her image couldn't have been further apart. A closer look at her profile revealed Katie was 37, married, and looking for NSA fun. It also included three images. In her first, she looked stunning. She had a real girl-next-door vibe to her: long red hair, cute freckles across her nose. The second was an image of her in a swimsuit by a pool; her body looked incredibly well-toned as she lay in the shade to protect her delectable fair skin. The third image was a picture with the head out of shot, showing a naked lady on her knees with her ankles in a spreader, and her arms appeared to be bound behind her back. If it wasn't for the freckles on the shoulders and the fair skin, it could have been a picture of anyone. Most importantly, what set these images apart from any of the others was that all three pics had a watermark in the bottom corner with an email address. It wasn't your normal, run-of-the-mill email address; it was clearly a burner email just for this purpose.
Given how hard her images had made me, I thought it was worth the risk to reach out to her. I took the precaution of creating my own burner email address and sent her a message confirming my screen name and that I had received her flirt and loved her images.
It wasn't until the next morning that I got a reply.
Katie was initially a little suspicious, as her experience on the app had been incredibly similar to mine. After a few messages back and forth, talking about some of the local bars and characters, I think we both felt confident that at the very least we were talking to a human from our hometown.
After that, it wasn't long until we exchanged numbers and moved our chat from email to WhatsApp. Bizarrely, given how we had found one another, most of the first day's chat had been clean, getting-to-know-you talk.
It wasn't until that evening when I had climbed into bed that my phone pinged again. It was another message from Katie. It was a screen grab of a message she had received on the other site. It was from a man asking if she would tongue-fuck his ass while giving him a hand job. Along with the image was the message, "Would this work for you?"