Maria stood in the kitchen over the warm stove slowly stirring the pasta sauce over a low heat. Marco came into the kitchen from his day at the office following the aromas of garlic, tomato sauce and spices. The kitchen dinette table was set, and the Chianti was poured... breathing and waiting.
"I'm sorry to be late, Maria." He kissed her cheek and gently rubbed her ass cheek. Then patted her twice and sucked her earlobe."
"Where were you? You are late and you've brought me no flowers?"
"I'm sorry I was late, but I brought you something else instead. I stopped at the bookstore and bought two books."
"Books? What books?"
"I decided this afternoon that I wanted us to make a sex video, so I bought a book called, 'Naked Filmmaking' and another one called "How to Make a Video that Doesn't Suck'. What do you think?"
"Why would you make a sex video without any sucking? No way does that sound right. What would be the fun in that?" Maria laughed. Then she turned down the heat a little lower on the pasta sauce and put the pasta on to boil.
"Well, it turns out that neither book was about producing a homemade sex video. I suppose you can't judge a book by its title anymore, either. Still, they both have good ideas for making a better home video than some of those other books or videos I've seen."
"Those videos you watch are only scenes or vignettes. There are no stories attached to them at all. There's no structure, no dialogue, no drama, no real story or plot, no mysteries to be solved or resolved, or emotions. Just people going at it. For dialogue, all you get are oohs and aahs. If you think reading a book can help you make a better video, I say go for it. Just don't ask me to be in it or be your co-star -- or any other woman either!
"Gee, honey. Don't hold back. Tell me how you really feel."
"If you want to make a sex video by yourself, go ahead. If you want to sell them on the internet, I doubt seriously there's a market for your masturbation videos. You have a nice dick, but men don't really do anything different that could be construed as educational. Women don't watch much porn. Besides, we know how to do it for you, so where's the mystery?"
"Sounds like you've already read these books."
"That's because I took a course in screenwriting at college. It was an elective in journalism school. To make a proper video, you need a story, a plan, and a properly formatted screenplay. At the very minimum, you'd need a shot list along some kind of storyline. Besides, if you shot the last scene first, the beginning scenes wouldn't work,... if you know what I mean. Do you have time for all of that?"
"Not right now, but I just thought of this idea today. I thought I'd spend a few dollars on books before I spent hundreds on equipment."
"From some of the videos I've seen, all you need is window light and a cell phone video camera app with some stable way to prop it up. Then maybe some computer software to edit the outtakes, splice it together, add titles and all that." The timer sounded so Maria checked the spaghetti. She selected a single strand, drained it and tossed it against the wall. It stuck. "Well, the pasta is ready!"
After dinner, Marco finished his wine and helped Maria do the dishes. Every once in a while, he gave her waist a hug. With everything placed in the dish drainer to dry overnight, Marco put his arms around Maria from the back and untied her apron hugging her close. He nibbled at the back of her neck giving her goosebumps down her sides.
"So, what do you want to do with these videos you plan to make? Sell them over the internet? Are you going to earn us a lot of money? Turn me into your video whore?"
"NO, of course not. Never! I hadn't thought about all of that. I only wanted to record our love as we are now. Someday, we'll be old, and we can enjoy them later."
"Sure, sure. Yeah-yeah."
"Well, don't we always take pictures of ourselves when we travel? Don't we always ask strangers to take our picture together in a special scenic spot?"
"Yes, of course we do. We don't have them talking photos of us having sex, Marco. That's too personal. My body is for you to enjoy and yours is for me to play with. I think we do a pretty good job of that. Don't you?"
"Yes."
"Or course, we do. But our love making memories belong in our heads. I don't require bringing the rest of the world into our bedroom. Is that what you really want?"
"No. I don't want that. You're mine... only mine. I just want to keep you that way."
"I still don't know why you think you need to make a sex video of us."
"I suppose you're right. It was a passing idea. I thought it could be fun. I thought it might improve our sex life. Show us ways to be closer or more creative in giving each other pleasure. We could watch it later and remember how in love we are now. I suppose that's silly."
"If you think about it that way, I suppose you have a point. Except that the camera brings another "person" -- in the form of a camera into our lives -- even without a photographer. I just hope your expectations aren't too high. I don't want this idea to affect our love."