(Author's Note: Lucas has related another memory he can't share with his family. Read his other memories on Literotica: Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β Β 11/05/2019,
https://www.literotica.com/s/memories-ch-01-4
,
11/25/2019,
https://www.literotica.com/s/memories-ch-02-6
12/11/2019,
https://www.literotica.com/s/memories-ch-03-4
. and
3/20/2021,
https:// www.literotica.com/s/memories-ch-04-5
)
Lucas is back. He showed up a couple of weeks ago in a funk. He's ninety-seven and I haven't talked with him for over two years. Over a beer he shared with me the reason for his despondent attitude. He's a sex oriented individual. Ninety-seven years old and still active, until two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago, he had the first failure in his life. He was in bed with the wife of a neighbor on a rainy afternoon and, for the first time in his memory, he was unable to perform. Not just erectile dysfunction but total failure. For two hours, nothing he or the neighbor tried would bring joy to either of them. He not only couldn't fuck her, his oral skills failed as well. He left her unfulfilled in bed wondering if she'd been played by the stories she'd heard about his abilities and him disheartened and having dark thoughts about his future. He was ready to join his wife who had been dead for forty-four years.
I consoled him, gave him another beer and suggested that the problem lay with the woman and not him.
"I've had that thought," he admitted, but when it happened a second time with a frequent partner that was usually satisfied to the point of exhaustion, he was forced to accept the truth: he had lost his touch, his erection and his confidence. Even masturbation had been useless. Since then he's been refusing every invitation presented to him.
"Look, Lucas," I said. "You've had a remarkable run. Most men have problems by the time they're fifty and it only gets worse after that. You're ninety-seven. You really can't complain."
"I can and I will," countered Lucas. "My understanding is that for most men, it creeps up on them, fading away a little at a time. I just shut off. I've been denied a graceful exit and I'm pissed."
"Lucas," I tried again. "Over seventy-seven active years. Your memories alone should restore your attitude."
"Memories," he echoed. "I do have memories. I've shared many of them with my family and others with you."
"Any that you'd like to share today?" I asked.
Lucas smiled. "You already suspect that the thirty years I had with Emma were the best thirty years of my life. I've been careful about how I describe our relationship. Careful to protect her reputation all these years. It's a respect thing. I think you also suspect that she was the most exciting sexual partner I ever had.
"However, I don't think you've had a hint of what it was really like. We weren't exactly angels when it came to extracurricular activities."
"I listening," I told him as I set another beer on the table in front of him.
Lucas sat back, picked up the beer and began to speak.
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The first three years of our marriage was probably similar to everyone's first three years of marriage. We were committed to each other and only each other. We satisfied each other's desires and fantasies. We lived in a continuous state of sexual arousal and expected it to last forever.
Our perspective, and our future, changed in a single weekend. For years I thought it was an accident. In retrospect I've begun to believe that it was probably preordained. It was probably our future all along.
After almost three years of self imposed, sexually abundant, isolation, Emma wondered if we should expand our non-sexual relationships and interact more socially with those around us. Except for Church and Sunday school, we rarely had encounters with others.
Emma began to interact more with the woman's auxiliary at church. She would linger after services to assist with the coffee and donuts in the church basement and attend other meetings during the week. Generally, these activities didn't interfere with our sexual routines and, on the rare occasion that they did, Emma was eager to add intensity to the next time we were intimate.
She made numerous friends and, through her, I met a number of the women and their husbands.
After about a year, Emma was part of the inner circle, those women in the church who were privy to the inner workings of the church and its hidden activities. She learned that, about once a month, about two dozen of the couples had a party. Those women who had attended the party were effusive in descriptions of the parties and the "fun" they all had.
Eventually, Emma received an invitation to the next party. It, like most of the gatherings, was to be in the home of one of the more affluent members of the church. Emma implored me to accept the invitation. "If nothing else," she said. "It's an opportunity to see how the other half lived and it would cement her position in the church. I just want to show my face," she added.
I had no inkling at the time that Emma would show more than just her face.
The night of the party, we dressed conservatively and completely. Emma wore one of her best dresses. It buttoned half way down with a bell shaped skirt and short sleeves. She wore conservative panties, a full supportive bra and a full satin slip. A shoulder wrap completed her outfit. I wore dark slacks, with a white collared shirt and tie. A matching sports jacket completed my outfit.
We left our daughter Lucy with Emma's mom for all night, expecting the after party for us at home would be more expansive if Lucy wasn't there to wake up and derail our ardor and arrived at the address of the party a respectful, half hour late. It was a huge mansion for the time. Remember this was1953 and only a year after Lucy was born.
The house was two stories tall and probably five or six thousand square feet. There was a note on the door to let ourselves in. The door was unlocked. We entered a large two-story foyer with dual curved stairways to the second floor and a huge crystal chandelier high over our heads. There was little light. We heard music from a room on the right and followed it.
We expected forty to fifty people but there was only two other couples in the room. They were holding drinks and pointed to a self service bar against the wall. I made two gin and tonics for Emma and me. When I returned with the drinks, Emma had joined in the conversation and introduced me to the other couples, John and Emily, George and Misty. The women were dressed similarly to Emma. Misty's dress buttoned half way down and flared into a skirt while Emily's had a bell shaped skirt that buttoned all the way from the neckline to the hem.
The conversation was benign, mostly about the house we were in. After a few minutes, John, Emily's husband, offered to show Emma the rest of the house. They wandered off in the direction of the foyer. I heard them heading upstairs. A few minutes later, Emily asked me if I would like a tour of the house. With Emma already on a tour, I didn't think it would be a problem so I followed her back to the foyer and upstairs.
Upstairs, there were five bedrooms. Emily showed me all of them with the exception of one where the door was closed. The last bedroom was an exquisite affair with a larger than normal bed and a private attached bathroom. Emily put her purse on the bed and headed for the bathroom. "Excuse me," she said. "I have to pee."
When she returned she was holding her panties in her hand. "This is embarrassing," she said. "But these got wet and I can't wear them." She picked up her purse and tucked her panties inside before putting it down again.
I was probably naΓ―ve at the time but I didn't see a problem or an opportunity in the moment. This was a church sponsored affair, wasn't it?
"This is unusual," said Emily.
"Unusual?" I commented.