The Fourth Challenge
Fantasy challenge:
On Day 1 of this week's challenge, write down three sexy things (positions, roleplay, kinks, whatever) you would like to try with your partner. These may be things you've tried one or two times, or things you've never done. Share the lists with each other. During the week, do at least one of the activities from each list.
They looked at each other. Gloria spoke up first. "Okay. I think a really important rule for this is no kink-shaming. If you tell me you want to try something I am not interested in, or that I find maybe even repelling, I won't make a big deal out of it. We'll discuss it, find out why it's interesting to one of us and unappealing to the other."
Dan agreed. "And maybe in thinking about that, we could find an alternative that's interesting to both of us. I bet Dr. Coleman thought about communication and compromise as part of what makes sex better." He hugged his wife. "Think you can come up with a list by dinner? It says 'the first day', so we can stretch it to tomorrow morning if you want."
"I'll think about it, you too. if we're ready, we're ready. if we can't think of three things, maybe we can discuss the ones we have, and come up with a few more." Dan agreed, they kissed and parted.
Dan noted that their kiss was warmer than the perfunctory smooches they'd routinely traded a month earlier, before their visit to the semi-celebrity sex therapist Dr. Cheryl Coleman. The sex life improvement plan Dr. Coleman had provided involved weekly challenges designed to improve intimacy and fantasy in a committed couple's sexual life. So far it was working pretty well.
He pondered. Over the decade of their marriage, they had done some experimenting but found themselves going back to habits they found comfortable and predictable. But comfortable and predictable could get into an over-familiar and ultimately boring routine.
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Item one on Dan's list was kind of a curiosity. He knew many women had adopted the porn-originated fashion of shaving or waxing their pubes. Even though he loved looking at and touching and tasting Gloria's nude body, and the black triangle at her crotch, he couldn't help but be curious what it would be like to make love with her if she were bare.
The second idea he had was that he wanted to do more role-playing. Seducing his wife in a singles bar, as if she'd been a stranger, had made him love her even more.
Dan's third kink choice was semi-exhibitionism: sex in an exposed but private location. He didn't want to just show off in public, but the thought that someone might randomly see them was somehow titillating to him.
There were a few other possibilities that he considered, but those were the top three that came to his mind. He wasn't a very adventurous lover and nor was Gloria. This was going to stretch their carnal imaginations -- just as Dr. Coleman had intended.
1. I've wondered what you'd look and feel like if you shaved down below. I don't know if that counts as a kink but why not.
2. The role-playing fantasy from Challenge 3 was so fun, I'd like to try another scenario.
3. I want to make love outside, somewhere secluded, like we sometimes did in Adamson Forest. Or in like a broom closet in an office building, where we're private but there's a non-zero chance of being seen.
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Gloria puzzled over her list. She had a foggy memory from the Blue Parrot night of being naked and demanding Dan stay dressed -- and perhaps there would be fun in having it the other way, too. So that could be fun, and (assuming Dan's recall of that evening was accurate, hers was a total blur) there had been talk of "worshiping" each other.
One. We take turns being a naked worshiper of each other, obeying dressed partner's sexual whims, until the dressed partner decides to get naked also.
In college, Gloria had seen a bizarre foreign movie about a widow running a noodle shop, a cowboy trucker who is an expert on noodle restaurants, having visited hundreds around Japan, and some Yakuza gangsters. One of the gangsters and his girlfriend had a fetish about food play, and she recalled getting very excited by a scene in which they passed a raw egg back and forth, openmouthed.* Maybe a food kink, which would naturally lend itself to oral sex.
Two. We get a can of spray whipped cream and lick it off each other's naked bodies.
They had once thought about attempting anal sex, but both decided they were (a) grossed out, and (b) there was a much better place for Dan's cock, conveniently close by. She wasn't going to put it down, but if it was on Dan's list she'd at least discuss it. Flirting in the singles bar, pretending to be strangers, had been a nice turn-on. But Gloria didn't think of it as a kink, so that didn't count.
Gloria had to ponder a little. She liked it when Dan pinched or even lightly bit her nipples, especially when her period was approaching. But she had another vision -- Dan tied up and spread-eagle as she played with his body.
Three. I would maybe try some kind of bondage -- like where I'm tied up and you ravish me. And vice versa. I think it could be really fun to tease your cock when you can't move. Or maybe spank me or pinch my nipples with a clothespin or something. Okay, kink three is a tie between light bondage and pain play -- definitely something BDSM-adjacent, but I don't know enough to get detailed.
She checked the email from Dr. Coleman again.
Four, since we do 'at least three', I guess I'll put pain as number four.
She sealed her list in an envelope and put it on the dining room table. There was another already sitting there, with
Gloria
on it, in Dan's writing. She picked up a bottle of red wine and opened it, snagged a couple of glasses, and went off in search of her husband.
