When my wife, Lisa, and I were dating, and we talked about being exclusive, I wasn't really expecting the question of "does that mean for sex, too?" The obvious answer to me was "yes, that means sex too - what do you think 'exclusive' means?" but not to her. Where I'd only been in one relationship before, and only ever fooled around with a few people, she'd been having casual sex regularly since high school. This didn't suprise me, when we first talked about it - Lisa is conventionally gorgeous, with stunning blue eyes and straight, shoulder-length red hair that somehow is straight and wavy at the same time. By contrast, I was always that kind of mixed-race kid who got what I thought were the least attractive elements of my parents. Frizzy black hair (Lisa says it's fun to play with), curves that I consider overweight but Lisa can't keep her hands off, glasses that I only sometimes need. I'm shortish and stubby, she's tallish and slender. So of course she had more sex than me, and it wasn't surprising that our ideas of sex didn't really match up. She was cool with total exclusivity, though, at least at the start.
So we dated, and a month turned into six turned into a year, and the question came up again. At that point, I knew she was "the one." Emotionally, spiritually, I will never need another person. Lisa and I connect on so many levels: our bisexuality, our thought processes, our religion, our general view on life and children (that's why we're, y'know, married now) - so she asked the sex question again. We worked it out - each of us is free to have sex with whomever we choose, so long as we use protection, and we come home to each other for emotional support.
The idea of having casual sex never really appealed to me aside from in a fantasy sense. It seemed weird, the idea of sex without the emotional connection: why would I want to share my body with someone who doesn't share my soul? So I never considered taking my half of our arrangement, and I continued to rely on Lisa and on myself for sexual relief and pleasure. And oh my goodness, is it pleasurable with her - but that's not the story I'm telling you today.
The story I'm going to tell you is the one you asked about. And you said you were sure you wanted to hear it, all the graphic details, from the very beginning, so don't you dare chicken out on me halfway through.
This started after Lisa overheard one of my masturbation sessions in the shower, maybe a few months after we started living together. One of my recurring fantasies is multiple men fucking me at the same time. And I really do mean fucking. There is no "making love" about these fantasies. Sometimes, they actually get into rape territory, where I'm being held down and forced to take all of their fat cocks...
ANYWAYS. Lisa overheard, and she asked me if I wanted to live out that fantasy. I blushed and got all puritanical, started mumbling something about emotion and sex and love, and she laughed and held me. She told me about this orgy she goes to: usually a medium to large affair, everyone uses protection, and you never have to do anything you don't want to. Lisa offered to take me to the orgy.
I'm still not certain I would have said yes if she hadn't been playing with my nipples the whole time she held me.
We got to the house where the orgy was a little on the early side. Lisa wanted me to come in and get to know some of the people beforehand so I wouldn't feel as awkward. I told her I could feel awkward anywhere. She held my hand as we walked in. She showed me where to leave my clothes, where to lock up my purse, and I walked stark-naked into a room of other stark-naked people, immediately self-conscious. Remember that old theater trick of "the audience is in their underwear" to make you less nervous? Yeah, it never worked for me either. Multiply the it-doesn't-work factor by ten and you have how mildly terrified I felt at that moment. Lisa, though, saw a few people she knew sitting on a couch and led me over to them.
"Karen, this is Ellen, Annie, Dan, and Lionel. Everyone, this is Karen, my girlfriend," Lisa introduced casually. Three people stood up to greet me.
"Hi Karen, I'm Ellen," Ellen said, extending her hand. I shook it.
"Ah, the mysterious girlfriend!" Annie joked, also extending a hand. "Lisa said she had a really serious girlfriend, but I couldn't imagine anyone letting her go out and do what she does."
"Well, she comes home to me, doesn't she?" I shot back. Annie laughed and nodded.
"That she does," Dan butted in. "Dan, pleased to meet you." One more handshake.
"Likewise," I answered.
Lionel waved from his position on the couch, and Lisa sat me down on the ottoman of a chair she leaned back in. Once I got past the human nudity - they're just bodies, it's not like I've never seen another human body before - the weirdest thing about the entire event had to be sitting butt naked on someone else's furniture. And doing other things butt naked on someone else's furniture. I don't even go naked on my own furniture. But (pun intended) I sat down and got over it.
We made small talk. (Naked small talk.) Dan, a Latino man with a very long torso, manages a burger joint in the downtown area of where we live, but he loves to sculpt and hopes to go somewhere with that. Annie and Ellen are an on-again, off-again thing, currently in an off-again phase, since Ellen's about to head to law school across the country. Dan works for an advertising firm. Lionel's a mechanic - Lisa actually found out about the orgy from him when she got her car fixed a few months back. Dan and Annie went to the same college, but met at the orgy.
Lisa held my hand.
The evening started to pick up. More and more people arrived, and I started to see random people doing random sex things. It weirded me out, at first, but everyone else was taking it in stride, and as I relaxed, I actually began to find it kind of hot. Lisa and Dan both had to remind me not to stare, staring is rude, and if you want to join, just ask.
"Actually, Karen, can I play with your tits?" Dan asked. "They're really awesome, I've wanted to say that all night."