Once upon a time, in a place far away but not so very much different than it is here, there lived a young woman who was just voyaging out on the journey of her life.
She was pretty, but not so pretty that you'd expect to see her on the cover of a magazine. Her hair was sort of blonde and sort of brown, and every once in a while she'd put a red rinse in it that made people look twice, but it never would last long - hair dye never did with her. Her eyes were emerald green. She wasn't particularly tall or short, and she wasn't particularly thin or fat. She was basically your everyday pretty girl, the kind you see walking down the street and when you see her you think to yourself, "She's pretty."
Melissa, her name is Melissa, didn't I tell you? Well, Melissa had gone to college and done well and after she had graduated she had found a good job and moved to the city where the job was.
When she moved to the city she knew only the people she had met when she interviewed for her job, and none of them were her friends yet. So Melissa, for all practical purposes, was an anonymous pretty girl in a new city. Nobody knew her, or where she was from, or who her family was or what people thought about her in the places she had lived before.
And, as far as Melissa was concerned, this was a good thing.
It was a good thing because Melissa wanted a new start on life. And part of what she wanted to do in this new life was figure out what kind of a sexual being she was.
Melissa was not a virgin, but she did not think of herself as being terribly well educated and experienced when it came to sex. Her first experience had come during her freshman year in college with a sweet foreign boy she had met in her chemistry class. They had overcome their shyness and learned about each other's bodies that year, and finally in the early spring they had intercourse. They had never really fallen in love, but did make love occasionally over the course of their college years. She slept with a few other people during those years, but always came back to him. But he had gone home to his country and she had come to this new city.
And she knew that as sweet and wonderful as her sex life with him had been, that there was much more to experience. She thought about how she could get that experience. While meeting boys at college had been fun and relatively easy, she was uneasy about meeting men in bars in this new city. Melissa was also curious about what it would be like to be with a woman. But she had no experience in meeting women at all, and barely had any idea about where to start.
On top of it all, Melissa wasn't sure she wanted to get into an emotional relationship. It would be nice, but she was pretty sure that if she fell in love with someone that, while she would probably want to experiment sexually with that person, it would be only with that person. So if she wanted to be with a woman, or with more than one person, it would be better if it were just physical. At least that's what she told herself.
So Melissa went on the Internet and found some sites where people advertised for sexual partners and started reading ads.
At first, Melissa was a little shocked. There were a lot of people who sounded like they wanted to do a lot of unusual things - including a few she'd never heard about. But she read through the ads and thought about what she wanted to experience, and then she put together an ad for herself. It read something like this:
Single female, looking to expand my horizons and broaden my experience. I am new to all of this and in search of others who are also new, or those who can be patient with one who is new. I think I'd like to start with a couple, but you might convince me otherwise. I do know that for me pain and humiliation are not erotic, nor are activities involving bodily wastes. Being discreet is a must, but exhibitionism is not out of the question. Drug and disease-free of course, safe sex is required. Please write me and tell how you might help me explore my erotic side.
Melissa was pleased when she received a number of replies. She was not pleased that most of them were from men who wanted to cheat on their wives and from other men who thought that using foul language and describing their penises in terms that were far from believable was attractive. Still, there were some replies she didn't automatically delete from her e-mail.
A few were from single men she thought might be interesting in the long run or just to cure her horniness when it got to be too much. A few were from single women, some experienced, some innocent. They were interesting, but Melissa just wasn't sure. It just seemed like there was too much of a chance she'd fall in love with one of these people.
And there were a few from couples. They were kind of interesting, but most of them were from people who had been swingers for a while, and some of them had some ideas about what they'd like to do that seemed to be a bit too much for her tastes.
Finally, Melissa came home from work one night and checked her e-mail and there was a letter from a young couple that she thought might be just right.
Clare and Jim was a couple in their early thirties. Here's what they wrote to Melissa that first night:
Dear Melissa,
Tonight your ad came up on the list of people we might be interested in on the matching web site we subscribe to. We looked at your ad and your picture. You are very pretty.
Like you, this is a very new experience for us. Frankly, we're not sure about this kind of activity at all. We are very much in love and are going to stay that way. Still, sharing our bodies with someone else has always been a fantasy for us.
About those bodies - neither of us could be described as Barbie or Ken. I'm 5' 3" and 130 lbs. I have blue eyes and blonde hair (ok, maybe a little like Barbie, but not really). Jim is 5' 10" and 210 lbs. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. We exercise a little, but not as much as we should. Neither of us smokes, but we do drink now and then. No drugs and we're disease free, of course.
We're doing this because we want to explore more about our sexuality. Jim, like many men, has fantasized about being with two women at once. I'm curious about what it would be like to share him with another woman, and what it would be like to be with another woman as well. I hesitate to add that last part - I am curious, but it makes me very nervous as well. I mean, I didn't grow up thinking about women, but we've read some books and gotten some movies with lesbian scenes, and I've found myself reacting to them. So...
