The following is taken from my Great Aunt's diary - at least I think that's who it is. I found it amongst my Uncle's possessions after he died. He kept it locked away and it was only by chance I found the key, and only by chance I bothered to read beyond the initial pages. I have tried to be selective as some of the content is irrelevant to the main thrust of the story. I have also corrected spelling (and some grammar) where necessary, and added the odd word or two to give sense to some of the scribbles, otherwise it's here as written.
It concerns my Great Aunt Felicity and her son Uncle Robin, and was written some time in the 1950's (although the days are recorded the year is not). Given it's content I confess I was both shocked and surprised. I simply didn't believe such things happened back in those days. Today maybe, I could believe it, although even now incest is still a controversial subject but back then it must have been a total taboo
Anyway judge for yourself...
14th May
They are letting me go!! I can't believe it! I'm not that old. I'm 57 and they can't make me retire till I'm 60... at least that's what I thought... but they say they can do it. They tell me they want to replace me with a younger manager. I have 3 months notice. That sounds a lot but as my flat is tied to the job I must leave my home at the same time as my work. What am I going to do? I have to find a flat and a new job but at my age and in the current economic climate that may prove impossible. Nobody wants an old woman!
10th June
I have tried and tried but I was right, nobody wants to employ an old woman close to retirement age. If I have no job I can't afford a flat. Does that mean I will be out on the streets? How can such things happen in this day and age. I have no money worth speaking of and no savings Oh Dear Lord what am I going to do?
12th June
I went to see the Social Security people today. They say they will help, but all they can offer me is a pittance income and no help finding somewhere to live. They say if I am homeless I can go on the social housing register, but as the waiting list is two years in this area that won't help. They say I will have to stay in Bed and Breakfast if I can't find a flat! Have I really come to this?
Later: Robby is coming to see me this weekend. I mustn't tell him. It would not be fair to burden him with my troubles. Please God make me strong.
18th June
Something happened this weekend, and although I am still not clear about it in my mind, I think I will record it in some detail. It gave me an idea ... a terrible, awful, horrible, selfish idea. A way out maybe, although I cannot believe I am writing this. It is the kind of obscene idea no mother should ever allow to enter her head, and I am not seriously considering it, and yet...
Let me explain. Maybe writing it down will clear my head and my mind.
It was late evening and we were watching TV. I was sleepy because I had taken my pills (I can't sleep without them anymore), and I was laying on the sofa. Robbie was in the chair opposite. I guess I was slipping in and out of sleep and a bit restless. Anyway my dressing gown must have fallen open showing my legs. I still had my stockings on as I normally do before I go to bed and I supposed the top of one of my stocking was partially in view. I must admit I'd never worried about being too coy around Robbie... I mean, he's my son.
But then as my eyes opened from a brief nap I noticed he was staring at my legs. I was going to cover myself up without saying anything; after all he's a young boy and he's bound to look at anything revealing in a female, even his Mother. But I didn't want to embarrass him so I waited till he was looking away. But then to my horror I watched him (through half-closed eyes) get up and walk towards me. His eyes never left my legs so I couldn't move. He stopped right in front of me and bent down staring at my stocking tops. I closed my eyes feeling both embarrassed and strangely excited. When I dared to peek again he was on his heels, his face only inches from the thick dark nylon of upper part of my stocking. As he crouched there his legs were ajar and I could see a bulge in his pants.
That was enough, I closed my eyes, half-coughed and moved slightly, and when I opened my eyes again he was back in the chair staring at the TV, with his legs tightly crossed. I stretched, pulled my dressing gown back over me and said something about going to bed. He mumbled a vague goodnight.
Later as I lay in the darkness of my bed I heard a squeaking noise from the bedroom next door and realised Robbie was masturbating. I'd never heard that before and guessed he probably never did it when he was visiting me. That meant he was undoubtedly masturbating to visions of his mother's legs wrapped in sheer stockings, probably with a sharp seam down the back. Men are all the same!
It was a strange feeling to suddenly be the source of your son's sexual fantasy and I wasn't sure how to react. He was still just a little boy to me, and yet obviously he wasn't. Since my husband left he's been my only real companion. I'd told him many times he was the 'only man in my life' but that was just a phrase and I didn't really see him as a man at all. But he was always there for me and I was grateful. I loved him very much. But the idea he was a sexual being, a mature man, had never really occurred to me.
That said I know men and I know how their sexual needs can come to dominate their actions. Not that I was indisposed to sex, far from it. It's just it's been a long long time since anyone had looked at me that way and I wasn't sure how to react. I supposed I was flattered as well as alarmed. But the love I have for Robbie seemed to make it alright... even if he was my son. At length my fingers slipped down between my legs and I fell asleep with my hand gently resting between my thighs.
It wasn't until next day I began to wonder how much of his excitement was down to the fact he could see my stocking-tops and how much was down to me being his Mother. There are lots of magazines around showing women in stockings and garter belts; maybe he'd developed what they call a 'fetish'. On the other hand he was 19 and I knew he'd had girl friends and everyone wore stockings, so was it the fact of who I was that had made it so exciting for him? Perhaps it was a combination of both; his 'mummy' looking sexy in stockings?
It was then my mind made that horrid selfish insane leap. I was wondering idly how far he would go to see more, and that linked itself suddenly with my own problems. Could I use his incestuous desires to my own advantage? Maybe he could help me... find me a place to live? Maybe I could even live with him for a while until I found a place of my own... if I was that attractive maybe I could use his lust to my advantage?
Almost as soon as I had the thought I was ashamed of it. It was in effect a kind of abuse. Not only was it selfish, not only was I thinking about
using
my son for my own ends, but I was thinking about using his pubescent
sexual
desires as a way of solving
my
financial problems. Even if he was attracted to his own mother at the moment (and that was by no means certain, it may have just been the stockings), it would soon pass and he would return his focus to girls his own age. Interfering in that process could damage him, worse if I did try and use his attraction to me for my own ends I would have to encourage it... give him something to get excited about. I too would have to be incestuous. In fact I'd have to try to