Eva and I were married just after her 20th birthday. I had turned 35 ...we were both virgins. Having grown up in this desolate area and poor we never dared venture out. Being of a religious family we were both sworn to obey what our parents decreed.
We lived in a small but devote village known for our wonderful farms and lavish weddings celebrations that would go on for days. All our weddings lasted three days. The first day was for the service to our lord. The Second celebrated the consummation and the third was the family picnic. For years after the day 1st service both families would spend the night on the eve of the consummation. For years I always wondered why families would spend the first married night with the newlyweds but I was always told it was for luck.
After the wedding service where we prayed all day and then said our vows we were told it was time for the consummation. We were both whisked to my parents farm house which only Eva, her parents, her grandparents as well as my parents, grandparents and myself spent the night. All of us entered the beautifully decorated house and, promptly, we were locked in. Odd, I thought.
The mothers took the groom and the fathers took the bride and we entered separate rooms where we prayed on our knees for what seemed like an hour. But what happened next I'll never forget.
My mother asked me to undress. As my grandmother, Eva's grandmother and mother and mine watched I disrobed. I got down to my underwear and felt shy. Mother reached over and tenderly felt my penis making it instantly hard. My grandmother, an old wise woman, said it was a holy and righteous thing to get erect for his family. So when I pulled my underwear down they all looked at my, embarrassingly, engorged penis and cried "hallelujah"! I was numb with embarrassment. There I stood nude with my penis hard as stone and starting to leak fluid, that I knew to be sacred semen of the lord. My mother then said:
"My son, you are ready and it is a tradition that you know that the women of both families for they must approve of your male virility before we allow you to procreate."