Excited? I was that and then some. But nervous too, fearful of somehow ruining what promised to be a night as memorable for me as my wedding night. And in fact I felt a little like a bride, a virginal miss about to experience the pleasures of sex and a man in bed for the first time.

In truth, I was thirty-six, an old married lady who after fourteen years of fidelity was about to to have her first affair-and with her husband’s consent, no less. I was incredulous when Mike first started talking about opening our marriage, but the more I thought about it the more sense it made. I was ready for this kind of adventure.

And so as I undressed in front of Hal, an old high school sweetheart who, as luck would have it, happened to be in town for a convention, I was both aroused and apprehensive, turned on by the... Read More