I would very much like to introduce my wife to rubber fetishism but am too cowardly to do so.

My wife accepts that sex happens between man and wife but will not discuss it, and most of our relations take place in bed with the light out. She achieves orgasm perhaps once a month, but the lack of it does not seem to bother her. Intercourse occurs about twice weekly, always with her on her back. Occasionally she will adopt the “trussed fowl” position, and then orgasm usually occurs. I have no difficulty in ejaculating or in delaying it for a little while she becomes “interested.” For most of our marned life sheaths have been used but these have failed on several occasions. A cap was used for a limited period, as were pessaries but the insertion of these was distasteful to my wife. For five years now she has taken the poll.

In my teens I found women wearing riding mackintoshes attractive and I attributed this to the fact that the tight fastening of the belt emphasized the breasts. When first married, my wife had a rubber-lined mackintosh and the sight of her in this and the smell of the rubber excited me. When alone in the house I would wear this mackintosh with nothing underneath. I would achieve an immediate erection and always masturbated.

I regarded myself as peculiar in doing this until 1962 when I saw an advertisement for “Ladies’ beautiful black rubber mackintoshes,” to which I replied. I received a price list of rubber and rubberized macs, and lists of sets of photos of women wearing these. I purchased several sets of photos and appreciated most of those women wearing a tightly belted black rubber mackintosh and rubber wellingtons. About this time the boot fashion developed, and subsequent sets illustrated leather boots — much to my disappointment. I bought my wife a white riding mac and black shiny rubber wellingtons — there was half a mile of country lane between our home and the school the younger children attended and so waterproof clothing was essential when my wife took the children to and from school.

I am also fascinated by women in rubber bathing hats. My wife has one which she wears, without any prompting from me, to keep the steam out of her hair when she takes a bath. I usually contrive to enter the bathroom when she bathes so that I can see her in her rubber hat. We have a shower and I enjoy wearing her riding mac and rubber hat and standing under it. This produces an erection, but masturbation does not always follow as I have regular intercourse with my wife.

A few months ago I plucked up my courage to order a black rubber mac for my wife, her riding mac then needing replacement. Until a week ago she wore this, mostly unbelted, when she went out in the rain but she now has the idea that it is the garb of a prostitute, and accuses me of thinking of her as a prostitute. I have also bought her a pair of antique brown Swedish rubber boots — knee length — but she has worn these only once. That was when the “prostitute” affair occurred and she put on the black mackintosh and rubber boots and announced her intention of going out to earn £2. She did not in fact do so but sat in the house from six o’clock to midnight so dressed and drinking gin. She eventually fell asleep, still mackintoshed and booted, and I thought my dreams would be realized and I would be able to have intercourse with her while she was still clad in the rubber mackintosh, but she awoke, undressed and went to bed. Neither the mac nor the boots have been worn since, despite the weather.