ENTRY #3: FOLLOWING OUR CURIOSITY

My wife was asleep in the next room, and it was past my bedtime as well. But tonight things were different. Earlier in the evening Bella and I had stumbled onto something that just might be the catalyst for rediscovering the intense sexual excitement we’d felt when we’d first met: the possibility of watching other people have sex at a swinger club. Of course, that wasn’t what the primary purpose of those clubs was, yet that didn’t seem to discourage us from wanting to attend. We just needed to find the right club where we could be comfortable.

I searched the Internet and after a while I discovered a few swinger clubs located in our area. That was the easy part. Now I had to figure out if any of them were the type that we would be comfortable enough to step foot inside. To my surprise, most of the swinger “clubs” seemed to mainly be weekly parties thrown at someone’s private residence or in a hotel suite.  At first I was a bit suspicious, but it seemed that it had much to do with the fact that most owners of these types of clubs tended to be white-collar middle class couples whose lives and professions could be ruined if they were on record operating such “scandalous” businesses.  It made sense and I was willing to accept the fact that this wasn’t an official business like a strip club or other adult entertainment establishment. As a matter of fact, the secrecy sounded a bit mysterious and kind of naughty, in a good way.

After reviewing a few of the swinger clubs that ended up in my search results, I found myself drawn to one called The Forum which was about 45 minutes away from us. It was a bit of a drive but I thought it was more of a benefit to us rather than a disadvantage, since going to a club of such nature in our neck of the woods may increase our chances of bumping into someone we know. Oh, boy! I could not imagine what we would do if that was ever to happen.

Another reason I liked The Forum was because it was run by a couple that seemed to be close to our age, in their 30s, and they had a pretty good set of rules that appealed to newbies like us on many levels. They even had a section on the website for those who were contemplating coming to their club for the very first time. It was comforting to hear that they actually wanted to talk to each couple who was new to “the lifestyle” over the phone before putting them on their guest list.  I’m sure both Bella and I would have a lot of questions to ask before we even considered going, so this seemed a perfect way to get all of the answers. On top of that, this club had a “no touching without asking” rule which I thought seemed perfect.

I found some other websites where people talked about their experiences at various sex clubs. Most of them seemed pretty genuine.  The Forum had lots of positive comments from couples who ranged from first visitors to “lifestyle veterans”. The only negative comment I found about this club was from a couple who complained that they didn’t find attractive enough people to “play” with; obviously that’s something we would judge for ourselves rather than relying on other people’s visual preferences.

After reading more and more reviews about the swinger clubs in our area, I quickly realized that most couples could be divided into a few categories. One of them was couples who were cautious about picking out their partners and would engage in swinging about once every month or so. The other category sought out their experiences on more regular basis. Those couples seemed to be looking for places where people were most likely to hook up with them right there and then without much chit-chat upfront. I assumed that the latter category was made of couples who had done this for a while and found their routine, whereas the couples in the former category were still finding their ways and rhythm. I felt like we were not ready to be a part of either of the categories. Thankfully there was a third but much smaller group of couples who, much like Bella and I, were only interested in watching rather than participating.

I decided to email the host couple of The Forum to explain our situation and to ask them if this would be the right place for us to visit. Everything that I’d learned and discovered so far seemed reasonable, so I decided to call it a night and continue our explorations once I heard back.

The next day, Bella and I had very little time to talk in the morning as both of our days started early and became hectic pretty fast, so we didn’t get much of a chance to check in with one another until we came home after work.  After we had settled down and gotten comfortable, Bella cooked another one of her delicious dinners for us to share. We chatted about our respective days at work, which I tried to breeze through faster than normal because I had something else that I wanted to talk to her about.

“So, before I went to bed last night, I did some research on those clubs we were talking about,” I changed the subject.

“Oh yeah?” She seemed eager to switch topics as well. “Did you find anything interesting?”

I told her what I found out about the swinger clubs in general and the types of couples that they seemed to attract. She asked a few of the same questions that I’d been curious about myself when I was doing my research, so I had lots of information to share. It was reassuring to know that we had the same type of concerns, but at the same time we also shared similar interests on what we might be looking for. Then I told her about The Forum, the club that appealed to me the most given our newbie status to the whole situation. Bella seemed to agree that it was worth the longer drive so that we could be somewhat isolated from our immediate home area. It did not necessarily guarantee that we wouldn’t bump into someone we knew, but it at least put us at better ease to know that the chances were a bit slimmer. Plus, the physical separation from our own backyard would give us a sense of separation from our “normal life” in more ways than one.

I told her that I’d sent out an email to the host couple of The Forum and that we should wait until we heard from them with more information.

“Have you checked to see if they replied yet?” she asked.

I was a bit surprised about how anxious she was to push this further. It got me a little excited as well. I took out my phone and refreshed my emails. Indeed! I spotted a new email with the subject line “Re: Want to know more…” that I’d sent them last night. It came from “Mark & Jessi”, and seeing that made my heart drop a little. I mean, this was no longer a research project. Here was a message from a real couple in the lifestyle whose names we now knew, just waiting to be opened.

“They did reply, honey! You wanna read it together?” I asked.

“Of course I do!  I’m kinda excited to hear what they wrote back,” she replied, climbing into my lap so that she could see the screen.  Everything just kept getting more and more real. I opened the email and before I found the first line, Bella jumped ahead of me and started reading the email aloud.

“Dear J & B,” it began. I’d used our initials to stay discrete. I don’t know why I was nervous about spelling out our names but I wanted to be cautious just in case.

Thanks for writing to us.

We understand you’re brand new to the lifestyle so we are excited that you have decided to give your kinky side a shot. We actually pride ourselves in being a “newbie friendly” club. We have many couples who started their journey in the lifestyle by attending one of our parties and have continued enjoying it for many years since. On an average night we host about 20 to 30 couples and a small number of select single gals and guys. You will probably see a few other couples like yourselves that are attending a lifestyle party for the first time. We will be happy to introduce you both to some of them so you will have company to start the evening.

As you probably read on our website, we prefer to have a phone conversation with all couples who wish to attend our party for the first time. It is important to do so in order to make sure you set your expectations and boundaries realistically. Skipping this step may result in your complete rejection of the lifestyle before you get a real taste of its wonderful benefits. On our end we feel obligated to make sure that all couples who attend our party are on the same page which assures that everyone has a good time

If you are interested in proceeding, we would love to schedule a quick call with you two on the phone or over Skype so we can get you all ready to go, and answer any of the questions I’m sure you’ll have.

Our next party is this coming Saturday. The theme is “Shorts and shirts”, but you are not obligated to follow the theme if you don’t want to.

Hope to hear from you soon,

XOXO

Mark and Jessi

Bella took her eyes off of the screen and looked at me. I could see a mixture of curiosity and intimidation in them, and I think she could see the same in mine.

“What are you thinking, honey?” I asked.

“They sound…” She paused. “Not how I would have expected.”

“What do you mean?”

“I don’t know. I guess, I somehow thought they would sound like two horndogs telling us to come and jump into the middle of their orgy or something,” she explained.

“I’m a little surprised too. This sounded more like a customer service email that we would get from a phone company or something,” I followed. “It seems like they have a legit thing going on. I like that they said that they cater to newbies.”

“Yes, I liked that too. They also said that we wouldn’t be the only ones, which I think will help,” she replied.

“And I guess it’d be nice to be introduced to other newbies too, so we’re not sitting somewhere in the corner like freshmen on the first day of school,” I joked, earning me a smile from my wife.

“So, should we have that phone call with them and see what they say?” Bella asked.

“I think so. Let’s make sure we have all of our questions written down so that we don’t miss anything,” I suggested.

So, it was decided! I wrote them back to let them know we would be interested in chatting on the phone as they’d suggested. I told them when we would be available for a conversation, but I intentionally didn’t leave our number assuming they’d give us one to call instead. That way we could block our phone number to stay anonymous for now.

Mark and Jessi replied in another hour and we agreed to have our introductory conversation on the following evening. We were excited and scared, to say the least. All of the thinking and planning of our coming activity led up to another great fuck session later that night, but we did not talk about the subject until afterwards. Still tangled up in the sheets and each other, we laid there and brainstormed as many of the questions, concerns, and inquiries that we could think of and typed them into my phone in anticipation for our chat with The Forum couple the next evening.