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The passions and desires that most people only dream about fulfilling are usually kept hidden beneath a veneer of respectability and outwardly normal appearances. Mostly under unique circumstances — on a psychiatrist’s couch, in a place far from family and acquaintances, on an occasion where alcohol and the relaxed inhibitions of others lend an air of recklessness and experimentation — are those desires ever expressed or experienced.
This is a story about married adults who, while still in love with their respective mates, find themselves getting bored. Then an unusual set of circumstances revolutionizes their lifestyles, and forever changes the workings of their marriages.
And while they struggle to come to terms with their new way of life, they also struggle to keep up a facade of respectability — attending the proper social functions, keeping their homes in good order, working at their jobs — while behind the scenes they embark upon a path condemned by many but which, for them, is a new lease on life.
THE WILLING WIFE — the story of one possible road to marital happiness. A path taken by many others today. A comment on the changing mores of our restless society.
Herb Layton loved his wife Andrea very much yet, as he stood in the airport with her and his two children, he knew he was eager to see her leave.
Andrea was an attractive brunette with a better than average figure. She was an ideal mother, but a lousy bed partner for Herb. Being a practical person, her main interests had been those of an efficient mother and housekeeper. She viewed sex as a duty to be performed at respectable intervals. To Andrea, the only decent way to have sex was in the missionary position, and the oral sex she’d heard about was something that only depraved perverts would indulge in.
By contrast, Herb Layton was a lusty man with a strong sex drive that he struggled to control for the sake of his marriage. His frustrations had been heightened when the home office had sent Laura Benson out to his branch for a six-week training course. Laura was a flirtatious redhead in her early twenties who quickly let Herb know she was hot for his body. It was shortly after Laura arrived that Herb suggested that his wife and children take a shopping trip to San Francisco.
Fictional reading for entertainment purposes only.