A Short History…

Before we get too far along here, I’d thing we should provide a little background information, a bit of history… how we got here, online and in public, in the first place…

Until about a year ago, things between the Daree and I were pretty tame. Outside the bedroom we had a very good relationship… we were good friends who shared engaging conversation and comfortable silences with rarely a spat. Life inside the bedroom was a collection of our collective sleeping habits and occasional light reading, peppered with sporadic sex and very little adventure at all.

Our marital condition began to change in… I think it was late September of last year… with the beginning of a whimsical email game. At the time, we were both in awash in boredom at our respective desks, and to pass the time I suggested we play the game our then-seven-year-old daughter and I “invented” over dinner together (just the two of us) not long before, a simple game of “either, or” meant to amuse. The rules were simple… she would give me a choice of two things (cake… or ice cream?), and I would pick one (cake!), then I would give her a choice (jelly beans… or licorice?), and she would respond (licorice).

For my game with Dee, however, instead of keeping to the innocence of the original creation, I began with an “innocent” choice laden with innuendo: whipped cream… or chocolate syrup?

For a few exchanges, we stuck to the innuendo, then moved on into the fringes of sexuality, the basics, the simpler, less naughty choices (lights on… or off? missionary… or doggie style? morning… or evening?), but it wasn’t long before we dropped the innuendo and simplicity entirely, and for a few days the emails flew back and forth fast and furious. Eventually, we made our way through every possible sexual choice-of-two we could think of, and were forced to switch to another invented game… and then another… and then another…

…until, eventually, we arrived where we now stand, in the midst of the dare game currently in play. I dare Dee to perform a specific (daring) act, anything from going out and getting the mail while nude, to… posting a lingerie picture online in a public forum.

Thus was born this blog.

Along the way, we’ve gone from not talking about sex at all, to talking about everything… from which of our friends is cuter, to our fantasies and interests, to seriously discussing the possibility of swinging and threesomes. We’ve shopped for, bought, and used sex toys and varioius foods, and subscribed to the Playboy channel. We’ve engaged in “adult” weekends, played games, and visited strip clubs together.

And these were our first tentative steps into the world of inventive exploration. There’s no telling how much fun we’ll have THIS year. And now we have a blog to chronicle what happens next.