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girl, and we both had boyfriends at the time. Though it wasn’t Stanley. But I think that’s what made it zipless—we were both girls, so we didn’t have the same guilt as you would if you cheated on your man with another guy.”
Zarina had somehow felt necessary to explain to Lisa that she hadn’t cheated on Stanley, though it seemed kind of ridiculous under the circumstances of her existing club membership.
“It all goes back to the shame, I think,” said Lisa. “Can you live with yourself the next day if you hurt the person you love by being with someone else?”
“I’ll leave that question for you, the other members of The Scarlet Letter Society, and Erica Jong to ponder,” Zarina said, clearing their cups.
G-Chat With Ron Jacobs
[email protected]
July 5 to Eva
5:02 PM Ron : hey
Eva : hey!
Ron : so have you ever been to a sex club?
Eva : um. no
5:03 PM Ron : we should totally go—there is one in Baltimore
Eva : have you been there?!
5:04 PM Ron : yeah with Nicole.
5:05 PM Eva : what is it like? And what do u need me to go there for if u have your hot 20something girlfriend already going there with u?
5:06 PM Ron : It’s not as freaky as you might think. There are different rooms and you can watch or not watch or go in rooms or not, there’s a BYOB bar—it’s pretty laid back.
5:07 PM Eva : yeah someone’s getting laid there for sure.
Ron : truuuuue. haha
5:08 PM Eva : and you didn’t answer…you want me to go to a sex club with you becaussse?
Ron : I think u would have fun! Maybe you and Joe could go with me and Nicole.
5:10 PM Eva : You have obviously lost your mind. Joe and I do not need to be in a sex club to reminded that we don’t have sex anymore.. Let me guess—this has something to do with your threesome fantasy, doesn’t it…
Ron : what! No. Why do u say that!?
5:11 PM Eva : If you think my forty-one-year-old ass and saggy boobs are EVER going to be naked in front of your perfect little size-zero girlfriend you can dream on, young intern.
5:12 PM Ron : you wouldn’t have to. At a sex club, anything goes.
Eva : ew. The concept of the germs alone completely freaks me out.
5:13 PM Ron : there are pros there to make sure everything is completely sanitized.
Eva : ew. They need staff to clean up all the—ew. Just EW.
5:14 PM Ron : you should just come with me and we can give a try to see what you think. You might like the “torture chamber” room.
5:15 PM Eva : Torture chamber sounds fun, I must admit. But not one that someone else was in five minutes ago.
5:17 PM Ron : It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
muahaha
5:18 PM Eva : You are too young for that reference.
5:19 PM Ron : ha ha I think it came out when I was like in first grade, but I’ve seen it on AMC.
Eva : This conversation is just making me feel old.
5:20 PM Ron : You’re not old. You’re hot.
Eva : So are you, my young staffer. So are you.
5:21 PM Ron : What? Stiffer? Lol Well I surely look forward to seeing you in the morning.
Eva : Yes, see you then. And don’t call me Shirley.
Ron : Huh?
Eva : Nevermind.
Eva sat back at her kitchen desk area chair, took off her reading glasses, closed her laptop and wiped her eyes with her hands, shaking her head. Yeah, he can maybe get a 90s Silence of the Lambs reference, but definitely not a 1980 Airplane reference from four years before he was born! Having an affair with someone literally from another decade was interesting, that was for sure. No Pandora Internet radio station covered this generation gap.
Although she appreciated Ron’s young body, she constantly felt old and fat and wrinkled around him. Technically, especially for her age, she wasn’t any of those things—working out paid off, but whenever they were together, which was rarely in public anyway, she always felt like people (the waiter, the store clerk) looked back and forth quickly between her and
Zarina had somehow felt necessary to explain to Lisa that she hadn’t cheated on Stanley, though it seemed kind of ridiculous under the circumstances of her existing club membership.
“It all goes back to the shame, I think,” said Lisa. “Can you live with yourself the next day if you hurt the person you love by being with someone else?”
“I’ll leave that question for you, the other members of The Scarlet Letter Society, and Erica Jong to ponder,” Zarina said, clearing their cups.
G-Chat With Ron Jacobs
[email protected]
July 5 to Eva
5:02 PM Ron : hey
Eva : hey!
Ron : so have you ever been to a sex club?
Eva : um. no
5:03 PM Ron : we should totally go—there is one in Baltimore
Eva : have you been there?!
5:04 PM Ron : yeah with Nicole.
5:05 PM Eva : what is it like? And what do u need me to go there for if u have your hot 20something girlfriend already going there with u?
5:06 PM Ron : It’s not as freaky as you might think. There are different rooms and you can watch or not watch or go in rooms or not, there’s a BYOB bar—it’s pretty laid back.
5:07 PM Eva : yeah someone’s getting laid there for sure.
Ron : truuuuue. haha
5:08 PM Eva : and you didn’t answer…you want me to go to a sex club with you becaussse?
Ron : I think u would have fun! Maybe you and Joe could go with me and Nicole.
5:10 PM Eva : You have obviously lost your mind. Joe and I do not need to be in a sex club to reminded that we don’t have sex anymore.. Let me guess—this has something to do with your threesome fantasy, doesn’t it…
Ron : what! No. Why do u say that!?
5:11 PM Eva : If you think my forty-one-year-old ass and saggy boobs are EVER going to be naked in front of your perfect little size-zero girlfriend you can dream on, young intern.
5:12 PM Ron : you wouldn’t have to. At a sex club, anything goes.
Eva : ew. The concept of the germs alone completely freaks me out.
5:13 PM Ron : there are pros there to make sure everything is completely sanitized.
Eva : ew. They need staff to clean up all the—ew. Just EW.
5:14 PM Ron : you should just come with me and we can give a try to see what you think. You might like the “torture chamber” room.
5:15 PM Eva : Torture chamber sounds fun, I must admit. But not one that someone else was in five minutes ago.
5:17 PM Ron : It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
muahaha
5:18 PM Eva : You are too young for that reference.
5:19 PM Ron : ha ha I think it came out when I was like in first grade, but I’ve seen it on AMC.
Eva : This conversation is just making me feel old.
5:20 PM Ron : You’re not old. You’re hot.
Eva : So are you, my young staffer. So are you.
5:21 PM Ron : What? Stiffer? Lol Well I surely look forward to seeing you in the morning.
Eva : Yes, see you then. And don’t call me Shirley.
Ron : Huh?
Eva : Nevermind.
Eva sat back at her kitchen desk area chair, took off her reading glasses, closed her laptop and wiped her eyes with her hands, shaking her head. Yeah, he can maybe get a 90s Silence of the Lambs reference, but definitely not a 1980 Airplane reference from four years before he was born! Having an affair with someone literally from another decade was interesting, that was for sure. No Pandora Internet radio station covered this generation gap.
Although she appreciated Ron’s young body, she constantly felt old and fat and wrinkled around him. Technically, especially for her age, she wasn’t any of those things—working out paid off, but whenever they were together, which was rarely in public anyway, she always felt like people (the waiter, the store clerk) looked back and forth quickly between her and
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