Wet Sauna

The shower at the gym is odd.

The naked bodies there, the bare bodies of women there – are not the bodies of women I know. The television bodies and porn bodies are smooth, lithe poreless.
My own body, alive with angles and sinew is more like the tv bodies. My small breasts jump excitedly from my chest.

But the bodies at the gym stun me. They are rippled, red and loose. They hang and dangle in fascinating places. There are welts and puckers where I always thought only smooth slopes were. And breasts that are large lay flat and deflated while the small ones are often cockeyed and silly. Overall though, and this is something I like because I don’t have it, these bodies look soft. Soft and comfortable. No, comforting.

I walked into the wet sauna and along with a wall of steam I was met with the glare of two grey eyes. No one else was in there. The woman, at least in her forties, kept watching me even after I dropped my eyes. I could feel it. She was sitting naked and rubbing herself with a natural loofah. Rubbing her arms, her legs, her large breasts and finally her flat broad hips.

I sat down beneath her, just to her right.

I had my Great White Shark towel from Myrtle Beach wrapped around me. I very slowly let it drop. So she could see my arm and back muscles, recently worked to failure and swollen. I continued to slowly pull my towel down and off my back entirely. Then I opened it so she could see my flat stomach and the complete hairlessness between my legs.

I shifted my gaze up slightly to meet hers again but she was not looking in my face. And she was using the loofah now to rub between her own legs.

I watched. Then I cupped my breasts lightly with both my hands and lightly thumbed my nipples. She moaned. The steam was thick but I could see as she inserted two fingers inside herself. I opened my legs and ran my fingers up and down my thighs. Using the fingers of my right hand, I slowly spread apart my labia. She whispered yes repeatedly. I looked down at myself and then, too hot……quickly wrapped my shark towel around myself and left for the showers.

To see who else was around.