Not Just No, But Hell No

Note:  brief frank discussion of sexuality today.  You have been warned!

Remember that flash-in-the-pan internet short film, First Kiss, about strangers kissing for the first time?  We wrote about it, here. It turned out to be an advertisement for a clothing company. Interesting.

The ante has been upped:  now there is Undress Me, a similar short film designed to be an advertisement for the television program, Masters of Sex. The premise of Undress Me:  two strangers are introduced to one another and then remove one another's clothing. Once they're down to their underclothing (brassiere and panties for girls, underpants for boys), they climb onto/into a bed together.

Herself can't even bring herself to watch the video. She supposes that for the young and attractive (and clearly rather self-confident), being denuded by a similarly attractive stranger might be acceptable, though a tiny bit awkward.  As a Rubenesque middle-aged woman who clearly bears the signs of having carried 9-pound babies (not to mention an ample handful of surgical scars), though, Herself cannot even imagine.

THE HORROR. OH HELL NO.

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When Herself and her ladies idly chat about their own seasoned bodies and about handsome young movie stars and with whom they'd willingly have an amorous encounter if they were available, all Herself can think is, in the event (God forbid) of an untimely demise of Beloved Husband, she would invest in a B.O.B. and call it a day.  She cannot begin to imagine the self-consciousness and vulnerability of disrobing in front of another person, after so many years -- decades, even -- of familiar intimacy with one man. It's positively nauseating even to contemplate. Unthinkable.

Then again, she wonders whether the only thing more terrifying than being naked in front of a new person, would be the thought that she might never be naked with another person ever again. There is something exquisite about being bare with another person. She would miss that in a most visceral way. But would she miss it enough to take steps into the naked unknown to try to find it again?

All Herself knows for certain at this point, is that in the unlikely circumstances that she were to brave that seemingly impossible new path towards nudity with another, it would have to be with someone whom she loves enough to take the risk.

No strangers need apply.