ex?
Olivia Jones: About eight months.
Chris Knight: And for the last six months of that you didn’t have sex?
Olivia Jones: Nope.
Chris Knight: Jeez, what was wrong with that guy? If you were mine I’d be ripping your clothes off every chance I got.
I felt my cheeks flush. My body wasn’t used to all this sexual excitement that seemed to have been awakened since the weekend and the slightest thing was setting me off . It really has been a long time!
Olivia Jones: I didn’t want him to. That was the problem. And after that ended I lost my confidence and by the time it was making a return I’d started Inspired and was too busy to think about it.
Chris Knight: Wow. So what was the problem? Why didn’t you want to sleep with him?
Olivia Jones: Too much history I guess. We had been friends forever and it just never quite felt right being with him, not sexually anyway. I guess while I loved him as my longest, oldest friend, I just wasn’t physically attracted to him. I thought maybe the friendship part was enough but in the end I realised I wanted a full relationship, sex and all.
Chris Knight: Quite right too, sex is great.
Olivia Jones: *rolls eyes*
Chris Knight: Lol but it’s true, it’s a big part of expressing your love and it feels good and it’s something that should be shared with someone you love. Sex can be amazing but you need to trust someone to put yourself in their hands, so to speak, to be able to let yourself go, give yourself over to the wild abandonment required in the pursuit of sexual pleasure. So it’s right you should end a relationship with a guy you don’t feel you want to have sex with. You’d be giving up a huge part of your life otherwise. Poor guy, I bet he was gagging. I almost feel sorry for him.
Olivia Jones: Well he got his own back. He was pretty cruel at the end; caused me to lose my self-confidence and probably explains why it has been five years .
Chris Knight: What did he say?
Olivia Jones: Told me I needed to lose weight and that he hadn’t fancied me anyway – sort of tried to make it sound like he was the one not having sex with me, despite the obvious attempts he had made. I guess he was just trying to make me feel the way he was feeling; rejected, unattractive. But he’s pretty thick-skinned so he got over it and moved on. I didn’t. I comfort ate, got really fat, and now I wouldn’t dream of getting naked in front of someone – which kind of hinders the libido somewhat.
Chris Knight: Turn the lights off. Wear a skirt and just remove your pants. You don’t have to get naked, Liv, to have sex.
Olivia Jones: I don’t know what to do either; he said I was rubbish in bed.
Chris Knight: Of course you were – you had no desire for him, no passion towards him. That doesn’t mean you won’t be excited and passionate with the next guy. What do you fantasise about?
This guy has no boundaries; I can’t believe he’s asking me this stuff.
Olivia Jones: Erm, celebrities I guess. I have a bit of a crush on The Doctor.
That was an understatement!
There was a long pause before Chris replied,
Chris Knight: OK so imagine you’re in bed with David Tennant.
Olivia Jones: No!
Chris Knight: Why not?
Olivia Jones: It’s weird, he’s The Doctor. He’s family friendly, rated U. It’s morally wrong.
Chris Knight: OK just imagine you’re in bed with someone you fancy. Then compare it to how you felt in bed with your ex. I bet there is a world of difference.
I giggled to myself as I tried to imagine myself in bed with someone; trying to stick a face on a body. I pictured someone getting impatient with me while I decided, looking at his watch; ‘ Come on, Olly, who do I look like ?’ I could only imagine Steven and I didn’t want to think about Steven. But even a slight glimpse in my mind of Steven, half naked, covered only by plain white linen sent my pulse racing. If only Brian had looked like Steven!
Olivia Jones: Yes, I think you are probably
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