Prude Stories

It's not easy being twenty-two, fresh out of university with a degree, and not being able to find a job. You feel self-assured with the graduation certificate, why wouldn't you? It's all you have been working towards for four years. I really thought journalism was different, but I, like my friends, had a taste of reality, and along with it, great humility. I changed tactics and applied for any job that may get me in the d...

I’m sure you have all heard of the Butterfly Effect in Chaos Theory. How a small, inconsequential action can have huge effects. Well, our butterfly moment was my request for Mary to pose for some glamour style portraits as a birthday present for me. A seemingly innocuous request that had life-changing consequences. Up to that point, I had a wife I loved dearly, but who could only be described as being demure, prim, purita...

It was such a shock to me when I was on a weekend away with my boyfriend Eric and a friend of mine, Tania. It was mid-afternoon and we had just returned from an eight-kilometer run. I was getting a glass of water to drink in the kitchen and Eric was sitting in the lounge watching TV. In walked Tania, from the bathroom, wearing only her black spandex halter top she wore for jogging. In her hands she was holding the spandex...

He told her he had a special surprise for her…She didn’t know what. Maybe he was going to propose?! They already lived together so he couldn’t be asking that. Or maybe it was just a puppy or a necklace. Maybe he got a promotion and wanted to celebrate it?! He told her to wear something sexy. I don’t own sexy, she thought with a grimace. She put on her shortest dress, which was still just above her knees, and did her hair....