1 It is not a bad idea to prepare “books” on the fantasies you develop, with notes, reminders, etc. The prototype here, though more extensive and developed, would be the “director’s play book,” in which the director has not only the script, but his notes, stage directions, sketches of scenery, costumes, etc. A sketch of scenery does not mean you have to build it, of course. The imagination is important. Your wife can imagine, for example, that she lies on a bed in a certain sort of room. If it is not sketched, it can be described in prose in the “book.” (A loose-leaf notebook is excellent, in which pages may be entered and removed, as the fantasy is expanded and revised. Typing, too, is superior to longhand, as it is more attractive, more professional and easier for both partners to read. Punched, unruled paper is to be used. Typing looks better on such paper, and sketches may be more aesthetically included.) She, and you, can then imagine the room as actually being like the description. Entering fully and imaginatively into these fantasies is a sine qua non of success. If one cannot, from the inside out, play a role or imagine an environment, one will probably not make much sense out of imaginative sex. It would just seem, I suppose, strange or silly. If one can imagine things, it could be a discovery of a new and joyful dimension of life.

An intricate fantasy, requiring attention and characterization. This is the sort of fantasy which, from the first establishing of the female’s character, as she acts “herself” in, say, shopping, conversation, relations with inferiors and superiors, dressing and undressing, etc., through her capture, processing, transportation and purchase, to her forced surrender on her master’s ship, could consume several nights. Indeed, if an indefinite series of adventures is initiated, with perils, captures, etc., the fantasy could be prolonged for months. It could, for its duration, constitute a sexual fantasy life for the partners, a most pleasurable and imaginative hobby. If concluded, of course, it could then, sometime, again be initiated. Sex is one pastime in which men and women are ideally combined. It beats bridge. Fantasies, of course, can be carried on simultaneously, just as one can read new chapters in different books on different evenings, having several in process at one time.1 On different evenings the players might have different feelings. On some evenings they might not wish sex at all. On another night the wife might say, “Tonight I feel like Linda,” or, say, “Tonight, I am Vonda,” etc. Perhaps one night a week is set aside for imaginative sex; and other nights, if sex is enjoyed, it is sweet, less exotic, familiar sex, loving and warm, reassuring, intimate, beautiful and marvelous.