The summer before we started university, my first serious girlfriend and I went on an organised camp with people we knew from school. One day, we'd decided to go for an early morning dip in the sea.
It was the sort thing we'd normally do on our own, but for some reason a younger boy came with us. He was a nice lad, so I guess it was just that we'd been hanging out together.
My girlfriend was eighteen at the time. The lad would been about three or so years younger than her. That's quite a big age gap at that time of life, but they got on well together. She must have seemed like a big sister to him.
When we reached the sand, there wasn't anyone else about. My recollection is vague after the passing decades, but I seem to remember that the boy and I paused as if not really sure what to do now we'd arrived. There was no such hesitation from my girlfriend. She quickly stripped completely naked in front of the lad, before pulling on her swimsuit.
I suppose that I shouldn't have been surprised because she was never shy. In fact, she'd previously shown everything she'd got, vulva and all to one of my mates. That had been a deliberate flash to prove a point to me. This time her nakedness seemed much more natural and not at all sexual.
Nevertheless, I could see the young lad was taken aback at first. However, he soon recovered and we swam together in the cold sea. When we'd finshed she threw off her wet cossie and air dried briefly in the nude. That's exactly what she'd do when we were on our own, but not when other people could see her.
This time he took it in his stride. Tacitly, she'd given him permission to look as much as he wanted. Surely, my girlfriend must have realised that for a boy of his age seeing her naked would be like all his birthdays had come at once.
Was she taking an exhibitionist delight in showing the young boy what a grown woman's body looked like? Or did she think it was of no consequence because he was so young, just like he was her kid brother?
Certainly, it wasn't as threatening to me as it had been when she'd flashed my mate. In fact, I was beginning to take a bitter sweet pleasure in people seeing her naked. In time, I came to admire her for not giving a shit about it. In later years, she developed a love of swimming and sun bathing in the nude.
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