husband material sitting in a porn theater in the middle of the Combat Zone. Or would I? The lights went down in the movie theater and I glanced to my left and Brandt stared at me. “Hey Conrad,” Brandt said as he twisted in front of Nellie’s legs, “switch seats?” Nellie looked from Brandt to me and back to Brandt as if she was watching a tennis match. She shook her head at me and looked back at Brandt. “Uh, sure?” Conrad said. “Wait,” Nellie said, “where are you going?” Brandt didn’t answer Nellie and slid down the aisle toward me and Conrad. Conrad stood up, waited for Brandt to pass and then made his way toward the empty seat next to Nellie. Nellie gripped my arm. “What did you do?” she said through clenched teeth. “I didn’t do anything,” I said. “I swear.” Conrad sat down next to Nellie and I looked at Brandt. He smiled at me and shrugged. Nellie slammed back into her seat, folded her arms across her large breasts and pouted. I looked down in my lap and wished I was anywhere but there. “I’m sorry,” I said into Nellie’s ear and she turned her head away from me. The theater lights went down and a grainy film popped onto the screen. A large woman in a bikini gyrated to canned music that crackled from the theater’s speakers. There were grunts of approval from the theater patrons as the woman began a slow striptease. Brandt grazed my neck with his fingertips as he brushed my hair to the side and whispered into my ear. “I hope you don’t mind me sitting here.” I turned and looked at him and forgot we were in the middle of a filthy theater that played dirty movies. “No, not at all.” I felt Nellie’s eyes burning a hole into the back of my head and I sat back in my seat and stared straight ahead at the screen. The large dancer was now naked. Her breasts flopped back and forth in time to the music and the only thing she wore was a black mass of thick pubic hair over her vagina. I laughed to myself as I thought of Katt’s comments about European women who had what looked like carpet samples covering their areas. Brandt shifted in his seat and I kept my head as rigid as I could, neither looking at him nor looking at Nellie who was probably looking at me. The music in the film changed to a sort of psychedelic-Indian track and two men walked into the room with the naked woman. The woman in the movie feigned distress as the men pawed at and mauled her naked body. One of the men threw her down on a bed, conveniently positioned in the middle of the room. The men stood over the woman and began to remove their clothes. Despite the weirdness of the situation, I was aroused by the scene. Brandt stretched his long legs out as much as he could in the cramped aisle and his leg brushed against the side of mine. I didn’t move away, but parted my legs a bit until the side of my leg pressed against his. I glanced to my left and was shocked to see Nellie practically sitting in Conrad’s lap and the two of them making out. On the movie screen, one of the men knelt on the bed at the naked woman’s head. Her arms were stretched over her head and she stroked his penis back and forth. The man leaned over the woman’s face and kissed her breasts and sucked at her nipples. Her legs were spread wide and the other man knelt between her legs and he rubbed his penis. I glanced back at Nellie and Conrad and did a quick double-take as Nellie shifted down to the floor on her knees and knelt between Conrad’s legs. Brandt chuckled beside me. I looked over at him and he was leaned forward and watching Nellie and Conrad. Nellie fumbled with Conrad’s belt buckle and he looked down at her. I wondered if Nellie had seen the movie before as she mimicked the actress’s moves. I looked away when Nellie looked at me as she took Conrad’s penis out of his pants. I stared at the movie screen and the man at the naked woman’s head shoved his penis roughly into her mouth while he