It Gets Worse ...

Perhaps the problem was they were being too lascivious and open about sex, Elizabeth thought. She'd grown up in a very prudish household, and it worked for them. So she started by denying Douglas sex, since they weren't trying to have a baby.

So she gave Douglas the cold shoulder, concocting excuses for denying him. She focused on the kids, the Bible, her health, but that pivot didn't work.

She thought if she understood cuckoldry, perhaps she could nip it in the bud. She figured it was animated by Douglas's shame over having a small penis. She spent hours reading stories of those satisfied, and cautionary tales where the bull displaced the husband completely. Both were terribly arousing.