Loosening Up Bk. 07 Ch. 30-33 - End

Cricket grinned and added, "But we also have several other women living with us who are also kind of like wives. Bridget is Dave's niece, but she's often in our bed. Cindy Worthington is visiting, but she's at least a temporary wife if not going to become a regular. Lastly, we have our gorgeous Russian redhead, Tatiana who lives with us now."

Lars could barely speak, "So, you have like ... NINE wives?"

Dave nodded, "Plus all the other women in the Circle that I also love."

"God, I can barely contain Angie. How do you do it with NINE?"

"I don't have to contain them. They self regulate," he laughed. "I don't think of any as possessions or something I have to MANAGE. We're each independent and loving beings that chose to interact more closely with each other. Our home is very harmonious because that's the way we all want it."

Cricket pointed out, "Scarlett has a separate home down on Perimeter Road that you passed on the way up here."

"Why is that?"

"Partly for security, plus she wanted to sprawl out more than I guess our house allowed. She spends a lot of time up here with us, but we also go down there. Her house has proved to be a godsend because we have a nice place for the kids to go and get them out of our hair. They're contained, supervised by a few people designated for just that purpose, and the adults are free to play."

"That makes sense.

A short discussion ensued about how people were 'picked' to join the Circle, what they had to do, and how long it took. The new comers were surprised that entry seemed easy after just making friends. There was talk about the physical infrastructure and how that had changed since the original ten homes were built.

Olive eventually asked, "How did this place become so open to nudity or semi-nudity?"

Dave chuckled and Cricket gave one of her little squeaks as a substitute for a large laugh accompanied by a sharp intake of breath. He explained to the others, "It's a carry over from when we were much less inhibited regarding the sex we enjoy with each other. We've tempered things because some of the children are sometimes around during the day."

"And the nudity doesn't upset them?" Lars asked.

"Do you think it should?" Dave retorted.

"No, I guess not, but ..." His voice trailed off in thought.

"Our children understand that we live in a different and unique place. One of the things that makes this unique is that we don't associate nudity and sex. Thus you can have nudity without it needing to imply sexual relations are about to occur. The four and five year olds think nothing about the whole situation. The older kids understand more about what's really going on between the adults, AND they also understand why we think that's all right. They also understand not to share too much with those in the outside world. They've been taught to refer questions about those subjects to one of the adults in the family."

Angie asked in a tone tinged with awe, "So, if this was in the past, there would have been people around the patio having sex all times of the day?"

"And night," Dave added with a smirk. "Yes, but we prefer to use the terminology 'making love' since that was also what was happening."

Stan cautiously said, "You just did that with anybody you wanted to, at least that's what Olive told me she learned at the EneRG party?"

Dave sighed theatrically and hammed it up a bit. "Ahhh, the good old days ... and nights. Yes, but the adults decided that a nine and twelve year old watching us doing what mother nature intended was not in the cards lest we wanted to get in trouble with the law. Thus, we seriously moderated our behavior."

"So, you'd still be doing ... whatever ... if it wasn't illegal?"

"Actually, the governments that oversee us could see just about anything we do as illegal – even you folks. Even though we're on our own property we could be arrested for indecent exposure, at a minimum. Adultery, defined as engaging in intercourse with other than your married spouse, is still illegal in this state. Think of how many people THAT law alone would send to jail, including most of the legislature and the governor." He laughed. "Fortunately, everyone seems to have better things to do."

Lucy had been reading the scrapbook. She observed and questioned, "There are about a ninety people here, over fifty of them women. Some women must get short-changed once in a while, no?"

"No," Dave replied in a more serious tone. "Although it's not a requirement, almost all of the women are bisexual. They can enjoy being with another female as well as a male, although a male may be their preference. Many of the groupings are two women and a man, or other creative combinations that help even things out."

Lars, Stan, and Tim were shaking their heads in disbelief.

Tim stated, "This place is a paradise for a horny guy."

Cricket jumped in, "Or a horny woman. One of the characteristics of just about everybody here is that they're hypersexual. We all engage in not only sex, but also related fantasies, urges, and behaviors."

Dave added, "Yes, that's true. Hypersexuality has been considered a psychiatric disorder, but we don't think of it that way. Our preferences have rarely led to adverse consequences in social, work, or other parts of our lives. Of course, other than work, much of our lives are here with our friends and lovers who think the same way we do."

Lucy said in a tentative tone, "I think about sex all the time."

Olive nodded, and Angie said, "Me, too. I never thought it was anything bad, just me being horny most of the time." She turned to Stan, "What about you, honey?"

Stan looked put on the spot and definitely guilty. He said, "Hey, I'm a guy. Of course, I think about sex all the time. Well, maybe every ten or fifteen seconds, but I still get a lot done at work." He glanced sideways at Dave who was officially his boss's boss's boss. Tim nodded in agreement.

Dave nodded. "About the same as the rest of us. What about you Elin? Lars?"

Lars responded first, "I'm where Stan and Tim are. At home, Angie and I have never lacked in our love life. From what I read, I am sure we're way ahead of normal."

Olive grinned, "Us, too." Stan blushed at his wife's statement.

Elin observed, "I feel like Lucy and Olive do. One thing I do notice here is that you are very open and accepting about sex as a subject of conversation. In this group, the guys each blushed at mention of various aspects of the topic, the women not so much. Cricket and Dave didn't bat an eyelash; it was just normal for them."

Cricket smiled, "It is. We're also very open about sharing fantasies with each other in the Circle. After all, the person we're talking to is one of our lovers."

The heads nodded.

Lucy looked up from the scrapbook again and aimed her remarks at her friends rather than Dave and Cricket; "Hey, according to this if we stay around here into the evening hours that's when we'd be able to watch everybody in the Circle making love ... and we could maybe join in."

"I love you."

The words were more than seriously stated by each and to each of the nude partners as they made love on the large bed in the Prentiss house – three women and a man; Dave, Alice, Cricket, and Cindy Worthington.

The same words had been said the night before between the group and a few others as well. This Saturday morning they seemed to carry special meaning after the group had slept naked and cuddled together in a loving amorphous mass of hypersexual-sated flesh.

Dave sighed and sat up. He muttered to the others, "I have to go serve breakfast. You guys can stay and make love to each other again, but last call will be about ten o'clock if you want to eat."

Alice grinned up at him, "I want to eat ... Cindy's drippy pussy again."

Cricket giggled, "Oh, me too. How nourishing."

He left for the showers, and shortly was at his workstation making omelets by request as other members of the Circle showed up.

He was not surprised when Ginny Fuller, Nora DeVille, Carol Turner, and Leann Harris slipped between some of the houses, stripped away their t-shirts and tops, and came to order up breakfast. He got kisses from the newbies.

"Where are your husbands?"

"Golf!" Leann said with a slight tone of disgust in her maw.

Carol volunteered, "At least they're walking the course, so they'll get some exercise."

Dave said, "None of them are overweight. Heck, two of your males have visible six packs."

Leann moderated her opinion, "Oh, I know. It's just that I wanted some loving this morning, but hitting that little white ball around a field had more attraction than my pussy. Something's wrong here."

They all laughed and Dave started on their veggie omelets.

More to his surprise, fifteen minutes later Olive Carter and Angie Nilsson walked onto the patio. The paused and looked around, and once they saw Dave they headed straight for him.

Dave greeted the two as he harvested two of the omelets. "Good morning, ladies. What a surprise and pleasure to see you here."

"We weren't sure you were serious in your invitation, but we really wanted to come and see more of the Circle ... and you. Elin and Lucy would have come, too; but they were less bold about it that I guess we were. If this is at all inappropriate please tell us."

"No. No. Stay. Order some breakfast. I do omelets. If you want eggs done some other way, cereal, or other breakfast stuff just sit at an empty place at one of the tables and someone will come by and take your order within a minute or two."

Angie nodded, "Veggie omelet would be great. Can we tell Lucy and Elin to come? I'll text them."

"Yes. Where are your husbands?"

Angie responded, "Lars is sailing with a friend until early afternoon, and Olive's is repairing a broken window where a softball oddly went through the pane." Olive nodded and gave a mock look of sadness like a mime.

Olive said, "Boys throwing ball indoors. Not good for windows or walls. I'll also have a veggie omelet, providing they're easy to make."

Dave grinned, "I'm already cooking Angie's." He whizzed the ingredients together in a bowl and soon had Olive's omelet in the special pan. "I take it our conversation a week or so ago provoked your continued interest in the Circle."

Olive took stock of the thirty or so other women who were topless on the patio. She stretched and pulled the top she'd worn over her head, releasing her quivering mounds of tit flesh. Her nipples were excited and both pointed right at Dave, almost in invitation.

Angie repeated what Olive had done, only her pert breasts didn't do the bouncy dance that her friend's had. She turned to Olive, "Show off!"

Olive grinned, "If you got it, shake it."

Dave asked, "Anything specific you wanted to talk about? I have another twenty minutes before we close down for breakfast, but I could get my thoughts in order."

Angie shook her head, "No, and we'll wait if that's all right. By that time we'll have something to ask about."

Cindy Worthington rushed by the table and picked up the completed orders and rushed them out to Juan, Ann, and Bill. Olive and Angie watched her as they stood off to the side and watched Dave work.

"Does she work here?"

"This is part of her service duty to the Circle, just as my cooking omelets is part of my service duty." He went on to describe the concept of Service as viewed by the Circle, and how everyone had at least one job they did to support the well being and operations of the Circle.

"Do you do other things?" Angie asked.

"Yeah," Dave replied. "I'm also on the board of directors for the Circle, which includes the land and all our finances. I often tend bar. I also am the lead instructor for a course we call Circle 101 for new members or people interested in joining. We do that weekly, and sometimes it's just a good rap session. I often do cleanup after one of our parties. I pressure wash the patio and pool showers once every two weeks. I have a few others things, plus I fill in when someone is busy and has to miss a chore."

Olive chimed in, "And you're the CEO of EneRG."

Dave nodded. "If you think about it, that's a big communal work effort, too. We have lots of people, including you, applying their expertise to research, make, and ship batteries to companies that want to put them in their products for various consumers. It's the same principle."

"But I get paid," Olive said.

Dave teased, "Oh, I can fix that on Monday."

Olive looked horrified and quickly said, "Don't change a thing!"

Angie doubled over with laughter. "He got you good."

Olive said, "I did finish reading the scrapbook you loaned us. Everyone in our clique got it for an evening. This is a fascinating place, and much more that we talked about last week."

"You focused in on the sex. There is more to it."

"Sex is the controversial part, and that's what makes it interesting. Even though you didn't suggest it, we read between the lines. Olive and I got STD tests this past week."

Dave looked over the top of his sunglasses at them with a skeptical look. "And you did this expecting that what would happen?"

Both women blushed. Olive tried to respond, "Errr ... we were hopeful ... we wanted to ... if you were willing ..."

Dave shut them down. "No. I can't speak for everyone here, but I can speak for many of us. We aren't in the business of having secret liaisons that might threaten a relationship. You guys need to involve Lars and Stan if you want something more to happen. Your clean bills of health are a good start, however."

Cindy darted by and picked up a couple more omelets leaving Angie's and Olive's on the warmer. She went off again in a hustle.

Angie observed, "She seems to be a very dedicated Circle member."

Dave commented, "She's not a Circle member; just a guest. She's one of Mark Worthington's wives."

A long silence ensured at Olive and Angie looked at each other and silently communicated with looks and waggled of eyebrows and lips.

Dave yelled out, "LAST CALL FOR OMELETS!" No one replied so he started one more for himself, and soon escorted Olive and Angie to a vacant table where they sat. Right after they sat Elin and Lucy arrived and joined them. They only wanted coffee, so there was no need to return to duty for Dave.

Dave commented on the 'Frequent, Intense, and Wonderful' article in the newspaper, and said that unlike the week before he wanted to mention to them some of the other features of the Circle that the articles under emphasized but which were key to the Circle and its culture.

He started by talking about how the Circle had shunned monogamy and why, talked about equality, non-possessiveness, fidelity, and briefly polyamory. He mentioned the voyeurism and exhibitionism to go with the sexuality of the Circle, and then mentioned the concept of compersion, paternity, bisexuality, and authentic nature of each person in the group.

Dave talked about how the Circle avoided so much drama, using the concept of harmonious confrontation, and win-win approaches to differences. The diversity was obvious, but the unconditional love needed some comments.

By the time he'd finished an hour had passed. The group took a break to use the new bathrooms.

As they sat down again, Angie said, "Who around the patio is not a member? Who's trying to join or pledge as you put it?"

Dave pointed out the four neighbor women, split two-and-two in two different conversation groups so they could become known by other Circle members. Lori and Haley, two of the younger pledges, were on cleanup duty, going from table to table collecting plates, flatware, empty cups, and such and getting them to the kitchen.

Tatiana and Chelsea were helping Holly and Megan with a crowd of four and five year olds around the shallow end of the pool. Some swim and dive lessons were in process. He pointed out Jasmine washing down the shower stalls where swimmers rinsed the pool chlorine from their bodies. All that triggered a further discussion of how to integrate into the Circle by hanging around and by getting on various service teams.

The further discussion was how to meet people where one wanted to meet everyone in a prescribed area. Dave's answer was simple, 'Hang out with us a lot."

Angie raised the harder issue finally, the one Dave had been expecting for hours. She said, "How do we get our husbands interested in also joining the Circle with us?"

Dave actually laughed out loud. "I've been waiting for that question from one of you – at least from Olive or you. I don't know how close you are to Tim, Lucy. This may also apply to you.

"First off, you need to know what motivates him and what might motivate him to join our group. He already has at least one friend that he fishes with. Why does he do that? What's the attraction? Are there lessons there that you could bring to this situation?

"Yes, we are sexual, but from how quiet he was last week I wonder whether that would be a motivator. We are a loving group, and once we befriend you we are your friends for life through thick and thin. For some people, that's a major currency.

"Other currencies you could barter with each of your spouses with might include expense money, entertainment value, status, your sense of influence or his or hers, level of comfort, future prospects for fun, advancement or entertainment, the challenge of joining, or some link to their working relationships.

In both cases, I think you need to get them talking about the Circle and what they like and worry about. I am sure that losing you as a mate would be high on their worry list. What can you do to assuage their fears? You need to learn some of the lore and other stories that make the Circle the Circle, and then I'd build your case for you joining as a couple. You could talk to some of the other couples who are Circle members, too.

"As you hang around here, talk to some of the others about how they dealt with the emotions and feelings about relinquishing their old way of thinking about relationships and adopting new ones, especially the married ones. I can speak from personal experience, that it's a big jump to suddenly imagine and then see your spouse making love to another person."

Olive said, "Does everybody finally adopt this as their lifestyle?"

Dave shook his head. "No, certainly not. There are dropouts along the way, but after some point everyone makes it. I should study that more. Many people can't even start to imagine this as their lifestyle, so they don't even appear on our radar screen but for an instant when they hear about this place – the Circle."

Olive pushed out her generous chest and shimmied her large tits. "Well, Stan better get used to the idea, because if the Circle will have us, WE want the Circle." She turned to her cohorts. "What do you think?"

Angie said, "Lars might not know it yet, but we are going to become pledges to the Circle. I love this place and everything I hear about it."

Lucy grinned, "I'm in, and I think Tim is very interested, too. He told me last week that for the first time in his life, he feels he might be ready to make some kind of a real commitment to a relationship, only it'd be with the Circle of people and not one individual."

Elin smiled. "I don't have a trailing spouse. This place is scandalous, and I love everything I heard about it. I want to join. I hope to begin the journey very soon."

Hours later, after a full afternoon with the various women and men pledging the Circle, and then cocktails and dinner, Dave danced closely and romantically with Elin. She was a small woman, slight even, with small pert breasts and nips that seemed perpetually hard for the entire day. She claimed that it had to do with the sexual atmosphere of the Circle and her arousal.