Chapter 3

Bernie Katz had reluctantly agreed to meet Merilee at a coffee shop mid-morning when it was quiet. She had thought a lot and talked a lot with the sisters about how to approach him. They had found out where he worked and had even done a surreptitious little survey of female co-workers for impressions of what he was like. He scored well.

“Mr. Katz, your daughter and...”

“Bernie, please. I just have a feeling any formality will seem silly before long,” he quipped.

“As long as I’m Merilee. OK, Bernie, your daughter and my son are in most classes together - advanced classes. But despite their brilliance, it seems both, as well as several contemporaries, are socially, um...”

“Retarded is the word, I think,” he finished for her. “Are we here because you have some kind of a solution? I have certainly come up empty. When we lost her mother, that lack of female presence seemed to devastate her.”

That was very encouraging. Here was a father who really wanted to help his painfully shy daughter. “Let me tell you a theory that a brilliant friend of mine believes, and that I have found very credible,” Merilee started.

“Teens, without specific help, are mystified and confused by the opposite sex. Highly intelligent people always want to understand things before getting involved with them. The opposite sex is not really understandable. That is why so many really bright kids are shy.”

“And have you found a way to increase that understanding so it is not such a hindrance to normal socialization?” Bernie asked.

“Understanding? That’s a lifetime of work doomed to failure, I’m afraid.” They both chuckled at Merilee’s comment. “But reducing ignorance, fear, and confusion has been very successful for my son and a good friend of his. Bernie, haven’t any aunts, grandmothers, or even female cousins been able to help Esther?”

“Cousins?” Bernie gave a visible shudder at that. “I’m afraid Esther lumps them with what she calls the ‘MTV bimbos’ who ridicule her. As for aunts and grandmothers? My sister and two sisters-in-law are firmly entrenched in a different generation’s views on male/female relationships.”

“Wow! That must make for some nasty family battles.”

“You would not believe! Merilee, I am so thankful that Esther is a bright, loving daughter. I’m proud of her. If I could only...” His voice choking at that point made Merilee feel that she had a mission to help the little family.

She proceeded to tell Bernie what had happened with Jeremy. When she told about being challenged to first bare herself, she watched his face and got a reaction. When she stopped, he admitted “I wanted to take her to a naturist resort. The problem is they won’t admit a father and daughter unless she is eighteen. I researched the nude beaches, but most of them seem undesirable in a lot of ways. The Caribbean family resorts with clothing optional would be good, but I haven’t been able to work that in.”

“Did Esther agree to the naturist resort?”

“I never got as far as discussing it with her. She probably wouldn’t have. I suspect you have a plan for her, right?”

Merilee nodded. “Jeremy has spent four and Arne three weekends at the sisters’ place. They are nude the whole weekend and have lots of sex. However, they do lots of pretty intensive study on females and on sexuality in general. The plan is for Esther to join them, nude, of course. The sex would be eliminated, at least as far as intercourse. As much touching and sexual play as Esther is interested in and comfortable with would occur under Katrina’s supervision. The same level of study would go on. There would be a Sunday brunch that you should attend.”

“I assume I would be expected to follow the dress code. Will you be at the brunches, Merilee?”

“That’s a problem, Bernie. Being married, I feel some guilt even with my son, and certainly with his friend. With other adult males - my conscience couldn’t handle that.”

“So, your husband knows nothing about this?”

“Except in the bedroom, he’s probably a lot like your relatives.”

“I assume I will be the one to present this plan to Esther.” Bernie stated.

“Right, and the first view of the penis that has fascinated and frustrated her for so long will be the deciding factor,” Merilee teased.

He blushed and groaned. “Bernie, come on. You were looking for a nude beach or park.”

“Oh, I know it’s what I have to do,” he assured her. “That doesn’t make it easy.”

“At least you don’t have my problem,” she stated.

“Oh, what’s that?”

“Flatterer! Not much on me is tight and firm. Not like the sisters.”

“All I can think of is a crude comment from teen days and I won’t say it,” he grinned. “So the sisters are in good shape, huh?”

“Very. Your brunch will be very enjoyable, as will theirs.”

“Uh, thanks. Any suggestions on how to do the, uh, unveiling?”

“Have a pool? Hot tub? Those are perfect places to leave off the suit.”

“Yeah, both,” he nodded.

“Oh, and Bernie, don’t be surprised if she strips, too.”

“Not likely.”

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

“DADEEEEEE!” That was followed by a crash as Esther dropped the pan she had just taken from the cupboard. She stood, mouth open, gaping helplessly at Bernie’s crotch. Finally, red-faced and hyper-ventilating, she managed to raise her eyes to his face. There, she saw concern.

“Sorry to shock you, Sweetie, but I couldn’t think of a gentle way to do this - not one that I could manage, anyway.”

“But why? If it’s tough for you, then...?”

“We need to have a serious talk. Let’s chat while I help you with dinner, OK?” He suspected he would be doing most of the preparation and he wondered if she would eat enough to be worth the trouble. Although Merilee had suggested the pool, he decided it would be better if he was never covered up. A less natural situation might make more of an impact. So far, his assumption seemed right.

“I understand Jeremy and Arne are two of the boys in most of your classes, right?”

“Um, yeah.”

“Do you know them well?”

“Daddy, I don’t know any boys well, you know that.”

“Well, are they good guys?”

“I guess. They seem to have as much trouble with girls as I do with boys. Oh! The last few weeks, both of them have been talking to me more. I wonder...” She jerked her head towards her dad as the thought that some sort of campaign might be in play occurred to her.

Esther had never been shy around her dad, and she pulled out two counter stools, sat on one, and motioned him to the other one. “So, what’s the magic cure for your daughter’s nerdity?”

Ignoring her sarcasm, Bernie told her Jeremy’s story. “Of course,” he assured her at the end, “Sex wouldn’t be in the plan for you.”

“Oh? Isn’t that sex discrimination?” she teased. “Besides, Jeremy has the makings of a hunk. If that’s what I wanted, though, what could be better than that?” She pointed right it his penis.

She was shocked by the moistness in his eyes, but he explained quickly. “It hurts me that you can’t show that same strong personality and wit to anyone but me, Sweetheart.”

She let out a sigh and hung her head, looking away from his crotch for one of the few times. “Yeah, I wish that, too. It’s just...”

“It’s just that you don’t understand boys and you’re very uncomfortable with things you don’t understand. It’s often a curse of extra intelligent people,” he explained.

“Then, how did you and Mom get together?”

“She just grabbed me and hung on until I got my act together,” Bernie recalled.

“And it’s only the women who do that, right?”

“Usually,” he admitted. “Unfortunately, too many men pretend until they get what they want, then disappear.”

“Dad, if I’m going to do this, can Tana do it with me?”

Tana Morgenstern was Esther’s best friend, and another of the high achieving kids.

“Hoo, boy!” Bernie exclaimed. “With her father...”

“Forget her father. Let her mother handle it.”

Bernie was reluctant to call Merilee because he knew her husband was unaware of what was going on. He called the next morning from work and gave her the Morgenstern information.

Rhoda Morgenstern had seemed reluctant on the phone, but when they met that same afternoon, she was smiling and friendly. The reason was apparent when she told Merilee “My Tana has been telling me how much your son and his friend Arne have changed in the last several weeks. Can you help my baby change like that?”

After Merilee told her the story and the plan, Rhoda asked “Is your husband really OK with that?”

“He doesn’t know, at least not yet. I can’t imagine he hasn’t noticed the difference in Jeremy.”

“Well, my husband is what I want to save Tana from. I was just like her as a teen and Peter just swept me off my feet. Oh, he’s a good provider and good in bed. But it’s like he has his own life otherwise. My oldest daughter takes after him. She knows everyone and is into everything. Peter never puts Tana down like her sister does, but she doesn’t get the same attention. I suppose it’s partly because Tana is at a different intellectual level.”

Does every parent have the same concerns? Should every kid get the ‘treatment’? Merilee was wondering in amazement. Rhoda interrupted her thoughts with “I’m not wild about Tana having sex, but I suppose she is old enough.”

“That is not in the plan for the girls.”

“Girls?”

“Oh, sorry. Esther Katz said she only wanted to do this if Tana did it with her,” Merilee explained.

Rhoda was quiet and thoughtful for a while before speaking. “You said you went to the brunches. Would I be expected to go.”

“I couldn’t,” Merilee stated. “With an adult man there, it would be disrespectful of Ted. I had enough of a quilt attack with Arne.”

“But not with your son?” Rhoda questioned.

“That was more of a thrill - a definite, huge thrill. But you understand, there will be two teen guys and a naked man. In a few weeks, the brother of the sisters will be moving in and joining the brunches. I love Ted and I worry about what I have already done. I couldn’t do that.”

“I could!” Rhoda declared. “Not often, but I know Peter has had a few women on the side. I would feel absolutely no guilt seeing a few different penises, and I would love a chance to show off my body.”

“I can understand your desire to show off. You look great,” Merilee complimented. Rhoda had a slender, tight physique. She moved like a dancer.

“Thank you. If I seem, uh, forward, I guess I have outlived my shyness. Living with my husband and eldest, it was a matter of survival. Once I got so I could communicate, I made some good friends.”

“Do you have any friends as couples?”

“Nope. I think Peter is ashamed of me.”

“Why? You must look better than his friends’ wives.”

“You mean sluts of the month. Every friend of his I know of is divorced or never married.”

“I’m sorry, Rhoda. If it helps, I’d like to consider you a friend. The sisters are quality people. They will like you, too. Say, I’ve never met Tana. Does she look like you?”

“Spitting image. She does not consider that a good thing, right now. Her boobs are as small as mine were at that age. Only now do I appreciate the value of no sag.”

“I take it you are going to encourage Tana to do this, right?”

“I’ll drop her off tied up if I have to. No, that’s not right. She and Esther together will manage.”

Katrina had a good idea how difficult the arrival would be for the two girls. The guys had come earlier thinking there would be time for some sex. Well, there was, but just once for each. “We don’t want you shooting off when they first touch you.”

“Touch us! But I thought...!”

“Look, Guys. If we tell them we’ll do whatever they want, how much do you think they will ask for?”

“I guess you’re right,” Jeremy admitted. “So you’re going to make it like a ceremony?”

“And why would we do that?”

Arne pipe up right away. “Because ceremony and ritual seem to mean more to women.”

“Right. So you guys just hang out here until we come and get you. Oh, and no jerking off.” The sisters hurried from the room giggling ahead of thrown pillows.

When the girls arrived, they looked much more calm than the sisters expected. “We need to tell you, Katrina and Celeste. We know a little more than you expected us to,” Esther informed them. “Last night, Daddy decided this was something parents should be responsible for.” She couldn’t say anymore because of tears, so Tana picked it up.

“He called and invited me and Mom over for dinner. Mom agreed, but only if she could bring the food. When we got there, he was naked and he stayed that way.”

“Were you stunned?” Celeste asked Tana.

“I had to hurry to the bathroom before I peed my pants. That was wonderful, just being able to watch him. But that was just a welcome. After dinner he left the room for a few minutes. We heard the shower running, and he came out with a foam pad, a blanket, a pillow, a bunch of towels and a bottle of lotion.”

“Did you know about this ahead of time, Esther?”

“Huh, uh. I was as surprised as they were. He took Rhoda aside and talked to her for a moment. It looked like she started to faint and he caught her. Then she hugged him like she would break him while she cried and cried.”

“I think I know what happened next,” Katrina interrupted. You each got a chance to make him ejaculate, didn’t you?” The girls nodded. “Esther, did it bother you that Tana got to learn that with your Dad?”

“Huh? Of course not. She wishes he was her dad, too. Maybe he will be before long after what happened later.”

“Rhoda stayed overnight, I’ll bet.”

“It was more than just that,” Esther said. “We watched TV for a while. When Daddy walked out, Mom told us to undress and come in the master bedroom. Daddy was going to wash each of us in the shower. After that we could watch them make love and all sleep together in the big bed.”

“Did you think it was gross when they had intercourse?”

Almost simultaneously, both girls said “No way!” Esther said “It was beautiful. I think they really love each other.”

“Mom said it was their first time,” Tana added. “But they explained everything and always asked if we had questions.”

“So Bernie was able to come a third time, huh?”

“Come? Oh. Yeah, he was. He got hard again but said his tank was empty. In the morning, they woke us up doing it again. We all skipped school and work today. We just put clothes on to come over here.”

“Did you wonder if you really needed to come over, then?” Celeste teased.

“Oh, no. It was wonderful with Daddy, but thinking of boys our age seeing us naked is still scary,” Esther exclaimed.

“And touching you and you touching them?” Katrina prodded.

“You mean you want us to?” Tana gasped.

“We want you four to do anything you want except intercourse,” Katrina insisted. “Did you two decide you each wanted to pair up with one boy for the weekend, or do you want to keep changing around?”

“We kinda have different favorites,” Esther admitted. “But we don’t want to seem like we are going with one of them. And besides, we could learn more by switching around.”

“Good thinking.”

With their carefully worked out plans made unnecessary, they went to find the boys. Katrina told Tana “I hope your Mom finds a way to marry Bernie. I think he’s one in a million. If she gets stupid, I may try for him.”

“I could live with that, too,” Tana said giving Katrina a hug.

Not everything from the plan was scrapped. A very long session teaching the guys to massage the girls was a great start for the weekend. With the sisters demonstrating on each other between the two couples, the girls were nearly boneless when the boys started some serious foreplay.

The girls did not seem upset that the boys had previously had sex with the sisters while intercourse was being denied them. They were the ones that asked to be able to watch the boys do it again.

Katrina’s material on human sexuality was eaten up by the girls and they asked questions for hours. Tana commented “Katrina, if this gets out, every feminist will be your sworn enemy.”

“So, you think it’s wrong?”

“Oh, no! I feel like “Of course! Why didn’t I think of that?”

Late Saturday, when the girls had loosened up dramatically, they shared some Net material of their own that the group analyzed.

The delightful get-together with Rhoda earlier in the week had triggered more guilt in Merilee. What she and Ted had was too precious to risk. She had already taken too much of a chance. She would tell him immediately.

As soon as she returned from dropping the boys off Friday and Ted was home form work, she told him. “Ted, Honey, I need to tell you something. You might want a drink.”

He looked at her with a trace of fear. All men probably feel that hearing those words. She quickly hugged and assured him “Oh, Honey, I’d never betray you. It’s not that.” When they were seated, she told him “I just went ahead and did something that I didn’t think you would approve of.”

“Jeremy has been different lately, like he got laid. Is that what this is about?”

She went ahead and told him, including Arne. “That’s the one thing I feel really guilty about, Ted. I was naked with Arne. All I can say in defense is that I believe it helped turn him around.”

“I can see how it would,” Ted agreed. “I’ve talked to him. He lives with two bimbo bitches. So, you didn’t think I would go along, huh?”

“Well, except in the bedroom, you tend to be kind of conventional,” she pointed out.

“I guess you’re right. But I was never shy like Jeremy. I’ve been really worried about him and felt bad for him. Are the naked brunches why you’ve been working out lately?”

“I can’t just go on genetics any longer, I’m afraid. The sisters shamed me,” Merilee admitted.

“Well, Baby, you did a good thing,” Ted said to Merilee’s huge relief. “I probably would have objected, but you can’t argue with the results. He’s turning into the young man he should be. You’re forgiven.”