In 'The Thick of It' I wrote about a month, 30+ years ago, of sexual activity with Kairos, a delightful man with a thick cock. I included his account of consummating their mutual desire with his mother, Dulcie. He was an academic, whose special expertise in the Classics was epigraphy, the deciphering of texts on ancient tombs and monuments.
Apart from the story about him and his mother, Dulcie, he told me of several other sexual adventures. I realised later that these were partly acts of kindness, because they involved women with disadvantages of various kinds, women with whom he felt especially empathetic. Partly thanks to following his mother's injunction that he was never to take advantage of a woman for his own pleasure but always to be motivated by respect and affection for the woman as an individual human being.
I recounted, in his voice, a couple of these contacts in 'Close Encounters of Several Kinds 1,' and I'll go on now to another of his sexual adventures, again in his voice, continuing from the previous episode, when he was on an archaeological dig on a Greek island, enjoying life with an elderly retired academic.
THE VIRGIN WIDOW
Jadwiga and I returned from that Greek island to her little flat near the university from which she had retired as professor emerita, to write up our report, complete with photos, sketches and field notes. It had not been worthwhile to try and transport any of our reconstructions, because they were incomplete and did not figure any notable persons. Meanwhile I was applying more or less worldwide for suitable scholarly openings, which were few and far between, so that I began to think I should take a school teaching training or, like Dulcie, my mother, go to work in a private establishment.
Jadwiga headed off to an engagement as a consultant by a German museum reviewing its holdings of Greek antiquities, and I returned home to Dulcie to enjoy a rapturous reunion, beginning as she met me at the door, and, having kissed her passionately my next action was to pull down her knickers, kneel before her and transfer the kiss to her clitoris. You will guess that we were soon in, or rather on, bed, celebrating our reunion. After which, as we lay satiated, we recounted our activities since I had last been at home. I told her of my time with Jadwiga, and she introduced the woman who was shortly going to be my next sex encounter.
The woman was apparently aptly named Sylvia, because she was small and delicate, elphine, like a mythical being from the woods, a sprite or dryad. Dulcie relayed her back story. Married at twenty to an older man with an accountancy firm, she waited patiently for him to consummate the marriage, puzzled that that though she shared a bed he did nothing but kiss her good-night, turn over and go to sleep. She thought there must be something amiss with her that he showed no desire, but consultations with doctors, notably a woman doctor, confirmed that there was nothing wrong with her, and that she should be able to bear healthy children. The husband ignored any attempt to raise the subject, which, thanks to a sheltered upbringing, the young wise found difficulty to refer to. He simply replied that at present he had no time or resources for offspring and maybe they would get round to that in due time.
Realising that there would be no change in the immediate future, Sylvia raised the subject of her seeking employment, and he agreed, so long as her household management and accounts remained in good order, and they did, so she took her administrative abilities into her work as the school secretary of the girls' boarding school at which Dulcie taught Classics.
The husband became more and more embroiled in his firm, taking no other notice of his wife than expecting his breakfast and supper to be on time and the house to be run efficiently, with the services managed and the bills paid. Sylvia had been brought up to regard marriage as a contract to be terminated only by death, so she sought satisfaction in her work at the school, where, thanks to her patience, kindness and efficiency everyone loved her.
And the contract was terminated by death, because the husband died of a heart attack over his books at age fifty-seven, and Sylvia was a widow aged fifty-two, rather well off with inheriting the house, some investments and savings and selling the firm.
Dulcie said, 'The poor creature was not so much grief-stricken as bewildered. After all, there had been no love involved in that long liaison, so there was not much to mourn, but she was now suddenly freed and needing to take control of her life as a single person.
'It happened just after you went away, so at the start of the summer holidays, and only she and I were at school working on next year's timetable. She was simply stunned, and the best thing to do was to bring her here and take care of her, Which meant taking her to bed with me, because she was clinging to me, needing reassurance that she was still functioning and capable of moving on. She was also desperate for affection, starved of physical comfort, having had no cuddling since she was a little girl. She was unable to sleep, unless in my arms, snuggled up close.'
'Where is she now?' I asked.
'She had to go to London overnight, to settle some complicated legal business to with the selling of his firm. She'll be back tomorrow.'
'Then we'd better make the most of tonight,' I said.
'Well, not necessarily. There was an interesting outcome to all that cuddling.'
'You mean = '
'The stroking and soothing produced feelings she had never experienced. As if she were a sleeping beauty, with me as the prince, and needing to offer more than just a kiss. She was, is, so innocent and ignorant she didn't realise for some time that the caressing was not just comforting but sexual.'
'Was she shocked when she twigged?'
'No. She was so much enjoying it and so lacking in preconceptions that she was happy to accept my reassurances that there was nothing wrong with two women giving each other pleasure as part of their intimate relationship.'
'The sheer novelty must have carried away any hesitations. Did she come?'
'She was a little anxious at first when I sucked her lovely little nipples, but couldn't see why she shouldn't enjoy that like other women did, as I assured her they did. And when she tried mine there was no further doubt. '
'So, while I was reviving Jadwiga's ability to orgasm you were enabling Sylvia to orgasm - I assume she did.'
'Again, a little hesitant where I first touched her clitoris, having never made use of it herself, but happy for me to continue when she began to be aroused. What possible objection could there be? It was delightful when the first orgasm overcame her. She was astonished.'
'Was she happy to make you come, too?'
'She was almost overwhelmed by knowing she could give another person so much pleasure. All her senses came alive, as if she'd been dormant for 30 years, only half alive.'
'Virgin, then, in all possible ways. How moving, touching,' I said.