Commitment
Well, the girls somehow sorted out the next evening we could get together would be the Saturday in a couple of week's time.
We had a bit to do as this was only six weeks from the proposed dinner date.
I went up to the hotel and agreed on a sample menu and on the wine selection. Georgio did us a really good deal at $75 a head to include all drinks. There would be a limited selection of three starters, three main courses and three deserts, beer wine bubbly and a few bottles of port. I was happy that this was a fantastic deal. It would also include all the tips as no one would be carrying any change around. The old joke about swiping credit cards down a pussy crack came to mind. After the mess that our kitchen had been left in I warned him about putting anything squashy or throwable on the plates.
Fran and Pete were a few years older than the rest of us, had nearly grown up children, although Frannie must have started early, and a bigger house than the rest of us. They said that they could happily accommodate twelve couples for the evening. Their children were going away for sleepovers with friends. Their basement bar and lounge was easily big enough to cope with two dozen people. The four girls parceled out the food between them. Pete worked for a drinks giant so could buy all his drink at cost. It seemed we had a party.
Each of the original couples had invited two more couples and we had arranged for Jim and Sonia and Slim and Agnetha.
These were all church members in their thirties or early forties as indeed were everyone else's guests. We had told them a little of the plan. Just enough to whet their appetite I hoped.
We had explained that it was an expensive night that would involve a fair amount of nudity. While we could not possibly say how the evening would end up we assured everyone that they would be able to pull out any time they reached their own personal boundaries. Nobody was going to force anyone to do anything they didn't want to. To that end we arranged safe words, even at this early stage. We told our guests that both on this Saturday evening and the night of the dinner if anyone used the words Red Light everyone in the vicinity must realise that that particular person felt that they wanted to stop what they were doing and go home. It was the responsibility of everyone around them to make them feel as comfortable about this decision as possible. Similarly Yellow Light would mean that they were coming close to their limits and they would like everybody to ease back a little. This reassured one or two of the couples, but invariably was the trigger for a few jokes or a bit of boasting along the lines of 'There is nothing going on here that I cannot handle. Handle this then.'
We decided again to keep nudity this first evening down to a minimum in order to keep up the anticipation for the second night.
We did have to introduce the concept however and to this end we built a small stage out of scaffold planks down one end of the room.
There was a good party going on. Everyone had had a bit to drink, the finger food and nibbles had been consumed and the music was cool. One or two couples had started dancing. It was about ten o'clock.
I turned the music off and asked for their attention.
It was left to Jane and I to explain the evening away. I guess we were the ones that had done most of the work on it.
We firstly explained the principle aim. To raise some money and have a good time.
It was our belief that a lot of people in this room and in our community would probably pay a lot of money for something that they would probably never be able to do again.
People nodded wisely.
As gently as possible I explained that that meant for the first and probably last time, seeing all your friends naked.
Everyone laughed.
'I would go further than that' I said. '$1000 is a lot of money.' That caused a few pursed lips, whistles and nods. 'I would expect for that money, not only to get a full dinner and all my drinks but to see my friends naked. All my friends. And flirt with them and dance with them. That is what we are offering Ladies and Gentlemen. But you don't have to agree this second. Let us start with a little entertainment that hopefully will whet your appetite.'
'My lovely assistants,' and here I pointed out Jane, Frannie and Kay 'will pass among you distributing a piece of paper each. The men's sheet has a list of the four girls you see in front of you and the ladies receive a list of these three studs behind me . Oh and me.'
I was pleased to hear a little laughter, The room had gone a bit tense.
'What you don't know, but I do, is that all four of these gorgeous ladies are wearing only four items of clothing each. Similarly we four men are wearing four items as well. On those pieces of paper I would like you to write the number one two three or four, against a name. Only using each number once. What you are doing is voting to say how many pieces of clothing that person should remove.
There was a buzz of noise which got louder until I decided to firstly make a joke and secondly offer the first chance of a pull back.
'Those mathematicians amongst you will quickly realise that two of us, one male and one female, will end up naked. One will end up with one item of clothing, one with two and one with three still. Relatively dressed even. This is the opportunity for anybody disliking the idea of seeing a couple of us naked to leave, If you do so I would ask that you do not tell your friends, and in particular the pastor about our idea to raise a lot of money. After all that is still the main objective.'
I waited a couple of seconds.
'Well, you are still all here then. In that case get filling in those forms. We haven't got all night.' I breathed a sigh of relief. We had not lost anybody.
The forms were quickly filled in and passed back to Jane who sorted out the votes for the girls and handed them to Pete. He and Danny started adding up the votes, as Jane and Frannie did for the boys.
I watched for a couple of minutes until it appeared that Pete and Franny were both ready.
'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a result.'
Pete passed me his summary sheet.
An excited babble ensued. They expected me to read them out.
'Ladies, would you join me on the stage please?'
The four girls formed a row on one side of the stage. Gentlemen, if we perhaps stand this side. The guys followed.
I felt like the announcer from the America's Got Talent program when I said, 'and so, in no particular order, Jane, would you stand forward and remove an article of clothing please.'
There was a hush as she stepped to the front and middle and slowly unbuttoned the half a dozen buttons on her blouse, teasingly slowly exposing her little bra covered titties.'