Tommy and Claudia finally find a private place to do whatever they want. Spoiler alert: What they want to do is widely considered unsanitary.
Chapter 04
Berkeley in those days was basically a hippie sanctuary. There were thousands of students and thousands more of people like me, graduates with no desire to go back where we had come from, but no clear idea where to go, bumbling our way through the end of the Age of Aquarius.
Silicon Valley was already taking shape at the south end of San Francisco Bay, but it meant very little to me with my Social Sciences degree. I had already graduated from college elsewhere, so my fondest memories of Berkeley are primarily memories of women. Smart, independent, and naked.
Education? I'd had enough. Employment? Just enough to get by. The beautiful outdoors of the Bay Area? Maybe once in a while with a girl, a joint, a blanket, and a bottle of what we considered wine.
No, when I think of those days, I remember the smell of sweat, sex, and wet wood, with overtones of industrial disinfectant.
There were two great hot-tub joints in Berkeley in those days. And a couple more over in San Francisco. Every relationship I had for maybe ten years--romantic or otherwise--included time in those saunas and tubs.
One of the Berkeley establishments was clearly geared toward large parties. Seemingly back in the owners' native Finland, or wherever, the sauna had been a wholesome playground, not a hideaway for naked sophomores. One of the rooms was so large it held a bank of what looked like wooden bleachers that could seat at least a dozen people. A free-standing shower occupied the middle of the floor. A toilet sat behind a screen off to one side.
As luck would have it, this is the room that was available the day that Claudia and I decided to visit.
This was only a week or so after we had discovered each other. We were desperate for some "alone time." We were still maintaining the fiction that we were not a couple, but that meant we couldn't make noise or fondle each other when anyone else was around, and somebody in that huge household was always around. I suggested a field trip.
Claudia hadn't been to a sauna before, and her reaction to this hot, wet hideaway was very much like a child entering a new playground. We had removed our clothes in a tiny cool dressing room just off the hallway, and then pushed through a tight swinging door into the sauna.
I had noticed that most people walking into a sauna room in a group, or even with a partner, would quickly sit down and hunch over a bit, trying to be blasΓ© but not blatant. It was the same at nude beaches. It always took them a while to start enjoying the wonderful chance to air out their bits and look at everybody else.
Claudia, though, was bouncing around the floor taking it all in. As she ran naked around the room her face was so happy and her actions so free that I wasn't even aroused by her amazing body. She was simply fun to watch.
She turned on the shower and stuck her hand in the spray. "Does it get hot?" she asked.
"It's not as cold as it feels," I said. "It's sort of neutral. It'll feel wonderful when you've been in here awhile."
"There's a drain right here," she said, and looked at me meaningfully.
I smiled and nodded. I had been plying her with water and apple juice for more than an hour, telling her truthfully that it was to keep from getting dehydrated and dizzy in the heat. I was still carrying two full bottles of water I had bought in the lobby.
She looked around the end of the screen hiding the toilet.
"Why would they bother to have a toilet?" She asked.
"Some people are shy," I said. "Also maybe someone has to take a shit."
She studied the toilet for a few more seconds, then turned and walked toward the benches.
"Can we turn up the heat in here? Where is it hottest?" she asked.
"Just have a seat and relax," I said. "It will start to feel hotter and hotter. You'll know it when you see yourself start to sweat."
She picked a spot and sat down, then turned toward me and extended her hand. I took it and sat down next to her. She leaned her head back against the bench behind her, closed her eyes, and relaxed. I did the same.
"I love this," I said. "I need a fix every week or so."
"Speaking of needing a fix..." she said. I felt her little fingers wrapping around my cock. I was soft and she started to pull it out and away from my balls like a piece of taffy.
"That's nice," I said. "Go easy on me," and I reached across her arm and began playing gently with her pussy lips.
"It
is
getting warm," she said, and laughed.
For a few minutes we sat quietly side-by-side, fondling each other and getting hotter in every way. I was hard as a rock, and my fingers were buried inside Claudia, who was breathing harder and turning pink.
"Look at my tits!" she said.
Tiny beads of sweat had appeared at every pore on her breasts, hundreds of shining droplets. Unless we're jocks, we seldom get a chance to see what sweating actually looks like.
I bent and licked all over her breasts. She laughed, then grabbed my face and pulled it to hers. She eagerly opened her mouth and tasted her own sweat. Her natural smell, which I could pick out of any crowd, was everywhere. I was sitting in a cloud of it.
"Let me do you," she said, and pushed me back against the bench. I watched as she licked my chest and gently sucked my nipples, then brought her mouth up to mine. It was the best kiss we had shared so far. I couldn't taste sweat, although it might have been saltier than usual, but our tongues were busy with each other, and she was slobbering on me, then sucking my tongue and lips. I think I could have come at that moment. I started to tell her so, and she said, "Wait." Then she bent down and took me into her mouth for a moment, then moved to my balls. She licked under them as far as she could, then rose and again kissed me. Slowly, dribbling saliva into my mouth. It felt like the dirtiest thing I had ever done.
"Claudia! Jesus!" I said. "I could come right now."
She started to move her head toward my crotch, but I didn't want her to feel like she had to swallow cum every time I blew, which I hoped would be two or three more times in the next couple of hours. I put my hand up to stop her, and she took it and sucked my fingers into her mouth. The same fingers I had just removed from her pussy.
"You don't have to swallow a load every time," I said, "especially not in here. We can get it all over ourselves. Why don't you just jack me off? I would like that."
She slowly jacked me for a few seconds, then said, "No. You do it. I want to watch." She pulled my legs open and grabbed my hand again, leading it onto my cock.
I took my cock in my fingers and positioned it the way I had done it for probably thousands of times. I really only use three fingers: my index and middle fingers together on the bottom of my cock and my thumb on the top. As I began languidly stroking, I glanced at Claudia, who was sitting tightly against my side with her head resting on my arm. She was watching closely, sweat starting to trickle down her body. A drop of pre-cum was welling up in my slit. She suddenly leaned down and licked it up, making my cock jerk. She laughed.
I no longer felt like I was about to blow. "This is the first time I've ever masturbated with anyone watching," I said. "It's kind of weird."
She looked up into my face. "Oh, we're going to do a lot of-- No one has ever watched you? Not even your friends? Like the guy at camp?"
"No, no. I told you, we never had sex of any kind."
But she had reminded me that once upon a time, someone
had