Weightless Ecstasy

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Note to readers:

This is about a dream for many of us confined to Earth's gravity: Sex in weightlessness. To follow the story, you should read the five chapters in order [you can click on my profile above, or the Stories link, to find them all; they should all be published here in early March 2021]. If your main interest is the sex, you can choose which chapter(s) to read based on who does what to whom. All of the sex is international, and in some cases interracial. This chapter's sex is a threesome, by a Swedish woman, a Chinese woman, and a Greek man, with oral, manual, penis-in-vagina, analingus, and breast sex. Every character is at least 18 Earth years old.

(This happens on a large scientific expedition bound for Mars, between 2050 and -60. Terms and acronyms you need to know are X-PAN Mars Lifter One [XPML1], the spaceship; Exertion and Recreation Volume [ERV], the ship's open space for sex; the International Space Exploration Commission [ISEC], which appointed the academic scientists on the ship; and X-PAN, the private company that owns the ship and employs the crew, some of whom are also scientists. I hope that other terms, like sleepwrap and showersuit, are self-explanatory.)

***

When Dagmar entered the Common Zone, there were nine people present. Their mood seemed dour. Three of them were watching video of a recent hearing on Earth. A moralist was in full cry on what was, in fact, the main topic aboard this ship:

"These people talk to schoolchildren about their scientific work! They can't fornicate in open view one day and be admired and respected the next! Heroes and role models must behave accordingly, and be above reproach at all times!"

Dagmar asked, "May I have everyone's attention?"

Bodies shifted in her direction, and the video was closed.

"If you haven't heard about the conference yesterday," she said, "X-PAN offered to disguise us with A.I.-created face, hair, and skin colors. We noted that since our body contours and proportions could not be changed, because they'd be in close sexual contact, people on Earth could still identify us, and use software of their own to make us look like ourselves again. When we declined the offer, X-PAN threatened to reduce laser bursts to top off our batteries, which would make it necessary to cut back on the highest level of amenities. Specifically, the Exertion and Recreation Volume might be closed, for the rest of the voyage."

Weichang said, "I say we still go on strike. We have to show them that we're not scared."

Dagmar gave him a calm smile. "I prefer the term 'work stoppage,' Dr. Cho. We merely halt scientific work for 24 hours. Work to support this ship, its travel, and its occupants' health and well-being, would continue, both by X-PAN employees and by mission scientists."

"Whatever," said Weichang with a derisive hand-wave. "When do we start?"

"I would like to hear from more people first, from all shifts, and let them speak confidentially if they choose." Dagmar found that she was having trouble maintaining her calm. Within an hour, she would not be anything like calm. "Prof. Stivic, our representative to the International Space Exploration Commission, is exchanging messages with ISEC on Earth, to gain input to inform our course of action. Later today, I expect to propose a specific start time for what Dr. Cho might like to call 'down tools.'"

"Yes!" cheered Weichang. "I will, of course, first finish any experimental run that's already in progress."

"Of course," said Dagmar, keeping her smile small.

Teresa used a handhold on the bulkhead to angle herself to face-and-body alignment with Dagmar, the standard courtesy in their weightless environment. "Is there anything else we can offer, Dr. Gudmunson? A carrot to go with the stick?"

Dagmar raised an eyebrow. "Has your opinion changed, Dr. Volpe?"

"Not on making porno in the ERV. I still think that should never happen. But maybe somebody has something else to entice X-PAN, like patents that haven't been assigned. That might tip X-PAN away from insisting on porno."

Now nine pairs of eyes were trained on Teresa, not all from face-and-body alignment. She hadn't wanted to take this step, but had increasingly felt guiltier about not doing so.

Diego asked, "Do you have an example, Doctor?"

Teresa took a swig from her nutrient bulb, then said, "I'm here to set up a fusion generator on Mars. X-PAN will technically own it, but I'm one of the design's four patent holders, and the first among equals. I can't surrender all rights to the design, but I can give X-PAN a big stake in it, so they could use the design in other projects."

"You might be forfeiting a fortune," said Subra, sounding surprised.

"Not all of it." She hoped everyone would see her look to him as part of what she said, and not her response to an expression of concern by her ERV sex partner. "I still expect to get rich from all the work I put in on getting protons into boron-11. But I could give X-PAN very favorable terms."

"Interesting," said Dagmar. "Would you please advise Prof. Stivic, and Captain Guret? I expect they'll continue contacts with X-PAN on this issue."

Weichang asked her, "Isn't X-PAN angry about your rejection?"

Dagmar's smile barely stopped short of laughter. "X-PAN's CEO has her own style, which I'm sure she finds useful. Perhaps Ms. Hillaird did not expect our quick rejection, and perhaps she over-reacted. But she surely knows, as we do, that a negotiation can be a long, intricate process. I believe Dr. Volpe's kind offer might play an important role. And I also believe that the work stoppage can play a role, and not be seen by X-PAN as a deal-breaker."

She may have expected that to end the discussion, but Subra said, "If X-PAN softens its stance, could you soften yours?"

Now all eyes were on Subra. Teresa noted that he had chosen his pronouns carefully. He was an X-PAN employee, not an ISEC-selected scientist.

"How do you mean, Dr. Patel?"

He took a moment before saying, "Many of you believe that videoing sex acts here, and selling them on Earth, is degrading to all of us, and an affront to human decency. I understand this, and agree in principle. But we also know that there is a nonstop shouting match on Earth, within and among many cultures, over what an early American document referred to as the pursuit of happiness. If there are people on this ship who want to show their sex to people confined to gravity,

and

if the video could be A.I.-altered to limit the immediate revelation of identity, would you object to this being offered to my company as a bargaining chip?"

Silence. Subra tried to read Teresa's look at him. It seemed to show curiosity more than indignation, but he also knew that she sometimes kept her true feelings hidden.

"I tend to think," said Dagmar slowly, "that this would allow X-PAN to drive in a wedge on this subject, so I suspect that those of us with ISEC might not adopt this approach. But it's an interesting notion, Dr. Patel."

Soon afterward, Dagmar was able to end this

ad hoc

meeting.

***

Nikos and Xia were there first and early, as always. They watched as the four people using exercise equipment emerged from the devices and engaged the disinfectant routines. Bogdan Stivic was the first of the four to activate the motor that folded the device inward and accordioned its struts, returning it from the open space of the Exertion and Recreation Volume to its storage position along a bulkhead.

"Did you have a good shift?" Xia asked Nikos slowly, making an effort at clear pronunciation of English.

"Yes," he replied. Then, to give her practice at listening comprehension as well as speaking, he added, "I tended the air trees, tracked data on the new models, and also harvested strawberries."

"Mmm, tasty!"

Her bright smile brought a small one to Nikos's swarthy face. He found her attractive, and she seemed to appreciate him as well, but he had trouble imagining the two of them in the ERV as a coupling couple. The half-meter difference in their heights, and him having twice her mass, wouldn't pose problems in weightlessness, but there was a limit to their genital compatibility. The only reason they were here now, waiting for four people to clean up and depart, was to wait for someone else to arrive.

Bogdan, with a mesh bag of his workout wear under one arm, nodded at them as he coasted towards the hatch. "Dr. Karamanlis, Dr. Li," he rumbled. They returned "Prof. Stivic," not in unison.

After the hatch closed behind him, Xia said, "What a sad man."

Nikos gave a slight nod. If Bogdan was erotically involved with anyone on the ship, it was kept a tight secret by all concerned. If he was, in fact, celibate, it probably did not improve his mood to see two-thirds of what was about to become a threesome.

The vertex of this affair entered the ERV after all of the exercisers had left. Dagmar had arrived for her recreation.

"Good day, Doctors," she said with a smile. She then drifted to Xia and embraced her, offering her mouth. Xia kissed her. Nikos smirked at the way Dagmar worked the relationship, physically greeting the least assertive, least secure participant. He barely heard "May I?" from Xia and "Please," from Dagmar. Xia then reached to part the seal on Dagmar's jumpsuit.

Slow at first, peeling the suit down Dagmar's arms, Xia went faster as her excitement built, stripping away the larger woman's underwear. Dagmar smiled placidly, presenting her nudity for her partners' visual and tactile enjoyment. As the dominant in this tryst, she gave herself as a bauble to them. Nikos knew that the scales of give and take would later shift in her favor. He was resigned to this, and tried to enjoy Xia's happiness.

"You're so beautiful," said Xia in a combined gasp and whimper, fondling the Swede's flesh.

"Nikos," said Dagmar, "would you please free the beauty of our Sweet One?"

Nikos coasted to Xia's back, and reached past her neck to find her suit seam. He felt Xia tremble as he opened her garment. He looked past her to Dagmar's face. His hands yearned to get to the statuesque blonde, but he forced himself to wait his turn.

"There has been no lead uptake to your body," said Xia, abruptly switching to shop talk but in the same tone of voice. "I say we keep what's in your clothes at that level. There has been no sign of melanoma in fifteen days."

"You are the best physician I've ever had," Dagmar said, now bringing her alabaster arms around Xia's saffron torso. Nikos, who had never shown any skin effects from the radiation that constantly pelted the ship, wondered if surrounding Dagmar's exposed flesh with theirs would keep her safe until she dressed.

The trio was still next to the ERV bulkhead, behind the cushioned grid that demarked the open space. As the women kissed, fondled, and intertwined, Nikos used his free moment to put their clothes in mesh bags along the bulkhead, and brought three tether cuffs out of another bag. He pulled his way to where he was at their feet, and closed a cuff on an ankle of each woman.

This gave Dagmar her cue. "There's a man here," she said. "What should we do with him?"

"Use him!" declared Xia, peeling away from Dagmar and grabbing a handful of his jumpsuit. "There's nothing a man is good for!" Then she stopped and said, "Nothing

else!

I'm sorry, English is my worst language."

Dagmar chuckled, hooking a foot in Nikos's armpit and pulling herself to his level. "Soon our official first language will switch over to Arabic. I may not speak for days."

Nikos surrendered to the women as they stripped him. He tried to pay equal attention to both, and as always was amused by Xia's attempt at rough play, with snarling that made her seem like a petulant kitten. But he also feasted his eyes on Dagmar, long-legged, lean-waisted, voluptuous, with large, deep blue eyes, thick golden hair, and prominent cheekbones.

Like everyone else on

XPML1,

Nikos knew that Dagmar was the most famous female scientist on Earth...for reasons that had nothing to do with her innovations in materials development. She deplored the desire from millions of people she hoped never to meet in person, but she used her peers' desire, when choosing sex partners. Her supposed 'fans' on Earth, who used imaging software to depict her nude, probably didn't know that she had removed all of the hair from her crotch, to maximize her pleasure. The sight aroused Nikos as much as Xia's grip on his penis as she dragged away his underwear.

As the women began prodding and nipping his hairy flesh, Nikos also slipped into shop talk. He asked Dagmar, "Do you want me to join your work stoppage?"

"Only partly," she said. "Food production must continue. Try to have the experimental plants tended automatically, and take no data during the stoppage."

"Do you think this will work?" asked Xia.

Dagmar chuckled. "It certainly has X-PAN upset." With their fun interrupted, Dagmar separated enough to clip a tether to an eyelet on the outboard side of the cushioned grid. "I'd regret the loss of our time in here. But I believe we must take a stand. Our sex is for us, and nobody else."

It had been two sleep cycles since Dagmar had proposed the stoppage. Nikos wondered if she had set a starting point, but thought this was not the time to ask. He now had an erection, and Xia was licking it.

"I'm going out to enjoy my freedom!" Dagmar declared, pulling her body through a gap in the grid. She swooped about in a space four times as long as her body, stretching and flexing, but also getting to other parts of the grid and attaching there her other tethers. With two or more of the retractable tethers secured, an ERV user could, by flexing the leg properly, reach any part of the open space, and also leave it.

Nikos and Xia each clipped a single tether to eyelets far enough apart to reduce the chance of tangling. He recalled with amusement the first attempt at an orgy in the ERV, urged on by the octogenarian couple Florian and Anissa. The nine bodies quickly got tangled in their tethers, and Florian was almost garroted by them. Nikos would like to have a video of that event sent to Earth, both as a cautionary tale and for comic relief.

Since then, there had been a few orgies that went well, but with only two people wearing a cuff, each with a single tether, and at most six participants. Nikos had been involved in one, and while tethers were no problem and there were enough hands to keep anyone from drifting away, he had found the setting too cluttered to produce sustained passion.

Dagmar called, "Send that man in here!"

Xia braced her feet on the bulkhead and shoved Nikos' massive but weightless body through a gap in the grid, a simple task once his inertia was overcome. "Fear my strength, you measly man!" Xia cried, then bubbled with laughter.

Nikos and Xia soared through the space, and all three checked that their tethers would be out of their way. Then they converged, bodies parallel and as if 'standing' next to one another, with Dagmar at the vertex.

Dagmar's breasts were large, but well-proportioned for her big-boned frame. Nikos put an arm behind to hold Dagmar's far shoulder, and settled his mouth around her areola, barely more pink than the rest of her skin. Xia mirrored him, to the extent that she could, holding Nikos's arm and leaning her head above the other breast. While kissing, tonguing, and sucking, each flexed a thigh behind one of Dagmar's, brought the free hand to her bald vulva, and gently pressed fingers inside.

Nikos's erection had become almost painful, the shaft leaning against Dagmar's hip. "Sweet One," said Dagmar with a chuckle, "The man's thing is crude and ugly. Do you want it that way?"

"Oh no," said Xia, forceful even with a mouth full of breast.

"Then I will make him nicer for you." Dagmar worked her arm along Nikos's chest. He lifted his arm, and she put her hand under it to seize his penis. Managing to keep his finger on her clit, Nikos accepted her hard pumping and let himself spew on her tenth yank. Thick streams and gobbets shot away from him, to the delighted cheering of Dagmar.

Moments later, however, Dagmar was quiet. Then she breathed ever more loudly. The nipple swelled in Nikos' mouth, and the areola wrinkled along his lips. His fingers, now almost interlaced with Xia's, were wet, and Dagmar's nether flesh swelled.

Nikos firmed his grip as Dagmar started to spasm. He sucked harder, faster, wanting her pleasure more than his own. He was rewarded by rising volume as her voice sounded "Hrruh! Hrruh!" Her spasms strengthened and quickened.

Finally Dagmar howled, and nectar gushed past the fingers that summoned it. Her burst didn't travel as far as Nikos', but it filled more volume, and droplets settled to tingling contact on all three of them.

When Dagmar finally relaxed, Xia lifted her mouth from the breast and asked, "Do your...fans...know that you do that?"

"They don't

know

anything, but many of them

attribute

that to me, along with many practices I would never consider." Dagmar turned her head towards Xia. "I don't see this as information that my physician needs to know."

Xia giggled, with a slickened hand over her mouth.

After some languid kissing and fondling, they shifted for the next activity in what had become a set routine. Xia bent at the waist, her legs straight and slightly parted. Nikos moved so that he was perpendicular to her spine, and also to her legs, as though she would ride his gut side-saddle. Dagmar aligned her crotch to Xia's face, and wrapped her legs around the Chinese woman's head. Dagmar did not wait for Xia and Nikos to conjoin, she took her cunnilingus at once. Nikos frowned, and was not eased by Xia's eagerness to pleasure her.

Nikos opened a seam on his wristband and fingered out some lube, which he applied gently but thoroughly onto and inside Xia's vagina. Having already spewed, Nikos' cock was a bit smaller than before, and more flexible. With his right arm securing Xia's legs along his right hip and thigh, and his left hand clasping her right hand, he eased his cock between Xia's labia. With the oval cross-sections of his large shaft and her small cavity matched up, she could enjoy his fucking without pain, for a while.

Seeing their hand-holding, Dagmar extended a foot towards Nikos's face. This made Xia adjust her head and neck to stay in full mouth contact. After a moment, Nikos gave in and leaned to suck Dagmar's toes. Neither the receiver nor the giver of this action took much pleasure in it, and Nikos was even more annoyed by Dagmar making everything about her.

With Xia, Nikos sought a balance between gentle contact and quick stimulation, again seeking his lover's pleasure rather than his own. He was surprised by how firmly Xia flexed on his prick, and how quickly she heated. Yet Xia was always aroused by her contact with Dagmar, near-worship crossing over to excitement and, this time, rapid orgasm. Xia squeezed Nikos' hand hard, even as her body subsided, signaling that she wanted him to fill her. He did, but without extra speed or depth, and withdrew as soon as he emptied.

Dagmar pulled her foot back and flexed her thighs around Xia's head, through a very long orgasm. Xia never faltered. Nikos gave her hand a kiss.

At last Dagmar drew her legs away and said, "That was lovely, Sweet One." And immediately afterward, it was on to the next configuration.

Dagmar and Nikos faced each other, bodies aligned. She handled his prick and gave it a crooked smile. "Almost limp," she said. "Who else have you been fucking?"

"Perhaps you could hack into safety cam video."

Her eyes met his. "Touché." She began a slow helical pump as they hooked the knee-crooks of one leg each. "I have faith in your resources."