My research stint in Rome in the summer of 2007 turned into a true adventure with lasing benefits for this now 70-year-old academic.
Things began when my 29-year-old daughter, Sarah, and her 18-year-old girlfriend turned up as I was in the fabled city for a two-month stretch.
She and her companion, Kathy, had heard about Capacotta Beach which is just south of Ostia, the old Roman port. It was designated a nudist beach about 10 years ago and I had been there twice.
But Sarah cajoled me into taking her and her friend (an easy trip by train and bus) so two days after her surprise arrival there we were on the beach, both her and Kathy quickly stripped to nothing (both shaved, which did little to stop my erection from sprouting), with me trying not to stare longingly at those ripe bodies respectively.
But I sat in a rented beach chair with a loose pair of shorts, a bottle of cooled wine to hand and some Italian newspapers to catch up on.
For this then 67-year-old curmudgeon to be surrounded by all that hauntingly lovely flesh proved too much; I just sat back with sunglasses on and watched and watched and dreamt and dreamt.
At mid-afternoon both girls wanted a snack so I wandered with them to the mini-restaurant where they had to have bottoms on but there were those nipples, unfettered and all. And the slight bikini bottoms did little to stifle my arousal.
Luckily, neither girl asked me to lotion them up or I probably would have lost it in my shorts. They lathered each other again in sunblock before strolling again down the beach, leaving me to my lecherous mental meanderings.
My pensione is in the Trastevere district and after we got back and were discussing dinner (about which I insisted on my favorite family restaurant in Via Fermi), Kathy, finished with her shower, said she had to run out to a pharmacia. I told her how to get to the restaurant and it was Sarah's turn in the shower.
And no, she didn't ask me to join her there, and I didn't ask if I could. But, time here to explain the design of the somewhat-modern Italian shower system, especially the one in my apartment. There is no stall and no bathtub with a shower alternative. Instead, around a drain base there is a translucent glass fence of a sort, just high enough to keep the water from spraying elsewhere in the bathroom.'
You just step in, close the gate behind you, turn on the water and do your thing. Sarah did just that, problem is, she didn't shut the bathroom door, and I haven't yet found out whether it was on purpose, although I have my suspicions.
I was in the adjoining bedroom and when I saw the show going on, I simply sat on the edge of the bed to enjoy the performance. I'm not much for soapy lather but the sight of her body glowing in the spraying water was a sheer delight. She turned, saw me, didn't bat an eyelash and said, "you'd better get in here before I use up all the hot water."
That I wasn't worried about, but go in the bathroom I did. And I simply leaned on the shower fence and watched her enjoy the play of water over her body. Yes, her nipples were very long and stiff and yes my eyes riveted on them and on that glorious shaved mount between her legs.
"Shorts off, Dad," she ordered with a smile. I didn't hesitate. Hard as Roman travertine I waited. "I'm not turning the water off, it's too perfect, just jump in," she said. With that she opened the gate, came out dripping and smiling, gave me slightly more than a regular daughter-father kiss, grabbed a towel and started drying.
Need I tell you how much precum I was dripping? I closed the shower gate and began the wash while she chatted for a bit about how she lucked out on the trip, then she was gone to the bedroom to enjoy the air conditioning. Wait, that's a bit misleading. Italian air-conditioning is so very very weak. But one swelters in Rome in the summer and you welcome any little corner where the humidity is being attacked.
How fast I showered I have no idea. But if I had lost any hardness under the spray it popped back to attention immediately when I opened the bedroom door. She was on the bed, naked and knees in the air enjoying the mechanical breeze, nipples still at attention and reading Oggi.
I'm certain my jaw dropped as I gazed first at the scene as a whole, wondering what the hell do I do now? And naturally my eyes zoomed in on that lovely valley between her legs, now open to me in a manner beyond description.