Begin by introducing each other's vulvas

Betty and Joyce went through the agenda, handing off one to the other as they had practiced for many Pleasure Circles. First there would be relaxation and sensation exercises, then the women would introduce each other's vulvas to the rest of the circle, after which there would be more exercises heading toward more specifically sexual stimulation, opportunities for each woman to ask for some particular kind of touch if she wished, opportunities to try out and get help with various sex toys, and free sexual play time.

Joyce checked in with the group on the circle's special theme. "Tonight, mothers and daughters will be touching each other sexually," she said. "This is not a requirement. No one here has to participate who feels uncomfortable or doubtful, nor has to continue longer than she feels she should. But tonight in this circle is a safe space to act on this expression of love. And tonight it will happen here. If you cannot be comfortable staying, you may choose to leave gracefully when you need to for this or for any reason."

Joyce looked around the room. Betty and Sherah looked expectant. Nicola was calm, Lil looked nervous. Willow and Amanda looked starry-eyed with happiness. Dorothy and Dorinda were grinning, their pink cowgirl hats set behind their places. Sonia, Tamara, and Miriam seemed fine. Joyce didn't anticipate they'd lose anyone tonight.

Joyce opened the Pleasure Circle with an invocation to pleasure and with a wish that each participant would find the Goddess in herself. Betty led them in a breathing exercise where they moved a point of concentration through their bodies, relaxing and sending warming energy. Bernie made a final check to make sure that water bottles, towels, lubricant and vibrators were all set up and that everyone was comfortable on the pillows and with the temperature of the room. Willow excused herself to use the toilet again, her pregnant belly proceeding her through the door.

Nicola whispered to Lil, "Let's be first. You talk, then me. Introduce me as the most-fucked British cunt in the room."

"Oh, okay," Lil said.

Nicola spoke up. "We'll start!"

Joyce nodded. "Please introduce each other's vulvas. Show us, touch and open if you're comfortable doing so, and use whatever words you wish," she said.

Lil said, "Hi everybody, this is my godmother Nicky. Nicola."

"You're introducing my cunt, Lilly," Nicola prompted. "Touch it, Lilly. Show everyone."

"Oh, right." Lil put her hand on the curls atop Nicola's fleshy mound and spread her godmother's labia with her other hand. She took a deep breath and ended up with a nose-ful of Nicola's womanly scent. And there was her clit, hello.

"Lilly baby?" Nicola said.

"Oh right. This is my godmother Nicky. She says to tell everyone this is the most-fucked British cunt in the room," Lil said.

Joyce laughed.

Lil continued, "But really, she's here for me. You know. Aunt Nicky helped me learn to masturbate. She showed me how to use a vibrator. And water. And showed me how she comes those ways. Her face and chest get all red. That's how you know it works. And she's really been on my side. And her cunt is pretty. Okay?"

"Good, love," Nicky said. She cleared her throat and let Lillian settle in place before she began. Nicola put a hand on Lil's blonde bush and spread her labia. "Ladies, this is Lillian's vulva. Young, but not naive. Naturally blonde, as you can see. And like her mum, Lilly has a big clit. Puts mine to shame. Vibrators work very well for Lilly. As do boys, at least in a strictly sexual way." Nicola looked straight at Bernie to make sure she was paying attention. "But don't let that fool you. Lilly wants to know about girls too. So ladies, look at Lilly's cunnie, so beautiful a cunnie she has. She wants to see yours. Open your legs and show her your beauties proudly."

Bernie picked up the next introduction.

"Hi, I'm here to introduce Joyce Bernstein's vulva. She is my mother, and this is where I came from," Bernie said, spreading Joyce's vulva to show the thick, dark inner labia. "I'm glad I know my mom's vulva so well." Bernie spread and stretched Joyce's labia. "Knowing my mom's vulva gives me confidence in my own." Bernie displayed Joyce's bright pink vaginal entrance. Joyce tilted her hips and captured Bernie's fingertip. Bernie looked down a little shyly, then smiled and looked at the women in the circle. "Knowing the look of my mother's vulva tells me that if mine doesn't look like the picture in a magazine, it does look like hers. Not the same, but family." Bernie displayed Joyce's clitoris, moist and swollen. "Knowing the pleasure of my mother's vulva helps bring the power of pleasure to me too. Knowing how she shares that pleasure for the good of other women tells me that the power of pleasure is something I can share and tell other women about, that it's a good thing for them and never a shame." Bernie pressed a fingertip to Joyce's clit head. Joyce trembled. "And I'm very happy my mom and I can touch each other's vulvas for pleasure. It's a way that not many women, mothers and daughters, get to be close and loving." She gently pinched Joyce's clit, then withdrew her hand.

Willow and Amanda had been sitting hand in hand. They looked at each other and squeezed their hands together. "So beautiful," Amanda whispered.

Joyce said, "Let me introduce my daughter Naomi. Please call her Bernie."

Nicola whispered to Lil, "Make sure Bernie knows you're looking at her."

Lil coughed and Bernie looked round. Lil blinked and smiled, then held her eyes on Bernie's before following the motion of Joyce's hands to Bernie's vulva.

Joyce cupped one palm over Bernie's mound and framed her labia with the fingertips of her other hand. "My daughter's birth was the first time I made the acquaintance of a vulva other than my own. I was fascinated by her beauty. Even more than me, Naomi was a precocious masturbator and took obvious pleasure in touching herself. But although we share much in the look of our vulvas and our approach to self-pleasure, we are different in many ways. And I was curious about those differences and thought back on my own youth, how I started, and made a point of learning how people learn to pleasure themselves. So in many ways, my daughter Naomi's vulva was the foundation of my career. I'm delighted to introduce those of you who aren't already acquainted with Naomi's vulva. Let me show you her inner beauties." Joyce spread Bernie's vulva to display her to the other women, taking time to show off her inner and outer labia, her clitoris and hood, and the bright pink entrance of her vagina. "Look how beautiful my daughter is. Her power over her own pleasure and her generosity in sharing it give me great confidence in her. And like my daughter, I am full of joy and gratitude that we can and do masturbate each other. I look forward to sharing this pleasure with her for a long time." Joyce pressed and squeezed Bernie's vulva with a cupped hand.

Lil made sure to catch Bernie's eyes again before the next introduction. Calling on her courage, she cupped a hand over her vulva and squeezed as Joyce was squeezing Bernie's.

Joyce opened her cupped hand and released her daughter's vulva. To Lil's eyes, Bernie's labia might well be a little pinker and wider open.

Sherah and her mother Betty were next.

"Um," Sherah said, clearing her throat. She put a hand on Betty's trimmed salt-and-pepper bush and circled Betty's cunt by holding her other hand underneath. "This is my mom's vulva. It's special to me because it's where I came from. Mom has been cunt-positive all her life, but I only started seeing how beautiful hers is, how beautiful mine is, after I started dating girls." Her serious expression broke into a wide grin. "Especially a dating a girl who loves to draw pussy portraits. Yeah. Pussy is beautiful. Powerful. Personal and universal. Everyone should worship it. That's what we're here for tonight. To honor the Pussy and honor the Mother." She cleared her throat and spread Betty's labia open. "I'm proud of my mom and how she has shared her pleasure in her cunt to teach other women to liberate their own." Sherah took a breath. "Mom likes vibrators. Just like the ones Joyce has set out for us," nodding to the round-headed wands set around the circle. Sherah cleared her throat. "And. And well, I'm a big fucking dyke and not big on men. But I'm proud of my dad for going the whole way with my mom on her journey. For staying, supporting, holding the vibrator, getting out of the way sometimes. But maybe he always knew Mom's cunt was his worship altar and never his property." Sherah smirked. "So Dad is still getting some." Betty smiled indulgently at her daughter. Sherah patted Betty's vulva and took a deep breath. "It's starting to smell like pussy in here."

Dorothy and Dorinda laughed and fanned themselves.

Sherah smiled and looked around, making a point of catching Bernie's eye with a little zap of her Lesbian Laser Beams. She spread Betty's labia open again. "I'm really looking forward to seeing the rest of you like this." Sherah kissed her mom's cheek and sat back, spreading her legs.

Betty took over to introduce Sherah's vulva.

"My daughter tells me her friends refer to her vulva as 'girl food.' While I can't speak to that personally, I know she's popular among her friends at college. And I can tell you that she has taken my lessons of pleasure, of self-empowerment, and integrity to heart. I'm grateful and honored that she has come with me. I'm especially pleased that tonight I will masturbate my daughter for the first time, under the eyes of friends and this circle of sisters of power in pleasure." Betty finished her introduction of Sherah's vulva by making long, stretching finger strokes that made Sherah's hips tremble.

"Go mom," Sherah said. "Yeah."

Betty flattened her fingers, pressed evenly on Sherah's vulva to say goodbye for now, kissed Sherah's cheek and withdrew her hand. Sherah's cheeks were definitely pinker than they had been a couple of minutes ago.

Betty nodded to Willow, the heavily pregnant young blonde woman sitting hand in hand with her pregnant mother, who was showing but not so far along. Amanda was a plump, broad-hipped woman with silvering blonde hair in a thick braid, wearing a string of wooden beads and nothing else.

Willow settled herself on her cushion again, adjusting to be as comfortable as she could. "What can I say?" she started. "This is my mom, Amanda. I'm sure you know, well, some of you know her already." She looked at her mother's face. "Um, and for those who don't, she said I could use my friend Chris's description, umm..."

Amanda smiled calmly and said, "A whole-grain, extra fiber, tantric, big-butt, big-titty, feminist nudist orgy commune woman. I take Chris's description as a compliment, really dear." She sat at ease on her cushion.

"My mom," Willow continued, "has been into women's empowerment all my life. Women's control over their rights, their friends and chosen family, their spirituality, their bodies, and their pleasure. And for my mom," Willow said, placing her hand on Amanda's silvering blonde bush, "for my mom, her yoni has been the center of all that. A center of liberation. A center where men and women have been welcome to meet her, to enter and share pleasure. A center she shares with her community. The center where I entered the world. And tonight she's asked me to share her yoni with all of us." She parted Amanda's fleecy outer lips to show her inner labia, starting to show the signs of pregnancy. Willow parted the inner lips to show Amanda's vaginal entrance, then moved her hands to frame and point out different parts of Amanda's sacred womanly flower, touching with confident familiarity. Willow finished by quietly cupping both hands over Amanda's yoni and holding them there for half a minute.

"Thank you, Willow," Amanda said. "That was just lovely." She took a deep breath. "I don't have a great deal to say. My daughter has a beautiful, lovely yoni. I've been grateful to have come to know her yoni better over the last year as she has come to know mine. Her yoni's beauty has shown different faces as her pregnancy has developed. I'm so happy to have seen that transformation, from the many happy unions with her husband's lingam and since his seed took root, with the developing new life inside her." Amanda smiled. "And now, quite remarkably, I will be a new mother again." As Willow had done earlier, Amanda spread Willow's vulva and pointed out the beauty of her yoni's folds, the pearl of pleasure, and the cavern where new life had already begun. Amanda concluded by gently penetrating her daughter's vagina with her fingertips, holding them there, then gently removing her hand, letting Willow sigh with the sensation. Amanda looked to Dorothy, next around the circle.

"A-hem," Dorothy started out. "I'm not a shy person but this is the first time I've introduced any woman's split, much less my ma's. So here we go. Ma?" Dorinda nodded and spread her legs, showing her pale, smooth-shaven pubic triangle with a pleasant, gently swelling mound and pink labia. Dorothy put a hand on Dorinda's mound of Venus. "Ma. Well. She's taught me how hard a woman might have to fight for herself. For the right to live and love as she chooses. Especially if she chooses to love women. She's taught me how to fight hard and fair and pick her battles." Dorothy squeezed her mother's mons. "And how to celebrate her victories." Dorothy spread Dorinda's vulva, showing the bright pink folds and prominent clitoris. "Mom taught me how to dance. How to use a vibrator. And when I came back from college, I taught Ma how to strap it on."

"You go, girl," Dorinda said. "I still crave the old in and out and my girl showed me another way to get it."

"So right," Dorothy continued, looking at her mother's moist pink folds. "She bore me. She raised me. She taught me strength and pride and joy. And every time I see her square dancing, I see how she leads every move from her split. And as it gets wetter, her hips get looser. You watch." Dorothy gave her mother's mound a gentle slap and took her hand back. "Ma?"

"That was so sweet, Dorothy", Dorinda said. "Well-and-all, I can see a few of you have seen me in the altogether before," Tamara and Lil looked blank. "That's altogether naked, girls. Well. And though my daughter couldn't prove it from what I've got tonight, Joyce can vouch that my bush is naturally red, when I've got one. She's seen me in every hairstyle from jungle down to clear-cut like I have now." Dorinda cleared her throat. "Well now, Dorothy, how do I introduce my girl and her jillyknocker here? She's down here to visit me for the occasion of this very circle. If she likes what she sees, she might try and get Joyce or Betty-boo to bring it up to Portland and share it with her girlfriends and their friends."

"To Portland again," Betty said. "It's been some years." Joyce nodded in agreement.

"Well," Dorinda continued. She lay a hand lightly on Dorothy's bright red bush. "As you see my daughter prefers the natural look."

"I like it any old way, Ma," Dorothy said. "Izzy and Ellie like us all to match and they're like 'No blade shall touch my sacred temple mound' and all. So I just trim barely enough to wear my granny swimsuit."

Dorinda laughed. "You see she stands by her girlfriends. Now." Dorinda parted her daughter's red-fuzzed outer labia. "I'm proud of my girl. She plays hard, loves hard, but never looks for trouble. She's got the prettiest little oyster," Dorinda said, stretching and spreading Dorothy's moist folds, bright pink and beginning to swell with the attention. "And she goes after that pearl every day, don't you sweetheart?"

"Uh-huh," Dorothy said. "Just like you, Ma."

Dorinda smiled at Dorothy. "I can't deny it," she said. Dorinda looked at the circle. "Now be kind to my girl," Dorinda said, gently strumming her fingertips in Dorothy's vulva. "She may talk like a tough gal, but she's got a tender heart and she means well."

"Ma!" Dorothy protested.

"Hush child," Dorinda said. She looked round again. "Let's all show each other our best." She cupped her hand over Dorothy's downy-edged lips and gave her daughter a good squeeze.

Dorothy sighed. "Ahhh," she said.

Dorinda, like Dorothy had before her, finished her introduction with a gentle slap to Dorothy's mound. She looked round the circle at Sonia's group of three.

Sonia nodded and sat up straight on her cushion next to her daughter Tamara. Sonia smoothed her dark hair back, letting her elbows swing to the sides, the motion pulling her full breasts up and out and making them bounce. She cleared her throat and looked at Tamara, a much slimmer edition of her mother with short-cropped dark hair, but the same brown eyes and distinct eyebrows.

"Now it might surprise some of you that I'm one of Joyce's regulars," Sonia said. "But I found out about Joyce's Pleasure Circles when I was researching sex education. And I've felt welcome here. I'm not a feminist or an activist or a lesbian. But having a circle of women acknowledge and support my high sex drive and help me celebrate it has been truly a gift. Truly. And I'm so pleased I can introduce my daughter Tamara. And her vulva."

Tamara dipped her head, then raised it partway, looking at the center of the circle.

Sonia laid a hand on Tamara's navel and continued. "My daughter Tamara's vulva has had a rather successful coming-out party at college, as I understand," she said. "I think her generation of boys tries harder than mine did, or at least knows more of the right things early on. So Tamara has been having a lot of fun this year. Trying different boys on." She rubbed Tamara's belly. "Different cocks inside her. Different positions. I tried the same when I started college but I was disappointed more often then not. Tamara's had great fun each time. I'm so pleased. Three cheers!" Sonia called out.

Tamara looked up around the circle of women. Dorothy and Dorinda whooped. Sherah applauded, but with a raised eyebrow. Betty applauded warmly. "Three cheers!" she called out. Bernie and her mother smiled. Willow grinned and clapped loudly, as did Amanda. Lil smiled. "Send the Japanese boys my way!" Nicola called out.

"Honey can I open you up?" Sonia asked. Tamara nodded. Sonia parted her daughter's vulva. "As a nurse, I can tell you this is healthy and normal. As a mother, I am proud my daughter is so beautiful under her panties. And I'm proud she's not keeping her beauty locked up and hidden, but letting her beauty bring her pleasure."

Sighs and sounds of agreement came from the women round the circle.

Sonia let Tamara's vulva close, but gave it a gentle pat. "Thank you sweetie," she said.

Tamara cleared her throat. "Okay mom?" she asked. Sonia nodded and settled back into a comfortable position, opening her legs. "Okay. So here's my mom's vulva. Um. She's a busy girl. Mom masturbates more than I do, and I do it a lot. And she keeps Dad busy. She even, well, she even has a lover Dad helped pick out for her. A college guy. So this is my mom's vulva. It keeps her happy. That and her vagina." She took a deep breath, put a hand on either side and opened up Sonia's outer labia. "And that's the inside. God Mom, you're wet."

Sonia smiled and chuckled. "That's normal," she reassured her daughter. "Open me a little wider."

Tamara swallowed and parted her hands a little more. Sonia's inner labia separated, showing the deep pink round her vaginal entrance. "Um," Tamara said.

Sonia let several slow breaths go in and out as the other women gazed at her open center. She squeezed her pelvic muscles, tensing them under Tamara's fingertips. Tamara was startled and pulled her hands back.

"That's all right," Sonia reassured her daughter. "Thank you sweetie, that was just fine."

Miriam was last. "I'm Miriam, Sonia's sister-in-law. Her husband's sister. We talk about everything together, so when Sonia told me she and Tamara were going to go to this special Pleasure Circle, I asked to join them. And here I am. I don't know what to tell really, so I'll just show." Miriam was a woman of thirty- or forty-something, with small breasts and not much curve to her figure. Her light brown hair was frizzy, as was her bush. Where Sonia had accentuated her face with make-up on her eyes, cheeks, and lips, Miriam had only a touch. Miriam stretched her arms and her torso this way and that, showing how she inhabited her body with strength and energy, before parting her labia and displaying her folds, her opening and her clitoris. "And thanks everyone. That was so beautiful seeing you. And hearing the love in those introductions."

"Thank you, Miriam," Betty said. "I hope the evening will be beautiful for you." She looked round the circle. "And for everyone."

"Yes, thank you," Joyce said. "And thank you, Nicola, for coming with Lillian and helping her feel at home. I know this is the first circle for both of you." She cleared her throat. "Let's move on to the next exercise."