Tantrah looked at me. “Women are seldom close to their male children. They are with you for such a short time and then leave never to return on their 18th birthday. A daughter often stays with her mother for 50 years and they are very close. I see that you wish to know more. It is by tradition considered unhealthy for a male to associate with his mother or female siblings after his 18th birthday. He is mostly isolated from them slowly starting when he is 12. Now understand he is not isolated. Starting at age 12 he will begin spending more and more time with his wife’s family. By 18, his time with his mother is more in line with short occasional visits.”

“Damn, how old is a boy when he gets married?” I asked.

“They are usually married on their 12th birthday to their wife and then they are partially raised by her and into her household. A male is married to a woman that can support him and care for him. She will train him as she wishes as he grows up.”

“But what if he loves someone else?” I asked a little shocked.

Tantrah laughed, “First off what does a male know of love? He will love any woman that will allow it or that he is allowed to love. Secondly what does love have to do with marriage? He is a child when his mother makes the decision for him who will be his wife. If his wife doesn’t treat him well he can be removed and THAT is something that nearly always results in suicide for the woman involved. She will be unable to ever get access to another male and the shame is more than a heart can bear. Our men are treated VERY well and cherished No-el. She smiled, if my male Gotock finds himself sufficiently enamored with a lady and she is free and of good manners I will approach her for him and arrange a possible joining; Spaklo, Sheena, or Sheeka.”

More and more I was glad that Charlie was my holding wife. “What if the man wishes to see his son? Is he forbidden from contact as is the mother in sisters?”

“What an odd question. Do the males in your world bond closely with other males. Here males seldom associate with other males unless they are brothers near in age or in house cousins. Adult males seldom pay much attention to one another.” Then suddenly a shocked look came on her face, “You are not Shataz are you Noel???? A male who prefers his own sex for pleasure?”

Haley guffawed, “I think that his preference for the ladies is not in question Tantrah. He is very pussy driven.” Then she looked at Tantrah. “Are Gay males… looked down on?”

“They are an abomination!” Tantrah suddenly blurted. “We castrate and then cast out any such. The sun makes short work of them! When every child is needed to keep our race alive a male that wastes himself with another male is not to be tolerated!”

The three of us, Charlie, Haley and I, looked at each other and Haley said, “Of course… I understand.”

I think all three of us were suddenly struck by the fact that we were in an alien culture. One where one wrong move or word could be lethal. Considering that woman on woman sex was considered natural and normal, even encouraged, such harsh feelings about male actions were a little shocking.

I looked away and then yawned. “There enemas make me so tired though. Can I take a nap Charlie?” She nosed, it has been a very stressful day for our little man. I think a nap is a good idea. Who else would like to come?” In the end Bekala had some errands to run and Tantrah whet with her. Haley, Charlie and I huddled in our nest and talked.

I whispered to Charlie, “We need to find someone that can tell us in minute detail the way things actually work around here! Too much is left out of their brain download because to them it is obvious and everyone knows it without thinking or being told it. As it turned out I am not in the least interested in guys but suppose that I was an equal opportunity kind of guy like you two are and had popped of to Tantrah that one hole was just as good as another!!! Holy shit!! I’ll tell you one thing, in the future except when I’m with just you two, I’m going to be a quiet kind of guy!! Hell suppose I had crossed some line or broken an unspoken taboo today with one of the women that I talked to!”

Haley agreed, “You need to be more careful. In the mean time I am going to seek out someone that is some version of a cultural anthropologist and see if there is a mind program that covers the unspoken rules of this society.”

“What about Bekala?” I asked. “Do I need to be real careful around her or is her vested intrest in me enough to protect me from mistakes?”

“Charlie considered this and then said as she nodded her head, “I’ll talk to her and if we can’t trust her I’ll see what it takes to shed her. I know more now than I did when I let her in and better understand the value of even a minimal access to you. I still like her but if she is a danger to us we will have to do something. In the mean time little boy, if you pull any more of your little stunts like today’s, you can expect to have your ass turned into a glowing nuclear melt down site!”

“Charlie!!!!!” I whined.

“No Noel, I’m serious. In our world you would have protected me wouldn’t you? If we had been working in an Islamic country you wouldn’t have let me do something stupid that could have gotten me stoned or something! Well here I have to protect you and I will even if it is from yourself.”

I looked at her and in that instant something changed, I guess maybe it was the last of my macho ego giving in. The thought of having my balls cut off and being thrown off the side of a mountain into the desert highlands just wasn’t at all appealing to me. “Yes ma’am your right. I will be good and do as you say from now on. But you need be careful too please!”

Haley snickered, “What a good little boy you are becoming Noel! I’m impressed.”

Charlie flipped Haley the bird for me and then pulled me to her breast. I snuggled close and soon Haley covered my ass with her cuddle and I went to sleep.

I awoke to the sound of voices. It was Bekala and Charlie. Bekala was telling Charlie, “We are going to have to get Noel to be less outgoing Char-lee. Until the three of you have gotten to know how things work here he especially needs to be protected. I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest when Tantrah asked No-el if he liked other males!! I suddenly realized that I didn’t know what his answer would be. In this case had he said the wrong thing, Tantrah would have kept it in the family and protected him but others, like that crazy woman today would have had him killed before the turn of the day was done!”

Charlie asked, “What other things like that were not included in the implant you had done to us along with the language?”

“I don’t know Char-lee. It is one of those things that I never would have thought would need to be told. I see though that it is a cultural reference issue. I KNEW that it was fairly common in your world but accepted because unlike us, you have more babies than you need. I never thought about it and don’t know what else I haven’t thought about! Char-lee I would just die if something bad happened to No-el or you or Hay-lee!” She began to cry and my heart warmed. At least I knew now that Bekala wasn’t a danger to us.

Haley spoke and I looked to see her holding Bekala. “Don’t worry Bekala now that we know we will work to better protect Noel. We all need to be more closed mouthed for a while actually. What do you call someone here that studies the differences between cultures and looks closely at your culture?”

“They are “cultural anthropologists” Bekala told her. (She said it in Lantian but there is no need to further complicate things with needless language lessons.)

“We need to talk to one and find out if there are implants about that available.” Haley told her.

Bekala nodded and saw me looking at her, she beamed at me, “No-el is awake and peeking at us and listening. No-el, you will need to be more careful in the future. We love you and only wish you to be safe. If we correct you we do it not to be small or spiteful but out of love.”

Haley laughed, “Yeah No-el when I wear your ass out it will be all about love! Just like it is when I give you the enemas. I do it because I love too… I mean because I love you.” She grinned at me.

“Tomorrow when Kantola comes we will discuss this with her. She is very wise and will advise us.” Bekala assured us. She then looked at me and as if for the first time since joining us noted that I was still naked and available. “Char-lee may I join with No-el? He looks very pleasing in my eyes right now.”

Charlie giggled, “No-el always looks pleasing Bekala! Yes please do. He looks stressed. His stress pressure meter is looking in need of attention.”

With a happy squeal Bekala crawled to me and flopped on her back, spread her legs wide and asked, “No-el, please hurry and make happy with me. I am very in need of your happiness!”

That was the best offer that I had heard in a while and immediately jumped to do as she wished. Just having three beautiful women around me with no clothes on was all the foreplay that I as a male needed so I was more than happy to just “make happy with her”.

As I entered and began I heard Haley warn me. “Don’t get too used to that Noel. Charlie and I are more used to your allure and will still expect you to work harder than this to make happy with US!”

I ignored her, pretending not to hear, and made happy as hard and fast as I could for Bekala. Despite my best efforts she came several times before I could pop and made it a bumpy ride there towards the end. She was just soooooo easy to please!

When I finished her legs held me tight in place and she wished me to stay as long as possible so as to not disturb my wigglers. I was growing quite fond of this Lantian tradition. Bekala at least, always made my mess, as an ex-girlfriend had termed it, into a precious gift. It is nice to have your work appreciated.

That “afternoon?” Bekala explained how to make the kitchen work. “You stand in front of the food dispenser, place your hand on it and visualize the dish you want as you think its name.” She explained. “I tried it. I was hungry and so visualized the dish that I thought of as Lantian Steak and potatoes. It wasn’t exactly but it was close enough for me to like it a lot! There was a tiny tickle in my fingers and maybe in my brain and the box quivered as my choice was created out of nothingness.

Bekala explained that the food was made just as was the endless power from extra-dimensional particles. Strangely the process, along with making the food, also created energy that was turned into a form of DC electricity. Their generating system was in its basic essence, just like this food producer. It was bigger and made fresh water in copious quantities that were then run through the water system and finally released into an underground river system that eventually fed into the river system that became a part of the Amazon headwaters.

As she explained it, their physics operates with a system that recognizes 18 dimensions of space and 4 dimensions of time. There are three dimensions each in what they call ahead, behind, left side, right side, up side and down side. Time has forward, backward sidereal left and sidereal right. They hypothesize that there is a sidereal up and sidereal down as well but haven’t described it mathematically yet. When a particle is moved from a side dimension into ours it creates a certain amount of raw energy in the transformation because particles in that dimension have a higher basic power potential than particles in our home dimensions. These particles have no analogous particles in our three dimensions so they can easily be convinced to assume the properties of any one or number of things as easily as any other. Gold is no more or less valuable to them than water. All are equally easy to make from these other dimensional particles. As it becomes part of our dimensional description, energy is shed and they convert it into various forms of power like heat, electricity and a form of gravitational magnetism that is what makes the discs float. This is sort of a grammar school version of it and I make no claim to understand it.