Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Circuit
Monday, June 9, 2014
Party Favor
THE PARTY at Bob and Sally’s was something we had been looking forward to for a couple weeks. It was expected to be quite the affair; several families had been invited, and Bob was doing burgers on the grill. We brought a bottle of wine, and Alice had found a small gift for Sally and a card to take from us. The card read:
This is a secret you and I can definitely share.
"The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age."
—Lucille Ball
This year, we’re 39, right?
Happy 39th birthday!
Other couples’ cards were of the same vein, and there was cake and ice cream and the kids were all sent into the back yard to play once the song had been sung and the candles had gotten blown out.
The adults were left inside, and we all sat around a big circle in the living room, with a big production being made about the presents and the sentiments among friends of growing up and growing old together. It was a good party. When all had been accomplished, a small hush fell through the room, as Sally beamed and relished at what appeared to be her gratitude of everyone being there. She stood and cleared her throat to make an announcement.
"I have a request to make of everyone here, and I want everyone’s assurance that I will have your support through this."
There was a mixture of assent and concern throughout the murmurings from everyone in the room, with a general agreement that whatever she needed, we would all be there for her.
"Everyone has to participate. I’m not asking much; if I can do this, you can, too. As my friends." She held her pinky in her mouth as she stood before her husband and wiggled her torso back and forth. He started to stand and she held him down and pushed him to lean back in his chair. She stepped around to the side. She reached up under her skirt and proceeded to take her panties down to her ankles, and she bent over his legs and lifted her dress. He asked her if she was really sure she wanted to do this, and she nodded, and put her hands down on the floor on the other side of his lap. Bob took a deep breath, pulled his hand back, and proceeded to spank her.
There were collective gasps throughout the room. Most of the women turned their heads. Most of the men did not.
There is some kind of an internal clock in me that starts up counting things before I am even aware that I am doing it until the seventh or eighth iteration of whatever it is I’m being made aware of—instances of a speaker saying "uh" during a speech, the number of maniacal toon vehicles that roar around me on the highway, the ever-increasing count of commercials during the breaks in TV shows, whatever—gets pushed into my deliberate consciousness, and this was no exception. The swats and the slaps rang throughout the room. No one was daring to make any noise, hell, no one was daring to breathe throughout it all. Sally stayed put, and Bob delivered through the requisite number of thirty-nine, and he helped her up when he was done. She bent over and kissed him on the cheek, thanking him. She reached down and wrestled her panties the rest of the way off over her shoes, and handed them to him with a smile.
Three couples stood to leave.
"No, no, no. You cannot go. My darling husband has merely started the proceedings. I am requiring this from everyone here."
"Absolutely not," said one of the husbands who had his marching orders from his wife.
Sally stepped over to bar the way out of the front door. "I must insist. This is very important to me."
"Well, no. We are not interested," the wife said. The other two standing couples all nodded in unison; it was like they had rehearsed.
"Look, I’m not trying to get anything bad to happen, but it is quite simple. Everyone in this room is going to spank me today, and I am quite serious about it. What’s more, it isn’t going to be just today. I am going to get spanked or paddled or whipped or whatever thirty-nine times every day this year by one of you. There is going to be a rotation, and you will all participate. Every last one of you."
Two of the standing husbands started chuckling, again with the appearance of long hours of practice to get the timing just right, and it spread like a sequence to the other men, standing and sitting; myself included. "What makes you think we will agree to that?" One of the other men asked.
"Because if you don’t, I will get your children to do it. They won’t balk one bit."
"Don’t be ridiculous. That’s child abuse."
"Oh, so you’re prepared to have me labeled as a pedophile and a sex offender because you are uncomfortable with a stupid childhood game? Can you imagine who I’d have to get to do what I want in prison? Are you so ready to so completely hate and write off someone you were so happy to be with not five minutes ago? What kind of people are you?"
"Come on, Sally," I said. "What kind of person are you to put us, your friends into such an awful and tasteless position as this?"
"This is something I need to happen, and I have come to you, my friends, to help me with it."
"Why?"
"It’s not simple or just about one thing. It’s a part of who I am and always have been that I have kept hidden from you all that I can no longer—in good conscience—continue to do so." Bob nodded, with his eyebrows all the way up. "And I don’t care how you justify it to yourself, whether you’re taking pity on some poor sick person that you’re determined you’re going to somehow find some obscure way laced with platitudes to save me from myself, or if you have always secretly wanted to wreak some horrible vengeance on women in general or on me specifically and you run off to masturbate with the furies afterwards, or whatever twisted or benign rationale you can convince yourself of, you are the people I want to do this."
"I don’t want to do this!" One of the standing wives was overwhelmed by her own outburst: bent over, purple-faced, trembling. It took a solid three seconds—one, two, three—of silence after that for her to bury her face in her hands, crying, completely ashamed to have had such an emotional moment, embarrassed to be looked at by all her friends, humiliated to the core to have even been here and to even have the suggestion of such a horror being placed right there in front of her with the unspeakable expectation that she have anything whatsoever to do with it at all. It was how we all felt. Her husband put his arm around her and helped her sit back down. There were whispers going around the room.
My wife said something I don’t think anyone heard, and I snapped to face her, my own eyes wide. "What?"
She cleared her throat, and everyone looked at her. "I said we’re in." Alice couldn’t lift her eyes from the floor, nor could she blink them. "Are none of you listening to her? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to have anything more to do with this than any of the rest of you. But look: she just said she was prepared to go to prison here, to be completely ostracized from not just us but the entire community, and all for what, the idea that she thinks she needs a spanking? Who are we to say that she doesn’t?"
"She needs help." The other sitting husband, the one trying to comfort his out-of-her-element wife, chimed in. A definite knack for the obvious, that one always had.
"No question. And she just asked us for it. Now, I am the first to disagree with the course of this treatment, but I can’t throw her to the wolves, nor to whatever monsters are out there that would be more than willing to assault a woman who puts herself into the position she is talking about. I mean, my god. Could any of you bear it if she got herself really hurt because of this? Or worse?" My wife, of all the people here, had the most issue with anything even remotely kinky or weird. She was such a stick in the mud I didn’t even bother making a pass at her any more. If she wasn’t in the mood, no power on earth could get her into it, and I ended up waiting for her to come to me, which was nowhere near enough to suit me, but I wasn’t about to take on any of the alternatives, of adultery or divorce or force. I had, by necessity, become a man of waiting. This was so unlike what I had come to expect of her.
She looked up to Sally and held her hand up, opening and closing her fingers.
I could not believe my wife was beckoning our friend to come to her to get spanked.
Sally looked relieved, and bent over and hugged her for the longest time before pulling back, stroking Alice’s hair. If Hollywood clichés meant anything, they were about to kiss, but Alice did something none of the rest of us could see, and Sally bent slowly over her lap. My own wife lifted the skirt of her best friend, and revealed her ass to us all much as Bob did.
"Thank you, Alice."
My wife patted her friend on the butt.
"My darling, I don’t want to be one to complain, but that one didn’t count. You have to do much better than that."
Swat two, or one, depending on how one counts these things, happened, and induced a slight ripple in the bottom laid bare before us all.
"Please, do not be patronizing. I never thought I would ever hear myself say this, but you have to fucking hit me. I love you that you are willing to help, but I’m begging you: don’t play. Do it right. Please."
Alice had to stop herself and collect whatever it was she had to put together to do it. She sat and her breathing accelerated a little, and her face twisted into what she needed to make it do to actually strike her friend with all the force that was expected. She almost looked enraged, and her hand flew so fast I had trouble catching up with the counters until she was well past fifteen.
My wife delivered.
Sally was lurching about, gasping, getting caught up in it, and feeling what it was she had brought us all here together to feel. When the count hit thirty, Alice stopped and caught her breath.
As if they had planned it, they both said "oh god" in unison. Alice slowed down for the last nine strokes, pulling her hand back up behind her head; she applied every ounce of force she could find within her self to vent down her arm, through her hand, onto her friend’s bottom. Sally squealed, and when it was over, she fell off of my wife’s lap onto the floor, only to scramble back up and throw her arms around her spanker. She started kissing her spanker all over her face, deliberately making her way towards her lips, and thanking her, and Alice brought her hand up between them.
"I wish you wouldn’t do that."
"Oh, oh, yes ma’am, I’m sorry ma’am." Sally plopped her head down into Alice’s lap, kneeling on the floor before her, and shook. Her skirt had fallen over the offensive, er, offended portion of her anatomy.
Alice pet her and tried to muster a smile that her friend couldn’t see. She addressed the room: "It’s not so bad, folks. We can do this for her." She wrenched her head up toward me, with her face falling into a dread seriousness, and she tipped her head down toward the woman kneeling before her, keeping her eyes locked on to mine, her lips compressing into a pencil-thin line.
I couldn’t look around the room to see what the other couples were doing, and the last person I wanted to even be aware of was Bob.
I was about to spank his wife. In front of all of our friends. At the behest of my—and his—wife. I felt whatever resistance I may have had about all this fall away from me as it always did when my wife wanted something.
I stood and reached down onto Sally’s hair, barely touching it. She startled up and bored into me, her mouth askew, not breathing. She nodded as small as she could, and struggled to stand up. I held my hand out, and she put her own hand into it, as though I were helping her up stairs or into a car. We turned around and stood by the chair I was sitting in. We were almost clumsy in our attempts to get ourselves positioned right, facing the right directions and the like, and if the doom that was not impending before us as it was, we would have laughed. She defocused her gaze and waited for me to sit back down.
My back was ramrod straight, with my calves formed forty five degree angles to my knees, one foot before, one foot behind. I spread them slightly, and she descended slowly, full of dignity and grace. I thought about physics and leverage and trajectories and lines of force, anything to keep from acknowledging what I was about to do. What I was about to do wasn’t a childish game, it wasn’t a silly party maneuver, it wasn’t some peculiar therapy that we were asked to participate in. It was a religious act, one that called to a god I didn’t believe in through a ritual I didn’t understand for a purpose I had railed against my entire life. A man does not hit a woman, and that’s that. And here I was, in front of all of our friends, about to defy everything I had ever been taught and do exactly that. I pulled my hand back; she almost fell off my lap with my strike. She inhaled sharply, and repositioned herself, to try to stabilize herself against what the first blow promised was to come.
Sally thrashed and cried out and tried to keep her composure and she couldn’t. She shouted and gasped and whimpered and moaned and her noise became more and more continuous and her volume raised and the only other thing I could hear was the sound of my hand hitting her flesh.
Alice touched my shoulder. "That’s enough, dear."
I had no sense of count.
Sally fell off my lap and rolled around on the floor and wept.
I became aware of other couples murmuring disparaging things. "Monster," "barbaric," "how could he," "maybe that’s what she needed to get this out of her fool head," and my head swam. I pulled my eyes up and found the last person I wanted to see. Bob was looking at his wife as she wallowed on the floor, and he was looking forlorn. He lifted his eyes to me, and I shrank back as far as the chair would allow.
He nodded, and looked otherwise completely blank. I collapsed back in my chair, dropped my head, and blushed.
I was in a fog for the rest of the night. Occasionally, the sound of slapping or some grunting would wake me from my dream-state. There was a little pleading from some wife or other, something about "please don’t make me do this," that occasionally caught my attention—whoever was behind this well-practiced script hadn’t thought to include any other lines—but by the time I succeeded in looking up at one time or another, one of the other husbands was hard at it, and never one of the other wives. I had no sense for the passage of time, but the counting mechanisms I had got well into the hundreds at the sounds of slaps before I deliberately shut them down. My wife put her hand on mine when it was time to go, and she asked me if I was okay to drive. My pride insisted I was, and she only had to remind me that the light had changed once. When we got home and in bed, I put my arm around her and cuddled up to her and she flipped her head back and said "really?" and that was that. I think I slept; it did not feel like I did.
The next morning I tried to ask her about it. She looked like she was trying to think about what to say. "There’s a schedule. Sally is going to be coming over every five of six days or so." We set a second or three. "Do you want to be there when she comes for me?"
"I…uh…do you want me to be?"
"It’s up to you."
"I don’t…I don’t think so; no."
"I will offer you the same courtesy."
And that was all we said about it. Sally came by three days later, and she and Alice retreated into our bedroom and closed the door. I went into the living room and tried to read, but couldn’t concentrate on anything on the page in front of me. I ended up turning on the TV. It only took five minutes; it was a ridiculously long five minutes. All commercials: ten of the damn things. When our bedroom door opened, I was sure it was improper to look. I caught a glimpse of Sally as she opened the front door. I glanced up and she was looking at me, smiling. "I’ll see you on Saturday, yes?"
"Uh, yeah. You’ll be coming here, or do you want me to come over?"
"I’ll come by. Is before noon okay?"
"Yeah. Yes. That’d be great."
"Bye."
She darted out the door, and the house went quiet. I sat and couldn’t remember what I was watching; I turned the TV off and went back to our bedroom. I knocked. "Honey?"
"Can I have a few minutes? Please?"
"Sure. Sure." I went back to the living room leaving the door’s closure intact to sit in the quiet. When she came out, she bustled all business and chores and she had to nag me twice to go mow the lawn. It was late in the evening for that sort of thing, but I did it. She wouldn’t talk about what happened that night as well as the next day, and she was utterly unresponsive to my efforts to be intimate for the rest of the week, and every time I so much as suggested I wanted to talk, she would change the subject to some unsavory bodily function and the troubles she’s been having with it lately.
Saturday morning rolled around, and Alice went to the store, taking our daughter with her. I offered to go along, and she tipped her head and smirked.
Oh, yeah.
I prowled around the house, and set in on cleaning. I vacuumed, did the bathroom, the dishes, cleaned out the fridge, and was thinking about scrubbing the kitchen floor when the doorbell rang. I felt rather lost, and wasn’t sure I could even find the door when she started pounding. That snapped me out of my indecision, and despite not remembering where it really was, I found my way to front door and opened it.
She beamed. "Hi."
"Hi." I had nothing scripted.
"Can I come in?"
"Oh. Uh, yeah. Sure." I stepped aside, and she glided in past me, and waited for me to close the door.
"Can I get you anything? Coffee? Pastry?"
She dipped her head with a shy smile. "No. Thanks."
We waited until I could speak. "You know, I’m not reall—"
She glued herself to me, from knees to just below her breasts; she threw one arm around my lower back, pulling me in tight, adjusting herself to be in more intimate contact with me, through our clothes, than Alice ever was when we were engaged in intercourse. Her other hand’s fingers pressed ever so gently on my lips. I tried to open my mouth to say something, something about how improper this was, and her digits found their way inside. She hooked her nails down under my tongue, over my lower teeth. She stepped back, and pulled me toward my bedroom by my mouth. The one I shared with my wife.
Alice released me when we got there, and I stood in the doorway as she ran her fingers up my bed without a word. When she reached the pillows, she paused, and set in on taking off her jeans.
"Do you…need to do that?"
She didn’t answer me. She simply proceeded to take off all her clothes. She didn’t turn to face me; she stood there, naked, facing the headboard. She exhaled, and laid down, face down; she curled her arms underneath her, and finally looked at me with something I had to have termed to be adoration.
"Sally, are you sure?"
"Of course. You know, I’ve been doing this for a week already. Don’t worry. I’m fine." She nodded, and I stepped up to the edge, and held my hand over her ass.
She kept her eyes completely locked on me. "Don’t stint."
I watched myself pull my hand straight up and I could not stop blinking. I shoved my arm straight down and splatted on her flesh. My hand bounced off her.
"Harder."
I did it again, with what I thought was an appropriate level of force.
"Oh, come on."
I ignored her, and did it the way I thought it should go, pulling back ever so slightly at the last instant before impact, more in the process of pulling my hand back up before I even made contact that I was in the process of making contact, in order to minimize the micro-seconds I was touching her. Touching her with force. I did not lose count, and laid it down on her as mechanically and as fast as I could move. I spanked her the required thirty-nine strokes, and when I finished, I left her there to go sit down in my chair in the living room and mope. She came out to where I was sitting a couple minutes later. She crossed to me and bent over to kiss me on the cheek. At least she was dressed.
"You did better the first time."
I glanced up at her, and looked away.
She stayed near me, and I didn’t move. "Th-thank you. I’ll see you in a little over a week."
"Ten days."
"Yes. Ten days."
She found her own way out of the house. I stared at the wall for an hour, until Alice came home with the groceries. I helped her bring them in with our daughter, and we went to a movie in the afternoon. That night, Alice came to me as it was time, the time I tried not to nag her about, the one that only worked on her schedule that she didn’t let me in on which dictated that the time for sex had come, and I did my duty, but no more. I don’t think she came.
And so it went for the next couple months. Every ten or eleven days or so, Sally came to me when Alice—and our daughter—was conveniently not at home, and took off her clothes, and I spanked her. I was not enthused, but Alice always made those nights sex nights, and I was nothing less than uncomfortable through it all. When Sally came by for Alice’s turn, they spent progressively longer and longer time together until they were in there almost an hour, and they would come out giggling or flushed or sympathetic or any of the myriad ways they always spent together when they went shopping or to the park with the kids or were simply sitting around gossiping about this or that or the other. It was almost normal. Almost, but not quite. I never heard anything that went on those evenings, and Alice simply wouldn’t talk about any of it and it never occurred to me to not be there on those nights.
After two-and-a-half months, we were invited over to Bob and Sally's for dinner. The kids were all sent downstairs with pizza and a movie. Two of the other couples from the birthday party was there. Dinner was broiled shrimp put into a salad, and Bob made a big production of the crème brûlée he made for dessert, flashing the torch around with all the appropriate jokes being made about fire departments and fire extinguishers and conflagrations. When what he had done was in everyone’s hands, he said he had to tell us something.
"Two of the couples have dropped out. I am so sorry; they’ll never speak to any of us again. They were very adamant. This is not what we wanted."
After some nervous glances around the room, Alice said, "We’re still here for you." She looked at me. "Screw them."
It was the husband of one of the other couple’s turn, and he really stood and delivered, right there in front of us all. Sally had to be gagged for it, to keep from disturbing the children downstairs. It all went about as though it were normal, expected. Bob and Sally thanked everyone profusely, and went over the schedule. We were all committed to once a week with Sally.
Otherwise, it was a typical dinner party. When Alice and I got home, sex was not to be had.
When Sally came by three days later for me, I followed her into the bedroom. She turned toward me, and said "we have to do it like this now." She produced a long paddle that had holes drilled into it from under her coat, and stood to face me as she stripped.
She was covered with bruises.
"My god."
"Aren’t they lovely?" She turned and displayed herself.
"That’s not the right word."
"Can I get you to do the backs of my thighs? I want to distribute the marks." She bent over and put her hands on the bed, spreading her legs.
"I…Christ." I took the paddle, exhaled, positioned myself to her side, and swung. There was no point in arguing.
"Fuck the count. You’re going to do this until I have the marks I need. You can try to do it with pansy-ass little swats like that one, which means were going to be here a while, or you can man up and do it right."
I let her have it. She fell over onto the bed. "Oh, god, yes, just like that!" She repositioned herself, and I swung and I struck her thighs until the welts began showing and she began moaning. I stopped, and she looked back at herself. "Not yet, hero. You’re getting there."
I threw down on her, until she said that was enough, that we could quit.
"Not yet." I put down another dozen strikes. When I decided I was done—the bruises were deep and red and black and blue already, and she was covered with little pock-marks from the holes in the paddle—I threw the weapon on the bed, and strode out of the room and poured myself a drink. A stiff one that was almost gone by the time she came out.
When she appeared, she was actually limping, and when she reached up to kiss me, she wrapped her fingers into my hair, and poured herself into my mouth. When she finally stopped, coming up for air at last, Alice was there, standing across the room, stunned, frozen.
Sally was out of breath, and pulled back with the slight smile a woman gets when she has gotten away with doing something sinful she had always wanted to do. When she staggered passed Alice, she put her hand to the side of my wife’s face and looked at her. Alice closed her eyes and nodded her head; they may have been whispering. I wasn’t sure.
After Sally left, I looked over to my wife who stared at me, then turned and disappeared into our bedroom. She called to me, and I nearly sprinted after her.
She was naked on the bed, with her legs spread obscenely, her breasts heaving.
I attacked her, and she welcomed me into her, and she fucked me like she had to.
Two weeks later, after two more major assaults I performed onto Sally, with her egging and prompting and begging and kneeling afterwards before me, looking directly into my crotch, pulling herself in as close there as she could get without being in actual contact, so close I could feel her hot breath right through my pants—with Alice and I nearly raping each other afterwards—we were called back to Bob and Sally’s. The kids were watching TV in the basement.
"It’s down to just us."
It was Alice’s night, and she paddled her friend’s bottom as though she were splitting wood, with every ounce of force she could muster. The marks were impressive, to say the least. When she stood there, finished, panting, she dropped the woodpiece, and stunned me. "That’s it. I’m out."
Bob laughed. "So am I." The last person I expected to opt out was Bob.
"Then I guess it’s over." I was actually relieved.
"No; you’re not getting out of it, honey. You have to keep it up."
"You’re kidding."
"Don’t worry. We’re still here for you, Sally. We will not abandon you." She turned her gaze to me and bored into me as she did when something was important for me to understand in no uncertain terms, and she was going to get her way no matter what. Just like she always did, especially when it came time for us in the bedroom, which, remarkably, she had been keeping completely tied to the nights Sally came over, like clockwork. She was more passionate on those nights of late than she had been our entire marriage. "You will not abandon her, will you."
I tried to protest my way out of all this the rest of the evening, and Alice would have none of it. Sally spent the rest of the evening curled up in Bob’s lap.
The next day, Sally came by the house all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and marched back to the bedroom. Alice took the kids down to our daughter’s room.
By the time I got to my bedroom to refuse, Alice was naked, sitting up on the bed, on her wide-spread knees, with her hands behind her head, looking up.
"I…no. I can’t. Look, I’m sorry, Sally, but this has to sto—"
"—What are you talking about?" My wife startled me from behind. I turned to face her, and my jaw dropped. She was naked, and in the process of locking our bedroom door. "Hang on a second." She went around me over to the bed, and pet Sally’s hair twice. Sally turned her eyes to Alice, and opened her mouth wide.
Alice reached up and began stuffing cloth into her friend’s mouth. Cloth that I recognized as being the panties I watched her put on as she was getting dressed that morning. When she finished, she nudged Sally’s mouth closed, and turned to face me. She glued herself to me, from knees to just below her breasts, sliding her thighs around me, wrapping herself around me, pulling my lower back into her, pressing her breasts up against me.
I protested. "Honey, this ca—"
"—Shh, shh." Her other hand came up to my lips, and she played with them, watching what her fingers were doing to my mouth. "You marvelous fool. Surely you don’t think that I got us involved with all this," and she nodded her head back toward the bed, "for the sake of that silly slut there, do you?" She grinned big, and poured herself into my mouth for long minutes.
I was gasping and out of breath when she released me. She slid down between me and the bed, opening my pants on the way, releasing the incessant rampaging erection I inevitably got when Sally came over. My wife applied her lips and her tongue and her mouth against me, and I had trouble standing.
I startled to feel myself getting poked in the ribs by something hard. Sally was prodding me with a cane, to get me to take it, nodding, poking, nodding, and when I did, she ran her fingers across her breasts twice, smiling around the gag in her mouth, and went back to her pose. Alice forced my cock further into her mouth than she ever had before. She gagged and I pulled out. She scooted back and leaned back up to the edge of the bed, and reached around behind me on the back of my legs, and pulled me forward, shuffling me along with my pants around my ankles, directing my cock back into her mouth, pulling harder as I proceeded to push myself into her face, her mouth, her throat, with the bed serving as a stop gap to keep her from pulling away. She had trapped herself from being able to get away from the advancement of my penis into her mouth, and I couldn’t help it, I began thrusting. She made little noises, and with one hand, pointed up and back behind her toward the woman on the bed.
I stood, and undulated until my hand drew back. Sally flinched after I swung and I had swung hard, and continuously had to re-upright herself back into position. I fucked my wife’s mouth while I waited for her to do that, time and time again. They both whimpered and cried their way through my efforts—both of them. Sally looked like a train wreck. I train wreck I had drug her through, screaming under her gag the entire time.
After I finished my burden, with all three of us gasping and groaning and moaning, I had to turn and yank my way out of my wife and sit on the bed. Alice followed me around, and went back to gagging herself on me, determined. When Sally—with tears still in her eyes—bent around to help my wife with what she was doing to me, holding her nose shut to get her to open her mouth wider, pushing her head down even harder onto me, forcing my wife’s mouth onto me, driving her to get me all the way back on up in there, with my beloved contracting her lips around the very root of my hardon, getting the back of her throat to pulse around me in ways I had never imagined, I had to lie down.
When I could lift my head again, after a mercifully endless moment in the sky, doing something I had always reserved for the privacy of me wife’s pussy or the quiet floor of the bathroom when I couldn’t sleep, the girls were sitting on either side of me, leaning over me, engaged with trading what they had gotten out of me, back and forth, back and forth between their mouths, giggling, petting each other, putting on a show. When I could get myself up on my elbows, they noticed and broke apart from each other, laughing, wiping their mouths, licking their fingers, trailing them through various wet spots on their own faces, feeding each other with what they got swiped up until they had nothing left to play with. Alice disappeared from my sight, and Sally helped me up to standing.
I was out of breath, and she was unbuttoning my shirt faster than I ever could, and, kneeling down, she fiddled around at my feet, pulling my pants the rest of the way off. "Sally, plea—"
"—Oh, no, hero. You’re not done, yet." She stood and danced her fingers up my entire body, stopping at various interesting places here and there, until she put her full hands on my shoulders, palms and all, and turned me back around to face the bed, where my wife was kneeling with her knees spread, her hands up behind her head, and the cane was in her mouth. "Her turn." Sally wrapped her arms around me from behind, and with one hand, she prompted my arm up towards my wife, and with the other, she reached down between my legs, and began doing what little she needed to do to get me ready.
I took the cane from my wife’s mouth, and Sally assumed her position between me and the bed, and, opening her mouth as wide as she could get it, set in on doing what she was there to do. Alice glanced down at her friend, and looked up to beam at me for a second or two before she turned to look up at the ceiling. I had nothing to say any kind of "no" towards this left in me. I held the rod with both hands and pulled back like I had a baseball bat in my hands, and I had good follow-through. We had forgotten to gag her, and she screamed. It took a matter of eight seconds for our daughter to start knocking on the door, asking if mommy was alright, and Sally scrambled up to don one of my wife’s robes, and, after mouthing a quick apology and blowing us a kiss, she left us to go take care of our daughters, traipsing them back down stairs, to talk about princesses.
Alice’s breasts were heaving, the ones with the welt I had just laid down on with one fell swoop, and she rasped out, "You can’t stop now. How old am I again?"
"Remarkably, thirty-nine. Just like Sally."
"I intend to be thirty-nine forever. My dearest husband: the scourging of our lord and savior is yours to deliver unto me. Every day, darling, from now on. Just like that one. Anything less doesn’t count."
I stood, and delivered. After the fourth stroke, it occurred to me that maybe I should gag her, for the sake of the kids. She was all too happy to have my underwear forced into her mouth as far as I could get it to go, and when I finished the obligation toward whatever god it was that demanded I perform this trust upon her, with her writhing and thrashing and crying and doing everything she could to keep her hands off her wounds the entire time, not to mention the liability I had towards the husbandly duty I owed her afterwards, somewhere in the middle of her glorious weepings and sounds that were happening for an altogether different reason than the one cane induced, one that was also not spoken of at polite dinner parties, I looked up to see Sally standing over us, dressed and smiling, and wishing us the best of luck from here, and reminding us to not be strangers and come by as often as we wished. We, of course, would have much more to talk about now. She offered to take our daughter for a sleepover, and I accepted. Alice nodded; her mouth was still quite full.
We had some catching up to do. It had been months since my wife’s birthday.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Debate
March 2014
SHE IS, by all the modern definitions of the word so relentlessly expounded upon in the media, beautiful. Her hair, long and dimensional and thick, doesn’t simply crown the top of her head. It luxuriates in glorious flows of rich darkest Ecuadorian bistre cacao onto the table, spreading out in elegance, and if she were upright, walking, it wouldn’t bounce, it would undulate seductively. Were someone brash enough to dare run their fingers through it, it would fold back into place on its own, admonishing the partier to do it again and get lost in there forever, and to come into her power. Her coiffure is expensive, the maintenance of it requires staff, and my assessment of it is barbaric: how long is it, what kind of braid could be wound into the ropes to hang her by it, and what would she offer to make that not happen. I am but a fiend, jaded and indifferent.
Her skin is radiant, perfect. She has no tattoos, no marks, no moles. Her makeup, like her hair, is divine and flawless and no quick-slap coat of paint: it is sheer artistry. She had to have gotten up early for it, and, no doubt, had her latte delivered to her as it was going on in a room full of minions whose sole reason to breathe was to tend to her and her many, many needs. Her full lips glisten and call out their temptations to have an intimate something I have to nestle between them for long periods of time, and she moves them in ways that say welcome. She blinks around the aerial shade of brown of her eyes slowly so I can get a good look at her eye shadow, with all its delicate luminescences that I have to stare at and observe to understand the complexities of its subtle color gradations, and how the lines of her liner seem to move when she closes and reopens her eyes into something that makes her appear most agreeable. It’s a tempo thing, part of the bag of tricks women wield against men. Her eyelashes are pronounced, but not ridiculously long. Mercifully, no glitter there. I wonder if her mascara would run under the right circumstances.
Her face is unreal, it is so perfect. Completely symmetrical, it combines youth and innocence with seduction and sheer raw sex. It should be difficult to look at her, but she has all the appearances of being friendly and inviting, easy to talk to, were it permitted. She effortlessly ranks high among the most exquisite women I have ever seen, and would statistically stop traffic in every country on earth.
Laid out as she is on a narrow table with her hands up over her head, she wiggles the cuffs on her wrists which are heavy black leather, shiny and polished and clean and obviously new, never even worn before. No scuff marks are on them, and the padding on her wrist-side is fluffy and white. There is a black rope running through the chrome links on them, and it takes me a while to discern that it is silk. She stretches a time or two and tests her range of motion. On the other end of the table, her dainty feet have a companion set of cuffs. She has been bound to the table at the ends, and she has lots of ability to squirm, but no leverage or freedom to sit up, or even twist herself onto her side. She is slightly stretched, and there is a hint of the rack.
Her body, too, is a work of art, sculpted and shaped and toned with the obviousness of relentless hours at the gym. Her breasts have implants, and they stand up firm and tall and bulbous on her chest in a way actual human female breasts cannot. Her nipples are vigorously erect and veritably cry out to be flicked, pinched, bitten, chewed by the darker sides I carry with me. Her stomach is stone-flat, and the breathing motions in her upper chest induces waveforms and ripples through it that flow from her diaphragm all the way down the rest of her abdomen to the most visible cleft of her sex. She isn’t just shaved, she has had laser hair removal of every follicle on her entire body below her neck, not to mention labioplasty to make her clitoris plain and obvious. It’s impossible to see it from this angle, but her legs are thin enough that it would be easy to conclude that, were she standing with her hair flowing in the breeze and her knees were together, there would be a gap between her thighs where her pretty pussy lips would hang down into just enough to capture attention away from whatever else could be around her.
She is designed. Everything about her, from the perfection of her ingenious manicure to the clever angles she holds her feet on the table have been carefully crafted to create an image of a woman that at least a man, at least me, would have a hard time looking away from. She has all the right curves and lines and all the little motions she makes by just lying there scream out for attention, for observation. Her chest—and thereby, her breasts—heaves as she breathes and arches her back and her matching-collared neck rolls her head this way and that while she waits. Her demeanor is expectant and serene, and she alternates opening and closing her mouth. Her teeth are perfect and iridescent, and her tongue glistens and behaves itself as it peeks to the edge of her lips. She is not just to be seen, she is to be concentrated upon, and fantasized about. She is a living bid for the stuff of dreams.
The room is abstract, white fading off toward gray in all directions. The table is black, and there is a second table behind it that is hard to see what all is on it.
The man comes in, dressed all in black casual—he is nearly invisible, and plays the parts of Noh that I am not supposed to really see, and it is easy to supplant his flat imageless image with my own—and the show is set about to begin. The starlet focuses on him and his non-descriptedness in attempts to entice him by amplifying what motions she can do on the table. She does not speak; she bats her eyes in his direction and smiles a smile that is to be interpreted that she is honored to be here, to be here with him, but it strikes me as plasticene. It is a supermodel’s smile.
He circles around to the other side of her and turns toward the second table, returning to tower over her holding a long stick on hand. No, it’s a riding crop, also shiny and new. He begins rubbing the shaft and the popper over her and she moves away from it as it crosses her ribcage. He lets it fall and land harmlessly on her by only its own weight a few places on her: the tops of her thighs, across her stomach a time or two, even on her face and cheeks, which gets her to squinch her eyes shut. He flicks it down onto the middle of her chest, directly on her sternum, accelerating it only slightly faster than what gravity could do, and pats her with it, slowly increasing the tempo and the force he applies until he has to grasp it firmly with his hand to keep from dropping it. The swats become enough that it barely makes a sound against her skin, and as it gets louder, her breathing changes into something slower, deeper, in what I would like to think is an effort to control herself as he makes more and more noise with the crop. His wrist is flicking and the end of the crop vanishes in the air until it reappears on wherever it lands on her, making a solid slap, getting her to tense up where he struck and have the impact radiate out on her body like a waveform, getting her to gasp once. Her mouth opens and her eyes widen and she is efforting herself to not make any noise, to not interfere with what the weapon is doing against her, and still he applies more and more pressure with each downstroke, more speed, getting higher and higher velocities to wend their way through the end of the leather stick. He hits her now on her expensive breasts and her eyes widen and her head and jaw freezes with a slight shake of her head, and he smiles as he traces a line of attack from there down her tummy, getting her abdominal muscles to contract down toward the table. He moves the ictus of the whip down through where she would had shaved just this morning if she had had pubic hair in the first place and he says his first words.
“Spread your legs; as far as you can.”
The ankle bindings keep her from doing little beyond parting her knees, but as she does, he directs the crop down off the tops of her thighs toward her inner thighs, and her hips thrust around as he strikes her faster and faster and closer and closer to her sex, and he periodically re-admonishes her to do as he says when her reflexes kick in and she appears to disobey him. Her breathing is noisy by now, and she no longer able to suppress the little reactions to being hit and she tries, oh how she tries to do what he says, and she lifts her pussy up off the table as far as her bondage will allow for in what is to be considered to be representative of the limits of her strength and endurance and she holds her breath, and he spats the crop directly onto where her clit should be, right at the top of her pussy lips, and she groans and closes her legs around the crop. He lets go of it, and she rolls it back and forth, waving it like a flag, moaning, and making the first sound that could be identified as a word: “Oh.”
He smiles and lets her settle herself down before pulling the crop out from between her legs. She lurches at the extraction with her mouth open, her eyes wide. He runs his other hand up and down her, where he had been striking her, and she writhes from the comfort, and goes back to undulating herself up to meet his hand as it flows around her, stroking her ever so lightly.
They eyes manage to lock and he nods his head. She inhales deeply and exhales with her first expression that could almost pass as a sentence: “Oh, sir,” which she reiterates time and time again as he continues to stroke his hands over her contortions, tickling her a time or two, getting her to throw herself about in her bondage with peals of laughter. He turns back to the second table, and she continues saying the two little words, and something bothers me. She appears to have some kind of a disconnect with what is happening here, and her mind is obviously somewhere else. It does not seem to be subspace. It’s more that she’s daydreaming of something like maybe a beach.
The very-precisely constructed archetype of a ravishingly beautiful woman laid out and restrained, naked, helpless—with a fully clothed man standing over her, able to do anything he wants to her—is the draw, the appeal for revenge against all the put-downs women have expressed not just to him or to me, but to all men everywhere, and the notion that she is here to pay for the sins of all womankind has with it a sheer attraction that is so beautiful it is difficult to look at. Except, that is not what is going on here. She pronounces her two-word vocabulary with the echoes of a woman looking down and trying to comfort a five-year old boy who scraped his knee, and it is apparent by this point that this is all script, all planned to the finest detail, probably even rehearsed. It is an entertainment.
He produces a vibrator, one of the big strong ones that looks technological and makes no effort in its construction toward simulating a man—form follows function, even in things that buzz—and it is the kind that plugs into the wall, and he places it right square between her legs directly on the target she has so craftily constructed for men and she lurches. Now she is engaged with what is happening, and she squirms and she moans and she begs with the two words she is allowed for a mere minute and a half before she risks everything and asks to “please, please, please” and can she “have permission to come.” It took no time whatsoever to go from the simulations of agony to the simulations of ecstasy. His eyelids compress and he says that when he gets to “one” she can come, and she frumps as though she was five and sets back to quivering. He counts backwards from ten, and when he says the final word after the shortest of delays, and he pronounces the word of permission long and slow, she arches up off the table and cries out and goes back to saying “oh, sir” and throws herself against the ropes and makes unintelligible noises. She has the screaming orgasm of the ages. She squirts; I don’t know, maybe she urinates.
She settles down and turns her head with a smile I have seen before. She glows with the smile that happens at the front of the big churches when the offering plate is passed, and gets full. She is in complete control and has been from the start, and everything has happened exactly as she had predicted and planned, and she is smug, and she is getting paid now.
She is the very embodiment of all the women I have ever known that would have nothing to do with me and all the women I have ever been taught that I could have absolutely nothing to do with, that all she has for me is ridicule and disgust and loathing, no matter what I do, no matter how I act, no matter what I say, and my education process kicks in hard and concludes her smile is avarice. This girl, this woman is sin itself but the sin is not mine, it is hers: vanity, greed, the appearance of lust, she induces envy and desire for what cannot be had, and the sin that is mine is wrath and I have been played, as it is all an act, a show, and she is something I should walk away from and I do.
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SHE IS a woman that I might take a second glance at in public, but no more. The kind of beauty one sees in common places, like in the service industry. Pretty, but not overpoweringly so. One who, as she performs her task of waitressing or checking out the groceries or making me a latte, when she smiles, it proves relaxing, reaffirming, a cause for pause to make a bright spot in my day, but no more. It would get her a tip. She has a good body, quite naked, sporting dishwater blonde hair in an unkempt pageboy with her roots starting to show, and if she didn’t look so tired, she might have a sunny disposition.
Her hands are in cuffs; scruffy old ones that are at least humane: they have handles built into them she can hang on to with the leather around her wrists done up tight and secure with several small padlocks on each arm; they are nothing she can just take off. They are somehow attached to heavy hemp ropes in ways I can’t quite see—ah yes, carabiners, also with locks—that lead up to ratchet pulleys that latch onto the rope as it is pulled through, and her arms are drawn up above her head so she is fully stretched into a “Y”, and she is vulnerable, in more ways than her bondage relays. Her feet remain unseen, but it is plain she is standing, and not dangling airborne from the ceiling. She stretches up enough that I can at least imagine she is standing on her unobservable toes, and she breathes deep from her diaphragm; her breasts are relatively immobile and pulled tight, at least at the moment. She is unshaved under her arms and at the tops of her legs and between them, too, and it confirms the dye-job from her god-given camel-colored hair. She looks human. She chews her nails.
There seems to be some kind of conversation going on with her by the two men who are readying her, but what they say cannot be heard. All that can be made out are her responses: “Yes,” “It has been,” and “I completely hate it.” After her last comment, she hangs her head as though she is ashamed to have to admit that, and she shudders once, and her flattened nipples begin to rise. It may be a fear response.
The room is bare but obviously an unfinished basement; enough of the ceiling rafters are visible where the pulleys are attached to make it clear the ceiling is flat, not at angles—and thence, not an attic—and the lighting is not well-designed. There is enough light to keep the shadows at bay, but it does nothing beyond making her visible. She breathes and blinks. After a moment of just her standing there, collecting her thoughts, she raises her head to nod it and she forces a smile, and my day is made. It is then that I notice she is alone, but only for a scant few seconds.
The two men who had been stringing her up step back into view and begin prowling around her. They are both old enough to be her father, overweight, and it looks like they slept in their clothes which I recognize as cheaper than my own. She keeps her eyes on one of them religiously, and her lips quiver. Simultaneously, they pull their arms back to reveal their bags of tricks they have in mind for this woman, this girl, this victim, with whips in their hands, and they both swing forward in concert, slowly, gently, exerting just enough to get centrifugal force to lengthen out the lines into casual arcs, so they can gauge their distances from her, and both whips touch her lightly at the same time. They make no sound. Her torso wiggles a tiny bit in response, and she compresses her lips and rolls her eyes across the ceiling once.
She blinks several times at the one man, and keeps her mouth shut, and exhales and inhales noisily through her nose.
The men both pull their arms back, again in synch, and push their whips against her a second time. There is still no sound from the impact, but the way she licks her lips and swallows suggest it might have been a little harder. It is the last time they manage to hit her at the same moment. They have their own schedules to keep, and though they partner with each other, stroke for stroke, they no longer match rhythm, and set up unsteady syncopations for the rest of the affair. The men keep alternating their glances between each other and the woman. The man she keeps her eyes on does not blink very much, and his breathing is labored throughout the session.
The complimentary snake whips are ancient, a dull grayish-brown, obviously in long service and well used, approximately five feet in length, and completely flexible. One of them is bent, as though a strand had broken. The leather lines narrow to an almost-sharp end with no popper, and they wrap around her as they strike, and as the men circle her, swinging their arms, the swishes and the cracks start sounding.
They whip her, front and back. At first, one only whips her with back-hand strokes, the other with fore-arm strokes.
She rolls her head to keep the one man in sight as much as possible and she never so much as acknowledges the other. When the man she looks to steps behind her, and wraps the whip around her sides with the tip circling onto the tops of her thighs, her stomach, her breasts, she hangs her head and closes her eyes and her mouth falls open and she gasps. When he is far enough around her other side, she snaps her head up to him with a stricken look on her face, and when she sees him again, she relaxes a little, and her breathing kicks up to panting. The expression she bears delivers the notion that she is being supported through this by the mere fact that she can once again see him. She mouths the words of affection to him.
The tempo picks up, as does the force, and the attack strengthens and the harm is becoming apparent. For no reason I can discern, both whips start hitting her from both directions from both men, as they move from deliberate, one-directional strokes, to both swinging both ways, back and forth, each doubling the number of times they are hitting her within the previous timeframe of a single stroke. The whip marks are beginning to show on her and she glistens with sweat; she shimmies in what is almost a jig of pulsations. Her body was not pristine when they started: she was covered with bruises and most of them have been on her long enough to be fading to yellow and brown and green, and she has what looks like burn scars around her belly button. The lines from the whips redden, and some of them begin to bleed. Another unseen signal passes between the men, and their rotation around her changes direction, from counter-clockwise to clockwise.
The man she looks to for strength again passes around behind her, out of her range of vision, and she begins thrashing about, moaning from what so now obviously hurts, and she begins to dance, lifting her knees one at a time, twisting herself around as the force and frequency of the lashes continues to increase. The swish of the whips is near constant, and when the next rotation sets in, and the man she is here for is where she can see him, her face crumples, and she begins shaking her head back and forth, and she cries out. She had expended what was left of her strength for the sole reason to hold out for him to see her downfall, so he could witness her succumb to what he was doing to her, what he had arranged to have happen to her, wrought by himself and his minion.
The whipping is relentless and both men are obvious in their expenditures of strength against her. They necessarily have to slow down their fore-and-back-handed swinging to compensate for how hard they are now hitting her. The men are out of breath, and she is crying and throwing her head around. Still it goes on, and the second man, the one who she has still not even looked at stops what he is doing behind her and steps forward and strokes her, checking her, which offers her enough comfort to lift her head back to the man she is trying to impress. Another unheard question is asked, and she responds with “N-no,” and then “Yes.” She heaves her breasts as she tries to still herself, to reposition herself to face the man she is her rock, her salvation.
The men step back to their positions, and let her have it. Hard and fast, and then harder and faster, whipping her everywhere at once, and she looks up to the ceiling and screams. They do not let up; she screams again. And again. And again, shrill, hard, long and loud. The whips are unseen, they are flying so fast, the men’s arms blur, and the marks crop up instantly, deep red lines, criss-crossing her entire body, from her armpits down to her knees, she is completely marked side to side, front to back, top to bottom, and blood rivulets down her until it is splatted away by the whips.
The second man is behind her and says the first thing either man pronounces that can be heard: “Spread your legs.”
The whipping stops and she trembles and shakes uncontrollably. Her lover is in front of her and he reaches his hand to her face which she falls directly into and takes a step towards him, as far as the ropes will allow. She says “Ah” several times, fast at first, then slowing down. He lifts her head up and he waits for her to look at him and he nods. Her lips throb, and she steps back, and obeys. She squinches her eyes shut and performs what appears to be a superhuman feat as her knees part as far as she can get them and still stand.
He retreats from her and she relaxes into a beatific appearance in the sudden quiet, quiet except for the sounds of breathing—hers, the men’s, mine—and she, waiting through the seconds of respite, fills with adoration and reverence when she beholds her owner, and the second man swings up from behind, between her legs, through her sex, and the first vertical line appears, running up from her public hair. Both of her knees snap together, lifting up, catching the whip, and she dangles, off the floor for the first time, and the whip is released by the man behind her. It undulates like a snake across the floor. The expression on her face changes into disbelief, and she regains herself in less than a moment, and tears flow down her face, and she looks up toward heaven once again. Her mascara runs.
Her mouth drops open and her breathing palpitates, and she does the impossible. She lowers her feet and spreads her legs, and the whip she had caught between them falls to the floor and she stops breathing. It gets picked right back up; this isn’t over yet. Both men hunker down and reposition themselves to lean around her to acknowledge each other, and they pull their arms back together, and as the same time, they whip her—double-crack—between her legs and she stands there, squirming on her toes but doing everything she can to keep her legs apart, to keep her sex exposed to the beating, taking it with flinches and lurches and cringes and groans, and they hit her intimacies time and time again, the whips striking front and back, accelerating back into the whirlwind, windmilling the strikes. Her legs shake violently.
She finds her voice and she lifts it, loud and strong with a cry that raises, stopping and restarting her screech, twice, three times she has to catch her breath as she screams until she is at the top of her range, and she gasps, heaving and wheezing and barely whispers “Mercy.”
Everything stops; time stands still. Her feet give way and she swings in space. The man she came here with steps up to her and he tangles his fingers through her hair and pronounces his first audible sentence: “Are you sure?” She nods and bawls, and it sounds like she is apologizing.
“One more. A big one. It’s tradition.”
She makes long sounding panicky rasps as he steps back and somehow she calms and struggles to put her feet back beneath herself to support herself. The man waits for her to settles down the contortions of her face before he accepts her consent; she pants it several times. He steps out of sight, and the other man runs his hand around behind her before he draws as far back as she can, and lets fly a stripe down across her back at an angle disparate to all her other lines with every ounce of strength he has. The strike is a gunshot. He vanishes.
She doesn’t make a sound, but she moves as though she were standing in an earthquake. The pressure is visible on her face, and it looks like she might throw up.
Her man comes back to stand before her with his arms crossed as he waits for her to look up at him, which she cannot quite do. Her head raises, but her dull brown eyes are downcast, off to the side from where he stands. She looks miserable, unhappy, but it does not appear that she feels that way about him, but in herself, in her performance of what must be her duty to him, and she appears to be disappointed, but not in him;, it looks like she believes that she had failed him. She nods and braces herself, stiffening up every muscle she has.
He outdoes the other man in ferocity and force, and he grunts as he whips his woman a final time, a mighty blow that raises immediate welts across both of her breasts; they bound and recoil from the impact. This time, she gasps, and sobs, and weeps and makes unintelligible cries; she babbles. Whatever strength she had in her legs fails for what has to be the last time, and she leans forward, putting her weight onto her upheld arms, and dangles around in a peculiar arch.
He drops the whip and stands as close as he can to her, and she collapses into him as far as the ropes to the ceiling will let her. He catches her and lifts her up and she cries long and loud and buries her head into his neck. His arms go around her waist and he puts his hands across the tops of her shoulders, the one place he can reach she has not been whipped, and he, too, breaks down and cries and shudders with her, until at last the miracle happens, and she struggles to put her feet back underneath herself and she leans up to kiss him and she comforts him.
There is no reason given, no explanation, no justification. The negotiation of how they got there happened in their own privacies as well as whatever the hell happened next, and I have no question whatsoever that I am a brash invader; I am ashamed to be party to their most-forbidden daring secret, to have spied on their clandestine intimate glory, and this, this I will dwell on as I apply my own hands against myself, many, many times, and it will be my honor to do so again and again in absolute awe of what I had beheld, for the remainder of my days.
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