A BREEDER'S TALE
Volume I
Chapter One
Day Zero
The DSM-IV excluded nymphomania as a clinical diagnosis, replacing it with "hypersexuality," in which sexual activity is an insatiable need interfering with other areas of everyday functioning. Hypersexuality's disruptive manifestations include frequent and compulsive masturbation, unsafe sexual practices, and interference with interpersonal relationships. Many, if not most, hypersexuals find sex impersonal, with no emotional intimacy. Despite frequent orgasms, from one source or another, sexual activity is generally not satisfying.
Much to my last pshrink's consternation, I still prefer the term "nymphomaniac," perhaps because of my luck in meeting Mistress and thereby — against all diagnostic expectations — finding a sturdy and fully satisfying interpersonal relationship. Until meeting Mistress, my "insatiable needs" certainly did "interfere with other areas of everyday functioning." I finally managed to get an English B.A.,
summa cum laude
, but then struggled in grad school. I'd always found it difficult to keep up with schoolwork. It's impossible to concentrate on abstruse but influential works of literature, and obtuse but required scholarly journals, when not an hour passes that you don't desperately crave to stop whatever you're doing and get yourself off. Three-hour graduate seminars became almost impossible to bear!
The pshrinks tried treating me for ADHD and various depressions, manias, and personality disorders, but to no avail except myriad pharmaceutical side effects, each less pleasant than the last. Mistress saved me from all that. Now I ingest nothing but the healthy organic vegetarian fare Mistress provides.
To the extent that prescriptions used to help me focus on schoolwork, that doesn't matter. I dropped out of graduate school a few weeks after meeting Mistress.
* * *
Day Zero minus 78
* * *
"No," she'd simply replied on that Sunday of our second weekend of the most satisfying sex I'd ever known when I asked permission to leave her condo to go home and study. Despite my surprise, I kept my face tilted down and gaze steadfastly to the floor, as she requires of me in her presence.
"I beg your forgiveness, Mistress, but I have over two hundred pages to read to be ready for class in the morning." Feeling both sexually and emotionally satisfied, perhaps for the first time in my life, I knew I could finish
all
of my overdue and pending schoolwork if I left right then.
"You won't be going to class tomorrow," she informed me with her consistent steadfast confidence that makes me feel so wholly secure when around her. "In fact, you're never going back to school."
She declared this as such an obvious and incontrovertible fact that it never occurred to me to doubt its truth. I simply asked, "Why?"
Mistress sighed, and I've no doubt she rolled her eyes at my idiocy, but with charitable patience she explained, showing that her Cytherean body contains a Socratic intellect. "How do you feel when you're in class?"
"It gets awful," I admitted. "Just sitting there, I want to touch myself so badly I can't stand it."
"Of course," Mistress affirmed. "After all,
everyone
now knows what a 'shameless little slut' you are."
"Yes, Mistress." I could feel the blush heating my face as I recalled how, on the evening we met, Mistress tied me face up across her livingroom coffee tabletop and used a smooth plastic vibrator to keep me just short of an orgasm. She said she'd neither untie me nor let me climax until I screamed my name and declared as loudly as I could that I was a "shameless little slut who would do anything just to come." She'd opened her patio door, and I still remember my reprehensible confessions and salacious begging echoing around her neighborhood, but not caring because moments later my even louder screams of consummate ecstacy publicly substantiated my base divulgences. At the time, Mistress said I was lucky none of the neighbors had called the police, because she would have simply turned me over to them for disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace with my obscene outcries, pornographic pleas, and lewd wailing. I winced with the lingering shame as Mistress continued her colloquy.
"So 'it gets awful' in class, you say — 'it' being your tawdry lust. Does that mean it's easier to study at home?"
"No, Mistress. I usually have trouble getting anything done at home. Once my mind gets fully focused on whatever I'm reading or studying, my hand just automatically goes, you know, down
there
, and before I realize it, my eyes are closed and I've slipped my fingers inside my pants, and then, well, you know..."
"Don't tell me what I 'know,' slut! If I ask you a question, I expect a full answer; 'and then' what?"
"'And then' I... touch myself."
"'
Touch
yourself'?
I've told you before not to waste my time with that namby-pampy Catholic school shit! Say in plain words what you 'and then' do."
"'And then' I mas... m..." I took a deep breath and nearly shouted my non-euphemistic acknowledgment. "'And then' I
masturbate
"
"For how long?"
"Um... it depends."
"On what?"
"On how quickly and how many times I come."
"Well, regardless of that, why don't you just go back to your schoolwork afterward?"
"But even if it doesn't take long, it's still almost impossible to study when you're stopping every hour or so to m... m-m-masturbate." I felt the blush on my face growing ever redder. Mistress already knew all of this, but she had learned it from me over time, as part of comfortable pillow talk. Having to confess it all together, in plain words, and in the full light of a Sunday morning, grieved my innate modesty. I tried to use Mistresses wholly merited pride in her sexual virtuosity to agree to my request. "That's why I need to go home now, Mistress. The joy and ecstacy you so mercifully bestowed upon me over the past 48 hours should calm me enough to get all I need done tonight to catch up in school."