My story actually begins with a ballet teacher named Ms. Mixon.
I was never interested in ballet, however my mother insisted that I learn, so she sent me to classes for six years. My mother hoped that; if she forced me to go; eventually I would learn to love the ballet. It was a bold plan, but one that failed. After six years of stretching, foot positions, pirouettes, leaping through the air and dancing en pointe, I still wasn't passionate about ballet. I certainly didn't want to turn it into my life's mission.
Ms. Mixon knew I didn't enjoy ballet classes. She knew I was only learning ballet because my mother forced me to learn.
"Ballet isn't for everyone, Cheryl," she told me, "I trained and excelled at ballet because I love it. I'm passionate about it. It's my biggest interest in life. What are you passionate about? What is your biggest interest?"
"I dunno," I said.
And honestly, this was true. I had spent most of my life being dispassionate. None of my teachers in high school had ever inspired me. I had never had never fallen in love with a boy. I didn't dream of becoming a movie star. I didn't dream of writing the next great American novel. I didn't dream of owning a sports car. There was no great interest in my life.
"You need to find your passion, Cheryl," she told me, "Once you do, everything else will come together. Your life will start to make sense and have meaning. It's the first step to true happiness."
Years went by and I never found anything like what Ms. Mixon was talking about. I graduated from high school and I still had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I turned eighteen and I still had no idea. I was a legal adult and I still had no idea what I wanted out of life. I had no plan, no job and no close friends.
My mom was a well-paid executive at a pharmaceutical company and she made certain that I got a job working at her company. It was a boring job, but it got me out of the house, and my mom didn't want me staying home all day long.
The surprising thing is, it was this boring job that introduced me to my great passion in life. It was working at this job that allowed me to discover that thing that Ms. Mixon had been talking about.
I was given a desk to work at, and the last girl who had worked at this desk had left behind a number of personal belongings. Most of these I threw in the trash, however she left behind a paperback book and I decided to keep that and read it on my lunch break.
I didn't recognize the author's name and I had never heard of the book before, however I didn't actually have any friends at work, and my mother was too busy to socialize with her daughter, so I thought I'd read the book during lunch to give me something to do, other than chew food and swallow it.
The main character was a teenage girl from a European royal family. The book takes place hundreds of years ago, when slavery was still a thing they did in Europe and the teenage girl is being led to the slave auction to be sold as a naked slave.
I was hooked from the very first page.
I had never read a book like this before. I didn't even know books like this
existed
before! My panties were soaking wet before I even finished the first chapter.
I took the book home with me and hid it in my room. I spent almost all of my free time reading this used paperback and I finished the book in about three days. Even more surprising was the fact that I masturbated several times a day thinking about that teenage girl who was sold into slavery. I kept imagining what it must be like to be naked and led down public streets on a leash, being openly ogled by the local people. I imagined what it must be like to be purchased by a cruel mistress who spanked me mercilessly the minute she got me home. I imagined what it would be like to be at this woman's mercy and to be tied down and whipped by her.
So, I had found my great passion in life, however I was too ashamed to tell my mother about this discovery. It didn't seem like the sort of thing that my mother would approve of. My mother was a feminist and a corporate executive. I didn't think that she would approve of her daughter craving to be stripped naked in public, tied up, spanked and sexually abused. It wasn't the sort of thing that a proper young lady would want out of life.
I went to the local bookstore and found three more books by the same author, about the same teenage girl and her adventures with spankings, bondage, humiliation and sexual servitude.
As I read these books I noticed a curious thing. When the chapter focused on a male slave, I just sort of skimmed through that chapter. I was much more interested in the female slaves, especially if they were submitting to a female dominant.
I never really thought much about my sexual identity before, however I was very definitely responding better to the female-centric chapters than the male-centric chapters. The male-centric chapters didn't seem to do anything for me.
Was I gay?
I decided that I probably was, and I wasn't going to worry about it. I lived in an area of California where it was socially acceptable to be gay. There were a number of gay-owned businesses near my home, and everybody seemed to be totally cool with that.
What I
was
worried about, was my new and unexpected fascination with slave auctions, naked slaves, sexual slavery and punished slaves. Why was I fascinated by this stuff? And what would people think about me if they learned of my new obsession? I was reasonably certain that this wouldn't be nearly as socially acceptable as being gay.
Masturbating to fantasies about bondage and spankings were incredible, but eventually I came to crave more and I came up with ideas to make my masturbation sessions far more intense.
I bought a couple pairs of handcuffs from the home security superstore and had them in my room for those occasions when I was the only one home.
My mother worked much longer hours than I did, and would often go to aerobics or Pilates classes after work and on the weekends, so I had plenty of occasions where I was all alone in the house.
On those occasions I would take my handcuffs down to the basement, along with a handcuff key, a chair and one of my paperbacks about the princess that was reduced to serving as a naked slave.
We had large iron rings embedded in the walls of our basement. I'm assuming that at once upon a time tools hung from them.
I would lock one handcuff strand from each handcuff onto an iron ring approximately six feet above the ground. Then I would strip naked, place my clothes on the chair and find a truly erotic scene from my book. I would masturbate slowly and leisurely, while reading from the book, but not all the way to the point of actual sexual climax.
Then, I would place the book on top of my clothes and the handcuff key on top of the book.
Finally I would lock my left wrist into the strands of one of the handcuffs (although in my fantasy, both of my wrists were locked and I was helplessly chained to the wall with no way to escape).
With the illusion of helplessness firmly planted in my mind, I would use my right hand to spank my naked buttocks and sometimes the backs of my thighs. Each time I did this I spanked myself harder and harder and within two weeks I was leaving my poor bottom an angry red color.
Sometimes as I spanked myself I would rub my bare breasts against the hard cinderblock surface of the basement wall. The cold, hard, unforgiving surface of the cinderblocks was harsh against my poor, sensitive nipples, but was exactly the sort of thing that I thought a naked slave-girl would have to endure.
And when I decided that my poor buttocks had been spanked enough, I would spread my legs as far as I possibly could and masturbate myself to a furious orgasm.
Sometimes once wasn't enough and I would masturbate myself to two or three orgasms before I unlocked my left wrist from its stainless steel prison.
This system worked out pretty well for me for about three weeks, but then I ran into a little snag.
One evening, panting and sweating, after having fingering myself to three furious orgasms, I reached for the handcuff key, and my hand accidentally knocked the paperback book onto the floor and the handcuff key with it.