Author's note: Difficult to categorise this little tale. It's about CFNM, which can be considered as normal erotica, a fetish, or a sub-group of female domination. I have listed it under BDSM, as most commonly it is enjoyed as a particular niche of that genre. It should probably go under 'adult theme' or 'essays and discussions', but then you wouldn't now be reading it, would you?
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When I was younger... No, start again, Trina, tell it like it is. When I was much, much younger, I felt reasonably self-satisfied with my body and the all-round firmness and shapeliness of its feminine attributes. If I were to describe it, though I say it myself, it would be very much in keeping with one you'd be likely to encounter in any typical literotic yarn of today. And I would prettify it accordingly, with stylish clothes made of soft clinging fabrics, sporting daring hem and necklines, and walk in the most precarious heels I could manage without tumbling AOT. It was all vanity, of course, and to attract the attention of everyone, but most importantly, that socio-subgroup known as males (bless them).
The idea of adorning oneself with sexy outfits is that you nurture desire within the man you've set your sights on. Paradoxically, man's principal desire is, as a general rule, then to rip all your clothes off at the first opportunity. So clothed, or not clothed, it seems either state has its part to play in the dynamic of sexual attraction. But, as I was to discover, it goes even further than that, as one explores how naked exposure, humiliation, and dressing-to-kill and thrill enter the realms of erotic power-play.
It was around the time I started getting into BDSM - or rather what we used to call plain S&M, whereby couples or groups would induce enhanced sexual arousal in each other using consensual restraint and/or discipline. 'Bondage' was understood to mean physical tying-up, rather than something akin to the antiquated practice of slave ownership, and neither did 'domination' have quite the same psychological status as it does today, then being pretty much an outlet for male fantasy based on misogynistic treatment of women. But whatever, the mention of willing participants being bound and gagged while being used and abused by their partners, was sweet music to my ears, and pretending to be a naughty nurse or a nympho nun added full orchestration to the symphony. And, of course, a good flogging never hurt anyone... much.
Tom and I met at work. It was one of those old-fashioned office blocks with pigeon holes by the reception area where you picked up your mail, and a Paternoster lift to transport you to your respective work-floor. A Paternoster lift is on a continuous loop. It doesn't stop. You have to jump on and off it, and if you mis-time your leap, you die - unless there is someone around like Tom, who, on the occasion I fell off my shoe while making an ill-judged boarding attempt, gallantly pulled me to safety, for which I will eternally be grateful. It's not a way of meeting people I would recommend, though in my case, it worked out well.
Tom and I subsequently dated for some while, and he seemed really nice - generous, interesting, polite and a bit shy, which was fine by me. My kinda guy actually. Being a congenital tease, I often would put him on the spot with awkward questions about his love life, dress sense, habits and weird leisure activities (classic cars, I ask you). You cannot 'drift' onto the subject of sex. You have to more or less blurt it straight out, which again, is fine by me.
"So," I enquire casually, shortly after Tom has filled me in with the essential advantages of twin carburettors on an Austin Healey, "Have you ever been tied to the bed by a naked dominatrix and had slow sex 69 style?"
I was pretty sure he hadn't. All I wanted was to see what his reaction would be. He smiled, not nearly as flummoxed or bashful as I might have expected. But besides being very sweet, he knew me well enough by this time to suspect I was teasing him.
"Not since Tuesday," he replies, deadpan. "Anyway, dominatrixes aren't supposed to be naked, er... so I understand."
These were the days before the Internet and mobile phones informed one, at the touch of a button, of every kink and foible attributed to the human race, with explicit videos to illustrate, so I was mildly impressed that he even knew what a dominatrix was, let alone that they rarely performed unclad.
"And did you have a nice time?" I follow up.
"Nice time?" he asks.
"Last Tuesday," I say.
He smiles. "Not really my scene," he says. But I felt he said it unconvincingly - and not in the way someone would say it if they wanted to change the subject. So I made a little mental note about it, but didn't press him, for the time being, anyway. Later that evening, as we kissed goodnight, his hands slid down behind me and caressed my bottom with just that little bit more passion than usual, but still without lifting my skirt. We were gradually getting somewhere, I decided.
A week or so after the naked dominatrix affair, we were due to go out later for a drink, so I left him a saucy message in his pigeon hole: "Tom, fancy a good thrashing tonight? Meet you after work. Madame Whiplash xxx."
Lunchtime, I picked up his rather cryptic reply: "Yes. Looking forward to some CFNM, Tom xx." What the hell did that mean, I wondered? It sounded like a merger of news channels - CNN with Radio FM. Back in those days, Google was known only as the biggest number in the universe - even bigger than the number of pairs of shoes I possessed. Full stop. Nothing else. So although I guessed CFNM had to be an acronym, there was no way of looking it up, and neither I nor Beryl, our floor typist, could work out what it meant. We came up with an assortment of juvenile possibilities - cocks, cunts and cunny, fucks and feels fannies, now, nightly or never, and massive maid's minges. And more. We laughed so much, we started to attract attention, so we judiciously gave up.
That evening, Tom and I were sat in a dark corner of the pub. We had discussed the car parking problems at work, and Tom's failure to get the Healey started. And we'd had a couple of drinks. "So, what is it?" I ask.
"What's what?" he replies.
I give him one of my stern looks. "Whatever it is you're looking forward to," I say.
"Oh, CFNM you mean?" he says, attempting to sound all innocent and laid-back. I stare in silence, awaiting an answer. "Thought you would know," he says.