The next day, Sunday, my nipples were so sore, I couldn't wear a shirt. In the middle of the afternoon, Maxine, who had been sunning herself in the backyard, came into my den office wearing a new skimpy black bikini. She struck a fashion model pose, and looked as beautiful as I had ever seen her look. "Hey sailor, you like?" She winked, waited for my reaction, and then slunk to where I was sitting, straddled my lap and opened a jar of cold cream she had brought with her. She lovingly massaged it into my nipples to soothe them. "Tonight is your turn with the questions, honey."
I don't know if Maxine was being tender because she was afraid that I would be rough on her in my own questioning tonight. I had never hurt my wife, and I didn't know how we would react.
That evening, my own ignorance and naivetΓ© were manifested when Maxine lovingly led me into the bedroom, where I saw ropes leading from the four posters of our bed, and riding crop on my night table. I looked at Maxine, who had changed into a thin, red summer dress, expecting her to strip and spread eagle so I could tie her to the bed, but instead, she gently guided me down on my stomach, and began to tie me.
"I thought it was my turn," I said.
"It is." When she had me secured, she sat back on the bed where my head would be positioned right at her pussy. She then hiked her dress up, and inched down, so I was in perfect position to eat her without even moving. Maxine wore no panties, and when she was satisfied with the position, she just covered my head with her skirt. "Ok. You ask the questions tonight." I then heard Maxine reach over and take the riding crop from my nighttable. Everything under her skirt was bathed in a deep erotic red as the light filtered in through the fabric.
With one hand, she moved my head and mouth to her sex, guiding both direction and pressure. "Well," she finally asked. "What are your questions? The exercise says you have to ask them." Her hand played with my hair through her cotton dress.
I panicked. What questions could I ask her that wouldn't anger her? She continued to caress my hair.
"What's Richie's health club like. Do you think I should join." I asked, knowing this was a safe question.
"No. There aren't that many athletic facilities. You wouldn't enjoy it."
"What's the place like?" I inquired.
"Well, it's really what's called a relaxation center."
I was beginning to get suspicious. Maxine guided my mouth lower and deeper into her pussy, ony letting up when she wanted me to ask her a question.
"What's your new job going to be like?"
"Managing the women relaxation therapists. Richie says they need a strong manager."
She continued to stroke my head and back, and I was getting angry.
"What is a relaxation therapist?" I asked.
"Well. . ." Maxine paused, and placed my head higher so my mouth was on her clit. "Men come and want to spend time relaxing with a woman in a sauna, or get a massage, or just relax and fulfill a fantasy, and our women accomodate them sexually. It's all done very dignified, and non-threatening. Anything the girls do to earn tips is on their own time."
"In other words, it's a massage parlor."
Like unexpected ice water, five blows hit my buttocks. I yelped with each one. "I KNEW you'd assume that! I just knew it. I'm a wife, mother, and school teacher. Do you think I'd work as a hooker in a massage parlor?" She sounded genuinely insulted.
As I tried regrouping from the pain, Maxine pushed my mouth harder onto her sex, and was gripping my hair tightly as she used my mouth as a dildo. "Your questions stink! This is a FUCKING exercise. You're supposed to ask meaningful questions, not make small talk. I asked you about 10 questions last night. Meaningful ones. I think you should ask me 10 as well."
"Yes." was the answer that came out, but the truth is I was petrified to ask any questions.
Maxine lifted her legs a bit to arch against my mouth. She was getting hotter, and she ground her pussy harder into my face. "Get going with your questions," she snapped.
The first one that came to my mind was, "Do you enjoy our sexual relationship the way it is now?"
Maxine seemed to give it a lot of thought. "I'm very frustrated about your impotence. Just when my desire is increasing, your manhood is decreasing. I'm not saying that to hurt you. But now, I understand what you went through with me for all of these years with my desire not being there. But at least you had your masochism as an outlet. Now, I have none."
"If your desire is so strong, why don't we throw the cock cage away, so I could try to satisfy you, and get us back to a good normal relationship?" As I was asking the question, Maxine gently stroked my head.
"You know what happens when you pressure me about that." She said ominously. I imagined another four months locked up in the cock cage.
"But I'm only asking as a question. I'm not pressuring. I promise. Why can't we just try." I asked.
Maxine was silent for a moment. "First of all, you're whining, and I hate that. Secondly, you're being kept locked up because I need to re-learn sexual response in a non- pressure environment. If I've made any sexual improvement, it's really because I've been allowed to grow without constraints. The cock cage has helped that."
"What if we can't straighten it out?" I asked.
"I don't know. I love you very much, and we'll just have to find a way where I can get what I need. Let's let therapy and nature take its course. I do know that I won't repeat your mistake. I won't do without having what I want sexually. I just hope you can provide it."
The discussion was progressing very well, and I decided to test my luck in order to move toward the end of the questions.
"Will I ever be released from it for good?"
"That depends on my growth, our therapy, but most important, how much you love me and are willing to compromise and adjust for our relationship." She eased up on my head.
"Does having me at your mercy like this excite you sexually?" I asked.
I heard Maxine put down the crop, and grab hold of my head with two hands. "Excite may be the wrong word. I feel secure."
Maxine again started grinding her vulva into my mouth. "You know what to do." I started to tongue my wife to orgasm. She came two or three times, before she let go of my head, and lay back in the bed. Maxine just lay there for several minutes, asleep I thought, until she pulled her skirt back, and I again saw the room. Her face was flushed, and she was perspiring.
She got up, but instead of untying me, she left the bedroom, and returned with a whisky for herself. She sat down on the bed and lit a cigarette. She sat smoking, looking at me. She was a bright-eyed, 35-year-old who had the cheery good looks of a HS cheerleader, but the contrast between that image, and her new alter ego was startling.
Maxine put her cigarette in the corner of her mouth, and picked up the riding crop. I braced myself for more pain, but instead she just began to slowly trace the implement up and down my body. "Dr. Gruen said I shouldn't hold back my anger with you, but to firmly express it." She then quickly raised the crop, and I flinched. She then just lowered it slowly, smiling at my fear. "But I feel good right now, so you really are very lucky."
Maxine slowly brought the riding crop up to my face, then to my lips, held it there and just stared at me. I didn't know why she was staring, but she nudged the crop against my lips again. And then again until I got the message. She wanted me to kiss the tip of the riding crop. I did, and she smiled. She leaned back and finished her cigarette.
In a few minutes, Maxine untied my hands and feet, and gave me a hug. She got undressed, we got into bed and had a good sleep. I wondered in fear what tomorrow's exercise would be.
The next day, Monday, went along smoothly with Maxine doing some clothing shopping for the new job she would be starting next weekend at Richie's "relaxation center." She came home, and asked me to get the packages from the car. She had bought hundreds of dollars in clothing, and I flipped when she modeled them for me.
With her mid-America looks and values, Maxine had always dressed conservatively. But these were another case. Filmy blouses and short skirts. Skin tight jump suits which zippered all the way through the crotch. Leather outfits. Loungewear. Shoes and boots of every height and description. Maxine knew that these were a turn-on to me and apologized.
Over dinner, Maxine and I spoke about our progress so far. "Dr Gruen said that each exercise has a separate purpose. The questioning exercises were to establish "Mutual Honesty." Tonight there are two exercises "Devotion" and "Trust."
I asked her for more details, but she said I'd have to wait. After dinner, she asked me to soak the dishes, and come upstairs with her. "You can finish them later."
As soon as she got into the bedroom, she started to get undressed. "Tonight, the exercise calls for you to show me utmost Devotion. I'm to be pampered and prepared to be my loveliest. And everything is to be done by you. Tomorrow night is your turn."
Maxine was now totally undressed, and lied down on the bed. "Draw me a bath. Get some fresh towels, and bring my bath powder into the bathroom. When you're done, come back."
I did what she ordered, starting with running the water in the tub to the temperature that 11 years of marriage had told me she liked. I came back into the bedroom, and she had not moved. "Your water's ready," I announced.
"Good." she replied, "Come in and attend me."