One of the nice things about being the boss is nobody checks on what you're doing.
Monday morning I got to the office early, as I always do, made coffee, and then settled in for our weekly staff meeting. It takes an hour, I never let a meeting go more than an hour, to get updates on all ongoing projects and confirm who I would be meeting that week.
Then it was into my office, logging into google and opening an "incognito" window, and getting busy.
I was amazed.
In under an hour, I had discovered a whole new vocabulary, complete with a set of acronyms that accompanied it. I learned terms such as DD for "domestic discipline," HoH for "Head of Household," and most commonly, BDSM for "Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, and Masochism."
I was amazed at the amount of formal, academic study that had been devoted to the topic, complete with interviews and footnotes.
I learned a lot about myself and, I think, even more about Arlene.
By Tuesday I knew what I wanted, but I also understood that she had to agree. The word "consensual" was central to virtually all of the reading I had done and I agreed that it would be necessary between Arlene and me.
For that week I accomplished little at work beyond learning more and more about what I was becoming more and more convinced was my, well, our, new life.
I became persuaded by an academic study I read. The theory runs something like this -
1. The early mammals had been evolving alongside the dinosaurs but were mostly small mouse-like creatures until the comet strike and the dinosaur extinction about 65,000,000 years ago.
2. Over the next 10,000,000 years, mammals and other species evolved without competition from the giant lizards and by 55,000,000 years ago the first primates were seen.
3. While primates were evolving over the next 30,000,000 years or so living in trees, the large herbivores and their complementary predators were evolving on the ground.
4. By 14,000,000 years ago the first apes, our direct ancestors, were evolving, but still in trees.
5. Somewhere around 5,000,000 years ago a couple of things happened that set the stage for male dominance. The first of the proto hominids, the monkeys that would eventually evolve into us, arrived. Second, and as important, the climate changed, oxygen levels went up, and the continent-spanning forests that were home to our great 10,000 times removed grandparents began to disappear.
6. As the forests disappeared, our tree-dwelling distant ancestors were forced to the ground where the fully evolved great predators were waiting. Or, as one paper put it, those unlucky enough to not be near a large body of water became leopard lunch.
7. Our progenitors were basically hunted to extinction except for a very small population who fled to the water and for the next couple of million years, they were basically semi-aquatic creatures. Which explains a lot of our physical characteristics by the way. The hair on the head gives infants something to hang on to. Breasts high on the body to allow nursing while still almost chest-deep in the water. A nose with the nostrils pointing down, all the better to swim without drowning. Things like that.
8. As we gradually, very gradually, worked our way out of this semi-aquatic state the proto-humans quickly realized that there is little in the world more helpless than a pregnant female hominid or, for that matter, a new mother with an infant to be carried, nursed, and tended to for years. Evolution quickly took care of any females who thought they did not need a strong male to take care of them. They became more leopard lunch.
9. The females that were left were naturally submissive to the males.
I found those papers very persuasive and believe that theory is accurate today.
What I was surprised by was how what I came to recognize as DD (domestic discipline) was finding its way into some Christian groups. Normally I find Christianity, along with other religions to be, basically, large cult groups focused on superstition. I find no difference between Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, or B'rasha the shaman worshipping a large banyan tree. But in some Christian sects, DD was accepted.
The point being, I was finally convinced I wasn't some sort of demented pervert for enjoying spanking my wife.
I called her on Wednesday and told her, not asked but told, that Friday night was going to be date night.
Friday I took off early and headed home. Arlene was, as I had expected, looking pretty. She had obviously been to the beauty shop. She's a natural honey blonde, but I suspect, although I never bothered to check, that Miss Clairol has something to do with her lack of any grey.
I grinned and kissed her hair, not wanting to mess up the work the beautician had done.
"Let me shower quickly," I said, "and I'll get dressed and then pick out something for you to wear."
I had been selecting her outfits for when we went out pretty much since Justin had left for college so this wasn't anything new.
I showered and shaved, wanting to look good for what I thought would be a very special night.
When I was dry I went into the closet and put on fresh underwear, slacks, and a shirt. Then I selected what she would wear.
Since this would be a special night I thought it appropriate that I displayed her to her best advantage.
I rummaged through her "special" drawer and found the red corset I like on her, a matching garter belt, and very sheer lightly patterned red nylons. From her closet, I selected a red satin blouse, sleeveless and clingy on her plus size figure but not too tight, and my favorite skirt, a red satin piece that was only about two inches below her ass but had fringe that fell to just below her knee giving an impression of modesty. I found her red sleeves and laid them out too. Finally, I selected red pumps. Arlene is a big girl and true stilettos with their five and six-inch heels are hard on her but the pumps with the modest three-inch heels still do nice things for her legs and ass and gave her that wonderful high-heeled walk that such shoes were originally designed to give.
She came in when I called, wearing only her casual jeans and blouse outfit, and I liked the grin when she saw what I had laid out. My Arlene enjoys being put on display, and I like displaying her.
She started to unbutton her blouse but I caught her hand and said, "let me."
She smiled at that. She likes it when I undress her.
I took my time, kissing the skin I revealed.
She had on a new perfume that got to me.
"You smell good," I said and she giggled and said, "I'd better, this stuff is like $200 a bottle but Race (that's her beautician, a man so gay you expect him to burst into fire at any moment since he flames so much) assured me that the pheromones in it were worth it."
I chuckled and said, "he was right."
When I got the blouse off of her I just looked for a moment, making her giggle and say, "God, I never get tired of you looking at me like that."
Her bras, well, her daytime bras anyway, are heavy material with six hooks in the back, a support system appropriate to those FF size breasts. This one was so white you almost need sunglasses to look directly at it.
I found it erotic, the way the material squeezed, forcing her soft skin to bulge. When I undid the hooks, reaching around her and nuzzling her neck as I did but not messing up her makeup, and let the bra drop to the floor I liked the red lines that showed clearly where it had been.
A quick kiss to each areola, right where the pale skin of her breast met the slightly darker line of the areola, and I got quickly to my knees to do her shoes and jeans.
She put her hands on my shoulders for balance as I took first her right and then her left foot into my lap to untie and remove her tennis shoes and socks. Then I worked on her belt, the button of her jeans, and her zipper. Even unbelted and unzipped the jeans were tight enough that it took physical work to get them past her ass and then off. Last, of course, were her panties, the opaque silk granny panties she favored ("why would I wear a thong?" she had asked me once, "when I spent so much of my life trying to keep panties from riding into the crack of my big ass?").
I smiled up at her and kissed softly where she was recently waxed.
Arlene is one of those blondes who are very well endowed with pubic hair. On her, it is a pale brown color, thick and soft and curly.
Well, it was anyway. Now there was about an inch wide strip, trimmed short but not so short as to be scratchy stubble, with the finest line of hair remaining on the soft round peak of her labia but the sides of her labia smooth and pink.
I kissed the strip and grinned up at her.