"I really don't know how to do it," she told him. "It's just not me."
"If it's what your boyfriend wants," he suggested, "Then I don't see you really have a problem with it. After all, it's not difficult, is it?
"I wouldn't know how to start," she confessed. "Can't you give me some advice? I mean, I've heard all about the dominatrix thing, I just don't really know what it's all about."
"Why ask me?"
"Because you know about these sort of things," she said. "I don't. I don't understand them, and if I don't understand why he wants it or exactly what he wants then I can't do it. Or I might do it wrong. Please help me."
"I'm not sure I can," he said hesitantly. "I'd be too embarrassed."
"No you wouldn't," she said scornfully. "I'm sure you wouldn't. It's not as if I fancied you, is it? Or as if you fancied me either."
"You're a very attractive girl," he told her.
"Yeah, yeah, all right if you say so. Just help me with this and I'll love you forever. OK?"
"Yes OK," he agreed reluctantly, smiling at her promise to love him forever. "So what sort of thing does your boyfriend want you to do?"
"I don't know!" she said in exasperation. "That's what I'm asking you. He just says he wants me to be a dominatrix to him, and I don't know where to start."
"Have you got anything? I mean have you got anything like a whip or handcuffs or something?"
She went bright red. "He bought a load of stuff," she said with evidently some embarrassment. "I don't know what it's all for, and some of it looks like it might really hurt him badly. I'd be scared to use it."
"Show me," he told her.
She disappeared into the bedroom. Through the open door he could see her pulling a suitcase from under the bed.
"It's a bit heavy," she called. "You had better come in here and have a look at what we've got."
"Good grief! It must have cost him a fortune to buy all this," he said. "He must seriously want you to do this!"
"I know," she said quietly, "That's why I need your help. He wants it so much, and I really don't want to spoil it for him."
"Haven't you even worn any of these clothes?" He delved into the suitcase, selected a garment at random and held it up.
She turned her head away. "I'd look silly in them."
"Actually," he said slowly, "I think you'd look rather wonderful in them. Very exciting."
He held up another garment. "How about these?" he asked.
"Stop it! I can't wear things like that."
"Now these are interesting." He pulled out what appeared to be a large pair of panties with an attachment that looked very much like a hood."
"What on earth are those? I hadn't spotted them before. They look awful!" She examined them, fascinated.
"Hooded panties," he said. "I've never seen them either, but I've seen pictures of something similar."
She clearly did not understand, so he explained.
"They're for keeping his face up close between your legs," he said. "You wear them, the hood goes over his head and you tie it up around his neck so he can't slip out of it. These are much more serious than those I've seen the pictures of. Those were all flimsy things, but these are really tough and that belt at the waist would certainly hold them on you securely. He'd never get out of these until you let him go!"
"He'd just undo the ties when he wanted to get out," she said.
"Not if you handcuffed him or something first. That's what it's all about. He wants to be dominated and controlled in a sexual way, and these are perfect."
She put the hooded panties to one side. "All right," she said, "I understand those. I think he might not like it nearly as much as he thinks he'll like it. I might get quite carried away if I had his in there like that!"
"That's the point," he agreed, "Or part of it. Half the excitement, I think, is for you to get enjoyment out of something that's really uncomfortable for him, but at the same time something that is sexually exciting for him. It's an odd combination. But you're right. I don't think these are for beginners. You need to know his limits, or any man's limits."
"Limits?" she questioned.
He sighed. The explanations were become more and more difficult, and the thought of her holding a man between her legs in those hooded panties had suddenly made him feel extremely aroused. He hoped she would not notice.
"You need to know how much he can take without suffocating. Keeping him down there is all very well, but you don't want him passing out completely. You need to have some idea of how long he could be left without air, and how much pressure or bouncing around or whatever that you can do without actually doing real damage to him. I'm fairly sure he would be able to breathe in those, but not if you squeeze your legs together or sit right on top of him, so you need to get it right."
"Ah." She picked the hooded panties up again and examined them once more before putting them on the bed. "What's next?"
"Wrist to thigh restraints." he said taking them out of the case. "Self-explanatory. Useful with those hooded panties, among other things."
"Bed ties," he continued. "The long strap goes right round the mattress and you can attach wrist or ankle straps to it. Perfect if you haven't got good tie points at the top and bottom of your bed. You've got two of those in here, so you can spread-eagle him on the bed and play with him for as long as you want."
"He'd be helpless," she said. "I could do anything."
"You're getting the idea," he said. "I guess that's exactly what he wants."
"I wouldn't need the hooded panties," she pointed out. "I could just... sit on him."
"You certainly could," he agreed. "Whatever you want to do. It's about controlling him and getting satisfaction out of doing it."
"So... " she had suddenly become very thoughtful, "It's as much about my pleasure and satisfaction as it is about dominating him?"
"It's about controlling him for your pleasure. It's..." he tried to find a way to describe it as well as he could, "It's being able to do what you like to hurt him as well, and doing it more than he wants you to do it because you are in control. But at the same time it's knowing when to stop. I think it's probably very difficult to get it exactly right.""
"I'm sure I could get it right with practice," she said, sounding much more confident about it. "What else have we got?"
"Whips, crops, paddles, floggers," he said, taking them out. "All fairly obvious. Nothing complicated about them."
"Why whipping and all that?" she asked. "There's nothing very exciting for me in just whipping him."
"Punishment is part of it," he told her. "It's an expression of your power and domination. If he doesn't do exactly what you say, you punish him."
"Is that all there is to it?" She sounded disappointed.
"Perhaps not quite," he agreed. "A smack on the backside can be quite arousing, so when he says 'spank me', or something like that, you make sure he's restrained first so he can't stop you and then you do it harder and for longer than he thought he was going to get. Then maybe you do it a few times more before you release him. It's part of 'the game'. For example, if you say 'stop that or you'll get six spanks with my paddle' and he doesn't stop it, then you give him six spanks with the paddle and another six because you just feel like giving him another six."