I told you up front. You can't say you didn't know. I learned long ago about myself. I have a fetish? Craving? Need? What will you call it?
I know well enough to tell women I date more than once about my little "problem" before it looks like things might get serious. By the time I'm thinking I want to spend more time with them and they're thinking I'm the perfect guy for them (time to meet mom and dad), it's really too late for them to believe my problem is real and needs their commitment. Or if they believe, they have to adjust to whether its right for them or not. Most often, they love the idea but later have difficulty with the reality.
I told you before the first date. I told you when you wrote me back and still thought I was a really nice guy. Over the past month and bunch of letters, you've discerned that I meant what I said. It's been interesting, your reactions. The usual "that sounds very nice". Followed by nervous questioning. I've told you the same thing every time. I mean it. I am not mean or violent. In fact, I believe very strongly that violence and sex are very different issues and a blending of these is pathological in nature. Violence does have a gratification all its own, but this is self limiting and in the end frustrating and dysgenic. Sexual fulfillment is limited only by the imagination, partnering and utilization. People confuse these so readily because they are unable to understand their needs and seek fulfillment.
You've been hurt before. You wanted this but had found someone who believed that dominance meant violence. You didn't get the hint when he began your association with humiliation. Your latest ad (you couldn't stay away from it, couldn't remain in "vanilla" relationships) had more than four hundred responses -- all but two describing some type of violence, hinting darkly or demanding compliance. How bizarre is the world of men and women? So you've been shy and spookish. I told you I was patient at the beginning and I meant it.
It's about absolute gratification. It's about being so completely and utterly sated as we lie in each other's arms at the end of our lovemaking that we care nothing more about the world nor anything connected with it.
The questions were almost funny as they came in piece by piece. I explained it all to you because truly, for me, that is part of it. Part of the anticipation. You depicted to me how my descriptions made you feel: trepidation, excitement, uncertainty. Again, these are all part of it. I believe this is the road to delight. It's the same road we take to adventure. At the heart of all of it is this craving you have. Despite your best thoughts and efforts to the contrary or unconsciously, your panties have been wet every time we have talked about our future escapades.
I told you every step of the way. Why now are you so surprised? Why are you shaking with... what? Fear? Perhaps it's need. I told you and I meant it that that reaction would only turn me on all the more and drive me further and further.
So that's how we started. Patience is one of my stronger suits and I utilized it fully. I can't help it. It feels so much better when the climax is reached -- or many of them. Anticipation. Excitement. Craving. Avoidance. You said it one time. "That sounds like an addiction."
I told you, then, "if it's good and worth it, it is." You were anticipating the first time so intensely you were incredibly easy to let down. Barely a touch to your face and you shivered. I could see your eyes when I wouldn't come closer to you. Made you talk. Most of the date. Made you walk with me -- you were wondering why the zoo. It seemed awfully crude as far as symbolism went. In spring. With the animals rutting and the feel of hormones in the air. So completely blatant and overpowering you were almost ill.
Still, you wanted my touch. You wanted me to do the things I had described to you. Each accidental brush was magnified and illuminated. We only made half the zoo that day and talked endlessly about philosophy and psychology. Politics and conservation. You were an absolute delight. I've told you over and over I want a partner. Someone as smart and capable as I am. I want my best friend. Lovers I've had and could have and would have and will have. Partners are hard to find.