Preface
Readers: I write to titillate, arouse, and entertain. Much of the material contained in this story is explicitly descriptive of an alternative lifestyle. If your comfort zone is based on missionary sex every other Thursday around 8 pm, this story will likely not suit your reading tastes. Comments are welcome, especially those that deal with the way the story unfolds/is told, the style of writing, and whether it kept your attention. This is a fictionalized account of my initial association with the Domination and submission lifestyle. Some scenes are representative depictions of actual events—others are the author's concept of D&s play that could occur between a Dominant and his submissive.
During the six months that Nicky and I shared, she set me on a lifestyle path that I've never regretted. I don't know if this story describes a typical D&s lifestyle concept for others, and don't really care, because it worked for Nicky and I, and it has served me well in the years since. I respect the rights of others to make their own lifestyle choices, insist on that same respect, and believe that whatever works for two people in any case is usually unique to them. Nicky, I certainly hope you see yourself here. I've often wondered about you, where you are, how you're doing. Just as one never forgets a first love, a Dominant never forgets the submissive who was his first.
Nicky Sets the Tone
Her name was (not really) Nicky, she was submissive, and she took me on the ride of my sexual life. Nicky started the change in the way I look at relationships between people, not just sexually, but the entire way two people interact or relate. I had just endured a very negative relationship with a previous girlfriend, and I was alone. I had no one, and had turned to a personals telephone date line in search of a 'special friendship.'
It was an autumn Saturday afternoon, a couple of hours before I was to leave for my weekly bowling league. I had just jumped on the date line to see who was there. I had been on only a few minutes, when I got a message from someone that I was not familiar with. It was a timid sort of voice, light, uncertain, but the words were clear: "Are you dominant, and would you like to meet me?"
I had never considered a Domination/submissive relationship—my situation with my last girlfriend had been more a give/take relationship: I gave, and she took. I didn't even understand D&s—I had some generalized concepts about what it was, but had never thought it something I could embrace. Being black, my attitude had mostly been about the struggle for equality for all people.
I thought only for a second though, before responding. I figured she was like about 98 percent of the people on the date line: full of talk, and no meeting. The line is notorious for people who enjoy, indeed are addicted to talking bull on the telephone. They talk about their needs, mostly sexual, make arrangements to meet, but are so insecure that telephone contact is the closest they ever get to being with anyone. And, I felt this timid voice was simply more of the same.
But, 'what the hell...' I figured. I can talk the talk with the best on this line. Why not give her a sexual Dominant/submissive thrill. I had about an hour before I had to go bowl, and I was also curious about the voice. I'd talk trash to her, listen to her tell me about her submissive fantasies, maybe even listen to her (fake an?) 'O.' I was bored. Only it didn't turn out that way.
After about 45 minutes of moaning, and groaning, listening to her profess disbelief at some of the scenes and situations I laid out to her about my intended 'domination' of her, I grew bored at passing messages back and forth. I had to get to the bowling alley, anyway. But the next message I got from Nicky was very direct:
"Okay, I want you to dominate me—where are we going to meet?"
I was totally unprepared for the question. It never occurred to me that she was sincere. I remember my answer was sort of a mumbled, "Well, I can't meet you right now, I have to be somewhere shortly."
Her next message was even more direct. She accused me of being like all the guys on the dating line, full of bull, all talk and no meeting. Damned, wasn't that the same attitude I just professed about the women I talked to? She said I was a lot of 'fluff(?)' had wasted her time, and was not worthy of talking with her anymore. She flat-out told me to never send her messages again. I was so embarrassed I could only tell her the truth. I told her I thought she was playing, was like the other women on the system, and I was just going along with the status quo. She said that was a pitiful excuse—I had stroked her submissive side, and now was abandoning her. I felt bad!
I made another excuse, got off the line, and went bowling. I remember bowling very bad that evening, thinking about the way the exchange with Nicky had gone.
I stayed away from the dating system for a couple of days, not wanting to take a chance on another scolding from someone I didn't even know. But, by the next Saturday, I was my old self. I'd been on the system a few times, talking trash and even getting some possibilities for having a sexual encounter (which I knew was unlikely). It was three o'clock Saturday afternoon—a couple of hours before I had to get ready to bowl, and I was just trolling the chat line, mostly listening to profiles. I wasn't even thinking about Nicky.
Then, there was a message, which went something like this: "There's the guy who can talk a lot of trash, but isn't man enough to follow up on his words." It was Nicky. Her next message followed up with what she thought about me. She said it again—I was fluff (I still don't like that word...)! I didn't even know what 'fluff' was, but I knew it couldn't mean anything good. I repeated my apology, again flustered and embarrassed.
Nicky dug in. She told me that I had really aroused her when we talked the previous Saturday. She said I had detailed/promised some sexual, D&s and B&D scenes that had really stroked her submissive needs. She said she had hardly slept all week—she'd saved many of the messages I had sent to her, and listened to them in her bed.. I remember, I had been rather creative, but because I had very little knowledge at that time of what domination and submission was about, some of the stuff I threw at her was simply about being as sexually outrageous as I could. She asked me about one scenario I painted, and said she just couldn't imagine anyone being able to do that. As it turned out, we couldn't do it either, but more about that later!
Nicky had calmed down a bit. I told her that I did in fact bowl every Saturday evening at 6 o'clock, and although I had no problem with meeting her, my bowling team needed me to be there. I said to her that I would be willing to meet her after bowling that evening. When I said that, her attitude changed completely. She was enthusiastic, and said she still did want to meet me. I had no clue about what I might be getting myself into, so I gave her a chance to back down.
I sent her this message. "Look... I bowl for about three hours, and I am usually back home by 9:30 pm. I won't take your answer right now. When I get home, I'll check my dateline messages. I don't want to have a message from you at that time. I'll check it again at 9:45 pm. You simply respond between 9:30 and 9:45 pm, if you still want to meet."
Nicky agreed, apparently thinking that was the way a dominant male would approach meeting a submissive. That way, the Dom controls setting up the meeting.