A 1688 word short story about a game we played introducing one another to the wondrous joy of abject sexual submission. Lisa and Jamie were 19, Eva 20, George and Paul 21.
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We were born in turbulent times, and we grew up during the war that wasn't an "official" war in Vietnam, it dominated our childhood and the resulting economic downturn dominated our adolescence. We had just graduated from high school and rented a place together down the road near the Junior College in Llano. Paul and George were going to a mechanic school in Austin. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had created
'The Black Panther'
in 1966. In its pages we read about the fictional African Kingdom of Wakanda and the Dora Milaje.
This fictional band of female warriors led us to read about the very real West African Kingdom of Dahomey, which existed adjacent to Togo and Nigeria for over 300 years before the French conquered it between 1892 and 1894. The Dahomey Amazon were the personal body guard of the Ahosu Dahomey, the King of Dahomey. His own fierce, fearless, well armed and well trained harem.
Even then we understood that the sexual content was edited out of all textbooks and most serious literature. Each Amazon Warrior quite literally married their sovereign. So just as we imagined that we were Dahomey Amazon Warriors as we ran track and threw javelins at the Junior College, we imagined what really happened in the barracks that we understood to be a polygynous household.
1980 - Llano, Texas
"Greetings Lisa," Captain of the Guard Eva said, "your tribe has shown you a great honor, rewarding your hard work and dedication by sending you here to the Palace. And you honor us by giving your life to Ahosu, the King. Once you successfully complete your training you will marry Ahosu Paul, but for the time being you are my slave. You will address me as 'Captain' and do precisely as I and your other teachers direct you.
I was apprehensive, but I answered, "Yes, Captain."
"Strip," she commanded.
As I started to disrobe, she removed her single garment that I only now realized was a single two sided cape with gold coins sewn to it as a fringe and a tied cloth belt.
"We cannot defile the sanctuary with clothing," she said. Hanging her cape on a strategically placed silver hook. I followed her lead hanging my garment and we entered the sanctuary by way of a thirteen-step open wooden staircase descending into the earth beneath the Palace.
A woman of confident bearing approached in the dim lighting. She took me by the shoulder without introduction, leading me to and then pushing me down on a sturdy wooden table such as a cabinet maker might use. Then she quickly bound my hands over my head and feet with skinny leather straps tying them to the table's legs. She placed a perforated ball gag in my mouth. I moaned in anticipation of what I imagined must be to come.
"Slaves must be taught how to comport themselves," Captain Eva said, "Jamie here is an expert at such instruction. She shall deliver to you a punishment, that you retain its memory and so learn from it." Eva walked to a smaller table and from a cardboard file box removed a flogger.
"Negative reinforcement is not a panacea," Eva said, "but it is a much assailed concept. Our history shows that it is a quite effective tool, useful in compelling properly submissive behavior. Once you complete your training you will understand its uses and limitations."
Jamie took a rope, and passing it under the wooden table, tied my knees wide apart exposing my sex. Then she aimed the flogger directly at that most sensitive pound of flesh between my thighs and delivered several very quick sharp blows that caused me to scream into the gag in pain.
"It's far more memorable there than on your nice padded ass, don't you think?" Eva asked me.
Of course with the ball gag in place, I could not answer her.
The flogger was of course quite memorable. I did not know it at the time but by dividing the energy between multiple strands it made the impact feel far worse than it was. The separate pieces of leather landed squarely on each of my sensitive parts. My central cleft, each labia minora and each big fat labia majora received its own individual caress of leather. When Jamie resumed my treatment, I screamed, cried, whimpered and cursed, but neither of them paid my protestations the slightest bit of attention.
The pain was intense, but then an amazing thing happened. Eva stroked my burning flesh with a little clear petrolatum and I reacted violently. With pleasure rather than pain. It was amazing. I just had a pain induced orgasm. I thrust my hips up at her, I wanted more, I would get many, many more..