This story is fictional, but such things do happen in London. Trust me...
First rule of Fuck Club is everyone talks about Fuck Club! Or so it seemed to Lucy as she reached for a second glass of prosecco, thinking, not for the first time, what the fuck am I doing here?
She was upstairs in the sort of converted East London warehouse that had mostly been turned into bars or microbeweries, but this was a little different. The guys were gathering downstairs -- how many guys, Lucy wondered: ten, twenty? And the girls had been told to wait upstairs, where they gathered -- dressed at most in a pair of skimpy panties and shoes, with not much more on than that. Hot (some of them in every sense of the word), anticipatory female bodies everywhere.
The prosecco took some of the heady edge off Lucy's convulsing brain, but only a little. Some girls were chatting in a friendly way to each other, bare flesh no impediment to socialising. Others were calm, withdrawn, almost meditating. Some were touching up their makeup. A few looked outright terrified. The palpable excitement, fear and arousal in anticipation of what was to come was like a miasma on the mazzanine. Lucy popped to the bathroom for a third time. Damn this! She thought to herself as she sat in the unisex toilet, looking at graffitied walls with all manner of expletive filth scrawled in sharpie on the toilet door. A scrubby, rough setting. Perfectly fitting for Fuck Club, Lucy thought, as she relieved herself again.
Since she had begun her entry in the world of kink with Master Kane, Lucy had become far more aware of the vast universe of BDSM. Being an attractive professional woman in her 20s, she was, popular on the scene (who'd have thought!), though scrupulously careful to maintain her anonymity. Word went out through various online networks about Fuck Club: a sex positive, pro feminist meeting run by a leading member of the scene who specialised in satisfying the public BDSM sexual fantasies of young, or youngish women, all in a safe environment. He was known as Master A. Lucy felt her fingers race the first time she typed a message to him, wondering where it would lead, and a few weeks later, here she was, dressed in much skimpier underwear than the M & S set up she wore when she took her first tentative steps with Master Kane, mixing with fellow kinky girls from all over the country (perhaps, all over the world), but all drawn here for the same primal reasons.
Eventually, Princess T called the girls down. Princess T was Master A's assistant. A slim, hard-edged woman with elegant, black hair, black eyeliner, wearing an austere black dress that hugged her slim figure. Like the x rays in Bonfire of the Vanities. Perfect for a Domme. Like a younger version of Sylvia, Lucy thought.
"When I finish girls, you will go downstairs." She pointed a Cruella de Vil type finger towards the top of the winding spiral staircase. "Remember the House Rules. No talking unless you are spoken to, follow instructions at all times. Raise your hand if you feel uncomfortable and want to stop at any time and someone will come and release you from the scene."
Lucy's tummy was in turmoil now. She was grateful for her flat shoes as she descended the staircase. Other girls were in heels and she noticed they seemed very precarious as they went down. She looked at the scene downstairs -- oh my fucking god! There seemed at least thirty guys, more than she expected, mostly around her age, or slightly older, either skinny and wiry, or more muscular, but nearly all toned and standing with a predatory aura, wearing tight fitting t shirts, and snug black or grey briefs. A lot were tattooed and pierced. They looked up at the train of girls descending the staircase, and a visceral, sexual hubbub rose in the atmosphere as the two sexes, Mars and Venus, encountered each other for the first time. More exposed flesh than a Botticelli painting.
In the centre of the room, a square stage that resembled a boxing ring, with ropes around the edge. Master A stood in the middle of the ring, looking bigger, more domineering, more BDSM than Lucy remembered from the civilian pre-meeting she had with him: a black mask around his eyes, bare chested, leather trousers sheathing his muscular thighs, arms folded.
Lucy clambered into the ring with the other girls and assumed the nadu position as Princess T had instructed: kneeling, eyes down. One by one the girls were instructed to crawl to the centre of the room and state three likes, and three limits that would shape their participation this evening. When it was Lucy's turn her nerves were in the stratosphere. She was accomplished at advocacy in the most gruelling of courtrooms. But this!
She felt herself turning into an object as she crawled to the middle of the ring, aware of her knees on the tarpaulin, sensing the eyes of the men upon her, like beasts stalking their prey. The same feelings she had when she first displayed for Master Kane on his step, only accentuated a hundredfold. So this was what public display felt like.