This story was told to me by Shirley who you can read about in my series of stories about my Mother's friend who was my first love. This story had several variations when told by her and over the years my imagination has added more. She was very turned on to tell me this story as she stroked me slowly to climax. I was embarrassed back then and still am today to a large extent to admit that a movie or story about a woman being whipped can turn me on so much. I am writing this in response to the emails from people who wanted to hear it and thought I was just teasing them by mentioning it in my other stories. It has, of course, twists in it that were unique to Shirley. I hope you enjoy. Let me know if you do, I am trying to decide the direction of further fiction to write.
Nora was a 42 year old widow who had never traveled beyond Missouri. Her husband was a successful business man who owned several large factories and never took a vacation. When he died of a massive heart attack at 45 he left her with a 21 year old daughter who was a junior in college and lots of property and wealth. Robert died in January of 1932 and by late May, when her daughter came home from college, Nora was ready to stop mourning and get on with her life.
The factories were managed by people her husband had trained and Nora decided that she and her daughter would take a well deserved vacation. She had always been fascinated by Africa and she and her daughter booked passage on a ship from New York. One of her husband's business associates met the ship at Cape Town, South Africa and welcomed the two women into his home. After visiting for a week, Nora and her daughter, Jodie, left for a guided tour of the interior hoping to see wild animals and native villages. The following story is what happened as a result of her daughter's poor judgment.
Jodie had discovered marijuana in college and liked it very much. While visiting with her father's business associates his teen age son had introduced her to a very cheap supplier and she had bought several pounds of the drug to take home with her. Fearing to leave it behind she packed it in the bottom of her steamer trunk and took it along.
The first several days were uneventful but on the fourth day their guide warned them that the province they were entering was far from civilization and the Governor was a descendant of Dutch settlers, known as Boers. He ruled with and iron fist and his word was law. He told them to do nothing to attract attention and to let no one know that they had money.
They camped outside of a village that night and Jodie decided to take a little of her stash and go for a walk in the bush. She sat under a tree and rolled a marijuana cigarette and lit it. She did not realize that the smell was being carried on the wind. When she started back to camp she was confronted by a dark skinned native policeman in a tattered uniform and carrying a rifle. He made her lie on the ground and she heard others coming through the jungle.
When several other badly uniformed policemen surrounded her she was dragged back to camp. Nora demanded to know what the problem was and through the interpreter learned that her daughter had been found with a small bag of illegal drugs. When they searched all of their belongings the large bag was found. The two women had their hands tied behind their backs and were marched into the village where they were thrown bodily in the back of a rickety pickup truck. An hour later they were dragged into a dirty building with bars on the windows and thrown into a cell.
There was no water or toilet facilities and they spent a miserable night being forced to relieve themselves in a corner of the already foul smelling cell. The guards mostly left them alone, only watching closely with the women lifted their skirts to relieve themselves. When sunlight began coming through the cell window they were marched to the center of the small village and made to stand before a crude table with a chair behind it.
A large white man with a full beard and long hair came from a hut and sat at the table. His eyes frighted the women as he stared at them. "You have brought illegal drugs into my country," he said, "what have you to say for yourself?" His English was accented but clear.
"It is a mistake sir," Nora said, "my daughter didn't know it was illegal. We are very sorry and will pay any fine you ask."
"FINE, " the big man screamed, " there is no fine. You people think you can buy your way out of everything. Here punishment is swift and you will remember it for a long time."
He led the way and they walked to the other side of the square. Two posts stood ten feet apart. A crosspiece connected them above and from it dangled two long woven leather ropes with loops in the end. "You will be tied here and whipped for your crimes. You shall receive 39 lashes each on the bare back"
"NO, " Nora cried. "Please can we not talk about this? We are Americans, can we not talk to a higher authority?"
The big man gestured to two of his very dark skinned smiling policemen and they grabbed Nora and dragged her into a near bye hut. She was pushed into a chair by a long table. The big man followed her and sat down next to her. They sat staring at each other for over a minute with Nora fighting tears and him smiling at her.
"The drugs were your daughters, so I think we can just whip her and give her all of the lashes. That would probably be fair, no? " He smiled at her evilly.
"No please, don't hurt my daughter, I will do anything you ask. Please, give me all of the lashes, the drugs were mine."
"Ah, I am touched that you would lie to protect her. Perhaps we should come to an arrangement, come with me." He took her hand and they went back out and she and her daughter were forced to sit on a bench about twenty feet from the whipping posts. He gestured again and two of his men left and when they came back they were dragging an olive skinned woman. She fought them until she was slapped hard and then they fastened her wrists in the hanging restraints and pulled them up until her arms were stretched high above her head.
The big man walked to her and talking a small knife he cut her dress across the top of the shoulders and the short sleeves. The top fell to her waist baring her from the waist up. Her skin was smooth and lovely. He grabbed her long hair and using the razor sharp knife he cut it off at shoulder level throwing the handful of long hair onto the ground. "We can't have this in the way." He said this laughing and looking at Nora.
"This woman is a prostitute. She was warned once and now she is going to be whipped for her sins. The girl began to cry and he growled at her and told her that if she screamed he would double her punishment and she would probably not survive. He then walked around her admiring her lovely body. Her breasts were small, probably a B cup. The areolas were large and plum colored. Her nipples were growing erect, more from exposure and fear than excitement. He ran his hands over her breasts playing with her nipples, rolling them and soon they stuck out like thimbles. He then ran his fingers up and down through her thick black underarm hair several times.
Stepping back to the table, he sat down with Nora. He took a box from his pocked at took a yellow cigarette from it. He offered the box to Nora who shook her head no. "You would be well served to be sociable with me lady, you have a lot to lose."
Nora reached and took a cigarette. He lit their cigarettes and looked at her approvingly as she drew deeply and exhaled a long plume of smoke into the air. With a wave of his hand the whipping began. A long black whip was uncoiled and one of the policemen walked behind the girl. He took off his shirt showing a well muscled body and dark skin. He drew his arm back and the whip snaked forward striking the girl across her shoulders. She shrieked in pain.
"That lash didn't count since you screamed. Begin again." the big man thundered.
The second lash was slightly lower than the first and the girls body convulsed and she thrust her chest out but she did no more than grunt and whimper. Nora and her daughter watched in horror knowing that they had been sentenced to the same thing. The big man watched as Nora took a deep drag on her cigarette and slowly exhaled until the third lash struck the woman across her lower back. Nora nearly choked on the smoke seeing blood trickle down from this lash.
They slowly whipped the woman. After 20 lashes, she hung limply and the big man walked to her again. He tenderly wiped her face with a wet cloth and revived her. He caressed her breasts and underarm again, wiping the sweat from her soaking wet body. The whip had wrapped itself around her on several lashes leaving welts on her stomach and breasts as well. "You are done for today little one, " he said, "we will let you rest for a few days and then finish your whipping."
As he came back to his seat, Nora saw that the front of his khaki pants were tented out from his erection and a large wet spot was visible. As he again led her into the hut and forced her to sit, she realized that she was also wet and had a warm sexual feeling between her legs. She wondered at this, but remembered that as a child when her father had used his belt on her bottom she had been wet and excited then too.