Nora reveals her dominant side to her college boyfriend Paul, and she makes up a pretext to give him a sound paddling on his backside. He likes it more than he had expected, but what happens next is not what he was hoping for. Nora did some dominatrix gigs during her hooking career, so she knows how to handle this event.
This is taking place in September 1974. The "Mormon girl" story is in
Chapter 04
, "Nora Gets Submissive." Maspeth is Nora's neighborhood in southwest Queens.
The references to prostitution are about her stint as an ad hoc, part-time hooker during the previous two semesters. See
Freshman Hooker
and
Nora Turns a Trick
.
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One day in late September, I made one of my trips out to Maspeth to visit Nora at her house. I was surprised by her appearance when she opened the door.
She was wearing her business outfit: a gray suit with a tight skirt, tan nylon stockings, and black medium-heeled shoes. I had seen those clothes before during her first visit to my college newspaper,
The Salient.
By this time she had her new brush-cut hairdo for her dark blonde hair. She was also wearing her usual steel-rimmed glasses.
Her most noticeable accessory was the wooden object she was holding in her right hand. I could see that it was a paddle.
Now, who would she use that on?
I seemed to be the only possible candidate around. I had never seen her dominant side in action, but that was my first indication that I would find out a lot about it on that day.
"Oh, hi Nora."
"It's Miss Meara if you please." I knew that dominatrices sometimes used "Miss" when referring to themselves, but I figured I'd go along with whatever ploy she had created for me. She obviously was playing a game, but I didn't know the exact details of it yet. I had previously only experienced her in her submissive mode in which I was the one spanking her.
At least I didn't have to call her "mistress." She had told me once that the word didn't seem egalitarian enough for her tastes. The way she saw it, the men she had dominated were not her slaves but merely naughty boys who needed to be firmly corrected by a stern lady and put on the right path.
We went into the living room and she sat on the couch. I was just about to sit next to her when she said, "Oh no, just stand right there."
She crossed her legs and I thought,
God, she looks great today; she should get dressed up more often.
Then she touched a substantial wooden hairbrush on a side table. "This, and my paddle, are the two implements I have available for me today. And, obviously, I going to use them on you."
I had put my hands into my pockets. "Get your hands out of your pockets when I'm speaking to you." I didn't have much choice but to fold them in front of me.
"So, Nora..."
"It's Miss Meara, remember?"
"Okay, Miss Meara..."
"Let me speak, if you would." When she had my attention, she continued, "Paul, I have a very serious issue with you. And today I'm going to deal with it quite firmly and thoroughly."
It was impressive how she usually adjusted her speaking patterns to whatever plan she had going. She was a better actress than I had originally thought last spring.
"All right, Miss Meara, and what is that issue?"
"Let me explain in some detail. It has to do with our fellow female staffers on
The Salient.
" I had invited her to join the paper with me a few weeks earlier. "I have noticed that your eyes are all over them. In fact, I know you use them for your sick masturbation fantasies."
Perhaps he had a point. There had been six such staffers during the previous semester, and now there was a seventh. The new one was a tall, very nice-looking dark-haired girl named Linda. So I had indeed used all of them for fantasy material, but especially Linda since she had a taste for cute black or gray knee socks.
I tried a push-back to see what would happen. Nora was using bullshit on me, so I tried it with her. "That's not true, Miss Meara, I only think of you. I'm loyal to you in thought as well as deed." That wasn't a bad line, albeit a bit overblown.
"Oh please, how naΓ―ve do you think I am?"
I tried for a limited hangout. "Well, how about Lilith? I don't like her and she doesn't like me." Lilith was a very intense and rather humorless senior who was our news editor.
"That doesn't matter; you still want to possess her physically." That was indeed true. I had fantasized about taking her on the newspaper office table, but I had forgotten that I had told Nora about that. She hadn't forgotten, however, and she remembered all the details.
"You told me once that you wanted to give her an over-your-knees spanking on her bare behind, and then have her screw you with her on top -- straddling you I mean on that table in
The Salient
office. By the way, I notice that she doesn't always shave under her armpits."
"Well, that doesn't bother me. Does it bother you?"
"I think it makes her look a bit unkempt, but I don't really care one way or the other. The point is that you may not like her but you lust after her anyway. And then there's that new Linda tart. You obviously like her knee socks; I'm sure you've imagined lifting her skirt up, pulling off her panties, and copulating with her standing up against a desk."
Actually, my fantasy had been with her on the couch, but basically, Nora was correct.
Copulating;
I never heard her use that word before.
A counter-strike occurred to me. "Besides, I'm sure you've also indulged in an occasional imaginary fling with somebody."
"Absolutely not." She basically repeated my own lines back to me. "I'm completely loyal to you, in my heart and mind as well as with my body."
A woman of heart and mind,
as Joni Mitchell had put it. In any case, I didn't believe her.
But who would she use as her fantasy lover? I doubted it was any of the male staffers. Maybe it would be Professor Raskin, the English professor who taught a course about vampires and other figures of evil and horror in literature.
I had taken his course the previous semester. With his bushy hair and mustache, he was relatively young and rather hot for a professor. And I also knew he had had an affair with a student.
Somehow, I could imagine whatever Nora might have considered doing with this erudite but somewhat eccentric teacher. It was sort of one fantasy (the one I imagined her having) inside of another one (my own). He'd have dropped his pants inside his office in Wagner Hall, and Nora would be sitting on his desk with her skirt up and her legs splayed. She cried out in pleasure as he nailed her on the desktop.
It was weird, but now I had a pang of jealousy regarding this scene that
I myself had made up. But Nora quickly interrupted my musings.
"If you are wondering how I'm going to correct your misbehavior, then I will tell you." She leaned forward on the sofa and explained it to me. "Paul, it's a simple but effective way to deal with wayward boyfriends such as yourself. It's called corporal punishment if you must know."
"I haven't been wayward at all, not in reality anyway."
"But you would be if you had the chance. That's why I have to nip this in the bud before you get your dick into one of our journalistic colleagues."
Nip this in the bud;
that struck me as funny. For a second I pondered myself, and I knew that I would never approach any of my fantasy partners even though they were on the paper with me. I would never cheat on Nora; that wasn't the kind of guy I was. But I realized again that this was her made-up pretext.
Even though I already knew what was coming, I suddenly wasn't that keen on the whole idea. I had never been spanked by anybody before, much less Nora. I rather lamely said, "You're kidding me right?"
"I'm definitely not, and I'm going to tell you exactly how it's going to go. First, you're going to get on the floor, on your hands and knees. You're going to push your behind up and present it to me for your discipline."
I was struck by the oddly formal and precise language she was using. She went on, "Next, I'm going to sit here and paddle you on your backside. At the beginning, you're getting it on the seat of your trousers. They look kind of light-weight, and I'm sure they won't give much protection for your sorry little rear-end."
I knew that the word "little" was a reference to my relatively slender build. I suddenly felt a twitching in my buttocks, and it seemed to be a mix of both fear and anticipation.
Just how kinky am I?
I remembered telling Nora more than once that I found it intriguing to picture myself being punished by a woman.
I guess I'm about to find out what it's like.
Nora said "I've noticed that you can dish out spankings to me, but you haven't received any yourself. That's rather unfair, wouldn't you say?" She was right about that.
It was interesting to see her formerly hidden dominant side emerge. Other guys had seen it when she had done amateur dominatrix gigs, but I never experienced it myself. I said, "You've never mentioned this aspect of yourself before." I knew that wasn't true.