We stood side by side as she showed me her pictures. I felt a little embarrassed, the image of her naked submission was so graphic and degrading that I had to look to see her response to my viewing. She kept her eyes down, yet she was standing proudly naked beside me.
"How do you feel about these images, O? This one of you is humiliating, it shows every part of your body and the suffering in your eyes, yet you do not hesitate to open it and the others to me and you seem to want to talk about them. They are of girls experiencing pain, being submitted to torture and being marked as possessions." I felt that to ask was an invasion of her minimal personal space, yet she did not hesitate to respond.
"I am proud of my status and what I have done to show the work at Samois. I have long since abandoned any pretence of ego or personal privacy. These images will be immortal to the tiny elite that have been able to know them. Many of these girls are no longer in the life for various reasons. The life itself is no longer what it once was- so much has changed. I knew all these girls and shared their time at Samois. Their suffering and trained submission was a crucial time in their lives, as it had been in mine. The record I kept is a celebration of submission and the gift that a slave makes of her body and essence to serve another." She spoke clearly and calmly, with utter conviction underlying her words.
"Older slave women had been seen by me at Roissy and were often broken in spirit as well as body- it was a hard life I had chosen. To be fair though, I had also seen two women who were still proud and generous in their submission who gave me hope. One had a master who was much older, she took responsibility for his body needs and his affairs while still subservient to him. The other was part of the Roissy mΓ©nage, helping the valets with girls, managing the housekeeping of the Chateau and occasionally lending herself when someone wanted her.
"As I told you earlier, you are the first man to use me and take pleasure in my body for many years. The background to that is something that I wish to offer up to you, but there are a number of things that I need to make clear to you first. Will you bear with me as I follow my story, please?" She looked toward me with pleading in her face- a surprise considering the gentle, acquiescent manner that she had shown until now.
I nodded my consent, as many other questions boiled up in me at her words. Patience was to be my lesson, for now.
Her initial picture was a full folio size, monochrome with her in full frontal figure, from knees to head. The subsequent pictures of the other girls were of differing sizes, with differing body parts displayed. While they were either headless, or with faces turned away in the early sections of the folio, later there were faces clearly visible in the later ones- clearly the anonymity was discarded as time progressed. The ones with no visible face were very graphic in their display, yet the ones with face displayed were more shocking- the emotions and pain etched in them made them immediate and obscenely shocking. They were all utterly pornographic, in a way that consensual photos could never be, regardless of the quality of acting.
She began to explain to me the girls and their stories that unfolded with each opening page. "One of the first girls to arrive was Nathalie, who was sent by the man who had taken her. She was still girlish and showed the naΓ―vete that I remembered from the first time she had revealed her love to me in the villa in the south of France where she had learned of my enslavement". She went on to tell me that Rene had returned her to her parents on our return to Paris, and had gained a promise that she could accompany Jacqueline the next summer as well. She returned to her Lycee for which Jacqueline's modelling work was paying. The impatience she had was ultimately satisfied that following summer when Rene added her to the mΓ©nage at the same villa. Any resistance that Jacqueline may have had at having to share Rene with her sister was silenced by the time she had spent at Roissy earlier that year. Her arrogant manner had been quelled as she had been shared, forced and whipped by the members.
The photos she showed of Nathalie's petite form were faceless, yet showed the treatment that Anne-Marie was so good at- opened and whipped on the dais, walking naked in the garden, then ultimately having a single ring inserted in her nether lip- not with the second ring and disc that O had been laden with, nor the brand on her rear. The only feature that was unmistakable was long black hair, her face was invisible in all the shots.
"Tell me, O, were you able to use Nathalie during her stay there? Did you whip her? What did you feel when you saw her?" She was silent for some time while she considered her response.
"She was taken to bed by Anne-Marie and Irene on several occasions. I was able to caress her while she was tied open in the Music Room. I sometimes drew the number that meant I was to whip her, which I did with relish, then I lay with her for a long time afterwards. To help her learn the link from the whip to sexual pleasure was my mission. She gave every sign of loving me yet was in complete submission to the man who had taken responsibility for her. She preferred to give me pleasure than to receive what I could give her. She was tiny, so it was a daily challenge to insert the phallus into her rear to stretch it. I drove it with a mixture of savagery and love which was irresistible to me. Her suffering was beautiful to behold and she bore it with pride.
"These two others were on their second visit to Samois, you can see that their markings have been done- the tattoo across the pubic bone of the blonde, the Cross of Lorraine branded on the buttock of another girl. Her man was strong in the Resistance, I believe". All told, there were some twenty-five girls shown in the folio, all that had passed through Anne-Marie's hands in that year.
All were beautiful, with some unmarked, skin clear except for fresh whip cuts, while others were heavily pierced, lower lips, clitori and nipples all bearing metal. O's photos had some sequences showing the action of the piercing, including the face of the victim as the pain was done to her. Such an intensity of pain and visual eroticism was hard to see, yet there was no thought of rebellion in any of the faces that I could see.
She finally closed the folio then went to the same room and brought back a large bound book with a plain black cover and glossy photographic paper. "This is the book that we had made by a very exclusive printer in Montmartre. The print run was 250 and we sold them for the price of a luxury car- yet no-one to whom we offered a copy refused or even hesitated. I believe that these now are traded within the community at many times their original price. Anne-Marie took half the proceeds and gave me the other half. I made investments, which continue to provide an income for me and my daughter. I have taken on other similar projects since those days, which have kept me involved with the Society of Roissy. Many men wished to record their possessions, with the ephemerality of a slave's beauty captured at its height, or in their most intense passion.