It was a freezing cold Monday afternoon just after Christmas when they caught me. It had been snowing non-stop for three days and the East Village was almost deserted. I didn’t see a thing. One minute I was scurrying home through the blizzard to my wife and kids, the next I had a gun in my ribs and there was a strange, muffled voice telling me to get into the white van that was parked nearby. Terrified, I clambered in and a small, wiry figure in a black balaclava and black bodysuit sprayed something into my face. That was the last thing I remembered for a long time.
When I woke up I was a prisoner. They’d taken my thick overcoat but I was still wearing the same dark, pinstripe suit that I always wore to the office. My hands were cuffed behind my back, I was wearing a blindfold and my head was incredibly sore. It was hot. There was a primitive fan revolving slowly above my head and I could hear insects buzzing and clicking all around me. God knows where I was but it certainly wasn’t New York.
“This one’s awake,” the voice was harsh but feminine. “What shall we do with him?”
“Take him to Shakra,” another, deeper, but equally feminine voice demanded, “she’ll decide whether we should keep him or not.”
They hauled me to my feet and pushed me out into the open air where I could feel a hot sun blazing down on me. The blindfold was suddenly ripped away and I blinked in near terror at the sudden burst of light. When my eyes finally became adjusted I could see that I was in some kind of rough village made up of dozens of large, wooden huts. My captors were all women, dressed in skimpy, animal-skin loin-cloths, with a thin strip of cloth tied over their breasts. They had smooth, cocoa coloured skin and almost oriental features.
Two of them grabbed me by each elbow and dragged me along a wide path through the huts, my Patrick Cox loafers kicking up dust as we went. At the doorway of the largest hut one of them rapped her knuckles against the frame.
“Enter,” came a voice.
They pushed me inside so roughly that I fell to my knees in front of the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my life. She wore knee high, sand coloured boots and a kind of mini-skirt made of hundreds of tiny fronds of dark leather. Her large, perfect breasts were half-covered by an ornate, golden piece of jewellery that just barely cupped them, lifting them upwards and forwards. Her hair was cut in a rough sexy bob that framed her high-cheek-boned, oriental face and she looked at me so dismissively that I felt like a worm.
“Strip them before you bring them to me in future,” she ordered in a husky, lazy tone. “You know I can’t bear these ridiculous ‘suits’ they wear.”
“Yes, Shakra,” my two escorts breathed. They quickly pulled me to my feet before tearing off my jacket, tie and shirt. Shakra then came closer and ran bright scarlet, inch long finger nails over my chest, “not exactly a strong man, is he?” she commented. “He won’t last a week in the mines.”
At this they pulled off my shoes and socks, flinging them out of the hut and then pulled down my trousers so that I was standing in front of the magnificent woman in just my white Calvin Kleins. “We thought you might have other uses for him,” one of the women said, trembling. Shakra snorted and then pulled my Calvins down to my knees before arching one, dismissive, eyebrow.
“Often they’re much bigger when they’re hard,” said the second woman timidly.
I felt totally humiliated. “What is this?” I pleaded. “Where am I?” Without even looking at me Shakra slapped me hard in the face.
“Get down on your knees boy,” she ordered.
“I’m a man,” I replied angrily. “I’m a citizen of the United States of America and. . .”
The two guards forced me to my knees and stripped me completely naked by roughly tearing my underpants off my legs and throwing them outside with the rest of my clothes. “Make yourself hard,” ordered Shakra.
“What, I. . .”
She slapped me again and, with tears of shame and humiliation welling up in my eyes I began fondling myself but nothing happened. “Rebka, Use the slambok on him,” ordered Shakra.
Rebka pulled me to my feet again and took a whip out from her belt. I heard it before I felt it, a whistling sound and then it cracked against my buttocks. It was agony. “Please, no,” I begged.