Sylvia seldom went home with random men that she met in bars. Not only did it seem slightly dangerous, she didn't particularly enjoy one-night stands. She enjoyed sex - a lot, as a matter of fact -- but she preferred it to come with a light touch of relationship, even if it was just a casual friends-with-benefits relationship rather than any sort of long or even medium term commitment. She just did't have the energy to get to know a man whom she would likely never see again. So why was she in the passenger seat of Jason's Corolla heading to his apartment?
It had started casually enough. She had dropped in to her favourite corner pub after work, and, not happening to see any of her work friends there, was sitting at the bar by herself with a mostly-finished drink, wondering whether she should order another one or just cut losses and walk home. From over her shoulder, she heard the familiar pickup line, "Can I buy you another one of those?"
She turned around and surveyed the man behind her. He was good-looking enough, if not movie-star handsome, with a neat brown beard and a well-proportioned face, no hat (rather than the classic ball-cap-on-backwards look that Sylvia considered vaguely low-class), medium height, medium build - nothing really special, but somehow looking comfortable in his nothing-specialness.
Sylvia was tempted to do her usual polite-but-firm brushoff, but to tell the truth, she didn't really feel much like going back to her empty apartment, heating up some leftovers for dinner and spending the evening in front of Netflix. On impulse, she said, "Sure. Why not?"
The man gestured to a nearby small table that held his own half-finished drink. "Care to join me at a more comfortable venue?"
She told the barman that she was moving so the bill could follow her and accepted the man's offer. They exchanged names and made small talk for a while, and discovered that they had a number of things in common. They were both middle-level professionals who had been in their jobs for several years and enjoyed them. They both liked hockey, and agreed that Canada's nail-biter win over the U.S. in the Four Nations Face-Off was the biggest sports rush they had experienced for a long time. They didn't much care for office politics, but usually managed to ignore the petty squabbles at work and get on with things. And they disliked approximately the same things about the Government of Alberta. Sylvia found herself liking Jason as much as she could like anyone she'd only known for half an hour.
They ended up ordering some food to go with their drinks, since neither of them particularly felt like going home to rummage for leftovers. As the afternoon turned into early evening, the discussion gradually got more personal. They discovered that neither was attached at the moment, and they agreed that stepping into someone else's relationship, an experience that they had each had more than once, was risky business and seldom worth the trouble.
Then somehow the conversation got onto the topic of sex. Afterwards, Sylvia couldn't remember clearly how the conversation had ended up getting that personal, but at the time it had seemed like a natural progression from whatever they had been talking about before, and Sylvia wasn't the least shocked when Jason asked, "So, do you like to do anything kind of kinky, or do you prefer your sex to be nice and vanilla?"
Slyvia reached over and helped herself to another nacho while she thought about her answer. How much did she feel like revealing right now? Maybe it was the fact that she was part way through her third drink, but she surprised herself by responding a lot more frankly than she expected to.
"Well, I don't much care for being fucked in the ass. I've tried it a few times, and it doesn't hurt nearly as much as I expected it to, but it doesn't do a lot for me. I do enjoy giving head, though. I don't know why, but I really like the feel of a guy's dick in my mouth and even down my throat."
"You must have good control over your gag reflex. Not a lot of women can handle deep throat."
"I guess my gag reflex has never been all that strong to begin with, and I've practiced the breathing rhythm you have to set up to get past the feeling that you're going to choke."
"I like going down on women too. There's something exciting about being able to bring a woman to climax with just my fingers, lips and tongue."
"It's good to hear you say that. Some guys I've been with just seem to want to stick their dicks in me without ever thinking about what they might do that I'd like." Sylvia was beginning to like this guy more and more.
Jason seemed to be in the mood to open up more and more as well. He stirred the ice in his drink and said, "Well, that said, I confess that I do like being kind of dominant in bed. I'm not especially interested in rough sex, spanking, choking, all that shit that you see in porn, but I can feel in
charge without forgetting that there are two of us who should end the night happy."
Sylvia contemplated exactly how far she felt comfortable taking this conversation. It seemed to be providing a good opening for her to talk about her ultimate kink if she felt sufficiently daring. She decided to go for the gusto.
"That's interesting. I'm the opposite, in a sort of complementary way. I like being more submissive in bed." She took a deep breath, then added, "In fact, I really get off on being tied up when I'm being fucked." There, she'd said what she had never said before outside the safe confines of an S&M bar.
She waited for the remark to drop like a chunk of lead. Instead, Jason replied, "Cool. I've never tied a woman up, but I have to admit that I've fantasized about it enough times. Sometimes I get off on watching bondage porn, as long as it's not torture porn."
Sylvia relaxed. "Good. Liking bondage doesn't imply that I want to be beaten up, even with a bunny flogger or whatever. I just like the feeling of surrendering control."
Once the conversation had slid that way, they got even more personal. "How do you feel about being gagged?" Jason asked.
Wow, thought Sylvia. This guy was up on his Boundhub, wasn't he? "Weirdly, I love being gagged. I don't know whether it's an oral fixation, or just that not being able to speak multiplies the helplessness even more. But bit gags and ball gags are a bit dumb because you can still sort of talk around them. I like having my mouth really filled with something."
After that exchange of intimate details, it didn't take much of one thing leading to another for Sylvia to find herself in Jason's car, heading toward his apartment. She felt her pussy moistening and her nipples hardening in anticipation. It had been a while since she'd had sex of any kind, other than with herself, and longer since she'd had proper bondage sex.
She put her hand on Jason's right leg and squeezed gently, feeling the firm muscles under the thin fabric. He reciprocated by putting his hand on her left knee, then sliding it up under the hem of her shortish office skirt until his fingers were resting on the damp crotch of her panties. She shifted in her seat so she could part her legs more and give him better access.
Sylvia wondered whether he'd try to slide the crotch of the panties aside so he could finger her bare pussy, but he was content just to give her a gentle feel through the material. Good thing, she thought, since he needs to pay attention to driving. She wondered whether the popular image of a man getting a blow job in a moving vehicle was ever real, and if it was, how many of those adventurous people were still alive.
They pulled into the underground garage of a new-looking apartment complex in the Beltline, not far from where the new Calgary Transit LRT line was scheduled to be built. "This is going to be convenient when they finish the Green Line," she commented by way of continued small talk.
"Yes. I can almost walk to work downtown, but it's really a bit far. I tried it a couple of times, and I always arrived sweaty and late. And I definitely don't want to try it when it's -20
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