I traveled to New York after many years of avoiding the city. Too many bad memories kept me from it, and I truly had little reason to visit. As the Airbus rumbled through the skies approaching La Guardia I checked my seat belt and thought of the last time I had been in the city and how it teemed with life and energy and all the possibilities that you can only find in cities like New York, Hong Kong, London, Frankfurt, Zurich, Mexico City, Rio, Sao Pablo, or Buenos Aires. All the cities I had visited and or lived in throughout my life.
As the captain lowered the landing gear and the drag slowed down the plane, so did my mind. I had not noticed how it was racing and come to think of it, it had been racing since Jim called me and told me of the auction three weeks ago. It was a part of life I seldom shared with other outside my wife and some online friends. But it was real to me and it was part of where my heart belonged.
Many years ago I had transitioned from the normal American male who is fairly politically correct, children, wife, home and job to the way I was brought up where Men not by meanspiritedness ran their homes, but by the power of being the Man of the family who protected all, who lived up to his own expectations, and took his rightful place at the lead of the family. Many call it a lifestyle within the boundaries of BDSM, but in reality it is more about Manhood than it is about the bondage, domination, sadism and masochism that is typically associated with BDSM.
My wife and I had talked about her submissive nature since we met, and it blossomed as I took my place at the head of the home. As time passed we moved from D/s life to a truer deeper calling but one that is far more difficult to find in real life; the life of Gorean's as defined in John Norman's books; where honesty and respect lead to honor; where actions have consequences and you have to own up to them whether good or bad.
The year after I learned about Gor and the lifestyle I had drinks with Jim during one of his business trips through my city: we talked deep into the night. Jim, it turns out, had been a part of the secret societies within the BDSM communities and had connections I did not know existed. We laughed at how our lives had developed on similar paths, yet both of us had kept it from the other till two full pitchers of martinis were consumed.
The wheels touched the ground and we had the typical landing bounce and settled to the slowing down process after touchdown. The thrust reversers were opened and the engines revved up to the point where you were pushed forward, the pilot took the first exit from the runway and we taxied to the gate. I noticed enough to take out my Treo and type in two quick messages.
The first to my wife: "Hon, I just landed, the auction is later this afternoon, are you still sure about this?"
The second to Jim: "Jim, just landed in La Guardia, heading for the meeting point in Flushing at the pizza place on Main Street; order the pizza!"
As I hit send on the second message I received the simple but thorough reply from my wife: "Yes, Sir. Thank You."
I sat in the seat waiting for everyone to stand up, and I felt deep pride in my submissive, and my wife, both the same woman. She wore my collar since the day she begged it. Many things have changed, but her devotion and her submission never change. I grabbed my carry on and headed off the plane, headed for the Hertz counter, got my keys and drove to Flushing; where Jim awaited.
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"Are you sure about this?" asked Jim as I entered the pizza place and smelled the most wonderful aroma in the world, New York style deep dish Sicilian pizza. Chicago, eat your heart out.
I shook his hand firmly, "Yes Jim, I am sure and I have the money in my pocket, so I'm going through this."
"You know, that when the legal papers are signed, the new law makes it possible for two consenting adults to enter into a legally binding contract where one will own the other; irreversibly." He looked seriously into my eyes; the look was the same as it was at his father's funeral, and then many years later at my father's funeral; it was one of formality and certainty.
"I know Jim, and we've talked about it since your call three weeks ago and we know what it will mean to truly own a slave, legally and completely. We are financially ready for it, the home is too big for just the two of us, and we are ready to move to the next step." I said to him in what was a far stronger tone than I meant, but one that was true from deep within me.
"Well then, eat up, because the review kennels open in an hour and the auction is at eight tonight." He said grabbing a big square of pizza with cheese stringing down and the perfect pepperoni on top. It really is all about the simplicity of a pizza that makes it the best.
My mind wandered the rest of the meal with idle chat from time to time, but I was focused on the idea of picking a Gorean slave girl. I wanted to feel the lust and the desire so natural when looking at a completely naked girl in a collar, one who knows her very fait is in your hands. This was not the Marketplace of the books, this was a secret covert law that only those who knew where it was, how it was written, and how to bring it up should a court ruling be required could fall within it one hundred percent and be totally protected by the law. This law was in place in one hundred percent of the western world and had come from the Asian side of the world only as recently as 1972 during the Nixon era and was passed into law during the Carter Administration in 1978. Consensual slavery was legal, and completely binding on the slave who had to wear the brand of a slave once the contract was signed. The slave had the rights of an animal of the human species, but nothing more; the full extent of property rights extended to the Owner and over the slave. Once the contract was signed, the slave no longer possessed the right to argue the case on their behalf. Just like a house or a dog has no right to dispute the Title of Ownership.