Sex and photography really go hand in hand, Francesca thinks, splayed out half-naked on the satin sheets of Rob's bed.
Rob is a friend. Well, a friend of Francesca's Master, in any case.
A few weeks ago, Master asked her if she would consent to an afternoon of hedonism with a gentleman of a similar age to him (a little shorter, a little balder, but still handsome enough to be appreciated by a young lady, he said) who is a wizard with a camera. You'd have to be naked, of course, he teased.
Francesca agreed to the suggestion.
Since her teenage years various people had told her that she should go into modelling. With that face, people would say, and those legs. She never knew whether to believe them or whether that was just flattery, but in either case, she was never really interested. Francesca likes to use her mind rather than her body, to get on in life.
But when Master mentioned it as something she could do just for fun and his pleasure, she felt differently about it. If she could please him, she'd go to the Moon and back. Having some naked photos taken for him wouldn't even register as a blip on the scale of effort she'd put in to make him happy.
She should have known that a photography session wouldn't be all, however.
"When you go to see Rob," Master said, "I want you to be a good girl, as you always are. You know what that means, don't you?"
Francesca shrugged. "It usually means he won't be alone. Am I right, Sir?" She looked up at her owner.
He kissed the top of her head. "You're right, as always, baby. Do me proud."
A shiver of desire went through her body. She lifted her face up to kiss him. His beard, very trimmed and neat, felt scratchy and masculine against the softness of her lips. He returned her kiss, deeper, stronger. She loved the way he kissed. She'd often said to him you're the best kisser in the world. And what wouldn't a woman do for the best kisser in the world?
So here she is now, wearing stockings and suspenders and a pair of tiny G-string panties, spread out on the bed of her Master's friend, the photographer. As promised, he's a shortish man with a receding hairline but with a very friendly face and a sunny disposition. Francesca liked him immediately. He offered her cake and tea and made her feel at ease when she arrived at his flat which doubled up as a photographic studio.
"Don't worry, poppet," he said to her, "I know it all seems a bit daunting at first but it's easy. You'll be a natural, I can tell."
Now they're halfway through the photoshoot, or at least it seems that way to Francesca who's been posing for over an hour, while Rob snapped away. They'll have hundreds of photos at this rate, she thinks, but she doesn't mind. Master will have some nice prints to choose from, hopefully.
"Turn over on your front," Rob says. "Arch your back. I want to see your beautiful derriere."
Francesca smiles. He is sweet and funny, a very likeable man -- a real 'people person'.
"Beautiful, that's beautiful," he exclaims, snapping away, then he frowns and says, "Wait -- hang on a sec."
He leaves the room and returns with a small apparatus of some kind, which he brings close to Francesca's body, measuring something.
"I'm just checking the light," he says. He huffs, dissatisfied. "It's too late in the day, we've lost the natural light. That window isn't big enough, if I'm honest. Next time, I'd like to take you outdoors -- to a wood somewhere, perhaps? But let me set up some lamps in here. Don't worry, it'll all be soft lighting, very flattering."
For the next few minutes, Rob busies himself with various equipment. Tripod lamps, reflective screens, it's all erected around the bed until Francesca feels like she's on a Hollywood movie set. After some more adjustments and readjustments, Rob finally seems happy.
"That's better," he says. "Now, there's just one more thing."
Francesca's sitting cross-legged on the bed, scrolling through her phone, waiting for him to finish the set up. She looks up. "What's that?"
Something changes on the man's face. "Lose the knickers," he says, not smiling this time.
Here we go, Francesca thinks, and starts to remove her underwear. Somewhere in the pit of stomach, a spark has been lit.
Once naked, she waits for the next instruction.
"Lie down," Rob says, "and open your legs a little bit. I want to get just a glimpse of your cunt."
The crude words send an electric current through her body. There's something deeply arousing in that moment when normal, polite social etiquette drops away to reveal something darker, more powerful, more erotic underneath. They both know why she's here and that's it's not for cake and tea. The first moment when that's openly acknowledged is maddeningly exciting to Francesca. When finally the mask slips, when what's about to happen is said out loud and allowed to escape, to fill the air in the room with an electric charge of anticipation -- that's her favourite moment of these encounters.
This is why she loves taking on the tasks her Master sets for her. He knows exactly the kind of man to send her to, a man who knows how to strip layer after layer of civilised veneer from her until she's just a primal female, a bitch on heat, desperate to be fucked and open to degradation of any kind. Nothing in this world is more exciting to Francesca than her own transformation from the elegant, beautiful, professional woman she is in real life, into a wanton whore covered in sweat and cum of men she's usually never met before, whom her Master had selected and who understand what a woman like her needs.
She does as the photographer has told her.
For a minute or two, he snaps away from different angles. "Do you want to see?" he asks at one point. She nods.
The photographs, even so raw and unedited, are beautiful. The light in them is warm, almost reddish, lending a glow to Francesca's skin and a softness to every line and curve. Her legs, clad in fishnet stockings and gently open to reveal a pink, puffy slit, look elegant and slim. Her pointed toes could almost belong to a ballerina. The photographs are more art than porn. She loves them and tells Rob so.
He looks at her, as if something's just occurred to him. "Yeah," he says. "I told you you'd be a natural. Let me get something. Trust me, you'll love it." When she looks at him quizzically, he adds, "The final result, I mean."
He comes back into the room with an object it takes her a moment or two to recognise as a glass dildo, see-through but decorated with a deep red streak which spirals around it. It's so beautiful it could be a museum exhibit.
"I want you to put this in your cunt," Rob says. "I want to take photographs of you being penetrated with a glass dildo."