My name's Astrid. I'm a yoga teacher.
I'm thirty-four years old, and up until a few months ago, I was technically a virgin. This story's about how that ended.
It's also, basically, super-embarrassing and humiliating, but I have to tell it. Trust me. You'll understand why by the end.
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For most of my adolescence and adult life, I've not been that attracted to people. In a sexual way. I mean, I like people, and I have great friends, but I've just never found other people sexy in a way that makes me think Oh yeah, I wanna get down with you.
In college I tried having flings with people, first guys, and then, when that didn't really happen, girls, but we never really got beyond the first kissing when it always became clear that however much I clicked with a person in a friendly way, I just wasn't that into bumping lips and hips with them. That's actually how I made some of my best friends: we tried to get it on and when it didn't work, the mutual embarrassment often made us friends for life.
I don't think I'm super-attractive, anyway. I know that in stories like these, people always want to know what you look like, so here goes:
I'm tall, 5'10", and I wear my hair short, and I'm always exercising so I'm quite muscly, and my speciality in yoga is ashtanga, which is quite athletic, so I'm pretty fit. I played hockey in school and was captain of the team, and I rowed in college. I've got quite a strong jaw and a biggish nose, so I suppose I look sort of masculine. I've been asked a couple of times if I'm a trans woman, which is understandable, really, but I'm not.
Anyway, after a while I went around telling people that I was asexual, because it was just easier.
But I'm not asexual. Nothing against being asexual, but that's not me.
See, the first embarrassing truth is that there is something that I find very sexually arousing indeed.
I first noticed it early on; anyone grabbing and hugging me made me feel very tingly, in an innocent way. And if anyone put their hands over my eyes, it had a similar effect.
When I was an adolescent--well, let's not talk about that, but it just got more intense.
So when I was around 18 or 19 and was in the midst of people who were all seriously exploring their sexuality, I went off and, on my own, did a little experimentation.
And that's how I discovered self-bondage.
So, you see, when people ask me if I'm ace, it's easier to say yes than to say 'Well, I do really enjoy tying myself up and blindfolding myself and masturbating!' That would probably kill the conversation, haha.
So that's the first embarrassing truth: I do get very aroused by being naked and trussed up and blind. I find it very secure, and I go into a place deep inside and I feel totally free, and when I touch myself I can have intense pleasure. I've learned to use a gag on myself, because I can get a bit vocal in my reaction. A neighbour once thumped on my bedroom wall while I was lying on the bed, hogtied and cumming. I was so mortified I couldn't look at anyone on my street for days.
I have to be careful when I do it, because ropemarks can last for a day or so, and because I teach yoga I spend quite a lot of time wearing yoga pants and a tank top, which show a fair bit of skin.
But to be honest, I don't want to do it all the time anyway. It's so intense that it's more like a special treat, a once-a-month thing.
Anyway, that's the background to what happens in my story. Now you know the first secret about me.
Better get on with the second.
... Oh, god, I can't believe what I'm going to tell you.
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So, it was the height of summer, and I was teaching my regular evening class.
Summer always makes me feel more at home in my body. I like to work out and get a good sweat, and I like to see my students relaxing into themselves and becoming more at home with themselves.
On this particular Friday, though, I felt a little unsettled.
My social life hadn't exactly been roaring lately. I've never smoked and I hardly drink, and I hadn't been out much. I felt that there had been a lot of calm, peaceful yin in my life lately, not so much active yang. I was out of balance, and I had felt like it for some time. I'd even been less than 100% patient with my students, which is so unlike me.
It was only when the class was over and I was showering off that I realised what I had been missing.
I hadn't had tying-up time lately.
It had been months since I'd drawn the blind and shut my bedroom door and got my ropes and my hood out.
There was no other explanation: I was horny.
It had something to do with the presence of all those straining bodies in my class. I'm not attracted to my students, thank goodness, or anyone else in particular, but you can't be around lightly-clad people all day long and not start to think about skin and flesh and sweaty bodies.
On this Friday evening, it was my job to close up the studio and make sure everything was locked up and safe.
I got out of the shower, dried off, got dressed and said goodbye to the remaining students and my fellow teachers, then I went around checking everything and making sure it was all okay for the next day.
I heard my boss, Vicky, leaving the building. I was alone.
That's when I felt a sudden wave of arousal. A deep desire to have an orgasm, as soon as possible.
Well, my bike was locked up outside and it was a twenty-minute ride home.
I had a very naughty idea.
I went once around the studio again, just to make sure nobody was there. Then, pretending to myself that I wasn't doing what I was doing, I went to the storage room.
It was full of kit and gear and spare supplies of things. I looked around it, trying not to think too much of what I wanted to do.
I saw it: a roll of gauze bandage. Long since opened and now no longer fully sterile, or I wouldn't have considered wasting it.
I went to the storage room door and opened it and listened. There was no-one.
I shut the door and quickly kicked off my trainers, then I pulled off my t-shirt, eased down my cycling shorts, took off my sports bra and finally slid down my briefs. I left my clothes on the floor and took the bandage and sat on a table.
I quickly tore half a dozen strips and tied my ankles, then my thighs, then balled up one strip and put it in my mouth and gagged myself; then I tied a strip over my eyes, tight enough to keep them shut; and, blind but working by feel, I lashed my elbows to my sides and cautiously lay down on the table, and rolled onto my belly.
The bandages were tight, but I knew that with a strong flex, I could burst them. That was okay. It would do.
Blind and trussed and naked, I thrust my hand into my crotch and touched myself, and moaned.
I started to work away at myself, feeling my body get more aroused, my small boobs pressed flat on the table, my bare arse stuck up behind me, as I got myself closer to orgasm.
It was insane, of course. I was naked and tied up with bandages and masturbating in a storage room at my workplace. But I didn't care. For once, I wasn't being a good girl. I was being horny.
I moaned louder, the gauze in my mouth muffling me. With my eyes shut, I visualised my own body on the table, taut and muscular and naked but for strips of bandage, and I shuddered. My loins were filling up with warmth and promise. I knew I was going to cum.
And then I heard the footsteps.
I froze.