"You're a slut."
Joan was shocked. A Harvard-educated psychiatrist calling her a slut was like Catholic priest telling her god didn't exist. Which Father McMurphy did, but that's another story...
The anger in Dr. Lucas' voice added to her perplexity. Other than an occasional sympathetic smile, Dr. Lucas had never shown any emotion. Never once laughed or raised his voice.
"Admit it!" Dr. Lucas shouted. "You're a slut."
Once she got over the shock, Joan felt the debilitating emotions that were her childhood companions. Fear. Guilt. Shame. Self-hatred.
"I'm waiting," Dr. Lucas growled.
For the first time since beginning her therapy with the highly-esteemed mental health professional, Joan was tongue-tied, struggling to come up with an appropriate response.
"I admit it," Joan said eventually, reluctantly, hopefully. "I am a sex addict."
"Fuck that," Dr. Lucas spat dismissively. "You're a slut."
"I don't understand," Joan protested, dazed and confused by Dr. Lucas' unrelenting character assassination.
Dr. Lucas leaned back in his chair, removed his horn rim glasses, rubbed his nose and shook his head.
"Listen to me," he ordered impatiently. "If it wasn't for the court order, if I didn't owe your lawyer a favor, you wouldn't be sitting here. OK fine. Here you are. But like everything else, there's a limit. There has to be a limit."
"I appreciate everything you've done for me," Joan said apologetically.
Joan's gratitude had the opposite of its intended effect. Dr. Lucas' enraged face reddened. His eyes narrowed contemptuously.
"You know what I've done for you?" Dr. Lucas demanded. "Nothing. All I've done is listen to pathetic excuses for your endless 'relapses.' Your slutty behavior."
Dr. Lucas held up his tablet.
"You know what I call this?" he asked rhetorically. "The diary of a cock hungry slut."
Dr. Lucas' malicious mocking sent Joan spiraling into a deep dark hole, leaving her dignity in shreds.
"Let's see..." Dr. Lucas said, rifling through his notes. "Remember that guy at Whole Foods? The blowjob that ruined your dress? You should do. It was last Thursday."
Joan wanted to run. Hide. Disappear. She couldn't. She was paralyzed, frozen like a deer caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.
Dr. Lucas tossed his glasses onto the desk behind him, then turned back to face his patient.
"What kind of sick, sad, desperate, depraved woman picks-up a man in a grocery store and sucks him off in the parking lot?"
"I'm trying to be good," Joan pleaded, her brown eyes welling-up with tears.
"Oh I'm sure you're good," Dr. Lucas agreed with a smirk. "Good at sucking cock."
Joan couldn't help but smile. Some part her was proud of her blowjobs. The always-appreciated way she used her fingers, hands, tongue, mouth and throat to empty a man's balls of its precious bodily fluid.
"Say it Joan," Dr. Lucas insisted angrily, leaning forward in his chair. "Say 'I'm a cock-sucking slut.'"
"I'm a good girl," Joan said plaintively, tears cascading down her cheeks.
They were the same words Joan whispered to her father before he punished her for mouthing off. For disobeying him. For dressing like a slut. For "sleeping around." For thinking about sleeping around.
"A good girl?" Dr. Lucas repeated derisively. "You'd do anything to feel a hard cock sliding down your throat, pounding your pussy or ramming your ass. Wouldn't you?"
Joan grabbed a tissue and dabbed her eyes and mopped her cheeks, unable to look at her therapist.
"And then there's your cum addiction."
"Oh god," Joan gasped, clutching the sodden tissue.
"You love the taste of hot spunk on your tongue don't you? You love playing with it in your mouth. Feeling the cum sliding down your slutty little throat."
Joan felt sad, lonely and lost. At the same time, Dr. Lucas' dirty talk excited her. Moistening her private parts. Making her heart hammer.
"You love it when a man sprays your face with cum. When he pulls out and fires his load onto your stomach. When you feel it oozing out of your freshly-fucked cunt or ass."
"How?" Joan wailed.
"You walk into my office dressed like a fucking slut and wonder how I know?"
"I want to change," Joan said desperately, unable to stop her tears.