When I became a big girl, I realized how many guys wonder how they would act if they were a spy who fell into enemy "hands," to speak, and had their balls given the 3rd degree-and then some-treatment.
I found certain authors of thrillers-I might name Ken Follett and, in particular, Frederick Forsyth-can be relied upon to provide material for a lifetime of uneasy flashbacks and gnawing "what if...?" fantasies. If you are a guy who has read the scene in "The Jackal," with the huge Polish French Legionnaire in the hands of Charles de Gaulle's security force, with the electrodes on either side of his glans penis and on his nipples, his feet in water, and the panel of interrogators handling the switch—and how he holds out for three days before cracking into madness and dying—you can more or less forget about EVER escaping a shuddering fantasy about "manhood."
I did not have insight, as I said, until I was a big girl. Oh, I knew men's balls were internal organs hanging out in the world to be cooled, for the sake of healthy sperm (I was pre-med, for a while) and as sensitive to pain as a kidney or a sinus membrane. Maybe more; I wouldn't know. Even in my late teens, as a senior at the Academy, I was quite the little scientist. I liked to experiment on my boyfriends, just fascinated with their precious sac.
I remember once, early on, lying naked with one guy, he with his eyes closed, ignoring me after he had come. I cocked my middle finger back on my thumb, built up a lot of tension, then released a hard snap on the right nut.
My, what a reaction! Honestly, I had no idea! The poor guy levitated three inches off the ground, shrieked, and jerked his legs up to his chest in classic protection mode. I mean, he was rolling on the bed, face bright red, hands down to nurse himself.
Jeez, I honestly had no idea.
He was so incensed that I said he could do anything he wanted to my skinny body to get even. All he gasped was "Nothing...There is nothing like this. Nothing..." He finally agreed to twist my too-long, very dark, slightly freakish nipples almost off. I squeaked because it hurt, but nothing like when I zapped his balls. After that, at regular intervals, when he had a raging hard-on, he would ask me to squeeze his balls. I like holding his manhood in one hand.
Well, big girl, now. And I have written about my friend Wally, who is not quite twice my age, handsome and well-hung, and would like to marry me or be my lover but must settle for buying me drinks Friday evenings at our fancy Maidstone Arms and ogling my low-cut black dresses. Once in a great while, I do it, with Wally. He's very hot and unendingly appreciative. I wrote about the time I performed a nude version of "The Trojan Women" for him, ending up with Helen of Troy recaptured by the Greeks and brought in chains to service Menelaus. I knelt with my arms behind me, my smoldering brown eyes locked on his, rubbing my very stiff nips back and forth across his knees, and sucked him off, swallowing his cum. Next time we met for drinks he gave me a $7,500 diamond bracelet as "a little remembrance." Wally is redundantly rich. Can't imagine why he bothers with ME.
Well, the story begins (if anyone is still reading) at the bar with Wally having his Jack and I the expensive Chardonnay he buys me.
He said: "If there is one fantasy that never goes away, it is about being naked in the hands of the enemy who can do anything to my balls and no matter how I scream, they don't have to stop. I wonder over and over, what do you do when you can't stand it and can't stop it?"
I nodded, sipping my chardonnay. I said, "I read 'Triple,' by Ken Follett, where the Israeli spy gets interrogated by the Egyptians."
"Oh, God! Ellen! What would I do? If they wouldn't stop? I mean, even if I told them everything but they didn't believe me? I mean, just kept zapping my sac? Would I be screaming, weeping, begging?"
I said: "If someone is enough of a monster to do that to you, then the last thing that should bother you is that you scream and plead. Shit, that's what it's all about. The dwarf pricks who get off on this are as irrelevant as fire ants. Just imagine that they are fire ants, but no as bright..."
He was shaking his head. "That isn't the narrative, Ellen. It just isn't. Think James Bond, with his balls hanging down through a slit in the wicker chair and the bad guy slamming them over and over with a rattan—and Bond never tells the secret."
I am very well read, in certain areas. I said, "Wally, do you know that intelligence services train their agents to try every trick to resist for 24 hours, like by confessing a false story that has to be checked? And they figure, after that, no one can hold out, but they have time to alert other agents that they are going to be blown?"
Wally's gaze is fixed on my nice chest skin, revealed by the black dress, and is studying the very modest slopes of my breasts that are exposed. He says: "It isn't about logic. It is about being a man. Not immediately going wee-wee-all-the-way-home. It is about have a big dick and nuts you can be flaunting."
I sip my expensive chardonnay. "You mean, if you had a small penis, you would be mortified, but if you had a big dick, you would hold up your head?"
'Yeah, yeah you always know how to phrase it so it sounds crazy."
"It is crazy."'
"But it would be unbearable if my dick were small. But you know, of course, it isn't..."
"You have a beautiful, big cock, Wally," I say, "and just friggin' forget about the moral midgets of the world and enjoy it."
He is sipping his Jack, he is shaking his handsome head as though in dawning comprehension, his eyes are lifted to mine. "I can't, Ellen. I just can't. That's logic. This is visceral."
By now, the chardonnay is taking control and I am annoyed. "Okay, Wally, okay. I see where this is going. I'll buy an electric zapper. We hang you naked from eyebolts in the rafters and I will zap you till you are blubbering like a baby and have no dignity whatsoever."
And I said, to make my point, "And you will have passed the ONLY important test of your manhood, is that right?"
Wally says, eyes lowered to about the level of my actually quite unremarkable décolletage, nods and says, "That is what I want you to do, Ellen. I know it is squalid and you will think I'm hitting on you, again. I know, I know. But this is what I must experience, and I have no one I could conceivably dare to ask."
"You're saying..."
He nodded. "I've GOT to!"
So...Wally is hanging naked, still clothed, his wrists in cuffs and jacked up toward the rafter. His toes touch the ground, but barely. Get real, at 185 pounds Wally isn't going to able to dangle by his wrists long enough for me even to start. Talk about breaking him!
I leave to get a glass of wine, and, when I return, I look him up and down with cold, gleeful cruelty. I sneer. "Look who we have here, at last, so good to see you like this. I have looked forward to this."