With My Master Baytor 04
Coming home after my Thursday meeting with Mentor, my bum was no longer burning, but my whole body ached from the contractions of its muscles as I was flogged. Eight stripes with a strap doesn't sound like much, but the Canadian prison strap is a fearsome instrument when used correctly by someone who means business, as Mentor surely did. Made from smooth leather tanned with oak bark, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, fifteen inches long and three inches wide, attached to a twelve inch wooden handle, that strap was designed to make hardened criminals howl without cutting the skin or risking serious damage - and howl those who received it did, from the very first stroke they received. I don't think Mentor used it on me with
quite
the full power of a burly Canadian prison guard, but he did not spare me either. He had made his point. Though I was horny right now, I would think twice before masturbating because I now knew the suffering it would cost me: both the immediate agony of the strokes, and then the discomfort of sitting or moving for hours and days afterwards.
I stripped off and looked myself over in the full length mirror mounted on the inside door of my bedroom closet. About 5' 10" tall, beardless, but with a full head of chestnut hair, well built, but not built-up, I was quite a good looking young man, if you ignored my swollen red bum and the cage that covered my cock. With these additions, I looked more submissive than I knew myself to be. True that when not auto-sexual, I was a serviceable, bi- male slut, ready to give and take pleasure from good looking people of any gender. True that I enjoyed mild, or even medium, corporal punishment - the delicious pain and shame of going naked over a friendly lap for a good spanking with a leather-soled slipper or hairbrush.
It was true as well that I had eagerly answered Mentor's ad, followed his instructions, gone to Peter's toy store and bought the cage. I really had been getting bored with the constant wanking, was ready to trade some quantity for quality in my sex life. I really was interested in meeting friends and playmates for more interesting and challenging games. But I knew that I was not a genuine submissive. I had no appetite for serious pain, and no interest at all in putting aside my own desires or wishes to serve and worship another. I could play D/s games and sometimes enjoyed doing so, but the 24/7 lifestyle was not for me.
By temperament, I was an opportunist - an experienced student, skilled at getting A's from his teachers, and walking off with what they had to teach. I could recognize Mentor as a man who knew much more about sex than I did, and who therefore had something to teach me. I knew well how to treat such people with the respect they wanted - and generally, to behave in such a way that they would see me not just as another student in the classroom, but as a real
pupil
, the one they'd see as a worthy successor, and go out of their way to really teach. But in such teacher-pupil relationships, I always had my own agenda. If they knew what they wanted to get across, I knew what I wanted to take from them and, in the end, I went my own way - not theirs.
This is why, pushing 30, I was still working as a 'consultant,' really just a hired hand called in as needed to work on contract. I had a good 'track record,' a good reputation, but had not really attached myself anywhere and didn't want to. Nor was I being courted, either by employers or by sex partners, to settle down and be at home with them. Those who had tried had found that what they really wanted was something I would not give them. They wanted commitment; they wanted
me
. They wanted what my grandparent's generation would have called my 'soul.'
The week passed without much incident. I worked on my project. I ate mostly frozen dinners, though I did go to restaurants twice - both times with a book for company. I took the cage off twice, pleasured myself for 14 minutes the first time (on the Saturday evening) and then for 19 minutes (on Tuesday afternoon), then replaced the cage immediately each time. I'd decided that four stripes with that strap were worth enduring to avoid being tense all week. When I showed up at Mentor's home on the Thursday afternoon, I was feeling happy and not a little proud of my self-control.
Opening the door to me, he shook my hand warmly as was his custom and asked, "Hi Daniel. How are you doing?"
"Very well, sir," I answered him. "I did myself only twice this week. I'm feeling pleased with myself."
"Very good," he told me. "Flogging isn't hanging, but it too can concentrate the mind."
"That sounds like you're quoting someone. Or misquoting, I should say."
"It's a line that Boswell attributed to Samuel Johnson: 'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' Clearly, this was the case with you. The prospect of the strap concentrated your will power."
I laughed, "That it did, sir. But it also got me to do some thinking. I think I now have a better idea of what I'm doing here, what I want from you, and what I am willing to sacrifice for it - what efforts I'm willing (and able) to make."
"Fine," Mentor said. "We'll talk about it. Go prepare yourself like last time, and I'll be with you in a few minutes."
I entered his big living room, went to the corner, stripped, and took off the cock cage, feeling really free for the first time in a week. I'd had the cage off twice before that week, but felt pressured both times to finish quickly and put it on again.
Now kneeling naked on the little rug, in front of his winged armchair - his throne, as it felt to me - I centred my mind, relaxed my breathing and silently rehearsed what I wanted to say to him. In a moment he entered the room, took his place in the armchair, held out a hand and looked at me expectantly with an eyebrow raised. Understanding what he wanted, I passed him the chip from my cage ring. He read it, saw that it agreed with what I'd told him, and nodded his head, still saying nothing. Handing it back to me to reinsert in its slot, he paused for a moment, then made a gesture inviting me to start. "We'll mostly talk today," he said. "You go first. Tell me what's on your mind."
I began by describing the thoughts and feelings that I've already mentioned: that I was ready to trade some quantity for quality in my sex life; that I was interested in meeting new friends and playmates for more interesting and challenging sex-games; that I was an exhibitionist who also liked mild-to-medium corporal punishment but that I had no interest in taking serious pain; and finally, that I needed a clear mind to do my work and could not afford to be either so horny or so physically sore that I couldn't think straight or sit at my laptop and write.
I ended by saying, "Look, sir, I respect you a lot. I know I can learn a lot from you. For two wanks each week (which I can live with), I'll take four of those stripes. I'll even learn to take them free, over your pony, but without restraints. But eight with that prison strap was too much for me. I was sore afterwards for half the week. And I can't be too horny to do my work. If you can't meet me half way on this, I'll have to quit."
Mentor chuckled. "I can meet you half way," he said, "and even a little better. You won't have to quit. Instead of floggings with the prison strap, I'll sometimes give you spankings over my lap. Not usually as punishment, but as a bonding exercise for both of us. You'll feel good about taking them, and they will leave you after, not with an aching body, but with a pleasantly glowing bottom. You'll ride that pony under my strap only if I have to punish you for lying to me, or doing something else that you knew was wrong."
"As I've told you a few times already, I have nothing against masturbation, and there's no need for you to quit entirely. But you
do
need to break your addiction to it - get it under control to have libido and juice for anything else. If you can keep it down to twice a week, there will be no reason to punish you. Start doing more than that, and you'll be renewing your acquaintance with my strap."
"There was another reason I was harsh with you. I also needed to get you thinking about what you want from me, and where you want us to go. It sounds like you already have done some serious thinking, and much sooner than I expected. You've mentioned wanting new playmates, challenging sex games, exhibitionism and pleasurable CP, but as a meaningful hobby not a lifestyle. I can help you with all of that - and I will, starting right now. Fair enough?"
"Yes, sir. I'm very glad to find you so reasonable, and I promise not to take advantage of that, but accept that you will push my limits sometimes. I'm delighted that I can learn from you."
"May I ask, just how do you intend to work with me? What should I expect?"
"Well, that's what I'd like to talk about today. Let's start with your masturbation habits. I think you already told me that you usually do it lying in your bed, but that you also like to it kneeling or standing in front of a mirror. Is that correct?
"Yes, sir."
"Why the mirror? What does that add for you?"
"That's my exhibitionist streak, I guess, sir. I also love for other people to watch me doing it. It was a turn on when you watched me masturbate. It was a turn on when Peter watched me after spanking me, at his store, the day I bought the chastity cage."
"But 'exhibitionist' is just a word, Dan. Don't just call yourself names. What does it feel like when people watch you wanking, or when you watch yourself? What does it mean to you? Can you explain that?"
"When someone watches me, and maybe edges me or directs me in other ways, it feels humiliating in a delicious way. Also, I love that they can see what a slut I am. On most occasions and in front of most people, I know I'm playing a role, sir - pretending to be proper and 'normal.' It just feels great to show who I really am."
"Wanking in a mirror is the same, sir. I get to show myself."
"You've mentioned that you have several 'friends with benefits.' Do they watch you?"
"Oh, yes sir. And sometimes they have me watch them! One of my friends is a woman - she's older than me, in her late forties now - who never let's me fuck her, or wants to fuck me. She always has me eat her, and then masturbate for her. Sometimes she makes me masturbate first; then she ties my hands behind my back, so I can't use them while I'm licking her. She says that that way, she can think of me as her slave, being forced to service her without taking pleasure from doing so."
"With yourself or with your friends, what else have you tried, or would like to try? I'll give you some suggestions later, or at our next session, but first I'd like to hear what you've already done or thought about. And how you think of your own sexual proclivities."