World-famous cook book author, celebrity chef and media personality Paula Deen sat in the office of her psychiatrist, Dr. Roselyn Angelique, and fidgeted slightly in the comfortable couch on which she sat. Things weren't going well for the Queen of Southern Cooking. Ever since that lawsuit by a Black female ex-manager of one of her restaurants hit the national news circuit, Paula Deen's once clean-cut image had been severely tarnished. For starters, all of America now knew about some unsavory words that come out of her mouth every now and then to describe certain segments of society. That she admitted so in a court of law didn't do much for her image. Already Twitter was ablaze with people who got fed up with her. The Food Network was considering giving her television show the axe if she didn't make the mess go away.
Looking at her three-hundred-dollar-per-hour shrink, Paula Deen pursed her lips. I've got a confession to make, the round-faced mature southern belle said. The shrink looked at her with that carefully blank expression that so many professionals in the field of psychiatry adopted when dealing with difficult cases. I've been having those dreams again, Paula Deen said. The shrink looked at her and raised a slender eyebrow. The same ones I told you about last time, the southern matron conceded. With a pleading look in her blue eyes, she begged the shrink to make her forbidden fantasies go away. It is beyond my power, the shrink said gently, you must figure it out yourself.
Paula Deen closed her eyes hard. Indeed, things were not going well for her personally and professionally. She'd been so busy with work and traveling and that damn lawsuit that her relationships with family and those friends who hadn't deserted her were suffering. And it didn't help that night after night she was having forbidden dreams about...men. African-American men, to be exact. Try as she might she couldn't banish those erotic dreams and forbidden fantasies from her mind. Every time she saw a tall, well-built Black man she got...hot. Just like she did in the wickedly sexy and deeply sexual dream she had last night.