The other night I was sitting on the couch, listening to Grace Jones sing "Pull Up to the Bumper" and looking at Naomi Campbell's book of photographs.
"Naomi is child to woman wrapped up in one. Her smile - intoxicating. Her sensitivity - alluring. Her range is infinite, her energy unique. She's my favorite. She gives her all."
Those words by the great photographer Herb Ritts, the pulse of the music and one particular photo got my mind to wanderingβ¦
In that photo Naomi is posed provocatively in heels and black leather short-shorts, topless, but with her right arm crossed over her breasts holding her left shoulder, obscuring her nipples, a look of sultry defiance on her face. The background is an array of multi-colored erotic lingerie - bras and garter-belts - arranged on those wire racks that you sometimes see in stores, the racks attached to the wall. That wall is a deep florid pink, providing vivid contrast to the shiny black of her minimal outfit and the mahogany sheen of her skin.
Oh, my! It was then that my mind really began to wanderβ¦
I began fantasizing Grace as a strict mistress, dressed only in black leather chaps, her shaved, oiled pussy glistening in the candlelight of her dungeon. Naomi walks in like she's sashaying down the runway in Milan or Paris or New York, looking a little haughty but simultaneously a bit nervous - appearing to be out of her element, one might say - dressed in those tiny shorts, a clinging white tube-top and 6-inch black stiletto heels. She moves like a cat, like a black leopardβ¦
She stops, eyeing us expectantly, and we notice that her gaze shifts periodically to the assortment of "toys" and implements hanging on the wall, to the rack, to the stocks.
Grace approaches her aggressively, picking up a riding crop and snapping her wrist with a sharp motion, the ominous w-h-i-r-r echoing in the cavernous surroundings. "You're in my territory, now," she says with a commanding tone, "are you ready to please me?"
"Yes," Naomi responds in a somewhat hesitant little voice.
"Yes, what!" Grace demands, giving Naomi a brisk stroke of the crop across her bottom. "Yes, Mistress, is what I want to hear!"
As the crack of the stroke's report dies away, Naomi - a look of longing mixed with trepidation on her face - answers "Yes! Mistress!" with a firmness that seems to please Grace.
"Are you ready to be dominated, to be controlled, to be a complete slave to our whims?" asks Grace as she rubs the length of the crop teasingly up between Naomi's thighs, exerting pressure on her pussy lips through the leather. At this point, it's obvious that Naomi wears nothing under the tight, tiny shorts; a wisp of hair peeks out, already slightly damp.
"Yes, Mistress," she responds, "I'm ready to do your bidding. Anything you want. Your pleasure is my pleasure."
"That's what I want to hear!"
"Now, take off those shorts, slowly. Tease us, make us want you."
Naomi is getting into it now, understanding that the power works both ways. She is in control although she's now being controlled. There's an element of complete abandon mixed with little-girlish coquetry in her movements as she releases the single button, slowly slides the zipper down, begins to pull the shorts offβ¦
"Stop!"