Katie was obviously horrified by what had happened with Terri. With great disappointment, I realized there was not going to be a series of women who Katie was going to allow me to make love to. I tried not to show her how that frustrated me, but the experience had really gotten my fantasies in gear. Now I really wanted more, and I didn't know how to ask Katie without hurting her feelings.
It's not that the basic physical experience of sex with Katie wasn't beyond anything I had ever experienced. In fact, Katie had no restrictions on fantasies we could share with each other. After a brief period of verifying each other's limits, we had gone on to fantasies of bondage, domination/submission, and even rape. She was clearly not interested in moving beyond the fantasy stage, but the mind games definitely spiced up our love life.
To find new ideas for our fantasies, I got into some of the porn sites on the Internet. It was incredible to find that the fantasies I conceived myself were tame compared with what I found online. I joined some of the rather extreme Personals listings and corresponded with other people who were into some pretty rough stuff.
I found what I really enjoyed was adopting different personalities and becoming someone else entirely online. Over time, I presented myself as a man or even as a woman, and I pretended to be different ages, sometimes as young as 18. I think I was quite talented at getting others online really excited, imagining that I was there solely for their pleasure.
I also began to enjoy my experiences as both a dominant and as a submissive personality. It was great fun to find someone online who wanted to be told what to do sexually and to pretend to abuse them, actually giving them exactly what they wanted.
What surprised me though, and distressed me at least a bit, was how much I enjoyed playing the submissive to my online contacts. Whether I was writing to a man or a woman, it was intensely exciting to submit myself to their desires. In writing, online, I did things I would never have imagined doing for real. I couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with me, if maybe I actually wanted to do some of those things.
I took comfort in the fact that the online experiences were satisfying and seemed to be sufficient. I did, however, enjoy going to the adult bookstores once in a while, realizing that there might be strange and wicked things going on in some of the film booths. Once or twice, I had seen two men go into the same booth. I was always careful not to speak to anyone, but I did have some great orgasms in the booths as I watched the films and imagined what might be happening in the next cubicle.
It's stunning to realize how such a huge change in my life started with what seemed like such a small fantasy. One day, while reading about such adult bookstores in a man's magazine, I read about something called "glory holes." Apparently, in some of the really seedy places, men carve out holes in the thin walls between the cubicles. That way, totally anonymous oral sex can take place. The idea was fascinating. I thought about it often.
The magazine had a reference to an adult bookstore in the area that I'd never visited. It was in a neighborhood I wouldn't normally enter, but the thought that it might offer the chance to see some of the things I'd read about was too much to resist. Late one evening when Katie was out of town, I drove over to investigate.
It was as ugly a place as I had imagined. As I walked through the magazine and video section, I felt like I really didn't even want to touch anything. I kept eying the open passageway to the cubicles in the back and saw a number of men enter and leave. They didn't look too dangerous, so I finally got my courage up and walked back to the back of the store.