Jeanette left Christian in 1977 and he lost contact with her completely. For two years, he languished in a self-made maze of desire for the lost Jeanette, the yearning to hold onto any well-corseted woman, and the emergence of an even greater interest in tight lacing in an abstract as well as erotic sense.
Then he met Clare, a scientific officer with the civil service. She was 30 when they met and he was nearly 34. Clare was medium height, about 5ft 5in, and medium build. She weighed about 122 lb. The belt she wore over her dress first attracted Christian to her. It was about three inches broad and pulled very tight through the buckle. He didn't think she was wearing anything controlling underneath but her figure looked really shapely anyway. They met at a civil service training weekend and it turned out that they lived only a few miles apart: less than half an hour's driving. They started seeing each other and within a month they were lovers. Clare was very passionate and, to be honest, she had more sexual stamina than he had.
Quite soon after they started making love, Christian mentioned figure modification to her and Clare told that she had worn a tight belt ever since she was schoolgirl because she liked the pressure on her lower body. He learned very soon that she orgasmed most easily when the belt was at its tightest. Her tummy stuck out below it, and her skin became marked but she liked it and Christian encouraged her. He devised a way of tightening the belt even more than she could by hand, so that her natural waist could be reduced by eight inches. When fully tightened in this way, her waist measured just 20 inches over the belt. Clare was gasping for breath on many occasions, especially after orgasm, but she asked for it repeatedly and more frequently. He found it easy to suggest to her his desire for "hard lacing" and she agreed.
He sent off to Gardners of London for a corset to reduce her waist by 6 inches initially, which was more than anyone recommended but she did seem to like the tightness very much indeed. He got her a style called "Jean." It was long, onto her thighs, and about three inches above her waist. It was made in a black cotton fabric with white edging and a white lace. When it was eventually fully laced, Clare's waist was 20 inches round. But they did not achieve that straight away.
By the time the corset arrived, Clare and Christian had got to know each other very well physically. They met every evening and three or four times each week and one of them would stay overnight in the other's flat. The corset came one day when they were both out at work and it was waiting for them.
Clare got home first and opened it since it was addressed to her. Then she laid it out on the bed and got undressed. When Christian got home, she was drying herself after a shower. He saw the corset on the bed and had such a surge of forgotten longings for the tight-laced lovemaking. He also undressed and jumped in the shower so that, when he returned to the bedroom, she was dry and trying on the corset. He made her take it off and put on a thin silk blouse. Clare didn't know then why he was suggesting that, but later she realised. Then he wrapped the corset about her and started to fasten the laces as Jeanette had liked β from the top to the waist and then from the bottom upwards. It worked as well as Christian remembered and gradually she changed shape.
They stopped at about 23 inches and she stood there in front of the mirror, feeling herself and running her hands up and down her waist and hips. She was in a daze with excitement and anticipation. A few minutes later, they were making love and he sucked on her and played with her using his tongue and teeth. Clare came with a huge orgasm and Christian noticed that she held her waist firmly in her own hands as her excitement built up. She exploded into a climax and gripped his head with her thighs. Then she reached down and pulled Christian up to lie on her and to enter her. She was wet and hot and yielding. He gave her more loving that evening than he had ever done. She knew the reason and so did he, but neither of them mentioned it at the time.