People are complicated, and everybody's different, but over time some patterns emerge. Generally, as I get to know another person, if I'm in an intimate relationship with them, over time I increasingly figure out things they like and don't like, what turns them on and what turns them off.
But then there is a very small subset. People with whom it's difficult to figure out what they want, because what they want is whatever I want. People who derive great pleasure from me doing whatever I want to do with them.
Over many years of spending time with K, who very much orients this way, I have learned so much more about the phenomenon, at least with her.
I don't know how universal this is, even among the sub subset. With K, it's not just that she is deeply aroused by the idea, or the reality, that I'm free to do whatever I want with her, or to tell her to do whatever I want her to do. She relishes my commands, yes -- but it goes so much deeper with K.
With her, the power exchange seems to be metabolic. She's not just aroused by serving me, or by engaging in activities that I want her to engage in. For her, what I desire actually becomes what she desires.
If what we call in fetish circles "power exchange" is on a spectrum, maybe K is all the way on one end of it. A level of submission that leads to a sort of bodily transformation: once she viscerally understood what aroused me, this became exactly what aroused her, too.
It's a truly head-spinning level of influence to have over someone, and it only gets more that way the more I look into it -- and experience it. Specifically, what tends to spin my head are the inherent contradictions involved here.
I don't know how it is with other folks, but with K, what she desires is not just to do what I say, but to be who I want. It's not a cerebral thing, it's deeply physical: she is aroused by what arouses me, viscerally.
And one of the things that arouses me most is her unresolved arousal.
I'll illustrate, taking a typical morning from the last stretch of time we had together.
"You can eat me," was the first thing I said.
I learned a long time ago not to ask if she would eat me, because in our context this could come off as a bit insulting, as if I'm questioning her basic nature. I'm not a stranger. I know what she wants to do, and certainly eating me is one of those things, always.
"Thank you," was her predictable, and completely heartfelt, response, as she quickly got down to it, after briefly touching the head of my penis to her forehead first, a sort of devotional practice.
Physiologically what was happening as soon as I said "you can eat me" was K's pussy was becoming lubricated. Within about a minute of performing actual fellatio, K was dripping wet.
To reach the source of that river, we'd have to look at several tributaries. K is aroused by pleasing me, this is one thing. She is also aroused by what we might call the complete inequality of the situation here. As usual, I'm not eating her. She's eating me, and she is being neglected. This denial is also arousing, for both of us.
At some point I pull her around, so she's laying on her back. She's beautiful, it's good to see her body in daylight. She spreads her legs, with me between them.
"Don't let me cum this time," she pleads.
Just the phrasing of this statement says so much about the inherent contradictions here for K.
What K wants, viscerally, is what arouses me, which is for her to be in a state of arousal. Which is sort of like a feedback loop that never reaches a conclusion of any kind. But for both of us, it is the desired state for K to be in -- aroused, tense, wet, on the edge.
Eating me has gotten her there already, and once I enter her and push all the way in, that's enough.
"Stop," she whispers in a shouting kind of way.