(Thank you Arthur Schnitzler and Stanley Kubrick!)
Monika, an attractive, ambitious 23-year-old woman from Kansas City, came to Los Angeles to hopefully break into modeling and the movies. She found a job as a waitress in an upscale bistro and was eventually hooked up with an agent. After a time her agent mentioned an exclusive "Butterfly Club" in Hollywood, known only to the inner circle of Tinseltown's richest producers, directors and film executives. It was not exactly a nightclub or bar, but a network of wealthy swingers who periodically met at various mansions for sex parties. The agent gave her an invitation to one of these gatherings, saying it would be attended by people who could help her with her acting career. The invitation had a butterfly logo on the front. Inside were a telephone number and a PIN code to RSVP. At the bottom of the invitation were the words "Strictly Confidential." Monika thought this all very exotic, very "inside." She called the number, punched in the PIN, and was given an address, along with a date, time, and PIN for the entry gate.
Monika arrived at the hush-hush party around 11:00 p.m., along with dozens of couples and a number of single, attractive young women like herself. She was met at the gate by uniformed servants, who verified her invitation. Inside the ornate grille-work gate and high walls was a lavish estate, with lighted gardens, large palms, pools, fragrant plants, and manicured lawns. The house itself was more like a major metropolitan museum than a home. The floors were of polished marble. Large, old-master art works covered the walls, in some places two and three rows high. There were suits of armor in lighted alcoves, and antique statuary, most of it of Roman and Egyptian provenance, standing on tables and pedestals and inside illuminated display cases. Monika had no idea that private people lived in such splendor. She wandered through the crowd of beautiful people, most of them of middle age and older, looking for her agent or another familiar face. A waiter in black tie offered her a drink, which soon caused her body to hum with warmth and sensual excitement. She struck up a few casual conversations with other young women, and several attractive older couples introduced themselves and welcomed her. She thought she recognized a few movie stars among the guests, but was not certain.
She was chatting with an intelligent, professional-looking man and his young, attractive companion when there was a subdued commotion at one end of the large drawing room.
The other guests, who up to this point had been talking and laughing, grew quiet. An isle gradually appeared in front of her, as people backed up to make a pathway from one end of the room to the other. Following the eyes of those around her, Monika saw two older women in robes leading a naked light-colored black man through the crowd. The slow way the man was being led gave their progress the quality of a religious procession. The man seemed blind or drugged. His eyes stared blankly into space, or were perhaps focused on something inside himself. Rippling murmurs of astonishment and admiration spread through the room.
When the three reached her, Monika realized that the black man was just a youth, perhaps in his early twenties, and not much over 5 feet tall. The only big thing about him was his oversized sexual organs. His penis, given his short stature, appeared enormous, its purple-colored head swinging slowly back and forth at the level of his kneecaps. His large balls rolled in a relaxed sack half way down his thighs. Monika was stunned, even awe struck, and like others around her gave an involuntary gasp of surprise when she saw him. When he passed her, she noticed the two women attending him were chanting in a strange languageโmaybe ancient Greek or Hebrew. She thought she heard the word "Lana"โor was it "Mana" or "Anna"?
After they passed, Monika followed along behind them, a strange, electric agitation running through her body. She felt as if she had been hypnotized or drugged, and was intensely excited. There was the smell of incense in the air.
Ahead of them, at the end of the room, was a raised couch upon which a slender young woman, about Monica's own age, was lying naked, her head and shoulders resting upon cushions. The girl's thighs were spread wide, revealing a plump, shaven pubis and swollen labia. She, too, was attended by two middle-aged women, except these were full-bodied and completely unclothed, with large, pendulous breasts, wide hips, and thickly-haired pubic mounds. There was a tender, almost loving quality in the way the two women stroked the girl's hair, stomach and thighs, and whispered in her ears. Now and then one of them ran her fingers over the girl's pudenda, as if both to comfort her and tease out her inner lips, which, from the way they glistened, had either been well oiled or were flowing with the nectar of anticipation. They seemed to be whispering endearments and encouragement, telling her to be brave, to relax and be calm, and of the glorious pleasures that were about to come to her. As they murmured such words, they lightly kissed her forehead and lips.
A large half-circle had gradually formed around the couch where the girl was waiting. When the black youth finally stood before her, there was an electric silence of expectation in the room. The only sounds were the strange chants and whispers of the attendants.
At this point, a tall, impeccably-dressed older man with a mane of silver-gray hair stepped into the circle. In a sonorous voice that sent shivers up Monika's spine, he said, "After many tests and trials, we have invited these two beautiful young people to be initiated into our high company. From this day forward, they will be known to us by new names, and when they are called by these names, they will deny us nothing, but give all and everything."
Turning to the young woman on the sofa, he continued. "Rebecca, because of your beauty, your sensuality, and your loyalty, you have been chosen to experience the divine ecstasy of carnal love. On the shaft of this man's wonderful organ, you will be taken to a secret place within the ordinary world, where you will experience the true nature of spiritual life. There, on waves of rapture, you will meet your god, and receive his burning, life-giving essence in your sacred temple. You will know the bliss of heaven. In the delirium of your orgasms, you will experience eternal life. Henceforth, the urgent, spewing phallus will be your god. You will never refuse its call, and never again know fear or death, but live with immortals."
Turning then to the young man, he said, "Thaddeus, we have chosen you to initiate Rebecca into our sacred company. With your magnificent penis, you will open the way to Paradise for her, and lead her into the eternal world. With the head of your rigid phallus, pound the doors of her most holy places until they open to you and receive your burning seed! Ravish her sacred parts until she no longer knows her name! Plunder her old and childish shrines, lay them waste, and shape them anew in your image! Her womb will henceforth be the temple in which she receives the living god. Build for her the new temple! Give this beautiful young woman her new name!"
While the man was speaking, the two women attending the young black man let their robes slide off their shoulders and onto the floor. They were thin and lovely. Naked, they seemed to glow in the diffuse light of the room. Monika noticed that all four of the female attendants had butterfly tattoos on their lower abdomens, just above their triangles of pubic hair.