I sat in the car waiting. The long row of motel room door stretched to my left and right. I waited for my cell to ring and my husband's voice to tell me which room. He had gone ahead to check out the room meet the guy and see that it was safe. I shivered a little anticipating the rush through the piled up snow either side of the icy concrete paths dressed, as I was, in only a short black skirt, stockings, heels and a tight black stretch top. I hardly ever smoked but tonight I did hoping to quiet my hammering heart. It wasn't the hammering heart of excitement. No not that. It was partly fear and partly anger. My husband, Paul, forced me into this. Yes, I can say it, forced me. Not physically but the cost of not going along with his schemes and plans was too great. Don't get me wrong I love him, but that's the problem; the cost of love for me was this, meeting strangers in motels and having sex with them while Paul photographed and filmed.
It wasn't always like this. It started out as fun, sharing fantasies in bed. Then we started chatting to guys on the net eventually Paul persuaded me to have phone sex with a guy while he watched. I confess I too found this exciting; being watched doing something "forbidden" with a stranger. Soon he was taking photographs of me, posing me like a porno model. I realized though that he wasn't concerned with me anymore but with the men who he sent the pictures to; it was their satisfaction that he wanted not mine. Then we agreed to meet someone at a local porn video shop. I jerked him off in the back of our minivan and I could see from the look in Paul's eyes that this was drug more powerful than anything I could provide. If I wanted him and our life together I would have to submit to this overwhelming desire of his.
I knocked on the door of the motel room and Paul let me in. It was a mid-range motel room with the usual furniture – king-size bed, TV, small table and chairs with the bathroom tucked away at the back. Paul had set up his tripod for filming and the table was covered with his camera equipment. The TV was already tuned to the motel porn channel and Paul had poured generous portions of whisky into to the motel water glasses. The guy – his name was Bob – stood nervously beside the bed. He was not my type at all; he had a large belly, a moustache, and from the moment he opened his mouth I could tell he had never gone to college. It gave Paul an extra thrill to choose men who I found unattractive, not because he feared I would like them and want to form a relationship with them, but because it made my submission all the more complete. "Whores don't choose," he said to me.
Bob had already seen many digitals of me and I could feel his eyes travel quickly over my body comparing the photos with the reality. I was a 5.6 brunette, 39 years old, weighing 123 lbs. I spent money on my hair which was cut quite short with subtle blond highlights and I regularly went to the gym to keep my shape. I looked down at the carpet, the thick glass of whisky trembling in my hands. I knew Paul would be angry with me. He wanted me to flirt and play but I felt like lead had replaced my blood, heavy and cold. I downed the whisky, feeling it first sting and then heat the back of my throat.
"Hi, I'm Monique," I said, extending my hand.
Bob stepped forward, wiping his hand against his pants first before awkwardly grasping my hand in his. I could smell alcohol on his breath. The sound of the porno on the TV filled the room.
"Tell Bob the last time you masturbated," Paul said. I shot him a warning look but he already had that fierceness in his eyes. "Go on tell him," he demanded.
Paul knew the answer to the question. He had asked me in the car in playful way on the way to the motel. In that moment of closeness I had told him the truth.
"You fucked yourself this morning didn't you?"
"Yes," I replied, quietly.
"With what? Tell him with what."
"Please, Paul, no."
"Tell him," he said.
"No," I whispered.
"She fucks herself with the handle of her hairbrush. Says she prefers it to the dildo I bought her."
I saw Bob smile, sharing with Paul the pleasure of my humiliation.