Editor's note: this story contains scenes of non-consensual or reluctant sex.
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The series
"What Women Want; What Women Need"
is
reportage,
not fiction. It involves more than a dozen persons and spans several decades. This Installment
Part 04
deals with three individuals, two of whom were in an earlier installment.
Caroline
was introduced in the last Installment. Two years have passed. She is now 32, and remains on the staff of the University of Michigan Law School. She was the youngest professor ever hired by the top-ranked school. Caroline has been submissive to
Arthur
, six years younger than her, for the past two years. She was not aware that Arthur hypnotized and took control of her mind and her life.
Arthur
, featured in every Installment in this series, is a Dominant. At this point in the narrative he is 24 years old, and has completed two years in a four-year regimen of study at the conclusion of which he expects to receive both medical and law degrees. He controls Caroline sexually and in all other ways. She is thriving under Arthur's tutelage.
Mei-Ling
is an Asian-American, by way of Vancouver, and a great-great-grand-niece of the legendary Soong sisters. Mei-Ling's namesake was the last Empress of China, wife to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang was China's last anti-Communist authoritarian leader. Mei-Ling's two other great-great-grand-aunts were married, respectively, to Sun Yat-sen, considered the father of modern China; and to H.H. Kung, the richest man in Twentieth-Century China. The Mei-Ling featured in this story is an M.D. and Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, where Arthur studies.
Caroline
:
The past two years have been a wonderful, eventful blur. Arthur entered my life at a time when I needed him. Literally overnight he overwhelmed me with the force of his animal magnetism and remarkable intellect. He is the most extraordinary man I have ever met. I worship him.
Under Arthur's guidance, I have blossomed as a woman. I am confident in my sexuality, and revel in the knowledge that I can keep my man satisfied at all times. Professionally, I have flourished as well.
With Arthur's help I developed, presented to the Board of Regents and received approval for a new course entitled "Social Change and the Law." It has proven to be an immensely-popular course offering at the Law School.
Social Change and the Law
is also the title of the West Publishing Company casebook and the Foundation Press hornbook now used by law students so far at 135 law schools throughout the country. Arthur is my co-author, and the royalties have now surpassed a half million dollars.
I still lecture three times a week in the most mind-numbing course in the law school, Real Property, but with the advent of my Social Change course, I now have to teach only two of the five Real Property sections.
Mei-Ling
:
I teach two courses in the medical school. One of these is "Multidisciplinary Pain Medication," an Advanced Clinical Elective. As you might expect from a world-class intellect, my student and friend Arthur is acing the course. What appeals to me most about Arthur is not that he is cerebral but that he has what I would call a hungry intelligence: he wants to know about
everything.
Arthur once told me that his mind works "in background." As I understand it this is a computer term, referring to a processor that can be partitioned to do two or more things at one time. By using this term, Arthur explained, he meant that his mind could work on a problem without his even knowing about it consciously. And then, should the need arise, the solution would pop up instantly. Coming from anyone else, I would regard this boast as so much conceited claptrap. Coming from Arthur I regard it as unquestionably true. And truly remarkable.
Arthur and I have become good friends. We "hang out" to the extent we can given the constraints of two crowded calendars. We are not "an item," of course: he is in a committed relationship. And though I do not currently have a romantic partner, I am fundamentally a Lesbian. Oh, I've had a couple of entanglements with men, but as the Mighty Casey put it, "That ain't my style." Or, to continue with a
Seinfeld
-inspired baseball reference, I play for a different team. But if things were different . . . well let me put it this way, not only is Arthur's mind an incredible turn-on, but also his looks are not exactly repulsive either. Six months ago Arthur had plastic surgery to ameliorate scarring on his forehead from a trauma and the end result appearance-wise, face and physique, is lights-out. I can appreciate this notwithstanding my partiality for a clitoris surrounded by a shapely body.
Notwithstanding the predilection chasm that divides us, Arthur and I discuss sex and relationships and romance frequently. Hell, I would argue that sex is in reality the Great American Pastime.
One Friday afternoon we were alone together in a lab and Arthur was telling me about Caroline, his live-in who teaches at the Law School, and how great she was. They were always on the same wave-length, he told me. If any other student had seduced one of his professors in a day and promptly proceeded to move in with her, I would be startled. But not so with Arthur.
I told him his domestic situation sounded great, and agreed how fortunate it was that he had someone with whom he was very close. "I miss that," I lamented to him. "But, sadly, I'm between girlfriends.
"I'd like to see that," Arthur said.
"I don't get it," I responded. "Like to see what?"
"A sandwich," he explained. "You between two women."
"You have an irredeemably dirty mind," I responded. A pause of Groucho-timed duration, and a pantomimed flick of my imaginary cigar, then: "And I like it."
"I'd offer to help you out with your problem," Arthur indicated. "But you don't go that way, and I could never cheat on Caroline."
"You've never been tempted?" I asked.
Arthur
:
"Well, tempted, sure," I responded, "as long as my testicles produce testosterone that commands me to traverse the world and spread my seed. But I could
never
cheat on Caroline. Never. Two reasons: (a) it wouldn't be ethical; and, (b) it would hurt her."
"Are you certain she has always been true to you?" Mei-Ling asked.
"As sure as I am that the sun rises in the East."
"You're so fortunate," she responded.
"Of course, I could help you out and fill your void so long as it was with Caroline's approval," I offered. "That wouldn't be cheating. But then you'd have to lower your standards." Mei-Ling smiled, but I could see she was actually pondering the matter in her mind.
"Do you think Caroline could actually ever approve?" Mei-Ling inquired.
Mei-Ling
: