The next day was one of the most unhinged, disconnected days I'd ever had.
When I woke to the sound of my alarm, I just wanted to curl in my blanket with a peaceful smile on my face. But as I forced myself out of bed and into the shower, I realized how ripe I was, then remembered why. That's when I got weirded out.
I had been with a few boyfriends. And we had played around - watched some porn, tried some kinky things and generally did some experimentation. But I had never been drawn to the submissive role. I had always preferred mutual play. If it got BDSM-ish, I generally took the Top role. I am a strong woman, physically, mentally, and emotionally. I like charting my own course and solving my own problems, not being someone's object.
But, last night... Last night I would have dropped to my knees in a moment if Mark had come back. In fact, I had, while just fantasizing about it. What was this? How did I become a stupid, slut - a ditsy toy for some random guy to fuck whenever he wanted?
And, it was Mark. Sure, I'd been crushed out on him before. And he was cute and everything. But he was more like a brother to me than a lover. We had never even hinted at anything between us except friendship.
What the hell was I doing? What the hell happened to me? And why the hell was I still so horny thinking about the way he effortlessly took control of me?
By the time I was out of the shower, and staring to get dressed, I knew it was a bad idea for me to go to work. I would be distracted, flushed, humiliated, and dripping with arousal all day. So I logged into my laptop and told my colleagues that I had to work from home today, since the apartment maintenance staff was coming over. Of course, it was a lie. But I just didn't want to face other people, even though they had no way of knowing that I was clasping my hands under the table and pretending I couldn't separate them.
I tried to concentrate on work; I really did. I also failed miserably.
By mid-day, I was searching the internet hoping to find some information on why hypnosis gave me such an arousal response, hoping I could find an article or two on this. My hope was way too small. I found communities inside of communities talking about various aspects of erotic hypnosis. I found videos, audios, chat bots, discords, forums - basically an entire world of hypno-kink people I never knew existed.
At the bottom of it was the common theme of erotic submission. This surprised me - not that it was there, but that it might be the key to my arousal. I did not consider myself submissive or suggestible.
When a bunch of girlfriends go out to drink wine and eat seafood, we talk. We talk about guys, sex, periods, lesbians, and everything else. I can tell you which previous boyfriends of my friends were good lovers or bad, which ones were well hung, which ones were a little rough. And I can tell you which girls liked each. A surprising number of women were willing to admit that they had submissive fantasies. When some movie showed a sexy scene of a girl being tied up, I can tell you which of my friends wanted to act it out. And which did.
And on some level, I get that. There is a certain attractiveness about a strong, confident man taking charge. There is something to be said for trusting someone so much you want to let him make the decisions. For some of my friends, this was the recurring fantasy they had at night when they pleasured themselves before falling asleep.
But not me. For me, it was always Prince Charming. Or the friend-turned-lover. Or the nice guy at the gym. Or even a stranger at a bar. But it was always a shared experience.
Generally, my lovers were like this too. It wasn't boring, exactly; but it wasn't kinky. I'd been tied up with scarves a couple times, but not so that I wasn't able to escape if I really wanted to. And I tied up a couple of my dates the same way. But it wasn't my thing.
And then.
Then my whole world collapsed.
I started to realize that my love life had always been good, but never great. As I read some of the stories and posts, and watched a couple of the videos, it occurred to me that maybe I'd been lying to myself. Maybe what I had always chose the route that made me feel safe and took the least effort. And maybe, this is why my orgasms had never been memorable, while the one last night was so intense.