Author's note: The following story is fantasy. In reality, the importance of consent (enthusiastic radical consent), communications, aftercare, and safety (both physical and mental) in CNC, BDSM, and Roleplay cannot be overstated enough.
Also, this should need to be said but this is a CNC story that gets a little rough so trigger warning. Please take care of yourself.
Also, this is NOT every person's fantasy. Thanks to those of you who make this a safe place to express this without fears of judgment.
As always, please feel free to comment. I love knowing my words can turn people on.
-S. J.
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"What's not to understand Kelly?" I say taking a big sip of my drink "It's just a kink."
"Sorry Sara," she says "I'm not kink shaming but like wow. It just feels extreme. Like we have fought so hard to not be objectified and this just feels like the opposite."
I look at her. She has her big blue eyes in this look of concern. It feels like she feels that I am fragile and broken. The feeling I am getting from my best friend now doesn't feel like a judgment of criticism, more like a judgment of concern. That is almost worse and why I rarely tell anyone, including sexual partners my deepest desires and kinks.
"That's what makes it a kink." I say starting to get frustrated. "It's about me engaging in something that is NOT my reality and it being my choice to do it."
This all started earlier in the week. Kelly is my best friend. We have known eachother since college and decided that we needed some quality time together because it had been a while since we last connected. We decided to get a hotel room in town for a long weekend and reconnect.
Yesterday I checked into the hotel early, showered, and got on my new black sundress, some smoky eyes and looked great. I go down to the lobby and wait. I sneak up behind her and give her a big hug. She shrieks in fear and then glee.
She turns around and says "Damn. Look at you. Got a hot date? Also, ummm feeling cold."
I laugh out loud. "You're my hot date. Also, you know me. Bras don't do a lot of good for me and only serve the purpose of covering my nipples from the pervs looking so I gave up on them."
"Like the radical feminist you are." She says "Some of us can't be so lucky."
"More like a radical pragmatist." I say "Trust me, I would give anything to have half of what you have."
"We can make that trade later." She says laughing. Let me get changed and we will get this weekend started."
We get her stuff up to the large suite we were in. She showers and changes too and then we hit the town. We went to one of my favorite restaurants and caught up with each other. After we bar hopped winding up at a piano bar to truly embrace our most basic selves.
It was there that, with the help of two hurricanes, I opened my big mouth and referenced a kink. The piano player was this tall handsome man. His button up shirt had its sleeves rolled so you could see the strength of his forearms. I was fully swooning when I just casually mentioned "I wouldn't mind him sneaking into my room late at night."
"What?" Kelly asked. I now know because of a volume issue but at the time I thought this was acting for clarification.
"Oh yeah," I continue, "he could sneak in and surprise me by doing whatever he likes to my body. Maybe smack me around or choke me if I resist." For the record, the drinks were very strong and I am a very thin, barely over 5 foot woman whose idea of a wild night is a glass of Pinot Grigio. Normally I would be mortified to admit these thoughts to anyone.
"WHAT?!" She says now out of clarification.
"He could even bring a friend. Maybe they both have fun, maybe the other just helps hold me down." I am just staring into space lost in my own fantasy.
"Good lord Sara" she says with a forced chuckle.
"Oh" I say halfways snapping back "You could join too if you wanted. That would be hot. Or maybe just watch and yell degrading things at me." I give that laugh that is only reserved for people who have consumed too much alcohol. "Can you even imagine. That guy is like going to town on me and spitting on my face and you are all 'take that you slut.'" I just giggle.
"I'm going to get us both some water." she says like the responsible friend I normally am.
Typically that is my role. Keeping the group safe. This is why few suspect my wild side. I have even felt rejection from partners when I let them know my deepest fantasies because they thought of me as the timid, shy, kind girl. I have learned to usually downplay desires. I will introduce ropes and bondage and stuff and I will tell partners things like "I want what you want." But the reality is "I want what you want" is a far cry from "I want you to fuck me like a toy as hard as you can no matter how much I beg."
She and I don't mention this again throughout the night. We sing Sweet Caroline like nothing happened and pass out. It isn't until the next morning, over brunch drinking hair of the dog mimosas that I start to replay the night in horror.
"Hey," I say quietly. Forcing myself to say anything at all. "Sorry if I freaked you out last night. You are my best friend and there is probably something you should know about me." I proceed to explain consensual non-consent and some of my fantasies (Though in far less detail than the night before.) That is where we started. With her not getting it but also not wanting to kink shame.
"Look" I say, trying to stuff back my welling emotions about this. "I am not asking for this to be your kink and I get you aren't trying to kink shame me. But this is hard because most of the people who I have told walk away thinking I am just a big bag of trauma or damaged or that I am contributing to women being mistreated. That is where the shame comes in." I can't hold back a tear as I say this but also can't help but be grateful that this breakfast place is so shitty and there aren't more people to hear as I can't hold back. "I spend so much of my life trying to be powerful and to prove to the world that I am. And I genuinely feel that I am. But sometimes that means I need to cut loose and feel weak. It's just the way my brain codes that is the feeling of getting degraded and used. Like I could go into details but you would find me more disgusting than you already do." I move to get up and say "Sorry, I'll venmo you."
Kelly's hand shoots out and grabs my wrist. "Sara," She says softly. "I don't think differently of you. And I really don't think you need to feel shame. I was really just surprised. I think it is that I have known you for such a long time and this is the first I have heard about it."
I sit back down. Not wanting to look her in the eye. Feeling ashamed but also loved in that way only close friends can make you feel. Kelly continues "I don't share all of your kinks and that's okay. But I do know the feeling of being shunned for them. Do you remember Brad Travers?"
"Yeah, from sophomore year." I say reengaged in the conversation as I wipe my tears.