Love's Labour's Not Lost - Sex Magic

(This story is inspired by Salamando_Flames Sex Magic stories that created such a rich concept to enjoy. Particularly the story "The Argument" as I really liked the idea of a loving couple in the sex magic world, trying to adjust and adapt their relationship to the new normal, without so much of the dominatrix theme. I'm looking forward to expanding on this couple in other stories, hope you enjoy.)

Shaun paused in washing up for a second to glance over at his wife, who was sitting reading a book in a chair facing the kitchen. She'd caught his attention unintentionally as she crossed her legs and Shaun felt his eyes drawn to them. He'd always been particularly obsessed with Dani's legs, as her weekly gym routine included cycling and workout classes, resulting in well defined, slightly bulky and toned legs. It being the middle of summer, Dani had also been tanning nicely and was wearing shorts that showed most of her thigh. Shaun traced the bronzed contours of a calf, bulging out against the other leg it was crossed over. His attraction and lust for his wife spiked as he looked over, briefly making him breathless as he contemplated his good fortune.

Dani, of course, sensed it immediately like all sex mages would have at that close distance, ever since the massive change that shocked the world when women developed unusual powers somehow related to sexual attraction. She smiled inwardly, still looking down at her book, as her sense became aware of Shaun's eyes and his growing arousal.

Shaun and Dani were becoming a rarity in the post-sex magic world, being a pre-magic couple who had stayed in love and together by mutual choice. They had been madly in love before, going through a steamy romantic relationship, then getting married and it felt like the honeymoon period had never ended. Their situation must have been helped by the fact that Dani was always quite assertive and direct in the relationship, often wanting to steer them both towards what she wanted or thought necessary - including where that affected Shaun's life in various ways. Not that Shaun was a pushover, he was just happier to go with the flow and was so in love that making her happy made him happy.

Shaun was obviously stronger physically, as had usually been the case in hetero couples since the dawn of time, and that sometimes played out in their bed when Dani felt like being thrown around or manhandled. But after the magic appeared, men's physical strength became almost irrelevant, and so many relationships either couldn't handle the reversal in who had the power in the relationship (a failure of the male psyche) or that great power shift was abused by the woman who tortured their partners in borderline psychotic ways, sometimes even forcibly trapping them in the relationship (a failure of the female psyche).

Couples that stayed together invented their own ways of adjusting to the new power dynamic. One of Dani's favourites was the 'explode?' question, which they'd played so many times that words weren't even necessary anymore.

Instead, Dani simply uncrossed the leg that Shaun was still staring at, to break his focus on her body and cause him to look up at her face. Giving him a coy smile to reassure him that she enjoyed the attention, she raised an eyebrow at him quizzically.

Shaun's pulse raced as he recognised the unspoken question she was asking, and a huge grin broke out as he gave one nod back to her. Instantly his arousal levels spiked as his cock felt like it would burst out of his shorts, a flush of heat ran up his neck and ears, and his vision went blurry like he was dizzy. Within a second his cock lurched hard and a huge spurt of cum splashed against his shorts, followed by spurt after spurt for a good twenty seconds, while all he could do was steady his body on the benchtop with both arms, feeling like his knees would give out.

Dani watched him happily for the first explosion, her own internal temperature rising seeing her beloved in the state she caused. She rose up and walked slowly over as his orgasmic stupor ceased, so that just as Shaun looked up, his wife was standing right in front of him in those little shorts, as his eyes drank in her sexy bare feet, strong calves and fleshy, smooth thighs. She stepped into his arms and pressed her body against his, grinding a hefty thigh into his groin where his still erect penis smushed against the cum in his shorts. Before he could say anything, she grabbed his face and gave him a wet, hard kiss with lots of tongue, then whispered to him "you're welcome."

They had started playing the 'explode?' game shortly after the sex magic appeared. Women everywhere realised they could tell whenever men were having sexual fantasies - especially if the fantasy was about them, or if they'd had sex with the man fantasising. For many sex mages, this was a way to relentlessly punish their partners whenever their concentration broke and they fantasised about their girlfriends, wives or a random woman they'd seen earlier.

Shaun was no exception to the majority of men, as his mind often wandered when Dani was trying to get him to focus on something, to instead wonder what sort of bra she was wearing or reminiscing about the sex they'd had the night before. And, of course, he'd occasionally see another woman and find his eyes drawn to the cleavage or leg she was revealing, or his brain would recall her when they were watching TV later, before he could clamp down guiltily on unbidden fantasies and remind himself that he loved Dani.

For a while, a lot of women didn't know how to handle this new sense - some went down the punishment route, while others merely scolded like they'd caught their partners ogling. Dani thought for a while about it and decided that it was relatively normal behaviour, it wasn't like Shaun was a pervert.

Over dinner one night she revealed to him the extent to which sex magic allowed women such insights into his mind, as Shaun turned more and more red in embarrassment.

"You know, the magic will usually mean that the other woman you're thinking about knows it too, unless they're really weak or far away." Dani pointed out.

"Oh my God, really? I hope they don't think I'm a creep."

"Hmmm, they probably do a bit...but if I were you, I'd worry more about what your wife thinks," said Dani, teasingly while gesturing at him with a piece of carrot. Then biting through the carrot to emphasise.

"That is definitely my main concern! I love you so much, and I'd never want you to think I'm scanning the market. This...this is just how men's brain work even if we don't want them to."

Dani let him squirm for a few seconds, watching him while munching on the rest of a carrot stick. "I know honey, and I've decided that it doesn't worry me that much. Because obviously I can see how often you're dreaming about me too, and it's more than you think about other women, from what I've seen."

"It is! Far more! You're the only one that I intentionally dream about, honey."

"Now, now, I wouldn't go that far...I saw that little diversion you took last night about the blonde backpacker in the grocery store."

Shaun went even redder and opened his mouth to protest, but Dani said first "But like I said, it doesn't worry me. Instead, I've decided what I want to do about it. Are you listening?"

Shaun nodded eagerly, desperately wanting to reassure his wife.

"Ok, so - I love it when you think about me, dream about what I do to you and you do to me. When I sense it, the magic gives me this amazing glow and charge like I've just worked out. Sometimes your fantasy sets me off too. So I want to encourage that behaviour as much as possible, and discourage you wanting to think about other women. You remember Pavlov's dogs from university psychology?"

Shaun did remember that lesson they'd had together, before they were a couple, and it made him a bit concerned. The psychologist had trained his dogs with both treats and electroshock punishments, and Shaun didn't fancy being electrocuted.

Dani smirked as she saw his anxiety rise. "Calm down, honey, you know I won't use magic on you against your wishes."

They were part of a small minority, though increasing, of post-magic couples who had made pledges not to do anything to each other physically or magically, to protect their relationship, unless the other agreed to it. After the magic appeared and it became apparent what it could do, Dani and Shaun simply had another vow ceremony where they added those pledges to their wedding vows. The benefits for Shaun were obvious, while for Dani it allowed her to treat her husband like a human being, while still being able to reap the rewards that sex magic could provide when Shaun consented.

"And you know I've always been more of a carrot than a stick type of girl," Dani quipped, taking another bite of roast carrot.

Shaun wasn't sure he agreed entirely as Dani could be fierce and combative when they argued, and was stubborn as hell sometimes, but he grinned back at her. "Well then, what is your proposal?"

"We'll use Pavlov's lessons, but only the reward side. Hopefully, like his dogs did, you'll end up doing more of the behaviour I want to pull you towards. When I like the way you're thinking about me, or I particularly enjoy the fantasy featuring me as your star, you might get a little treat..." Dani said enticingly.

"I like the sound of that! Although this might end up in a lot of treats. What sort of treat were you thinking?" Shaun asked, now getting quite excited for what his wife was putting on the table.

"Yes I did consider that - so it won't be every time. Just when I feel like I want to reward you, completely up to me. But you'll have to confirm you want the treat when I ask."

"Sure, sure, I don't think that will be a problem!" Shaun said, as his mind was still in the old world and he was thinking he might be getting blowjobs or extra foreplay as treats.

"Well. We'll see I suppose. Do you remember when we first played with my arousal aura?"

This was a feature of sex magic that all women experienced, to varying degrees. Most of the time women kept it clamped down, to avoid overstimulating the men around them. But when a sex mage wanted to, she could weaponise and direct her arousal aura, rendering the subject nearly helpless as their body's senses were overwhelmed with the raw emotion of intense arousal.

Shaun answered, "Oh yes, I definitely do. It was like you turbocharged my libido, and then it crested and I lost control! While fully dressed, without you putting a hand on me!"

"Yes, exactly. That's the treat I'm offering - I like to think of it being an explosion of emotion and love for me, instantly making you cum like it did that time. I'll even help you clean up afterwards if I can. What do you think?"

"Ahh...hell yes, baby! That was an intense experience but I still think of it every now and then, because it was so amazing."

"I know you do," Dani said with a wink at him. "So you're in? Why don't we give it a test run?"

"Right now? I suppose we could," Shaun replied, as it was just an ordinary Tuesday night dinner at home, no plans to see anyone else.

"Well it's up to you," Dani said. "You know what to do." She looked meaningfully into his eyes, then looked away and idly played with her food, pretending to ignore him.

It didn't take Shaun long to catch on, he closed his eyes and then almost instantly his thoughts raced to come up with something pleasing. His rational thought process was subsumed by his intense love for Dani at that moment, and his mind alighted on the first thing they'd done before dinner, when Dani had returned home from the gym, hair in a messy, half done bun, wearing a loose singlet over a sports bra and gym leggings - so a completely normal, everyday appearance. His mind pictured that moment she walked in the door, and he drank in the sight of her, from her toned, smooth shoulders and arms, to her thick, luscious legs and generous tits squashed flat by the bra. She wasn't wearing make-up and her hair wasn't done, but he wanted nothing more than for her to walk up to him and demand he get naked, for her to wind down with a bit of sex on the kitchen floor. Now, in his fantasy, she had done that and he pictured her pressing up against him, kissing him, then him dropping down to pull her leggings off and kiss up her calves, hamstrings and bum, before rising and pulling her top off from behind. Gripping her around the waist, he marvelled at her body heat and revelled in the slight sheen of sweat on her skin, while kissing around her neckline and shoulders.

Still dreaming away, in his mind he had quickly shucked out of his clothes, while Dani removed her last items, then he'd lifted her onto the kitchen bench and entered her, as he was rock hard and she was dripping wet from the oral attention he'd given her body already.

Dani had always been excited by Shaun's equipment, ever since the second date when they went home together and she marvelled at it as she wrapped her mouth around it. Not the biggest in the world (Shaun had measured it a while ago at 8 inches), but it was thick, and the head bulged out and up slightly. When they had sex for the first time it was like it was designed to hit Dani's pleasure spots, probably another reason their love lasted.

Shaun knew that, and knew how to use it to good effect with her. Fantasy Shaun worked it in slow spirals in and out of Dani on the kitchen bench, dragging the bulbous head diagonally across her g-spot on every pass. Sweat beaded on her skin as she approached her climax, and Shaun bent his head to kiss it off her neck and shoulders, licking her salty sweet skin while he did so. Continuing the same pace, Shaun gripped her body tightly, confident that she wanted more of the same. Fantasy Dani squirmed and clenched, rising to the finish, and then pouring over the peak from Shaun's thick cock's constant, relentless pressure. Her legs wrapped tightly around his waist and back, pulling him in further as she bucked against him, crying out with pleasure.

Back at the dinner table in the real world, Dani had long stopped playing with her food as this image ran through her mind, she shifted in her chair and felt how wet she was getting. In reality, the scene had played out differently, with Dani giving Shaun a peck on the lips, telling him she was heading to the shower, and him replying that dinner would be ready in 15. She was immensely flattered that he'd turned such an ordinary event into a thrilling fantasy, as she didn't feel like she had been looking particularly good, or that Shaun was so horny for her post-gym mess. It showed her just how much Shaun loved her, at all times.

Meanwhile, Shaun's fantasy had petered out as he remembered where he was, glazed eyes opening and coming into focus to see Dani looking at him with soft, smiling eyes.

"I liked that, baby. Do you want to have your treat and explode?" Dani asked huskily, certain of what the answer would be.

Shaun felt like his head had barely moved downwards in a nod when his whole body went stiff and he recoiled back against the dining chair, as Dani ceased blocking her arousal aura and directed it wholly at Shaun. A lot of the time when sex mages did this, they paired it with a magical orgasm block that prevented the target from ejaculating, resulting in agonising torment as the man couldn't control his body due to the overwhelming arousal, but couldn't achieve the relief of finishing either. Often this would manifest as physical and mental pain, with no way out until they satisfied whatever urge the sex mage wanted. Due to their pledge though, Dani didn't orgasm block Shaun unless he wanted it, and he didn't currently have one in place.

In a heartbeat, Shaun's cock strained as blood raced to it, and his body flexed around his groin area and penis, just a moment before it burst and he came hard, over and over while the arousal continued to pump into him.

Panting hard, he hunched over in his chair to recover. Dani continued to eat calmly, popping a piece of cauliflower in her mouth. "You like?" She asked, again rhetorically only.

"I love you," Shaun replied simply.

"I love you too. My little Pavlovian dog, just remember what I can do for you." Dani said laughing. She cast another simple spell which drew all of the semen out of his clothing and accumulated it into an orb shimmering in the air, another handy piece of magic that most sex mages learned early (though often for nefarious reasons). The orb floated through the house to be deposited into the toilet.

And that was the genesis of their explode game. It became a regular part of Shaun's life, averaging an explosion a week at least. Dani never tired of his attempts to coax the question out of her with more and more creative fantasies, but she kept him on his toes by being unpredictable with her offer. Sometimes she would simply pat his cheek, kiss him and say "Not this time".

It didn't take long for Shaun's brain chemistry to be rewired in the way Dani intended, since the payoff was just so much greater thinking of her, that it was almost like other women were a different species. He would still see them, subconsciously his eyes would take them in, but intentional fantasies that didn't involve Dani were vanishingly rare.

The next time was at a cafe for breakfast. Normally, engaging in sex magic, or ejeculating, in public would be sensed by every other woman in the area, and usually someone would penalise the guilty parties for sexual deviancy (usually the man). However, it had become apparent that Dani was quite a powerful sex mage, by the lucky chance of random fate that had assigned powers to every woman. She wasn't quite at the levels of the women who would later be called Megami or those who would rule Queendoms, but she was about as powerful as could be encountered in everyday scenes. The upshot of which was, she was able to cloak her spells and the ability of other women to sense Shaun or use their magic on him.

Dani had been eating her eggs when a stray piece of yolk escaped onto her chin. Catching Shaun's eyes, she retrieved it with a pinky and curled her tongue out of her mouth, around her pinky and slurped the yolk in. She'd been pleased with his behaviour and his daydreams all week and had already decided she wanted to try the game in a public spot.

Like he was on autopilot, Shaun focused on her tongue and lips and indulged in a daydream involving slow sensuous licks of his penis, while he reciprocated on her clit as she lay inverted atop him. Dani reached out and touched his hand, asking softly "Wanna explode now?"

Shaun, horny as anything, gritted his teeth nervously and glanced around, knowing how vengeful some women could be about public sex acts.

"Trust me, baby. It'll be fine." Dani cooed, showing him her full lips again and licking her tongue across the top lip.

"If you say so. Then, yes, I do." Shaun stated.

Once again, his body wasn't his for a few seconds as her aura flooded his senses and cum burst forth into his underwear. Dani watched him happily, while noting that no one else in the cafe had been able to break through her magical cloaking, the tables right next to them didn't even notice Shaun's convulsions.

Once he'd recovered, Dani said "Only thing is, I don't think I can float a ball of cum through the air in this cafe and it wouldn't be the most hygienic thing to do, so I can't help with the clean up this time. We'll have to wait until we're home."

"That is absolutely fine by me." Shaun managed.

From there, the game escalated and each experience seemed new and amazing to both of them. Sometimes it was relatively tame, but intensely loving, like the morning when Dani gripped the side of his head in bed as he woke up from a sexual dream, asking him if he wanted to explode, then kissing him deeply and sensually while he came in her arms.