Synopsis: Young man falls madly in love with a dominant woman and accompanies her home to meet her parents. She's from a (fictional) island nation where extreme dominance and submission are part of mainstream society.
My name is Lee.
I was a 24 year old grad student working on my PhD in computer science when I met her.
Viktoria was a MBA working in mergers and acquisitions for one of the biggest firms in town. We came from completely different worlds and never would have met except for a freak coincidence attending the same party hosted by friends of friends.
She was unlike anyone I had ever known. She was so put together when I saw her: the dress, the jewelry, the make-up, that I figured she was out of my league. I had immediately consoled myself, telling myself that she was probably one of those business/management types who was too stupid to understand the technical details of what people like me did, but who would forever rule society through their ability to bullshit and control others.
When she looked over and caught me staring at her, I looked away. But when I looked back, she held my eye contact and crossed the room to introduce herself. She asked me about my work and surprised me by asking intelligent follow-up questions to really understand what I was talking about. Contrary to my initial impression, she was no bullshit. She was direct and every word out of her mouth seemed intentionally selected, rather than settled upon to fill silence. She was slightly older, five years or so, but I suspected she had been like this all her life. After an hour of talking that felt like five minutes, she asked me point blank if I wanted to go home with her. I think I sort of giggled like an idiot and nodded. She took me by the hand and pulled me directly towards the door. I only managed to make eye contact and wave to my host as she whisked us out of the party. That night was not the first time I had gone down on a woman, but it was the first time I had done so on my knees while she was standing. The fact that she reciprocated with only a handjob seemed asymmetrical to me, but it also kind of turned me on.
What followed was a whirlwind romance. At the end of the first week, I knew I had never felt this way about anyone else. After the first month, I was picturing us getting married and settled down. As our relationship deepened, the sex also got better and better, though stranger might be another way to describe it. She had the odd combination of chastity (told me I wouldn't be fucking her unless we got married) and kink. She liked to tie me up, she love to sit on my face (a first for me), she always fingered my ass when she gave me blowjobs (another first for me). But it worked for me. I was head over heels in love with her. After 6 months, we remained madly in love, more so than ever, and she invited me to visit her parents in their homeland on the island of Algoria.
I had never met anyone from Algoria but I had googled it shortly after we met. I read that the tiny country had an economy that boomed despite its limited population and natural resources, and that they were known for having an atypical matriarchal culture where women held most leadership positions and men did the majority of the child-rearing. I figured this might explain some of her more atypical personality and sexual traits, but clearly she no longer lived there so I figured she'd likely left behind many of the beliefs of her home country for those of her adopted country.
She spent weeks planning the trip, which puzzled me since it didn't seem like she'd need to do much more than book the flights, but I figured she was nervous about me meeting her parents and wanted everything to be perfect. Being nervous even a normal amount was very unusual for her, so I worried that her parents must be tough to impress. I hoped I would measure up to their standards.
When we arrived in Algoria, her parents met us at the airport. Her mother Astrid was perhaps even better looking than Viktoria, despite her age, which caught me off guard. Her father George wore a tight black necklace around his neck like a choker, but their clothes were also slightly different than what I was used to, so I figured this must be local Algorian fashion.
After dinner the first night, the four of us sat in the living room and her mother announced that we're going to watch a video on Algorian culture to help me better understand them.
"Great, sounds good. I'd love to know more about where Viktoria comes from." I said with a smile. Her mother returned a thin smile, but Viktoria and her father just looked nervous. I could have sworn I saw Viktoria visibly swallow her saliva as she took my hand in hers and turned towards the screen.
The video started off as a typical educational video with a formal host/narrator woman speaking directly into the camera and reviewing the strength of Algoria. Its ability to survive as an independent society for thousands of years, its adaptability in the global economy, now particularly strong in electronics and software, and the objectively superior statistics on population health, literacy, and happiness.
Then the tone shifted. The pretty hostess of the program looked into the camera and spoke confidently "It is not well appreciated outside of Algoria that the foundation of all of our success is our culture, which recognizes the central importance of sexual relationships and well defined dominant and submissive roles."
My eyes widened in surprise and I looked around the room to see if this was some kind of joke, but everyone's eyes remained calmly on the screen. Viktoria squeezed my hand ever so slightly.
The program continued. "While other societies leave interpersonal relationships to chance, Algorian society has long realized the perils of such an approach. Many individuals in those societies do not even take dedicated time to figure out if they themselves are more dominant or submissive. As you can imagine, this leads to a multitude of problems that fracture a society at its very core."
The screen now showed an unhappy-looking beautiful woman, comforting a baby in her arms in the middle of the night in her bedroom. Behind her, an overweight man snored loudly.
"Natural dominants become bitter when forced into other roles," the narrator explained.
Now a video of the man wearing a pair of pink panties and looking at himself in the mirror with a mixture of arousal and shame.
"Natural submissives feel intense guilt about their instinctual needs and desires, especially when these conflict with the expectations of their society."
The man in the video was now jerking off in the dark in front of a glowing computer monitor that displayed a video of a dominatrix spanking a man over her knee.
"This internal conflict leads to secrets and lies within the relationship and often infidelity."