His hands were tied to the bondage chair with just enough slack. Or maybe not. I handed him a small vibrator, shaped like a long, thin cigar.
“Make yourself come,” I ordered. He strained. He groaned. I waited.
“I’m going to disappoint you,” he gasped.
“It won’t be the first time,” I teased, taking the vibrator away from him.
I stepped into the kitchen, where the autoclave was. “Why couldn’t you come?” I asked as I stepped back in the room where he was still tied, legs spread, to the chair.
“I don’t know,” he replied. “The brain’s a complicated thing. Sometimes there’s nothing that can stop me from coming when I don’t want to. Sometimes there’s nothing to make me come when I do. It probably would’ve helped though if there’d been some threat.”
“A threat?” My back was to him.
“Like I knew I’d be punished if I didn’t come. Like you’d stick one of those sound things in my dick or something awful like that.
I turned around, holding the lubed sound. He gasped in surprise. I looked him straight in the eye as I moved towards him. “There’s *always* a threat.”
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The next day I was recounting the story to a new play partner. It seemed illustrative and appropriate. He countered: “You have to say the threat, though. Even if it’s understood that there’s always a punishment for not doing as you’re told, you still have to say it. It makes it far more effective. We’re like children you tell the bedtime story to. Even if we already know every word by heart, we still have to hear the story every night.”
I love a learning moment.
Consider yourself warned.
I can hear the threatening music now.
Dun Dun Dunnnnnnn
@laughing
That day, I was the student … well, until we started to play. I love talking with scene veterans. Dommes and subs. I always learn something.
@axe
A question I answered on Formspring recently made me think of you. Can ya guess? š
Who was the student and who was the teacher?
Troy,
Iām not sure if I agree that the threat must always be spoken. Knowing the answer can lessen the impact of whatās to come. My guess is that people and situations vary.
It might be akin to reward theory. If you say āGood Jobā every time someone does something right, it stops meaning anything. If you donāt say it frequently enough, they donāt feel appreciated.
So the answer is simple. You must work on your psychic abilities so you can read the subs mind in each and every situation.
I love the simple answers, donāt you?
Jeffrey
@jeffrey
My psychic abilities, Iāve noticed, work best when Iām not even trying. I mean, hey, he had no idea I had a sound in my hand when he was suggesting a threat. But Iāve realized that, while some make fantasize me as perfect, I know good and darn well Iām not, so Iām all right with just doing the best I can.