walking topless in the rain

She has me wear my white tiered linen miniskirt that comes to my mid-thighs. Originally it had an underskirt, but Mistress Amanda took it out, saying, “You should never be wearing anything with a modesty panel.” The linen is thin but not transparent, so my lack of panties underneath is not obvious to others, only to me.

Mistress has simply said that we’re “going out,” and I assume we’re visiting one of the neighbors. She puts me into my strappy white high-heeled sandals, and in the living room I stand perched on them waiting for her to complete my outfit and match a top to my skirt. I’m thinking something blue would be nice.

It’s late afternoon and Mistress has knocked off from work. It’s been warm today, but cloudy. Now I can see darker clouds are coming over the ridge in back threatening rain. I feel a little antsy, thinking we’d better get to the neighbor’s house before it starts to pour. Yet I say nothing.

This has been a sweet period of comfortable silence between us, these recent days and nights. It has been in a soft protocol, never declared but assumed, with me content and docile and ever-expectant in the presence of her muted and confident dominance. We know each other so well that words are rarely necessary, and to break the quiet almost would ruin the spell.

She goes back into her bedroom to change out of her work outfit. I stand in the living room, thin-skirted and bare-breasted, waiting for her to finish dressing me.

I hear raindrops on the roof.


Mistress re-emerges, now in a pair of tight, shapely jeans and a flowy pale yellow blouson top. Amanda is naturally attractive, but she dresses stylishly in ways to present herself in even more appealing ways. I think her beauty is part of her professional air and adds to her quality of dominance.

“You know I want you right now,” I say, my voice soft and husky.

“I do,” she replies with a sultry smile.

She carries a leash, chain-link, and attaches it to the O-ring of my slave collar. I am thinking it would be easier to have me put on my blouse, whatever she chooses, before putting the leash on me… but I say nothing.

Outside, the rain has become heavier now, not a harsh downpour but a steady and gentle shower.

Mistress leads me into the entryway and pulls a hat out of the closet, her straw Panama with a wide brim and a yellow band. She puts it on, and looks back at me, knowing the effect that it has, that she has.

She reaches once again into the closet, pulls out an umbrella, and proceeds to open the front door. “C’mon,” she says.

Glancing down at my bare breasts, I start to speak, about to query “Haven’t you forgotten something?” but I stop myself. I realize she hasn’t forgotten anything. Silly me, this is her very intention.


From the porch, we step into the rain, and I try to huddle under the umbrella with her. But she stops me. “You’ll be walking behind me,” she says.

I look at her for a moment too long, but salvage a nod and obediently fall back into the shower of the spring rain.

It becomes clear to me that we aren’t going to visit anyone at all.


This too is part of the unspoken life we share, in which she leads and I follow, both of us in hushed assumption of each other, even in the unlikely spectacle that we are.

The rain has quickly drenched my hair, rendering it into sopping strings dripping over both sides of my face. My bared tits are rain-soaked into a sheen of wet, and my skirt is now saturated, trending from translucent into transparent.

Mistress, walking ahead, is a picture of dry elegance, the modern version of a demoiselle in the park with a parasol in a French painting.

Even in my sodden display, it occurs to me that she woke up this morning with this very image in her mind. So often for her (and other dominants, it seems), a mental image becomes a real-life tableau for some clever humiliation of me.


She walks us around the frontage road, which is paved, and not along the ridge, which would be muddy and slick. I am grateful for this, grateful not to add mud to my list of endurances, although the frontage road is more public. No one comes out to greet us, but I imagine there are eyes looking through picture windows.

Wearing boots, Mistress is sure-footed on the wet pavement, but I in strappy heels must take shorter strides, bird-like steps, to avoid skidding and falling. I take two steps for every one of her strides.

This is a half-trot which creates more of an up-and-down motion in my walk, one which forces my breasts into a noticeable bounce, a dance of fleshy mounds. I desire to minimize this motion, as if doing so somehow would make me more respectable. But there’s no other way for me to walk.

At the same time, my skirt has now become fully dense with water, clinging to my thighs, wedging between them, framing my pussy, bare underneath, and cohering to the folds of my labia like a coating of heavy cream. I feel the impossible desire to straighten my skirt and make efforts to pull it free of my body flesh, but short moments later both my strides and the rain make it cling to my sex all over again.

It is its own sort of predicament bondage, intentionally pitting the elements of nature against my deep desire to be more modest and respectable. In time, I give up the fight, and let God have his way with me.

I have to think Mistress quite intentionally shod me in these strappy heels and thin linen skirt for this very reason, with the knowledge of their physical properties in the event of spring precipitation. She woke up this morning with this image in her mind and with my skirt and heels already picked out. And I’m sure she prayed for rain.


She walks me around the loop slowly, pausing at times, perhaps hoping someone would come out to chat, even in the rain. No one did. I think she is disappointed. I imagine next time she will call ahead. Provide everyone umbrellas.

Still, I have no doubt people are watching, and I feel the eyes of the world drinking in my wet submissive sex. The sight of me topless is no longer unusual to the neighborhood, I suppose, but I am still an erotic curiosity. Common enough as this is, it always feels to me as something freshly exposing, humiliating.

I think my topless neighborhood walks display me to others in a a balanced mix of my submission and sexuality. My being on a leash reminds people I am owned and am dominated into leashed submission. My being topless reminds people I am sexual property, available to be ogled and possibly enjoyed in a private sharing.

And in this case, the added bonus for neighbors is that I’m all wet.


We arrive back home, and the remarkable thing is that it is all unremarkable. From porch back to porch we have said nothing, leashed together in our mutual satisfaction of possessing and being possessed.

Mistress unleashes me and has me strip out of my skirt and heels at the front of the house. She goes inside to fetch a towel. Fully naked I stand outside, waiting in my tacit submission.

With the towel, I blot myself dry, squinching it around my hair to sop up the rainwater, even just a bit.

Mistress now stands close, holds my breasts in her hands, and pulls me into her for a dominant kiss. All this has pleased her immensely.

Moments later, I step into the shower. Ironically, to wash off the wet.

on innocence

One of the loveliest compliments I ever received was from my friend from college, Jeremy. We hadn’t seen each other for more than a dozen years and had reconnected in early 2022, getting together in a Pennsylvania diner on a number of occasions. He had found my blog, knew of my lifestyle, and when we met in person, Jeremy, a journalist, interviewed me about my life as a D/s slave.

After we had met and talked several times, he said to me: “Shae, you always were so innocent [in college], and it seems you haven’t changed.”

It warmed me, yet took me aback and surprised me. Jeremy knew by then the nature of my D/s slavery, that I am a sex slave. Yet he found in me something that he called “innocence.” I recall that in the moment I showed my surprise, laughed a little, and shook my head.

He went on to explain that it’s a vibe I convey somehow. It wasn’t naiveté, for I am “aware of myself and my lifestyle,” but a kind of “purity of spirit” I conveyed toward him and other people.

I was flattered, though not sure how true it really was. In fact, I don’t think he really knew me well enough to be able to support those compliments. I had told him about my slave life, but he hadn’t seen me in my submissive squalor or sexual disgrace. He hadn’t actually witnessed my self-doubting before a slave experience or my shame after.

Regardless, Jeremy’s use of the word “innocence” stuck with me. Whether or not it’s applicable to me, I find it interesting how it works in the context of lifestyle slavery…


Of course, for me the term “innocence” is ironic, for my religious upbringing defines it as sinlessness and sexual purity — which I certainly am not.

I won’t dwell on this, but for me it’s always the elephant in the room. My teenage journey was branded by an evangelical teaching known as “purity culture,” which taught that a girl’s value depended on abstinence from sex and keeping her virginity. I have written about this before and won’t belabor it here, but it was a Real Big Thing imprinted upon the lives of a generation of Christian girls. I was one.

According to that mindset, being sinful is almost entirely about being sexual. Because I am sexually impure, so it goes, I am sinful and therefore definitely not innocent.

So when I consider myself in the light of Jeremy’s “innocence,” I can’t help but think of my current life of forced promiscuity and sexual submission. Innocence and guilt are themes that ripple, I know, through all my slave experiences and my writing about them. Intellectually I think differently about that now, but psychologically I just can’t quit it.

People in my life counsel me to leave that moralism behind, to let go of my moral self-recriminations. And there’s good reason to do that, I agree. I keep trying. But at the same time, I kind of think that at least some of this sense of moral guilt actually serves my D/s experience.


I kind of think that some of my value as a sex slave depends on a cycle of my “innocence” being defiled over and over again.

Both of my owners are well aware of my religious-moral “branding” and how it is a part of me. They know when they undress me, it feels morally wrong to me to be nude before their eyes. They know when they perch me on the pedestal table with my thighs spread and my pussy swollen and exposed for passersby to observe, it feels morally shaming to me. They know when they use me for their sexual pleasure, I feel my “virginity” being lost. All of that is one “cycle” in which my innocence is progressive dismantled and defiled.

One point I’m making is that this is part of my owners’ pleasure. The dominants’ delight is in control of a submissive woman like me, to the extent of challenging her sense of moral integrity. If I was unfazed by being stripped and perched and fucked, if I was jaded by my submission to them, if I was unaffected, then their dominance of me would feel to them unremarkable, less exciting and satisfying.

If course, I cannot pretend to be morally innocent at the beginning of each event or cycle. That wouldn’t work. It has to be genuine, intrinsic to who I am. And it somehow is for me. I believe that this is what Jeremy was observing (although he didn’t have this context in mind). Somehow, it is in my personality to perpetually strive for a sense of moral worth. I think of it more as a desperate effort to regain my dignity. In any case, somehow I approach my slave life — each new cycle/event — with a fresh, apparently innocent, bearing. Each time, to my dominant, I am once again a virgin to be defiled.

I actually don’t think this is just me, but other submissive readers can weigh in. I think our submission to others is often this cycle of innocence and defilement. In part-time D/s, a submissive goes to her dominant for a session: she comes from her life in the work world where she is productive and respected, and now enters her alter-world in which a dominant strips her of her innocence. Next week, after another time in the vanilla world reclaiming her dignity, the cycle repeats itself.

Again, I invite others to weigh in.


I think it’s obvious, to most people inside or outside the lifestyle, that BDSM and D/s carry a forbidden quality as a secretive and dark practice. The books and films “50 Shades” brought BDSM more into the mainstream, and yet they were (in my opinion) popular because they were to most a guilty pleasure, an unmentionable secret, a dark fantasy that most have but most cannot admit to.

I think that, in a way, we all need it to be “morally wrong.” That’s part of the pleasure, is it not? That we are engaging in practices that are offensive to others and considered immoral. And that we ourselves don’t think them to be so.

I am in awe of Mistress Amanda’s philosophy and personal mission to mainstream the D/s lifestyle. She believes consensual BDSM slavery should be legal and normalized in the public sphere. Remarkably, she is doing this in our neighborhood.

And yet, I have contended with her that if in fact D/s slavery were somehow to become accepted by everyone in the vanilla world, it would cease to be so exciting and special. “If everyone has a girl on a leash,” I said to her, “what is the intrigue, the thrill?”

I think we need BDSM to be dark and forbidden and practiced by a secret minority. Part of the pleasure of BDSM is that a precious few of us find it natural to do what the majority find unnatural. Part of the pleasure dynamic for dominants and submissives is in being viewed by others who judge us. Part of our D/s experience lies in feeling innocent about doing things most others find immoral.


As I said, I have intellectually left behind my old branding about sexual immorality. I find it interesting that religious persuasions emphasize primarily sex and sexuality as being immoral when there are so many other sins to choose from. I have come to a point where I don’t believe that my sexual “promiscuity” as a sex slave is actually wrong and sinful. I believe God made sex and sexuality and me. He made me the way I am.

And yet, I am still psychologically bound, so to speak, by my upbringing. But maybe that serves me well in my slavery. For I ever and ever again grasp for moral purity and personal dignity in the midst of my defilements. I start each cycle with some sense of my “noble virginity,” only to experience it being consumed deliciously, leaving me to restore myself and do it all over again.

I cannot help but feel that this is a never-ending story of my marching up the hill to become a living sacrifice, one who desperately seeks her atonement each and every time.

Dayna: 2

I perhaps should have offered this note at the beginning of the first post yesterday: In my blog writing, I am usually not critical of people. That is not my nature as a person, and as a submissive I am further trained to be accepting and respectful of others, especially dominant others. But if there’s someone I really don’t get along with, which is rare, I have to wrestle with how I write about them.

If you read back through my blog roll, you’ll see I’ve only occasionally mentioned Dayna, and I’ve been restrained in what I’ve said. I’ve wrestled for some time with whether and how to represent her in my posts. Dayna is actually a bigger part of Amanda’s life than I’ve represented, as I’ve exercised quite a bit of restraint so far in telling about her.

But I’ve come to feel that if I report only the positive relationships and feelings in my life, I am not being true to my truth. A submissive’s interactions with other people are not always easy or lovely or a simpatico connection, yet they are a part of life and a part of submissive experience.

My purpose in these posts is not to criticize Dayna. I don’t harbor any lasting ill-feeling against her. I don’t need to hit back at her. (Dayna, by the way, does not read my blog.) What I’m trying to do is accurately report Dayna’s presence in Amanda’s life, and therefore mine. I am just reporting Dayna’s words and how I respond to them, how they affect me.

After all, there are always Daynas in our lives…


Dayna had been at the New Year’s Eve party and had thoroughly approved, finding it a great success and offering kudos to Amanda. No doubt it exemplified the kind of thorough debasement that she would keep me in all the time if she had me.

Since then she had talked with Mistress Amanda about an idea she had for a future party. This is actually the purpose for her being here on this Wednesday.

They take me into the kitchen and have me strip off my clothes. It is just us women, yet I feel uncomfortable in the glare of what seems like Dayna’s visual review. They have me climb onto the marble countertop of the kitchen island.

They talk about how they can present me bound on the kitchen island as a “centerpiece” for a buffet of food. People would serve themselves from dishes and bowls and serving platters arranged around my naked flesh, with me chained to the marble. As they would load up plates, guests could touch, fondle, slap, and otherwise entertain themselves with my flesh. Such is the kind of idea that dominants hatch. Dayna and Amanda are rehearsing this with me now.

In fact, Mistress Amanda has thought of this before, and has talked about it with me, but mostly as one of her teasing “what-ifs.” Dayna now owns this idea as if it was freshly her own, and Amanda is playing along, sort of interested in the possibility and what comes from their brainstorming. Dayna wishes to make it real, “for the next party.” Of course, I don’t dare say a word.

Dayna walks around the kitchen island, looking underneath the rim of the marble. “You have enough overhang here, Amanda,” she is saying. “Can you drill into marble? You should ask your guy that.”

“Blake… I did ask him,” Amanda replies. “Not about this. It came up in regard to something else. He said it can be done. Marble. With a special drill bit or something.”

I am stretched out on my back against the cold slab, my breasts jutting up toward the ceiling. Dayna pushes my legs back and open so my heels are at the corners of the slab. “If you position her like this,” she says, “her legs are not hanging off the end and her thighs are opened up… her pussy open like she is now. I think that’s a striking presentation.”

“Yes, that works.”

“If she’s in pumps, her heels could attach through holes in the corners, hooking in. Maybe that’s the way to do it, holes in the four corners, and we can figure how to use them with her hands at that end.”

“Dayna, I don’t want big holes clear through the marble,” Amanda says, “but Blake can drill so it doesn’t go all the way through but allows for a hook. It’s a little like what he did with the wet bar and the chair, embedded eyebolts, but underneath, not visible.”

“So let’s say that happens somehow,” Dayna muses. “Let’s assume her ankles and wrists are bound to the marble, and she is immobilized. My idea is to pose her in three different positions for the three courses of the meal — appetizers, main entrées, and desserts.”

“You’ve been thinking a lot about this, haven’t you?” Amanda observes wryly. “Dayna, you have too much time on your hands.”


Which is true. As I mentioned, Dayna has not been actively domme for a while. In the interim, I think she uses me as a kind of surrogate. In between her travel and her job, her mind gets creatively dominant, and I’m her submissive placeholder for deferred dreams. When she visits, she draws Amanda into engaging with her imagined scenarios. Her visits here are opportunities for her to express her harbored dominance.

Amanda knows this, is bemused by it, and plays along.


The two of them like the idea of the appetizers course featuring me on my hands and knees, my breasts hanging down. They would put the appetizer dishes under me, between my legs in back, and along the sides of my body.

Amanda makes the point that they can even put serving dishes on my back: “Shae has developed that skill at the wet bar — balancing wine glasses on her back.”

As for me, I’m not sure I should feel good about having a skill like that. I imagine myself at a church potluck, saying, “No, I can’t cook, but I can balance a tray of hot wings on my naked back…”

Dayna and Amanda discuss whether I should be ball-gagged or not. “It’ll make her drool,” Amanda says, “and that’s disgusting at a food table.”

“But it’ll keep the slut quiet,” Dayna says.

“She’ll stay quiet if I tell her to.”


Another discussion is about guests touching and fondling me. “You may have to make an announcement, Amanda,” Dayna says, “to give them permission.”

“They won’t need that,” Amanda assured her. “They’re already assuming permission with her these days. They’ll fondle her breasts for sure. They feel very free with her anymore.”

“But will they finger her cunt?” As Dayna speaks, she herself slides her finger between my labia lips. I realize I’m not sure of Dayna’s sexual orientation, though it doesn’t matter — dominance tends to transcend gender and orientation. I just wonder if Dayna enjoys the actual feeling of her finger gracing my wet folds or if she enjoys only the humiliation she is giving me, fondling the cunt of the slave cunt that is me.

They have a discussion about hygiene, again assuming that some will be fondling my pussy but also, as Dayna is ready to point out, in regard to my asshole. “We need to butt-plug her,” she says.

Amanda does not disagree, adding that they should put out wet-wipes for guests to sanitize their hands after playing with me. I find myself feeling like a wild animal with a rare disease being dissected in a science experiment.

“Maybe we could provide a paddle,” Dayna blurts out, “like a ping-pong paddle, for them to whack her ass.”

“I’m not sure about allowing guests the liberty of hitting her.”

“You permitted them to spank her on New Year’s Eve.”

“Yes,” Amanda replies, “and I’m not sure that was my best decision.”


For the entrée course, Dayna says she wants me hogtied, my wrists and ankles tied together in the air. “We could dress her like a pig, apple in her mouth and all.”

Amanda is okay with that but expresses concerns about having hot food and hot serving dishes around my naked body. “We don’t want to barbecue her,” Amanda says with a laugh.

“She’s kind of pale,” Dayna says. “She could use a little color.” It was a rare splash of humor from her, albeit delivered with a dig at my sometimes pasty Irish appearance.

They finally decide they’d arrange the hot entrées on the other counter, using the island and spaces around my body for condiments and sauces.


For dessert, they wish to have me on my back, breasts pointed toward the ceiling. Both agree my body and flesh should be used to provide toppings for the dessert offerings.

They like the thought of a large bowl of whipped cream between my legs and large dollops of that whipped cream presented in a fluffy mound atop my pussy. “People can serve themselves as they wish,” Dayna says with devilish satisfaction.

They consider ways of coating my tummy with raspberry sauce, allowing it to drip to the sides, and having people spoon it up from wherever it pools. But Amanda worries that it’ll drip all over the floor. “I don’t mind the island getting messy,” she says, “but guests won’t like stepping in it.”

“Maybe your Blake can rig up a temporary rim around the island,” Dayna suggests, “a seal to contain everything.”

“Maybe so.”

Dayna also has the idea of fashioning some sort of chocolate fountain in and around my breasts. Amanda looks at me, catches my eye, and I smile. We both are remembering a rather hot romantic time when she coated my breasts with chocolate on this very same island.

Dayna plunges ahead, talking about using Duck Tape. “We could create a sealed rim around her tits,” she says excitedly, “to create a pond. The chocolate could pool there.” She thinks a moment further. “And there could be a chocolate pump underneath somehow, shooting a stream of chocolate over her tits perpetually coating them…” She trails off, pleased with herself.

“Shae isn’t a piece of hardware, Dayna,” Amanda says. “I don’t mind the mess, but we’re not going to Duck Tape her breasts and run electrical through liquid chocolate on her boobs.”


All of this is just talk, mind you, the diabolical creativity of dominant minds playing without a net. I have come to know that sometimes dominants have to have their time to humiliate you. This is their playtime, and I am their toy.

In the end, no whipped cream is actually dolloped onto my pussy, no raspberry sauce is ever dripped over my body, no chocolate is ever spurting from my cleavage. It is just talked about, devised, imagined. Still, even in this thought-experiment, the experience is humiliating to me. Which is not to say it is a terrible ordeal or not submissively effective in its way, but that it is some weird kind of shame.

Had this just been Mistress Amanda and me, it would have been playful “what-if” fun. With Dayna it is something to get through.


In the afternoon, they make tea and talk on the back patio once again. I am kept with them, allowed to sit this time, but I remain silent.

I think about different “flavors” of dominance, how Dayna is different from what I experience under Mistress Amanda and Master McKenna. It isn’t really about the level of harshness or intensity or debasement I receive from a dominant. They are severe with me too. I think I can absorb most everything. Also, it isn’t about “style” per se — Mistress A’s style with me is more psychological and social; Master M’s style is more physical and sexual (and, of course, provides the man-fucking that Dayna believes I so dearly need). Dominants have different approaches and different intensities, and as a submissive I must submit to and absorb those differences.

Dayna’s “style” is verbally caustic. She calls me a slut and a cunt and speaks of my need for being man-fucked. Her ideas are sharply objectifying, her bearing itself is humiliating to me. I can only imagine what she’d do to me actively, physically, if she owned me. And yet, this is nothing I haven’t experienced before. The difference with Dayna is that all this seems to have no boundary, no understandable source, and, ironically, no real dominant purpose.

You see, what I feel from Dayna is that her dominance is a kind of compensation for what she does not have in her life. Hers is a personality I suspect is shaped by her own hidden insecurities. She is satisfying her own inner lack of something by her blustery diminishment of me. While my submission is always a process of being humiliated and reduced in status, when I look into my dominants’ eyes, I can see their respect for me in what I am enduring. I am special to them because I absorb their disgraces. When I look into Dayna’s eyes, I don’t see that. I don’t see much of anything.

Now, I know all dominants are influenced by past journeys and relationships, hurts and failures. Everyone has vacancies in life. We all have holes in our souls. But for some, dominance is not an unfettered attempt to compensate, to fill the emptiness. For a few others, it is.

Submissively speaking, this is critical. With both Mistress Amanda and Master McKenna, while their humiliation of me might be severe, I never fear it will be out of control in the service of their own inner deficiencies.

As I sometimes say, “A dominant who cannot control themselves has no business controlling me.”


Dayna leaves late afternoon, her visit over. I flop down in a chair with a big sigh.

Amanda asks me, “You okay?”

“Yeah,” I reply. “But it’s a little like submitting to a buzz saw.”

“I know.”

“I’m too critical,” I confess.

“You’re not wrong.”

“But you like her.”

“I do,” Amanda admits to what we both know. “In some way.”

We settle down with glasses of wine on the patio. I sip my Viognier, savoring its floral notes and also savoring our adult conversation. “Dayna’s jealous that you have me,” I say.

Amanda nods. “I know.”

“By the way, thank you for ixnaying the Duck Tape thing,” I say. “Removing it… all that stick-um… would rip my skin off.”

“That’s what I was thinking,” Amanda replies.

She pauses, taking a sip of her wine. “However, I actually like the idea of your boobs being coated with chocolate, it flowing over them, over and over and over again… maybe there’s a way…”

Dayna: 1

I have written about her before: Dayna is a domme lifestyle friend of Amanda’s. They’re about the same age. Dayna is sharp-edged and caustic, or so I find her. Not, quite frankly, my favorite person, though she could care less, I know.

Dayna used to have a submissive, doesn’t now, though for a time she picked up subs in part-time arrangements. I have wondered if her abrasiveness has made it difficult for submissives to survive her. Whatever the roughness of her style, Dayna nevertheless has a deep understanding of the dynamics of dominance and submission. This is one reason Amanda enjoys her vibe.

The thing is, Amanda needs more friends. Friendships in lifestyle D/s are complicated for submissives but also for dominants, especially when they are CEOs running businesses. It’s lonely at the top. Amanda has some good connections with neighbors now, and I’m glad for that. But all to say, Dayna is good for Amanda, even if not so pleasant for me.

This was last Wednesday. Dayna visited.


“How’s our slut doing?” she asks Amanda as she breezes in. She assumes joint possession, even though she has no right to me.

Amanda hands her a cup of coffee, and we all sit in the living room. “I think she should be standing,” Dayna says, her voice rasping. It is a tacit assumption of her authority over me.

I look over at Amanda, and she nods. I stand, legs together, hands to my sides. Being around Dayna means always being in formal protocol.

“Shae’s just back from McKenna,” Amanda reports.

“Hope she got thoroughly used.”

“He’s always good for her.”

“And, Manda, when did you return from your trip?”

“A week before. I felt it was wise for Mark to keep her an extra week.”

“Agreed. She needs that man-fucking. It’s part of what tames her. You know, Manda, I fear she doesn’t get enough of that. ”

“Of what?”

“Of men using her. She has an imbalance of women in her life. Man-fucking is what waters her submissive spirit.”

Dayna has all the grace of a drill sergeant, but sometimes waxes poetic. I didn’t know that being “man-fucked” watered my submissive spirit, but I wished I had thought of that line.

“As you know, I have Blake coming in about once a month,” Amanda says.

“Good, but I think she needs more Blakes, some every week. Submissives can get proud of themselves. Being used by men, used frequently, keeps them in their place… You know, Manda, you should open her up more to the men in the neighborhood. Random. When they feel the need. Shae needs to think any one of them can fuck her any time. That makes a submissive into a slave.”

I continue standing there, listening, a thirty-something woman in a shirtdress while my sexual submission is being talked about. The thing is, I know Dayna is not wrong. My female relationships tend to be more equivalent, more mutual — even Amanda and I are often sort of “just girlfriends.” It’s the men who use me that dominate my submission.

“Well, that’s not going to happen,” Amanda replies.

“It could, Manda. That’s what I’m saying. You have everything in place to put her in her place.”

My Irish rises up within me, but I hold my tongue. She may be right about my need for male domination, but I resent the implication that I’m not already assuming my proper place as a slave… Still, once again, I can’t help but admire her phrasing — “have everything in place to put her in her place” could be a song lyric.

Amanda continues: “That’s not in the interest of the neighborhood, for one thing. I’ve worked hard to build trust with the women. So, we’re not going to have husbands line up at the door, for god’s sake.”

I note that Amanda hasn’t mentioned the “begging-for-cock door-to-door” thing, and I’m glad. Dayna would have me beg for cock every night of the year.

They talk more on this, and Amanda graciously lets Dayna hold court.

I start tuning out. The thing is, I’m quite sure that Amanda’s decision long ago to share me with Master McKenna was in fact her agreement with what Dayna is saying now, about placing me under male domination in order to give me that sort of experience, to “put me in my place.”

Soon Amanda, ever the wooer, gently shuts her down: “Dayna, I understand what you’re saying, and I’ll think on it more, but frankly, it’s just not how I wish to manage Shae.”

Their conversations often end in something like that. Amanda is amused by Dayna, sometimes truly interested in her domme ideas, but ultimately puts a stop to Dayna’s forceful bluster. In this, Mistress protects me.


They talk awhile about Amanda’s business trip and time with family. Dayna expresses her sympathies regarding Amanda’s family member facing some difficult health issues. She goes on to talk about a cousin of hers. I remain standing, in the room and yet not in the conversation.

As they talk and catch up, my mind wanders. Dayna is a force of nature, but most dominants are. While it seems she rubs me the wrong way, I am aware that it’s not an automatic outcome for a submissive to necessarily “like” her dominant. Dominants are not there over us to make us feel comfortable. And yet, a submissive hopes for some relational simpatico with her dominant. Especially in 24/7 lifestyle arrangements, it would be hard to live full-time with a dominant whom you really didn’t like.

We all move out to the patio, refilling coffee mugs on the way. Outside, I stand as the two of them sit. Again, I am in formal protocol, hands to my sides.

I thought further about how much more chancy it is when you don’t actually choose your dominant, when a dominant is chosen for you. In my case, I never chose Mistress Amanda nor Master McKenna. Yet, I have been lucky to have been taken by dominants whom I happen to enjoy. That’s fortunate, but then again, in choosing me, they had some sense of who and what I was beforehand, and perhaps they picked up the vibe that I would get along rather well with them.

I think about Dayna in this way, wondering if she has any sense of these relational dynamics. Would she choose me as her slave, if she had that chance? My mind doesn’t want to go there.

I rouse from my reverie, realizing Dayna is now directly asking me a question.

She has to repeat herself: “Are you spending enough time on your knees, girl?”

Ironically, I heard that as a girl growing up in a Baptist church. But Dayna isn’t asking if I’m praying often enough.

“I’m not sure, ma’am.” It’s an impossible question, as I don’t know what “enough” is supposed to be. Dayna has a way of making any question a Catch-22.

“Are you giving blowjobs as often as you should?”

I stand, my hands to my side, accepting her query even though I wish to run back into the house. It seems that every time she visits, there’s a direct interrogation session with her. She has now moved from third-person to first. I’m now under the spotlight.

Again, I have no idea what she means by “enough” or how many blowjobs I “should” be providing, though I suspect anything I answer won’t satisfy her. “Ma’am,” I finally reply, “all I can say is I provide that any time I am asked and ordered.”

She sits back in her chair, offering what might be a little harrumph. “I believe sex slaves need frequent reminders that they’re sex slaves.”

Dayna won’t let this go, and what seemed to have been asked and answered before has now surfaced again. Yet I realize she is returning to the scene of her crime differently now — this time in a direct inquisition of me.

“Yes, ma’am.” I wish to say to her that I’ll be sure to review that section of the Sex Slave Manual, 2024 Edition and brush up on my requirements — but I hold my tongue. My throat is filled with sass and a touch of bile, but I’m intimidated by her and don’t dare.

I call her “Ma’am” by her own preference. Mistress Amanda doesn’t like to be called “ma’am,” as it has an age connotation, but Dayna doesn’t mind that. It’s not appropriate for me to call Dayna “Mistress,” though she would dearly like to be considered that to me. I also call her “Miss Dayna” at times, but “Ma’am” is the more common way I am to address her.

“Do you do a good blowjob for McKenna?” she asks.

I don’t know what “good blowjob” means to her, why she cares about Master McKenna. “You’d have to ask him that, ma’am,” I say, my answer deflecting but true.

“Do you swallow his cum?”

Please. Do we have to go there? I glance over at Mistress Amanda for help. Her lips are in a straight line. She offers me the faintest of nods. She’s putting up with this, so I have to as well. Setting my jaw, I pause before reluctantly answering: “I do, Ma’am.”

“Including others,” she continues unabated, “on average how many blowjobs a week?”

I am blushing now, in part from my humiliation in talking about this but also in part from my anger in being treated so. But I endure it. I am to project a submissive spirit to everyone, and most of all anyone who is dominant, and yes, even Dayna.

Again, this is impossible to answer. “About twice a week, maybe,” I say, rounding up. I’m aware she’s put me in the position of wishing to state a high number of blowjobs, like that is some mark of achievement. Though, to her mind, it’s simply adequate. I add, “But it doesn’t go like that.”

“Tell more.”

I find myself in an improbable explanation of my fellatio history, saying perhaps more than I should about Master M and how he might “use me for oral” a few times a week “but not always” and not always to fruition, for he uses me to prime himself for Maria. As I’m saying something about how he “dips into me but doesn’t finish in me,” I realize I’m saying way too much. I stop, then restate what Amanda has said about how Blake stops by about once a month.

I look over at Amanda again, half expecting her to say something about my addiction for cock, and how I would like more cocksucking. True as that is, I dread getting admitting and detailing it for Dayna. I have to think she knows this already about me, and perhaps that’s why she is pressing this subject in her interrogation of me.

Both Mistress and Master have themselves prompted me to talk about and answer to my penchant for cocksucking, knowing it humiliates me and enjoying my squirm in answering to it. Dayna is merely doing the same thing — yet it feels more judgmental somehow and again a Catch-22 — I’m damned by not having enough cocks in my mouth yet damned for craving them so much.

My mind is distracted and confused in my responses, and I make the mistake of mentioning the door-to-door-begging-for-cock event that Mistress has instituted, which Dayna didn’t know about. I wince as my words come out.

“Manda,” she exclaims, “you didn’t tell me about this!” Which leads into further and extensive description of that and the cring-y specifics of my cock-begging walk one night.

“Well,” Dayna said finally, “begging for cock around the neighborhood suits you, Shae.”

It’s as if she’s complimenting me on my pretty dress. But it’s a backhanded affirmation, and I have to wear the shame it conveys. “Thank you, ma’am,” I reluctantly say.

“Manda, I applaud you for your creativity. But I’m telling you your slave girl needs to be used more than even this.”

This part of the conversation ended, thank god, but it left me feeling my slavery in a new calculation: as a mathematical measure of my oral sex performance and a new awareness that 1.66 blowjobs per week is somehow not nearly enough.

(more to come…)

updates

Sunday afternoon, a good time for an update post. A few scheduling updates:

Maria will join us the week after next, just in time to witness some of my scheduled humiliations. I’m excited. I miss her already.

My elephant-gift of lawn-mowing for Miss Helene has been postponed due to rain. Actually, it seems it will be rainy most of this week, so this has been shifted to sometime the week of May 20.

The car wash elephant gift may happen that week as well.

I am also scheduled with Blake that week.


Mistress Amanda, ever the builder of businesses and bondage devices, has new ideas for my public humiliation.

She has been talking with Blake about constructing a pavilion in the back forty, set far from our patio in a separate section of our massive yard. She envisions neighborhood gatherings there, and is thinking of it as a kind of open-air clubhouse for neighbors to schedule and use for themselves when entertaining family and guests. It would be a useful meeting place for tea times, an outdoor party place. Equipped with overhead space heaters, it could even be a lovely venue for winter — a hot-chocolate event at Christmas amid falling snow.

Yet she also speaks of sturdy eyehooks and roof winches being installed for my attachment and hanging.

As she has imagined that with Blake, they have also talked about a gazebo. This would be in the front yard, as they are thinking it, small, not for a crowd, but more as a decorative curiosity piece. The front of our house has a steep slope and long driveway, partly shielded at the frontage road by a line of trees. But there a rise in the grassy slope which is perfectly visible from the street level. Mistress is talking about putting this gazebo there.

Again, Mistress speaks of eyehooks and possibilities for my bondage display, creating sort of a “front-yard bay-window experience.”


On another note: thank you all for your comments to my query a couple of weeks ago about wearing a permanent collar. I have learned a bit more about what Mistress and Master are talking about. Full confession: I mis-heard some things originally, assumed other things not so, and was premature in what I wrote. For this, I have been reprimanded, and it remains to be seen if I will be punished for bollixing this all up.

At the same time, they acknowledge that what they told me was incomplete and undecided — they were in the middle of a conversation about it, and even now are still discussing pros and cons. They just didn’t expect me to blab their partial and inconclusive discussion to the whole Internet. As Mistress chastised me: “Mark and I are certainly not going to weld a collar to your neck, Shae. For god’s sake!”

What grieves me most is that I tromped on a beautiful thing: what they’re talking about together is creating some sort of permanent symbol I would bear that expresses their mutual intention to keep me permanently. Now, they are not romantically involved nor do they wish to merge their lives together in any way, but they are agreed that they are “wed by me” as co-owners, and they wish to acknowledge that to each other and to me. When I learned that, it made me cry.

An interesting side-something: one of their concerns for me wearing a permanent collar has to do with church.

An “eternity collar,” so I’ve learned, is engineered to look like a seamless ring of metal but in fact has little set-screws on the top edge that are invisible to the eye. Those screws can be undone and the collar opened, but it’s apparently a bit of a meticulous process to do so. Which is sort of the point. So it’s not permanent in absolute terms, but in practical purposes rather is.

Master and Mistress don’t wish any collaring of me to impede my social interactions in church on Sundays. While normally they like me to be humiliated in having to explain my lifestyle to vanilla folks, they agree it’s inappropriate to require that of me in church. And, neither of them wish to have to go through a process of undoing the set of tiny screws in an eternity collar every Sunday morning.

There are other options, which they are talking about. So, at the risk of a some sort of public punishment spanking, let me make it very clear: they are just talking, nothing has been decided, and they won’t do anything that endangers my health.

And I’m very sorry I screwed this up.


I am scheduled for a sharing with Scott and Cecilia Kemp on the weekend of May 25th. There’s some uncertainty about whether they will have me on the Friday or Saturday night. Mistress Amanda has told them that doesn’t matter in terms of my availability.

Apparently they wish to take me out to dinner that night, sort of make it an escort date, and then take me home with them. They’re also inviting Amanda to stop by the next morning for breakfast — and after, to watch them “have another time with me.” She has wanted this, to observe, and they are open enough to invite her into their intimacy with me.

I am nervous about it, as I always am ahead of time. In my previous sharings, I’ve fretted beforehand, but then when I get there, I feel comfortable, and things seem to go well. In a way, I’m more nervous about going out to the dinner with them that night. Seems I’m not used to actual dating — and that’s kind of a commentary on my life.

ripples of relationship

As usual, my blog posts are a week behind my current life situation, as I cannot seem to write my experiences in real-time. I would be a terrible beat reporter for a news outlet, as I would want to ponder the event for a couple days, take another two days to write it, then get around to posting it… eventually. But reporting my life is a different “genre,” so to speak, for I am trying to write matters of the submissive heart as well as paint pictures of unspeakable things. So, it takes time.

As it happens, I’ve been back home with Amanda for a week now. In terms of eventfulness, not much has happened, not much to report on. And yet, we’ve had time together to find our union once more, settle into our patterns, and slip into the D/s love that defines us. So, while it’s been quiet, much has happened in the crevices of relationship.


All my primary relationships seem to be finding deeper places within me. Maria — as I’ve just written about. Mistress Amanda — now with us coming back together after an absence, feels like she’s digging further into me to fulfill her dominance. And Master McKenna — well, something during my last week under him felt more right than ever before.

My regret is I don’t know that I have the writer’s capacity to express these subtle shifts and deeper movements in our poly. They are seemingly inexpressible.

I feel that Maria is something of the catalyst for these ripples in all my relationships. Her coming under Amanda’s dominance on occasion seems to have some positive effect within me for some reason. Whatever seemed to be a unstoppable progression of intimacy between Maria and Master M has apparently slowed, or found its level. I don’t mind them being close or even him preferring her in a certain way, but I think some of their coziness has made me feel insecure of my place in his life. Now, in the moment, not so much. And that has also something to do with the growing relationship between Maria and me. There’s more balance in our quadrangle.


I think also that the “firming up of our poly” is putting my other relationships into a better perspective for me. As I am shared with and gifted to others, I feel a deep need to make those into meaningful and lasting relationships. Maybe it’s that I don’t want my life to become a series of casual, fleeting one-night stands. Maybe it’s that a part of me doesn’t want to be perceived as the slut another part of me knows I am. In any case, I have approached my sharings with a strong wish to make them significant — meaningful and lasting.

Well, in practice, they can be made meaningful, but not so much lasting. Neighbor couples are enjoying me mostly as a one-time event in their marriage relationships — Roald and Theresa on the occasion of their wedding anniversary; Scott and Cecilia in two weeks as a fantasy they wish for before they move away. These are meaningful and special but not necessarily recurring or lasting. With Stacy and Robert it is slightly different, as Stacy wants me again and wishes to make me a girlfriend with benefits (that’s how she and I have talked about it), but she and I are rarely in town at the same time for very long.

The reality of that is I really can’t make these into the deeper relationships I might wish them to be. I am an event for them. Which is what it needs to be. I cannot be a relationship with them. I cannot become an ongoing part of their marriages.

For some reason, the solidifying poly of Mistress and Master and Maria and me, has made me feel less needy for these outside sharings to be so lasting and important. I’m not so sure I understand why.

I still hope that, in my sharings around the neighborhood, the “event” of their sexual time with me somehow sweetens their marriage, strengthens their relationship, and deepens the experience they have with each other going forward. I will always try to make these experiences meaningful. But maybe I can more easily walk away from them now as one-time encounters. And maybe that’s because I have others who are filling my soul.

Maria and me

There have been more moments between us, Maria and me, that go beyond empathy and the natural emotions of shared submission to this man.


There is that — how we have become bound together by being bound together, so to speak. We are two women who share the unique experience of being born as deep submissives, a rare and confusing sexuality that renders us wanting to be made receptive and docile and needing to be possessed.

We both have experienced the aloneness a submissive feels in her condition. It is one reason I write a blog — to connect with other submissives like me and try to articulate this intricate web of submissive sexuality and strange desire. For Maria, I am learning, it has been a long awareness of her desires of this ilk, which for her had no name or label and which she had to keep harbored in secret.

When I was the only one kneeling naked in the middle of the massive space of the Great Room, submissive to the man, I was, even in my glorious humiliation, so very alone in my rare affliction. But then another woman, submissive like me, Maria, was plopped down into my same circumstance. It was like being on a desert island and suddenly finding another likewise stranded. Joy! In that, we immediately bonded, even though at first we didn’t know each other. It was a relationship formed out of our unspeakable affliction and our solitary sense of being castaways in it.

We find connection as well in a shared life of naked sexuality. What we do for him is physically and sexually intimate, of course, more so for me than her, but we both are often made naked for him. Women in general are used to seeing and being around other women’s bodies, comfortable in the presence, and so for Maria and me to see each other undressed is not in itself remarkable. But that our flesh is seen and played with and used by him is the common experience that binds us more deeply. We have witnessed and participated in each other’s arousal and humiliation.

He whips us both, but whips me more and more severely. At times, Maria watches, even handing him the instruments of my corporal humiliation. But her response to me is one of identification and empathy. On one occasion he had flogged my breasts and tummy and thighs, reddening them and making them burn. He took then to my back and ass cheeks, rosing them with the flogger and soon brandishing a single-tail. As he striped me, making me yelp and cry, Maria looked at me with deep feeling. Soon she walked in front of me, leaning her breasts into mine, and held me during my ordeal.

In all these ways, she and I are bound together by our shared submission, humiliation, and sexual service, understanding each other’s feelings as he effects them in us. If this is a kind of love, it is empathy.

As I am spread out and bound in the four-poster and he has just frosted my lips with his cum, I know that when Maria leans over and kisses me, it is not the kiss of romantic love. It is a desire to share in my submissive depths, to identify with me in the experience of being fucked while bound, and to literally taste the manhood that coats my face and mouth.

It is a beautiful thing, for sure, lovely and meaningful, and I cherish such kisses from her, but they are, we both know, kisses of empathy, a symbiosis of feeling what the other feels from him.


Last Friday afternoon, Master chose to knock off from work early: it had been a more relaxed work week anyway, following the two weeks of board meetings on the road, and he felt the three of us needed to start the weekend sooner.

A further point: Master (and I) had been concerned about Maria’s health all week. The road trip had exhausted her — she’d worked late-late nights and early mornings for two weeks straight. This was not required of her by Master M but was her own wish to make everything happen smoothly and perfectly (which it did). In any case, she returned home in a deep fatigue and all week had been slowly replenishing.

So on Friday, Master M called for an early happy hour.

As usual, Maria and I both were dressed in our pleated micro-miniskirts and heels, serving him his bourbon with a splash of water. I have come to think this time each day is, for Master, a homage to an earlier era (before my time, but what he grew up in), his own re-creation of a playboy culture in which half dressed women sit at the feet of debonair men in smoking jackets drinking bourbon. Our happy-hour is often not a dominant-submissive time per se, but this same sort of erotic lounging party. Yes, Maria and I are there by virtue of our submissive commitment to him, but the happy hour is often not about D/s activities and more about, well… two half-dressed women sitting at the feet of a debonair man in a smoking jacket drinking bourbon.

We indulge his retro fantasy: Maria and I in all our naked boobishness, talk with him, jiggle to the kitchen to fetch snacks, sit on his lap, pour another drink. On Friday night, Master engaged us in a round of “Would You Rather,” the hypothetical posing of a choice of predicaments he might consider putting us in, with each of us saying which we would choose.

In time, Master said he had to make a call and then would retire to bed early. Maria was obviously sleepy but said she wanted to hang out a while. She and I continued talking, the two of us on either end of the caramel-leather couch.

Her side of the conversation slowed as she was fading off, and Maria stretched herself lengthwise on the couch, facing up, her head on my lap. I draped one arm under her neck and the other, holding my wine glass, across her waist. I continued to sip my white wine as she nodded off in my arms.

I confess to being particularly enamored of Maria’s olive skin. It’s smooth and dusky, in shades between dark and light. In this moment of her slumber, I took in her luscious flesh, admiring once again its shadings and shimmer. I set down my wine glass in a crevice of the couch, and lightly, softly, stroked her cheeks, her neck, her shoulders. Maria murmured, an assent coming from within her drowsy sleep.

I did not intend anything, yet it wasn’t accidental. I’d had just one glass of white wine, just starting a second. I was fully aware as my hand slipped down to trace the shape of her breasts, grapefruits in the shade of ecru. I cupped one of her breasts, giving it slight squeezes, my thumb sliding over her nipple of milk chocolate.

We have touched each other before in the course and flow of our submissive lives. We have embraced while naked. Our breasts have mushed together while being whipped. Our lips have met while sharing his cum. But this was different.

I leaned down and kissed her because I wanted to. My lips lingered, and I tasted this woman in a new way, without the sugar of Master’s presence. She was beautiful, and I wanted her in this twilight moment.

Maria roused, reached her hand around my neck and pulled me close. We kissed again, long and wet and thrilling.

This was not a kiss of empathy.


I still do not know where this goes, when it goes, how far it goes, if it goes any further. I imagine it seems counter-intuitive that in my life of sexual slavery, in which my sex is summoned at the snap of someone’s finger, this between Maria and me so slowly develops.

I think she and I both know this is not really about sex but about relationship — and our relationship is still being figured out. Ironically, part of this is about us finding our relationship apart from Master M. Under his rule, we are sisters in submission, sometimes even twins. Apart from him, what are we? I think we are finding that we want to be something with each other in our own truth. That is, we wish ours to be not just a relationship forced by our circumstance, but emerging naturally from a mutual attraction and an independent choice. That is the part that takes time.

I have come to think that Master is playing a longer game in this. He could, but doesn’t, force us together in some submissive act of lesbian hedonism. He knows, I think, that what we are growing here in this test-tube of life in the mansion is something he wishes to last for years, not an erotic experience he wishes to watch this weekend. He needs us to find ourselves together.

And in this, I am finding Maria to be far more intuitive and wise than I ever imagined. I think she has an emotional intelligence greater than my own, perhaps honed in the crucible of her own family dynamics. She too knows that whatever happens, or does not happen, between us has to be the right thing in its right time.

I think she knows there is the love of sisters, the love of friends, a love that is empathy, and the love of something more. I think she and I are now tasting the love of something more.


Saturday morning, Master had gone to play golf, and Maria and I were planning our day. Nothing was said between us about our night before. I started to fear that she truly had been asleep the whole time, despite her responses to me, and that maybe I had taken advantage of her in my fondling and my kissing her.

I was on my way out to go to the horse ranch, but I couldn’t leave without saying something. I found her in the kitchen and stumbled through some words: “Like, I have to tell you something… so, last night… you were sleeping on the couch with me, in my arms… and I, I touched you…”

“I know,” she said, stopping me. She looked up at me with happy eyes. “It was kind of wonderful, wasn’t it.”

interlude

We fall into a pattern of quiet debasements, he and I, random and subtle, that satisfy his dominance and tug out my submissive attachment to him.

On Wednesday, following my morning toplessly assisting Mr. Jeffers on the patio project, I’ve showered, cleaned up, and returned to the Great Room. This afternoon, Master M has done me up “proper” in a modest shirtdress and matching heels, allowing me to feel like a professional woman of purpose and dignity. And so I am in these hours his business aide, doing meaningful office work, moving between my work space and his desk and the copy room, all with a swish of a pretty dress and the confident click-clack of my pumps on a wooden floor.

I enjoy my dignity for a while, but in the middle of the day, he calls me over. He pulls out of a drawer a ring-gag, one that stretches my mouth into a gaping chasm, leaving no doubt what could be inserted there.

What might make this notable to everyone but him and me is that there are no words, just a quiet understanding that somehow this is what he must do to me and somehow this is what I am. This is how we are now, and have been, silently connected in our mutual addiction — his need to own a woman as property and my eager dependence on a man who does that to me.

I stand before him, hands to my sides, submissively ceding myself to receive his administration of disgrace. He comes close to me with the ring-gag, and I slowly breathe in his scent of spice and pine and dominant musk. In the moment, I quiver and flush, feeling my flesh under my dress as if it were bared and fondled. This what I missed the most during our board-meeting travels — these minor dominances that say he possesses me.


I am not unaware that to Master M “possession” is a noun — and I, Shae, am that noun, that “thing,” he owns. I can imagine it is a remarkable experience for a dominant to keep a girl as his noun, his object, to be able to do anything he wishes with her and to her at any time.

But for a submissive, “possession” is a verb. A passive verb at that: I am one who is obedient, who is made topless, who is whipped, who is used for cocksucking, who is fucked, who is submissive to anything. I “am possessed” is the passive verb that defines me.

And so, it is in these moments of this quiet debasement that I so long to be Master M’s noun, made to fulfill my verb.


He affixes the buckle of the leather band under my hair, lifting my tresses in back to tighten it. There is a subtle statement in this. If he had strapped the ring-gag around my head and over my hair, it would suggest his immediate and urgent intent to use my mouth for his pleasures. But by arranging the ring-gag under, hiding its leather under my auburn hair, he is making it a part of my intended look, an accompaniment to my heels and dress, a fashion accessory that completes my presentation.

At times in my submissive life, I am aware that I am Master M’s opportunity to “play with dolls.” It is perhaps a stereotype to say that boys, while growing up, have soldiers and G. I. Joes as their version of dolls. I know for a fact that Master M played with Legos growing up, but I don’t know if he had military figures. But now in his dominant adulthood, he clearly enjoys having a living “doll” in the action figure that is me. I don’t know if this comes from his observation of Mistress Amanda’s dress-up play with me, but he has made it a part of his casual uses of me, finding pleasure in dressing (and undressing) me at random times, fashioning me into female images he harbors in the dark recesses of his dominant male mind.

And so in a brief interlude in the midst of this workday, he has dressed me and accessorized me into a particular fashion image that pleases him. He has put me into a swishy dress, slipped me into high heels, and even arranged my hair. I am his doll, made glamorous like some red-headed Barbie — but now also with the striking accessory of a ring-gag to make a fashion statement.

As if to double-down on his redefinition of my elegance, he asks about a particular purse I have. He doesn’t know the name of it, but describes it. I know he means my black pillbox, and he sends me upstairs to get it. I return to him with it dangling from my arm, the vintage black cube of a purse that matches my retro glamour.

He has me step back and stand for his perusal. He tells me to turn around, and I slowly pirouette in place for his approval. To him, I am pretty — despite, or because of, the ring-gag that shapes my mouth into a cock-sized O.

He hands me a white lace handkerchief to put in my purse. He explains this is to wipe away the drool from my mouth. Oh, so elegant.

We both return to work at our desks.


About an hour later, Master calls me over, and hands me a note to deliver to Katya, the mansion maid and laundress.

I find her cleaning the spare bedrooms on the third floor. “Pretty dress,” she says upon seeing me, and then noticing my ring gag, utters “Oh!”

I am aware he wishes to show me to her as his latest doll creation. I am presented as his “Pretty Woman,” his kept slut, my mouth bondaged open as a literal reminder of what people already know — that I am, among other disgraces, a passionate cocksucker. Already saliva is pooling again in my mouth, and to Katya it could as well be a pool of his fresh cum.

I hand her the note and the pen he has supplied me. We stand there for long moments, with me not being able to talk and with her not know what to say.

My life with him is not a surprise to her, but it is a mystery. Katya has seen me before in various states of debasement, and now this is another. Her puzzlement seems not to be about why he does such things to me — for “men will be like that” — but why I submit to them. And even then, her attitude toward me isn’t judgment for doing so but a confused poignancy that I am somehow trapped by my own need to do so.

That’s not far from the truth, actually, and I stand before her, sudsed in my submissive need and bathed in her silent pity. What she doesn’t understand, what few people understand, is the inexpressible pleasure a submissive receives from her domination.

Katya reads his note, writes something. She hands it back to me. I give her a slight nod and walk away.


I don’t know what the note says or what she writes in return. I do not read it on my way back to him. I expect it’s something trivial or some word to her to respond to me in a certain way. I realize the note doesn’t really matter and was never the point. I was always meant to be the message.

I hand the note back to Master at his desk in the Great Room. He nods approval, imagining, probably with quiet glee, what I endured with Katya in my moment of elegant disgrace. In all of this, I thrill to be his possession, and even in having endured Katya’s gaze of pity, I feel my submissive pleasure. This has been our mutual exchange, our silent partnership.

It all has been just a few moments of a D/s afternoon, not an “event,” but a little thing, a minor dominance, a quiet and unremarkable interlude in our D/s life together.

Like this, we fall into a pattern of quiet debasements, he and I, random and subtle, that satisfy his dominance and tug out my submissive attachment to him.

how to dress for a brick laying

There was a bit of kerfuffle at the start of my brick-laying duties with Mr. Jeffers, which commenced on Tuesday morning.

Master had me wearing a denim skirt for this project, along with a pair of ankle work boots. And, of course, nothing on top.

In fact, I don’t have a pair of work boots here at the mansion, but Maria does, and we are within a half shoe size of each other. I thanked Master for not making me wear high heels, commenting on how nice-looking Maria’s boots were instead, and he replied, “Jeffers isn’t going to be looking at your boots, Shae.”

This is the season of the year that gets warm in the afternoons but is quite cool in the mornings. Neither Master M nor I thought about how chilly it still was outside at eight-thirty am, or what that might do to a woman half-dressed.

Master walked me out the back, ostensibly because he wanted to leave some further instructions about the patio project, but really just so he could watch Mr. Jeffers’ reaction to my naked breasts and my resulting embarrassment.

Ahead of this patio-building task, I vowed to myself I was going to do this thing “agnostic” — that is, without thinking of my topless state, just focusing on the work I was to do. Let Mr. Jeffers have his ogling looks. I would survive this better if I just acted and worked as if all was normal and proper.

Well, Master and I stepped outside, and, let me tell you, it was brisk. Mr. Jeffers was mixing cement in a metal trough on wheels. He stood and gazed at me, taking in my goose-bumpy breasts and my pink-pearled nipples in the bracing breeze. He smiled, said hello. I don’t know if he expected to see me this way, or if he hoped to see me this way, or if my naked orbed flesh was a total surprise. Whatever, he drank of me visually, while I acted “agnostic,” as if I was fully dressed and dignified.

I asked if I could get him some coffee. I had thought of this ahead of time, thinking it would “normalize” things between him and me. After my punishment some time ago for disrespecting him, I have been seriously regretful, and since then, intentional about giving him his due authority. So, I went back into the kitchen, poured him a mug of joe, and returned, serving him his coffee — again trying to pretend that I was not standing there with my breasts naked and that he was not staring at them with a shit-faced grin.

By then, Master M said, “This won’t work, Shae, it’s too cold for you.” While I was touched by his concern for my comfort, I reminded myself this was the same man who whips these same precious breasts with a cane until they scream for mercy.

Master stepped back into the mansion and called for Maria. Master and Mr. Jeffers huddled to discuss the “problem.” Maria soon joined them, and I half expected Katya and Mrs. Yuan to be called out to confer as well. As they all talked about keeping me warm, I stood to the side, cold.

Master explained to Maria his first-world problem of how to keep me warm while still exposing my boobs. Seems that Master M, so good at undressing me, in this moment was clueless about the geometries of my flesh and how to dress me in something warm yet revealing. (It occurred to me later he might intentionally have made this much ado about nothing.)

Mr. Jeffers suggested he get a blanket from his back shed, and I feared how that blanket might have been previously used, what vermin might still be hibernating inside it. Shivers.

“I’m really okay,” I said. “Once I get working, I’ll warm up.”

Thankfully, Maria said, “I know what will work,” and headed back into the mansion.

While waiting, Mr. Jeffers explained to Master M the extension to the patio, saying things about matching the brick to the existing patio, and how it will look different for a long while until the brick weathers. He would, he said, create a line of white brick in the design to make the old and the new look intentional. I realized then that this was a complicated project, and I’d be involved in it for days to come.

Minutes later, Maria reemerged with my denim jacket. She had me climb into it, and carefully arranged the sides as a frame for my breasts, fastening the front snaps up to the bottom of my bodice, tightening the jacket around my boobs, but leaving them exposed. She had seen Mistress Amanda do this with me using a cardigan sweater.

Shoulders warmed. Breasts exposed. Problem solved.


Within fifteen minutes of my actual work with Mr. Jeffers, one of the snaps of my denim jacket came undone. I snapped it back, but it opened again and again.

An hour later, the sun had rolled above the ridge, and I got warm. I just took the jacket off, casting it aside, letting my boobs roam freely.

I pretended not to care, taking seriously the task of matching the bricks to Mr. Jeffers patterns, handing them to him one by one, my breasts rolling and swaying in the process.

I may have been agnostic, but Mr. Jeffers was clearly enjoying the view. I think he is a true believer.


He taught me how to select bricks from the pallets for his workflow. It was more of a skill than I might have imagined. Brick colors had to be matched or differentiated; broken bricks were possibly useful around the curves. My job was to anticipate his pattern and path and to fetch bricks accordingly, laying a dozen or so at his side for his final selection. It took me a while to get the hang of it, and he corrected me on some occasions, but soon we developed a pretty efficient process.

Beforehand, I had thought that Master’s assigning me to Mr. Jeffers for this work was a sham excuse for exposing and subjugating me. Mr. Jeffers, so I’d thought, just wanted to see my tits, and Master M wanted to provide them. Well, yes, there was that, certainly true. But now I began to understand that my assistance would actually speed up Mr. Jeffers’ work, and that I was necessary, or at least actually useful, for more than being a live, in-the-flesh pin-up girl.

I asked Mr. Jeffers how he’d learned to do masonry. I know him as a landscaper, which he does well, but how does he have the skills to do this too? He told me that this was actually his first job, when he was a teenager, learned from his father, now deceased. He said he later became an arborist, and as he learned about trees, he found himself in a landscaping business. His life seemed like a series of internships, from which he mastered a wide gamut of skills. To top it off, as a hobby, all his life he’s worked on cars.

I developed a new image of Mr. Jeffers as a jack-of-all-trades, and I was rather impressed.

I have no idea if this — a new understanding of Mr. Jeffers — was part of Master’s intention in pairing me with Mr. Jeffers for the patio project. Master is a teacher more than a counselor, and I don’t know that he is so keenly aware of interpersonal dynamics. His approach is usually to put people in a room together to figure things out themselves.

Master has appreciated Mr. Jeffers’ skills for years, and it troubled him that I had a condescending attitude toward the man. Master wanted me to respect Mr. Jeffers. I have written about the circumstances of my punishment and spanking in a moment of my going too far, and that did change my behavior, like a sharp yank of a dog leash.

My punishment confronted me with a rather ugly aspect of myself, a tendency to judge others in terms of their intellect and education. I came to write a post, “Someone to Look Down On,” and wrote this about Mr. Jeffers: “I have presumed my intellectual superiority over him. I was a woman of words, he wasn’t an articulate man, so it seemed, and I considered myself above him by virtue of my intelligence.” I also wrote, “I remain a little haunted by my Mr. Jeffers situation, like there’s more apology to be done. I still cannot look him in the eye.”

Maybe by assigning me to the patio project, Master M put me and Mr. Jeffers “in a room together.” As I helped Mr. Jeffers with the brick-laying, I discovered that even though he has little formal education, he is a man who knows about many things. He is smart about the physical world, creative with tools and repairs, and even spiritually connected to nature, as he care-takes the earth.

Mr. Jeffers became more human to me — less of a cartoon character peering through windows, and more a man gifted in many ways. A lot of ways I can respect.


None of that changes one thing about him — he really likes looking at my boobs. I felt his eyes following me as I trudged back and forth between the brick palettes and the patio. His manhood drank of me visually. He truly is a voyeur.

I reminded myself that Amanda also “likes to watch,” yet I don’t judge her for it. Whether it’s of me begging for cock door-to-door or of people writing vile words on my body at a New Year’s Eve party, she likes observing my naked humiliations. She even creates bay window experiences for the neighborhood, making them all literally into peeping Toms — Mistress Amanda having the pleasure of watching them watch me. She truly is a voyeur as well.

So, I must allow Mr. Jeffers his stolen looks and lustful gazes and peeping pleasures and let him bathe my breasts with his visual desire. I did so this week as I helped him build out the patio.

Now, as everyone knows, Master M and Mistress A frequently make me topless in social and public situations. I am blessed with good breasts, full and round, which they assert should be seen and appreciated. Of course, their real intention is to make me feel exposed sexually to others and to convey my submission in being so. But they do not render me bare-breasted all the time, for they know periods of being respectably dressed help me assume a dignity that they then can strip away in front of others. This cycle, dressing and undressing, is key to my conditioning as a submissive. It works to keep me from taking my nudity for granted — or ever getting used to it. Being alternately dressed then stripped feels freshly humiliating to me every time.

And so, I cannot say that as I spent this week handing bricks to Mr. Jeffers, I ever got used to my breasts being part of his panorama. Every time he needed another brick, he looked at me handing him one and was treated to a momentary gaze at my tits swaying forward. I was always aware of my sexualization before his eyes. I assume he was duly appreciative. I fancied that, in this way, I might be some bonus Master had granted Mr. Jeffers in his work contract under the “compensation” section.

But though I was blushingly self-conscious during all of this, I fell into a comfortable acceptance of it. It wasn’t that I stopped feeling sexualized, but that I started feeling that my sexualization was how I should be with him.

For a submissive, everyone comes to possess you, whether actually or imaginatively, each in his or her own unique way. We submissives are meant to be acquired and collected by others in a virtual way, and we must submit passively to how people have us, how they wish to make us their remembered pleasure. This is part and parcel of the life we have consigned ourselves to.

Working with Mr. Jeffers, I never had any fear that he would actually touch me. Something about his interactions with me actually conveyed a kind of hand’s-off awe, as if I was a fashion model or an art object. He was a watcher, not a toucher. Master M had given me to him as a visual gift. I realized this is how I should be with him.

There was a moment, among many, when I handed him a brick. But this one time there was a mutual awareness, I felt. Mr. Jeffers saw me in my disrespected state, my breasts pale and protruding, and somehow respected me for submitting myself to his private pleasure. And, maybe for the first time, I recognized Mr, Jeffers as a man of intelligence and skill, and was able to look him in the eye once again.

writing an auction story: redux 1

I have been surprised by how many have responded to my fiction idea of a “submissives auction.” It seems my own fantasy of this is shared by quite a few others.

I won’t take a lot of time in my blog to talk about it (I know it’s not everyone’s interest), but I may from time to time come back to it, sharing my current imaginings. I also invite others to contribute. Maybe this can be sort of a collective “build-your-own-fantasy.”


Here’s where we are…

  • A reader has suggested I do this as an anthology, telling separate-but-related stories. A great idea. I am now thinking of it as a series of novellas, each featuring a different submissive being auctioned. “Tales from the auction floor,” or something like that.
  • Someone suggested telling each story from two points of view — the submissive woman auctioned as well as the dominant bidder-buyer. I like that too, although I’m not sure I can effectively write the dom’s point of view. I would need help with that.
    • I am collecting your ideas for the actual program of the event. In some ways, I’m thinking this would follow the segments of a traditional beauty pageant. In other ways, it might feature aspects of reality TV shows — competitions and challenges.
    • Someone suggested that the submissive talent include professional women, even executives, CEOs, and so on. My original thought was to make sure that the “submissive talent” is vetted by the event creators, ensured to be women at a level of intelligence and means, not desperate and at the edges of life.
    • It has been suggested I consider having some auction bidders be couples. Or just single, dominant women. This goes to the intention I have in telling the “story beyond the auction event” — say, what it would be like for a submissive to wake up the next morning in the home of the winning bidder.

    My original intention, one of the aspects of this writing project of greatest interest to me, is to make the event as realistic and plausible as possible. I think this kind of an event could be actually, in real life, be done legally and successfully. I want to write about it as if reporting it as a real adult entertainment, aiming to depict it with a high degree of realism and believability.

    This remains an open forum. I welcome comments on these ideas and suggestions for others.