GUTTERGAUNT

I must confess: I like my sex to be mostly monogamous, consensual, heterosexual, and in the flesh. I’m currently in a serious relationship with a wonderful guy, and so far, it has been very satisfying and fulfilling, and I couldn’t be happier. How then, did I manage to become a virtual mistress to a woman named Lila?

I wasn’t looking for the role. Two years ago, I found a link to Lila’s website on my friend Nick’s site. At the time, I had just begun my foray into the blogworld and was avidly seeking other people’s sites to read. To my surprise, I found that Lila had linked to my new site. Most of the people who had linked to me were people whom I’ve known for a while, so I didn’t expect to be linked to someone I wasn’t already acquainted with. However, I figured that a friend of Nick’s had to be someone interesting, so I wrote Lila an e-mail introducing myself and telling her I was pleased that she was reading my blog. Lila responded that she had discovered my site through Nick’s site, and had been reading my online writing from the beginning. Our friendship began from there.

It was a perfectly platonic friendship at first. We exchanged e-mails and discovered we both grew up in the Philadelphia area, were about the same age, and had similar tastes in books. We talked about our mutual friend, Nick. It was like writing to a pen pal, and I enjoyed our correspondence.

And then the infamous Memorial Day bet occurred.

Lila’s sexual repertoire consists of love affairs with women, filled with playful wrestling, bondage, and domination, that are short term with a definite end date. Last year, she was under the mercies of a strong, beautiful woman named Valkyrie, who very shrewdly decided to make Lila’s last date with her especially memorable by eliciting suggestions from blogreaders on what things to do to Lila. Skeptical that any readers would write in with ideas, Lila proposed a bet with Valkyrie: that Valkyrie could only do whatever suggestions were received. If only a few people wrote in, then after those requests were administered, that would be the end of the date. If there were many requests, then the date would take as long as it would take to fulfill those requests, even if it took more than one day.

When I read about this bet on Lila’s site, I figured it would be funny to play along. I posted a link to this post, asking my readers to contribute. And after much thought, I came up with a few ideas of my own that I sent to Valkyrie: dressing Lila up in a maid’s outfit, tying her up naked and making her bare stomach into a fruit salad bowl, pouring warm honey over her body, putting nipple clips on her, and twenty spankings on her bare bottom. I had thought my ideas were rather tame, but if anything, it would make for interesting reading when Lila recounted her date. I had simply intended to watch for updates on her site and see what kinds of suggestions others had written in.

But that trickster Nick found a loophole in their bet. His suggestion was to continue receiving suggestions through the Memorial Day weekend. And Lila’s former lover, Neige, evilly suggested to Valkyrie to invite her over to share in topping. Nick, Valkyrie, and Neige became a virtual triumvirate, each knowing little secrets to what would make Lila squirm.

Compared to these three, I didn’t know Lila well at all. But then, Lila didn’t know me well, either, for in her May 10th post, she wrote that “I’m sure that Yoko’s suggestions were really fairly mild. Yoko never struck me as having a real evil streak…. I’m sure she wouldn’t take undue advantage of my predicament.” Although at the time, I thought my contributions were not on par to those I imagined were being sent by hardcore BDSM folks, what Lila didn’t realize was that I do enjoy teasing, and can hold my own with the best of them.

I think what eventually turned the tide were the nipple clips. Apparently, Lila has sensitive nipples, and after having her nipples iced before donning the clips and having Neige and Valkyrie taunt her with her own words about me, it made her realize that I have more of an evil streak than she had originally thought. It also made me realize that I have more power over Lila than I had thought too, and that I didn’t have to think of far-out, wild things to make her beg for mercy.

So, when Valkyrie asked for suggestions during the Memorial Day bet for poses for photographs of Lila that would make her blush when posted to her site, I had my ideas ready. And I was right: Lila started begging me for mercy. “Yoko, I’m so sorry I doubted your evil streak!” she exclaimed. “Please forgive me! Please tell them not to post those pictures!” I chuckled when I read this, and my taunting and teasing tendencies came into full bloom then. I allowed the photos to be posted, knowing Lila would be humiliated and aroused by my mercilessness.

On the last day of the bet, Valkyrie had written a message on Lila’s blog, thanking everyone who had participated. She especially thanked me, saying that I had been very much present the whole time, making it seem as if I were “an equal partner… a third co-top!” She added that Lila would now be my own “naked little punished slave.” Little did any of us know how true those words would become….

Next: Part Two—My Fate As a Mistress is Sealed!