Karen and the Torture Club

Chapter 1

Richard was impressed as he parked on the circular driveway in front of the large federation style house he and his wife Karen were about to visit. The lawns were carefully maintained as were the gardens of Australian native shrubs and trees. He identified the large Swamp Blood woods and the bottle brushes. He knew that most of the other plants were Australian natives but did not know their names. The house was spacious and built in the style of early Australian architecture which after almost a century of subsequent experimentation was again being recognised as being the most suited to the Queensland climate. Clearly the house was less than five years old and a great deal of money had been spent on the building and what must be the ten acres of grounds upon which it stood. Cicadas chirped in the afternoon sun as Richard and Karen closed the doors of their Range Rover and walked towards the double cedar doors of the house.

Richard found himself moving clumsily as the nervous excitement he was feeling welled up within him. He could hardly believe that he and Karen (particularly Karen) were there at all. He thought back over the five years of their marriage and thought of the events that had brought them to this point.

Their marriage had been a wonderful occasion; the two of them were deeply in love and eager to share their lives together. Karen's brother Gary said that deeply in lust described them better and in retrospect Richard agreed with him. Before they were married Richard lived in a single mans accommodation supplied by the mining company for whom he worked while Karen lived with her parents on their grazing property forty minutes drive from town. The wedding was the social event of the town; Karen's father was wealthy despite the downturn in the wool industry and had lived in the area all his life. He had once been a member of state parliament until the influx of miners into the district changed the demographics of the electorate and made it a very hard seat for a National Party candidate to win.

On return from their tempestuous honeymoon they had settled in a company supplied house for almost a year before moving to Brisbane. Richard had been Personnel Manager at the mine and had been transferred to Brisbane as the Deputy Personnel Manager for the State Based Corporation. Karen was happy to move to the city as she was stifled by the fact that in the small town she was seen always as her fathers daughter not as a woman in her own right and the wife of a senior executive of the mining company. She had a Degree in Business from the James Cook University in Townsville and had put it to good use streamlining her fathers business for which he paid her well. She was very happy working for her father before she was married but subsequently she felt that working with him reduced her independence.

Had she tried, she possibly could have got other employment in the town but that would have upset her father and she did not want to do that. She was happy to go to Brisbane with Richard where she obtained a job as the accountant to a company selling swimming pool equipment. Last year she was promoted to sales manager.

They were both determined to keep their marriage alive. Initially this seemed to be no problem as they learnt the secrets of each other's bodies and experimented with every sexual technique they could think of. Both had made a serious commitment to their careers and had both become involved in the corporate power game particularly since coming to Brisbane. Their time for each other was reduced and they began to take each other for granted. Sex, when they got around to it, was fairly routine and had lost much of the earlier excitement. Last February Karen went to a sales conference in Hobart. As is normal at this sort of an event there was a lot of dancing, drinking and flirting. It did not take long for Karen to find herself sharing her room and her bed with George, the Production Manager from the Sydney head office of the company.

On arriving home to Richard she realised that she did not want to abandon their marriage but that they must regain their interest in each other, for it to continue. She discussed this with Richard and even told him about her indiscretion in Hobart. He admitted that he too was looking for more sexual satisfaction and had been eyeing off some ladies at work and was working on a relationship with one in particular. It was a very frank discussion and they both handled it well. They decided to spend more time with each other and look at ways to add spice to their relationship.

From that time things certainly improved. They would dress up and play games. Occasionally attend shows where there were male and female strippers and they would watch movies, which were very explicit. Videos were a source of enjoyment although the X rated ones where couples just pumped away at each other soon became boring. The videos and movies that were of greatest enjoyment were those depicting couples tying each other up and those showing various forms of spanking. Some of these went too far and were cruel nor did they enjoy the ones involving verbal abuse of one person by another. They were disappointed when they found a movie that went too far. Suitable movies were hard to find even though both of them made frequent business trips interstate and occasionally overseas. In addition to the movies, they enjoyed tying each other up, mostly Richard tied Karen as they both enjoyed this the most. Also Karen enjoyed being spanked whilst tied up. Spanking had to be done in the right atmosphere and needed to be hard enough for her to not to be aware of anything else but the instrument teasing her body (be it hand, hairbrush, or cane) and yet not so vicious as to cause her any harm. After such a session their lovemaking was as vigorous as it had ever been and for more than a week after such a session they would hunger for each other.

By chance last week Richard noticed an advertisement in the personal column of an out of town tabloid newspaper. He seldom bought it himself but was browsing through this copy while he was waiting to have a hair cut. The advertisement simply said "Brisbane couples required to form bondage and discipline club" followed by a phone number. He wrote the number on his hand and as soon as he got back to the office he rang Karen. She was uncertain that it was a good idea. The idea of sharing her sexual proclivities with others was scary and she wondered what such a club got up to and would it be safe. On the other hand, it might be fun. Richard suggested that provided that they could always back out and that they did not have to give their names it would be worth ringing the number and investigating. Karen agreed. Richard suggested that since Karen was the more uncertain of the two of them, that she should be the one to phone and he would go along with whatever she felt after the call. Karen thought that was a good idea. They agreed that she would phone right away and that she would tell him about the conversation when they both got home that evening.

As he drove home Richard was keyed with anticipation wondering if Karen would have exciting news. It turned out that he arrived home first and had to wait an agonising fifty minutes before he heard his wife's Holden Commodore pull into the driveway. The sparkle in her eyes and the intense kiss she gave him, on her arrival home, made it immediately obvious that she had news to impart.

"Well!" She said,

"I rang the number, the mans name is Ross and he sounded very nice." "The club hasn't started yet but he is trying to get one going." "Not counting a few calls from single people, who he rejected, he has got eight couples, so far, who are interested." "What he has in mind sounds exciting and safe. The idea is that one or two ladies will be randomly selected at each monthly meeting for what he calls a "show", but the activities of each meeting can be changed depending on what people would like." "He suggested that we meet him next Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock."

"How do you feel about doing "shows"?" Richard asked.

"I think I will be terrified going to each meeting and even more scared if I get selected - but it will be very exciting to be in front of other people and I think it will have a better atmosphere than when we do it by ourselves."

"It's not a swap club is it?" Richard asked

"No!" Karen replied, "I asked him that."

"OK, if you are happy, then let's see the man on Saturday" she agreed.

Richard pressed the brass doorbell and heard the faint sound of a computer-generated tune from somewhere deep within the house. Before the tune stopped the door was opened by a tall, attractive woman with an engaging smile.

"Hello" she said "Karen and Richard?"

Richard nodded as Karen said, "Yes."

The woman introduced herself as Ann and escorted them inside where they met Ross. They were a charming couple. Richard estimated that they were about five years older than themselves. Ross appeared to be about thirty-five and Ann slightly younger.

Both couples were uneasy at the unusual circumstances of the meeting. Richard and Karen were particularly so while Ross and Ann had obviously had previous similar meetings. They chatted for a while about where they had driven from and "No - they had had no trouble finding the house." Ann brought some drinks. The girls had Moselle and the men, beer. Eventually it was Richard who said "Well! Lets talk about why we are here."

Ross explained that he and Ann like sex games involving various forms of bondage and they often spanked or whipped each other in that position. Occasionally Ann tied and spanked Ross but they were both more stimulated the other way around. They were at a loss to explain what deep Freudian urge led them to these pleasures but they had discussed it at some length and had come to these conclusions; Ann was aroused by the actual tying up and whipping (or whatever) but more by the threat and expectation of it. She also felt that there had to be some novelty in the situation. They had initially enjoyed their games in their bedroom and around the house (and still do) but now they needed more innovation and variety. She could not explain why but to be whipped or spanked before an audience would be even more thrilling. Ross was excited by the visual impact of the scene of a woman giving herself up to a total loss of control and squealing and squirming in complete abandonment to the punishment. They also felt that Ann's body might be harmed in some way if they were to engage in their delights as often as they desired. They hoped that the meetings of the club would provide Ann with the threat and expectation she desired without necessarily having to undergo frequent punishment. Ross would enjoy the scene regardless of who was to put on the "show." The nods and murmurs of assent from Richard and Karen made an answer to Ross' question "Well do you want to be involved?" almost unnecessary. Ann then tactfully offered to show Karen around her garden. In between an enthusiastic commentary on the native plants in the garden and listening to Karen's' experiences whilst living in the bush Ann exchanged stories with Karen on the bondage and discipline games they enjoyed most. She stressed to Karen that Ross "did not just fool around in the punishment games they played" and made sure that Karen really wanted to be involved for her own reasons. Later they went inside and had coffee and some of Ann's freshly made fruitcake with the boys.

Ross explained that, counting them, he and Ann had now interviewed thirteen couples and had, so far, selected nine as being suitable for the club. Two of the couples he rejected because the wife did not seem as enthusiastic as the husband. The other couple were not married (not that it mattered) but they had only known each other a few months and seemed to want involvement with others in the club. They agreed that there must be at least twelve couples to start the club so that they would always have about ten couples available. It would be wise to allow for one or two to be absent from meetings for various reasons. Ross felt confident that he would "get" another three or four additional couples next month. He would send a letter to all the couples to advise them of the date of the next meeting which would be at his house for this first meeting and at other couples homes and possibly other places as well for subsequent meetings. He said that he wanted the club to form a management committee to control the club after the first meeting. He felt that it was important for the club to give each lady a nice present after she had been selected for a "show." He felt that a yearly contribution of $1000 per couple would be appropriate. Richard agreed.

They were very excited as they drove home and discussed the meeting in great detail - each telling the other of the discussions that took place while they were separated. The conversation and the prospects the club offered aroused them both.

Finally Richard said "Do you want to do something wicked?"

Karen nodded her head vigorously.

"OK - just wait 'till I find a place to pull over." He said. Soon he pulled into the car park of a shopping centre that had closed hours ago. Parking in a secluded corner he told Karen to hop out of the car, strip off all her clothes and get back in. She did so very quickly. Sitting back in her seat she was panting from the exertion of her high-speed strip since she had not wanted to be naked in the car park any longer than she could avoid. She was very aware of her erect nipples and crinkly aureole partly due to the cold air outside the car but mostly due to her excitement. Richard then took a roll of packaging tape from the glove box and got into the back seat of the Range Rover. He then told Karen to reach both hands behind the bucket style seat in which she was sitting and to place her thumbs alongside each other behind the seat. He then expertly wrapped the thumbs together with the tape so that she could not get them apart.

She was trapped. Richard delighted in securing her in erotic positions with the minimum of equipment. Who would have thought that six inches of tape could result in her sitting in a car, arms stretched behind her, breasts thrust forward to minimise the tension on her shoulders. Provided she displayed herself in this way she was comfortable but so exposed. Moreover the coarse pile of the seat cover made her very aware of the nakedness of her lower body as well. Richard smiled. She had that blush on her face just below her eyes as well as on her neck spreading down her chest to her breasts. This was a statement of her arousal more than any words she could say. To her horror, he started the car.

"You're not going to drive anywhere with me like this?" she screamed.

"Yes" he replied, as he put the car into gear and drove off.

She felt that everyone could see her and she felt frightened but excited not only to be naked but bound as well. In reality, in the darkness of the car and with the slightly tinted windows, she was very hard to see. Only at red lights was she in trouble if there was a lane of traffic beside her. A pizza delivery boy with a large red telephone handset on the roof of his car got the surprise of his life when he pulled up beside them at a traffic light and saw her. He waved and made propositions to her from his car. She poked her tongue at him as they drove off. She begged Richard to cover her up. He refused and only cut the tape from her thumbs when they were in the garage at home. Clutching her clothes to her, Karen flailed Richard with her handbag and then with her bare hands after he took it from her. Grabbing her wrists he escorted her to the bed where her resistance collapsed and they made gentle but vigorous love twice before going to sleep cuddled together and again when they awoke next morning.