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The Value of Roleplay

Article by debauchette


I'm in his hotel room. He's in the bedroom, waiting for me - I'm standing in the sitting area. I walk around the room and see his briefcase. His work is piled up on the desk, next to a laptop. I pour myself a glass of water and then I approach the bedroom, open the door and find him sitting on the ottoman by the chair, next to the bed. He's fully dressed in his suit, though he's removed his tie. From what I understand, he's a lawyer, so this is probably what he wore to work. I close the door behind me and dim the lights. He's waiting for me to do something. I take a sip of water and then place the glass down in the bedside table. He's hired me to be dominant and I have no idea how.
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...it makes me feel powerful, and that power makes my heart pound.
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I think about how a dominant looks - I picture a kitten with a whip, maybe a pair of thigh high boots. I'm wearing a short black dress, stockings clipped to a garter, and a pair of black stiletto heels. I wonder if I should be wearing boots. I wonder if I should be wearing more makeup. And then I wonder what he wants me to do. He's still looking at me.

I know I can't mimic a dominatrix because my experience is limited to the occasional Maria Beatty film, and the image that come to mind, of a screaming, angry hellcat, doesn't fit me. I'm not sure what he wants, and I'm worried because I want to be paid. I stop thinking about how I should look or act - it's not getting me anywhere - so I turn inward.

Growing up, I was taught to be restrained and polite. I was taught that women aren't supposed to be aggressive, that women are supposed to receive male attention, not control it. I was taught that it's unsexy to be domineering, so I've been the opposite of this. Easy-going. Amenable. Receptive. And it's my nature to be easy-going, amenable, and receptive. Each time I pull up a quality that I think this man needs, I sense a warning: be forceful, and you'll scare him off. Be controlling, and he'll lose interest. The dissonance is dizzying, so I pause and search for another approach.

I stop thinking about him and start thinking about myself. I sense another warning: thinking about yourself is selfish and one-sided. But I think about myself, what turns me on, what I love, what I want. I love cock and penetration and being held down and fucked. But that's passive. I love cock and penetration and fucking men like they're objects. That's closer.

I think back to those moments when I spontaneously took control in bed, when I put a boyfriend in a schoolgirl pin, my shins pinning his arms overhead while I spread my pussy over his face. It was a fleeting moment, driven strictly by the urgent need to come, and then I reverted back to my receptive, amenable self once I came. I focus on that memory and that moment, I pare away the details down to that feeling, of needing to come, of needing to fuck, of needing it so badly that it drowned out those nagging warnings that keep my behavior in check.

I look at him - he's still sitting on the ottoman, waiting for me to do something - and I start to objectify him. I think about his mouth and his cock and his hands, and I think about the fact that I've got this submissive, compliant man entirely at my disposal. My cunt throbs. I think again about his cock and picture him naked, fully erect, tied to a bed. My cunt throbs again.
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I walk over to him and tell him to strip down to his underwear. He responds immediately, eagerly. He unbuttons his shirt quickly and tosses it in the corner, pulls off his undershirt. He slips out of his shoes, unfastens his fly, and steps out of his trousers. The moment his pants hit the floor, I tell him to kneel, and immediately he drops, kneels, and calls me Mistress. He thanks me, his eyes fix on my shoes. His responsiveness surprises me - I've never seen a man do this before, respond to my commands like that - and it makes me feel powerful, and that power makes my heart pound.

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If I hadn't worked in roleplay professionally, I never would have discovered what it can do.

In college I'd experimented a bit with roleplay and it was vaguely interesting as a novelty, but I couldn't get past the fact we were just playing games. Roleplay, to me, just seemed like a distraction, sometimes a hilarious distraction, from sex itself. I felt that sex didn't need all that extra noise, all the costumes and equipment and complicated scenarios.

When I was hired to roleplay, I'd only intended to see fetishists - I thought I'd leave roleplay to the experts and the naturally talented. But it wasn't long before I had no choice but to learn. And what I learned was to access parts of my personality that lay dormant, repressed, or just undeveloped. It was only by force that I was able to get beyond the surface of what seemed like play-acting to uncover whole worlds of experience. The ravenous dominant. The demure submissive. The cock-hungry powerslut. The coerced exhibitionist. On the surface, it was just play, but fundamentally, it was entirely real.

And there's nothing like being in sync with your partner and you both slip into a fantasy together, him whispering in your ear as he fucks you from behind, you muttering down to him as you hold his face against your cunt. Roleplay doesn't need to involve costumes and equipment and complicated scenarios. It's a form of space, shared mental space, in which you two, in some complicit understanding, become someone else, through an untouched part of yourself.
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