Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Beneficence

I admire her so!

Oh I so admire her!

I admire her for the keen, shining self-knowledge she possesses. And for her fathomless courage. Enabling her not only to deal with the crazy shit of this stupid world in general, but also to be the inspirational accomplished dominating woman she is.

She’s twenty-five. Beautiful. Black. Humourless, towards me at least. And completely in charge. I’m a thirty-seven year old white guy and I never had that kind of self-awareness or self-confidence. Before meeting her, that is. But she’s inspired me to discover and explore my true self, and given me the space to grow and flourish in submission to her. She’s incredible. And it’s truly an authentic pleasure, and a profound honour, to be allowed to experience her authority in such direct proximity.

I’m kneeling on the floor beside her as she sits in her armchair concentrating on her phone. She hasn’t told me to do anything else yet. I came over as instructed when she texted me about twenty minutes ago. I’d just got back from jogging when her text came through. My heart leapt. I showered, grabbed my favourite jeans and a crisp white t-shirt, gelled back my unruly short brown hair, splashed on some cologne, slid on my sneakers and within a matter of minutes I was out the door and dashing over on my bicycle.

“Kneel there,” she’d pointed to the floor as she sat down in the armchair in the lounge.

And now she peruses her phone and taps out quick messages in response to someone or something elsewhere. I kneel and wait, and study her. Achingly pretty face. Beautiful dark brown skin. Her body, robust with rude health, with a hint of chubbiness. Attired in a soft purple bathrobe. Just out the shower. All cosy glowing freshness. No jewellery at the moment. Nor make-up. Short natural afro glistening. Barefoot, seated with her legs crossed. Right leg over her left knee, right foot distractedly bobbing up and down in mid air. I can’t help wondering to myself if I might be allowed to kiss those delectable feet today.

She lets me wait here without even a glance in my direction.

“You can put some laundry in,” she says finally, still without looking up from her phone. But then she does suddenly look at me, scowling. She waves a firm forefinger in my face as she adds, “No sniffing my panties, mind!”

“Okay,” I respond, feeling my whole being instantly energised by the electricity of her gaze meeting mine. And my stomach somersaults at the joy of being targeted by her forceful caution.

“You better not, you filthy perv,” she warns me. “And when the laundry’s in, I’m going to need my nails doing. And then you can do the dishes and clean the bathroom. By which time that load of laundry should have finished so you can hang it up to dry.”

“Certainly,” I say.

She passes me an empty little plastic yoghurt pot with a teaspoon in. “Take this and get on with it,” she waves her fingers dismissively at me and turns her attention back to her phone.

I take the empty pot and go through to the kitchen and drop it beside the sink with the little pile of washing-up to be done. Then I go and collect the laundry basket from her bedroom, loitering to bask momentarily in the secluded private spirit of her room, the joyous confidential privilege I truly live for. I pick up some garments of underwear from the floor beside the basket and drop them in and take the basket through to the kitchen.

As I’m loading the machine and handling her clothing I succumb to temptation and press a pair of panties to my face, a pair of faded fawn panties with pretty little yellow flowers on. I draw in a deep breath. My nostrils fill with the exhilarating admixture of scents. The natural fragrance of her skin, her sweat, the unmistakable tangy piquancy of the aroma of her cunt, and that earthy, smutty whiff of her bum. All captured in the fabric and blended oh so perfectly into the most exquisite and arousing perfume ever.

My cock throbs and I throw an involuntary guilty glance over my shoulder, even though I know she couldn’t spy me being naughty from the front room.

There’s no way I can resist. I just have to have this ambrosial keepsake for later. I stuff the panties into one of my jeans pockets. After loading the machine and setting it going, I go and fetch her nail polishes, her set of nail brushes and her toe separators and return to kneel at her feet. I ask which colour she would like.

“Did you sniff my panties?” she asks.

“No,” I reply.

“Bet you did, you liar,” she says.

“I didn’t,” I assure her. “I wouldn’t. You told me not too.”

“Lying fuck!” she glowers at me. My whole body tingles. After a few seconds of scrutiny she relents. “You can start with my feet. Alternating glittery bronze and sunflower yellow today I think.”

I very carefully do all her toenails, confirming I’m getting the colour selection right as I go, inwardly rejoicing to be allowed to hold her glorious feet as I do so. Then I move onto her fingernails. Being incredibly careful all the time because she gets so mad if it isn’t done to perfection. And whilst I thoroughly enjoy being scolded and reprimanded by her, I have be very cautious about crossing the line.

When I’m finished, I tidy away the nail polish things and go and do the dishes. The first thing I pick up is the empty plastic dessert pot with the teaspoon in, which she had handed me earlier. It had been a creamy chocolate mousse. I throw the pot into the bin and put the teaspoon in my mouth and suck it. I’m instantly electrified by the knowledge that our mouths have touched the same object. I keep sucking for long delirious seconds. Eyes closed. In seventh heaven.

There aren’t many dirty dishes and it only takes few minutes to do them. Then I go and clean the bathroom. When I come to the toilet I can’t resist resting my cheek on the open seat where her bottom has sat. I meditate an ecstatic moment on her beauty, her sensuality, and her commanding presence. That bewitching, bossy backside that has sat pressed on the plastic where my face now rests. Feeling indescribably blessed and thrilled, I kiss the seat, and I get an instantaneous, vigorous erection. I can’t resist a quick, gentle, sneaky stroke of my firmness, but know I dare not get too excited right now.

When the bathroom is cleaned, I hang the load of clean laundry out to dry on the airers in the hallway and the front room, after which I go back to kneeling beside her.

After a while, she finishes what she is doing and places her phone down on the table next to her. She removes the toe separators and flings them across the room.

“All done?” she asks as she studies her toenails.

“Yes, all done.”

“Pick those up and put them away,” she says, waving vaguely at the scattered separators as she rises from the chair.

“Yes, of course,” I reply and get up and quickly tidy them up and put them away in her bedroom.

“Okay, you can piss off now,” she tells me, entering her bedroom as I’m coming back out. “Don’t have a wank. I’ll text you later if I want anything.”

Thank you,” I respond, “thank you.”

I pull the front door gently shut behind me, shaking my head in amazement. I’m always deeply moved by her grace and generosity, and my submissive little heart is absolutely bursting with gratitude and pride as I cycle home.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Article: Afro-Sensual Dominion

What is Afro-Sensual Dominion? Afro Sensual Dominion is a kink dynamic in which Black people dominate people of other ethnicities. Perhaps the most common manifestation is probably that of Black people dominating White people, and certainly this is the kind I tend to focus on in my stories about the subject, and it’s the form I will be discussing here.

The practice can have various expressions, such as sexual, sensual, BDSM(i), service, financial, even romantic, and can range from mild to severe, from playful to profound, and from intermittent to constant. And whilst it is obviously distinct from the concept of allyship(ii) against anti-Black racism, nevertheless Afro-Sensual Dominion can certainly come under that umbrella. It must of course always adhere to BDSM/kink protocols of mutual consent(iii). And, I believe, should be approached as a mutually beneficial celebration of shared humanity.

Afro-Sensual Dominion is not about exoticisation or fetishisation or perpetuating racist tropes, but about Black and White participating in a liberating rapport in order to heal, celebrate, give and build together in mutual sensual exhilaration and loving kinkiness. For the Black individual it is an act obviously constituted in grace and generosity: merely giving of time recognised as bounteous charity, proximity understood as sacred, and communications and attention of any and every kind seen as blessed gifts, bestowing revelation, education, nurture and joy. For the White individual it is essentially an act of repentance and reparations, whether expressed explicitly as such, or whether expressed as veneration, worship, desire, longing, gratitude, honouring, devotion, deference, obedience, service, or giving.

As regards terminology, I think some form of the term Afrosensual has been around for a while now, used most notably, as far as I can recall, by the amazing and wonderful Pangea's Garden, although I may possibly have coined the specific phrase Afro-Sensual Dominion. And if so, it’s a specific phrase arrived at because I feel it offers a broader and more nuanced application than an alternative such as, say, Afro-Sexual Dominion. And this is because, as alluded to above, the interaction we’re speaking of may not necessarily be sexual in nature. I feel the focus on sensuality suggests the more consistent and expansive idea of pleasure being derived from the D/s(iv) (Dominant/submissive) interaction no matter the outward form of that interaction.

This is the model of Afro-Sensual Dominion I propose and propound. My stories about Afro-Sensual Dominion are hopefully inspiring and enjoyable tales of the wonderful shared gratification of Black people asserting sensual dominance over White people, and the mutual joy of experiencing White people’s volitional sensual subservience, connecting at the deepest levels in acts of sensual, psychological, spiritual and socio-political significance, always rooted in the fertile soil of true equality. To my mind, Afro-Sensual Dominion is a beautiful, multi-faceted, revelatory D/s dynamic, brimming with nourishment, joy and exhilaration.

NOTES - I hope these links will be helpful -

(i) BDSM: Bondage and Discipline / Dominance and Submission / Sado-Masochism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM

(ii) allyship

https://antiracismprogram.org/the-role-of-allyship-in-the-fight-against-racism/

https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/antiracismresources/allies

(iii) Consent in Kink

https://badgirlsbible.com/bdsm-ssc-rack-prick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM#Fundamentals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_in_BDSM

(iv) D/s (Dominant/submissive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission

https://mashable.com/article/dom-sub-kink-dynamics-guide

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Sexy Film Review: Shortbus (2006)


This is a very explicit, tender, inventive and fascinating film. It has an almost surreally ethereal quality to it, beautifully accentuated by interludes of modelled artwork depicting sweeping cityscapes which deftly signal the heightened artistic sensibilities imbuing the narrative here.

The intertwining tales of (to quote the DVD cover description) ‘a sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, and a gay couple looking to open up their relationship’, as well as numerous other supporting characters along the way, form a heady, spiralling montage of feelings and ideas and textures revolving around issues of identity, aspiration, searching and belonging. It is all beautifully and boldly abstract and refreshingly human.

I really, really enjoyed this movie. There are some simply exquisite scenes, such as, to give just one example, when Sofia, the sex therapist, becomes distracted mid-session. Her mind wanders off into the trees which are through the window and across the way, and she just disappears into the undergrowth. It was odd, disorientating, inventive, engrossing. Much like the movie as a whole.

The thing that worked best for me, though, and the main reason I enjoyed Shortbus so much, is the fact that the characters were so beautifully conceived and so fantastically well portrayed. I found I was engaged by them from the very start, was intrigued by their individual journeys, wanted to find out what happened to them, and wanted them to be okay.

Ultimately, this is a distinctively quirky and finely crafted film, and one which I cannot see failed in any of its objectives. It felt fresh, vibrant and generous. A film with heart, soul and vision. Very highly recommended.

Ritual

Solemn without excuse, our sacred ritual. Sacred, hallowed, secret, libidinous, true. I will guide you again into your journey of self-discovery. And your joy will appear to you as bright and revelatory as the first time. It is your ambition, your breath, your prayer.

I prepare my body, and my mind, and my soul. I take the trouble to do a thorough, cleansing enema. Crude and prosaic perhaps, but nevertheless judicious and propitious. And actually quite stimulating in its way. Then I shower to emerge in pristine, glistening freshness. After which I set my hair and bathe by candlelight in rose-scented water with rose petals floating about me, reading some erotic poetry, drinking some wine and smoking a little grass. I relish the anticipative swell of fervency within me. My pussy throbs and I run a hand over my breasts and pinch my hardening nipples.

I’m ready. My mind refreshed. My body enlivened. My soul roused. I’m ready to be worshipped. Worshipped profoundly, reverently, devotedly.

I walk into our bedroom, where you await with devout obedience, reclining on our bed. Your naked milky white body shines luminously upon the black silk sheets in the oscillating golden glow of the candles placed around the room.

You have prepared our inner sanctum well, according to my instructions. The curtains drawn. The lights out. The room lit only by these choice variously scented candles. Vanilla, jasmine, cherry, sandalwood, musk and ylang ylang. The open bottle of red wine (Bordeaux, my favourite) standing ready beside the gold-rimmed, long-stemmed glasses. Our little antique silver dish, engraved with an interlocking floral motif, with four pre-rolled grass blunts sitting in it. I am pleased.

And I approve of your affectionate smile, your handsome male body firm and lithe despite your maturity, your submissiveness and eagerness to please evident in your whole demeanour. I love your spirit and I will accept your adulation.

As I sit in my beloved sleek teak Scandinavian armchair, nestled in amongst our little forest of houseplants, I note with joy how the candlelight caresses my very dark brown skin with a lustrous silken sheen. I am comfortable, serene, ready. I am where I need to be. Where I wish to be. This is our sanctuary of rejuvenation and renewal, my love. Our lair of revelation and fulfilment. The cathedral of our very own freaky kinkiness.

With a curling forefinger I beckon you from your repose and you rise from the bed. I tell you to pass me a glass of wine and a lighted spliff. You fetch them for me. And I point to the floor for you to kneel down as you proffer them to me. I draw on the spliff and sip the wine. It arouses me to study your attentive gaze and poise, because I know exactly what it is that you are looking forward to. Poor blessed soul. I share a little of my wine and smoke with you.

“This is very nice,” I muse airily. “Well done.”

There is one last remaining consideration before you perform your deed of veneration. The effortlessly glossy lift of some smooth jazz? The unrelenting optimism and vigour of West African djembe drum music? The gloriously unrestrained spirit of free jazz? I decide I’d like to hear the expansive, soothing, sugary refrains of smooth jazz, and so I tell you to go put on the playlist I wish to hear.

The velvety musical cadences flow into the room. Perfect. Soulful. Sensual. Tender. Meditative. I indicate you should turn the volume down just a touch. You return to kneel beside me and I take my time to imbibe the scene’s sensual gratifications and appreciate your submissive compliance and willingness to serve. How profoundly appropriate and restorative your participation is. Balm for the spirit. Affirmation. Human connection and empathy, transcendent simply because it defeats worldly expectations. I notice that your penis, though still flaccid, is somewhat juicily plump in partial arousal at your subservience to me. I gently rub my foot over it and study the rapt expression on your face as the ball of my foot massages your cock into full firmness.

I get up and stand at the foot of our lovely expansive bed. I wave you over to me and point to indicate that you are to kneel behind me. You do so. And thus in the tableau of our respective positions is revealed a beautiful and perfect symmetry. I tell you that you may begin and I accept your first affectionate kisses on my buttocks.

I draw on the spliff while you tenderly, repeatedly press your compliant arse-kissing lips into the soft fleshy globes of my backside. I exhale, feeling light-headed and energised and exultant. I sip my wine. I am wholly at ease with my ascendancy. And I’m so happy that we have each other, that I can share with you this sublime and logical manifesto, this beautiful correction to the malice and iniquity of the world, this esoteric and prismatic glimpse into the things that can be. It is your elevation and your salvation, and I accept your intimate act of redress as my rightful due. A restorative honeyed glow blossoms within my body. Show me, my darling, show me what an arse-kisser you are. Show me that you’re my very own personal, private, devoted arse-kisser. I’m your woman. I control you. I take you any way I want you. And I do so absolutely love your self-abasement and humiliation in reverence to me.

“Would you like to be permitted the honour of giving me the dark kiss?” I inquire, knowing full well what the answer is of course, but nonetheless relishing the necessary protocols of our ceremony.

“Yes please, my Empress Queen, yes please,” you respond predictably enough.

“Beg well enough,” I advise, “and I may bestow the honour upon you this very evening.”

You react with gratifying fawning enthusiasm, pleading for the honour and kissing my buttocks with even greater intensity. I sip my wine and anticipate the exquisite touch of your lips upon the ring of my anus, that most mystical of eulogies, that thorough relinquishment of dignity, that simple and delicately rude ode to truthfulness, that most personal, profound and intense individual act of repentance and adoration.

Then suddenly, while you are still zealously kissing my backside and imploring me to allow you to kiss my shit-hole, I abruptly walk away from your grasping hands. I know this will alarm you. I do this because I like you grovelling. I enjoy you bewitched and begging and surrendering up to me every last shred of your pride for my pleasure.

I strut to the bedside cabinet and refill my glass. I drop the stub of the spliff into the dish and take another and light up. I refill my glass then turn and strike a pensive pose, one folded arm resting over the other as I drink, exuding my best austere and concerned air, as if sternly interrogating your worthiness. The barely controlled panic in your face stirs a throb in my spiteful pussy. I drink and let you marinate in your anxiety.

There have been times before when I’ve halted proceedings in this manner. Either because I was tired, or just felt like doing something else. At those times it was cunningly convenient to feign dissatisfaction with you as the reason behind my decision to stop, as if you were not grovelling enough or some such expedient pretence. Thus utilising the opportunity afforded by my indecision in those moments to safeguard you more generally from complacency, and allow me greater freedom to toy with you. Prudently storing wisely against a day such as this, when you are now sincerely bewildered and uncertain, and aching for reassurance, while I may wallow smugly in your insecurity.

“I’m not sure I should let you.”

“Please, I beg you, my Empress Queen. Please.”

“Are you sure you deserve it?”

“I know I do not, Empress. But I beg you to please let me.”

I observe your erection and note how well behaved you are by not touching yourself. It is gratifying to see how excited you become by your subjection to me. Your large, smooth white penis stands so sturdy and hopeful. I stroll over to you and tap the side of your shaft with my foot. I see your stomach muscles strain against the desire in your hungry cock as it thrusts upwards and forwards to chase the touch of my little kick.

A smile breaks across my face and the game is up. You know from my smile that I will pursue the narrative of our piece of theatre. I place the spliff to your lips and you draw in the smoke. After you have exhaled I put my glass of wine to your mouth.

“Drink deeply, my love,” I tell you.

And you gulp down nearly the whole glass as I offer it, dribbling drops of red wine down your chin and over your chest and stomach. These gifts I supply to you because I am truly your friend, your advocate, your provider, your source of joy, your angel. And I want you to exult in your abasement as much as I.

I finish off the glass of wine and go and place it on the bedside cabinet. I swig greedily from the bottle and suck the grass spliff to a furious conclusion.

And now, our moment of conciliation. Of propitiation. This perfect moment. Our repudiation of fear and antagonism. A celebration of accord and balance. The advocacy of harmony and peace and love.

I beckon you to me. You shuffle on your knees across the floor to rest kneeling behind me. I guide your head to my backside. Your hands rest on my thighs. I glance down at you over my shoulder and ask, ‘Do you worship my Black womanhood as the ultimate aspiration of your desires and the complete fulfilment of your purpose?’

“I do,” you reply.

“Do you profess kissing my arse to be the absolute pinnacle of your accomplishments?”

“I do,” you reply.

“Will you always serve me, with all your being?”

“I will,” you reply.

“You may kiss your Empress Queen.”

I part my buttocks to accept the dark kiss from you. You hold my cheeks reverentially and I feel your trembling, pursed lips pressing onto my hot little ring. I could never describe how thrilling it is to my soul. My tummy flutters, my pussy throbs and my bum-hole puckers in response.

I sway with heady intoxication, not just from the wine and the grass, but also, and most poignantly, from the organic potency of our rude and incomparable intimacy. Eloquent and unclouded. Obscene and pristine. Dirty, filthy, shameful and utterly revelatory. Scandalously and outrageously honest and tender. I’m transported by your loving subservience. My Black arse puckers for another kiss. You comply instinctively, sensing my appetite for your obsequious propitiation, and I’m delighted by a forceful flurry of hot, passionate kisses to my anus. A river of unfettered acknowledgement and desire.

You’re a foolish, savage White man tamed by my Black feminine power. Enlivened by my acceptance. You’re a non-entity become self-aware by the transformative power of my gracious Black arse. How wonderful to have you within the fold, my love. I am your protector and provider.

After lingeringly enjoying your further kisses of submission and adoration, I decide it is now time to progress your intimate worship of my body and my soul. I step away from you. I stub out the spliff and slide myself on my tummy onto the bed over the spectacular silk. Parting my legs widely to receive your body, I wave you over and you come and settle in position between my legs to continue.

“Come lick it, my darling,” I tell you.

You spread my cheeks again and your tongue wets my hole, licking gently at first, and I know you’re relishing the honour. And then you grow progressively more and more fervent, a lovely rasping sensation softening my hole. The feel of your hot wet tongue pushing into my bottom is exquisite. My stomach muscles are contracting and relaxing in spasms of exultant pleasure. My head is spinning and my feet are tingling with excitement.

I grasp the soft silk sheet in my fists and gasp and mutter breathless encouragement to you. “Oh that’s so fucking good! Yes, that’s how I like it! That’s it, pleasure my Black arse for me, my precious little White man. Lick it for me! O that’s it! Lick it for me!”

And you lick so enthusiastically, so determined to make me feel all that you can give me, so eager to make me happy.

“Y’know, my darling,” I tell you, “I truly applaud your meekness and compliance.”

“Thank you, Empress Queen,” you reply as you lick. “Thank you for your mercy.”

“And your enthusiasm,” I say, “I love your enthusiasm. You really love licking my Black arse for me, don’t you?”

“Yes, Empress Queen, I do. Thank you so very much indeed for the privilege of being allowed to lick your Black arse for you.”

“Oh you’re so smart for a White guy,” I murmur blissfully. “So gifted. So wise.”

I reach around and stretch across the bed for the bottle of wine on the bedside cabinet. You crawl responsively on your stomach at my backside, following my stretching movement, eager to keep that obsequious Caucasian tongue deep in that ebon hole. “Mmmm, I just love that wise, appreciative tongue up my arse! How does that taste, darling? Taste good? Sweet like cherry pie, right?”

You mutter affirmatively, enthused and insistent. I glug down the last of the wine and slip the empty bottle down beside the bed. I’m euphoric, my body worshipped and glowing. Your every tremble, lashing flick of your tongue and clinch of your greedy hands reverberating throughout me. I begin to feel myself floating in the trembling fringes of a sublime ecstasy, drawn ever closer inwards towards an incomprehensibly vast galaxy. A grand pleasure too beautiful to describe. For the sake of art, and poetry, and truth and testimony, and for the lucidity and focus of our minds, I vocalise an ecstatic monologue as you hotly plunder the galactic splendour my arsehole.

“Luxuriate,” I exhort, “in the veneration of my glorious dark sensuality. My indisputable dark allure. My exquisite dark dominion. Luxuriate, my darling anomalous White man, in your lowly humility at the altar of my Black sensuality. Because you are, by our mutual consent, mine to school with my counsel and indulge with my charms. Your surrender, my love, is your life. To my womanhood. To my Blackness. To my fearful majesty. This is your temple. This is where you worship God. They say when God made Black women he was just showing off. Well, how true is that? Show me how true that is. Show me you recognise the truth of that statement. Show me you believe. Oh yes, that’s it, that’s it! Fuck it! Work that tongue for me! Show me how much you love my Black arse. My wondrous Black arse! How you love abasing yourself in worshipping me. Surrender your dignity to me, your privilege, your soul. Pleasure me. Pleasure your Black goddess like the grateful, obedient, courageous White man you are. Craving me, craving all the magnificence that is Black womanhood, craving my Black assent, desperate for my approval. Lick my Black arse for me, my darling! Luxuriate in that Black arse! Oh fuck! Oh fuck! That’s it, lick it, you fucker, lick it!”

I groan wildly as I run out of words with your happy little tongue running rampant in my anus. I’ve been rubbing my pussy and I’m suddenly aware I could bring myself to orgasm very easily. I instruct you to jerk yourself off. I want you to climax with your tongue up my arse. I want this to be your pinnacle. I want your utter, depraved, earnest subjugation to me to be the most sparkling evocation of heaven you could ever dream of.

“Come for me, darling,” I say. ‘But you better keep that tongue busy up there in my arse! You hear?”

“Yes, Empress Queen. Thank you.”

“Come for me right now,” I tell you curtly.

You grip my thighs harder and I feel you tense and quake as you break into shuddering spasms and release your load, your tongue still obediently jammed into my hole. You cry out exultantly and I finish frenetically frigging myself off.

‘Oh fuck! Oh fuck!’ I gasp as I shake and writhe in my sharp, incredibly satisfying orgasm.

My head is flooded with light. I’m disoriented but wholly here. My body is at one with the universe. I feel your tongue still obediently wiggling in my hole as waves of pleasure lap at my soul and body. You’re licking slower now, without the frantic urgency, but still with warm, wet affection. I tremble. I soak in the moment.

After a minute or two I tell you that you can stop. You stop licking my hole and kiss my bum fondly as you roll aside with a groan of contentment to rest beside me. We’re sprawled out here together in the peace, floating in our converged sexual consciousness, sharing the vibrations, each absorbed in our own glistening perceptions of our wholeness, skin touching skin with your shoulder pressed against my thigh. There is no rush to go anywhere, or to do anything, or to be anything other than free and elevated. We can simply revel in the splendour of our disclosure. Our ritual complete. Our secret glory fulfilled.

An alto-sax reverberates forlornly in the fluctuating candlelit ambience, joined after a moment by a sympathetic glissando of electric guitar over the gentle, warm beats. Shifting on the bed to reach for another spliff, my feet brush the moisture of the semen you ejaculated onto the silk sheet in joyful self-abasing veneration of me. I kiss the top of your head. We have perfected a beautiful sacrament, you and I. Solemn without excuse.