TITLE    : First Timer: The Wide Belt
STORYID  : first-timer-the-wide-belt
SUMMARY  : A sadistic Dom punishes his male sub.
AUTHOR   : Cal Y. Pygia@lit
DATE     : 2005-12-01
CATEGORY : bdsm-stories
FLAGS    : 
TAGS     : |anal|ass|ass cheeks|buttocks|paddle|belt|bruise|welt|sadomasochism|spanking|


SNAP!



Russ pulled the ends of the looped belt in opposite directions a second and a third time--



SNAP! SNAP!



Gary had assumed the position that Russ had ordered him to adopt. Kneeling by the side of the bed, he'd laid his upper body down, across the mattress. His red and purple ass, decorated with small bruises along either side of the cleavage between his buttocks and along the undersides of his ass cheeks, was a perfect target for the belt. Having taken up his position behind Gary, Russ had snapped the belt a few times to make Gary more anxious. Part of a good spanking, Russ had learned, was to frighten the person whose ass was to be beaten. Snapping the belt that was going to be used to inflict the pain and suffering on the waiting buttocks was a good way to affect such fear.



Gary had closed his eyes. He was holding his breath, and his teeth were gritted. Instinct told him to clench the muscles in his ass, too, but he resisted this impulse, knowing that he'd increase the pain if he tightened these muscles. The beating was going to hurt enough as it was--it was going to hurt plenty--even with his gluteus maximi relaxed. There was no need to increase the pain.



Russ didn't want to strike Gary's bottom too many times with the wide belt. The cruel band of thick leather would smart almost unbearably. If Russ inflicted too much pain, Gary might rebel or even end the spanking session. Besides, if he delivered the lashes well, each of them would be exquisitely painful. They'd bite deeply into Gary's bruised buttocks, leaving welts that would hurt for hours. The raised ridges would be red at first, but, over time, they would turn purple or even brown, adding to the color and beauty of the hues and marks with which Russ had adorned the flesh of Gary's behind.



Since he was going to deliver only half a dozen strokes of the belt, it was critically important to target the strikes so that they would cause the greatest pain and add as much as possible to the total effect of the beating. Timing was important, too. If Russ delivered the lashes too slowly or too quickly, the cumulative effect of their sting would be lessened. After giving the matter due consideration, Russ raised the belt over his head and brought it down fast and hard. The leather strap made a loud CRACK! as it struck Gary's ass cheeks, creating a long, wide furrow in the soft, sleek flesh that sprang back as Russ lifted the belt again into the air. The pathway that the leather strap had formed in the flesh of Gary's ass was a bright, angry red. Within moments, the red deepened to purple, edged with a dark blue-black color.



As the belt sank into Gary's flesh, he tried to leap forward, but he was pinned in place by the side of the bed beside which he was kneeling and over which he leaned. He'd folded his arms under his chest, but his shoulders jerked upward from the mattress, and he lifted his head, howling with pain. Tears had welled in his eyes, and he gasped deeply. His heart beat fast, and his pulse raced. He moaned and whimpered.



"Lie down!" Russ ordered. He waited for Gary to obey his command.



Within moments, still gasping and whimpering, Gary did as he'd been told.



Russ pulled the ends of the looped belt in opposite directions: SNAP! He had a full erection. His cock stood straight up from his groin, rigid and swollen with blood. His balls were high inside his tightened scrotum. He took quick, shallow breaths, fighting o control his excitement. Concentrate! he told himself. The sight of Gary's misery enflamed Russ passion, but he forced himself to repress his urge to follow the initial stroke with as many more as he could deliver before his quarry managed to evade him or, worse yet, escape. To deliver the spankings to their best effect required self-control, not surrender to a maniacal bloodlust. To expend the all-but-overwhelming desire to beat Gary's ass as frenziedly as his arm, strength, and stamina would allow, Russ jerked the ends of the belt again and again: SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!



Russ intended to deliver the first three blows at intervals of fifteen seconds. He'd rain the remaining three strokes down as rapidly and as hard as he could, one atop the other, which would create such pain that Gary would be reduced to trembling and tears. Russ raised the belt high overhead. Silently, he counted down the seconds: fifteen. . . fourteen. . . thirteen. . . twelve. . . eleven. . . ten. . . nine. . . eight. . . seven . . . six. . . five. . . four . . .



three. . .



two. . .



one!



The belt swooshed through the air. Russ' aim, as always, was sure, and the wide leather strap, describing a perfect arc, connected solidly with Gary's ass cheeks, precisely on target, along the same red-purple band that the first stroke had marked upon his buttocks.



Gary shoved his upper body up, pushing off the mattress with his folded arms. At the same time, he howled. Although, from his vantage point behind Gary, Russ could not see his victim's face, he had seen enough guys' expressions at such a moment as this to know, in general, what he would have seen were he able to observe Gary's features. Gary's brow would have been both furrowed and knitted; his eyes would have been shut tightly; his down-turned mouth would have gaped wide; and the tendons in his neck would have stood out like cables or cords in his throat. Most likely, tears would have sprung into his eyes. Gary's howl of agony was replaced with moans and groans, which, as the pain spread through his fiery buttocks, were, in turn, replaced with a pathetic mewling sound.



Russ waited, counting off fifteen seconds again, before bringing the wide belt down with a devastating impact upon Gary's black and blue bottom, precisely upon the band of flesh that had already been the recipient of two terrible strokes of the leather. Again, the force of the blow made a deep impression in Gary's ass cheeks--and an even deeper one, Russ thought, in his thoughts--and he launched his upper body into the air, screaming as the pain ignited a series of fiery sensations that burned through his buttocks as if they were tendrils of lava erupting from the volcanoes of welts and bruises that rose in ridges and weals up and down and across his well-marked and colorful bottom. Another howl of indignation and pain sounded in the room as Gary gave vent to the anguish, physical and emotional, that Russ' latest stroke had aroused within his body and soul.



Russ' cock was like steel, as hard as it had ever been. Gary's obvious distress was exciting. He delighted in the other man's pain and suffering. Russ wasn't sure why he enjoyed seeing another guy's misery, but he did. It was a source of satisfaction to him.



In his younger years, Russ had researched sadism or, rather sadomasochism, in an effort both to understand himself, as a dominant man, and to understand submissive men. The term "sadist," he'd learned, was derived from the name of the Marquis de Sade, the French writer of novels concerning the domination and of others and the infliction upon them of painful and cruel emotional, physical, and sexual abuses. The term "masochist" was derived from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the author of Venus in Furs, which was an early novel featuring a protagonist who thoroughly enjoyed being humiliated and controlled. As opposites, the two proclivities complemented one another, so that it was natural for sadists to associate themselves with masochists and vice versa. Hence, the term "sadomasochism" was invented to identify this complementary psychosexual dynamic.



The fact that neither sadist nor masochist enjoyed giving or receiving pain for pain's sake led researchers to the understanding that sadomasochism was more about domination and submission than it was about sex per se. Indeed, sex was not an absolutely necessary component of, or vehicle for, the expression of sadomasochistic behavior. Spankings without overt sex, for example, could suffice to satisfy the sadomasochistic impulse, although sex--and, more specifically, humiliation through sexual means--certainly enhanced such spankings, which is why many parties included masturbation, fellatio or cunnilingus, and anal intercourse with spankings per se.



The essential components of sadomasochism were dominance and submission, which were associated not with physical or sexual behavior so much as they were with emotional traits and needs. The sadist needed to control, and the masochist needed to be controlled. Those who, unlike sadists and masochists, experienced pleasure in pursuing pain for its own sake were algolagnists. Russ certainly was not an algolagnist, and he doubted very much that Gary was one. Russ was all about control; Gary was all about being controlled. The administering and receipt of pain were expressions of their respective needs to dominate and to submit, to control and to be controlled, which, technically speaking, put them into the sadomasochistic camp.



Initially, thinking of himself as a sadist had disturbed Russ; the word, after all, had, in the popular mind, a negative connotation. The unenlightened regarded it as a form of mental illness, as they did masochism. Those who understood the complex nature of such traits and needs knew better. There was a sadistic and a masochistic element in all people, even young children, just as there was, in Russ' view, the potential for bisexuality in all people. It was merely, like most emotional aspects of the personality, a matter the degree to which people were motivated to act upon these needs that made one qualify as a "sadist" or a "masochist" per se. In some, the urge to dominate and control others was much stronger than it was among the general population. In others, the need to submit and to be controlled was much more evident than among the rest of humanity.



Statistically, sadists and masochists were "abnormal" in the sense that they would not, among the general population, fit the middle of a bell curve. However, the term "abnormal" was just that--a statistical, not a psychological, term. Being normal or abnormal had nothing to do with mental illness. Once Russ had come to understand this, thinking of himself as a sadist no longer bothered him, although he did prefer to think of himself as the dominant partner who interacted, emotionally, physically, and sexually, with a submissive partner. Of course, a wide array of socially conditioned emotional responses to domination and submission, including feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, fear, guilt, humiliation, inferiority, shame, and personal worthlessness for the submissive partner and of exhilaration, power, pride, strength, superiority, personal worthiness, and virility for the dominant partner, added to the complex richness and enjoyment of dominant-submissive behavior.



In studying domination and submission, Russ had learned that there was, besides the emotional satisfaction of controlling another person or being controlled by another person, also a strong biological basis for the enjoyment of such behavior. Like love, sex, violence, and pain were associated with the release of hormones and other organically produced chemicals, among which were testosterone (more for the dominant and less for the submissive partner), endorphins, lactic acid, serotonin, and melatonin.



Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing complied the first collection of case studies of sadomasochistic behavior in his 1886 anthology, Psychopathia Sexualis, but it was Sigmund Freud who recognized the dual nature of sadistic and masochistic personalities and created the combined term "sadomasochism," recognizing that many sadistic and masochistic individuals were able to switch roles, adopting either the dominant or the submissive part in these activities. Both Frafft-Ebing and Freud understood sadism as comprising a distortion of the aggressive component of male sexuality. Freud believed that masochism was a secondary trait, however, and, in men, represented a transformation of the sadistic impulse. Sadomasochism, he believed, was a natural characteristic of female sexuality.



Havelock Ellis made it clear that sadism and masochism were the flip sides of the same emotional coin, and that they were, as such, complementary, not antagonistic, emotional states. He also demonstrated that sadists and masochists were interested in expressing their tendencies to dominate and to control or to be dominated and controlled in a context of love rather than abuse and for the mutual pleasure of both partners rather than only one.



For Gilles Deleuze, sadism and masochism are distinct and separate impulses that share the common motive of controlling another person. The masochist delayed gratification permanently rather than temporarily in his quest to transform the sadist into a cold and callous person. The sadist, on the other hand, derived pleasure from exercising power over the masochist as a means of uniting his own superego and id in an attempt to overcome the demands of his ego or conscience.



Feminists saw sadomasochism as part and parcel of Western culture in which men are regarded as sexually and socially dominant and women are regarded as sexually and socially submissive.



Masochists, or submissive people, had been found to enjoy being dominated and controlled for many reasons, including therapeutic escape from stress, responsibility, or guilt through the adoption of a role of compliance or helplessness or the sense of being protected by a strong, powerful, controlling, parental figure. Sadists might enjoy dominating and controlling others because of the sense of power and authority that results from such activities or from their vicarious enjoyment of the submissive person's suffering.



Erotic spanking, Russ discovered, was regarded by psychologists as a form of sadomasochistic play in which the hand, a ruler, a hairbrush, a paddle, a switch, a belt, a cane, a crop, a martinet, or a whip could be used to inflict pain and suffering, usually upon the buttocks, while the recipient was fully naked so as to add to his or her sense of humiliation and arousal and often in association with role playing on the part of both parties. Spankings could involve a variety of positions, with the recipient of the spanking lying over the spanker's knee or lap, lying face down on a bed, stooping over the back of a chair, standing with his or her hands on his or her knees, lying supine with his or her genitals exposed for added humiliation, kneeling on a bed or an ottoman, stooping over with his or her hands on the floor, bending under the spanker's arm, bending over a wooden horse or a birching block, or resting upon the hands (or elbows) and knees.



Some adult bookstores, Russ found, offered "spanking kits" for sale to devotees of spanking, or spankophiles. These kits included such implements as paddles, belts, whips, and canes; latex gloves; antiseptic ointments; butt plugs and dildos; condoms; aspirins; bandages and tape; ginger root, chili pepper, and ginger; instruction booklets regarding erotic spanking, anal intercourse, figging, anal fisting, and other forms of butt play; and even liniments that, rubbed into the skin, cause an intense burning sensation in the buttocks. All these items came with a black valise that resembles the medical bags that physicians often carried in the days during which they had made house calls. Erotic spanking, it seemed, was becoming big business; Russ had seen estimates that claimed that as many as one-third to two-thirds of the general population of adults were interested in spanking or being spanked.



All these thoughts had flowed through Russ' mind as, cock erect, he'd stood behind Gary, waiting for the right moment to inflict the remaining three strokes he'd decided to administer with the wide belt. He'd delivered the first of the half dozen lashes at fifteen-second intervals to one another. The last three, he would inflict one atop the other, as fast as he could make the belt fly, directing each into the same pathway as the first three strokes had taken across the soft, sleek mounds of Gary's ass. The combined pain of these last three, lightning-quick strokes would be almost unbearable.



Russ tightened his fist upon the doubled loop of leather, raised his hand high over his head, and, keeping sight, always, of his intended target, flung the belt as hard and fast as he could, down upon Gary's helpless, waiting buttocks. Three times in rapid succession, the belt whooshed through the air, crashing deep into the bruised muscles of Gary's ass cheeks: CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!



Gary's responses did not disappoint Russ. He grinned as he heard Gary's screams, one following immediately upon the former in a rising crescendo of frenzy and anguish, mimicking the threefold delivery of blows he'd received from the belt: UGH! UGH! UGH! All the while, Gary rolled back and forth upon the bed, twisting and turning as, his hands having flung themselves rearward, clutched and rubbed his enflamed buttocks. The shrieks were replaced with gurgling moans. Gary's face was a distorted mask of pain and suffering, his features twisted with anguish and suffering. Tears ran from his tightly closed eyes, flowing copiously down his contracted cheeks. His ass was an array of discolorations, bruises, and, now, pinwheel-shaped welts, spiraling bruises, and ridgeline swellings.



This particular coloration and composition was certainly one of Russ' greatest masterpieces. It was no wonder, he thought, that his cock was like steel.



With his own hand, Russ had painted the background colors--the pinks and reds, the purples, the blacks, and the blues--of his canvas. With the wide belt, he had overlaid a constellation of darkening contusions. The effects were beautiful to behold, but his masterpiece was not yet finished. To complete the work of art, he needed a different instrument. He placed the wide belt back on the night table beside the bed, where Gary continued to writhe and moan, and picked up the next tool to be used--the cruelest of all the implements at his disposal--the thin belt.



It was time for the bloodletting to begin. . . .

