Consent & Desire & Submission, Book I: A Psycho-Sexual Cascade

I’m an educated and successful woman.

I’ve never thought of myself as a submissive. I study the human mind; in particular: I’ve spent years researching Consent.

Klaus argued—no, my Master: he TOLD me—that the issue was *really* “Desire.” Older, more educated, and more successful—a professor I first met in Berlin, when I was doing a two-year post-doc there—it wasn’t that Klaus “talked me over” to his point of view.

I would explain what he *really* did . . . if I could explain it to myself.

I didn’t “give in.” I wasn’t “subdued.” I BEGGED.

Repeatedly. Abjectly. I PLEADED for the privilege of being PERMITTED to surrender.

When Klaus *finally* took me? I was GRATEFUL—more deeply than I can explain (most especially to myself). When Klaus told me—after he *allowed* me to marry—that my husband was no longer allowed to see, never mind touch, most of my body?

I knew I would obey.

Of course I would!

What other possibility was there?