Message-ID: <57667asstr$1211929801@assm.asstr-mirror.org> X-Original-To: ckought69@hotmail.com Delivered-To: ckought69@hotmail.com X-Sasl-enc: 0EHqKb+pyLXTgrBPMKPK99h53wo9CnnHbh5jv+9yGr7d 1211901196 X-Original-Message-ID: <483C2509.9020600@creativeentropy.com> From: mwtbposter <mwtbposter@creativeentropy.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) X-ASSTR-Original-Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:13:13 -0400 Subject: {ASSM} Can You Blackmail a Slut? - by MWTB Lines: 680 x-asstr-message-id-hack: 57667 Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:10:01 -0400 Path: assm.asstr-mirror.org!not-for-mail Approved: <assm@asstr-mirror.org> Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d X-Archived-At: <URL:http://assm.asstr-mirror.org/Year2008/57667> X-Moderator-Contact: ASSTR ASSM moderation <story-ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Story-Submission: <ckought69@hotmail.com> X-Moderator-ID: newsman, dennyw <1st attachment, "Can_You_Blackmail_A_Slut@MWTB.txt" begin> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Can You Blackmail A Slut? by MWTB ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis: She was a slut, even though she wouldn't admit it. He set out to prove that she was. Codes: MF non-con reluc coer Blkm gang oral anal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 Adriana and I had been together years before, and parted as friends. We'd had great fun, and I'd shown her what a kinky little bitch she was, but she got a job in a different town. When I happened to move to the same town, she had a great job at a very conservative firm, and I was the wrong kind of boyfriend material. Nevertheless, we still had dinner once a month or so and caught up on we were doing. I enjoyed her company and hearing the funny stories about the stuck up people that she worked with. She, on the other hand, always seemed to be pressing me on my love life, asking about which girl I was fucking, and what bizarre place or situation I was fucking her in. She shared her love life as well, but we both knew that it was boring by comparison, and I think that she liked living the wild life vicariously through me. She had dated a number of nice men, but for one reason or another, none of them had worked out. She couldn't figure out why, but I knew the answer. Deep down, or maybe not really that deep, she was a slut. She wouldn't admit it, but she was. A dyed-in-the-wool, certifiable, one hundred percent, masochistic slut. The girl came nicely with vanilla sex, but make her feel embarrassed, or even better, humiliated, and she came like a banshee. Spank her ass or flog her back before fucking her and you had to practically tie her down to keep her from bucking you off. Tie her down ... well, let's just say that you'd better have very thick walls or very understanding neighbors. So time after time, dating these very nice, very vanilla little boys, she just could not find the spark that she needed, and as a result she always found one reason or another to drop them. Or at least that was my theory, and if I wasn't correct, she was going to be very, very, very pissed at me. She had been dating yet another in her string of nice guys. This one I had met at a party, and I actually liked him. I thought that though a tad vanilla, he had potential, and if they could get passed the seemingly inevitable sexual incompatibility, he could be very good for her. Which is why I hatched my evil plan. When next we went out to dinner, I told her about my new girlfriend. This one didn't actually exist, but I told her what a humiliation and pain slut she was, how I took her to a dungeon and spanked her silly, then tied her up and let every guy in the place have a crack at her. I explained it in glorious detail, and she hung on every word. I fed into every dirty fantasy, and by the end of the meal I was willing to bet that she had exceeded the absorbency rating on her panties, and her thighs were soaked as well. As we left the restaurant, I told her, "I have a surprise for you in my car. Come with me and I'll get it for you." "A surprise?" she asked excitedly. The girl loved her surprises, and she would never be able to pass up seeing what I had for her. I had parked in the corner of the lot, just under the light post with the burned out bulb. When we got to the car, I unlocked the door and reached in and pulled something out of the back seat. "Close your eyes," I told her. "Why?" she asked. "Because I told you to," I said. "OK," she said nervously. She slowly shut her eyes and stood there, her feet pointing inwards, bouncing slightly up and down, biting her lip so sexily, excited and nervous at the same time. I smiled at the sight and took the opportunity to look her over. She was short, barely five feet. Her dark brown hair looked black in the dim light, her plunging neckline exposing how big and firm her breasts really were and she wore a short black skirt, because she knew how much I love skirts. I moved right up to her and grabbed her arms, pinning them behind her. I whispered in her ear, "Remember how much you like your hands tied behind you?" I heard her breath catch just before I kissed her hard, pushing her against the car, trapping her hands behind her, taking her mouth brutally. When I felt her stop struggling and start melting into the kiss, I pulled her slightly away from the car and slipped the cuffs I had gotten onto her wrists. They were snapped into place before she realized what I was doing. "Hey!" she complained as I stepped away. "What's going on?" I reached up and squeezed her cheeks, forcing the whiffle-ball like gag into her mouth. Her eyes got very wide and she started yelling ineffectively into the gag. I pulled her away from the car and I leaned against it. I looked at her, standing there, her chest heaving, her eyes flashing between anger and excitement. She pulled at the cuffs, and danced around. I just grinned wickedly until she screamed as a hood was quickly slipped over her head. I could hear her screaming and see her kicking as my accomplices lifted her up. I opened my trunk and they tossed her in. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I imagine the ride was not too pleasant for her, but it was her fantasy. We had discussed it while we were together, but never went through with it - t he kidnap and gang bang. When the hood was removed from her head, she blinked in the light. Then she gasped as she felt the tongue on her clit. She glanced down. She knew what she would look like, having felt herself being removed from my trunk, taken inside, stripped naked and tied spread eagle to the bed. What she hadn't expected was the long black hair spread over her stomach and thighs, the back arched behind that, dropping to the sexy ass wiggling in the air. Adriana looked briefly at the woman between her legs, then had to close her eyes as Delilah's tongue and fingers worked their magic on her. She opened her eyes again when she heard me moving around, and they got really big when they saw me walking all around the two of them with the video camera recording her every expression. The combination of realizing that she was being taped and the finger that Delilah slipped into her ass were enough to make her arch her back and cum, screaming into the gag. This was no little vanilla cum; it was a full blown, rock-your-mind-and-stretch-your-body-to-the-breaking-point cum. She collapsed onto the bed, panting, and Delilah crawled up her body. She knelt over the poor little girl and licked the drool up off the corner of her mouth. Then she pulled the gag off and kissed her deeply. "Mmmm, you are tasty, but a little to0 messy for my taste," Delilah told her. "What do you mean?" Adriana asked. Delilah just smiled and walked over to a dresser and picked up a bowl of water and a razor. "What are you going to do?" she asked stupidly. Then she looked at me and asked, "Why are you doing this?" "Tut, tut. Too many questions," Delilah said, slipping the gag back on. "Now you might want to stay still for this." With no muss or fuss, Delilah efficiently shaved the neatly trimmed pussy until the poor girl was as smooth as the day that she was born. Delilah put the bowl and razor to the side and said, "Let's see if that works better." For the next twenty minutes, Delilah proved what an expert she was in the art of pleasuring women, as she squeezed orgasm after orgasm out of the poor little bound Adriana. Finally, Delilah crawled back up her body and pulled the gag off again, sharing a cum flavored kiss. "You are fabulous," Delilah whispered. She slipped down Adriana's body to her feet and removed the cuffs. Then she got up and walked out of the room. "Why?" the exhausted girl asked me, but there was no fire in her voice. Then her eyes got twice as big as she saw the naked man walk through the door. He was large in every way, and his cock preceded him into the room by quite a bit. There were no preliminaries - those had been taken care of by Delilah. He climbed onto the bed, grabbed her legs in his hands and pushed his cock into her drenched, naked pussy. She screamed, but it was not a scream of pain. OK, maybe there was a little pain - Joe was very well hung. I think that Joe felt his cock size was all he needed to please a woman, because there was no finesse; just the jackhammer of his cock into her pussy. She moaned and writhed under him. She looked over at me - and the camera - with a lost expression in her eyes, but she was not lost in fear, or pain; she was lost in the pleasure, and the look said it all. Then her eyes closed as she came again. And again. Or maybe it was just one long cum. But her eyes stayed closed and the moans kept coming until she hear him grunt, "I'm going to cum!" Her eyes popped open and got a scared look on her face as he moaned, "God ... I ... hope ... you ... are ... not ... on ... the ... pill!" Then he slammed into her and I could see his ass tense and release, tense and release. She must have felt it too, and she closed her eyes and screamed again before collapsing limply onto the bed. Delilah and Joe had done a number on her, because she barely moved while the next two men fucked her, but you could not mistake the look on her face that the camera captured as anything other than pleasure tinged with exhaustion. After the third man had cum into pussy, Delilah walked back in. She stood at the foot of the bed looking up at the cunt dripping cum. "Yummy," she said as she crawled up and stuck her tongue in the gooey pussy. Delilah gathered up a mouthful of cum and crawled up over the tired girl. She just looked down at Adriana, until her intent became clear. Adriana opened her mouth and let Delilah drip the gathered cum into her mouth. Then Delilah pressed her mouth into Adriana's and the two of them kissed hard. Delilah pulled her head back as they both felt someone climb onto the bed. Delilah looked Adriana in the eye and grunted as the man pushed his cock into her pussy. "I just love a hard cock in my pussy," Delilah grunted as she was rocked back and forth by the cock drilling into her. "Don't you?" Adriana just looked up blankly until Delilah repeated herself. "Don't you?" she demanded. Adriana nodded. "Out loud," Delilah insisted. "I do," Adriana whispered. "You do what?" Delilah pressed, her breathing heavier. "I do like a cock in my pussy," Adriana said loudly. "Mmmmm, me too," Delilah grunted. Her ability to speak was severely restricted for a little as the man started pounding into her, pushing her up higher and higher over Adriana. Without any prompting, Adriana latched onto one of Delilah's nipples as it swung over her. Delilah groaned and started chanting, "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!" as she got closer, then she screamed and came as Adriana bit down gently on the nipple. Her pulses dragged the cum out of the man riding her and he shoved deeply into her and came hard. Delilah collapsed on top of Adriana, her head near Adriana's ear. "Mmmmm, I just love being fucked," she whispered. "And you are being such a good girl too, you nasty slut," she giggled. She lay there for a minute, then rolled off just in time for Adriana to see another cock entering the room. The man smiled at the scene in front of him as he knelt between Adriana's legs. I mean really, what guy wouldn't like to see two hot, sweaty girls, both with cum dripping out of their pussies? Adriana closed her eyes as the man slowly slipped his cock into her pussy. The man took his time, enjoying himself. He leaned over and took her large breasts in his hands before sucking on her sensitive nipple, and Adriana started rocking her hips in time to his thrusts. Delilah smiled as she saw the girl begin to get into it. She got up on her knees and straddled Adriana's head. She looked down at the brunette and said, "Let's see if you like sucking the cum out of me with your mouth as much as you appear to like sucking the cum out of all these men with your pussy." She dropped her cunt over Adriana's mouth, but the camera caught Adriana lifting her head first, sticking her tongue out to swipe at Delilah's dripping pussy. As Adriana went to work on her, Delilah reached over and unbuckled the cuffs on Adriana's wrists. Adriana grabbed Delilah's ass in her hands and pulled her pussy down even harder onto her face. The man between Adriana's legs sat up and started pushing in harder and faster. He reached down and diddled her clit, which pushed the poor girl over the edge and she came screaming into Delilah's cunt. "Oh, that's nice," Delilah purred. The man pushed even faster then slammed all the way in and came, twitching as he did. After a moment, he pulled out and left. I stood at the foot of the bed, the video camera capturing Adriana eagerly sucking on Delilah's pussy while her spread legs showed her abused pussy dripping cum. Delilah leaned forward, moaning, "Oh, that's nice. You have a magic tongue. I'm getting closer. I want you to get me off." She leaned forward a little farther and ran her tongue from Adriana's clit, down through her pussy, capturing cum in her mouth. Then she looked up into the camera and smiled as she swallowed and licked her lips. "Mmm, nothing like eating fresh cum from a tasty pussy while a shameless slut drills her tongue into you," she said. I watched as she took two fingers and pressed them into Adriana's newly bald pussy. She pushed them in and out a few times, then removed them and held her fingers up to the camera, showing the prospective audience how wet and shiny they were. Then, with an evil grin, she pushed of her fingers slowly into Adriana's ass. Looking back into the camera she said, "I love the way that makes her fingernails dig into my ass and her tongue start licking me harder. I wonder what two fingers would make her do? Let's find out." Delilah wormed another finger into Adriana's tight ass and giggled, "Oooo, the slut really likes that. I wish you could feel how fast her tongue is drilling me." Then Delilah's eyes widened and she said, "That bitch just stuck a finger up my ass!" Soon, both of them were too close to cumming to keep licking each other as they both finger fucked the other's ass and pussy. They were good, and they came virtually simultaneously. Is there anything sweeter than the sound of two girls screaming their orgasms at the same time? Delilah collapsed on top of Adriana, leaving her fingers up the poor girl's ass as she recovered. Then she pulled her fingers out and rolled over. She crawled up to the top of the bed and sat next to the panting girl. "You don't think you're done, do you?" she asked. Adriana looked at her questioningly, and Delilah demanded, "Get your tongue back into my pussy!" Adriana, now completely untied, complied as she got up on her hands and knees and crawled between Delilah's legs and started licking. I walked all around the bed, getting every angle from her face buried between the other girl's legs to her sexy ass wiggling in the air. Adriana didn't even slow down as the next man stepped up behind her and sank his cock into her steamy pussy. He fucked her slowly for a few minutes and she enjoyed the gentle feel. Delilah grabbed Adriana's hair and lifted her head out of her pussy and looked at her wet face. "Did you like my fingers in your ass?" she inquired. Adriana just nodded. "Then you are going to love this," Delilah said. Adriana realized what 'this' was as the man behind her pulled his cock from her pussy and started pushing it into her ass. His cock was lubricated with her juices, but he added more lube as he pushed it. Adriana gasped as his head popped in, but she couldn't say much more as Delilah pushed her head back into her pussy. "You do realize that when he cums in your ass, you'll have had cum in all three holes," she noted. "You really are a slut." Adriana just moaned as she came yet again, and soon Delilah was proven correct as the man squirted his cum into Adriana's ass. When he pulled out, Adriana collapsed onto the bed, panting. "You did good," Delilah said, patting the worn out girl on her head. She got up and Adriana didn't resist at all as Delilah pulled her hands behind her back and re-cuffed her, then slipped the hood over her head again. I picked the limp, nude girl up and put her in the back seat of my car and drove her home. I carried her into her house, still naked, and put her face down on her bed. I stripped and knelt behind her. I removed the hood and uncuffed her hands, pinning them above her head. I pushed my cock into her cum-filled ass and pressed my body down onto hers. As I started moving my cock in and out slowly, I whispered in her ear, "Do you know why I did this tonight?" She shook her head. "Because you are a filthy, nasty slut, who won't admit to herself that is what she is." I paused while I concentrated on the feelings that my cock was getting in her tight ass. "And because it's been too long since I've had your body." I started fucking her faster. "And because now I have a video that you will do anything to keep from getting out." I started pistoning in as I felt my cum approaching. "And you ... will be doing ... anything ... for me ... a lot!" I said, and I came in her ass. And damn if the little slut didn't cum with me! I pulled out and cleaned up, pulling my clothes on. She hadn't moved. I bent over and pulled her hair back from her face. She had a small smile on her lips. I kissed her cheek and whispered, "There will be only two copies of the video, for now. I will have one, and I will give you one. As long as you follow my instructions, I won't have to make a copy for anyone else." I glanced back as I left the room, and I saw that the hand was under her and her hips were moving slightly. Some girls just never get enough. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 I spent the rest of the weekend working on the video. I half expected a call from Adriana, but I didn't get one. I did get a call from Delilah, asking if she could see the video. Since she had been such a good sport - I mean, she had put up with all that cumming just as a favor to me - I agreed, and we watched the finished cut together. I have to say that watching a good porn video is best done with a sexy girl on your lap, impaled on your cock I dropped the DVD into Adriana's mailbox and waited. I was surprised that I didn't hear anything for the rest of the week, but not too surprised. I knew that she was planning a date with her boyfriend on Friday night, so I showed up at her house as she was getting ready for it. Adriana was surprised to see me when she opened the door. I stepped inside as she asked, "What do you want?" "Did you get the DVD?" I asked. She blushed and nodded. I pushed her up against the wall and pinned her hands above her head. She looked up at me, her chest already heaving. "Did you cum when you watched it?" She knew that she shouldn't bother lying; I could always tell when she was - it made playing strip poker with her so much fun. She nodded. "How many times?" I asked. "Did I cum?" she asked. "Well, I meant how many times did you watch it, but answer both now," I said. "I don't know," she replied. "I didn't keep count.' I smiled. That she didn't know meant that it was far more than once. "What do you think would happen if Mike got a copy of the DVD?" I asked her. I didn't think she'd want her boyfriend seeing it; at least not yet. "Or what about if it leaked out at work?" "You wouldn't!" she squeaked. "I might," I told her. "If you don't do everything that I want." "What do you want?" she asked. "Right now," I said, pulling her to the couch and throwing her over the back of the couch. "I want you." She braced herself on the seat of the couch as I pulled her skirt up to her hips. She was wearing a very sexy silky pair of panties. It was a shame, but they had to go. I reached into the waistband and ripped them off. I kicked her legs apart, but didn't even bother checking between her legs; I knew she was wet. I pulled my cock out and pushed it into her pussy, confirming the fact that she was soaked. "Have you slept with him already?" I asked as I pushed in and out of her delectable pussy. "Yes," she groaned. "Were you going to fuck him tonight?" I asked. "I was," she moaned. "Does he eat you before he fucks you?" I further inquired. "Usually," she breathed. "How's he going to react when he is sucking at a pussy filled with cum?" "Ohhhh!" she moaned helplessly. "I am going to cum in you soon, little girl. Where should I cum?" I asked. "In my mouth! Please!" she begged. "No, I don't think so," I said. "Any other suggestions?" I could see her head drop, then she whispered, "My ass." "You couldn't possibly be such a big slut as to beg me to fuck your ass, could you?" "Yes!" she screamed. "Please fuck my ass! Please cum in my ass!" "Well, since you asked so nicely," I said spanking her ass. Before I could pull my cock out of the velvet vise of her pussy, she screamed and came. It almost messed up my plan, as it nearly made me cum, but I quickly pulled out, repositioned myself and pushed hard into her ass. She shrieked, a cross between the pain of penetration and the pleasure or orgasm. I stroked only two or three times before I was spurting into her. That girl was just too damn hot for my own good. When I caught my breath, I pulled out, spanked her ass again and said, "Stay there." She looked worn out enough that I didn't think she would complain. I slipped into the bathroom and quickly cleaned myself up. I went back to the living room and stood her on her feet. I shimmied her skirt down over her ass and thighs and said, "You are not to wear any panties tonight, you are not to clean up any of the cum dripping from your ass and you will fuck Mike tonight. Do you understand?" I lifted her chin up to look into her eyes and she nodded her head. "Good girl," I said. "Now go fix your makeup and have a nice time on your date." I left, knowing that despite the likelihood that they would have vanilla sex, I was pretty sure that she would not have a vanilla cum. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The next week, I showed up before her date again and followed the same script. While I was having her, I asked her about the previous date. I was convinced that she followed my direction. When I asked how he liked finding her with no panties, she said that she got undressed without him noticing it. I told her that this week, she'd have to show him that she was pantiless in the car. The following week, I changed the script up a little. After fucking her pussy and having her beg to have me cum in her ass, I said, "Not this week, little girl." "Please," she begged. "Don't cum in my pussy." "Oh I won't, but I don't think you'll want me cumming in your ass, either." I said. "Why not?" she asked. "Because he'll see or feel it when you have him fuck your ass," I explained. "What!" she exclaimed, looking back at me. "Tonight, I want you to make a serious effort to get him to fuck your ass," I told her. "What if he won't?" she cried. "If I think you made a reasonable effort, then I'll be satisfied," I said. "But right now, you'd better get your mouth wrapped around my cock if you don't want your pussy defiled with my cum." She struggled to get up, but managed to get on her knees with my slimy cock in her mouth before I blew. As I was leaving, she asked, "Why are you doing this?" I knelt down next to her and said, "For a few reasons. First, because I can. Second, because it makes me really, really hot to see you becoming the slut that you really are. And third, and most importantly - though I'm sure you won't see it for a while, because this is what's best for you." When she got home late that night, she found me sitting in her living room. "What are you doing here?" she asked. "Whatever I want," I said. "However right now, I'm checking on you." "What do you mean?" she asked. I pushed her over the couch again and pushed her skirt up. "No panties, very good," I said. I spread her cheeks and I saw that her asshole was red, and there was some cum leaking out. I leaned over her, pressing my body into hers. "Very good, little girl," I told her. "You should know that if I didn't find signs of him having fucked your ass, he would have found you like this next week when he came to pick you up, with a sign stapled to your ass that said, 'Please fuck my ass'." Adriana shuddered underneath me. "And now, little girl, I am going to get sloppy seconds." I pulled her up and dragged her into her bedroom. "Strip," I told her. As I took off my clothes, I watched as her magnificent tits and her wonderful body came into view. Then I got into bed with her and put her through her paces. She'd already swallowed my cum down her throat, so I completed the triple play. I left her in the morning as she slept the deep sleep of the wicked. Over the course of the next few weeks, I ratcheted up her required level of sluttiness. One week I demanded that she come home with her ass red from a spanking. She failed me that week, and claimed that she couldn't figure out how to broach the subject, so the next week when he came to pick her up, he found her dressed in a schoolgirl uniform, and she handed him a note. The note was from a teacher to the Dean of Discipline indicating that the little girl had been disrespectful in class, and as a result needed to be paddled. She had no trouble getting a red ass that night, though they never did make it out, so I didn't get to enjoy her again later. Another week, when he came to pick her up, there was a note on the door telling him to come in. He found a rope stretched from the front door into her bedroom, and when he got there he found her dressed only in a corset and panties, her hands tied over her head with rope, her legs bound by rope to the legs of the bed. That was another night that they never made it out of the house. A few weeks later, Adriana asked me to dinner. I met her at the same restaurant that this all started. She was already seated when I arrived, and she was fidgety. "Just say it," I told her. "It's easier to get it over with." Without looking up, she said, "Thank you." "For what?" I asked. Rather than answer with words, she held out her left hand. There was a fairly large rock in what I assumed was an engagement ring. "Does that mean that he proposed, and that you accepted?" She nodded. "You were right. This was what was best for me. He turns me on soooo much, and we have so much fun together. This never would have happened without you." "I'm so happy for you!" I said. "I have something else to tell you," she said nervously. "I told Mike everything." I gulped. This could not be good. "Um, was that such a good idea?" I asked. "I couldn't not," she said. "I didn't want to accept unless he really knew who I was. I even showed him the DVD." "Oh my god!" I exclaimed. I felt faint. I was already trying to figure out another town to move to. "It's OK," she said. "He understood. In fact, he fucked me more times watching that DVD than we have ever before. He likes that you turned me into such a slut, and he likes that he discovered this about himself. So you don't have to worry." "Whew!" I said, breathing a sigh of relief. "I'll say it again; I'm happy for you." "There's more," she said. "What else?" I asked. "Well, Mike wanted me to ask you if you'd take an important role in our wedding," she said. I looked at her like she was crazy as she explained. But two months later, she walked down the aisle with no panties and my cum dripping from both her pussy and her ass, and the kiss that she gave the groom when she said 'I do' was flavored with my cum as well. I had started out trying to show a slut who she really was, and I had ended up showing two of them. All's well that ends well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The End ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <1st attachment end> ----- ASSM Moderation System Notice------ Notice: This post has been modified from its original format. 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