The Pullover Page

Miss Nichols turned to me. "Mr. Johnston. You are a disgrace. I want you to know that. What you expect us women to do for you is outrageous. No gentleman would even entertain, for one second, the thought of what you expect, without a qualm, this young lady to do for you. Love has made her a fool. I hope she soon sees the error of her ways. Please leave, you disgust me."

If Charlies' "treatments" don't kill him, his sister will. He's in love, but his love is tangled up around three women: Elizabeth, girlfriend and town slut; Annie, the blind (or is she?) prostitute at Sally's; and Miss Nichols, his high school principal whose strong fingers set his heart racing.

This is the first (and only, so far) part of a multi-part series — a story that takes place in the early 1930s.

Twenty-five chapters long, about 44,000 words in total. A pullover is slang for "a man easily 'had' " (The American Thesaurus of Slang, 2nd edn., by Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark [New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1953]).

Links

The Pullover can be read here on ASSTR as web pages.

The Pullover is also available for download as a pdf document.

Story Codes

This story, like others in the Lair, deserves story codes. Here they are:

Predominately heterosexual — mf, mfF+, fmM+. There is just the slightest suggestion of mM, not described at all. A stronger suggestion of ff occurs several times.

Themes: Prostitution, gangbang, exhibitionism.
Oral, anal, lots of handjobs.

BDSM themes: Bondage, whipping, dominant/submissive (Femdom).

Consensuality in this story teeters on a seesaw depending on the mood of the recipient. There are portions of the story where the recipient feels coerced but the reader might view things differently. Or might not

None of the sex in The Pullover is safe sex, even by the standards of the time. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone gets the clap. Oh well. Take it from Bingo, while waiting for one's results for an HIV test is not the time to begin thinking about safe sex.

DISCLAIMER: Some of the things the characters do in this story are seen as offensive or frightening (even terrifying) by some if not most people. Please don't surprise anyone. Always ask first. Have an agreed upon safe word even if you don't do Bdsm.

Sources

Bdsm and prostitution are major themes of this story and I have links to pages giving more information. Another thread in this story is The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal which is freely mined for imagery and as a topic to create a laugh. The Cell of Passive Obedience comes from The Charterhouse of Parma, for example.

The story is set in the 1930s and as such I tried to stay within the commonest bdsm themes of that era — flagellation, bondage and domination/submission. Two bdsm sources influenced the story — Harriet Marwood, Governess and a group of French illustrations for 1930s erotic novels.

The prostitution theme was influenced by a number of sources including Designs in Scarlet and A House Is Not a Home. It must be realized that for many less well-to-do during the Depression prostitution was an important source of basic livelihood. I've read of dollar houses, but that low price was undercut by street prostitutes charging as little as a quarter, or school-age "recess prostitutes" who probably charged even less.

The numbers a prostitute had to satisfy during a working day varied, but it wasn't unusual for women in volume houses to have to service from 40 to 100 (or more) men a day.

Writing the Story

This was quickly written over several weeks in January/February 2006. I had a blast writing the story, partially from all the in-jokes that only I and maybe one or two close friends might get. I often include material of personal nature in my storis — characters' activities, dialog, whatever. This story is no different except what drives it are some characteristics and feelings I've had and while I'm certainly not Charlie, I can easily imagine me, if I'd lived in the thirties, ending up just like him. I'll let the reader decide if that would be a bad thing or not.