****** In the Manner of St Joan ****** Provided By: BDSM_Library www.bdsmlibrary.com Synopsis: A priest and a nun find ways of expressing their mutual need, with the help of medieval paintings; which show naked nuns being beaten in the secluded grounds of a convent. A nun had been stretched out between two sturdy posts and she was being beaten by a pair of athletic looking monks, while three of her sisters stood watching, each holding a black habit modestly across her naked flesh whilst waiting disconsolately for her own turn between the posts. Once again, it was the poor wretches\' pussies that was the focus of the chastisement. The whip had been drawn at the moment of impact, rearing up snakelike towards the victim\'s open slit, and about to strike.\" EXTREME WARNING. This is intended for persons of 18 years of age or above. If you are not 18 then go away. EXTREME WARNING. This story contains descriptions of violence and sexual acts. Do not read if these subjects are likely to offend. EXTREME WARNING. In no way do I condone any of the anti- social behavior described in the story. This is an erotic fantasy, not to be confused with reality. In the Manner of St Joan by Grim Williams Copyright 2006 "Charlie. Are you there?" "Yes, Naomi. I'm here." "I need someone to fuck me." "Go back to your room, Naomi. You know that's not possible." "Charlie? Please, Charlie! I'm aching for dick. I need someone to fuck me." "Naomi. We've been through this before. I can't." "But why not, Charlie? Why can't you find me a man? It doesn't have to be you. Anyone will do." "Go back to bed, Naomi." "I can't. I daren't. Someone might see me. I'm improperly dressed." "Naomi? What have you done? What are you wearing?" "I'm wearing a thin linen vest and a slip. Nothing else. I can't go back to my dormitory like this. Someone might see me." "Christ, Naomi. Are you mad? I can see everything you've got. What's got into you? Do you realize what will happen if someone walks by?" I ushered her through the door and into my room, pulling her inside, looking round discretely for evidence of prowlers, and then breathing a sigh of relief upon finding the courtyard deserted and in darkness. I closed the door and stared wildly at her, irate and frustrated. What was she playing at? She was lit by a single bare bulb, and the light shone straight through her clothes. I could see her nipples poking through the vest like dirty spots in the middle of her globes; and the shadow of her mound smiling through her skirt, a triangular fuzz of hair that framed and outlined her slit. She was obscene! I could see everything she had: her round bosoms and the valleys of her cleavage; her golden goose bumps and how cold and frightened and exposed she was. "Do I please you, Charlie?" she asked. I stomped past her, annoyed and wanting her to know it. I kicked a chair, looking again at the outline of her slit. "No. You don't please me at all!" I crackled bitterly. "You're obscene! A disgrace to the Church!" "I don't believe you, Charlie. You're looking at my pussy! You're so sweet!" "I'm not! You're mistaken, Naomi Anne! I'm not looking at all. That's a lie!" "I can see that you're looking, Charlie! It's obvious. You're looking at my slit. You can't deny it. I can tell by the state of your trousers!" "I'm not! You've got it wrong. I'm looking at your slip and its length! God. What do you want me to say? It's too short! Too thin! It's obscene!" It was a skirt tied at the waist, and through it I could see the dark outline of her fuzz and the crack that bisected it. I could see the regular contracting and relaxing of her muscles as she did what nuns do to get themselves high. "I've had a bad dream, Charlie." "A dream? What's that to me? That doesn't excuse you coming here dressed as a harlot!" "In my dream, you tied me to my bed and I was spread-eagled. You said you were going to help me, and so you removed my veil and my habit, and you used it to gag me." "Naomi! Watch out! Be careful! You're on dangerous ground here!  You shouldn't be here in my room at all, never mind saying sacrilegious things in my company! If anyone were to hear you!" "But they won't, Charlie. There's only you and me in the room. Anyhow, in my dream, you removed my clothes starting with my shoes. You said I should scream into my gag, and that if I did no one would accuse me of having committed a sin. You were trying to help me." "Naomi. Stop it! This talk is debased! You'll be punished! Both of us will!" "I want to be punished, Charlie. That's why I'm here! Listen to me! Listen carefully! Listen to what happened." "Naomi! You'll have me defrocked! Your talk is sinful! I can't listen! You know that!" "Listen, Charlie. I woke up and found that I was touching myself, and I was wet and ready to cum. I was in such panic that I rushed out, needing to find somewhere to pray, and I left without taking my clothes. I've been praying for hours, Charlie, and I don't know what to do. I can't get back to the cloister." "What a mess!" "You've got to help me, Charlie. You see, while I was praying, I got to see more than ever that I needed a cock, someone to fuck me! It was in my dream. My dream made me see it. I need a man's cock." "Stop it, Naomi. You're being mischievous now, and that's not allowed." "I'm not being mischievous, Charlie. I'm telling you how I feel. Listen to me. Why won't you fuck me?" "You know the reason. I'm a priest." "God, Charlie. This is the twenty first century! It doesn't stop Father Johnny popping all the new girls - and Micah and Sister Vishti are at it like prize rabbits. I hear them as I pass by her room. If they can break the rules, why can't we?" "No! Absolutely not! No!" But it was a tired no, an uncertain no, because I was asking myself the same question. Why not, indeed? It was a good question: the right question. I was listening, as I've always listened to Naomi Anne, especially when she's dressed in a transparent white vest and a slip. The problem was that I didn't have a good answer, not one I was prepared to share with her alone in my room. So I covered my awkwardness by whisking her outside, across the courtyard, and into a small Chapel. Here, hidden at one end, was a panel of old drawings. I had to get through to her, to make her see sense. So I stood her in front of the pictures, and we looked at them together. "What do you see?" I demanded, holding her hand, but wary in case someone intruded. She frowned, still minded to resist me. "Pictures?" she pouted, but not really looking, not properly, for in fact there were six black and white reproductions of old church engravings hanging upon the wall in front of us, to either side of a gold cross, and you had to look at them carefully to see what they were about. "Go on," I repeated. "What do you see?" She glared, annoyed by my persistence. "That's all," she shrugged. "That's it. What else is there? They're pictures. What else should I see?" I waited, and that made her angrier. "They're pictures," she repeated again, stamping her foot, but then, noting a thin film of cobwebs covering the frames, she added, "Okay. They're dirty, mucky pictures. They should've been cleaned of the dust." "They're copies of thirteenth century originals," I observed, remaining calm and not rising to the bait. "Look at them, Naomi. Study them carefully and tell me what strikes you, and stop being rude." She made several truculent noises in my direction but then, reluctantly, after some seconds, she peered tetchily once more at the etchings. Each was about twenty four inches in width and eighteen inches in height. They were detailed, and each of the scenes was different. The first was set in a secluded garden and had parallel rows of runner beans at the front and roses behind. A dark foreboding convent was visible in the background with high brick walls indicating that the garden was situated within its protective domain. The pictures weren't aesthetic. They'd been drawn to teach a powerful lesson to the illiterate women of their time. In the first, the one we were looking at, there were a number of nuns in distinctive black garb. They were standing in a queue - with those at the back waiting in line whereas those at the front were being held by a group of frisky monks. There was a workmanlike atmosphere to the paintings, with the monks hard at their business. "What do you see?" I repeated, pointing more generally to the pictures because I wanted Naomi to reach her conclusions independent of me. She hadn't actually looked at any of them yet. She threw me another angry glance but then glanced back at the engraving. Then suddenly, and quite abruptly, she stuttered, and her eyes glistened as the penny dropped and she understood what was being depicted. She hesitated, and her frivolity vanished. "Nuns," she stammered in an excited, stunned, bewilderment, more as a question than a statement. "Like me!" "Yes," I agreed, squeezing her hand. "Like you. And what else?" She continued looking at the picture, her big sexy eyes opening wide as she discerned the moral. A punishment was taking place. The women were being tied in their turns to a wooden frame and individually beaten across their private parts. Five of them were fully dressed, complete with habit, wimple and veil. Five of them were waiting in line in various stages of undress, one had already suffered the indignity and was crouched on the ground, crying, bent forward, one hand clutching her blistered groin and the other hand clinging to a gold crucifix and threatening to press it against her tortured parts. The final nun was strapped to the frame, her body arched and taut, and there was a crucifix around her neck, hanging between her naked breasts, and she was screaming with pain. "These are historical documents," I offered helpfully, watching Naomi's querulous, consternated reaction. I could see her eyes darting across the picture, focusing on each of its elements in turn, absorbing the separate predicaments and emotions. "In medieval times," I commented. "Convents were morbid, desolate places, full of wretches who cared little about religion or God. Nuns weren't devout. They were ordinary, earthy girls with limited pleasures, and like you, they itched to be laid. They were only here, because, to their misfortune, they'd been secreted away by moralistic families anxious to conceal stigmas too shameful to be endured: anything from an illegitimate pregnancy to an abusive father, to an unpleasant disagreement with the law." Naomi's eyes burned and she looked at me brightly. Now, she was listening and alert. There was no question but that I had her attention. "Why are you showing me these paintings?" she whispered hoarsely. "What are you doing? I've already told you the mess that I'm in, how I've prayed and prayed to God, but without finding any succor. I'm ordinary and mortal and I need to be screwed, Charlie. Given that's my problem, how is this relevant or helpful?" I hesitated, for I was a priest and she was a nun, and I'd already overstepped the mark by some considerable distance. If anyone found us together at this hour, in this place, with her dressed as she was, we'd both be in trouble: serious trouble. But that was a problem for later. Right now I had her attention, and I decided to be bold and seize the moment and help her, because I knew how to do it. "These pictures make you horny, don't they?" I inquired. "They make you want to caress your pussy. Tell me it's so." She glanced hurriedly at the floor and squeezed her legs together, and rubbed her tongue across her lips. But she said nothing. "Don't they?" I insisted. She looked up, her wide blue eyes shining fiercely. "Do you want me to answer you honestly?" she replied. "Yes, Naomi. Honestly. Tell me the truth. I'm your priest so you must be straightforward in your abswer. Do these pictures turn you on?" She swallowed awkwardly, and I noticed that her face had flushed a delicate and beautiful pink. "Absolutely," she declared, with a shy, embarrassed intensity. "I'm in heat, Charlie. I'm leaking. You wouldn't believe how horny I am." She has a pretty, innocent face and an earnest, open expression that shadows her mood, and so I could tell that she was telling me the truth. "Because you imagine yourself being tied down and beaten?" I asked her. "Is that it? Is that why you're excited?" "Oh, Charlie, stop teasing me! It hurts. You know what I'm like." She rubbed her midriff with the flat of her hands, and then lower into her groin, just stopping at the edge. "I'm a grown woman and I have female desires, and I can't ignore them. I can't. You say that I'm a nun and married to Christ, but I can't live my life in denial. I can't. I'm twenty six years of age, Charlie, and a virgin, and it's time that I moved on. I have to be laid. I'm so horny that it hurts. I'm in pain with it and tired from the strain of holding it in, so please, Charlie. Help me, and let me move on!" I coughed, embarrassed by the honesty and unsure how I should answer, for this wasn't an area I was trained for, or even permitted to discuss. Neither of us was allowed to discuss sex except in the sanctuary of the confessional. There, being her priest, I could talk about such matters freely and openly, and help her: but not here. "The Lord will forgive me," she shuddered, looking to the heavens as if hoping for some absolution that didn't come. "He'll understand that that I have to be corked." I cleared my throat, and mumbled an unhappy response, confused because I'd known Naomi a long time and we were like brother and sister. Once, when she'd been ill I fasted for seven days hoping it would help her, and when she was better, I spent a month's allowance on perfume and makeup, for she'd never bought such trifles for herself. She doesn't like to appear self-indulgent, but since I'd given them to her as a present, there were no scruples for her to wrestle with. I remember how she blushed, and stumbled, and said that I shouldn't have bought then, and then she rushed in a flummox from the room. Minutes later she returned with some color applied to her cheeks and there was the faintest hint of gloss toning her lips. She beamed and handed me a lily that she'd cut from the garden. And she kissed me. I thanked her, and only later did I recall that I hadn't reprimanded her for cutting the flowers without the Mother Superior's permission. There are no favorites amongst the sisters of St Joseph, but Naomi Anne is certainly a rose amongst equals. "You're a very special woman," I reminded her awkwardly. "You're a nun and you have pedigree, a heritage. Men may tempt you towards sin, but you must be determined to stay modest and chaste. Always. That's the vow that you took. Remember who you are, and keep to your integrity." I cursed my ineptness because I'd been looking for something insightful and helpful to share with her, and instead I'd come out with cliches and platitudes. What kind of help was that? I screamed at myself. I yelled and stamped. What good are shallow words and axioms to a woman who is desperate for understanding? She sighed, and reached over and grasped my hand in her own. "It doesn't ease the aching," she said, weaving her tiny fingers into mine. "I know you mean well, but I have to be fucked, Charlie, not counseled and psychoanalyzed. Maybe it'll help sort my head to be fucked, or maybe it'll be a mistake that I'll regret for the rest of my life, but I've got to do it. I'm not a child, Charlie, and you have to believe there's nothing wrong with my faith." She gazed feverishly, almost self-consciously, at the second of the pictures, the one on the other side of the big cross. In this one a nun had been stretched out between two sturdy posts and she was being beaten by a pair of athletic looking monks, while three of her sisters stood watching, each holding a black habit modestly across her naked flesh whilst waiting disconsolately for her own turn between the posts. Once again, it was the poor wretches' pussies that was the focus of the chastisement. The whip had been drawn at the moment of impact, rearing up snakelike towards the victim's open slit, and about to strike. Once again, each of the women in the picture was wearing a crucifix. Despite their clothes having been removed, this had been left them. The nun who was being whipped had been drawn with a particularly large jewel encrusted icon hanging from her neck, and this symmetrically bisected her plum-like breasts. To the side of her, an elderly Mother Superior sat upon a wooden, high-backed chair with her head covered and lowered. She had a string of prayer beads looped around her hand, and with it she was counting off the strokes. From what I could discern, based upon the number of beads that remained, there were many strokes yet to deliver. Behind this scene and hiding in the background, with their eyes and wimples poking over a heavy display of purple wisteria and white clematis were a group of young novices, appearing harried and aghast, needing for the sake of their morbid curiosity to see the ongoing punishment but yet too frightened to look. For a second time I watched Naomi assemble this scene from its random assortment of pieces, her eyes flitting from the old Mother Superior on her chair, to the inquisitive novices; from the frightened terror-stricken nuns clutching their habits and awaiting their turn, to the muscular monks wielding the whips, their sleeves rolled to the elbows, their faces a picture of stern concentration; and finally, Naomi's wide blue eyes settled on the undignified, tortured shell at the centre of the picture, the subject of the maltreatment. She looked at the child-like breasts, the long flat stomach, and last of all, the open legs. It took a while for the images to do their work within her, but when they had, she laughed nervously, hiding her greed and her gnawing sexual hunger. "Why does it always have to be nuns being punished and never the priests?" she choked, drying her lips on the back of her hand. "And if it has to be the nuns - if God so foreordained it - why don't we see the cocks of their tormentors, so we can observe how what they're doing affects them. That's the picture I want to see." I felt empathy for her and I yearned to reach out and hold her, to crush her within my embrace and tell her that I was going to screw her and make her happy, but I couldn't. I was a priest, and that would have been wrong, so I resisted. "There is a very special picture within the series," I acknowledged, a little stiff and detached, a little somber, fighting my struggling emotions. "It isn't here, because it's controversial. There are no naked men or angry excited cocks, but... it does go some way to what you're after." She looked at me sharply, her eyes glazing over. "You must show me this picture," she said simply. "I need to see it." "No, Naomi. I... can't. I don't think so." "Charlie? Why not?" I tightened my grip around her waist, my fingers journeying up her spine to her shoulders. Here, her vest had narrow straps with bows neatly fastened, tying the garment together. I reached for these and pinched them together, clasping the tiny bows and knowing that with one twitch I could undo them and reveal her to the watchful image of Christ. Naomi trembled and cowered, waiting, but she did nothing to prevent me. She accepted my power: that as her priest, I had authority to do with her as I wanted. "Because it's not right," I said. "It's... distressing." She hooked her arm into mine, and lifted her neck to kiss me, her hands shaking with desire. "I don't care. You can't arouse my curiousity and then deny me. It's not fair, so at least tell me. Describe the picture so I can see it with my mind's eye." "I... I... can't." Suddenly I couldn't help it. I was thinking of that final picture and I was overcome with my lust. I threw an arm around Naomi's shoulder and mashed her to my chest, and she gasped, groaning and gripping my arm like she was in pain, but with her body relaxed. "I know you're not a child, Naomi," I gabbled, dabbing small kisses onto her face. "If you were, we wouldn't be having this conversation. You're a grown woman, and you're a nun, a good nun, and you have to trust me to help you. I know what I'm doing." She trembled at that, not because of my words, but because my arm was looped around her shoulder, and my fingers were touching her ribbons, and she'd never been touched by a man, and I was more than that: I was a priest, her priest, a person she admired and was fond of, and she was aroused, confused and afraid, and she didn't know what to say or to do or to think. "Oh Charlie," she gasped, her face falling feverishly towards her chest. "I need you so badly, your cock drilling my pussy. I think about it every second of every day and I can't wait any longer. Plenty of priests do it, Charlie. They've done it since the founding of the Church. You know it; I know it. God would have found a way of protecting us nuns of it were a problem, Charlie, but he hasn't. It isn't. My body welcomes you. It welcomes your cock. I want to suck it; to touch it. I want you to screw me." I felt sorry for her because she was in such pitiable need - but what could I do? I wasn't one of those priests that she'd mentioned, dipping his crucifix into every cup he found empty. To me: being a priest was more than just that. It's about being true to oneself. "I'm hot, Charlie!" she panted, pushing herself against me with growing agitation. Her hands were pulling at her hair, lifting it into a pile and knotting it into a tangle. She couldn't keep still. "Oh, God, Charlie! Oh God! You have to help me! You have to!" The whirring in her groin pushed at her cervix and from there to the pit of her stomach and it tightened into a ball. She was shaking. Her hands were tight and clammy. "I need it..." She was sweating. "Oh God! You know what I need." I felt her excitement: the long repressed sexual desire. "Naomi," I warned her, pulling back and holding her by the shoulders. "Naomi Anne. This is dangerous. Stop it. You must get this in proportion. Slow down. I haven't changed. I'm your priest. I want to help you, but not in the way that you think. We're looking at engravings and you're identifying with the women. That's normal. I've made you horny. That's okay. I know about these things. I've listened to troubled confessions and I know how women become aroused at the idea of being stripped naked and beaten. I know from experience that it isn't the pain that's exciting but the helplessness and vulnerability. That's you, Naomi. You're aroused at the idea of being forced to strip, and then being beaten by the whip. But it's a fantasy. It's nothing specific to me." "But it is you, Charlie," she cried. "You promised to help me. You said you'd do it if I joined the martyrs of St Joan, if I humiliated myself and wore the white dress of penance. Well here I am, I've done what you asked. Now fuck me." What could I do? It was true. I remember the conversation. I said it a long time ago while taking her confession, never dreaming that she'd do it. I'd forgotten the promise, but here she was dressed like St Joan, and I was as horny as hell. What was I to do? "Naomi, listen to you? Do you know what you're saying?" My cock was in the ascendancy and my judgment was clouded. Naomi's skirt was so thin and artsy that I just wanted to rip it off and bang her. But I couldn't. I was a priest and she was a nun. "Oh, Charlie?" she grieved, when I stubbornly said it. "What have I done? Why won't you do it? What's wrong with me? Why not?" "Nothing's wrong with you," I mumbled awkwardly. "Nothing at all. You're a beautiful woman, Naomi, and another man wouldn't hesitate, but you must understand: I'm your priest and I made a mistake. I should never have made those ludicrous promises. Never, and that's my dishonor. It isn't that I don't care, but that I do. I care so much about my dear little friend that I could never abuse my power over her." She thought about that, somewhat sullenly, somewhat emotionally, her arms wrapped around my neck and her face resting within my cowl. We stayed like that until the shadow of the moon passed upon the picture in front of us, and we saw the tormented, agonized face of the nun emerge from the gloom. It was like a portent. Naomi shuddered and whispered, "I don't want to be beaten, Charlie! It frightens me." I knew by those words that she'd crossed a line, and the pictures had done it. She was no longer imagining herself being fucked, but she was inside another fantasy, one that I'd created for her from the pictures. Contrary to her words, she was imagining herself tied up, humiliated and pussy whipped, exposed to the pleasure of strange men. Her head was buried in my surplus, and it moved a fraction as she peered anxiously from the warmth afforded by my vestments to the image hanging from the wall. I felt her smallness and her heartfelt desperation, and I saw the wildness in her eyes. There was an untamed rawness that wasn't because of the hypocrisy of the tormentors raining their blows or because she shared the fear of the terrified women voyeuristically looking on. It was because she wanted to be the nun in the centre of the picture, but she was petrified to admit it. She told me again that she didn't want to be whipped, whispering the words softly as if to convince herself of this fact, but even as she said it I knew she was lying, and so did she; and she hoped I would understand what it was that she meant. It wasn't that she was perverse. It was my attention she craved. She wanted me looking at her pussy, aiming the whip and laying the strokes. She wanted to be desired and desirable. She wanted my cock to be hard and to see it erect, and to watch it, and to know that her body had done it. Gently, I caressed and supported her shoulders, massaging her neck, and my arms cradled her waist. "This isn't your preferred choice," I soothed her, fondling her gently, my palms sliding down her spine to the spot where I felt a trickle of warm sweat and the soft down of her fine hair. "But it is a practical solution. If I fucked you I would be defrocked and removed from office, and I would see you no more. But a pussy whipping is allowed, it has to be. These engravings are my precedent." My fingers continued to caress her back, and I sensed an insatiable fire erupting in her soul. "Charlie!" she implored, looking up from my cowl, her arms clinging to my tightly. "Charlie. Don't touch me unless you're going to go all the way with this! Don't tease me. It's unkind! Your hands are inflaming me and I'm lost, Charlie. I'm in your hands. I'll do anything you ask. Anything at all. I'll be your slave. I'll go to the stake and let you burn me like they did to St Joan. I'll walk naked, and lift myself onto the pyre. I'll burn for you, Charlie. I'll be your torch. I'll do it and rejoice. You only have to demand it. That's the power you hold on my flesh. You've no idea what it's like to need a man so badly that it fills your every thought... your every prayer... every day... every night..." Her body arched and groaned and pleaded. "Don't tease me, Charlie. I beg you." My fingers edged to her side and tickled her waist. "You should be punished," I whispered thoughtfully, my fingers gliding along her ribs. "Look at your dress, Naomi. It's immodest, prurient and indecent." Naomi held her breath, comprehending my intentions and where I was taking her, that I was prepared to take her all the way, but not with my cock, with my whip. "You want to punish me?" she whispered, her vivid blue eyes bottomless and unblinking. I nodded. "Will it turn you on to punish me, Charlie, to beat my naked pussy? Will it make you excited and erect?" Her face glowed and it radiated pure joy. Again I nodded. "You'll make me scream. You'll whip me where I am the most sensitive and vulnerable. You'll hurt me." "It'll hurt you immensely. It'll drive you insane." "Don't you care that it'll hurt me?" I shook my head. "I prefer to hear your beautiful screams." She swallowed hard, and her hands were trembling. "Where will I be when you do it? In my room? Will you tie me to my bed?" I shook my head. "No. Not in your room." "Then where? In your confessional?" "No. Not there, either. It'll be done in this chapel. I'll tie you to the altar." "Charlie?" Very deliberately, I plucked the narrow straps that criss- crossed her waist, not to undo them, but to remind her that I could. I was her priest and I could reveal her, undress her. I could do anything I liked. She clenched her teeth and sucked in her breath, and for the first time, I could feel her breasts pressing against my chest and her groin biting my hips, searching for friction. She was weak for a man, for me. Weak. Weak. Weak. She should have been wearing a long flowing habit, thick shoes and a white veil, but she'd come downstairs wearing nothing but a white linen vest and a slip. She'd awoken suddenly, she'd told me, in a pang of erotic desire, almost at the culmination of a terrible sin. Her pussy had been inflamed. "I even touched it," she'd told me. "I couldn't help it. It just happened." "And that's why you fled from your room?" I enquired. She nodded. "And did you get any improper relief from the manipulation of your pussy? Did you climax?" She shook her head, confused as to whether she should have been proud or ashamed by this answer. But I was proud of her. It had taken guts to flee from that room, to come searching for me. It would have been easy to give in to the flesh, but she'd resisted. Before the desire had become fertile she'd run to the tower of the Almighty, but she'd found his minister, awake and watchful; and I was proud of her. She was my nun. Mine. She'd come to me in the most desperate of states and she'd found me alone in my room. It was the answer to her supplication. "In another few minutes the nuns will arrive for Morning Prayer," I told her. "And when they do, I'm going to lead you to the altar and I'm going to undress you. I'll tie you to its corners, and there, in front of them all, I'm going to punish you." "Charlie!" she wailed. "You can't! Not in front of the sisters! Oh God! You can't!" "Not just the sisters, but also the bishops." Her jaw dropped in horrified terror. "No! You can't do it, Charlie! I beg you!" I gazed at her in affected surprise. "Is this the nun who promised to do anything I wanted? Who would burn like St Joan? Is this the minister who'd walk naked through turbulent crowds? Is she afraid of an old fashioned public pussy whipping?" Naomi groaned and whimpered, and her legs buckled at the knees. Her face blossomed and deepened to a beautifully red. "It isn't the whipping that frightens me," she wailed, clutching my arm, digging in her nails. "It's that they'll see how wet I am. I'm so ashamed!" "Don't be," I said, removing her hand. "It's the moisture of friendship. It proves that you want me." "Oh my God. Don't do this to me," she flushed, her tiny voice frail, coy and defenseless. "I know you can make me do as you choose. You can make me walk the naked walk or hang me on the big cross. You might even enjoy it, Charlie. I think you would. You can take me to the snuffery and torture me with the rusty implements they keep there, just like the priests did during the Holy Inquisition. You have the right and the power. You can punish me anyway you like. I know that, but please, I've confessed impure thoughts to you, base and obscene. I've trusted you with my innermost reflections. Don't use them against me. If you really can do anything, Charlie, then, please, don't play with me. Fuck me, instead." "I can't. Not that, Naomi," I whispered, apologizing and consoling her as best as I could, caressing her face and her arms. "It's not about the Church, it's about me. I can do anything else, but not that." "I don't understand? How do you mean? About you?" "My sweet one. If it were anyone else, I'd do it. I would fuck them. I've never told you this before, but I've fucked many of the sisters of St Joseph. I do it because it helps them. I see their pain and frustration and I want them to be happy. They, on the other hand, are content to lie with me because I'm their priest, and they consider it a service to God. I do it for them, my love, to make them happy, not for myself. But with you, it's different. With you, I'm in danger as a man. Do you understand, my dear? As a man!" She looked again at the picture in front of us and her breathing was fast and irregular. She was crying. She pointed to the nun hanging between the posts. "Do they get to climax, these nuns, when they're beaten?" she wept. Her face was buried in my chest and her shoulders were heaving with emotion. I held her tightly, but caressing her gently. "Maybe if the beating was fierce it might happen," I offered kindly, stroking her hair. "We could try. Together, we could try. We could make it happen. I could do that for you, for my sweet little Naomi Anne." Her body ought to have been hidden and cloaked: her hair, her legs, and especially her figure. Instead, her dress was thin, insignificant and gossamer: so delicate and fragile: and so deliciously inadequate - and she wore nothing beneath it, and I felt the stirrings of sin fully awake in my groin. I was lost. As a man. She studied the pictures some more, and her face became flushed. "And this is for real?" she whimpered softly. "This happened? Nuns were actually whipped across their pussies? The priests really did this?" "They were prisoners," I explained, lowering my voice and kissing her passionately, and caressing her hair. "There were no external checks and balances, no one to look after them. Their warders were priests who dominated every aspect of their lives. A nun received direction from the priests about everything: from when she ate to the underwear she wore. The clergy had control - as I have of you. It happened, my love, and it will happen again. I will tie you across the altar and beat you for your lack of modesty and as penance for your impure thoughts. I'll do this in front of the holy sisters and also the bishops. Do you understand that, with your legs apart and your breasts completely exposed?" Naomi's nipples had grown since I'd last looked at them. I could see clearly them through the fabric of her vest. "You'll beat me like in the picture?" she stammered, her eyes dark with emotion. "Yes." "Because I'm dressed in the manner of St Joan?" "That's right, Naomi. Because you're dressed like St Joan." The expression was a euphemism based upon a picture in which St Joan of Arc is on the stake being burned. In it, she's seen calling to the Lord, entreating his mercy, while an assorted crowd of clergy, soldiers and commoners look on. She's adorned in a thin linen dress, torn at the top and on fire at the bottom, and the artist had drawn her breasts and nipples peeping through the rent, and the garment is so sheer and transparent that St Joan's twisted legs and womanly fuzz are visible through the disintegrating cloth and the flames. Naomi bit her lip. Being dressed in the manner of St Joan was a state of immodesty little different to nakedness - but I was talking about removing even that. "You'll tie me to the altar," she faltered. I nodded. "You'll beat my naked pussy and all the sisters will be looking." "And also the Bishops," I agreed. "I'll beat you between the legs like in the etchings. And maybe your breasts too. I would like to beat your breasts." "Oh my God! My breasts?" Her jaw dropped. This was new to her. The thought of being beaten across her bare breasts was terrifying and yet also overpowering and liberating. She didn't know what to do with her hands and she rubbed her legs together whenever she thought that I wasn't looking. I continued, reminding her once more to look at the engravings. "The nuns spent all their waking hours dreaming about sex. I mean, what else could they do? Sex was forbidden; as was masturbation - as it still is - but these were healthy young women, who couldn't read - definitely not Latin, the language of the Church, the tongue in which the books were written. The girls were without religious conviction and their boredom was intense, so it became a battle of the wills: between them and their masters, and in this fight, the priests were brutal. The girls were never allowed to be alone: not even to bathe or to shit. They were accompanied, usually by another nun or occasionally by a priest." Naomi nodded, wishing for a similar restriction, for she had only her personal faith as her safeguard. "Come nighttime," I told her. "The poor women were bound to their beds so that they couldn't accomplish in sleep what was forbidden by day." "I wish you would tie me to my bed," Naomi murmured. "It would help me to sleep. And if you whipped me, my pussy - I wouldn't mind that. I would bless God for it." I nodded. "I have control over you now, Naomi Anne. You're mine. I can tie you wherever I like, at any time I like: either clothed, or naked, or in any intermediate state. I can take you to the monastery and hang you on a cross in front of the bishops. You would stay there all day, in front of them all." Naomi's flush deepened. "If you tied me like that," she murmured; her head lowered and submissive. "I'd have bad thoughts, terrible wicked ones." "Which you would confess to me in the usual way," I insisted. "And I would punish you. I would beat you. I would beat you myself." Deep down, I sensed that she wanted to be beaten. Why else does a nun choose the path of St Joan? She wanted to be stripped and for me to look upon her nakedness, for me to arouse her with my whip and then touch and caress her and make her feel better. She'd described it to me in the confessional: her body, her breasts and her thighs twisting in pain. She'd asked me to beat her as penance for her sins; but it wasn't really penance she was seeking. It was an emotional satisfaction and contentment. "There's no going back," I mumbled, hearing bells alerting me to the time. I kissed Naomi's ruby lips, and they parted and accepted my tongue, and her eyes fluttered closed. A second set of bells added to the first; louder and closer. Morning had come. "There's no spitting out," I warned her, clinging to her tightly. "This is for real, my love. You understand? There's no second guesses or safe words. If you don't play the games, you're dead meat and destined for the torments of hell!" She opened her eyes and threw me a slow, disdainful scowl that darkened into a gnawing sexual hunger. "Charlie?" she growled, clasping my hand and peering at me with large desperate eyes. I waited. I could hear the distant singing of nuns. "I need to be beaten. It'll improve me as a person and it'll make me a better servant of God. I'll do anything you want. I'll do anything you say." God, and I wanted her too. I was aroused. I wanted to own her. I wanted to remove that fragile white linen and beat her. It wouldn't be long, either. I could hear the bustle of the faithful coming to prayer. My fingers played with Naomi's ties, fidgeting with the fabric. "It was a pressure cooker environment in those convents with unbearable frustration and craving," I puffed, looking down at my watch. Only a minute or two now. The nuns were outside. "In such an atmosphere, women behave in ways that they don't fully anticipate. Maybe, you can understand that, Naomi, but look closely at the pictures - at the women's faces. Can you see the secret hidden in these engravings? Look closely. The nuns want to be punished. Look carefully at the posture. Look at their faces. They want to be whipped. Imagine that! Their sins are deliberate and calculated. They crave the whip because it offers them release. They're naked: yes; and tied to a frame. They're humiliated: certainly. The leather strikes between their legs. It curls deep into their flesh and bites into their slits - finding and probing inside. They're in pain. They hurt. But, even so, they lift themselves eagerly to the leather as if to a lover. "Here they can scream. They can fight. They can be women. Here is the one place where a nun can be herself: the only place. She can behave in whatever way she likes and no one will censure her. Here, at last, she has the freedom to cum. This is the way it must be, Naomi. In this way I can love you, but no more, for I am a priest." "Yes, Charlie," she wheezed, fidgeting and shaking like a warthog in heat. She could hear the voices of the women outside, lining up to enter the Chapel. She could hear the voices of the bishops. "You're right. You must do it. I deserve to be punished." She was squeezing her thighs and twisting her hips, almost climbing the walls with discomfort. She knew it could happen, that I would strip her; that I would wait until all the nuns and bishops had come in, and then I would beat the heat out of her pussy. I would bring her pleasure and contentment. She was clinging to my hand, looking at me with her big wet eyes, as firmly and resolutely as ever. Her burnt nipples smoldered under the ferocity of my gaze. I could see her dark hair beneath her skirt, triangular, and as yet, uncut. When she was naked and I would shave her ready for her punishment. I would have that pleasure. Then I would whip her. I wrapped my fingers round the delicate bows that held her skirt to her waist. This garment, like her vest, was a symbol of shame. A symbol of pain: according to the manner of St Joan. "Do it," she urged me. "Undress me. Strip me like the wanton I am." I waited until they threw open the door, and that's when I did it. I pulled the ties on her skirt. And also the tiny bows where the straps of her vest were fastened on her shoulder. I caressed them undone. There was a rustle of linen and an involuntary gasp; first from her and then from the nuns behind us. The cloth slid across her breasts and arms, and across her thighs and her calves. Naomi appeared shocked, quite surprised that I'd done it; and her face punctuated in a single unanswered question. "You're beautiful," I whispered, and with my back to the advancing bishops, I lifted my cassock and showed her my cock. I glanced at her beautifully framed triangle, then up at her naked breasts, and then up again at the altar. She smiled, because my cock was rising in her honor. It was hard, and erect. "Thank you," she said, and she climbed up onto the altar, and I lowered my robe and made myself modest again. Soon Naomi Anne would be tied there on the altar and I would whip her, and she would cum like she wanted to cum. She would be happy. But nothing more. I couldn't fuck her. Not now. Not ever. I wouldn't. I loved her too much. The End In the Manner of St Joan by Grim Williams Copyright 2006 Review_This_Story || Email Author: Grim_Williams ****** MORE_BDSM_STORIES_@_SEX_STORIES_POST ******