A Gift in Disguise Ch. 09

Shifuku and the preparation is mentally and emotionally demanding.

First a shifuki had to perceptively and quickly recognize her sexual attraction to another woman as a prospective sex partner. Then the shifuki had to somehow communicate her desire and assess her prospective partner's response. Only another shifuki would recognize the approach as a sexual one and respond appropriately. Women who responded positively had to sexually arouse themselves quickly with almost none of the typical sexual stimulation and without revealing their arousal to anyone who might be nearby.

To make this spontaneous encounter even more challenging, the shifuki had to interact with each other with minimal physical contact and while fully clothed. They had to simultaneously sexually pleasure themselves and deliver the equivalent relief to their woman partner, and then they finally had to completely recover from their climax. Since most often their hands and faces were the only skin exposed, they were limited pretty much to kissing and limited touching for physical contact. And of course, the hands-on touching was limited to outside-the-clothing. Complicating matters, there was often the risk of unexpected interruption."

Marta paused again, but she watched me very intently. I sensed something very strange in her gaze, not discomforting but certainly penetrating. She was looking at me in a way that generated a perception of unspoken communication.

"You must be wondering how this relates to your thesis, or more specifically, how your thesis could possibly have driven me to masturbate.

While I lay naked on my bed recovering from my two orgasms and trying to fathom what had just happened and why, I realized that my mental process and approach to skimming your thesis had more closely resembled my initial mental interaction with another shifuki than with a client's writing I was seeing for the first time. I was reacting to your thesis as if it was you as a sexually desirable woman, another shifuki I was meeting for the first time.

Even more strange and confusing, I was getting the same kind of positive, affirming probing from your thesis' words that I get from another shifuki who is interested in me sexually.

I guess it would be more accurate to say it was as if our minds were communicating via your words but independent of our bodies and separate from the literal meaning of the words. Your written words were conveying more and something other than just the technical material in your thesis. It was as if your written words were probing me for my sexual interest. That realization surprised me, but given my understanding of interpersonal mental connection inherent in shifuku, it was not exactly incomprehensible.

What completely baffled me, though, was my sexual response to your thesis. As I was tutored in it, shifuku requires that two women, not a woman and a man, certainly not a woman and a written technical document, both have consciously learned and refined shifuku's unique sexual regimen. Mother had taught me there is no possibility that any normal man could even accidentally generate a shifuku response in me. None. Yet that is exactly what I believe had happened, and your thesis was the vehicle that did it.

With their men, if they had one, shifuki could adapt to be whatever the men wanted them to be to sexually satisfy the men, even if that meant as it often did sacrificing the women's own sexual satisfaction. But with another shifuki, both women were completely free to achieve our own sexual satisfaction quickly, intensely, and completely.

But you could not possibly have even been aware of shifuku when you drafted your thesis, let alone incorporated any of its mystical practices in your words. Why, then, after just skimming it did I feel the same perceptions and sensations as I have in the presence of another shifuki with whom I have begun the mental sexual synchronization leading to mutual orgasms?

I have an idea based on another story my mother occasionally told me, but I need to explain a bit more about shifuku before I get to it.

As with any obscure and undocumented practice, word-of-mouth legends about shifuku were passed. Aside from regaling us with the pleasures of shifuku, the most frequent stories told by our mothers were to discourage us from sharing the secrets of shifuku with men. Those stories involved women who supposedly used shifuku to murder abusive husbands and lovers.

As the teaching goes, shifuku is so powerful that only women can handle the intense sexual pleasures it provides. Very few men are physically and mentally prepared to handle it. If for whatever reason a woman wanted to be rid of a particular man, she could simply do a Jekyll-and-Hyde change from the submissive sex-object wife or lover to her inner shifuki and literally induce a fatal orgasm in him with a powerful kiss or one last fuck.

That's why Emily was so shaken about your encounter with her on Lorraine's front porch after your meeting. Well, that and the intensity of the orgasm she had just experienced and generated in you. The last thing Emily would do would be anything to harm you, Tom.

She freely told me she initiated the sexual contact between you, but she said it was completely spontaneous. She didn't know it was coming until it happened, and she had no control over it once she had begun. That understandably alarmed her very much, partly because of the teaching not to practice shifuku on a man, but also because of her complete inability to control herself. Shifuku is about self-control, and her seeming loss of it frightened her. On top of that, your relatively quick and complete recovery from your orgasm her action generated while she was noticeably impaired was completely inconsistent with the teachings of shifuku regarding its effects on men.

Tom, Emily told me, 'My mind felt like it was intertwined with his, just like it feels with you. Even though Tom's a man, not a woman, at that instant and for those few seconds of our encounter, I felt completely detached from the difference. We were like two completely sexual but genderless beings.'

The way I interpret that, Tom, is that even though you were not consciously aware of Emily's intensely sexual desire for you as you left the meeting with Lorraine, you may have been aware of it subconsciously. In fact, you may have not only been aware of it, but you may have been unwittingly exchanging subtle communication with Emily much as practitioners of shifuku do. That is essentially what she described she was feeling from you.

Emily's perception that you were somehow engaging in shifuku with her is totally inconsistent with its women-only legend. Nevertheless I believe her account and assessment of what happened.

With you, I absolutely believe she experienced in that front porch moment the same influences of shifuku, the same mental processes she had learned and experienced with me. It is the very rapid exchange of pure sexual pleasure separate and distinct from the gender of our biological bodies.

Tom, from your perspective what happened with Emily on Lorraine's porch? What kind of feelings and sensations did you experience?"

Since the entire episode had begun and ended less than a minute and had resulted in both Emily and me having thunderous orgasms - in my case, a very messy one - only one detail seemed forever imprinted on my mind.

"It's hard to explain in any way that makes much sense. Emily called my name, so I turned back to her. I caught only a momentary glimpse of her face before she was upon me, but in that glimpse I felt a sexual focus I've never experienced with anyone else. I'm not even sure 'sexual focus' is a good description, but a fraction of a second later, she delivered an even more powerful kiss that felt as if her tongue plunged into me, searching to find and stimulate every sex nerve in my entire body. It's her tongue hit me sexually like the strike of a serpent trying to satisfy itself and me at the same time."

Marta had been listening attentively, but when I said 'strike of a serpent,' she became very visibly unnerved. She recovered quickly, but her reaction to something in that phrase had been substantial.

"Go on, please Tom," she said, but now her voice was shaking noticeably.

"During Emily's kiss, time seemed to slow down, at least as far as my getting closer to cumming was concerned. Even though I came quicker than I ever could have imagined, it didn't seem like it happened that quickly. My recollection is that I experienced all of the pleasure I do when I'm normally aroused. It didn't even seem condensed in time, even though that's obviously exactly what happened. Maybe a good way to put it is that the pleasure I felt from Emily's tongue-fuck seemed like it lasted for minutes rather than seconds.

Then, like I said before, Emily broke our kiss - really roughly - and grabbed my ass. What she said - 'Lorraine's cock. Yours' - she sounded demanding and urgent but it bordered on incoherent. At the instant she finished speaking her eyes seemed to burn into me, and she pulled my ass hard. It drove our bodies together, and we both came. Hard. I felt my jism soaking my shorts and running down my leg. I didn't care and apparently neither did she.

The next thing I remember seeing is Emily walking toward her car."

Marta had recovered her own composure.

"Tom, I wonder. Do you recall having an erection before you ejaculated?"

"Not specifically, but I must have," I answered quickly but in a way that likely reflected my own uncertainty.

"Tom, when you have sex or masturbate, how long does it usually take you to get fully hard and erect?"

"I guess I've never really paid that much attention," I admitted. "Probably a minute or two, maybe longer, maybe not that long. I don't know. I never really paid any attention."

But then I continued defensively, "But I've never had exactly the same stimulation that Emily hit me with, either. I must've gotten hard before I jizzed, right?"

"Not necessarily, Tom. Sexual stimulation causes your brain to rapidly direct an increased volume of blood flow to your penis. That causes it to get hard so penetration becomes possible. But it is a misconception that erection is essential for ejaculation. For many reasons a man may not have the vascular capacity to become erect, however he can still be sexually stimulated to ejaculation.

For your erection to have happened as quickly as you assume it must have, your brain would have had to process Emily's stimulation and then direct the increased blood flow to your penis. Being young, healthy, and athletic you have a very good cardiovascular system, but even with all those attributes working in your favor, I suspect that if sufficient blood volume had been redirected in such a short time to cause you to become fully erect, it would have reduced blood flow to your brain and caused you to become light-headed and maybe even to faint.

So with that in mind, are you still absolutely sure you had a full erection, Tom?"

Marta's questions and conclusions made sense, and finally I had to admit to her that I just assumed I'd had an erection before my orgasm.

"But why is that important? Does it really make any difference whether I had a full hard-on or not before I came?" I asked, reasonably I thought.

"Maybe. It might show that the timing and progression of your male orgasm with Emily very closely resembled one that she, a shifuki, experienced. And yet there is nothing in your background that would hint at your somehow being even remotely aware of shifuku, let alone ever developing the mental skill set and discipline needed to practice it.

That's why I was shocked when you used said 'strike of a serpent' to describe the effect of Emily's tongue action. That is the exact word my mother used when she indoctrinated me into the mysteries and pleasures of shifuku. She often said 'The pleasure and climax comes to a shifuki faster than the strike of a serpent'. Like you, she said 'strike of a serpent', a phrase rarely used today. But it is exactly the phrase used by the shifuki. It is the phrase we use to characterize the series of actions a shifuki goes through to deliver a stunning orgasm to her shifuki partner and herself. But it is also the term used slightly differently to explain the actions of a shifuki when she inflicts a last lethal orgasm on a man. It was exactly what Emily did to you, though she certainly had no intention of harming you.

In any event, that mental preparation is absolutely essential for both shifuki to be in the proper frame of mind to progress through the process to orgasm. While experienced shifuki can get into that mental groove in a minute or two, Emily took you completely by surprise. You've both confirmed that. You didn't have any warning, any time to mentally prepare for what was to come. If anything, the shock of her unexpected actions could easily have suppressed rather than encouraged your arousal and orgasm. Yet in less than a minute, you and Emily both orgasmed very intensely and at exactly the same time, and then you both recovered sufficiently to drive away fairly soon.

Think about Emily's recovery, Tom. Every single time you have experienced orgasms with Lorraine, Kim, Jamie, and Amanda, their resulting extended and intense orgasm causes them to inevitably and quickly slip into a brief but restful sexually-induced sleep. But not with Emily.

Significantly, Emily made it very clear to me that her orgasm on Lorraine's front porch in full public view was as intense as any she has ever experienced with another shifuki, including me. While she might have appeared to you to be in complete control when she walked to her car and drove away, she told me she was weak and wobbly and not seeing or thinking too clearly. She didn't start driving until she was sure she had sufficiently recovered. I suspect part of that was that she may have been confused by her own spontaneous and unique actions which were contrary to shifuku's teachings. And she was deeply shaken by her inability to resist whatever your power was that overtook her.

Emily has mastered shifuku's 'serpent's tongue'. She can subject a woman to exquisite prolonged pleasure with it, taking us just to the edge of orgasm, then backing off. Or, as she apparently did with you, she can almost instantly drive a partner to a cataclysmic orgasm over which her partner has no control. Of course, as a shifuki she was taught to only use the 'serpent's tongue' with another shifuki, never with a man.

Emily has also adopted a slight variation of shifuku. You've no doubt noticed that she works very hard to not be sexually alluring — at least not to men. Although she is fastidiously clean, she outwardly tries to almost look unstylish and plain, unattractive bordering on repellant.

Although Emily allows all her body hair to grow quite freely, she is not clinically a hirsute. She chooses hair growth and manages it very well. I happen to find that sexually very exciting, but she uses it as a defense mechanism to discourage sexual advances from men. Most western men find a woman's body hair almost repulsive. You don't. It excites you even more. And that excites Emily. And me. It's also why Kim is hoping for you to take an interest in her daughter Sarah."

"Sarah? Kim introduced her to me some time ago when she was here visiting Kim. As I recall Kim was wearing shorts and a tee-shirt, but I didn't notice any particular body hair, nor was she at all interested in me."

"Maybe not then. But Kim introduced Sarah to Emily, too. It turns out that the male dancers in the clubs Sarah manages in Europe kept trying to hit on her. She was typical American woman — almost completely hair-free, and the Euro guys wanted some of her hairless pussy. Sarah confided this to Emily, so Emily put Sarah on to Emily's solution — let your body hair grow to turn off the unwanted male attention. Sarah sends Emily pictures of her growth every now and then. If you haven't seen Sarah lately, you haven't seen the new Sarah — or as she jokingly refers to herself now, Hairy Sarah. Arms, underarms, even a few around her nips, legs, and of course her pussy. It evidently worked, because the guys have been sticking to business and leaving the boss alone.

But getting back to Emily's jumping you on the front porch, Tom, I suspect that your arousal by women with body hair — something clearly indicated in Lorraine's reports which Emily saw — may have somehow, maybe subconsciously, triggered her attack on you on the porch. She unquestionably is very attracted to you sexually. Then on top of that, your response to her completely unforeseen and sudden sexual advance resembled a shifuki's response completely confused her, especially when your response was that of a shifuki, not a man.

So you see, Tom, there's much more to shifuku than you realize. Emily's behavior exposed you to quite a lot of it in the span of a few seconds on Lorraine's front porch. It may also be relevant to know that in practicing shifuku, Emily has completely mastered the technique of bringing a partner to a massive orgasm using nothing more than her own tongue interacting with her partner's. If someone had been watching her perform it, it would almost look like an act of violence. That's close to what you described, too.

Because the women had to act very quickly, sometimes like the strike of a serpent, to satisfy each other's sexual urges, an outsider happening upon women already engaging in it might reasonably conclude that the women were physically attacking each other rather than engaging in something so intensely sexually pleasurable. Their sex acts took on the appearance of violence because so much action, so much limited contact physical stimulation, was condensed into such a limited time.

Under the right circumstances, meaning those rare instances when they were out of sight and hearing of their men or anyone else, the women also vocalized their sexual pleasure to each other. But if overheard by an unwitting outsider, the vocalizations could also easily have been mistaken for violent aggression and even cries of extreme distress rather than pleasure.

Of course in today's era of sexual enlightenment even in Asia, sex between two women need not be as secretive or as fast as it necessarily was with past generations. And the women need not be fully clothed or worry about being discovered by men. That has allowed us to slow down, to enjoy each other longer, while at the same time we have retained the mental discipline which intensifies the sexual pleasure. Still, today some of us still practicing shifuku occasionally find the pseudo-violent and noisy aspects of it to be exceedingly stimulating. We are sometimes also stimulated by the prospect of someone watching or hearing us. The risk of being caught in a once-forbidden act can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.

That may have influenced Emily's and Lorraine's desire for you and Jamie to watch them. It probably still does."

Marta's voice had further softened and thickened, and she looked at me again with the engrossing gaze before she continued.

"Asian women passed shifuku along to their daughters by engaging in what much of the world would understandably perceive to be incest. While both mother and daughter did ultimately experience sexual release and pleasure from each other, it was rationalized as a form of familial education and tradition rather than what the western world characterizes as a sexual perversion. Because it requires extreme mental discipline and focus, the mental preparation and education began when a young woman entered puberty. The physical sexual acts were delayed until she was mentally mature enough to handle them responsibly, usually in her late teens or very early twenties. In my case I didn't have my first shifuku sexual experience with my shifuki mother until I was nineteen.