Impulsive Disobedience, Desire, and the Big O

So when you can’t sleep and you’re feeling worried or a tad antsy, here’s a little exercise for you. Watch the BDSM classic film, The Story of O. I watched it last night, some things on my mind, feeling restless. 1 hour, 42 minutes, and 3 orgasms later, I was sleepier and went to bed. However, that is not the point of this post.

The point is this. I was very impressed anew at O’s submissiveness...and that with the wrong Dom! Rene, her lover, takes her to a chateau for “training” and she promises to do whatever they ask…for Him. She fulfills her promise, though it is obviously new to her. Being whipped and passed around from valet to valet, Master to Master, like a dish of bon bons! She obeys the rules, one of which is to not look any man in the eye, keeping her head lowered, her stance submissive. Constantly, tied, chained, collared, cuffed, blindfolded, fucked, used, touched, and whipped. Damn! Super hot! And yet you see it…just there under the surface…a spark of sass…defiance. I have got to get myself to Roissy!

Once her delicious ordeal at the chateau is over, she returns home to a changed Rene, his disinterest in her growing, along with his desire to give her to another…the mysterious Sir Stefan. And it is upon this meeting that we first see O rebel. Openly, she defies Stefan when he orders her to “play” with herself while he watches. Yet, she has learned her other lessons well, including one that Nigel takes into his book of tricks every summer. This is the one where the knickerless bottom must always be the part of the body that touches any seating surface. Yes, that one is rather yummy.

So with Sir Stefan, O finds not only the right Master, but also love. And through this love her submission grows and she is able to find love in others, including the sinfully sweet Dominique, a lusty blonde model whom O photographs, then later delivers to the chateau for her own training. Through these experiences, we see O change. She becomes more confident, more radiant, more beautiful, happy and satisfied. She begins to crave the peaks of submission and she slips slowly further up the BDSM ladder of needs and desires. God, can I relate.

Toward the end of the story, O is taken to yet another sort of training house, where Sapphic love rules the day and the women there, dressed in elegantly sexy Victorian garb, spend their days playing like children and their nights in writhing ecstasy. They also whip one another. Mmmmm. I want to go there! Here is where we finally see O’s true character emerge….a need to give and receive pain. She takes pleasure in beating one of the ladies, only to take the girl to her bed later that night. This made me wonder. Do all submissives, having given so much of themselves desire to have another under their control? I do not think I do, but after seeing this film again, wonder if there may be something to it after all.

So with the exception of one willful act with Sir Stefan, we see no disobedience from her until the end of the film. Lying in her lover’s arms, the pair share an intimate conversation, wherein O asks her master if he loves her enough to subject himself to the same treatment she has undergone for Him. When he answers in the affirmative, we again see that spark in her eye, now so familiar. Taking the hot iron cigarette holder they had been sharing, she lovingly caresses his hand before searing his skin with a perfect O.

Impuslive? Definitely.

Would I try it? Hell no.

But you gotta love her spirit.

Emily