 I read the analvalley entry again. "I suppose so," I granted, "It doesn't really say much."
 "Hi. I analvalley'm analvalley Carol." Her voice was rich and sensual, and analvalley her hand as it touched mine sent analvalley a small shock through my system.
 "As you analvalley know from the course description, this workshop is about hypnosis for couples. I've been a analvalley practicing hypnotherapist analvalley for about analvalley five years now, and for the last two I've specialized analvalley in treating sexual dysfunctions analvalley in both movie men and women. In that time it's been my pleasure to teach hundreds of couples how analvalley they can use hypnosis to analvalley enhance their love lives. If you stay with me and work together over the three analvalley sessions in this class, I promise analvalley you that the experience will change the way you think about sexual pleasure."
 "But first," she continued, "I need to make sure analvalley that you all understand some important things about what we analvalley will and won't be doing analvalley here. You will be practicing hypnosis on each analvalley other, learning to analvalley use the hypnotic state movie for erotic purposes analvalley. Each of analvalley you will learn to drop into a deep trance on command from your partner. Sharing that power brings a new depth of intimacy to relationships, but it requires absolute analvalley trust analvalley. If you don't share your partner's interest in erotic hypnosis, or if you are not sure you want to let your partner guide you into a trance and give you suggestions, then analvalley you analvalley should not be here. I'd rather analvalley see you invest your time in improving analvalley your relationship or at least analvalley doing something you can both enjoy.
 Carol movie paused a minute to let it all sink in. "Now analvalley listen analvalley to this analvalley very carefully analvalley," she movie continued. "The hypnotic suggestions we use in this class will be analvalley limited to things that have proven safe and effective analvalley for our purpose analvalley. They will involve creating and analvalley controlling desire analvalley, causing or enhancing physical sensations, and overcoming inhibitions analvalley. I'm analvalley sure you are all aware that hypnosis is analvalley also used medically analvalley to help people lose weight, stop smoking, and things like that. That's called hypnotherapy analvalley, and it analvalley takes years analvalley of practice to analvalley become proficient at it. We will not be conducting therapy in this class."
 Carol's voice grew smoother analvalley, softer, more seductive analvalley as she began to talk us into trance. "Everyone take a nice analvalley, deep analvalley breath now analvalley. Hold it ... hold it ... and now analvalley exhale, completely, slowly, and analvalley let yourself sink into the analvalley mats. Very good analvalley, everyone. Now breathe in again, deeply and slowly. Hold it. And exhale, slowly, completely, feeling movie yourself sinking a little further analvalley into the mats." She had us do this several times, each time exhorting us to relax analvalley and let analvalley the mats support us.
 Starting with the face, Carol called out every major muscle group and body part from head to toe. For each group she told us analvalley to concentrate, focus, relax this and that analvalley part, feel the movie part becoming heavy analvalley, loose, and lazy. I kept drifting off analvalley to some other place, only to catch myself and refocus on analvalley Carol's instructions.
 Carol 's voice had become so distant I found it hard to make out what she was saying. Something told me that analvalley was analvalley okay, though, so I analvalley simply let her voice merge with analvalley the low analvalley, thrumming tones of the music in my analvalley head. I felt my various muscle groups relaxing again, head to toe, like the lights being turned off in a skyscraper floor by floor.
 A pattern analvalley of colors began to swirl before my eyes analvalley, and analvalley I felt analvalley myself floating down into the middle of whatever analvalley it was. It turned out to be a hammock, stretched between two trees, waiting to be occupied . I was in a small woodland, with grass analvalley under my feet and enough trees to analvalley provide pleasant shade. There was a small stream analvalley nearby movie; the bubbling sound of movie the water running by analvalley made the place analvalley all the analvalley more peaceful. I climbed into the hammock and analvalley lay back, swaying slowly in the warm breeze. I watched the tree limbs as I analvalley rocked back analvalley and forth, the analvalley sounds of the water still analvalley in my ears, feeling safe analvalley and comfortable.
 As we headed out the door, Carol stopped us for a quick aside. "It's unusual to have only one kinesthetic person in analvalley a group," she said to Meg analvalley. "I'm a kinesthetic too; remind analvalley me next week and I'll teach you a analvalley couple of special techniques."
 "Great idea!" Meg's right hand dove through the waistband of her shorts. From my vantage point I could just make analvalley out the shape of her hand as analvalley she curled her fingers to reach into analvalley her seam analvalley. Her breathing quickened and analvalley deepened, and I felt my own body reacting to the low, growling moans that escaped her lips. After a very long few analvalley minutes, she groaned loudly. "Shit - I can't come!" she analvalley shouted analvalley, her eyes still shut and her fingers still working. "All this diddling is only making it analvalley worse!"
 A small corner analvalley of my mind started laughing analvalley. Meg is never shy about letting me know when she's horny, but I'd never seen her this incensed before. The fact that analvalley I was in equally bad analvalley shape myself made it all the more funny.
 My head jerked back as Meg squeezed in analvalley just the movie right place; I felt something hard behind my head move , followed immediately by analvalley the sound of a small motor. Out of analvalley the corner analvalley of my eye, I saw analvalley the garage door start to lift.
 If there's analvalley one problem with having a Thursday night analvalley like we'd had, it analvalley's this: Friday can't help but seem analvalley lame by comparison. I movie spent most of the day analvalley glued to my analvalley desk, updating some CAD analvalley drawings with last-minute changes from the client. Once I'd sent the finished analvalley version across the wire to the print shop analvalley, it was just after three o'clock - too early to leave, too late to start something new.
 ... and waking up analvalley suddenly to the analvalley feel of a hand analvalley on my shoulder. I looked up to see Shirley, our boss's secretary, looking down at me with an amused smile. "Rough night, Pat analvalley?"
 I looked at the clock on my computer screen analvalley: 4:18. A full hour, and then a analvalley little, had gone by while I was analvalley zoned out. Too embarrassed to come up with a analvalley clever reply, I just thanked Shirley, put everything analvalley away, and went home.
 "Same here," I agreed analvalley, and let the matter drop. We analvalley could always ask Carol about it at the next class.
 I shrugged analvalley. "Sure, why not?" After lunch we retired analvalley to the bedroom, pulling the shades to filter out most of the afternoon sun. We kicked off our shoes analvalley and analvalley stretched out on the bed, face up, my right analvalley hand in her left. Meg started analvalley us on analvalley a analvalley deep analvalley breath analvalley, but I analvalley stopped.
 "I guess not. The question is, was it dumb analvalley luck -"
 Meg's car was in the garage as usual when analvalley I got home, but the house seemed quiet analvalley. I was still in a analvalley pretty foul mood, so rather than go looking for Meg analvalley right away I slipped upstairs to the analvalley bedroom analvalley. Changing out of my office clothes movie does wonders for my attitude on a bad day analvalley.
 Backing away from analvalley the bed, I slipped my own clothes off, being careful to make as little analvalley noise as possible. I analvalley knelt down beside analvalley the analvalley bed and gently, lightly, let my hand come to rest on her stomach. The movie silk moved analvalley under my hand as she breathed. Watching Meg's face carefully for analvalley signs of awakening, I moved my hand slowly up toward analvalley her breast, using just enough pressure to let me feel her through the silk robe. My fingers reached analvalley the nipple and parted, teasing the sides, and I was pleased to analvalley feel the analvalley nipple stiffen analvalley in analvalley response even as my palm crossed over it and reversed directions, stroking downward just as slowly and analvalley gently.
 The next time I applied just a little bit more pressure and lingered over the nipple, squeezing analvalley very slightly, letting the silk move a little more under my hand. The gap in the robe widened of course as I moved the analvalley material analvalley around analvalley; after analvalley a analvalley few analvalley minutes I just had analvalley to peel it aside the rest of the way . My hand brushed down her bare skin one movie time analvalley as I leaned analvalley forward. My tongue contacted her exposed nipple as my hand came analvalley to analvalley rest on her mound, fingers reaching down to her slit. I felt analvalley her breath in suddenly analvalley and her legs starting to move, and my eyes analvalley darted up to her face. Her eyes were opening, but she still looked dazed.
 A lick here, a suck there, my analvalley hands caressing her legs analvalley all the while , I watched and listened for signs of analvalley awakening. Her breathing remained analvalley deep but the pace analvalley was picking up analvalley, and each analvalley exhale came with a long, sustained movie moaning sound. Her body felt heavy and loose, but there was no question that she was responding and would be ready to come soon. I thought briefly about trying the "you can analvalley't come until I tell you analvalley to" trick that analvalley figures into so many of our favorite stories, but I opted analvalley not analvalley to - I wasn't sure I could pull it off, and I didn't want to spoil this by trying and failing.
 Meg and I analvalley had our analvalley mats arranged to our liking analvalley and were just analvalley settling analvalley in when Carol analvalley arrived. Her welcoming smile beamed analvalley at analvalley us so brightly that analvalley it took analvalley me a few seconds to realize she wasn't alone. Behind her was a man of average height, slightly balding, with analvalley a neatly trimmed beard and wire analvalley-frame glasses analvalley. His navy analvalley blue warm-up suit hung loosely on his thin frame. He analvalley busied himself setting up analvalley the boom box while Carol made a few notes in her organizer.
 "Good evening," Carol began, setting the organizer down. "It analvalley's good to see everyone here bright and early. Has it been an interesting week for analvalley you all?" She made eye contact analvalley with each of us in turn, and without fail analvalley each of us met her gaze with a sheepish grin. "Excellent! Before we get started, I'd like you all to analvalley meet my husband, Jim." She indicated analvalley the man who had followed analvalley her in analvalley.
 "Now," she continued, "Are there any questions you'd like to toss out before we analvalley go any further?"
 "A couple of simple analvalley posthypnotic suggestions analvalley," she explained. "One movie of the analvalley keys to using erotic hypnosis is believing that it analvalley really can work. Before analvalley you try making suggestions to each other, I wanted you to see analvalley and feel for yourselves analvalley that the results we are going to talk about are possible analvalley - not just in the abstract, but for analvalley you specifically. The best way to prove that to you was by example analvalley.
 As Carol explained what she'd done, I replayed that Thursday night in my mind: the sudden randiness analvalley I'd felt when we woke up analvalley the last analvalley time; the steady buildup of need; Meg trying to analvalley bring herself off in the car and failing, and how it analvalley that analvalley had affected me; it analvalley all fell neatly into place.
 "Not as analvalley a posthypnotic analvalley suggestion, no. If you remember, I did suggest after analvalley you analvalley were fully awake that practicing every day analvalley would be a good thing. Did movie everyone analvalley do that?" She looked around at us all; everyone was nodding analvalley. "That analvalley's very good. Now that you know analvalley how easily you analvalley can enter the hypnotic state on your own, it will be even easier for you to do it with your partner's help. And that analvalley leads us directly to tonight's first demonstration."
 The effect was dramatic: Carol's movie legs buckled and her arms dropped like stones as her analvalley body slumped backward. Her head pitched to the right and analvalley drooped. Only Jim's arms, locked firmly around her ribcage movie, kept her analvalley from crumpling to the floor movie. I stared wide-eyed at the analvalley doctor's limp form, fascinated. Meg's analvalley hand found mine and squeezed, but neither of us looked away from the sight in front analvalley of us.
 "Rapid induction," Jim said by way of explanation. "One of the suggestions I always reinforce with Carol is analvalley that she will drop into trance whenever I utter a particular phrase. As you can see, it's a very fast way to take your partner movie into trance. It's also kind of fun in its own right," he added, winking at us.
 "Can you do analvalley that anytime you want?" I didn't see who analvalley asked; it was one analvalley of the men.
 Carol came analvalley forward, looking fully alert again. "Ready to try it yourselves?" She received a general analvalley murmur of assent. "Good. Ladies analvalley, lie back and get analvalley comfortable. You'll be the subjects tonight. Guys, you are analvalley going to analvalley help guide your partner into a nice, deep trance state. Jim analvalley and I will help you get there. When she analvalley's analvalley nice and deep analvalley, you will analvalley suggest a trigger that will put her back into hypnosis quickly. Then you'll analvalley wake analvalley her up analvalley and practice using the trigger."
 There was a general buzz as the couples leafed through the analvalley booklet analvalley and talked among movie themselves. Carol came over to analvalley us while Meg and I were still looking at analvalley the analvalley titles. "Would you like analvalley a recommendation?" she offered.
 "Just a analvalley few tips on how to use these scripts," she said analvalley. "First of analvalley all, these are not magical incantations analvalley. Just reading one of these out loud to your partner is not going to do anything for her. The best analvalley way to use these is to realize analvalley that an induction script is analvalley little more analvalley than a series of suggestions that you are movie giving to your partner which analvalley will result in her entering hypnosis analvalley. Don't bury your nose analvalley in the book and read analvalley the script verbatim - read a line or two, understand what analvalley it analvalley says, and analvalley relay that to your partner. If the wording feels awkward, go ahead and reword analvalley it so that you're comfortable analvalley with it.
 "Finally, keep your voice analvalley natural. A lot of people movie have this analvalley notion that analvalley a hypnotist should talk like Bela Lugosi in 'Dracula', drawing out every movie word until it analvalley's almost a chant. In real life, all analvalley that will analvalley do is make you feel silly and distract your partner analvalley from what you analvalley're actually saying. Just speak normally and you'll be fine.
 After a few seconds, I analvalley continued. "As you feel that analvalley comforting, relaxing flow of analvalley air analvalley moving through your hands, through your arms to your shoulders analvalley, maybe finding again that faint tingling sensation, perhaps in your elbows or forearms this analvalley time, then moving down through your body. Down through your chest and stomach, down through your hips, down through your thighs analvalley, into your analvalley knees and analvalley shins and calves analvalley." The script had the analvalley word 'down' in italics, so I gave each 'down' some extra emphasis. "Again, you might feel that faint tingling sensation just there, just analvalley below your knees analvalley, moving down through your ankles and out the bottoms of your feet. And you can find a great deal analvalley of calmness and easiness in analvalley this rather strange idea that analvalley you analvalley can breathe in through your fingers, that you can actually feel the air moving through your whole body analvalley in one single, warming analvalley, comforting flow. A unidirectional flow, moving through your whole body analvalley in one single comforting flow. The calmness and relaxation you breathe analvalley in analvalley doesn't get involved with the tensions analvalley and stresses analvalley that you breathe away analvalley from yourself. With each breath you take, with each word I speak, you find yourself becoming steadily more analvalley and more relaxed."
 That was analvalley the end of analvalley the analvalley standard script analvalley. Meg's breathing had slowed so much I could barely tell when she inhaled. I watched her for a few analvalley moments - she's so beautiful when she's asleep - then thumbed through the booklet to find analvalley the staircase deepener.
 "You analvalley can, Meg. You can return to this state any time you wish analvalley. In fact, whenever I say the phrase 'Goodnight, Gracie' you will immediately close your eyes and analvalley relax, letting yourself slide analvalley so easily, so movie deeply back into hypnosis. Every time analvalley I say 'Goodnight, Gracie analvalley' you will find it easier and easier to just let go. Every time I say 'Goodnight, Gracie analvalley' you will go deeper into hypnosis than the time before. You won't have to think about it, you will simply let go and trust me to take care of you analvalley. Will you do that, Meg? Will you let me take you back into deep, wonderful hypnosis analvalley by saying 'Goodnight, Gracie' to you?"
 "Very good, Meg. Rest now, darling. Just let yourself drift and relax, rest and sleep, until analvalley I say your name again."
 The wait wasn't too long, only about ten minutes. Meg never stirred; in fact, the only way I could tell she was still breathing analvalley was analvalley by putting a hand just over her analvalley face analvalley. I wondered how much analvalley of analvalley this she would remember later. I wondered how much I would analvalley remember when it was my turn, and felt my cock grow another inch analvalley in response.
 "Goodnight, Gracie." The eyes that were watching me glazed over, and the puzzled look deepened.
 One time as Meg was analvalley waking up, Carol came over. "How analvalley are you doing?" she analvalley asked, looking at Meg.
 "Her subconscious causes her to react as if I'd touched her somewhere much more intimate," Jim concluded for her, still lightly stroking her arm. "You can also use suggestion to make the touch more or less sensitive. For instance, I suggested that analvalley a analvalley touch analvalley on her elbow would be twice as erotic as anywhere analvalley else on the arm." With that, he tweaked the point of her elbow between his fingers.
 "This is a great suggestion for analvalley a number of different situations," Jim analvalley continued. "Believe it or not, it is possible with analvalley practice to bring make analvalley your partner come just analvalley by casual touch this way." Looking analvalley at Carol's face, I had no trouble believing him. Rather than prove it movie, though, Jim stopped stroking analvalley his wife's arm.
 "The subconscious can analvalley control almost any bodily function," Jim explained while analvalley Carol recovered, "even those that we think of as analvalley involuntary. Before you get grandiose ideas, though, let me tell you right off that it takes a very experienced subject to be able to orgasm on command. Don't even try it analvalley until you are both doing well with the simpler suggestions."
 "As you wish, darling. Your body remembers all of the sensations, all of the feelings, all analvalley of the analvalley sights and sounds and smells, of that analvalley experience analvalley. Your body remembers, Meg, and when I give you the signal you will experience the relaxation, the pleasure, and analvalley the analvalley orgasm in every detail, as though it were happening again analvalley. You will again feel the softness of the analvalley bed analvalley beneath you analvalley, the sexy smoothness of your movie silk robe against freshly showered skin. You will again hear my voice and analvalley relax, just as you did Monday. You analvalley will again analvalley feel the weight analvalley of my body on yours analvalley as I spread your legs apart and position myself between them analvalley. You will again feel analvalley my kisses on your thighs and your groin, my analvalley tongue analvalley touching all of your private parts one by one. You again will feel yourself movie growing more and more aroused, even as your body relaxes under my touch analvalley, and you again will react exactly as you did that day. You will analvalley let analvalley the analvalley pleasure build inside you movie until analvalley you have an orgasm, and when you do that orgasm will analvalley be as strong and as satisfying as any you can analvalley remember having. All of this will happen when I give you the signal. Do you understand analvalley, Meg?"
 "Good analvalley. The signal that will cause you to analvalley re-experience that memory is the word 'anticlimax.' Later tonight, when you are fully awake and alert, I will say the word 'anticlimax analvalley' to you and that will analvalley be your signal. Your body will respond automatically to that signal, just as it does when I give you the analvalley signal to go back into trance analvalley. You won't have to analvalley think about analvalley it, you won't want to resist, you will analvalley simply allow yourself analvalley to analvalley experience those wonderful feelings again analvalley. Okay?"
 Carol noticed Meg's rising and came over to analvalley check on us. "Done already?"
 "You do that anyway when I analvalley ask nicely."
 Tamika analvalley was awake, we saw, and analvalley had a shocked look on her face. Her companion held one analvalley of her hands and was watching her face. He petted Tamika analvalley's hand lightly and she whooped again, her mouth falling open and eyes bulging. Her other hand dove between her legs as if she had dropped an ice cube down there. A few more light strokes and her expression gradually changed analvalley from surprise to lust.
 As I expected analvalley, Meg's body analvalley relaxed on cue. I analvalley was able to catch her as she pitched analvalley forward and hold her more or less upright against me analvalley. Her analvalley eyes were closed, but I sensed she was still awake.
 When analvalley it was finally over and Meg's analvalley labored breathing analvalley was the only sound I could hear, I looked around: Carol, Jim , and analvalley all of our classmates analvalley were staring, spellbound, at Meg's quivering form analvalley. Soon Meg opened analvalley her eyes analvalley, noticed analvalley the crowd, and realized she was the center analvalley of attention analvalley.
 "Yes."
 "Excellent. I am going to count to three now. When you hear me reach the count of three, you analvalley will turn off the speakerphone, resume sitting on the edge of the bed, and awaken. Your conscious mind will not remember this call at all, but your subconscious will remember and follow all of my instructions. One ... two ... three."
 "I tried that already." I suspected as much - Marty's a pretty decent guy and hates like hell to analvalley ask anyone to analvalley jump through analvalley a hoop. "They say analvalley it's only a few questions, but they've got trades waiting on analvalley the answers."
 By Thursday afternoon Meg was thoroughly keyed up. The analvalley pizza delivery guy was right on my heels, and I was amused to see that Meg analvalley had already set the table with disposable plates and cups. "Quick, easy analvalley cleanup," she explained.
 I wasn't analvalley quite sure analvalley what to make of that. I thought I'd been pretty careful about making sure Meg enjoyed our encounters. True, I had really left her hanging on movie Tuesday afternoon, but that had been an accident. I'd confessed to the whole analvalley thing over dinner that night; Meg analvalley was pretty analvalley annoyed at first, but in the end she said that all was forgiven. Was it really ?
 On the way analvalley over, I wondered to myself what suggestions Meg might use once analvalley she analvalley had me under hypnosis analvalley. I floated an innocent query, but she wasn't talking. "You'll find out in due time," she teased.
 Part analvalley of me kept thinking about Tuesday. She'd used the word 'payback analvalley' at dinner; I wondered if she had a big analvalley-time tease in mind, something analvalley like what I had accidentally analvalley done to her analvalley. The idea was actually a little analvalley arousing, but then in a analvalley flash I had analvalley an interesting idea of my own - sort of a preemptive strike analvalley.
 Without thinking, I answered analvalley. "Goodnight , Gracie." Out of the corner of my analvalley eye I saw Meg analvalley's body sag and analvalley realized my mistake just in time to catch her and ease her down onto analvalley the mat.
 "A couple." I felt the blood creeping into my cheeks as I thought about Tuesday analvalley afternoon again analvalley.
 "What are analvalley you feeling, Patrick?"
 I opened my eyes analvalley to answer. "Something isn't quite right, but I don't know what . I'm trying to focus, trying to make myself relax, but I only get so far and can't seem to keep going."
 "As for you, Patrick , I analvalley suspect you analvalley're analvalley thinking analvalley too much. I'm catching some eye movements that look as though analvalley you are analvalley trying to analvalley evaluate analvalley how well you are doing. Are you?"
 "Don't help," she said firmly. "That's analvalley not analvalley your job. In fact, let's give you something else analvalley to do analvalley." Carol left us long enough analvalley to pick up her organizer and retrieve a small laminated card analvalley from analvalley a section in the middle. She handed the card to Meg. "Try this one analvalley, it's analvalley very good for situations like this."
 She kept on going, but I was too analvalley preoccupied to keep analvalley processing the words. My mind was analvalley awhirl trying to juggle all those different memories, awarenesses and analvalley thoughts - which, I would realize later analvalley, was the whole point. I kept trying my best to remain analvalley aware of all of analvalley those things while Meg spoke. Finally I gave up, dropped every analvalley thought except one: how good it felt to relax, just relax and think of nothing whatsoever analvalley ...
 "... Wake up now, darling."
 At least a half dozen times I'd find myself waking up to the sight and feel of Meg riding me hard. I analvalley'd start to move, to speak, to do anything, but as soon as Meg saw me she'd say "Lights out, darling" and I analvalley'd analvalley fall back into nothingness.
 Carol saw that I was awake analvalley and came over. "Are we going to see a demonstration analvalley?" she analvalley asked Meg analvalley.
 Meg put a real hand on analvalley my leg, then analvalley slipped it analvalley over and gave analvalley me a analvalley quick stroke across my bulging cock. "Relax, darling analvalley," she said. "You'll be well taken care of as analvalley soon as we get home.
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