Extracts From a User Manual

1.1 Fucking

Anna has a constant and healthy desire to be fucked. As her owner you should impose sensible limits on this, as without them Anna will happily engage in penetrative sex until sore and exhausted. Anna is flexible enough to be used in a variety of positions, and is particularly well-suited to being fucked from behind.

It was, more than anything else, a joke. A gift for a fuckbuddy on Valentine’s Day: sixteen pages printed and saddle stitched into a glossy brochure. Her very own user manual, detailing her sexual proclivities, abilities, desires, and strengths.

It was something that, I told her, she could present to prospective partners. It was for them, not for her. If I ever decided to share her, I said, I would make sure to give a copy to anyone who’d be granted access.

I had print-ready files, I told her. If she planned to be as slutty as she had been around me I could print off a whole stack for her. I was sure, I told her, that she’d get through them pretty quick.

1.6 Nomenclature

Although Anna responds best to her given name, she also recognizes designations such as “Cunt”, “Whore”, “Bitch”, and “Slut”, although these should be used sparingly to avoid confusion. Anna is a simple creature and performs best when given simple, clear, direct instructions.

Of course, it was intended for her. That was the point of the thing – to give her an extensive rundown of her own sluttiness. To allow her the opportunity to sit and read an assessment of her many and varied uses, just as one might peruse the manual for a new appliance: a washing machine or high-end blender.

Throughout: neutral language. A peppy tone. The kind of thing you might encounter in the quick start guide for a new computer. Let’s get you up and running!

Imagine, I told her, that I ordered you from a catalogue. You turned up in a box. Bound. Wrapped in bubble wrap. Gagged and plugged for transit – various accessories tucked into the box alongside you. This manual, I told her, would be what I’d look at after tipping you out of the box. I’d read it thoroughly and slowly while you lay, still bound, on the floor.

2.3 Beatings

Anna is prone to a variety of moods, but these can be effectively equalized by regular vigorous beatings. You can use your hand or any implement that is immediately available to administer such beatings. Occasionally Anna will supply her own belt for such a purpose – this is a sign that she is particularly keen to be beaten, and you should oblige her forthwith.

It made her laugh the first time she read it. Later, she asked for another copy. One for her memory box. One to keep on her shelf to browse through when she was wanking. For that purpose it was ideal. It covered everything in minute detail: how proficient she was at oral. Her ability to take it in the arse. The degree to which she vocalised during different acts.

It was, she said, like a slightly absurd index of all of the filthy things we did together.

It was useful to me too. More than once while playing with her I would pick up the user guide. Flick through to a random page and search for something we hadn’t done in a while. It says here you require regular throat fucking to keep you trained. Yep. That’s what it says. Wouldn’t be in the user guide if it wasn’t true.

3.1 Troubleshooting (Excess Noise)

Anna has a tendency to vocalise loudly during penetrative sex. This is a sign that all is well and that she is enjoying the experience. Should you wish to limit this noise, however, you can use an implement of some kind to occupy her mouth. Suggested tools include: ball gags, dildos, hands, cocks.

It started mainly as a joke. A flippant and deliberately disrespectful dig taken to an absurd extreme. An oblique, lurid fantasy rendered into a slick brochure that – were it not for the pornographic imagery on the cover – wouldn’t look out of place in a conference centre lobby

It was intended to be objectifying. I hope it was. I hope it made her feel – in the nicest possible way – like a fleshlight.

Looking back at it years later, however, I notice the care that went into it. The observation of tiny details. The section dedicated to her diet, to the gifts she liked to receive, to the names she liked to be called. The section dedicated to what made her come.

In the course of dehumanising someone, you have to look at them. You have to look at them really closely. Figure out what it is that makes them human so that you know what it is you can mock, degrade, deride, take away.

In a sense, sometimes, it’s a weirdly loving thing to do.