By markjo@aol.com and macbiker@aol.com

Consider this:  I'm in a bar.  It's not too crowded, and it's
early.  I'm horny, itchy and bored.  Every now and then I
catalogue the things I have to do, scan the bar, yawn, sigh.  I'm
waiting for just about anything to happen, acting like I don't
give a fuck.  I've noticed you come in, and I think you're hot,
and you've noticed me too, but of course, I'm one of those
annoying bottoms who would NEVER approach anyone.  Half of one's
worth is if one is courted.  No matter, you'll get what you want.

You come up to me and make small talk. We both look very
respectable, holding our beer bottles, and talking the talk.  I
don't really notice that you've started to imitate my speech
rhythms and movements, you've started to breathe on my rhythms,
and perhaps move your weight slightly, slowly from leg to leg as
we speak.  I just feel somehow very at ease, comfortable and open
talking with such a nice guy.

"So what do you do?" I ask.  

"I'm a researcher"

"Medicine?"

"Psychology.  Mostly about stress and disorders, stuff like
that." 

"Uh huh."  I give a non-committal response and assume the
conversation will move along from there, but you pursue it.

"Yeah.  Right now I'm doing work on a really interesting subject. 
Stress reduction and behavior modification through repetition?"

"Repetition?"  I don't really notice that you've gone from
mirroring my reflexes to directing them. I'm starting to shift my
weight slowly from one foot to the other....

"Of course, they've often found that a simple repetitive action
can be soothing, can produce an Alpha state in most subjects? 
What's an alpha state?  It's not that important.  Do you notice
what you're doing to your beer bottle?"  I look down to see my
thumb and forefinger traveling slowly up and down the neck of the
bottle, lubricated by the condensation.  up...and down.  up...and
down.  I really never noticed starting to do that. You continue
to drone on.

"For instance, that's a simple repeated action.  And yet you find
it soothing.  It's relaxing.  It's nice to be relaxed.  It's good
isn't it?"  I nod. up...and down.  "And you find that as your
hand goes up the bottle, you breathe in, and down...you breathe
out...breathe in...out...and that's another simple repeated
action that's so simple, it's relaxing.  It's simple. It's
relaxing.  And that's good because we all need to be relaxed..."  

I understand what you're saying, but I feel no need to focus on
it.  I find myself idly flicking my thumb and forefinger up the
neck, down the neck of the bottle, terribly aware of the
condensation.  It seems so interesting at the moment.  I agree
with you about how stuffy it is in here, we could really use some
air.  I don't even realize I'm walking out of the bar with a beer
bottle in my hand, just moving my thumb along the neck, as you
keep talking to me about how good it is to just repeat an action,
like breathing for instance....in and out...in and out....in and
out....I simply follow you into your building, politely listening
to the conversation.

We sit, and you tell me to just concentrate on how much more
comfortable I am now that we're out of that stuffy bar...how much
easier it is to breathe deeply, how much easier it is to
relax.....And of course, it is.  I don't even notice how
suggestible I've become, how I'm sitting in a chair with my eyes
closed, head slumped slightly, but I'm still fingering the
bottle's neck...up and down....breathing....in and out....

You feel ready to do what you had planned.  "It's so good to do
simple things.  You could do them all day.  You could go up and
down and up and down all day."  And you gently remove the bottle
from my hands and replace it with a well lubricated dildo,
replacing my thumb and fingers around it.  "you could do this all
day and it would be so relaxing.  You could go up and down all
day.  It makes you feel great.  Up and down.  You could do it all
day." I just stroke the dildo.  You continue.

"Mark, I'm thirsty.  aren't you thirsty?  Oh, it's dry in
here...why don't you take a drink of that beer?"  And I
obligingly put the dildo in my mouth. You gently guide it,
fucking my face slowly.  "In and out....in and out...in and out
is so simple...it's relaxing because it's simple....you could do
it all day....."