As she gazed at the simple cross, Emily thought about what it meant. A religious symbol, some christians prefered it empty, like this. Others liked to put a figure on it. Then it became unambiguously an instrument of torture.
She imagined a man, strong, naked, nailed to the cross. Stretched out and helpless before her. Heart beating faster, she saw him in her mind's eye, so vulnerable, looking at her as she witnessed his ordeal. She found it very exciting, the thought of this man suffering for her pleasure.
How would he feel? Would he be ashamed to share his pain and nakedness with every passerby? She wanted to reach out and touch him, feel his warm skin moving under her hand. Would his body respond to her? How very personal, how humiliating for him. She wanted . . . she wanted to know more. She wanted to be like him! To know what it was like to hang naked from a cross. To feel those eyes on her, learning every secret of her slim body, every private place. Every twitch, every secretion. Yes, even her pleasure could not be hidden from them. She would twist and stretch for them, moan and gasp. Helpless, yes, naked and helpless and ohhh yes she could see herself on that cross, feel herself on it, in front of them.
Such a powerful thing, that simple cross!