Oh, the humiliation!
Why does it matter to me at all that they strip me naked? Why does it bring such shame? I don’t know, but it does!
It’s not just being naked. Each and every one of us are, after all, naked from time to time; and it’s not just the simple act of being naked before others. That happens too.
No, it’s the way in which they look at me ... their flagrant eagerness and excitement ... how they so anticipate and enjoy the slow bit by bit stripping of my body ... how they breathlessly await the exposure of first one breast, then another ... the bared back ...shoulders ... navel and hips ... and then the climactically sudden and violent removal of any last vestige of modesty that remains!
And ultimately there’s the knowledge that all that has been bared ... stripped naked ... will, in turn, be systematically and artfully subjected to the bite of the lash ... subjected and animated in a way that only a master of phlebas’ standing can orchestrate. Enlivened by the strike of each well-placed lash, my exposed feminine charms will, each in turn, shake, quiver, bounce and wobble to the crowd’s delight ... they will get to see the show they came for, and the show they will remember, at my expense ... my shame and humiliation ... long after it’s over..