Anonymous - The altar of VVenus - The Making of a Victorian Rake

He has found the entrance and has forced the lock. Withdrawing the arm which has previously supported her he clutches her by the hips with both hands. With the shrieking girl now impaled, he begins the motions of copulation. His thighs recede from her bottom, and several inches of his cock are visible. He shoves it back in again pulling her bottom toward him at the same time, forcing her to reciprocate his movements. And so, alternately pulling and pushing at the girl' s bottom, he consummates the violation. At the conclusion we see him straining and puffing as he brutally forces the instrument of torture entirely within Eva' s tender flesh. She hangs limp and motionless in his grasp, and when he releases her after the final culminating thrusts she sinks back unconscious upon the bed and the screen is darkened.

The spectators, impressed by the terrible realism of the representation, whisper hushed commentaries. The screen is again illuminated, and before us, bowing and smiling, we see Eva, the madame, the villain, and the false theatrical agent. They disappear one by one, leaving Eva until the last. Smiling, she raises her dress waist high. There are no undergarments to obstruct the view. With her dress elevated fan- wise on either side of her, she undulates her hips with circular, rolling movements, projecting her genitals outward voluptuously. Then she drops her skirt, kisses her fingers to us daintily, and disappears.

We arose to take our departure, and as we did so, the Russian girl whispered: " Come and see me tomorrow afternoon!" and at the same time a diminutive card inscribed with her name and address ws slipped into my fingers.

I went.

And as a result of this visit, an invitation was extended to me to pass the fortnight as a guest in the beautiful little villa overlooking the river Seine, occupied by Irma, the Russian girl.

The invitation, tendered for a fortnight, was extended over a period of three months and constituted for me a species of scholarship and post graduate course in all the arts, vices and aberrations of love. Before I had been with her a week I discovered that in comparison to Irma I was the veriest novice. There were depths of sensualism, psychic effects, mental aphrodisiacs, the like of which I had never dreamed.

The girl had taken a fancy to me – and proposed to " educate" me in accordance with her own theories, ideas and fancies. She was of strong will and dominating character, accustomed to indulge every whim, and to gratify every desire. Her religion, her very life, was sensuality. The villa was adorned with paintings, photographs and statuary of an erotic nature, veritable gems of lewd art. It was a treasure house of pornographic literature such as I had never laid eyes on. Histories, novels, biographies, and even transcripts of testimony in judicial cases involving celebrated sexual crimes. She possessed a collection of strange and curious devices designed for the provocation of gratification of lust. In fact there was enough material here to have stocked a regular museum of erotic art, artifices and literature.

The uses to which some of these objects were destined were obvious while others constituted for me complete mysteries. Irma, encouraging me to try to guess their uses, laughed heartily at my conjectures.

In contrast to this antiquity, I was initiated in the mysteries of some far more modern inventions – one of which was nothing more or less than the well known electric vibrator, or massage machine, such as may be found in any well equipped barber shop. Often indeed, had I enjoyed the refreshing sensation of a facial massage without suspecting the hidden potentialities of this apparatus. The rubber vacuum cup, vibrating under the impulse of an electric motor, placed over a woman' s clitoris, or on a man' s cock, will produce orgasm in less than thirty seconds if the vibration is not interrupted. And as if this were not enough, an attachment has been provided by some genius, which may be substituted in female use for the vacuum cup. This attachment, available in five, six, seven and eight inch lengths, is made of pliable rubber, in shape and exact appearance, a replica of the masculine organ. In use, a condom is slipped over it for sanitary purposes. The effect upon a woman of this artifice is fulminating, and if orgasm is to be delayed, the vibration must be discontinued at short intervals.

Amongst other novelties of a more or less artistic nature, or utilitarian purpose, all designed to excite or gratify the passions, was a series of phonograph discs. One of these records oralized and reproduced in sound the courting, seduction and deflowering of a young girl by her sweetheart. Indiscreetly, she accompanies him to his room, " to see some pictures" he wishes to show her. Indignant at the nature of the pictures she reprimands him for his temerity, but under his coaxing and blandishments, she relents, and through the medium of words and sounds, exclamations, protests, all faithfully reproduced, even to the creaking of bedsprings as she finally submits to his embraces, we participate in the invisible romance, exactly as though, veiled by a curtain from our sight, it were transpiring in the same room with us. Another, of a still more emotional nature, a rendition so true to life as to cause one to wonder whether a real rape had been consummated to effect it, oralized by a wandering vagrant. As he makes his way through a lonely wood we can hear him soliloquizing to himself and lamenting the fact that he hasn' t sufficient money to compensate female companionship, after having undergone a prolonged interval of enforced chastity in the provincial workhouse at this point he spies a country maid, whose path, fortunately or unfortunately according to the viewpoint, crosses his own. He detains her and endeavors to secure her compliance with false promises of generous reimbursement. The terrified maid declines his proposition, whereupon he seizes her an to the accompaniment of shrieks, sobs and supplications on her part and lustful, observation on his, tears off her clothing and rapes her.

Yes, Irma' s hobby in life was sensualism. She had two favorite theories. One of these was that in order to hold a man' s erotic fancy, he should rarely be permitted to attain orgasm in intercourse. Her reasoning was not altogether erroneous, for it must be confessed that the masculine interest diminishes with satiety. The woman who can excite a man' s emotions, and maintain them in a state of excitation, without permitting him complete gratification, will not quickly lose her hold on him, but the difficulty is to find subjects who will submit to such machinations, for as is evident such a system requires the co- operation of a gentleman.

I was to a limited extent versed in the practice and knew the advantages of holding back until my partner had reached the limits of her orgastic powers, but Irma carried the theory still further, sustaining the effect that even after the female was completely satiated ejaculation or orgasm should be avoided by the male, thereby maintaining an unsatisfied sexual urge, which tends to fan, instead of extinguish, the flames of passion. She showed me some very interesting articles on this subject but while I agreed with her in theory it seemed to me an impossible procedure in actual practice. Nevertheless, I had no objection to lending myself to a few experiments along this line.

Irma initiated me in many intriguing aspects of psychic effects and, though she frequently had to scold me for " letting go" when under strict orders not to do so, I must admit that in following her ideas I enjoyed some of the most delicious hours of my life. And yet I realized that the effects over a considerable length of time, of the sustaining and prolonged excitation, would be enervating in the extreme, and beyond the average man' s physical capacity to withstand.