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Hi. My name (for the sake of argument) is "Kirsten", and I'm a 40-year old 
single Hi, my name is Kirsten and I am a single mom living in Hawaii .  I have
this incredibly intense fantasy about being gangbanged by a large bunch of
strange men. The specific details of the story may change, but the basic
premise of being molested by a large group of men does not. I know  this will
someday become a reality, for many reasons, and it remains an enduring and
wildly potent turn-on for me.
First, briefly, about myself.  As I already said, I am 40 years old.  I am
somewhat petite (is 5'4" petite?) with dark long straight hair. My breasts
aren't very big (sorry guys!)although they are well shaped with prominent and
very sensitive nipples! I've got a slim waistline and, well, a pretty nice ass
(I think). In my fantasies I usually envision myself with somewhat larger
breasts (gives the guys something extra to grab onto) and perhaps a bit more
voluptuous waistline, so if I take a few liberties with my physical description
in my fantasy, what the heck! go along with me.  I sould also tell you that I
really like being degraded and I have come to enjoy some level of pain.
        My fantasy begins with me entering a seedy bar.  It is not clear why we
are here; perhaps our car broke down in a part of the neighbourhood we normally
wouldn't be in. The bar is full of men, 
approximately 30-40 of them. They are mostly scummy, low-life types, of all
different races. I am wearing a knee-length mini-skirt with a delicate floral
pattern of some sort. As I enter the bar, I notice uncomfortably that most of
the eyes have shifted to me, examining me from head to toe. I must be 
quite a sight! I am sitting at the bar waiting for a tow truck with all these
horney men. Two of them 
approach me, one on either side.
        "Hey babe, you look mighty fine," he scowls.  
        "Thank you," I reply demurely.  I am uncomfortable with their 
presence.
        "What's a fine lady like you doing in a place like this?" he 
continues.
        "Waiting for a row truck."  I thought the answer was 
obvious, but knew he was hinting at something else.
        "While you wait, what do you say you have some fun with us?"  He 
points to a bunch of his friends in the corner. "We'll show you a real good 
time."
        "No thanks" is my swift reply.  
        "Are you sure?"  His eyes burn into mine.  "We could probably show you
a better time than your ever had, y'know". At this, he unzips his pants, pulls
down his underwear and whips out his penis for me to see! I am shocked, but I
can't help myself as I stare down at his manhood. He grabs it with his right
hand, proudly proferring it for my examination. It is quite big, about 7 or 8
inches,  and his balls are shaved smooth. Then his left hand reaches up and
grabs my breast! I am completely taken aback by his 
aggressive manner, but I am even more surprised to find myself unbelievably
turned on! I cannot and do not remove his hand from my breast. He strokes it
roughly with his palm, then squeezes it a few times while his friend on my
right side caresses my round bottom. He asks me again.
        "Are you sure?  We can show you a really good fuckin' time!"
        I pause for a second.  Do I really need to think twice about this? I
wonder. "I'm sure" I reply, straightening up to indicate my resolve. He tucks
himself back into his pants and returns to his friends in the corner, chuckling
to himself.
        As they leave, the tow truck guys arrives, he is married to a my best
girlfriend.  He walks over to me to tell me that we should leave. He hesitates,
looks into my eyes and my flushed face. "What's the matter honey? Did those
guys bother you?"
        "No" I reply.
        "Well, what is it then?"  I don't answer.  He looks at me, trying to
figure out what's wrong. "If I didn't know better I'd say you were turned on or
something!" he chuckles. It was meant to be a passing joke, but I don't laugh.
He stops smiling and becomes more serious. "Are you turned on?" he asks
incredulously. Again, I say nothing. But my face is flushed and my breathing
more rapid. I am indeed turned on.
        Finally, I reply.  "Yes."  He pauses.  "Why?" he asks.  Again I don't
answer. I don't want to tell him. I know I am turned on and I know why I am
turned on, but I don't want to tell him. I don't want to hurt him.
        He asks again: "Why?"  I hesitate, wanting to leave.  "Does it have
something to do with this bar?" I wait, then nod 'yes'. "Does it have something
to do with those two guys I saw you talking to?" Ashamed, I nod 'yes' again.
"What did they say to you?"
        I am really feeling uncomfortable with this, but my inner urges are
getting the better of me. I am swimming in a sea of sexual arousal. I can't
help myself as I blurt out: "They wanted to fuck me!"
        Shock registers on my friend's husband's face, and I feel I have hurt
him.  I just want to leave this place and forget all about this incident! I am
ashamed to have admitted that I'm turned on by the idea of 
having sex with strangers. 
        "It would turn you on to have sex with these guys?"
        His hand cups my chin and lifts my head up.  My eyes make contact with
his. I see concern and interest. Again, I cannot help myself as I respond:
"Yes."
        He pauses.  "How many guys would you want to have sex with?"  I'm
really surprised he would even ask the question, and I don't answer. I don't
think he fully appreciates just how depraved my fantasy really is!
        He continues.  "A couple?"  Again I pause.  "More than a couple?" Is he
serious  "All of them!?!"
        I gasp.  He asks again.  "You'd like to have sex with all of them?"  
Does he really want to know the answer!? I wonder. This is the most difficult
thing I've ever had to admit, but finally I say it. "Yes".
        I am getting more and more turned on by the fact my fantasy may
actually become 
a reality, right here, right now. My vagina is very swollen and slick with
excitement. He thinks over my reply for a few seconds, then says:         "What
would you say if I thought that was all right?"
        Now I'm really excited!  I can't believe this.  I really can't. Before 
I have a chance to reply, he grabs my hand and leads me to the middle of the
room. He places his arms around my waist. There is a country song on the radio,
and we dance slowly to it. The men in the room observe us with mild interest,
then return to their various conversations. He looks into my eyes.
        "If you want to, I'll go along with it."  Well, now I'm getting on the
verge of orgasm! I feel an animalistic urge to fuck every man in the room right
now, but I hold back and remain silent. 
        "You realize they will fuck you hard?" he asks.
        "Yes, I do."
        "You realize they will fuck you up the ass?"
        I'm a little surprised to hear him talk like this, but I guess the
whole thing is getting to him too. "Yes", I reply.
        "I'm not going to stop them from doing anything they please with you,
you realize that, don't you?"
        "Yes."
        "No matter how kinky, how perverse, how rough, how many or how long
they want it, I'll let them do it to you."
        "Yes."
        "They will call you degrading names."
        "Ooh, yes."
        "Most of them are pretty dirty and smelly.  You don't mind that?"
        "No."
        "They will cum all over you." 
        "Yes."
        "They are going to make you do vile sex acts and degrade you."
        "Yes."
        I am getting even hotter as he describes all the nasty things these
guys could do to me. My face is completely red, my chest heaving, my nipples
poking through my bra, my vagina wet and soppy. 
        "We can leave right now and forget all about this if you want to.  Just
walk right out the door and never come back. We're coming to the point of no
return." He looks into my eyes. I say nothing. My heavy breathing betrays my
excitement.
        He looks at me one last time.  I feel his hand reach up to the zipper
on the back of my dress. "I'm going to wait five seconds from the time I say
"Now". If you don't say anything, I'm going to unzip your dress and you will be
committed to go through with this."
        I say nothing and wait.  My knees are trembling with anticipation and
nervousness. I never knew I could feel like this. I never knew I could even
contemplate doing anything even remotely like this. My mind races. I can back
out right now, right now...in a few seconds it will be too late. 
        "Now".  Mentally I count the seconds as they tick away.  I am seconds
away from being ruthlessly gangbanged by a bunch of strange men! My mind
flip-flops back and forth. It can't be happening! Should I really do this? 
Should I really go through with this? Should I open my body to all these
strange men? I've never been with more than one man at a time before! How can I
let them touch me? How can I let them penetrate me? How can I take on so many
penises?
Why don't I just walk out the door right now before it's too late?...
        My mind is made up for me as I feel his hand slowly unzip my dress. It
falls to the floor. I step out of it, shedding my shoes at the same time.
Suddenly, we have become an intense centre of interest! The guys 
whip their heads around to look at what is happening to me, and the crowd falls
into silence.
        My pussy shudders with a small orgasm as I realize what is truly about
to happen. I am being undressed  to be gang fucked by all these unruly men!
There is absolutely no going back now, not even if I wanted to!
He unclasps my bra and lets it fall to the floor. He reaches down and pulls off
my panty hose and panties. I step out of them. I am now completely 100% buck
naked in a room full of horney men! The men simply cannot believe their luck.
Who would open up a woman  to the sexual demands of these bums? They begin
approaching us, leering with delight. "Oh, man!" one of them exclaims. "Holy
shit, I can't believe this!" whispers another. Some of them are taking their
penises out and starting to stroke them. 
No one can believe this guy is undressing me to be used and abusedby strangers!

        We continue to look into each other's eyes as he unbuckles his belt and
removes his pants and underwear. His penis is incredibly hard, and it beats to
the pulsing of my heart. The men know for sure now what they can do, and I feel
anxious hands begin to grab and probe my body. Someone grabs my asscheek, two
other guys grab my tits and begin to manhandle them gleefully...I feel curious
fingers push in between my legs to stroke my smooth-shaved pussy, then part my
asscheeks and start to rub my asshole! I am 
in the middle of a sensory overload as they examine every aspect of my delicate
female body.
        It was only a matter of time.  "Suck my cock," one of them commands.  I
turn to look at him. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, well-built but with
many scars on his face. He looked like he needed a bath. I don't care. I knelt
down before him and looked at the meaty cock he was holding out 
for me to suck. Delicately, I opened my mouth and took him in. This was it! I
let him put it in my mouth, then slowly closed my lips around it. It tasted
salty and unclean; I could taste his urine. I didn't care. I was so turned on
at that point I would have sucked on just about anything. "AAhhh," he groans,
well pleased with his new fuckhole. The men around us are still grabbing and
probing my body with their hands. I know this phase won't last long. Someone
kneels behind me and pulls open my asscheeks to fully expose my puckered little
anus. A second later, I feel his tongue rimming my ass. I gasp with pleasure
and pull the 
penis out of my mouth to look around at my anal intruder. I see his face buried
deep between my cheeks, feel his mouth wrap around my asshole to lustily suck
on it, then feel his long tongue work its way deeper and deeper up my asshole!
        The guy in front of me grabs my hair, twists my head back around and
impales my mouth upon his cock. "I said suck my cock, bitch!" he yells. His
buddies are really enjoying this, and they yell their approval to his
actions.These two guys are testing me to see how far I will let them go. 
I doesn't matter, for they can do anything they want with me now!
        The guy sucking on my asshole moves further down to lick my juicy
pussy. I moan with delight as he flicks my clit and sticks his tongue up my
vagina. Another man pushes my husband aside to stand in front of me. "Yo, suck
on my cock honey!". I turn my attention to the new penis in my life and start
to eagerly suck on it. "Yeah, man!" he growls in approval. He turns to my best
friend's husband "You got a nice little bitch here, man. Nice of you to share
the slut with us!"  He doesn't respond, he just keeps wanking on his pole. 
        The guy eating me out stops.  I can feel his legs on either side of me
as he mounts me. Here we go! I think. I feel his cock press up against my lubed
asshole. Whoa! I thought they would enter my pussy first! I was wrong. I feel
my asshole stretch as his penis enters. I feel the head of his cock make entry,
then pause. All at once he shoves the rest of his manhood up my ass! It hurts a
little, but the overwhelming feeling is that of pure excitement! They lift me
up so that another of their buddies can squeeze underneath me. He grabs his
penis and rubs my pussy with it. As soon as he finds my hole he pushes it in, 3
inches at a time. I am so lubricated down there his entry is simple and smooth.
My pussy makes delicious squishing 
noises as he starts to pump in and out of me. Here I was, getting all my holes
filled in a most unladylike way. The fun was just beginning!
        My friend's husband is out of sight now, lost somewhere amongst a sea
of cocks pointed straight at me. I alternate between the three fine specimens
aimed right at my girlish face, sucking them long enough to please them, then
move on to the next. I can feel strong hands grabbing at every part of my
petite 
little body, mauling my tits, tweaking my nipples, rubbing cocks up against my
arms...I have never felt these sensations all at once before. I can feel their
cocks grow bigger and bigger as their excitement increases, and know I am
dangerously close to receiving a major dose of sperm. As I suck on the 
cock to my left, I can see the others jacking off as hard and as fast as they
can. Then it happens: the cock in front of me explodes onto my right cheek and
hair. "Aarrgh!" he yells, "eat my cum bitch!" As I pull my mouth off the cock I
am sucking to my left, he starts to orgasm as well. He forcefully grabs my head
and jerks it back into position, growling "take my fucking cum you fucking
bitch!" I experience an overwhelming orgasm of my own as I feel their sticky
cum land in thick pulpy globs all over my face, hair, neck and lips. I open my
mouth and stick out my tongue so they can have a better target to aim for. 
About three healthy spurts of come land on my tongue and in my mouth, the rest
coating my delicate features with heavy doses of frosting. The hand grabbing my
head releases me only after they have finished milking the last drops of juice
from their penises. "Fuckin' right, bitch!" he yells in deligt, "you're gonna 
take all our cum, you goddamn whore!" He is right, I am going to take all their
loads of cum.
        The guy fucking my ass has had quite a show, and is just about to
experience his own orgasm. After all, it's not every day you get to see such a
heady display of sexual depravity. Suddenly, he can hold back no more. He pulls
his cock out of my ass with a *pop* and rushes over to my face, his hand
clasping his gooey prick. This was something I honestly hadn't counted on, but
I'm in no position to back out now! so I obediently open my mouth and stick out
my tongue to receive him. His first shot hits me square in the 
forehead and splatters down over my left eye and down my left cheek in one
continuous string of pulpy mucus. His next shot drapes itself elegantly over
the bridge of my nose and hangs down over my nostrils to meet my bottom lip.
The next two shots coat my teeth, and the last few spurts plop satisfyingly 
onto my outstretched tongue and into my open mouth.  "Yeah babe!!!!" he shouts
with orgasmic glee, "fuckin' right!". Before I even have time to close my
cum-covered mouth he reaches around the back of my head with his free hand and
forces my mouth onto his slimy monster of a cock. I can taste the journey 
into my bowels on his manhood, but think nothing of licking it clean. I am,
after all, under their complete control.
        As I finish cleaning off his soiled cock, I hear what sounds like many
motorcycles pulling up to the bar, then switch off. I twist around to see 40 or
50 leather-clad biker gang members enter the room. "Yo Bull!" one of them cries
to thier leader. "Lookey what we got here! Some pussy for us to fuck!" 
Bull walks up to us, looks down at me. He is a fat and unattractive man,
unshaven and dirty. He watches my slick little pussy slide up and down on the
penis underneath me, watches me suck on the filthy, slimy cock in my mouth.
It's owner pulls it out of my mouth and forces my lips down to his balls. No
doubt he wants to show his leader just what they can do with me. I kiss his
ballsac sweetly, then start to 
gently suck on them. Bull likes what he sees. He spits on the floor and swiftly
begins removing his clothing. "C'mon, guys, let's fuck the shit out of this
little bitch!" he yells to his compadres. The crowd cheers. The gangbang just
doubled!
        While this is happening, I feel someone stick one, then two, then three
fingers up my juiced asshole and start to thrust them in and out. The guy in my
little pussy can hold back no longer and, with one final lurch, buries his
sticky seed deep inside me. Correspondingly, the cock to my right blasts its
juice all over my porcelain face, adding to the fine mess already there. The
first five have cum.
        As soon as the guy in my pussy pulls out from under me, another horney
bastard takes his place. I can tell these guys are even more aggressive than
the first group, and even more turned on from watching the preceeding display
of depravity. He pushes his cock full force up my sopping hole, then reaches 
around to grab my asscheeks. He pulls them so far apart I think he may split my
puckered little anus. But this isn't his plan, he just wants to give the next
guy easy access to my hole. Sticky fingers pull out of my asshole and a meaty
cock works its way in, its owner grunting all the way in animalistic passion.
Three more cocks surround my pretty face, demanding gratification. They have
all gotten into the habit of simply grabbing my hair, forcing me off the cock
I'm sucking and onto theirs. I revel in their rough behaviour, I 
lust for their demeaning comments. I feel for the first time in my life like a
complete slut, a hole to be fucked. What an incredible feeling it must be for a
man to be able to act out his deepest and darkest desires, his most perverted
and animalistic urges upon a helpless and willing female. I feel the sharp
sting of palms as they take turns loudly slapping my smooth little asscheeks.
Fucking me isn't enough, they are out to completely and totally demean me. I am
theirs.
        The crowd cheers them loudly on as they fuck me.  Their ritual is the
same as the first group's, ending with me taking heavy loads of sperm all over
my face and hair. The fuckers in my pussy and asshole shoot their loads into my
nether regions, then extract them and proffer them to me for cleaning. The
crowd goes wild with approval as I lick their penises clean of any and all
residue. 
Sperm leaks from my bottom, mingles with cum oozing out of my pussy and drips
onto the floor. The air smells of musk.
        Soon they decide another position is necessary for their carnal
desires. They roughly flip me over so that I am in a kind of crab stance,
supporting myself with my hands and feet. A horney dude crawls under me and
impales my red asshole onto his fat penis as another makes its way up my
slippery pussy. Now, there is room for four (or possibly more) cocks to
surround my face and jerk off on me. I work the cocks as best I can, sucking
alternately from one to the other. It is a little difficult because the guys
banging my two holes down there are really pushing hard, making my head bob up
and down with thier forceful strokes. Sometimes this will cause the cock I am
sucking to accidentally pop out of my mouth; when this happens its angry owner
grabs my head and rams his cock back down my throat, yelling "you suck my
fucking cock dammit bitch!" or "you ain't finished with me till I tell you!" or
something like that. Two of the guys standing at my head, one of which is
getting his cock sucked, are talking to the other, saying how he thinks they
should fuck me next. Suddenly, he comes up with an idea. "Jake", he says,
"y'know what I think we should get this 
little bitch to do?"
        I listen intently, nursing his rigid penis in my mouth, waiting to hear
my fate. "No, Bill, what?" he sneers. I don't know if I like the sound of this!
        "I want her to suck my fucking asshole, that's what!"
        Everyone in the room freezes for a moment as the idea burns its way
into their dirty brains, then erupts with evil glee.  "Yeah, man!! Right on!!
Fuckin' right! Let's make her lick all our fuckin' assholes!"
        They are all smiling at me, leering as they get ready to humiliate me
even further than they ever imagined. Out of the corner of my eye I see my
friend's husband on the edge of the crowd. His eyes are riveted to me, watching
my journey into sexual depravity. His cock is rock hard and he is jerking it 
uncontrollably. What can he be thinking now as he watches me become a fucktoy
for these bastards? How can he let these perverted bastards treat his delicate
lover like a worthless ragdoll and cater to their 
most carnal of desires? I know how he can let this happen: he is supremely
turned on, that's why. He's discovered a side of his sexuality he never even
suspected existed, and, if the dangerous group would let him close enough to
me, he would be doing the same thing they were. No doubt about it. 
        Bill, the bastard with the bright idea, happens to be straddling my
breasts with his cock in my mouth as he reaches his conclusion. He turns around
so his butt is straddling my face, then lowers it down. As he lowers, his
asscheeks open up to expose his smelly, puckered anus. The room hushes to dead
silence as they follow our every move. They truly can't believe this is
happening and neither can I. I am especially shocked to find myself supremely
turned on at the thought of committing such a lewd act. His hands reach 
around to pry his asscheeks wide open, giving me an unprecedented view of what
an asshole that's never used toilet paper looks like. His heavy balls swing
back and forth, bumping against my cum-covered chin. I gently kiss them, take
them into my mouth an start sucking on them. "Come on, you fucking bitch!" he 
screams at the top of his lungs. "Suck my fucking asshole now!" I crane my head
upwards and stick out my tongue, making contact with the slimy surface. A gasp
sounds around the room, and I can hear their breathing shoot up. They have
observed the moment of contact. They are pulling their penises so hard 
that they almost are pulling them right off in excitement. The cocks inside my
vagina and asshole are harder than anything I've ever felt before. They move in
and out of me with smooth rhythm, their owners' eyes glued to my lips and
Bill's rectum. I know they are so turned on that any suddent movement could
cause them to spontaneously explode inside my holes. My tongue delicately licks
around the rim of his asshole, then starts to dig its way inside. His balls
tighten up until they are hard, smooth little chestnuts. I wrap my lips
sensuously around his encrusted anus and start to suck it, my tongue swirling
all over it. "YEAH!! SUCK ON MY FUCKING ASSHOLE YOU LITTLE FUCKING WHORE!!!
AAARGGHH!!" he yells in his supreme moment of glory. My tongue forces its way
up his dirty orifice until 
I am sticking it in to the hilt. 
        And then, all hell truly breaks loose.  It's as if they forget they are
human beings and suddenly become possessed animals. My head is pulled from his
ass and a rigid cock is forced into my mouth, its cum exploding down my throat
within nanoseconds. Bill jumps up, whips around, and blows his wad 
all over my face as I suck the other guy's load down. All of a sudden any cock
within striking distance unloads, and cum rains down on me. All over me. All
over my face, my hair, my breasts, my tummy, my legs...the guy fucking my pussy
pulls out with a loud grunt, grabs my legs and forces them backwards. I 
am now being supported by the bastard fucking my asshole. My legs are firmly
held wide apart as pussyfucker cums all over my pussy. I mean all over it. My
pussy is a slimy, cum-covered mass of goo. It runs down my thighs onto the
balls of the guy up my ass, who promply cums inside me.
        Now, this is one of the things that turns me on the most about my
gangbang fantasy: the thought of being covered by a slimy mass of sperm. Other
people's fantasies seem to concentrate on the woman swallowing as much come as
possible, but to me, it is infinitely sexier to think of sperm COVERING my
body. Lots and lots of sperm, an impossible amount, until my face it a white
mask of gooey blobs, as well as my pussy and asshole. That's what is happening
here: the guys are giving me a cum-bath.
        They have truly outdone themselves.  No sooner had Bill finished with
me, than just about everybody else in the room decided they just had to have
their assholes reamed by their fucktoy. One after the other they approach me,
turn around and push their smelly asses up to my waiting tongue for pleasure. 
One by one I lick, suck and probe their most private places. One by one they
jerk their cum all over my waiting face and tongue. One by one they team up to
fill my red little pussy and asshole with their dirty cocks & cum. They fuck me
hard, they call me names, they slap my red little asscheeks raw, they do 
whatever they want with me. The gangbang has completely spiralled out of
control, mine and everybody else's, including my husband's. All he can do is
watch as his petite little wife is used again and again as an outlet to their
most base and disgusting fantasies. I am a depository for their seed and their
desires until they are, after many hours, finally spent. It doesn't matter
whether or not my best firend's husband is one of 
the many men who got his asshole licked, who fucked my pussy and asshole, who 
blasted his cum all over me.
        Well, that's my fantasy.  I hope you enjoyed it, I know I really
enjoyed writing it. I guess it's a cathartic way to experience and explain why
I have these deep desires. I really love to read stories like 
this and would deeply appreciate it if any of you could see fit to e-mail me
some. Also, if you have any ideas for other gangbang fantasies drop me a line
at pigslut4cum@yahoo.com

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