Gobineau on Persian women, ca. 1856: " Above all, they have a marked tendency to use their slipper, and this slipper, however small, is made of very rigid leather and reinforced at its heel by a little horseshoe, half an inch thick. It’s a terrible weapon whose deplorable effects I have seen on the furrowed face of a wretch who had angered a thirteen year old little madam. " (In: " Three years in Asia ", Chapter V.)

Which inspired the following short story...

At night I lie under the bed of my Mistress, with leather straps strongly tying my ankles, knees, wrists and elbows; my erect penis points up towards her generous body, whose weight bends the mattress almost down to the moist tip of my glans; I spend whole nights in such restrained desire.

I am always forbidden to touch my genitals, let alone to enjoy feeling them or to masturbate: the interdiction is final, and I must even sit down to urinate since I may never hold my penis. Thus she keeps me sexually deprived, preserving my strength for when she allows me into her bed to conjoin with her and bring her to orgasm; then I am of course still not allowed to climax, but she can hardly prevent me from enjoying my penetration of her.

Sadly, my usual contact with her is far more painful, as I am reminded by her clogs that lie discarded at a yard or so distance from me on the floor: those are the common instruments for my punishment. Originally, they are wooden clogs with large, high heels; she had me cover them with fine brown leather, which I fixed with large copper nails whose hemispherical caps now protrude in a line of reinforcements; the clogs are heavy, rigid weapons that can easily knock someone out, as I have experienced on numerous occasions.

My Mistress requires the utmost care in my handling and regularly mending these clogs, but when she is absolutely satisfied by my obedience, she sometimes rewards me by letting me kiss her pink, naked feet, which I am otherwise only allowed to hold, wash and caress respectfully. Eventually, she grows tired with my kissing, though: a well-aimed blow with one of the clogs then soon terminates my effusions, and I resume at once my service by putting the clogs back on her feet, which I dare not kiss anymore.

But stricter chastisement is often called for: in those cases, she has me stand naked before a wall, the palms of my hands pressed to it, and I must wait while she prepares herself, taking all her time. If I suddenly hear a sharp lash whistle, it will cut my naked back and she has decided to whip me; otherwise I will start when feeling her little right hand grab my testicles or the shaft of my penis at its base: then she will inflict manual torture on my genitals, by squeezing or pulling or twisting them mercilessly, and I clench my teeth not to cry out with pain.

In aggravated cases, she first massages and even masturbates me, and I may of course neither fail to erect, nor ejaculate under her manipulation; when she suddenly switches from stimulation to torture, my rigidity makes me even more vulnerable.

And in extreme cases she may have me turn towards her and fellate me before the actual punishment - this exacerbates my discomfort to the point that I usually cannot refrain from begging her mercy, which invariably earns me an angry volley of slaps across my face; while she is sucking my glans and caressing her own heavy breasts, I must exert myself to the utmost so as not to yield - after a few excruciating minutes, she will suddenly bite my foreskin and make me shriek with pain, and then start whipping or beating me at will until her fury has been vented completely.

If I am still conscious after such punishments, I must wipe, kiss, and wipe again the hand that beat and tortured me; then she sits down on her bed and calls me at her feet, offering their soles to my lips in turn, each for a single conciliatory kiss; next she lies down and opens her arms to me, and I must bring her to pleasure once again, maybe even several times if punishing me has turned her on more than expected; finally, she will tie me again at my ankles, knees, wrists and elbows, use the soles of her feet to kick me completely under her bed, and go to sleep above me, taunting me with her weight while I lay under her, restrained in sleepless desire.