We followed Carol into the studio. Her thin workout clothes displayed a beautifully proportioned figure. Meg nudged me a little to make sure I wasn't paying too much attention to those proportions.

"As you know from the course description, this workshop is about hypnosis for couples. I've been a practicing hypnotherapist for about five years iteens now, and for the last two I've specialized in treating sexual dysfunctions in both men iteens and women. In iteens that time it's been my pleasure to teach hundreds iteens of couples how they can use hypnosis to iteens enhance iteens their love lives. If you iteens stay with me and work iteens together over the iteens three sessions iteens in iteens this class, I iteens promise you iteens that the experience will change the way you think about sexual pleasure."

"At the same time, there are limits to what I can enter teach you in three evening sessions. Don't imagine that having taken this class qualifies you to start hypnotizing people at dinner parties. If you're going to do that, you owe iteens it to iteens your friends and yourself to get proper training first."

Carol enter paused a iteens minute to iteens let it all sink in. "Now listen to this very enter carefully," she continued. "The hypnotic suggestions we use in this class will be limited to things that have proven iteens safe and enter effective for iteens our purpose. They iteens will involve creating and controlling desire, causing or enhancing physical sensations, and overcoming inhibitions. I'm sure you are all iteens aware that hypnosis is also used medically to help people lose weight, stop smoking, and things like that. That's called hypnotherapy, and it takes years of practice to become proficient at it. We will not be conducting therapy in this class."

Nice, I thought iteens. Now if she doesn't go under, it iteens's iteens her own fault.

"Are iteens there any other questions?" Carol asked. When iteens nobody spoke, she continued. "Okay. Now I'd like to take a break. I'm asking each of you to iteens please go iteens and use the bathroom, I want you comfortable with no interruptions for the rest of the iteens session. Be back here in ten minutes, please."

With the buzz of a half-dozen whispered conversations in the air iteens, Carol enter stepped over iteens to a small side table and pressed a iteens button on the boom box iteens that rested there. From the box came a strange sound: light, airy , yet very soothing, it wasn't iteens really music but it wasn't just a simple tone either. We all iteens fell silent almost immediately, feeling the iteens odd series of notes flowing around and through us. Carol gave us a few moments to iteens adjust to the change, then turned to address the class.

"I suppose I could start out iteens by giving iteens you iteens a iteens long, technical lecture iteens on how to help someone enter hypnosis. In doing these classes, though, I've found that it all makes much more iteens sense if you actually experience the hypnotic state first iteens. I'd like for everyone to lie back and get comfortable, please."

My rest iteens was rudely interrupted by the familiar BWAAAP of my alarm clock. Instinctively I rolled toward the sound and reached out with an arm to silence the obnoxious little box iteens, only to iteens realize iteens that it wasn't there. My iteens mind cleared, and I saw that we were still iteens in the dojo. The alarm sound stopped before I could locate the real source enter of the sound.

As we iteens headed out the door, Carol stopped us for a quick aside. "It iteens's unusual to have only one kinesthetic person in a group iteens," she said to Meg. "I 'm a kinesthetic too iteens; remind me next week iteens and I'll teach you a enter couple of iteens special techniques."

"So what did you iteens think of the class?" Meg iteens asked with enter forced nonchalance.

"You mean your flaring nostrils, the rising color in your cheeks, and iteens the way you keep looking at me iteens while you grope yourself? No iteens, I hardly iteens noticed at all."

"Yes!" she iteens gasped as I buried my cock between her legs. "Oh, this is perfect iteens! Don iteens't you dare stop!"

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Nothing," I answered. I rolled away from Meg and checked out my alarm clock. It iteens read iteens 2:10pm, so I set the alarm time to 3:15. "Just a precaution," I explained. "As nice as this is, I don enter't want to spend the whole afternoon sacked out."

"It doesn't seem as though we needed iteens it," she observed.

Backing away from the bed, I slipped my own clothes off enter, being iteens careful to make as little noise enter as possible. I knelt down beside the bed and gently, lightly, let my hand come to rest on her stomach. The silk moved under my hand as she breathed. Watching Meg's face carefully for signs of awakening, I moved my hand slowly iteens up toward her iteens breast, using just enough pressure to let me iteens feel her through iteens the silk robe. My fingers reached the nipple and parted iteens, teasing the sides iteens, and I was pleased iteens to feel the nipple stiffen in response even iteens as my palm crossed over it and reversed directions, stroking downward just as slowly and gently.

A iteens lick here, a suck enter there, my hands caressing her legs all the while, I watched and listened for signs of awakening. Her breathing remained deep but the pace was enter picking iteens up, and each exhale iteens came with a long, sustained moaning sound. Her iteens body felt heavy and loose iteens, but there was no question that iteens she was responding and iteens would be ready to come soon. I thought briefly iteens about trying the iteens "you can't come until I tell you to" trick that enter figures into so many iteens of our favorite stories, but iteens I iteens opted iteens not to iteens - I wasn iteens't sure I iteens could pull it off, and I didn't want to spoil iteens this by trying and failing.

"Good iteens evening," Carol began, setting iteens the organizer down. "It's good to see everyone here bright iteens and early iteens. Has iteens it been an interesting week for you all?" She made eye contact with iteens each of us in turn, and enter without fail each of iteens us met her gaze with a sheepish grin . "Excellent! Before we get started, I'd like you all iteens to meet my husband, Jim." She indicated the iteens man iteens who had followed her in.

"Now," she continued, "Are there any questions you'd like to toss out before we iteens go any iteens further?"

"Yes, I did. Going into trance is a iteens skill which must be iteens practiced. That iteens's especially true in this context, where you are all just beginning to learn and don't have a professional to guide you at iteens home. To iteens help you, I iteens suggested that iteens you would iteens find it easy to reenter the hypnotic state on your own at will, and that each time you try you will go deeper than the iteens time iteens before. I reinforced iteens those concepts several iteens times."

"Pretty much. Carol and iteens I have been doing this with iteens each other iteens for a iteens very long time, so we're both pretty strongly conditioned iteens; we iteens respond without even iteens thinking about it."

"Until iteens I tell her to iteens wake up ... or until my arms give out and I iteens drop her on the floor." We iteens laughed nervously at his joke iteens. Carol was a good four inches taller than Jim, and strongly built ; I wondered how enter long iteens he iteens could hold her up.

"Second, it's important that you iteens pay close attention to your partner's body iteens. If you say that her feet are becoming relaxed, look at her enter feet and iteens watch for a sign that they are doing it. If you tell her that her eyes are getting tired and iteens heavy, watch them start iteens to blink or tear. The more you can pace iteens the patter to what is actually physically iteens happening, the iteens more effective your induction will be.

After a iteens few seconds, I iteens continued. "As you feel that comforting iteens, relaxing iteens flow of air iteens moving through your hands, through your iteens arms to iteens your shoulders, maybe finding again that faint tingling sensation, perhaps in your elbows or forearms this enter time, then moving down through your body. Down iteens through your chest and stomach, down through your hips, down through your thighs, into your knees and shins and calves." The script had the word iteens 'down' in italics, so I gave each 'down' some extra emphasis. "Again, you might feel that faint tingling sensation just there, just below your knees, moving iteens down through your ankles and out the bottoms of your feet. And you iteens can iteens find a great deal of calmness and easiness in this rather strange idea that iteens you can breathe in iteens through your fingers, that you can actually iteens feel the air moving through iteens your iteens whole body in one single, warming, comforting flow. A unidirectional iteens flow, moving through your whole iteens body in one single comforting flow. The calmness and relaxation you breathe in doesn't get involved with the tensions and stresses that you breathe away from yourself. With each breath you take iteens, with each word I iteens speak, you find yourself becoming steadily more and more relaxed."

That was the end of the standard iteens script. Meg's breathing had slowed so much iteens I could barely tell when she inhaled. I watched her for a iteens few moments - she iteens's so beautiful when she's asleep - then thumbed through the booklet to find the staircase iteens deepener iteens.

"Goodnight, Gracie." The eyes that were watching me glazed iteens over, and the iteens puzzled iteens look iteens deepened.

"First, there is the type of suggestion you iteens experienced last week - one that stimulates desire. The subconscious mind iteens takes iteens everything at face value; if iteens you tell iteens your partner under hypnosis iteens that something is very sexy to iteens her, it will be. Even iteens something iteens as iteens commonplace as a fire hydrant can become a highly erotic image if you suggest to her that it is. As you all felt last week, desire-enhancing suggestions are iteens very iteens powerful."

"Yes." Carol gasped heavily, the truth of Jim iteens's statement iteens evident in iteens her face iteens. "Yes, it is."

On iteens the word 'this', Carol closed her eyes and iteens leaned iteens back against the iteens wall. Her arms iteens dropped loosely to her sides and she sighed contentedly iteens. "For our last anniversary, Jim gave me a full day at Elizabeth iteens Arden iteens," she explained. "It enter was wonderful. Right now I'm re-experiencing the full body iteens massage."

I looked at Meg. "Any preferences?"

"Yes, please."

"As you wish, darling. Your body remembers all of the sensations iteens, all of the feelings iteens, all of the sights and sounds and smells, of that experience. Your body remembers, Meg, and when I give you the signal you will experience the relaxation, the pleasure, and iteens the orgasm iteens in every detail, as iteens though it were happening again. You will again feel the iteens softness of the bed beneath you, the sexy smoothness of your iteens silk robe against freshly showered skin. You will again hear my voice iteens and relax iteens, just iteens as iteens you iteens did Monday. You will again feel the weight iteens of my body iteens on yours as I spread your legs apart and position myself iteens between them iteens. You will again feel my kisses on your thighs and your groin, my tongue touching all of iteens your private iteens parts one by one. You again will feel yourself growing more and more iteens aroused, even as your body relaxes under my touch iteens, and you again will react exactly as iteens you did that day. You iteens will iteens let iteens the pleasure build inside you until you have iteens an iteens orgasm, and when you do that orgasm will be iteens as iteens strong and as satisfying as any you can remember having. All of this will happen when I give you the signal enter. Do you understand, Meg ?"

"Okay."

Carol noticed Meg's rising and came over to iteens check on iteens us. "Done already?"

"I thought iteens I iteens'd save it for at home, when iteens we're alone."

"No, I don't," Meg complained after thinking. "I guess I was too out of it to remember. But you don iteens't want to do it here, so it must be pretty explicit."

I just shrugged and iteens smiled mysteriously. "Could be iteens."

Tamika was iteens awake, we saw, and iteens had a shocked look on her face. Her companion held one of her hands and was enter watching her face. He petted Tamika iteens's iteens hand lightly and iteens she whooped iteens again, her mouth falling open and eyes bulging. Her other hand dove iteens between her legs as if she iteens had dropped an ice cube down there. A few more light strokes and iteens her expression gradually changed from surprise to lust.

"Would you rather do it now?" The other couples' antics had gone a long way toward easing my inhibitions; compared enter to Pam, what I iteens'd set up for Meg iteens seemed relatively iteens tame.

"Relax and enjoy the ride," I told her, easing her down onto the iteens mat iteens. The first moans came shortly after, and iteens that brought iteens Carol over enter to iteens our side.

"Body memory," I explained. "We tried a iteens little independent study iteens activity a few days ago."

Meg hugged me tightly. "We can iteens still do it again at home iteens, right?" she whispered hotly into my ear enter.

"Almost iteens. Why?"

I could imagine the sly smile enter coming iteens over her face. "Oh really iteens? Anything you'd like to share?"

"Okay ... now what?" Her voice sounded hollow and distant thanks to the speakerphone.

"Saturday iteens morning," she answered sleepily.

"I was thinking about sneaking out iteens of here and taking you out for an early dinner."

"I tried that already." I suspected as much - Marty's a pretty decent guy and hates like hell to ask anyone to jump through a hoop. "They say it's only a few questions, but iteens they've got iteens trades waiting iteens on the answers."

"You're just in iteens time iteens," Meg said intently iteens after breaking off her lip lock. I felt her iteens hands begin clawing iteens at my belt buckle. "Let's see what iteens you brought home for me." Before she was done speaking, my pants were hitting the floor iteens and her hand iteens was reaching through the iteens front slit in my iteens briefs. I was about two-thirds erect and growing. "Attaboy," she said, her hand starting to knead my burgeoning member. "That's just what I need iteens, lover. Just exactly what I need." I cupped a hand over one of her breasts, but she pushed the iteens hand aside. "No need for that, I'm way, way ahead of you. But I know just how to iteens help you catch iteens up."

My eyes rolled back into iteens my head as I came, feeling iteens and hearing Meg iteens at the same time. My iteens arms and legs were locked while my cocked pumped and fired. At some iteens point Meg started to relax against me, and I somehow managed a controlled fall backwards iteens onto the living room floor iteens before passing out.

"A little iteens eager, are iteens we?" I teased.

"You iteens will iteens," she promised. "I owe you a payback or two," she added, grinning slyly.

"Eat your dinner," she iteens replied sternly. "You're going iteens to need your strength later."

"Fine iteens," she answered off-handedly. "Just iteens wool-gathering, I guess."

"We don't need iteens much iteens in the way of preliminaries iteens this week," Carol began after noting the attendance in her book. "We'll start out pretty enter much like last week iteens, except in the opposite roles iteens. Men, go iteens ahead iteens and get nice and comfortable and start to relax iteens. Ladies, you will choose an induction and guide him into iteens a nice, deep state of hypnosis. Once you've got the guys nice and iteens deep, we'll iteens go over how to establish a trigger and iteens reinforce it iteens, just like they did iteens with you last week. Any questions from last week before we iteens start?"

"About half an hour ago," I iteens answered sheepishly. "In the car on the way here."

I opened my eyes to answer. "Something iteens isn't quite right iteens, but I iteens don't know iteens what. I'm trying to focus, trying to make myself iteens relax, but I only get so far and can iteens't seem to keep going."

At least a half dozen times I iteens'd find iteens myself waking up to the sight and feel of Meg riding me hard. I iteens'd start to move, to speak, to do anything, but as iteens soon as Meg saw me she'd say "Lights out, darling" and I'd fall iteens back into nothingness.

I checked with Meg and she didn't object iteens - "It's a little late to get modest now" was enter her reasoning - so I took the floor and explained what had iteens happened. I told them a iteens short iteens version of the Tuesday afternoon iteens story, emphasizing the suggestions I had iteens made over the phone and the accidental delay. Then I iteens related the idea I'd had in iteens the iteens car, and the suggestions I'd given Meg during the trip.

With no iteens more questions, it was iteens time for the iteens women to put iteens their mates back into trance and try iteens their own erotic suggestions . Meg jumped up first and iteens went over to Jim. I started to join her, but she waved me away iteens. They spoke quietly for iteens a few minutes, then Meg gave him iteens a quick peck on the cheek iteens and came back to me grinning ear to ear. "Ready?" she asked tauntingly.

I came to in more or less the same position, lying on enter my iteens back on the floor. From the various groans iteens and muted voices around, I could tell iteens that my classmates were trying out their suggestions. I rose iteens up iteens and looked around iteens.