2.0 (Page 3)

Something new is happening. It is totally unexpected. It isn’t huge, but for me at least, it’s significant. Mrs. Lion is playing and seems to be having fun. She’s using her orgasm control to do “experiments”. She’s been writing about her first. It involves making me wait until I lose interest in coming.

There’s a very good chance I will stay horny. At some point, she will call it off and let me ejaculate. I know that point is at least a week away (21 days waiting). I expect it will go beyond that, maybe another week. I don’t know. But her plan is to wait for me to wane and then revive me.

I’ve had nothing to do with this idea. It is all hers. I have no input on how it will be conducted or end. I like that a lot. I’m not nuts about this long wait. My all-time record is 22 days. That was due to my shoulder surgery and my complete lack of interest in sex. This time I’ve been horny the entire time. I think she will break that record; maybe by a week or more.

In an email exchange yesterday, she posed a new question. How long would it take for me to lose interest if I am not edged? I suggested perhaps that should include my chastity device. Wearing that, I would not be able to get hard and enjoy any incidental arousal. She wrote back that she was kidding. She knows I wouldn’t like that.

Wait a minute!

I wouldn’t like it?

That can’t be 2.0 talking. She doesn’t care if I like it or not. She’s decided I will wait at least 3 weeks. She didn’t ask if I like that. I don’t. But it was made clear that I don’t get a vote.

So why would her perception of whether or not I would like being back in my cage matter? I wore that cage for 3-1/2 years. The question of whether or not I liked it didn’t come up.

Yes, it’s true that I like being wild. I like erections that I get. I’m in no danger of giving myself an orgasm. So for that portion of enforced chastity, the cage isn’t needed. But what about erection control? Penis isolation? The cage is a perfect tool to limit any stimulation to times when Mrs. Lion unlocks me. I wonder why she worries if I wouldn’t like it.

I would like it; not because it feels good to wear. Oh no. It’s because it is Mrs. Lion remaining in control. I like that. Go for it, sweetie!

[Mrs. Lion – The part I was kidding about was not edging him at all. Our next email exchange was about the cage’s potential effect on another long wait. Will the addition of the cage change whether Lion loses interest during another 21-28 day wait with daily edging? Just spitballing here.]

Sorry for being late today. Yesterday, I was very tired and hurting from a long physical therapy session. As Mrs. Lion wrote yesterday in her post, I wrote her that I forgot punishment day on Thursday. I spent a very long time debating with myself about whether I should remind Mrs. Lion that I forgot. There was no little tingle about being spanked if I told her. My shoulder hurt and I had other things to worry about.

Finally, I realized that it didn’t matter how I was feeling. I have to remind Mrs. Lion of any infractions that I commit. So I did. She wrote her post and I read that she would be spanking me. True to her word, last night after we had digested our dinner, she got a  paddle and told me it was time to be spanked. I obediently rolled over. I couldn’t find a position for my arm that didn’t hurt.

Mrs. Lion offered to stop if my shoulder hurt too much. I didn’t want to do that. The pain wasn’t that bad. So she proceeded with her spanking. She managed to make my butt burn before she stopped. She realized that my shoulder was hurting more than my bottom. That changed when I rolled over on my back. The shoulder pain receded and the butt burn took center stage. I’ve hurt more, but I was definitely feeling my spanking.

I’m angry with myself for missing my reminder of punishment day. After all this time, I should remember. Last night put that day back on my internal calendar.

I’m happy that Mrs. Lion is so strongly committed to our power exchange. Last night was a case when Lioness 1.0 would have given me a pass; not this lioness. Is she finally 2.0? Only she can say. It’s funny, our power exchange evolves so slowly that sometimes we recognize change long after it takes place. There is no dramatic ta-da moment. It’s just a slow series of changes that when combined, demonstrate that we’ve moved to the next level.

Both Mrs. Lion and I assumed that the arrival of 2.0 would be signaled by more severe punishments for infractions. 2.0 would also notice every offense and punish me for them. In my mind, at least, the more intense punishments would be the sign she was here. However, I think we’ve evolved by Mrs. Lion observing and punishing all infractions.

She’s been doing that. Nothing is overlooked. It’s true that the level of spanking and punishment desserts haven’t been raised yet. But, more importantly, in my opinion, consistency has improved substantially. That is a major milestone for Mrs. Lion. Severity, without consistency, isn’t as effective. Increasing severity is certainly something I expect will come too.

Our FLR is evolving. I better watch my step.

Mrs. Lion has referred to Lioness 2.0 as the next stage in her growth as a keyholder and disciplining wife. She occasionally mentions that 2.0 was around for a discipline session. Other times she laments that 2.0 has gone away. All these references offer insight into how she feels about our disciplinary relationship. But I think there may be a problem.

First of all, I am done with the term “domestic discipline”. It’s creation goes back to certain Christian groups who believe the husband has a christian duty use corporal punishments on his wife. Consent is not necessary. Some people writing about female-led relationship refer corporal punishments as domestic discipline. No, it’s not that simple. What does this have to do with 2.0?

Domestic discipline has no accepted definition when referring to couples whose motivations aren’t religious. Most of the couples who practice corporal punishment on the male do it because they agree that it works for them. There is no philosophical or religious rationalization. He may have wanted to be spanked. She may have found that once she has him in the spanking position, she can go past his erotic fantasy and use his bottom as a way to modify his behavior. Domestic discipline? No. Consensual activity that provides behavior modification? Yes.

2.0 is Mrs. Lion’s current goal in terms of managing me. She describes 2.0 as severe, consistent, and unimpressed with my efforts to escape punishment. Fair enough. But how can we know when she has made the transformation from 1.0 to 2.0. This dilemma is very similar to dancing on the head of the domestic discipline pin. Is it so vague as to be worth discarding? Or, can we list specific, measurable behaviors that mean 2.0 has arrived?

Consistency: Based on Mrs. Lion’s comments, 2.0 catches me almost every time I break a rule. She promptly punishes me for each offense. She is aware of my effect on her. If I start to make her angry, she punishes me at the next opportune moment. No excuses, no forgiveness.

Punishment: Mrs. Lion says that 2.0 spanks me until there are bruises and white spots inside them. She ignores my pleading for her to stop. No mercy. Of course, she recognizes my “Yellow” or “Red” calls. Yellow has her back off a little and then work back up to harder and faster spanks. She doesn’t stop until I am properly spanked. No mercy. She has described 2.0 this way. These aren’t my ideas.

Her references to 2.0 are limited to these two areas. She never proposed that 2.0 is a fundamental personality change.

Is there any way to understand her progress in these areas? Bear in mind, these are goals she has set. Up until now, she seems to feel disappointed in herself for 2.0’s absence. I don’t like that at all. It’s her pattern to believe she isn’t succeeding at things. Of course, she does succeed at everything she tries.

She is kind and loving. 2.0 is too, but not when I misbehave. 2.0 may not initially want to go to the upper end of spanking, but she will start close and work to getting all the way. At least that is what I believe Mrs. Lion means. I know that I have the consistency requirement  correct.

Ok, so one measure of progress to 2.0 is what percentage of my infractions she catches and punishes. How can we know? Well, if I break a rule and she doesn’t spot it, I will report it to her. She can take it from there. If I fail to self-report, I get severely punished. How will she know? Because she can test me by pretending not to notice. This is valuable because in a sense it becomes a game she can win. 2.0 is here when she notices them all. It’s not that hard, really.

Punishment has to be judged by her. She is an objective woman. She can analyze whether or not her punishment was as severe as it should be. 2.0 is here when she recognizes that she hasn’t gone far enough and then, instead of feeling badly, she just gets back to work. I know I will hate this. I also know that’s the entire point.

Poor me. I may have just used my 2.0 duck call. I think I hear her answering.