almost a year, beginning with a meeting under the most unusual circumstances his inventive mind had created - until now, that is. His first approach (yes, the very first thing he suggested to her) was to propose that their initial meeting be in a darkened hotel room, without ever having seen one another beforehand. To undress, make love, then part without ever seeing one another's face. Silence had quickly dismissed the idea as dangerous and , although the thought intrigued her somewhat and she wanted to know more about a mind that could conceive of something so deliciously erotic. So she carried on "talking" to him over the online service where they had found one another, dangling the possibility that they might in fact carry out his plan.

The more she talked to him, the more she realised that this was anything but a device to get someone into his bed. In fact it served as a screening process, to ensure that any woman who could not match his erotic nature would reject him out of hand. And she realised that, since she was not rejecting him out of hand, his complex and creative nature might well satisfy her own capacity for sensual delight. Her first reply to him had been equally as calculated. She described, in exquisitely graphic detail, a scenario that required him to be open to role reversal, to relinquish control, and to allow himself to be used for her pleasure.

A less confident man would recoil at what she suggested, but instead he was excited by her ability to so clearly state what she wanted, and excited at the thought of them together probing the mental boundaries of their sexuality together (along with probing a few unexplored physical areas). So they continued e-mailing and messaging, discovering one another's personalities. His original proposition had been that they should know all about one another - likes, dislikes, where they lived, worked, what they did with their time .. everything in fact but what the other person looked like. So true to his plan was he that he never looked at the details of her online profile, which described her stature and some significant things about her physical appearance. At first, she was curious about his description and she asked him some general questions. She realised from this that he would answer her questions and even give her the opportunity to see him, but he would not waver from his goal of knowing nothing until he held her - a hint at the kind of control he could exercise to raise the level of his arousal (and as she discovered, hers as well). In that time, they had discovered that each had a tremendous capacity to spur the other on - and this only served to increase the sexual tension between them. He proved to be able to capture the essence of any number of different scenarios, and to put them into words in a way which made her feel weak, and unable to resist. He had a gift for description, and could paint vivid pictures in her mind; when he talked about his tongue circling her nipples they hardened as she read, when he described how he would taste her she became wet as if to feed him, and when he talked about poising his hardness at her lips to enter she could feel him filling her and opened to receive him.