I never really spent a lot of time thinking about how my masturbation might affect others. I was genuinely surprised that Mrs. Lion had no idea that I jerked off. I barely gave it a thought. It was just something I did when horny and the prospect of partner sex was unlikely.

I will admit that I had the occasional fantasy of women making me masturbate while they watched. It was never a very hot fantasy, but sometimes while playing with myself it played on my fantasy movie screen. It was far from my go-to fantasy. It’s been so long that I’m not sure what got me across the goal line.

It almost certainly had some BDSM components. I always imagined it was someone else’s hand stroking me. Mostly it was just a way to scratch an itch. I’m not claiming I never liked jerking off. It was usually fun to come. Sometimes, even that wasn’t particularly pleasant.

On the other hand, I genuinely enjoy hand jobs. Mrs. Lion is an expert at delivering them. We both agree she doesn’t need lube. I never used any when I did it myself. Sometimes Mrs. Lion does use lube. It’s nice as a change, but dry rubs usually feel best.

As I said before, I never gave masturbation a lot of thought. The fact is that over the last four years the vast majority of sexual attention I’ve received is via Mrs. Lion’s hand. She almost always edges me with her hand. On rare occasions she uses the Magic Wand. Even less frequently, I get edged orally.

Actual orgasms are two-thirds by hand or vibrator. About a third of the time I get to come in her mouth. We haven’t had vaginal sex in over a year. I haven’t used my hand since December 2013.

A hand job is masturbation. It’s just not my hand doing it. So I can’t claim I don’t like it. I love it. I’m masturbated instead of masturbating. That is, for me at least, a big difference. Mrs. Lion’s hand feels orders of magnitude better than mine.

That brings me to a point I only considered for the first time today: Would I be as humiliated if I were masturbated in front of others as I would if I did it myself? If Mrs. Lion brought a friend home, had me strip, and then gave me a hand job in front of her friend, I think I would be more humiliated than if I did it with my own hand.

There’s the aspect of being naked and aroused in front of fully dressed women. That would be the same in both cases. If I had to jerk off, I could drift away into my own world. I would be embarrassed. However, if Mrs. Lion jerked me off and carried on a conversation while doing it, there would be a heightened sense of humiliation because making me come would just be part of a demonstration of how I am sexually treated.

I would feel more like an animal giving a “donation” by being dispassionately milked. Since this has never happened and is unlikely to be something that Mrs. Lion would do, I’ll never find out what it’s like. I can imagine that I would have a hard time getting off if treated this way. I’m sure that eventually I would. What do you think about this sort of treatment?

We went out to dinner last night and had some very juicy hamburgers. I had more ooze on my fingers than on the hamburger after a while. Yum!

Later on we snuggled and I attempted to get Lion aroused. Nothing doing. He wasn’t horny. I was wondering if it was because he thought I was upset that he asked to be wild. Or maybe it was because he had an orgasm on Monday and the natural course of things just means he’s not horny yet.

I’m not mad about him being wild. I was just turning it over in my mind yesterday. It was probably the fact that I was trying to get to sleep and had to get out of bed to unlock him that bothered me. For now I’ll leave him wild. It really is easier for me. I don’t need to look for the key when I want to play with him. He’s long past the point of masturbating and he was never going to cheat on me.

Speaking of masturbating, Julie’s suggestion of making him masturbate in front of me to humiliate him won’t work. First of all, in his post this morning, Lion said masturbation has lost its appeal to him and he’s not sure if he’d even feel humiliated in front of me anyway. Second, I don’t want him masturbating. He left that world behind him when I locked him up. I asked him to show me how he masturbated so I could see how he did it. And that was it. Done. Finito. From that point forward he’s been self-love free. He’s never asked to be allowed to masturbate again. I hope that’s because I give him all the stimulation he requires now.

I also think I’ve softened my thoughts about his asking me to do away with the cage. In the past I’ve said if he wants to stop wearing the cage we’ll just stop everything. No domestic discipline, no FLR, no nothing. However, I think we’ve evolved to a point where being wild is not grounds for capsizing the whole boat. We do just fine without the cage. Lion is punished when necessary. I make decisions. I edge him. I decide when he gets an orgasm. Cage or no cage.

In reaction to Mrs. Lion’s post In or Out, Julie had this comment about me masturbating:

“I say keep him free and have some fun with his masturbation. Make him do it in front of you while you watch and giggle. Making him swallow afterwards is a fun little “consequence”. Or allow him the freedom to masturbate as he pleases, but he must tell you afterwards and suffer a beaten butt as a consequence. Or if you catch him at it red-handed, double consequences! I enjoy my husband’s incessant need to tug on his penis like a little monkey, and have fun with it.”

This is interesting and very different to how Mrs. Lion considers my jerking off. When we first began male chastity, I told her that I masturbated. She was genuinely surprised. I reacted with some surprise of my own. For about five years, there was almost no sex. Generally, I got a hand job once a month. She must have imagined that I was OK with that. I wasn’t.

I had been masturbating about twice a week that entire time. Anyway, Mrs. Lion apparently had no idea I did that. When I told her, she had me jerk off while she watched. It was more educational for her than humiliating for me. When I finished, I was locked into my chastity device.

Subsequently, she wrote how she considered me masturbating as a mild form of sexual betrayal. She made it very clear that she would consider masturbation a serious breach of marital trust. I haven’t masturbated since that night in December 2013.

Julie’s suggestion is an interesting humiliation scenario. I can’t imagine me doing it. I’ve lost masturbation as a sexual choice for me. I can’t explain exactly why or how, but I just don’t even think about jerking off. Left to my own devices, it would take a lot before I would even try.

Would I feel humiliated if Mrs. Lion made me do it in front of her? I don’t think so. I would be so intent on trying to execute this now-extinct maneuver, that I doubt I would even realize she was watching.

In order for Julie’s suggestion to be effective, I would somehow have to relearn to enjoy jerking off. That may sound odd, but it’s true. I’ve been conditioned to remove masturbation from my sexual repertoire. Seriously, I have. I don’t think Mrs. Lion wants to retrain me to like it again.

So much for my deciding when Lion is caged and when he isn’t. He was caged for approximately 24 hours before he couldn’t sleep because it was bothering him. There was a sore spot. And he’s wild again.

At this point it makes little sense to lock him back up since he’ll be unlocked on Saturday anyway. I just get the feeling he’d want out of it right away. And I’d be nice and unlock him. (For the record, I was trying to get some sleep myself last night and didn’t feel like arguing with him about being in or out of the cage.)

We’ve already established that he doesn’t need to be in the cage. He never really needed to be in the cage. He was never going to cheat on me with another woman. He did cheat by masturbating but I never said he couldn’t. I never realized he did and I suppose it’s really not as severe as cheating with an actual human being. But now I know he won’t cheat by masturbating either. So why worry about the cage now?

I don’t have an answer to that. For some reason when I decided I would be the one deciding whether he’d be in the cage or not, it was fine if he was locked for a week and then wild for two weeks. But when he wants out only 24 hours in I’m hearing my mother in my head when I used to run in and out of the house. “In or out! Pick one!”

Am I upset that I’m not the one deciding? Do I really want him in the cage and his wanting out is annoying me? Does it really bother me all that much or was it just a pain to get back out of bed last night to unlock him? I don’t know. I’ve been digesting it this morning in between working and trying to reset the password for my airline app so I can get my boarding pass next week. Obviously it’s not weighing all that heavily on my mind. I’m just confused about what reaction I’m actually having and why. It definitely requires more thought.