The man i used to be

"Jesus," he exclaimed, "they feel like part of me!" And he made his upper body go up and down a few times to get used to the sensation. They bounced authentically, but he felt like he needed some support, so he put on the bra as instructed. That felt better, but the weight on the straps was something he was going to have to learn to contend with. Such was his life now, and he had resigned himself to it.

Jade was watching him with delight, "Excellent! Now, put your hands over your head. Time for the corset, sunshine!"

He, as always, did as he was told, and she immediately wrapped him with the stern device, zipper and busk at the front, and laces at the back. The top of the zipper ended at a short post under his bra, with a hole in it which seemed peculiar, but it explained itself when Jade slipped the end of the zipper over the post, added a small lock, and clicked it shut. The slow process of tight-lacing began. Slowly, methodically, the vice got tighter, not uncomfortably he noticed; it was more like a tight hug, an embrace, an unyielding grip. His waist was being preferentially slimmed compared to his chest and hips, cinching him in, inch by inch. The breathing was becoming more shallow and chest-oriented with each tug of the laces. Then she tied it off and wrapped a cloth tape measure around his waist.

"Twenty-eight inches. Excellent!" she said, and then she started fumbling with the laces once again.

Jesus, he thought, his waist was normally thirty-two inches! Where the hell was his stomach and liver going to re-locate? He was getting tired of holding his hands over his head and was about to ask for some relief when he heard a "zip" followed by a click of a second lock.

"What was that?" he asked.

"It's the lace lock. The laces are folded inside a sac which is zippered to the back of your corset, within a flap which covers the laces. It's locked shut so you can't tamper with the laces, at least not without destroying the corset. I'll warn you now, once and only once, that if you destroy any part of these corsets, you will be punished severely. Got that?"