A Sincere Examination of the Fetish

“Tania,” he said defeatedly. “I’ve always found the idea that we - that is, the human we - are just lumps of neurons piloting husks of flesh around very compelling. And building off from that, I’ve spent my whole life thinking - no, dreaming of… borrowing someone else’s experiences. Living with their body. It’s hot. It’s super hot. And there’s a lot of stories out there of it happening in all sorts of ways, and one of those ways just so happens to be some kind of creature that is able to enter a human host, take control of it and take on that host’s identity as its own. So when you told me that you were really a worm, and that Tania is the host whose life you’d taken control of…”

Wordlessly, Lee did the “mind blown” hand gesture.

Tania blushed, her hands falling to cradle herself in her womb. “You think I’m… attractive?”

Lee sighed, striding up to Tania and taking hold of one hand.

“Can you feel that?” he asked as he used a finger to trace little circles in her palm.

Tania nodded.

“How about this?” Lee said, running the same finger up and down her inner arm.

Tania hooded again.

Releasing her hand, Lee stepped behind her and tugged her towel down to the floor. Before she could protest, he reached around her chest and began to gently caress her nipples.

Tania squeaked, her nipples hardening in seconds.

“You can feel that, can’t you?”

Tania nodded.

“But those aren’t your sensations, are they? These aren’t your nipples, or your breasts. These aren’t your arms or legs. Your eyes, your lips, even the pussy and womb you’re curled up in right now are just borrowed. You’re borrowing the real Tania’s body, you’re feeling her pleasure as though it’s your own, you’ve been using her face and voice to seduce me for almost a year now. There’s a Tania-shaped space in the world, and when you squirmed your way into her and took control, you filled that space as well.”

He dropped his hands and stepped away and Tania began to shakily breathe again.

“I don’t know how many of your kind are out there, but I’m overwhelmed with jealousy that you get to experience the lives of so many others. Frankly, I’m devastated that you can only have women as your hosts, because if I could, I’d let you share my body in a heartbeat.”

Tania’s mouth slowly opened in an O of surprise.

“You don’t mean that,” She said in disbelief.

Lee shrugged. “Is your host in pain? Is she in distress?”

Tania shook her head.

“Then why not? We’d get to be together in a way that no other couple in the world could possibly experience. I’d feel very privileged to have you sharing my life.”

Tania covered her mouth with one hand, but could do little about the tears forming in her eyes. With no words that could adequately express her feelings, she wrapped her arms around Lee and kissed him deeply.

“I love you,” she gasped when she came up for air.

“I love you too,” Lee said, glad that they’d both been able to reveal their secrets without judgement.

The same thought seemed to occur to Tania, as she began to laugh chokingly in relief.

To avoid any possible awkwardness, Lee changed the subject.

“How long before you need a new body?”

“About two weeks,” Tania said, rubbing the last tears from her eyes. “I was wondering if you had anyone you thought would be a good host for me.”

Lee paused, suddenly presented with a puzzle.

“What’s the process of transferral like?”

“Only a few minutes, then a few hours to fully take control. We’ve got a venomous stinger that can immobilise potential hosts while we switch bodies, but that means finding someone who won’t be missed for half a day and somewhere safe where we won’t be discovered while we’re still ****.”

Lee closed his eyes and he ran through the people he knew. Most of the women he considered attractive were already in committed relationships, or at least not explicitly interested in him, and it felt dishonest to have them puppeteered into his arms just to serve Tania’s desires.