Just after this, Jack announced, "Ten minutes, gentlemen." Ralph correctly assumed this to be the signal that the main entertainment was soon to begin. Over the next few minutes, the members began drifting through a door in the back of the room. Ralph followed.

In the next room was a large, raised stage. There was a curtain across the front of it. The audience area consisted of a number of wide, deep, high-backed couches. As Ralph watched, he saw that the members could have a girl sitting on either side (or both), or have one laid across his lap. It was also possible to have a girl kneeling at one's feet, giving head, or sitting on one's lap, getting stuffed.

Jack noticed Ralph's hesitation on where to go. He told him, "Come up here on stage, behind the curtain. You are going to be the witness to tonight's entertainment. Have a seat on this couch," he pointed to one just like the ones in the audience, "and Jackie will keep you company."

Jackie was a beautiful African-American, tall, thin, but with large tits and a big ass. When Ralph sat down, she immediately knelt in front of him, and began sucking his cock. Ralph asked Jack, "What can I do to her?"

"Anything you can do using only your hands. You can pinch her, slap her, spank her, fist her, even punch her. You can order her to assume any position, to fuck you, suck you, rim you, drink your piss. What you can't do is use implements on her, maim or disfigure her, or cause her to maim or disfigure herself. Beyond that, have a good time. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to get this started."

With that, Jack opened the curtain and turned to face the audience. "Gentlemen members and honored guests," he nodded in Ralph's direction, "welcome to the monthly meeting of the S^3 Society. Tonight I have arranged a little contest for you all. These three ladies," he gestured towards Marlene, Susan, and a blonde Ralph didn't yet know, "are each going to be tortured in three different ways. In no particular order, for five minutes per ordeal, they will be beaten with a sjambok, zapped with electricity, and have needles stuck in them. This will all happen on stage, but behind the curtain. Only Ralph and I will see what is being done to which girl at any given time."

"The contest is as follows," he continued. "First, based only on their screams, you need to correctly identify each girl. Second, you need to vote which torment caused the girls the greatest and most entertaining suffering, and finally, you need to vote on which girl gave the most entertaining screams. The winner will be the member who correctly identifies all three girls, with a drawing in case of a tie. He will get to inflict the torment voted most painful on the girl voted best screamer for no less than half an hour."

Jack drew the curtain, and turned to the three girls. He grabbed a black magic marker, and on Marlene's chest, wrote a "1", on Susan, a "2", and on the unknown blonde, a "3". On the stage were three torture stations: a whipping bench, a gynecological exam table, and an electric chair. Giving orders only with hand gestures, Jack ordered Marlene on to the whipping bench, Susan on to the table, and the blonde (whom Ralph was later to learn was named Toni) in to the electric chair.

Jack spoke for the first time since drawing the curtain. "I will now give girl number one thirty strokes with the sjambok." Jack picked up the sjambok and stepped behind Marlene. He drew back, and struck. For the first three strokes, Marlene managed to keep silent (other than a sharply indrawn breath). However, with the fourth, she began to scream, and by the time her thirty strokes had been given, she was screaming like a banshee.

Ralph looked down at Jackie, still sucking him like she was dying, and only his dick held the cure. He had an idea, and pulled her off him. She looked up at him in puzzlement. He wrapped his hands about her throat and proceeded to choke her. She began to thrash. Jack looked over at the commotion and gave him a thumbs up. Just as it seemed the girl was on the verge of passing out, Ralph stopped. Instead of letting her catch her breath, he immediately thrust her back down between his legs, and she began to suck once more.

Jack next announced, "I will now stick thirty needles into girl number two." He began with Susan's tits. He did the left tit, and then the right, first putting one of the inch long needles into her tit flesh at the eight main compass points. Then he put two through each nipple, crosswise. Susan cried and sobbed throughout but curiously, didn't scream.

Jack proceeded to her pussy, and put four needles through each lip. Still only sobbing from Susan. However, when Jack grabbed her clit, and she realised where the last two needles were going, she began to shake, and when he finally pierced her clit, she let out a long shriek of agony.

Finally, Jack said, "I will now zap girl number three." He pushed a button on the chair, and suddenly Toni went rigid. Ralph looked closer, to see exactly how she was being zapped. He noticed two steel dildoes, one in her ass, and one in her cunt, and understood. Toni was panting heavily, and suddenly let out a howl. It was a sound of almost inhuman suffering, and she continued to howl for the entire five minutes.

Jack, meanwhile, was removing the needles from Susan. When Toni's five minutes were up, he ordered the three girls to rotate positions so that Susan was now on the whipping bench, Toni on the gyno table, and Marlene, the electric chair. He repeated the torments in order, and again, Toni howled, Marlene screamed, and Susan only sobbed. Ralph wondered what kind of tortures Susan had suffered that had trained her to such stoic endurance. Maybe one day he would find out.

After all three girls had their respective five minutes of the second torment, Jack ordered them to switch again. Ralph wondered how they had the strength to keep screaming like that, but realised that by having three girls in the rotation, Jack had built in a little time for each girl to catch her breath, and get ready for the next torment. His respect for the men of the Society increased even more. He was determined to become a member.

When all three girls had screamed their way through all three torments, Jack went out to the audience area and collected the ballots from each member. He returned to the stage, and handed them to Ralph. "Tally these, please," he requested, "and let me know who the lucky winners are." Ralph went through each ballot, looking at their identification of the girls and counting their votes. As he did, Jack pulled the needles out of Marlene's body. He then ordered the girls to wheel the torture equipment offstage and drew back the curtain. Everyone could see the numbers written on each girl.

Ralph handed the results to Jack. "Thank you, Ralph. Gentlemen, we have a single winner, so no need for a drawing. Our esteemed Chairman correctly identified all three girls. For best torment, the vote was nine for electricity, and one each for the sjambok and the needles. Similarly, there were eight votes for best screamer to Toni, with three to Marlene and none to Susan. So, Chairman, you may zap Toni for at least the next thirty minutes."

The members applauded politely as The Chairman took the stage. He turned to the members and said, "In honor of our guest tonight, I am going to zap Toni . to death." He sent the trembling girl to fetch the chair back, and invited Ralph to help strap her in. As Ralph tightened the straps, The Chairman began punching commands into a keypad on the back of the chair. Ralph asked what he was doing.

"Well, Ralph, this is a fully programmable computer controlled electric chair. I am setting the execution sequence for Toni. Basically, it will zap her continuously. Every five minutes, it will increase the power. It will not hit lethal levels until at least thirty minutes out. However, it will randomly zap her with higher power throughout. She won't know when the higher spikes will come, how long they will last, or even whether it is a random spike, or the next increase."

"It's ingenious," Ralph said.

"Thank you," The Chairman said. "Would you like to do the honors?" He pointed to the big green 'Start' button. Ralph pushed it. Toni began to howl. Suddenly she let out a shriek, and Ralph realised she must have gotten one of the zaps.

With that, The Chairman turned away, to go talk to one of the members. In fact, Ralph noticed that none of the members were paying Toni the bit of attention. Her screams were just the background music to the party.

"Exquisite, isn't she?" asked one of the members Ralph had not yet met, nodding at Toni.

"Definitely," he answered.

"She's my wife. I'm Karl, by the way," he said.

"Pleased to meet you. Your wife?"

"Oh yes. All of our wives and daughters ultimately belong to the Society. I was actually planning on putting her down soon anyway, but I will miss her. Nobody screamed like she did. Still, this is what she was destined for, to die screaming for the pleasure of men. It makes me sad, to see all the women who die peacefully, every day, never getting this opportunity. They don't know what they're missing. So what do you think of all this?" He made a sweeping gesture with his arm.

"It's fantastic. It's everything I ever hoped for. If I can't become a member, I shall go mad."

"Just between us, I wouldn't worry. I don't think you will have any trouble qualifying. Meanwhile, let me introduce you to the rest of the members." With that, he took Ralph to find the members he had not yet met.

As they chatted, Ralph found himself feeling right at home. These were his kind of people, and he was glad they found him. Suddenly there was a terrible scream. It was Toni. Ralph had completely forgotten about her, but now he and the members all turned to watch her death throes. She screamed for a further five minutes or so, til she suddenly shuddered and was still.

There was an odor of cooked meat in the room, and Ralph realised she was really dead. He was expecting it, but to really get to see it was even better than he thought.