[ycoldwater]

A fantastic picture, I think. Rather than write a story I'm going to describe the scenario that I imagine:

Valerie has arrived at a spa in the French Alps for an intensive week's treatment. Like many rich young French women she is vain and considers that she needs to be slimmer and more toned. Maybe this is because her very rich older husband seems to be ignoring her and may have another mistress. She has always adopted the "no pain, no gain" approach to her beauty regime but increasingly she begins to relish the intensity of the beauty treatments she subjects herself to. The brochure for this spa stresses the traditional and old-fashioned nature of the "cure" - many treatments use ice-cold water at high pressure, or sudden changes from hot to cold, to stimulate the circulation, tone the skin and encourage weight loss. The therapists insist strictly that all treatments must be taken naked to ensure maximum efficacy (and this applies equally to the strenuous daily workout regime). Food is simple with caffeine and alcohol banned, of course. This spa has become fashionable amongst her friends with some rivalry between them for who can go furthest to achieve the best results, asking for the most intensive treatments - the coldest temperature and most powerful water pressure in the showers, the most sudden changes from hot to cold, the stiffest brushes in the full-body scrubs. Also, whispered amongst them are stories of how, just like in the 19th century and before, the treatments are often intense enough to bring the clients to orgasm - a well-known cure for "hysteria" that was once commonly administered in such establishments. Anyway, here is Valerie at 6am on the first morning (at her own request) with the first treatment, taken immediately upon waking: a "douche au jet" with a powerful stream of 38 degree alpine spa-water. Perhaps the stance in this picture with her protectively shielding her breasts suggests that (as in more moderate establishments) the more sensitive areas of her body will be spared the stinging jet of cold water. However, again at her insistence, this would not be as effective at toning her body: so once she has stood, leaning against the wall to allow the jet to play over her back, legs and buttocks (as well as insinuate itself a little into her pussy), she will turn and place her hands on her head, adopt a strong legs-apart posture, shoulders back and head up, thrusting her pert nipples towards the unmerciful stream of water that the therapist will direct up and down over her thighs, belly, ribs, breasts, armpits, before descending towards her clitoris for the final, gasp-enducing element of the treatment!