Keep on using me.... Until you use me up!

Carnevil9

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I heard this old favorite on the radio recently: Use Me!, and I thought it had a sort of Lit vibe. A man, so enamored of a woman, that he completely lets her "use him up."

In what ways would she be using him up? Spending all his money? Wearing him out physically with her enthusiastic sexual needs? Making him get more and more depraved until he can't show his face in public? Or maybe, she actually uses up his flesh, gradually amputating and eating little bits of him at a time? Or draining his blood and drinking it? In any case, he is so smitten that he can't quit her, even though he knows that by the end, there will be nothing left of him, either figuratively or quite literally.
 
Bill Withers and his succubus, sure. She uses him till he's a happy pallid puddle -- like a slowly-boiled frog. For fun, when he's "used up", she becomes him. Does the cycle start afresh?
 
There was a star trek voyager episode where they find a race of alien WOMEN on a planet. Turns out that in order for them to conceive they have to remove about 70% of the mans body for the DNA...

IE they end up all hollow and shrunken like a mummy
 
A line I recall from the song (sic -- because I'm too lazy to Google lyrics) was:
I know sometimes you really do abuse me
You get me in a crowd of high-class people
And then you act real rude to me​
So "using up" can include social humiliation. Sounds like an LW plot.

I'm almost tempted to do an EH Hallowe'en Contest entry built as a mini-anthology like Triple Secs or A Taste of Spirits -- folks gather in a tavern or around a campfire telling their tales. How were each of them used or using? Expect unreliable narrations.
 
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