This story takes place in the Perfect Beginning Universe. It makes brief mention of Michele's work.
For me, first time is always the most exciting. Compounding the excitement is the anxiety when at least one character realizes that they are not the person they thought they were.
This story takes place in a very male dominant society, one which is even more patriarchal than our own. Pete comes to realize that as he falls under Allison's spell, he does not measure up to societal expectations. These two young people are discovering and becoming as they grow together as a couple.
Psychological conflict and tension are central themes in this story.
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The following is an outline of how this society operates. The Perfect Beginning provides a slightly more comprehensive description of the universe.
* People are legal adults at 18 years of age.
* People usually live to about 2,000 years of age.
* The cultural norm has almost all legal adults living with their family of origin until they turn 200 years old.
* Young people between the ages of 18 and 200 are treated as and referred to as children when they choose to continue living with their parents.
* Young people between the ages of 18 and 200 often behave much as we would expect teenagers to behave here in our world. They are kept in a state of arrested emotional development.
* Young people between the ages of 18 and 200 years customarily consume "blockers" which prevent them from having sexual feelings or impulses.
* Some young people will begin to "date" around 160 yers of age and while they are expected to continue to take their blockers, some will surreptitiously stop taking them while a few will stop responding to them.
* Age and masculinity are revered in this world. Everybody looks up to their elders and few seriously question the patriarchy.
All characters in the story are over 18 years of age.
It is customary for those below the age of 200 to demonstrate their status by wearing clothing which signify to others that they are off limits. They would wear what we would think of as children's clothing. Remember, an 18 year old and a 1,900 year old would look exactly the same age, so children's clothes are very useful for signaling to those over 200 years to abstain from any romantic or sexual pursuit of another who was deemed of an inappropriate age.
Lastly, sex is not technically illegal for people between the ages of 18 and 200 years. It is considered profoundly taboo. Adult-children (18+) do have sex but it is kept very quiet. Some parents punish their children for engaging in this sinful pleasure and adult-children almost never tell-on one another in this regard, even those who might not like one another. Adult children live by a code and violation of said code subjects one to complete ostracization. Almost none experiment until they are well over 160 years old.
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Allison
She was very pretty, and he'd become a little obsessed with her. Perhaps not sexy as she was too young for that. She was perfectly pretty.
Yet out of reach.
And though 5' 9", she was all lanky and certainly not the bikini model he usually lusted after.
Except that ass. Oh my god!
They had roughly the same path home from school. While he was in over-school and she was an underschooler, the schools were one block away from one another. On the days he headed straight home, he got to admire her.
Pete had been experimenting sexually for quite a while. At some point in his early 150s, his blockers began to fail. Sometimes that was how it was phrased, but they did not really fail. Simply put, they could no longer sublimate his libido the way they had and the way they did for the remaining 99.5 %, of the population.
He thanked his lucky stars that more and more overschoolers were secretly dropping their blockers and experimenting in secret.
Pete remained on his blockers as it was commonly understood that those few who outgrew them, were considered sexually supercharged. Some referred to those in his company as hypersexuals, but it was for the first time being considered by some to be an inappropriate reference as it was sometimes used in a judgmental or derisive way. Many viewed hypersexuals as being obsessed and lacking self control and appropriate executive function.
That was not Peter. He was not in denial, he required frequent sexual relief, yet he lived a highly functional day to day. He simply masturbated a lot, usually 6 or 7 times per day. It was a simple effort to manage his thoughts, feelings and impulses such that he remained otherwise functional. He could not even imagine how often he'd need to get off if he dropped his blockers. While he remained highly disciplined with his masturbation habits, he was disciplined in little else. He was good in sports and while he got to school on time on most days, his grades were mediocre. Pete was highly competitive and loved physical challenge and contest.
Masturbation was a quick fix used to get back on track. It was easy to imagine any one of a number of pretty classmates sucking his cock. It was a lovely image that did the trick every time. A couple minutes later and he was all good.
A number of his classmates had sucked him off over the years and for this, he was satisfied and pleased with himself. And he was grateful to be a guy. Girls liked sucking cock and he liked his cock being sucked so it seemed perfect.
Being a guy is so much better.
This thought ran through his mind almost daily. He did not think of his world as sexist. Greater Porsche and the rest of the world, as he understood it was basically the same. Men called the shots. All of them.
How is that sexist if almost everybody wants it that way? So stupid!
Some, mostly women, were beginning to question the status quo of the hierarchical social structure. After the publication of the Lanza/Lucas books, there seemed to be a second wave of feminists emerging.
Why would Pete question any of it when it worked so well for him? Why find fault with perfection? It was not like he was ungrateful as he knew he was in the best place for him.
Being a guy is so much better.
And it was not like girls didn't like it this way. Girls loved looking up to a guy, especially when the guy gave her a little attention and made her feel special. Girls loved sucking cock and as far as he was concerned it was a perfect way to enjoy himself and to give her what she needed to feel special. The set up worked for everybody.
He had no reason to think otherwise.
It did not hurt that he was good looking. Pete was a bit of a badass too and this, he was sure, attracted the ladies. He was respected and got the girls he wanted.
The 200 year old sex rule was a pain in the ass. In his mind, it was an antiquated expectation that left him wanting more. Very few girls, even those off their blockers would have intercourse and he very much looked forward to that. He knew that when he hit 200, he'd go out and fuck every girl he saw!