Part 10: FERTILITY CLINIC: THE CHOICE
I was standing on the stage with six other naked women. The foot lights shone right in our face. We couldn't see our audience. It didn't matter. From this beauty pageant, Dr Velour's preferred clients would pick a Surrogate from one of the bare assed and bare footed females on display. I already knew that Dr Velour's intended guests would be Alison and Cindy, a sperm-less pair, the current 'correct term' for a lesbian couple who wanted to start a family.
A while back, Dr Velour presented the problem to me in one of her casual asides in the subterranean pool that the clinic provided as a diversion offered to male donors and female surrogates as well as employees. Looking out on the work on the adjacent solarium and sauna, Dr Velour waved her hand as she visualized her dream, "Right what's just a ditch will bring natural sunlight to the subterranean level."
"Naturality," Dr Velour shook her head, "has its advantages." Turning to carefully studying my bare body, Dr Velour paused to nod approvingly at my freshly depilated pubes. Dr Velour noted, "I hope our informal, poolside tete -- a -- tetes in the natural state promote openness, honesty and trust."
"It would save on the laundry bill," I hid my reservations in a joke.
"Let's talk about your patient Cindy." Dr Velour began, "Her partner -- Oh, the sperm -- less pair plans to marry and produce a child -- is concerned. Cindy's obsessive modesty is noticeable even at home. Cindy responds well to you. Her partner believes you can bring Cindy to accept an injection with the specialized syringe I designed -- you call it --..."
"The sperminator," I reminded Dr Velour. Chuckling, I added, "A little dose, we say, brings on 'The Big one,' pregnancy."
"Sperminator! `The Big One!'" Dr Velour exclaimed, "My nursing assistants, a bunch of cards, have devised a cute but sophomoric expression to describe my ingenious design. My invention combines the injectant power of a syringe with thrusting power of a dildo and the stimulation of a vibrator. The sperminator delivers warm sperm into a body in orgasmic convulsions, replicating the euphoria of natural intercourse," Dr Velour explained.
"No sperminator natural or artificial," I replied, "can bring 'The Big One' to Cindy, eh -- impregnate her if she won't be seen naked."
"Cindy trusts you. Work on it." After a pause, Dr Velour suggested, "Join me at the end of your shift for a swim?" Dr Velour requested.
Weeks later, on stage, I was wondering how did I end up on display? Upon graduation with a degree in an Industrial Psychology, I had been promised a position in management at the clinic. I should be behind a desk studying the motivations of the naked women flapping their lips around me. Only last month, I was leading candidates for selection on stage. Somehow, the wistful plaint crossed my mind: when one door closes another one opens. The direction of my work at the Fertility Clinic had shifted in stages during my treatment with Cindy, the seemingly diffident partner in a eh -- sperm - less pair.
Gloria, whose towering height and bright red, bubble cut hair stood out like a police car's flashing dome light among the women on stage competing to be selected as a Surrogate, chatted with the other women. "Why do six -- seven beauties parade themselves like prized cattle competing to be impregnated? For a strip tease without a roaring crowd, why do we fall in line?"
I blurted out an answer, "Power."
For foreplay, my husband Jerry and I wrestled for the upper berth. If successful Jerry who preferred doggy style would bind my hands with my bra and stuff my panties in my mouth. Forcing me to the floor face down, Jerry lifted my pelvis and thrust his penis inside me. Spitting my panties out, I asked why.
"Power takes many forms," Jerry boasted, "Financial power, positional power, and physical power."
Holding a hand up to shield her eyes from the glare, Gloria complained, "That damn blinding light! We're not to know who has the dough to rent out," Gloria, rubbing her tummy, exclaimed, "my baby factory!"
Yes, Dr Velour, the Clinic Director did not like a bond to form between the Surrogate and the adoptive couple. "Nurse Warbler, while I prefer to keep relationships on an anonymous, impersonal, business -- like basis," Dr Velour spoke of Cindy's overture, "your patient Cindy and her partner have extended a most generous offer directly to you. It falls outside my usual bounds of anonymity."
I grinned when Gloria recognized me, "Nurse Warbler, you're," Gloria declared as she studied me from my bare toes to shaven pubes and erect nipples, "out of uniform," She laughed, "Out of uniform. That's an understatement! I'd never expect to find you on stage with cattle."
I felt deflated. Without scrubs, symbol of power to impose orders, I was no better than anyone else. Gritting my teeth, I muttered, "The punishment for good performance in dicey work is more difficulties."
With an encouraging expression, Gloria touched my shoulders. In comforting tones, she exclaimed, "A little extra money for a few minutes of standing wearing nothing more than a cute smile! Same reason I sought out being filmed for training films in the use of the sperminator. The eh--procedure was filmed for eh -- training purposes, you may recall. Which version was ultimately selected for use?"
I forced a smile.
Glancing at my flat stomach, Gloria assured me, "The facility talks its clients out of picking a first time," Gloria looked to the ceiling snickering, "birthing person as a Surrogate. Too much trouble."
I shook my head 'Too much trouble,' that characterized cute little Cindy. Honey blond haired blue eyed, Cindy had come to the Western Avenue Fertility Clinic to be impregnated. Dainty Cindy had been placed in my care as a Nursing Assistant at the clinic. How did I come to have my virtues put on display and ostensibly up for bid to her and her partner?
Oh, shy little Cindy, so excessively modest, the clinic director Dr Velour had to find a bathrobe for Cindy when Cindy was granted an extraordinary privilege of personally inspecting male donors. Two hospital gowns, one worn backwards were inadequate to shield Cindy's virtue. How could we impregnate a girl who didn't want to be seen naked? Alison and Cindy were pleased with my performance. They paid Dr Velour. So, I was assigned to continue trying. "Trying what?" I protested, "We're just marking time."
On stage Gloria turned to the other women. Most, apparently 30-ish, chatted about husbands and kids. "Did you ever sneak a peek at your guy's porn?" Gloria interjected, "Did you ever see a porn star barefooted?" Gloria kicked up her heels to the giggles of the others. "Nude 18-year-olds in porn with itty bitty titties hobble about bouncing flat butts on spiked high heels. Barefeet and big bouncing boobs," Gloria cupped her hands under her D cupped breasts, "come with rounded bellies and pregnancy."
As a nursing assistant treating petite Cindy, the prospective mother, I was responsible to shepherd Cindy to an impregnation. "Dr Velour," I told Cindy on my initial contact as she lay on the treatment bed clothed in a sheer pink hospital gown, "has a theory that stimulating the body to orgasm replicating the conditions of natural intercourse increases the chances of an insemination. Now how do you expect me to accomplish this for you if you aren't willing to be seen naked? Just what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a doctor," Cindy replied.
"You must see more naked people than a pornographic movie's camera crew," I took a deep breath before I continued, "Let me take this step by step."
On stage, Gloria moved over to a younger college age girl whose face and chest were burnished crimson with embarrassment. "First time in the `Beauty Pageant, Hun?'" Gloria, hand lightly on the girl's shoulder, spoke softly in comforting tones, "Take it one deep breath at a time. Hold your head high. Besides you're past the hardest part of the drill. You've already felt the Back Draft."