Youâre underground, but thatâs about all you know. The room is roughly circular and coloured red, made dark by the subdued lighting.
Youâre sitting on a straight-backed chair, with your hands secured to the sides. Youâre wearing a light blouse and a knee-length skirt. You have no shoes on, and you were asked to remove your underwear as you arrived.
The rules were explained to you as the sensors were taped to your temples and your chest beneath your blouse.
You will be measured for blood pressure, heart rate and electrical conductivity across the skin. Basically any excitement you feel will show on a sliding scale you can see on a computer screen by your left arm.
You can see blacked-out windows cut into the red walls. It doesnât take much to guess that the same people who wired you up are watching from behind the glass.
As long as the level stays within the blue zone on the computer scale, you get paid for every minute.
But every time it strays outside, you get a small shock â and no cash.
At first it seemed easy, but as your hands were tied to the chair, you couldnât help noticing the needle slide up a notch.
âReady?â
The voice over the loudspeaker makes you start. Another notch on the scale.
Before you have a chance to answer a door at the other side of the room opens. A dark-haired man in his twenties walks into the centre of the room. His eyes are dark, and stare straight at you with a look of purpose.
He steps closer towards you, and reaches up to the top button of his shirt. As he loosens each button, you sneak a look at his face â tanned, with strong cheek bones and a look of arrogance. His hair is sleek and black, but looks soft.
He lets the shirt fall. His chest is well developed, with a deep groove running between his pectorals and down the centre of his tight, flat stomach. The tan is even, and in the lights you catch a faint haze of fair hair across his skin.
You realise youâre staring at the point where his stomach meets his hips. A strong line runs over his hip bone and down towards his crotch.
He loosens his trousers and they fall to the floor. He puts his thumbs into the waistband of his tight fitting Calvin Klein-style shorts. The bulge in the crotch is tantalising.