Chapter 1: The Machine
Ginny stood before the gleaming machinery, staring at the brightly polished surfaces lit up under the overhead spotlights. She pulsed with apprehension and her body buzzed with excitement. She was floating and could not have felt more alive even had she been directly connected to the power grid, flashes of arousal arcing across her nerve endings. Ginny stood barefoot in front of this mechanical monster and anticipated the step she was about to take. A step that would set in train an avalanche of sensations threatening to consume her.
Growing up on a dairy farm, Ginny had been surrounded by cattle being herded into the milkshed. The farm had a routine, a pulse that marked the passage of time each day, the seasons through the cycle of the year. It was at this early morning time she would lie in her bed and stroke herself, imagining herself being herded into the milkshed along with the rest of the cattle. To watch with idle curiosity as the milking machine was attached to her, to feel the pull of the suction on her teats. Each morning she would work herself up into a frenzy as these thoughts passed through her head to the accompaniment of the cattle outside. She loved her boyfriend and each time afterwards she would feel guilty. Guilty for feeling such pleasure from such a demeaning fantasy, guilty because when she had sex with her boyfriend it never felt as intense and always left her hungry and guilty because she ought to feel more aroused by her boyfriend than a milking machine. There was something sick about her and she wished these feelings would go away, that she could be more normal.
Ginny had never told Ben of her secret fantasy, she had never dared tell anyone of those dark thoughts she had of standing naked among the beasts, being pushed around by them as they waited for milking and then being herded into the cowshed to be hooked up herself. Yet all these forgotten desires had come flooding back to her when her husband had told her the purpose of the machine he had been building down in the basement. It was Ben's big idea and would be their ticket to riches. He hadn't spoken about exactly what he was doing, and Ginny had never thought to ask. She assumed he wasn't sure about it and would tell her when he was ready. She didn't really expect to understand it anyway, if she were honest. Then he just walked into the room one day and dropped his bombshell, like Hiroshima going off in her head and she felt the lurch of her heart as the blood pounded in her temples. Her panties instantly became soaked as the old venom of her desires hooked themselves once more into her conscious mind.
Ben failed to notice the effect his words were having upon his wife. He continued talking about the recent changes requiring greater human milk production. Ginny could only sit listening to him in a mounting crescendo of emotions. Of course he was right, now that we knew human milk was the best protection against all kinds of diseases people should drink as much as they could get hold of, that made sense. That also, obviously meant we needed a ready supply of human milk. The inexorable logic drove her unwillingly forward towards that detestable destination, only women could produce human milk. Her heart pounded at the fear he was about to suggest she should contribute, as a woman, to this production.
The new laws had come in just at the wrong time. Women were an essential part of the workforce. They had careers and often out-performed men in many roles. Yet they were constantly being forced to choose between career and family. They would be able to achieve so much more if women did not have to take career breaks to start a family and having to keep worrying about childcare. Then when the news about the benefits of human milk were published a debate quickly started about whether less able women should do the child rearing and produce milk for wider consumption, while the more able ones pursued a career. Of course those women who had careers didn't want to miss out on having a family. So the debate switched to the less able women becoming surrogate mothers and nannies. Becoming pregnant more often would also boost their milk production. This plan appealed to both men and women who had any power and so was quickly passed into law. Young women would need to pass through psychometric tests to determine whether they were leader or breeder material. Breeders were sent to new style dairy farms where their bodies were prepared for milk production. At these places the breeders were very well cared for as they were schooled for their new role. Revolutionary hormonal feeds would stimulate their mammary glands which would swell as they became engorged with milk. Couples would visit the dairy farms and select one of the milkers, or sows as they became known, for artificial insemination. Career women could slip out one lunchtime, have their eggs collected ready for insemination and continue with work while the breeder carried their child and then nursed it after birth.
Ginny remembered feeling sick at the prospect of being classified as a breeder. The fact that she harboured a secret desire to be used in this way just seemed to strengthen her resolve. If she ever were to become a breeder then she would become lost within those seductive chains that would ensnare her. Her greatest fear was of being discovered. She studied extra hard, driven by her need to escape her desire, to protect those unacceptable thoughts from ever being exposed. She had to ensure she would pass this test, and this resolve spurred her on to achieve a lot until finally she came through the tests with honours. She remembered her feelings of triumph on that day the results came out. A wave of relief had washed over her, finally cleansing her from her fear; her secret would remain safely locked away. She had felt a passing pity for those who had failed, as some of her friends had. At the time she definitely viewed them as having failed in life.
Yet it was not long before people started to realise that the sows had a very good life. A lot of fantastic sex as a result of being extremely horny, a bi-product of the hormonal feeds, never having to worry about paying bills, and everything provided for them. It did not take long before the career women wanted to have short breaks as sows, just to escape from all the hard work and responsibility for a while. Short sow holidays were soon arranged, and of course that all added income for the farms. Men soon took advantage of the availability of all these horny women, and before long, sows became hired out for orgiastic parties, and this made the carefree life of a sow still more attractive.
Ben was pacing the room as he talked enthusiastically about all the man effort that went into milking sows. How inefficient it all was, and how milk production could be much higher if they could automate the process. Ginny still hadn't quite got to where he was headed until he started talking about milking machines for cows could be adapted for humans. That was the point that Ginny's body had given an involuntary spasm, a mini-orgasm that rippled silently through her. A milking machine designed for the female body! Was that what he had been working on?
"Yes. It's so simple, which is why we can't afford to delay. I have been working flat out to get the machine working and now I think I've got it!"
Ginny swallowed as she stared up at him. Here, in her own house, her husband had been quietly building the machine that embodied her most disturbing and powerful fantasy. It was right here below the stairs, below where she was sitting, just a few steps away. She immediately felt drawn towards it, to feel the cold touch of steel against her flesh as he continued to describe it. Seemingly, there was to be no escape for Ginny.
Standing there now in the spotlights, the warmth of them radiating upon her back, Ginny faced the gleaming steelwork before her. She was incredibly horny already, and had been continuously unable to pull her mind away from the infernal machine that seemed to call out to her from the basement. It had been a couple of days ago that Ben had taken her down and shown her his marvellous machine. Ginny gawped at it, it was massive, dominating the room. She already felt intimidated just by being in the room with it.
"However did you pay for all this machinery?"
Ben shifted uneasily at this question.