"No, as far as we can tell the O Detector works 100% of the time, Mr. Thompson," Gina Hansen told the angry man on the other end of the line. Then she listened patiently.
She was aware of a woman behind her, but had no impression that she should pay attention. After all, her job was to answer the phone.
"Let me make sure I have this straight, Mr. Thompson. You bought the O Detector because you were concerned that your girlfriend was faking her orgasms, yes?"
She waited for the answer, and then continued. "And she said she had an orgasm while you were going having sex with her, and the O Detector failed to detect it, and now you want your money back, is that right?"
Again, the pause.
"Has it occurred to you, Mr. Thompson, that you were right all along? It is the logical explanation isn't it? No Mr. Thompson, I have no idea how skilled you are with your dick. No, I didn't realize it was nine inches long, Mr. Thompson. Is there a chance your girlfriend doesn't realize that either? Well. Other women, always, really? None of them were faking it, you say? Were you using our device at that time? Oh, no, you weren't. Well, I'd be happy to look into it if you wish to give me the numbers of those women, so I can ask them if they - what's that, Mr. Thompson? Oh, that comment I made about your girlfriend not realizing? Well, you know that when men measure their own penises they are somehow 1.23 inches longer than when the same penises are measured by medical staff. I don't know how attractive the nurses are, Mr. Thompson, but they have to be more attractive than your hand, now don't they? Now about these alleged women that had these alleged orgasms - what's that Mr. Thompson? I don't think that's very nice language, not at all, no, I don't have to take that, Mr. Thompson, and may I suggest you pay some attention to the clit next time, rather than focusing on your alleged nine-inch -"
Gina sighed, and put the phone down. She felt like she was living in the wrong age. When phones had receivers, and cradles, and maybe even dials, you could put the receiver down onto the cradle with a satisfying chunk after someone hung up on you. But now there was little she could do. And Mr. Thompson had been so rude. There had been no reason to call her a bitch just because she used the word 'alleged.'
"Miss Hansen? Gina Hansen?" asked the woman behind her.
Gina turned to find none other than the famous Dr. Josephine Scheer standing behind her. "Dr. Scheer!" she exclaimed. What could the acclaimed researcher, the inventor of the amazing O Detector, want with her? Everyone knew her from her photographs, for her high-cheekboned, aristocratic face loomed in many of the conference rooms at Orgasma Incorporated, but for the most part the doctor stayed in the laboratory wing.
"You signed up to be an experimental subject," Dr. Scheer said. "And please, call me Jo."
"Jo!" Gina exclaimed. "Gina! Um, yes! Yes I did!"
"Come this way, then, Gina." Dr. Scheer pivoted, and for a moment her lab coat gaped enough that Gina suspected the woman she'd been told to call Jo was wearing nothing underneath it. Then Jo was walking away, her high-heels click-clacking on the polished floor.
Gina got up and followed. What else could she do. She was starting to have second thoughts about having signed up for experiments. It had seemed a good way to get an edge up on getting a job, and she'd been a bit desperate. Besides, how bad could it be, being experimented on at a sex research center. Sure, her boyfriend might have a few issues with it, but it seemed safe enough.
She caught up to Jo. "What kind of research is involved?" she asked.
"Oh, nothing harmful. Just a minor procedure. And you'll have to have a few orgasms. You don't mind that, do you?"
Gina shook her head. Having a big O on company time and getting paid for it? That worked. Then she realized Jo wasn't looking at her, so she said, "No, Ma'am. Um, do you need to know what normally gets me off? Because I -"
"Clitoral stimulation, preferable with sonic vibrations," Jo said. "We have a stimulator in the lab, and it's on the forms you filled out. In some ways, actually, it doesn't matter what you like at all."
Gina blinked. "It doesn't?"
"No."
"Oh. I had a boyfriend that said that once."
"Men suck sometimes."
"Not all men."
"Of course not," Jo said. "There is always the exception that proves the rule. What a stupid phrase that is. Exceptions disprove rules. To think otherwise is unscientific."
They walked through corridors until they reached a security gate, at which point Jo carded them through.
"Are you sure this is safe?" Gina said. "Whatever it is you're planning to do."
"Pretty sure," Jo said.
How not reassuring.
The corridors were spotless here. Jo led Gina to a laboratory, and gestured toward a large, raised chair. A young man, also in a lab coat, stood at the opposite corner of the room, and there were all sorts of odd devices scattered around. "Take your skirt and panties off, first. If you're wearing panties. I never do. Then sit in the chair."
"Maybe someone else -"
"You're going to enjoy this experience, Gina. And you'll get a bonus." Jo smiled at her. "Don't worry. I'm a licensed mad scientist. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Oh." Gina took off her skirt and panties, and sat down on the chair.
Jo gestured to the young man. "Prep her," she said.
Gah. It was one thing to be naked from the waist down in front of the great Dr. Scheer, one of the foremost mad scientists in the country, if not the world. But some nobody? That was humiliating.
The young man took out a straight razor. "Now then, sit very still."
Gina's eyes widened. She froze, and with quick, practiced skill, the man shaved a patch from her pussy hair. She had a nice landing strip, but it was quickly gone.
"I'm Arjun Patel," the man said. "What's your name?"
"Gina," she told him.
"Great. Antiseptic first, it's usually not too bad." He looked at her pussy with detachment as he wiped the area he had just shaved with a wipe, and then did the same with a second one.
"That tickles," she said, wanting some more human interaction.
"If you say so." He put some plastic over her pussy, and then got out a spray can. "This is a numbing spray, it's quite cold."
"Ugh."
He sprayed the spot, and it was all she could do to avoid jumping out of the chair.
"Now we just let that settle in for a few minutes," he said. "And Jo will be with you shortly!" He walked away, leaving Gina feeling ridiculous.
The door to the lab opened, but the laboratory worker that entered barely glanced at the bottomless woman. In a way, that was worse than being stared at.
"Patel!" yelled Jo across the room. "Get her a blindfold!"
"Oh, yeah," Arjun said, and hurried back. In a few moments, she could only see darkness.
She waited.
"Here I am," Jo said. "It's so much easier to work with people who have signed all the forms when they start. Do you feel that?"
"Feel what?"
Jo didn't answer for a moment, and then said, "A scalpel, cutting into your skin."
"What!?"
"All done now," Jo said. "Glad you didn't feel it." She removed the blindfold. "That was just so you couldn't see the knife and freak. Open your eyes, Gina."
Gina opened them and looked down. There was a little incision, that had been sutured shut, a couple of inches above her clit.
Jo handed her a sonic vibrator. "Would you like some porn?"
Gina shook her head. "Um, you expect me to, um, masturbate? In front of everyone?"