My name is Julian Butler. I'm eighteen years old, and after years of ballet training, I have a very desirable body. I have dancer's legs, flat abs, a slender waist, and my shoulders and arms are blessed with the sort of lean, solid muscle that will allow me to catch ballerinas when they leap into your arms, and not drop them.
Although, I suppose my story begins back even before my ballet training began. My story begins back before I was even born.
You see, it was back in 2003 that slavery became legal again in this country. And my story is about me becoming a slave.
It was in the year 2003 that Congressman Mark Foley first proposed the idea of a federal agency that was soon given the name, The Office of Patriotic Service.
The idea was that young men and women could volunteer to become the sexual playthings of Senators, Congressmen, presidents or other elected leaders. Of course, very few people volunteered, so, they introduced a draft. Healthy, attractive Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six were ordered to report to the OPS for indoctrination. If they refused to show up, local police would show up and force them to show up at the OPS offices against their will.
There'd been a lot of Republican legislators that got into trouble because of sex scandals and secret affairs. The idea was that if there was a federal agency that catered to the sick embarrassing sexual desires of our legislators quietly and discreetly, there wouldn't be any more sex scandals.
So, the taxpayers ended up funding the kinky sex drives of dirty old men. And some cruel, sadistic women as well.
At the time, it made sense. Back in 2003, there was a huge patriotic fervor. There was a huge thing where they made it sound like this program was super-patriotic and anyone who opposed it hated America. Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter went on TV and somehow made it sound like if you didn't support the OPS, you were a terrorist.
Anyway, they've expanded the program since then. Now, all kinds of important and powerful people use the OPS to indulge in their sexual fantasies. Judges, governors, mayors, ambassadors, diplomats, military leaders. Also, I think journalists sometimes get to take advantage of the sex slaves. Although, that's not official policy, that's just something the OPS does to keep the support of American Mainstream Media.
Every year young men and women are ordered to report to OPS field offices and made to serve as a sex slave for a time period of anywhere between six months to four years.
I'd gotten a summons in the mail weeks ago, ordering me to appear at the OPS office in Miami.
On August the 4th my mother drove me to Miami. My mother wasn't thrilled about seeing me taken into custody and turned into a naked sex slave, but she didn't want me taking the trip to the OPS alone. She wanted there to be at least one friendly face in the room with me when I lost my freedom.
The lobby of the OPS looked like the lobby of any other well-funded government agency. But the attitude of the place changed once it was announced that I was there to be enslaved. At the reception desk my mother explained who I was and why I was there.
"This is Julian Butler. He's been sentenced to four years of slavery in your...institution. I'm his mother. Is there some sort of official paperwork or procedure I need to go through to turn him over to you?"
"Please sign here," the fashionable receptionist said. I was also given something to sign. I skimmed the official looking document before I signed it. I vaguely remember it saying something about waiving a multitude of my legal rights during the four-year period that I would be incarcerated.
I sighed heavily. I could go into this quietly, or I could resist violently, kicking and screaming the whole way. Either way, it wasn't going to be easy.
"You're being very calm and reasonable," the petite receptionist said as I handed back her pen. "You have no idea how much I appreciate that. It is so stressful when the people who are brought in scream, struggle and throw tantrums."
"I'm so glad my son didn't exasperate you," my mother said, with a whiff of sarcasm.
"If I struggled and resisted and made a fuss, would it have helped me in any way?" I asked.
"Not really," the receptionist admitted. "The security guards would have grabbed you and you'd have been forced to comply. One way or another, you'd still end up becoming a slave."
"That's why I didn't make a fuss," I explained. "It wouldn't have done me any good, so why bother?"
"You're doing really well for your first day," the receptionist said warmly. "I am so proud of you."
Then, she pulled out a cardboard box and said, "This is the part where I ask you to take your clothes off and place them in this box. For the next four years, you're not permitted to have clothing, jewelry or personal items of any kind."
I knew that this moment was coming, but somehow foreknowledge wasn't enough to prepare me for it emotionally. Sensations of dread and helplessness washed over me like a tidal wave.
I mean...in addition to the receptionist and my mother, there were security guards and middle-aged men and women in the lobby. Having my mom and a dozen strangers watch as I took off all my clothes was...disconcerting.
My shoes and socks went into the box first. Then I undid the snap on the front of my jeans and pulled down the zipper. My jeans were skintight, so pushing them down my hips was something of a struggle, but eventually I got them off and stuffed them in the box as well.
Then I reached for the front of my shirt and began undoing the buttons.
"Does everyone need to stare at me like that?" I asked as I finished undoing all the buttons and shrugged out of the shirt. Men and women stared fixedly at me as I continued to strip.
Stripping naked in front of an audience of fully clothed men and women was a humbling and degrading experience. The air was thrumming with dark sexual tension, and I felt more sexually objectified than I'd ever felt in my life. There was an endless ocean of prurient faces ogling my abs, my thighs, my chest, my ass, every part of my body and it felt as if a crowd of thousands was eagerly scrutinizing my naked body.
"You're a remarkably beautiful boy with an exceptional body," the receptionist explained calmly. "It only makes sense that everyone wants to get a good look at you."