PARODY, UGLINESS AND NONCONSENT ALERT
Things are going to get darker regarding sex and human relationships. I believe that this is unavoidable if discussing legalized slavery. If you cannot take a strange concoction of parody, sex, bondage and exploitation, you had best turn back now.
Chapter 7 Kinky Sex and Other Investigations
RESEARCH METHODS
This story has had paintball gun fights and numerous S&M scenes, but it is mainly about sex slavery in a country in which slavery is thinkable and legal. For this Investigation, Lena Fesch will be our principal guide. Her unorthodox research methods have been discussed some already, but given their importance to the rest of the story, they deserve a bit more explicit discussion.
Lena's methods were unconventional, even for 2045. Given climate change, economic depressions, diseases, civil wars and other unforeseen consequences of technological, biological and communication developments of the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries, nations and societies have diverged into radically different moral outlooks and legal systems. Gay sex was practically the only sex that was openly allowed in many places but was punished with the death penalty in other lands. Puritanical feminists banned heterosexual sex in some countries, while wild libertine heterosexual orgies were a normal bourgeoisie weekend night event elsewhere. Gun ownership was forbidden in some and mandatory in others. Despite all this legal and cultural diversity, nowhere did any journalism school teach or recommend much of what Lena Fesch did.
Of course, some of what Lena did was the normal operating procedure for investigative journalists. She did library research and contacted other public sources of information like everyone else. She confronted sources with hard questions sometimes. She cultivated hidden sources and sometimes sent associates to places that she knew she could not go. She also perfected the "dumb blond" question in which she pretended to be a hopelessly naΓ―ve person who just had a few questions. This was not markedly different from what Inspector Porfiry Petrovich did in Crime and Punishment or what Inspector Columbo did on American television 30 years before Lena was born.
However, the fact that Lena used her beauty, charm, and promiscuity in all of these activities sets her tactics apart, even with regard to something fairly normal for investigators. Male librarians can be far more helpful when a beautiful woman is shaking her tits at them while asking for materials that are not normally open to the public.
What really set Lena off, though, was her willingness to put her body on the line both in terms of risk of bodily harm and sexual conduct. She took personal risks comparable to those of Nellie Bly, Chris Terrill, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, Donal MacIntyre, Tim Lopes, GΓΌnter Wallraff, and other daring journalists, some of whom have died in the line of duty. But, as we have seen and will see more, Lena also was willing to fuck just about anyone to get the full story.
THE TRIP BEGINS
Lena's biggest concern about her trip to the Free American States under God was that the trip would be too safe. She feared that Neck Wallace and others would just show her Potemkin villages with happy servants and sanitized sex entertainment boats full of happy indentured servants; her hosts would try to convince her that what Rev. Loman and others in the FASUG called "indentured servitude" was unobjectionable. To try to get around a cover-up, Lena planned side investigations that people like Rev. Loman, Rev. Brown, Rev. Powell, Max Klug, Neck, Lawrence "Killer" Lewis and other FASUG officials would not control.
Before leaving for the FASUG, Lena met with Thomas Schnupper in a coffee shop in the Hamburg Innenstadt. Schnupper was an investigator Lena often utilized to get facts that she could not or did not want to get herself. She told Schnupper to establish first a North American base for them in Cincinnati. "Because of what I am going to ask you to do next, I do not think you will want to engage in any sex in the Social Democratic States of America, but on the off chance you do, remember that it is illegal for you to touch a woman there unless the woman has signed in triplicate before a notary a form, printed in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi, fully consenting to the activity to be involved."
Next, after explaining to Schnupper what Neck had said about the low-budget "all you can fuck boats," Lena said, "Tom, I need you to go onto the cheapest of the cheap low-budget boats and see if you can find a woman who will write a report about her experience being a sex slave there. We want something in writing and with enough details to make it clear that it comes from a woman on the boat and that it's not just a sex fantasy.
"Just how do you expect me to do that?" Schnupper asked.
"The gambling and sex boats are open to foreigners with money. I will give you $35,000 now for expenses, and my company will pay more than that if necessary. An ad I saw in a sex travel publication said the low-budget sex boats charge $1500 for eight hours."
"It will seem strange if I go into the all-you-can-fuck parts of the boats but do not fuck."
"Doch, do you have an objection to sex? Except when speaking to potentially helpful women, act like a boorish, horny German sex tourist who came to the Free States to fuck like crazy when not too drunk on Bourbon. We do not have to explain in the magazine how you met the woman that was willing to write about her life. Hopefully, the woman you find who will write will be attractive to you as I would strongly suggest that you have sex with her repeatedly so as not to arouse suspicion as to why you are meeting her so much. Also, have sex with many other women on the boat even after you find one who will produce a letter. We do not want to call too much attention to the woman you find.
"We do not want to get the woman killed or tortured. Do not urge her to break any rules. Neck said that persons in servitude on boats are allowed to write letters to family. They have to submit the letters to censors, and the censors will delete anything that the Free States and the boats do not want to go public. Urge her to tell the objective, unvarnished truth but make sure that she not only follows the rules but is seen following all the rules. I will need you to tell me when the letter is being sent. I do not know how I will get the letter before it gets to the censors, but I will.
Finally, you should try to get onto one of the strict bondage boats and report on what you see. From what I've heard, you will not be able to talk to any of the women there. They probably will be gagged."