"You're ready to go, Kyle," the Chief Researcher informed me, handing me a large envelope. "You've passed all the tests, and the nanotech is working perfectly in our controlled environments here. Now you're free to go do the field testing."
I knew what "field testing" meant. During the three weeks I had spent at the Nanotech Research Consortium's planetary headquarters, I had in essence been a guinea pig for sex while my apartment had been packed full of video and sound recording devices, supposedly so that there was no place -- other than the half-bath -- where I could not been seen and heard.
Specifically, I and my partners could be seen and heard virtually everywhere in the apartment.
The trick was finding partners to bring home for the "field testing."
The Nanotech Research Consortium had used nanotechnology to enhance various aspects of life for Humans, Grovenes, and Yvians alike, but this special project was one which no one in the general public and very few people in the government knew about beyond perhaps an unfounded rumor. Funded one hundred percent by private monies, the goal of this project was to extend the sexual encounter for Humans, since the average sex session for the Grovenes lasted nearly two full hours, with the Yvians averaging about one hundred minutes. Faced with those averages, many Humans were very interested in prolonging the sexual experience to match or beat the times set by our sister races in the Federation of Intelligent Species.
I was one of the lucky few to be part of this unofficial experiment.
I knew the easiest way to "get some" so the "field testing" could begin. I had barely been home for three minutes when I stood before the videophone, making arrangements with Jasmine.