Warning: This is a very harsh sci-fi story set in Handmaid's Tale 2.0.
It contains fantasy violence in a sci-fi world in the future. None of the behavior depicted here is condoned in real life. All violence is to be abhorred. If the idea of fantasy violence and death bothers you, please do not read this. WARNING
The year was 2545 and society had devolved due to the continuing evolution of mankind. Scientists had warned for years that the "Y" chromosome in mankind was being slowly bred out of humanity. By 2500, the population of males had dropped by nearly fifty percent. Females now outnumbered males by a two to one majority.
Scientists now predict that if something drastic is not started immediately, the entire species would be endangered within another 150 years.
By 2600, the split was 75/25 and humanity was freaking out. The scientists had been unable to restore the balance in chromosomes and were predicting without VERY drastic measures, humanity would die out in another 100 years. Women were resorting to paying men to have sex with them. Most men could count of having at least four females that would fuck them and pay them for the privilege.
The world central government, the World Union, met and decided on several measures. They established the Department of Female Management, or DFM that would be responsible for half of the world's population moving forward. They established a lottery system whereby every female born would be entered. When a female was born, it had a number tattooed on it and the number was entered into the lottery. One out of a 100 female babies would be left for breeding. The other ninety-nine would be sterilized. Each new female would have a number tattooed in their inner lip when they were old enough.
The fertile females would be raised by the government and used specifically for the continuation of the species. The balance of the females would be raised by their parents until the age of 18.
At the age of 18 the steriles (as they are called) were allowed to be hunted during a short season. It became a cruel, sexual game for many men in the country. The government had to finally step in and require a license to hunt steriles. The licenses were very hard to obtain. The DFM made rules on how you could treat steriles. There were quickly too many steriles for even the most aggressive legal hunters to kill. Faced with far too many steriles, the DFM finally gave in and allowed their bodies to be used for meat. Neither the steriles or breeders had a need for hair on their heads. It would mat, and since the steriles weren't washed, it became a problem. The problem was solved by shaving each one at eighteen and treating them to make it permanent. The only ones not subjected to this was the sex models. They would be trained to clean themselves and take care of their bodies.
Millionaires quickly began collecting herds and processing them like cattle. A few large ranches found it more profitable to create preserves that housed hundreds of steriles. They gave them a grain-based mush that sustained them, and drugs were put in it to make them fatter.
To stop an uncontrollable riot, the DFM finally had to devise a method where the steriles had a way to survive. The DFM developed federal parks where steriles could live in safety. They were also trained in the maintenance jobs needed to maintain the parks and the Federal buildings. They wore a special uniform that was protected from hunting or sexual conquest. There were soon thousands of the domestics around the world doing the cleaning and cooking for the government agencies. The agencies were required to house, clean, and maintain their health.
Once again in human history, the females were made to pay for humanities' survival, through no fault of their own. Of course, it wasn't the male's fault either, but governments always seem to make the women pay, whether it's religion or politics, the women pay the price. The only concession made was to allow the "entertainment" models to keep their hair and continue to be educated a little and taught speech.
Over the years, a balance slowly developed where enough steriles survived to stop the riots and maintain the new civilization.
Because of the emotional burden of seeing their daughters either killed or taken as baby mothers, parents quit having children. It finally got to the point that the DFM had to try inseminating the "fertiles" in controlled environments. They began to be called "breeders" instead of "fertiles.". Marriage went away. No man needed to "marry" a female when he could just buy one, or two, or as many as he wanted. Even then, the men didn't want breeders. Why take the time to birth a female. A male was worth a lot of money to the government, but any female born went right to the state. Maternity wards disappeared.
After years of barely having enough children to maintain the civilization, they finally figured out it would be better to pay the millionaires that already had large herds of steriles to add breeders to their ranches. When it comes to profit, people will find a way to do anything more efficiently.
The ranchers began feeding the breeders hormones that would make larger babies, with a higher percentage of males. They had been feeding the steriles feed that fattened them up for slaughter. Within a few years, the steriles on the ranches grew to an average of over two hundred pounds. They were given drugs that caused their asses to grow more meat, and the stomachs put pounds on behind the fat in the front. They were required to keep the breeders cleaner than the steriles. That was so the babies didn't get sick.
Because of the time it took to wait until they were eighteen, the DFM had to take the babies and put them in nurseries. They would pay large ranchers to raise them and decide what to do with them when they reached eighteen. Some went to the DFM work program, some went into the parks to maintain the population, the best looking went to the sex model program, and the rest were sold off to pay for the cost.
This was the one thing the DFM insisted on. They may destroy the fabric of womanhood, but they would not allow children to be mistreated. Again, it had nothing to do with morality, but the understanding even the men MIGHT object, and the sex models might revolt if something obscene started happening to the children, no matter what would eventually happen to them. You could eat them when they were eighteen, but not seventeen. This was the dystopian world they all lived in now.
After forty years, all the females were either breeders or steriles. For the next few years, the old females were all that remained of an extinct way of life. Families disappeared, replaced by men that had a harem of steriles each.
Bob had a good job with the government. He worked at one of the parks that allowed hunting one weekend a year. His job was to run the hunt and make sure the men followed the rules.
The rules are:
Each hunter is allowed two steriles. They have the choice of capturing a sterile or taking them for trophy or meat.
If you kill a sterile, you may not sexually attack it. Each carcass will be inspected by the park to ensure there wasn't any violence being done to the carcass.
If a trophy is desired, the hunter will fill out a form detailing what they want as a trophy. It ranges from just the head mounted to the upper torso mounted. They also provide a completely stuffed trophy. It was very expensive, but it was done. There are many trophies standing in rich men's den.
Bob was very busy getting ready for the upcoming hunt. He led a simple life. He only owned two steriles, and he treated them very well. Neither had any desire to run away. The concept of freedom had been bred out of them. It never occurred to them to leave.
Brad Turner was a rich rancher owner. He had over a thousand steriles he was raising, and over 500 breeders. He would walk his ranch each day to ensure none of his workers were abusing his property. Because of the shortage of male workers, Brad had older women working there. They were sterile but were protected by the need for workers. Most of the workers were these older women, and Brad found them to be meaner and harder on these poor females.
Number 14523 was an old female that worked the breeders in the large barn. Brad had an older man that ran the breeder barns and 14523 was his assistant.
Brad went into the insemination building to find 14523 herding twenty breeders into a large room. The breeders ranged from 18 to 35. After 35, they were monitored to make sure they produced a calf every year. If they missed two years in a row, they were shipped off to the slaughterhouse.
Brad watched as 14523 put each breeder into a breeding station. She would be bent over a barrel. If this was their first breeding, their hands and feet would be tied to posts. If they were used to this, they would just stand still and allow the breeding process to happen. 14523 brought the insemination hose down from above and pushed it into the breeder's vagina. She put no lube to make it hurt less. She just shoved it in and moved on to the next one. The new breeders would scream and struggle against the violation. If they fought too hard, 14523 would whip them on their ass until they stood still. When all 20 were connected, 14523 turned the machine on and the fluid would be pushed into the vagina of each. Once they were filled, the hose stayed inside the fertile until a designated time passed. Once 14523 was satisfied they had been bred properly, she released them to a different pen and went back for more.
Each breeder wore a monitor that told them when they were "in heat" or ready to be fertilized. 14523 went through the herd, searching for the breeders whose monitors were beeping. She would separate them out of the rest of the herd and take them to the insemination room.
Brad nodded and went on. The next room was the feeding room. A large group of steriles were preparing the mush necessary to feed the 1,000 steriles twice a day. Most steriles were fed in the pasture by tractors that pulled feeding wagons. When the steriles in each field saw the wagon coming, they would follow it to the trough.
The next room he entered was the feeding room for babies. The babies must stay with the mother until they can be weaned and can eat the mush. Any male was removed immediately after weaning, but the females were separated by sterile or breeder. Once weaning, the ranchers that were raising the little ones would come and get them. The first rancher was paid by the government for delivery to the other rancher.
Whenever Brad wanted to send a truckload of steriles to the market, he and a couple of his men would go through the herds and select the fattest steriles, and sperate them to a special pen. Once they had enough for a shipment, they backed the truck up and drove them into the truck.
Brad would walk his fields, looking for steriles that were pretty and fit. He would take a couple to his home and keep them until he tired of them. When it was time, he would give them to one of his workers or send them to market. He always had a couple at his home.
This was Brad's life. It is all he has known. His father had run this ranch, and he had been born there to one of the breeders. His father had kept fucking the breeders until he got a male. No one had mothers any longer, they only had a birth breeder.