The instructor tapped the white board with a riding crop. Large block capital letters imparted the wisdom "BITCHES ARE SWITCHES." Professor Lori Lorre was, according to Damian's Pokedex, a Pincer Mantis Warrior, and everything about her from her military haircut to her chaps and thigh-high boots indicated that she was indeed a man-eater. "Welcome to Tough Core," she bellowed at the class, "I can see from the gender ratio that a lot of you are in the wrong class. Well, this is what you signed up for, so you'll get it. Good and hard." She brandished her riding crop at the class as a whole, but especially the men, meaning that for a time the glare of the instructor fell upon Damian. It was an intimidating glare.
There were four instances of Tough Core, two on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and two on Tuesday and Thursday. Each set was divided between morning and afternoon classes. It was set up that way so that everyone could take their mandatory core class and have that fit with their schedules. The other four core classes: Beauty, Clever, Cool, and Cute were all set up similarly. That way no one had to be in the wrong kind of core class. At least, in theory. Professor Lori Lorre was convinced that gender stereotypes put people into the wrong core classes more than any other single misconception. That because fully twenty-four of the forty-nine incoming male freshman had selected Tough Core for their mandatory core class, it meant that more than half of the men in the class didn't belong.
When Damian looked around the room, he counted five other men, which still meant that the female students had them outnumbered by seven to one. But it meant the class was the closest to a sausage party that anyone was likely to see at PMU. Conversely, there was only one man in Beauty Core. Not one per class, one in all four instances
combined
. Damian thought he
might
have made a mistake by enrolling in Tough Core, it wasn't great that the instructor made it clear that she thought he didn't belong on the very first day.
The class content, however, was something he found interesting and informative. "Your purpose," Professor Lorre intoned, "is to sexually dominate Pokegirls until they are Good Girls. The primary purpose of a Good Girl is to help train other Good Girls. That means you must establish sex, and you must establish control. That can be done in either order, but since this isn't Cute Core, we're going to be assuming that you are establishing control, and then initiating sex. Sometimes that means you will be a rapist, if the sex is still undesired after you have established control." She shrugged. Most of the class seemed pretty nervous, though Damian noticed a few students seemed pleased by the idea. Damian decided that he should try to avoid those students as much as possible.
The professor then outlined the principles of control. Positive encouragement promised rewards for compliance, while negative enforcement promised punishment for non-compliance. Mental constraints were things that a sub was reluctant to do, while physical constraints were things that a sub had difficulty in doing. Professor Lorre deliberately shortened both sub
ject
and sub
missive
to
sub
, as for purposes of domination they were the same thing. "Remember," she admonished the class, "conflict is training! If the outcome of a conflict is submission, you will train the sub to submit. If the outcome of a conflict is rebellion, you will train the sub to rebel. Never have conflicts with your subs that you can't afford to lose."
It was quite a dense class, even though it was all overview for the first day. Damian wrote a lot of notes. "A lot of people believe that specific acts are inherently dominant or submissive," Professor Lorre used, "this is not true. Tricking people into submission by getting them to do things they think are dominant is really part of the Clever Core curriculum, but it's important to know about the concept." She menaced the class and demanded participation. "So I know you've been around high-school girls, most of you even were one last year. So let's hear it. What have you heard is a fast lane to collaring?" The instructor then started picking on specific students by pointing at them with her riding crop.
"Um... licking a pussy?" A woman with fiery red hair mumbled.
"...CUMMING WITH YOUR ASS!" Courtney boiled up and then shouted. The loud outburst prompted a titter of laughter from various parts of the class. It was also the first time that Damian realized that he was in the same class with Courtney. He considered that it probably didn't matter, because they weren't friends or even dorm mates. Just people who had run into each other at a party long enough to know each other's names.
The teacher didn't allow herself even that much introspection, and called on the next student: a muscular woman with a long rat-tail sticking out over her jeans. "Getting penetrated in the pussy. By like... a strap-on... or a cock." The student seemed embarrassed, like she knew that it was a bad answer.
The instructor smiled and smacked her riding crop on her desk. "Perfect! As you can see, every hole has been blamed for a woman's descent into slavery, and yet it's obvious that mistresses use those holes as well." She paused dramatically to allow the point to sink in. "The truth is that submission is in the mind of the sub, not the domme. A sub has submitted because they believe they have, nothing more and nothing less. Even with severe constraints in place to the point that a sub is completely controlled, they will not submit,