Note to the reader: This is dystopian erotica. Is that a thing? No. Did I make it a thing? Maybe.
I just wanted to put a little bit of a disclaimer here. This is not a work of satire, this is not a political, sexual, or social statement per se. There may be a couple of aspects of that, but it's really just a character study on a girl who really
does
feel that way about the world, and realizes that it ended up with kind of a mess.
I would like to start by saying that there is a theme that the normalization of sexual activity, the normalization of LGBT+ relationships, the prominence of sex workers, et al. are being used as a hidden agenda for the purposes of world domination.
This is definitely not a thing
. Human rights are important, and these are all simple applications of basic human rights.
However money is not inherently bad, while an individual deciding where everyone's wealth goes and hoarding it for themselves
is
bad. I made a story where, in that same way, treating people with dignity and acknowledging that people fuck and like it, and fuck in many different ways is not inherently bad, creating a society where it is the sole driving force behind every social encounter for the definite purpose of world domination is
probably not cool
.
Anyway, weird flex for someone writing erotica, right? Sorry,
dystopian erotica
.
So, again, not calling out weird hidden agendas. Just trying to write a story I thought was cool and sexy.
Enjoy.
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But seriously, I don't need y'all @ing me on Twitter or nothing. I ain't got that kind of time.
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Taking over the world was easier than others had suspected, or at the very least it was simpler.
It was my assertion that complete dominance in any single study, whether in the sciences or the humanities, would lead to a monolith of power, and that monolith of power would effectively own the planet. Humanity has attempted this at a number of different times, with varying degrees of success.
Now normally it might bore you to hear about the different times and what I thought about them. But jokes on you: I rule the world now, so I don't give a
fuck
what you think.
That's right. I'm a strong independent woman, I don't need no man, and I
definitely
don't want the opinion of someone who doesn't have any experience in conquering the world. That's the
last
thing I need right now. After all, how could someone whose never thought about conquering everything, and I mean
really
thought about it, have any valid opinions on how to get the hell out of it?
So guess what? You get to hear about my little problem, then you get to hear about how I decided to try and fix it. So tap out now if you'd like, but you should be aware that my tale involves more than a little bit of sex. Do with that information what you will.
Anyways. Before I get to all that, I think it's important for you to get some background in how I decided to conquer the world, then how I proceeded to do so.
Humanity has been nearly conquered a number of different times, and usually occurred because a subject was so well understood by an individual or small group of individuals that the entire world was forced to center around that one thing.
Now I'm not talking about "having a lot of power." I'm talking about
world domination
. In the 1960s, we got close. If you think about the opposite of world domination as "every individual in the world is equally as important as every other, and nobody controls anybody else without his or her consent," then the fact that we were down to two main superpowers means we were
pretty damn close
. A few hundred people, namely the political powers of Russia and the US, controlled the entire planet. Then the leaders changed and things calmed down.
Eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain had thoroughly understood the subjects of sea travel, trade, and colonization, or at least the East India Company did. People talk about the dominance of the British Empire, but you have to remember that at one point the East India Company's private army was twice the size of the British Royal Army. They had the money, so they had the power. Then new blood came in to the company, they wanted to make a name for themselves, got their hands a bit too dirty and fell.
The global economy of the twenty-first century got pretty close too. Closest ever, if you ask me. The subject of money and economics was not only completely understood by a small group of people, those same people were the ones that controlled it! What a racket, right? Problem was, the super-rich of the early twentieth century that got these later people started understood that it was a balance, and that you
did
actually have to take care of the poor. Insulting that they thought they could do better? Sure. But the real problem was that later, the people
didn't
take care of the poor, so they ended up with a crashed economy, followed by slit throats.
I decided that you could do this with any subject. Understand art well enough, aesthetics, then people come to you for what is beautiful and proper. Understand science well enough, you create a technology that changes the world. Understand social systems well enough, you manipulate your way to the top.
Alexander the Great's major subject was that of war. He was such a thoroughly competent general that after winning a few battles, it was simply made clear that he...well, he couldn't be stopped. In the end, people just handed their cities over to him! I like to say that when I was a preteen girl reading Twelve Against the Gods by William Ryall, Alexander the Great (who is the first featured of the twelve) was my first crush. After all,
he actually did it
. There wasn't an area he encountered that he didn't conquer. If he had cars, he would have conquered all of Africa. If he had boats, he would have gotten Europe and Asia too. If he had planes, he would have had the world. But you know what happened? Died of a fever in his thirties. Damn shame, right?
If you're smart, and especially if you're me, you pick up a pattern: someone had the knowledge, that someone died, someone else let it all go to hell in a handbasket.
Now bringing up Twelve Against the Gods, it should be noted that the second person in that book was none other than Giacomo Casanova. If you don't know about Casanova, this man did it all: he spoke languages, he escaped prison, he was embroiled with all of the major powers of the world, and — what you might know the name for — that dude
fucked
. Like, he lost his virginity in a threesome with a pair of sisters.
Casanova arguably had as much power as Alexander, except he used it to get his dick wet. And while I didn't love him like I loved Alexander, I had mad respect for the guy. His subject that he understood was sex, and it got him a lot of power. However, he only used that power to get more sex. Weird cycle, right? But it did show me something interesting: people did wild things for sex.
Then, going back to that twenty-first century economic stranglehold, I realized that their success wasn't actually in the thoroughness of their mastery. Actually, they were really just good at amassing wealth, not actual economics. Kind of sad, really. But what they were
very
good at was making the system revolve entirely on the one thing they had lots of.
When I was sixteen, I decided that I was going to dedicate my life to ruling the world. I had spent years thinking about it, and I decided I was just going to get it done. I needed to do a couple of things first:
1) Become immortal
2) Become really good at a subject
3) Create a social system that I could manipulate
Now my first thought was to just get into biology, figure out the whole immortality thing, then use that as my subject. That'd work, right? But then everyone would be immortal. I needed people dying to keep my competitive edge. I did, however, dedicate a number of years into research of the human body. Like, eighty.
But! I figured it out! I even reversed the aging process to the point that at ninety-seven years old, I had perky D-cups, a nice butt and not a wrinkle in sight. In fact, I would have passed for
maybe
twenty-five. I still got carded when I went to buy drinks.
Didn't share the secret. Family and friends grew old and died, blah blah blah. Was sad the first couple of times, but once everyone was dead it wasn't that bad. Besides, I was busy.
Carrying on.
The subject I understood was how people had almost conquered the world. That was what I really knew. Even studying biology, I was always watching, studying, figuring things out. The industry that I ended up conquering using this knowledge was sex. Now I may have been boring you with details up to this point, but a conqueror never kisses and tells, and so I won't give you the entire secret of the pie. Not because I want to keep ruling the world, mind you, but just that I don't exactly want to ruin all of my hard work just for someone to put it all back.
Suffice it to say that many comedians have remarked that everyone eats, everyone poops, and everyone fucks. However, you could only make a living out of cooking or porn, and it was only ever polite to talk about the cooking.
I normalized it. Used my understanding of social systems and how people work to take the taboos off sex. Cool, right?
Well, what was less cool was the fact that I then used a small fortune that I had amassed over that couple hundred years to make porn stars the best paid athletes in the world. Sex became competitive, not just financially but as a sport. Hell, as an
art form
.
What happened when American football was huge? Pro leagues made money, then colleges made programs to groom people for those professional leagues.