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Ubiquitous Female Slavery - A Setting

DiscretionarySilence

Super-Earth
Joined
Dec 8, 2015
This is less of a request for a specific roleplay and more just an experiment to see if anyone out there is interested in developing or playing within this sort of world. If you want to discuss the world or start a game in it, let me know. If you'd rather just borrow the idea and start a game or writing project on your own with it, that's fine too. I would appreciate being informed of it should you develop any game or writing based upon this.

Fair warning: the setting involves male dominance, institutionalized and ubiquitous female slavery, characters as young as sixteen, incest, and a general lack of taboos regarding sex. It is a fantasy, not reality or anti-female advocacy. This is not a misogynist world where women are viewed only as victims to rape and abuse. This is a world where everyone, men and women alike, genuinely perceive the world in terms of male superiority. It is not women being ripped from normal lives and loving homes to be plunged into slavery and darkness. It is just how the world works, where teens happily plan for their auction day just as fervently as teens in this world plan their weddings, and dream of a Master who will love and cherish them. Are there men who take advantage of the system to rape and abuse their property? Absolutely. Are there women who do everything they can to take down the system? Absolutely.



In the late nineteenth century, feminism was only just coming into existence as women across the world began to argue for the right to be represented in political circles. Though led by several inspiring women, the women's suffrage movement in the United States met with failure. A series of studies released by various universities across the country in 1852, two years after the first National Women's Rights Convention, claimed to definitively prove that women were intellectually inferior to men. The study showed that women were unable to grasp complex concepts, and could not be relied upon to make rational decisions. Furthermore, significant time away from men and their firm guiding hands would cause women to develop various delusions, posing a significant risk to themselves and others. No significant effort was made to disprove or refute the studies. State legislatures across the country used the studies as a basis to cement the disenfranchisement of women, as well as making it illegal for women to form any political organization, party or committee unless men formed the majority of the leadership.

The feminist movement was ended before it could properly begin, and the precedent of denying women rights and privileges based on their gender was established and eventually upheld by the Supreme Court. Completely barred from political influence many women attempted to instead take their place in academia or as authors, but it quickly became nearly impossible for a woman's work to be taken seriously. Those who were published had their works heavily edited by men, usually with the editors taking the authorship credit. With no female political figures or academics of note, the number of role models for young girls who weren't housewives significantly dwindled.

When the doctrine of 'separate but equal' was established in 1890 it was expanded to include separate schools for girls and boys. Girls' schools lasted only through the elementary school years (first through fifth grades.) They taught only basic arithmetic, reading, and basic writing. The rest of the time was spent learning skills for the home: cooking, cleaning, child care, and so on. Female intelligence was valued only so far as it would make them an excellent homemaker, the country's picture of the ideal woman becoming one who happily obeyed their intellectually and politically superior fathers and husbands. Women seeking employment were unable to find work anywhere other than sweatshops or as prostitutes. Prostitution and brothels began to increase in number and acceptance. The Mann Act, forbidding the transport or commerce of women across state and international lines for immoral purposes, was never passed.

World War I brought the influx of a massive number of women into the workforce. It was at this time that the widespread victimization of working women began; factory owners would offer a living wage only to those women willing to submit to them and other men in the company, and sexual favors for superiors became an expected component of office work. With so many women in the vacant positions left behind by drafted men, women faced inescapable pressure to submit; if a woman chose not to obey, she would be fired and replaced by another woman who would. Several court cases were filed by women claiming they had been raped or been forced to become prostitutes by their employers. Eventually the matter came to the Supreme Court, who decided that businesses were free to set their own terms of employment on the condition that it did not violate any laws or constitutional rights. This decision actually legalized the lewd practices. By making sexual activity a job requirement, any woman who took the job had therefore consented to the requirement and therefore could not legally call it rape. And as long as the woman was being paid for non-sexual work, she could not be technically be called a prostitute under the current lax and rarely enforced prostitution laws.

In the twenties and thirties women left the factories and found jobs in offices, shops, restaurants, and the like. It remained the norm for female employment to include sexual services, though such activities typically remained behind closed doors as something that was not discussed publicly. The culture drew a line between such activities and full prostitution, still seen as a shameful act. Female education expanded to cover the high school years, providing young girls with the additional mathematical and English knowledge needed for these new positions. Scientific education for women was negligible, with no colleges in the country accepting female applicants. (Even though institutes of higher learning specifically for African-Americans were developed after the Civil War, no similar institutions were put into place for women.) With almost no interaction between genders during school hours, many schools across the country took to regular dances and social events between the boys' and girls' schools, typically starting in the tenth grade. Both sexes were told this was their chance to find their future spouse, with emphasis placed upon the girls making themselves desirable enough to attract and land a nice boy.
With the passing of the Second World War came the civil rights movement. Women and african-americans alike campaigned for their rights, but sixty years of minimal education meant that the women's movement had very few spokeswomen or other individuals capable of carrying on the fight. The african-american movement distanced itself from the female struggle, and won significant victories while women failed to so much as attain suffrage. The striking down of the 'separate but equal' doctrine was not extended to women's schools, and the separate educational facilities for the genders remained.

The sexual revolution of the fifties and sixties brought further massive change. The development of the birth-control pill meant that employers who typically required women to use their hands and mouths could now demand full intercourse without concern for accidental pregnancies. Female contraception was placed entirely in the hands of their husbands and fathers. The general lessening of puritanical views and growing acceptance of sexual activity exploded into widespread admittance, acceptance, and complete normalization of female sexual servitude. Female schools began teaching practical sexual education at the high school level, typically using volunteers from nearby male schools, with the justification that sexual skill would often be the only way for them to secure employment or marriage. Such instruction was typically limited to hand and oral skills, as a girl's vaginal virginity was considered a strong selling point in a competitive job market.

With every generation the stigmas around sex continued to fade. In the fifties a waitress would be expected to lead a customer to a back room and provide oral relief if he should request it. In the seventies she would sit or kneel beside him at the table to use her hand, and in the nineties a waitress would be expected to crawl beneath the table to orally service a male customer upon request and the payment of an additional fee. Traditional prostitution became a thing of the past, the market for it effectively gone. The crime of rape still existed but was impossible to prosecute. Laws protecting children remained on the books and were strictly enforced. At the same time the taboos around incest began to fade; it became expected for fathers, mothers and brothers to participate in the sexual instruction of their daughters and sisters once they were of age. Women's rights continued to dwindle until it was borderline illegal for a woman to speak against societal norms. This had the effect of furthering racial civil rights, the inequity between whites, blacks, and other races rapidly fading as society became more and more divided around gender lines.

In the nineties what was becoming a cultural norm became a matter of law; as a happy and satisfied male workforce was necessary to keep the country running, it became mandatory for any female that was of age to provide sexual relief to any male of age who requested it. The only exceptions were for women accompanied by a male member of their family or their husbands. Rape became a concept with no legal meaning. Pleasure girls became universal fixtures in modern offices. Shops, restaurants, and all manner of businesses maintained female employees whose sole objective was to please the customers and draw them in. Entire industries were built around assisting men finding women in their local area who matched their appetites. Over the next several years the laws were expanded, allowing men to compel women to perform any action that brought them sexual pleasure. Women could be commanded to strip naked and submit to a whipping on a street corner, or have sex with other women for the pleasure of an audience.

A separate industry formed in the same decade, providing women who would be for the exclusive pleasure of the clients instead of being used by anyone who desired them. Lawmakers chose to support this new practice; though not technically slaves, women could surrender all of their decision-making rights and exclusive rights to their body to an individual man, who could then perform literally any action he wished with the woman without risk of prosecution. Many women chose this arrangement, and soon the slave trade returned to the accepting public eye. Ownership became the new marriage, girls across the country wishing for kind and loving masters while others chose to never sell themselves, enjoying being used by anyone at any time. All stigmas about public sex effectively vanished, women being used anywhere, anytime.

In the 2010s, the only decision a woman could truly make about her own life was whether to permit herself to be auctioned off or to remain a free woman. Auction meant her entire life would be guided by her owner, whomever he happened to be, while a free woman could choose her own employment while being legally required to be available to any man who desired her. To combat the rising number of exclusive female slaves state governments would acquire several slaves of their own, these public servants doing everything they could to alleviate the stress of those unfortunate enough to be unable to acquire a slave of their own. Once sixteen a girl had the option of selling herself into slavery, and thus having the rest of her life guided by her new owner, or to remain free and thus become available for public use. Whether she agreed to become property or not many would agree to have their virginities auctioned off, those who remained free being permitted to keep a percentage of the proceeds while the remainder went to their school and father. Schools used the auction of female students' virginity as fundraisers, as well as accepting payment from men wishing to be used as 'teaching aids' for the increasingly sexually focused education of young women.
 
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