A subtler castration
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:13 pm
Many stories on this thread are about domination, power, and negation of personhood. This isn't a criticism, it's an observation. It seems to me an interesting sci fi story could be done on these themes useing testical replacement as a motif.
Picture a patriarchal monarchical society. It is the decadent heir of a spacefaring society and still has access to advanced technology. The Duke of a wealthy province is gay, which is no problem as long as he produces heirs. He has an arranged marrige to a beautiful and passionate woman of great intellect and refined sensiblities, but he doesn't want to sleep with her. Sure she's fun to be with, but he prefers teen-age boys. However she can't have sex with any other man or the Duke loses his honor!
The Duchess is in love with het tutor, a man of a different race. If they have a child, the disgrace with be instantly known. Birthcontrol is rare to unknown on this repressive world. But the Duke's biotech guys have an idea.
The Duke has the tutor kidnaped. The bio-technician emasculates the tutor, then he grafts a cloned copy of the Duke's genitals to the tutor. Once healed the tutor is told by the Duke. "You're my eunuch, what you have between your legs is mine. You may put my penis into my wife, and impregnate her with my sperm. Even the prostate the seminal fluid comes from is mine. You can have no heirs, you can only sire my children. Go eunuch, get my wife pregnant."
In a very real sense, the Duke has taken from the tutor something no man in a patriarchal society can give up, the right to sire your own children. Any children the tutor gives the Duchess will be easily proven, by genetic testing, to be the Duke's children. Since the sperm came from testicals with the Duke's DNA, this is a given. As the tutor's genitals were replaced with cloned copies of the Duke's, no penis but the Duke's touches the Duchess. She can pleasure the tutor with a blow job, but the Duchess will taste the Duke not her lover while she does it.
The power play is quite forceful and brutal.
Picture a patriarchal monarchical society. It is the decadent heir of a spacefaring society and still has access to advanced technology. The Duke of a wealthy province is gay, which is no problem as long as he produces heirs. He has an arranged marrige to a beautiful and passionate woman of great intellect and refined sensiblities, but he doesn't want to sleep with her. Sure she's fun to be with, but he prefers teen-age boys. However she can't have sex with any other man or the Duke loses his honor!
The Duchess is in love with het tutor, a man of a different race. If they have a child, the disgrace with be instantly known. Birthcontrol is rare to unknown on this repressive world. But the Duke's biotech guys have an idea.
The Duke has the tutor kidnaped. The bio-technician emasculates the tutor, then he grafts a cloned copy of the Duke's genitals to the tutor. Once healed the tutor is told by the Duke. "You're my eunuch, what you have between your legs is mine. You may put my penis into my wife, and impregnate her with my sperm. Even the prostate the seminal fluid comes from is mine. You can have no heirs, you can only sire my children. Go eunuch, get my wife pregnant."
In a very real sense, the Duke has taken from the tutor something no man in a patriarchal society can give up, the right to sire your own children. Any children the tutor gives the Duchess will be easily proven, by genetic testing, to be the Duke's children. Since the sperm came from testicals with the Duke's DNA, this is a given. As the tutor's genitals were replaced with cloned copies of the Duke's, no penis but the Duke's touches the Duchess. She can pleasure the tutor with a blow job, but the Duchess will taste the Duke not her lover while she does it.
The power play is quite forceful and brutal.
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