Bond-mates: Necessary, Sometimes Horrible, Usually Magnificent
Copyright© 2023 by Sterling
Chapter 13
Erotica Sex Story: Chapter 13 - Humanity has a different and peculiar sexual structure. Sex might make a couple form a bond, which means they share in each other's feelings and thoughts, enhancing sex and creating a sense of closeness. Everyone needs one bond, but no one can have more than two. If your mate has a bad secret, a bond can be painful. The story explores the resulting complexities.
Caution: This Erotica Sex Story contains strong sexual content, including Ma/Fa Consensual Fiction Humor Tear Jerker Science Fiction Extra Sensory Perception Sharing Group Sex Exhibitionism First Masturbation Oral Sex Voyeurism
Op-ed piece: We’re Zoo Animals! -- Ten Years On
When we wondered about life elsewhere in the universe, one explanation for why there weren’t any aliens here was the “zoo hypothesis”. Some one civilization is strong enough to keep all others away, and chooses to observe some civilization secretly to see how they develop rather than make their presence known.
How to summarize?
Our technology finally got good enough that our scientists could see suspicious things going on. When they investigated further, they discovered the zookeepers. That was ten years ago.
The zookeepers revealed themselves and congratulated us on discovering them.
Large segments of the population reacted with fury. They were watching us without permission! And who knew what they had actually done with us without our consent or even knowledge! The fury found no satisfactory target, since our weapons were as effective as mosquitoes taking on a tank.
Their main bases were underground on the moon and Mars. Their intermediate stations were in orbit around earth, cleverly shielded. It was this shielding that our physicists discovered. They told us that there are some “entities of alien origin” down on earth, too, but they will not reveal details. They promise that they do not change events down on the planet, but only observe them. Some citizens believe them, and some do not.
A year after their discovery they admitted to the one large intervention they had made. Our peculiar system of mating was folded into our gene pool a hundred thousand years ago. We have lived with it ever since. Rage erupted again: We were manipulated! We were stooges! But these reactions faded in intensity.