Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:05:28 GMT
From: "anonymous4371@juno.com" <anonymous4371@juno.com>
Subject: THE BAZAAR - Chapter 14 (Gay; Authoritarian)

Chapter 14

SLAVES, MODERN MEDICINE, AND PHARMACOLOGY

     As Chad headed the Range Rover for the long trek home, Australian
National Radio, his favorite radio station, was just coming on with their
"Contemporary Living in Australia" program.  Today's broadcast featured
Dr. Broderick Castleberry, a medical researcher at the University of
Melbourne, Dr. Geoffrey Bruce, Chair of the Veterinary College at the
University of Brisbane, and Mr. Nevor Smyth, President of the Australian
Association of Slave Owners.

     "Today's topic is Slaves, Modern Medicine, and Pharmacology,'" the
show's host said as he introduced each of the show's guests along with
their long list of credentials.

     "Mr. Smyth, why don't you start us out," the host prompted.

     "By way of introduction, gentlemen, let's get us started with the
reality that with over 1.5 million slaves in the country now, it behooves
slaveholders to learn all they can about maximizing their considerable
investment or at least enhancing their properties' performance through
judicious use of modern medical and pharmacological interventions.  For
example, we know slaves purchased for athletic teams a few years back were
heavily injected with various steroids for enhanced performance, that both
sex slaves and slave studs were often fed Viagra and related drugs built
right into their slave chow to up the number they could service each day,
that draft slaves were given adrenaline shots to increase their energy and
strength, and that male house slaves were frequently given shots of
estrogen to make them less aggressive.  All of this was originally
suggested by the medical establishment, Dr. Castleberry.


     "And, Dr. Bruce, slave veterinarians, when slavery became established
in this country, routinely castrated male slaves not responding to their
basic training, circumscribed slave circumcision and tit and nose ringing
as something only they could do, and even something as routine as branding
was proscribed as best done with veterinarians.  Yet, all this seems so
archaic now.

     "Pumping steriods into slave animals on athletic teams has proved to
be a disaster.  Although the hormones produced enhanced performance
temporarily and led to spectacular body builds, the slaves treated
generally died within a few years of organ collapses.  This practice
destroyed their owner's investment, it lowered their slaves' sperm counts
so they couldn't reproduce, and, given in the amounts that were used, the
slaves ultimately proved too aggressive to be engaged in any sort of team
sport activity and generally had to be close- shackled at all
times. Furthermore, the sports fans turned against the whole idea in that
they viewed the players as chemical freaks rather than the type of player
the sport was designed for to start with.

     "Football games involving players attacking each other at the throat
with their teeth, of players bursting blood vessels right in front of the
spectators, and coaches having to use electric prods and razor-tipped bull
whips to control the players at all just wasn't much fun to watch anymore
and certainly detracted from the game itself. Before all this, of course, a
good athlete slave could be played for a number of years, then retired to
stud, and his or her owner could look forward to a reasonable return on
their investment over the years.  But steroid injections ruined all that.

     "Sex performance enhancement pharmaceuticals also backfired when using
them on slaves purchased for the sex trade or for the breeding
farms. Although it did lead to almost constant erections if the dosage was
high enough and certainly enabled them to perform sex on command almost
instantly, there was a long-term disadvantage as was soon discovered.
Heavy use of the drugs led to quick burn out' for a sex slave.  A slave
purchased for brothel use, for example, worked well for the first six
months or so, but with continued use became
 old before their time' often unable to perform at all (despite increased
dosages of the drugs) after a few years.  Once again, owners watched their
investments depreciate far more rapidly than if they had let nature
alone. In addition, there were increasing reports of liver failure with
long-term use of the drugs.

     "The same point can be made for adrenaline shots with draft
slaves. Sure, it increased their energy and strength potential in the short
haul.  But, in the long haul, draft slaves so medicated burnt out fast and
their work life,' as we generally refer to it, was reduced from a good
20-30 years under good feed and a gentle whip to a mere 5-10 years in cases
of daily or even twice daily adrenaline administration, even in moderate
doses.  At first, owners were excited by performance increases of 10 to 15%
with the medicated slaves, but with the rapid aging process that occurred,
their long term investment was cut by a good 50% with all the slave
turnover involved in that particular drug program.

     "Lastly, the surgical removal of the testes for household slaves,
presumably as a method to keep domestic slaves more on task' and more
controllable once freed of the male sex drive, (a popular method going back
at least to the ancient Egyptians, I might add), also destroys that
property's breeding potential, often leads to weight control and muscular
maintenance problems, and is really unnecessary as a control technique in
view of modern slave training procedures. Worst of all, as we all know now,
outside of the market for mistresses seeking a male slave to bed down who
can't impregnate them, it depreciates a slave's resale value seriously.
Whereas you might think of a sterile male slave as being most desirable for
a lusty mistress still in her reproductive years, vasectomizing the chosen
bed buck is a much less drastic solution to that problem but with some loss
in resale value, of course . And, if you want to retain full reproductive
capacity with your male slave, the female being serviced can easily resort
to modern birth control techniques.

     "These are just some of the problems evident to all slaveholders
today.  And I haven't even mentioned the costs of these procedures which
every slaveowner must consider for prudent economic management.  Steriods
are expensive, sex enhancement drugs don't come cheap even when buying them
in bulk, adrenaline is expensive and its takes time to give slaves the
number of shots necessary, time which could be spent working them at their
tasks.

     "A prudent slaveowner must always weigh the cost of maintenance
vs. replacement.  As slaves get cheaper, the cost of pharmaceutical
enhancement may simply not be worth it - it may be far cheaper to get what
you can out of what you have on hand without a lot of expensive drugs and
simply replace them when the time comes.  For example, an adrenaline
enhanced draft slave does work harder and longer, but so does a slave under
a good whipmaster who knows how to extract the maximum from the animals
under his direct supervision.  True, he exhausts a slave in a shorter
period of time, but not nearly as much as adrenaline injections do.  In
both cases you have to replace the slave earlier with fresh stock, but the
cost advantage has proven to clearly reside with a moderate overseer, good
diet, clean sleeping facilities, AND a slave that will last the expected
working life span before being shipped to the rendering plant.

     "One last point, gentlemen, and I will shut up and give you a chance
to talk," Mr.  Smyth chuckled.  "As you well know by now, it didn't take
long, despite what all you vets claimed, that almost all owners could
circumcise any slave stock on hand in a matter of minutes with little
difficulty as long as they have a good sharp knife and a jar of antibiotic
cream handy to put on the cut afterwards for several days.  Owners also
quickly discovered they could brand their new possessions just as well as
any trained veterinarian and, with some sensible precautions, with no
higher a fatality or infection rate than with a professional touch.  And
most anyone with a common knowledge of animal husbandry can castrate a
slave just as easily as they can their hogs, their horses, or their bulls.
Studies show that infection and fatality rates are no higher between slaves
where these procedures were done by
 professionals' and slaves where these procedures were done down in the
slave barn by their owners.  The exception might be where brandings,
castrations, etc., are done in highly unsanitary conditions, where no
antibiotics are utilized afterwards to control infection, and where the
cutting instruments have not been sterilized beforehand.  But, gentlemen,
slaveholders aren't that stupid anymore - they have a big investment to
protect, and protect it they do!"

     "You've certainly done your homework, Mr. Smyth," Dr. Broderick
Castleberry said pleasantly.  "I don't disagree with one thing you've
pointed out.  The medical establishment, along with other professions, went
into this slavery thing fairly naively, failing to look closely at the
treatment cost factors as opposed to stock replacement costs, as you
pointed out so well, Nevor.  But we physicians quickly got away from that
and began concentrating on disease control within the slave herds and
low-dosage use of psychoactive drugs, some of which have proven useful and
some which haven't panned out so far.

     "Let's start with disease control.  Where I think we have made the
biggest contribution to slaveowners is in working with them to contain
non-curable conditions such as AIDS, cancer, etc, or disease entities where
the treatment is more expensive than stock replacement.  In the case of
non-curable sexually-transmitted diseases, for example, we have recommended
immediate separation of the diseased stock from the rest of the herd,
placing them into herds made up of like kind, and programs to extract as
much work as possible for as long a period of time before they terminate
and without infecting any disease-free stock.  Most slaveowners have
followed our suggestions well and the problem has been well contained.  Of
course, diseased stock is a great loss of your investment, but at least we
can save the whole herd from the same problem.

     "Similar progress has been made in treatable diseases.  We have
devised an easy-to-use computer model where a slaveowner can determine
whether the treatment will cost more than the slave's worth utilizing an
actuarial estimate of that animal's probable work life.  If not, then
snuffing is recommended rather than the investment in appropriate drugs,
physician consultation, etc.  If so, the slaveowner can be assured his
investment in treatment is paying off over the long-haul.

     "Another area in which the medical community has been of help is with
what we call low-dosage pharmaceutical help in slave adaption and training
where a little chemical help has often proven its worth.  Specifically I'm
talking about psychoactive drugs like Prozac and other anti-depressants
which, properly monitored, have been of great worth in helping the newly
enslaved adjust to their new circumstances and more readily accept the
training procedures necessary for them to contribute in their new role.
With bred slaves this is unnecessary, of course, but until all stock is
coming off the breeding farms, I feel we have contributed a great deal in
this troublesome area.  Actually, they're using 15 or 20 different chemical
formulations in this area now, all fairly cheap and all easily worked into
the slave's diet without them even knowing it. None of us like to see an
animal suffer unnecessarily, and if a little low-cost chemical in their
diet will help, all of us see it as a good thing to do - especially since
it's a low cost alternative to other harsher methods of breaking' an animal
to their new reality."

     "And we slaveholders are grateful for that contribution," Mr. Smyth
interjected. "It's hard to find a training facilities where the drugs
you're talking about aren't in full usage, primarily because, as you know
better than the rest of us, Dr. Castleberry, the low dosages utilized have
been found to have little to no harmful side effects to date."

     "We'll keep our fingers crossed, Nevor.  With drugs, it's hard to
predict the really long-term effects, but, to date, we have no evidence of
anything really serious.  It's non- addictive, no liver or kidney problems
we've been able to detect so far, and it greatly increases productivity
rather than cause any downtime."

     "What about the veterinarian's viewpoint, Dr. Bruce?" the radio show
host asked.

     "Mr. Smyth is right about veterinarian's first viewing animal
castration as their exclusive province., along with simple minor surgical
procedures such as trimming a penis, ringing tits, notching ears, etc.  But
old-time livestock managers laughed at us in that they had been
successfully doing those things with animals for thousands of years, long
before there was such a thing as veterinary science.  Slaves are just
another form of livestock, of course, and are in no way different
biologically than the livestock Australians have dealt with for
centuries. So we quickly retreated from such mundane procedures and have
since concentrated on where the profession can be of real help:
consultation on health concerns with large-scale slave owners; research
into new drugs and/or minor surgical procedures that might be of help in
the management of slaves; advising on nutrition, shelter, and appropriate
restraints for various types of slave occupations, and development of drugs
and procedures for handling large herd infestation of curable diseases and
viral infections.  As we all know, slaves, like other livestock, are
usually kept in large pens, are worked within gangs or teams, and are often
in close proximity to each other in that they are more efficiently
supervised that way.  The downside of that efficiency is that diseases
spread fast under those conditions and must be treated long before things
get out of hand and before an owner runs the risk of seeing his whole herd
gone almost overnight.

     "That's why, in conjunction with some large scale slaveholders, like
Australian Agriculture and the Bristol Mining Consortium, we work on
preventative drugs that can be worked into the slaves' water supply, herd
isolation procedures, chemical spraying within the slave pens, and cheap,
economical disease screening procedures that don't interfere significantly
with their work output. Examples I would like to point out are the new
infrared temperature monitors where you just need to point a thermal
reading device at any given slave and get an accurate body fever warning,
saliva swabs that change color if a slave is infected with a particular
condition, and so forth -all procedures that can be done with the slave at
his assigned task, or at least on his way to or from the assigned task.

     "I also think we have been helpful in setting up appropriate models
for proper sanitation in the slave pens and disinfecting procedures for the
pens as well as the slave's bodies themselves.  For direct contact with a
slave, such as surgery, personal diagnosis, etc., the slaveowner must take
the fees involved and weight it against the future value of the slave.  In
many cases, veterinary intervention is not cost effective - it's better to
either work the slave as he is and get what you can out of him with a heavy
whip; rest him and see what happens (at least for a short period of
non-productivity); or simply cut your losses and sell his body to the
rendering plant in that he may still have a few salvageable organs or at
least a hide worth tanning.  In other cases, however, like a slave in his
late teens or his early twenties who has a good immune system and a good 25
years of productivity left in him if he survived, it may be wise to invest
in veterinary services on the grounds the professional services rendered
can easily be recouped over the years of work left in the slave's body.

     "To emphasize how useful veterinary science has proven to the slave
industry, let me point out that the number of practicing veterinarians has
mushroomed since slavery has taken off in Australia.  It's a great
profession to enter, slaveholders now see us as a needed and valuable
component of their stock investments, and it's a very interesting field to
boot.  We are, after all, trained from the beginning to deal with
non-speaking animals.  With slaves, many have had their tongues clipped or
their vocal chords severed where vocal abilities aren't of much value, but
there are many slaves out there who can speak the same language as you and
I.  They're a delight to treat - they can often tell you where it hurts and
how much.  That's a real treat for veterinarians!  Before slavery, we had
none of that.  Incidentally, that remind's me, and I'm sure Mr. Smyth would
agree on this point, slave silencing is one area best left to a
professional.  Tearing tongues out and severing vocal chords is not
something you do in the back yard - there's just too much chance of
infection."

     "Couldn't agree with you more, Geoffrey," Nevor Smyth agreed.  "I
can't tell you how many slaveowners have told me they tried it on their own
(often in a rage over a slave's effrontery or lack of proper respect) and
learned to regret it, losing a few slaves to infection in the process.  I
think all of us now know to leave that up you veterinary surgeons and, as I
recall, it's fairly quick and not too costly - certainly worth the trouble
and expense if you have some stock that can't learn voice-control
properly."

     "I've got a point I forgot to bring up until that handsome slave boy
serving us coffee reminded me of it," Dr. Castleberry
interjected. "Learning how to dose brood slaves with just the right amount
of estrogen to not only increase their fertility but also induce a higher
rate of twinning has led to a nice boost in the output at the breeding
farms like I would guess this slave boy serving us coffee is from.  Too
much injected into a brood and you get a litter of runts and defects - that
was the problem when we first dabbled in this.  But with the low dosages
we've found in our research ups the birthing rate of nice healthy pups
without any harmful side effects has been a real breakthrough.  All it is,"
Dr. Castleberry chuckled, "is the same stuff birth control pills are made
of - it's the dosage that makes all the difference. But production of a
typical brood slave has risen from 18 successful birthings on the average
to over 24 in just the past decade - some of it because we can get her back
into production faster after her last pregnancy; some of it due to yielding
two instead of one pup in the same delivery some of the time. The goal is,
of course, to have brood slaves deliver a whole litter at a time, just like
a dog or cat, but we're a long way from that yet.  Slaves seem to be more
like horses and cows in that particular area than dogs and cats, but we're
working on it."

     "That coffee boy, and he is an eyeful all right, owes you and your
medical colleagues a debt of gratitude if indeed he's a bred slave and a
product of a multiple birth," Dr. Bruce laughed. "Otherwise, he wouldn't be
here to serve us."

     "Thank you, master," some subservient voice drifted into a microphone
from some distance away, obviously the coffee boy taking the clue that he
should thank somebody for being born to serve them.

     "See there, Broderick," Dr. Bruce chortled, "our slaveboy here IS
grateful.  Obviously, he's been bred all right."

     "Well, gentlemen, that music in the background means our time is up
for today's show," the show's host interjected.  "I want to thank all three
of you, Mr. Smyth of the Slave Owners Association, Dr. Castleberry
representing the medical field, and Dr. Bruce, presenting the
veterinarian's viewpoint.  Tune in tomorrow, same time, same station, for
our next show on the fascinating topic of Australian slaves.  Tomorrow's
topic will be "Can the professional breeders really develop specific slave
species?"

     Chad was halfway home by the time the show was at an end and switched
to his I-pod for some music for the rest of the trip.  If his brother Bill
hadn't heard the show himself, he wanted to go over some the information
with him and pulled over to jot down a few notes on the show before he
forgot some of the finer points.

     Within minutes, the notes were made, and a new band from Sydney into
authentic Australian folk music boomed out of the speakers.  The first song
was a mournful ballad about buying a handsome buck slave for your bed and
then finding out your girl friend was screwing him when your back was
turned.  It was a big hit nationally!