Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 11:30:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Pete Brown <petebrownuk@yahoo.com>
Subject: Training For Life-Long Servitude

TRAINING FOR LIFE LONG SERVITUDE

By Pete Brown   petebrownuk @ yahoo.com

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(This transcript of Mr Brown's recent lecture to the
Royal Society Of Practitioners In Further Education is
re-printed by kind permission of the Society.)


Ladies and gentlemen - or perhaps I should say
"gentlemen" as I think my audience this morning is
exclusively male - thank you for this opportunity of
addressing you.  I suspect that our working aims are
rather different, but welcome this chance to meet
fellow professionals at work in the continuing
education of adults, and I look forward to discussing
matters of mutual interest with you at the coffee
break and in the plenary sessions this week.  Before I
start, though, let me give public thanks to my
employer, the Sheikh, who has generously funded this
trip to London, and who has allowed me to discuss many
of the practices that make his estate one of the best
managed and most productive in the whole of Arabia.

BACKGROUND

I have been employed by the Sheikh for the past twenty
years, now in the capacity of Head Trainer.  My
responsibilities include the induction and initial
training of all the servants on the Sheikh's extensive
plantations and holdings in the Gulf.  Currently there
are close on two thousand servants, and we induct
between one and two hundred new ones each year -
that's not to imply that our servants are not with us
for long periods; rather, it reflects the keen and
active interest that my employer shows in the
management and operation of his estates: he replaces
servants perhaps rather more frequently than the
dictates of the business strictly justify.  However I
think this rate of turnover of trained staff would be
the envy of many employers represented here today - we
are, after all, taking men from the same general pool
of the ill-educated who would normally be expected to
show little loyalty, and who have a tendency to drift
from place to place and job to job.  Personally I find
it almost incredible hen I hear of turnover rates in
major call centres approaching thirty percent:  what
an incredible waste of money must be involved in
training such people who then move on so rapidly -
this certainly is not our problem as once recruited,
the Sheikh's servants are with him until he chooses to
replace them.

To assist me in my work I have two under-trainers - I
began my work in this role, and was promoted five
years ago to my present one - and we can also call
upon the services of the Sheikh's private army of body
guards should the need arise, and also make extensive
use of already trained servants to assist in the
indoctrination and settlement of the newcomers.

We induct and train new servants for all the varied
roles in and around the Sheikh's palaces and estates,
so there is a wide range of skills that the servants
need to acquire.  Some are fairly rudimentary - those
working in agriculture, in the fields, will mostly
learn their skills "on the job" and I have little
involvement except for the initial induction process.
Those who are to be more specialised - perhaps working
as servants in the hamman - require detailed,
specialised training for their work, and we may
subcontract some of this to outside agencies who are
experts in the field.  They go through the same
initial induction process as all the others, though.

Before we go any further, I should perhaps point out
that my work is exclusively with males.  The Sheikh,
as absolute ruler, has not implemented "equal
opportunity" legislation, and, indeed, it seems
unlikely that this will happen in the foreseeable
future as both the Sheikh, and his many sons, all
prefer males working with them and around them.   The
induction and training I supervise is therefore
exclusively for males, and these tend to be in a
rather narrow age band:  whilst child labour is not
forbidden in the Sheikh's kingdom, he is aware of the
sensitivities of Western nations and therefore no
servant is under sixteen when he joins us.
Conversely, the Sheikh believes that much beyond fifty
the effectiveness of servants diminishes rapidly, and
as a considerable investment is made in induction and
training and some return has to be made on  this, we
do not generally induct beyond the age of thirty five.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES

The Sheikh requires his servants to be hard working,
and responsive to his every requirement.  They need to
understand the management and control structures that
are implemented in the palaces and on the estates, and
to obey superiors precisely and completely.   Sadly,
many of the men who join us are unprepared for this
regime of diligent, hard work and complete obedience,
and much of our training effort has to go in
inculcating them with these virtues - some would say
"old fashioned" virtues,  I might add.

Life in the Sheikh's kingdom is also radically
different from that which many of our inductees are
used to - our climate ranges from hot to very hot, for
example, and this dictates a different attitude to
dress.  And the Sheikh is a staunch believer in, and
adopter of, conservation practices:  consequently many
of the tasks which in Western society might be
performed by energy-squandering machinery are, in the
Sheikh's kingdom, performed manually.  Many of our
trainees have problems of adapting to the regime of
dull, repetitive work that results, and one of our
tasks as trainers is to get them to understand that
they have to use their muscle in a way which is
becoming less and less common elsewhere in the world.
We also need to show them that western style attitudes
to authority are unacceptable, and that orders have to
be obeyed completely and absolutely, without question
or hesitation  Many trainees, especially those from
Europe and the USA, have difficulty with this; but on
the other hand we do take a number with experience in
the armed forces, and they seem to have fewer problems
here, perhaps because they are more used to a proper
"hierarchy of command".  Or perhaps it is that those
who join the forces are more likely to have
psychological attitudes that are more inclined to
accept authority unquestioningly and prefer not to
have to make many decisions for themselves.

Our period of training varies - all new inductees go
through the same basic processes which I will expand
on later in this talk.  Those destined for work in the
plantations, quarries and factories are then almost
immediately assigned there as much of their education
needs - such as it is - can be done by their day to
day work supervisors.  For those intended as palace
servants and such like, training varies:  some very
specialist skills, such as masseurs, are taught by
sending the trainee on to special schools.  The Sheikh
himself, and his older sons, do however take a keen
personal interest in the training of general palace
servants, and, indeed, the Sheikh usually wants to
carry out later stags of induction himself.  Servants
who are to work in transportation generally acquire
their skills from their fellows:  it is relatively
rare for a new servant to be given sole charge on one
of the Sheikh's carriages or drays, and most of those
used in transportation will learn their skills in
teams, before being promoted if they catch the
Sheikh's eye when in service.

All of our servants are of course "live in", and part
of the induction process is to introduce them to the
demands and responsibilities of using and sharing
facilities with their fellows - with the exception of
hose inducted form the forces, few men are experienced
in both living and working with their colleagues, and
some attitude adjustment is often necessary to show
the new servant that this is now a requirement of
their work.

Our overall objective is to turn untrained inductees
in to hard working, responsive servants who are
capable of serving the Sheikh for many years in their
assigned capacity.  A secondary objective is to ensure
that they receive training that "fits them for the
purpose" to such an extent that this is generally
recognised in the wider community, so that should the
Sheikh decide that he is tired of a particular
servant, he can readily be disposed of so that a new
one can be acquired.

INITIAL PROCESSES

Inductees arrive at our primary processing centre from
a variety of sources:  "transfers" from other places
(I have already mentioned that the Sheikh takes an
active interest in these matters, and "swaps" servants
with his peers), those recruited by specialist
recruiting agencies in the USA, Europe and Australasia
( the Sheikh prefers 'Europeans" and has no interest
in South Americans or Asians), prisoners from the
country's jails (almost all custodial sentences in the
Sheikh's kingdom result in the prisoner being assigned
to a period of service, which therefore involves going
through our induction process. Our crime rate is,
perhaps as a result of this, astonishingly low), and
those who have otherwise broken our laws (there was a
flurry of activity earlier in the year, when the USA
unwisely attempted a small, covert invasion of the
Sheikh's domain, which was repulsed by his forces and
resulted in the induction of a number of marines and
infantrymen).

We always begin by stripping the new indictees totally
naked.  This signals to them at once that that their
training has begun, and that their lives will be
different from now on.  We have found it preferable to
do this in groups of at least six, as it is more
dramatic for some men to be made to strip in front of
others.  We also let them see that all the clothing
removed from them is at once burned, as this again
signals that there is "no going back" now they have
started down this road.   Many men seem to be very
attached to crucifixes and other religious symbols
worn around their necks, and to things like rings
which they claim are worn as love tokens, or as
treasured gifts from parents.  All such jeweller is of
course removed at this stage also, and the inductee
sees that this, too, is effectively never to be
returned to them as it is merely tossed into a large
container, with no attempt made to label it with its
former owner's name.

The rise of body adornments, especially amongst
European and USA men, has meant that we frequently
have to give attention to the removal of these items
at this stage:  although the Sheikh sometimes has
ornamental rings affixed to his servants, these are of
a "standard" design, and those inductees arriving with
ear rings, nipple or navel piercings, or even genital
piercings, have them removed at this stage.
Incidentally, we have found that in particular the
holes from removed genital piercings rarely close up
completely and neatly:  a servant whose intended
function will be  to be "on display", perhaps in the
hamman, will therefore be closely examined at this
stage to see whether his ornamentation has interfered
with this intended use so that he should be
reassigned.

It is interesting to see the different reactions of
men to this stripping, as a guide to how well they
will take to their training.  We can experience
particular problems with Arabs and others whose former
religious faith prohibits public nudity - I say
"former", advisedly, as the Sheikh is a modern man and
thus does not tolerate any vestiges of superstition in
his servants, so it is perhaps best that they begin to
understand this at this very early stage of their
training.  We are also able to see those who are
already reasonably easy with their bodies being
displayed to their fellows- former soldiers are of
course used to living something of a communal life and
are less affected by the requirement to stand there
naked with their fellows, whereas some men can be
remarkably prudish and attempt to hide their genitals
with their hands!  Our experience is that it is
desirable to weed out "exhibitionists" at this stage -
men who flaunt their genitalia too openly and proudly
almost certainly have some other character flaws which
will make them less satisfactory in future.  Our ideal
inductee is perhaps unashamed at his nakedness, but at
the same time faintly embarrassed by it.

We do occasionally lose inductees at this stage - once
they are naked, flaws can be revealed that make the
inductee totally unsuitable for service with the
Sheikh.  For example, it is almost impossible to
remove large tattoos satisfactorily, and even if he is
to work in agriculture, often far from the palace, the
Sheikh would not wish to see a servant of his with
obscene tattoos on him with references to women;  so
it is easier to remove such men now rather than risk
the Sheikh being affronted when inspecting work on the
estates later.

There have been papers, I know, that discuss the
desirability of training very young men separately
from older ones, and some even advocate totally
separate facilities for the sixteen to eighteen year
olds!   I do not subscribe to these views, and all
ages go through their initial induction processes
together.  It is of course true that the teenagers can
be excessively shy and modest when required to be
fully exposed, but I believe it encourages them to see
their elders in the same state, and their sight of
hard, "mature" bodies gives them something to aspire
to.  At the same time, the presence of very young men
can excite "fatherly" instincts in some of the older,
tougher trainees, generally calming them and making
them less likely to oppose the trainers.  This seems
to be particularly true for battle-hardened mature
soldiers, who tend to cause fewer problems when mixed
with lithe sixteen year olds.  In general, as young
and old are going to live and work together in future,
I can see little point in segregating them at the
start of their training.

Following their stripping, we proceed to cut the hair
of all the inductees.  We do this both for aesthetic
reasons - the Sheikh does not like to see long hair,
and for hygienic ones - regrettably, some inductees,
especially those from the prisons, are infested with
"crabs" and lice, and the removal of most of the hair
helps in the treatment of this.    In the very hot
climate that we experience a man needs to be able to
sweat freely as he works, and so we remove not only
most of the head hair, but also trim the body hair to
a "reasonable" length, too:  it is unsightly to see
workers with sweat dripping from very hairy armpits,
for example, and whilst totally shaven armpits are not
desirable from the point of view of "maintenance",
requiring almost daily attention, most inductees
benefit from this being cut off at about half an inch.
 Genital hair is similarly trimmed short, and the
testicles are totally shaved:  this not only assists
the trainee in remaining cool, but, I believe, is most
aesthetically desirable so that his apparatus is
properly displayed.

The Sheikh likes to "see" the musculature of his
servants, and there can be a problem with many Arabs,
Turks, and some Europeans in that their bodies are
generally overly hairy.  A pleasing thatch on the
chest, a light trail running across the belly,
well-shaded arms and thighs, and so on, can all add
interest to the "look" of a man.  But where there is
so much hair that the muscles cannot be "seen"
properly, this is also shaved off at this stage.
Needless to say hairs on the back, or grossly
unpleasant amounts of hair protruding from the crack
between the buttocks, are also removed.

The Sheikh does not like to see men with beards or
moustaches, and the removal of these excrescences can
cause some inductees to complain - especially when
they have so-called "religious" significance (in some
rare cases this is also a problem for head hair).  As
I have already explained, though, the Sheikh does not
allow such superstitions, and so we proceed with the
removal anyway.

Following their clipping and shaving, the inductees
are properly cleaned, and again, this is the first
experience that some of them have of showering, and
excreting, publicly.  Some of them need to be
"encouraged" to use the communal facilities for
defecation (curiously, as shared facilities for
urination are, after all, common), and it is not
unusual for some of them to weep with shame at the
thought of having to evacuate their bowels in front of
their fellows.  Nevertheless, the realities of life
for them in the future - especially those who are
going to work in agricultural gangs, or in the mines,
is that only communal facilities exist, and so they
may as well start to get used to using them from the
start of their new working lives.

We ensure that there are large mirrors stationed in
the corridor leading from the initial processing
facility so that the naked, trimmed inductees cannot
fail to see the new state of their bodies.  Many of
them are anyway unused to walking around naked,
especially in the company of others, and the sight of
their bodies can now also signal to them once more
that their lives have changed irrevocable.

MEDICAL ATTENTION

Sickness is a major potential expense for the Sheikh
with such a huge number of servants in use, and we
need to take all reasonable precautions to prevent
disease and infections spreading.  It is also
desirable to weed out any inductees with major faults
with their bodies - there is little point in expending
money on training a man showing the early stages of
any of the "killer" defects, such as cancer, that
regrettably are still so prevalent. Consequently
before any more work is done on training new
inductees, they all undergo a thorough physical
examination.

Our doctor takes blood and urine samples, and performs
simple "diagnostic" procedures on all inductees:
blood pressure, lung capacity, heart rate, and so on,
are all simply monitored.  We also X-ray them all
because of the rise of TB.  It is also convenient at
this stage to weight the inductees and to compute
their body mass index:  this is a valuable guide to us
in deciding the degree of physical training the
inductee needs to turn him into a "proper" servant
with a low-fat, well-muscled body.

Even with modern technology some of the medical
results take time to come - cultures have to be grown,
and so on.  Inductees are not therefore released into
the general training facilities until these results
are available as we do not want infection to spread -
especially, for example, those which are sexually
transmitted.  Consequently the inductees are at this
point effectively "quarantined" for a day or so.  Of
course, if there are any "negative" results in a
batch, we then have to remove the offender and re-test
all the remainder in case there has been a spread
within the quarantine facilities.  We have considered
isolating all inductees from their fellows whilst the
testing takes place, but decided against it for two
reasons:  firstly, most of our inductees are in fact
healthy, so the additional expense of building and
maintaining individual, rather than communal,
facilities is not justified compared with the
occasional need to hold things up whilst re-testing
takes place.  But more importantly we believe it is
important to get the inductees used to living and
working communally from the very first moment they
come into our care.  After their communal stripping,
clipping and washing, we think it would be a
retrograde step to now allow them any degree of
privacy.

Debate rages as to whether the simple medical
procedure that some men require should be carried out
immediately, or whether we should wait until they have
a "clean bill of health".  As I said, it is relatively
uncommon for inductees to be infected and thus removed
from the programme, and so we tend to proceed to
circumcise those who need it immediately, rather than
waiting. Their recovery period starts immediately,
therefore, and less time is wasted before they become
useful members of the Sheikh's work force.  We are
lucky in having a relatively high proportion of Arabs
and Americans in our intake, so in general only about
one third of inductees need to be 'skinned - the
Sheikh likes to "see" all his servants fully, and
considers it impermissible for a servant to hide his
cock head from view.  Consequently those who have not
been circumcised already are done now, and all are of
course "high and tight" for maximum exposure (a small
number of circumcised men do also occasionally require
additional trimming).  Our doctors are very skilled at
this procedure, of course, and it usually takes no
more than two minutes per servant.  As with the
removal of extraneous body hair, some servants
initially disagree with having this procedure
performed, and, indeed, their disagreement tends to be
particularly extreme.  We are fortunate, though, in
having the services of the Sheikh's guards to call on
if necessary, as I have mentioned, although the
ministrations of the big, strong servants assigned to
me, and my assistant trainers, is usually sufficient
to overcome their resistance.  We sometimes also take
this as a valuable opportunity to introduce
particularly argumentative servants to the
disciplinary procedures in force throughout the
Sheikh's domain, a discussion of which is generally
outside the scope of this paper.  I would however be
pleased to present on these methods of ensuring
discipline and a high rate of hard, careful work, if
invited to attend again next year.

We have also decided that we can get a degree of
parallelism into our processing by proceeding with a
dental examination and treatment, where necessary,
during this "quarantine" period.  Again, it can prove
wasteful if one or more of the inductees has some
debilitating disease or problem, but it does obviate
the need for this treatment to be done later, with
possibly more delay.  It is of course vital that
inductees have good, strong teeth, not only because
anything else would interfere with their continuing
ability to work, but because those to be used in close
proximity to free men (such as house servants, those
in the hamman, and so on) should have sweet-smelling
breath.    Our contract dentist has a small room in
our facility with rudimentary equipment that enables
him to carry out most of the procedures necessary;  it
is also at this stage that any inductees indented for
specialised roles such as ponies or dray slaves have
their rear molars removed to enable the proper fitting
of bits and harnesses - again, doing this at this
point enables their recovery to be overlapped with the
quarantine time.  It is perhaps worth noting that,
once in a healthy state, the servants' teeth tend to
stay this way because of their healthy diet:  the
Sheikh of course forbids sugary foods as his servants
need to remain in peak condition, and most of them eat
only the standard "rations" prepared in bulk and
consisting of grains, nuts and dried fruit.

Once the test results are available for the current
batch of inductees the final medical process is to
give all of them a cocktail of inoculations against
all the common diseases:  although many of our
inductees from the developed world will have been
inoculated against polio, mumps, measles and so on in
childhood, those from the less developed world may not
have been.  Conversely, Americans and Europeans will
have no natural immunity to many of the fevers and
infections common in our country.  We have therefore
found it most convenient to have a single "cocktail"
combining all the necessary elements and administer
this to all the inductees, so ensuring all are in the
same state of protection.  Regrettably the volume of
this means that the inductees can experience rather
severe discomfort, and the buttocks can remain
somewhat inflamed and swollen for several days.

UNIFORMS

The Sheikh does not allow his servants to wear what
they like, believing that consistent uniforms, in his
house colours, make for a more harmonious "look" to
the palace.  Workers in the fields and mines do of
course work entirely naked as they have no need for
concealment; but  the Sheikh has many foreign visitors
to the palaces, and to avoid offending their
sensibilities, servants in the public areas are
generally clothed.

We have a fierce sun in the Sheikhdom, and so we begin
at this stage to toughen the skins of all the
inductees against this, exposing their bodies to it so
that they rapidly gain a deep tan all over -  this is
a particular problem for inductees of a Scandinavian
extraction with blond hair and very pale skins, and
their exposure time needs to be carefully monitored to
avoid painful burning.   All the inductees receive
this all-over tanning, however, as even though some
will be clothed in their everyday functioning, the
Sheikh and his sons consider the "white strip" around
the loins to be something that only free men who
travel to the West and who occasionally need to use
saunas and so on in even the most expensive hotels
should aspire to;  the Sheikh, if he lifts the hem of
a tunic of a palace servant, would not wish to see his
genitalia and buttocks contrasting in colour with the
rest of him.

It is of course important that the servants can
however be readily identified as those of the Sheikh,
whether they are to work in the palaces or outdoors,
and therefore as soon as they are judged medically
"fit", we proceed to mark them.

All of the Sheikh's servants wear a standard collar
bearing his name, so that should they escape and are
recaptured, they can easily be returned . At this
point I should perhaps say that such escapes are
astonishingly rare:  outdoor workers are of course
permanently chained in coffles, and so it is almost
impossible for them to escape, and whilst it is
theoretically possible for those at "liberty" whistle
working around the palaces to do so, it is very
difficult.  The relative isolation of the Sheikh's
kingdom, and the hostility of the surrounding desert,
means that escape attempts need to be almost
exclusively by air, and immigration control at the
airport is extremely vigilant in detecting escaped
servants:  even if they have succeeded in removing
their collars, their shaved hair and deep tans tend to
mark them as "servants" and thus subject to special
questioning.  The biggest factor mitigating against
escape, though, is the fate that awaits those who are
recaptured:  whilst the Sheikh is generally an
enlightened, benign employer, he will not tolerate
disloyalty and an extremely harsh punishment awaits
those who have been so ungrateful as to attempt to
leave his service.

The collars are of several types - those destined for
the fields and the mines are fitted with standard,
heavy iron collars with a large "D" ring through which
the coffle chain can be passed.  Those for duties
around the palaces get thinner ones in stainless
steel, or, rarely, if the servant has been identified
as a "favourite" and acquired specially for that
purpose, gold.

There is of course an art in fitting collars, and one
of the advantages in processing all inductees
centrally is that the necessary skills are
concentrated and focussed.  Too loose, and the collar
will lie low on the shoulder blades, and particularly
for coffled workers will then move around and cause
chafing and sores.  Too tight, and the servant will
find it hard to swallow, or even breathe!  It is a
particular problem with those servants who are not yet
properly developed - either because they are not yet
sufficiently exercised, or  are still young and
growing.  We need to make allowances for the
thickening and strengthening of many servants' necks
that goes on as they proceed with the vigorous
exercises that form part of their training.

It is surprising to see the effect on many inductees
as their collars are fitted - even though they now
know that their future life will be far removed from
that which they have known so far, it appears as if
the fitting of the collar somehow marks for them a
deeply symbolic act:  wearing the Sheikh's collar
signals to them that they are now owned property in a
way that the earlier stages have perhaps not.  This
feeling is strengthened when we move onto the final
part of our common initial processing : the
application of the ownership marks.

All of the Sheikh's property is of course marked with
his house mark, from the stationary used in the
offices, through the dinnerware and cutlery on his
table, and on through his cars and aeroplanes.  Modern
management also dictates that we have a proper
inventor management system so that regular audits can
be performed of his assets against the central asset
register, and for this, in addition to the house mark,
an inventory number is required.

Opinions vary, I know, about the desirability of
permanently searing an inductee's flesh with a house
mark - the advantages are obvious:  it cannot be
removed; it makes an escapee easy to detect, as police
officers can simply look at the flesh of any suspect;
and it is the final signal to the inductee that he is
now "property".  Many men who have somehow managed to
suspend their understanding of their status throughout
all the previous processing now also clearly see that
they are now different: they have never before been
exposed to the pain that marking causes, and begin to
realise the power that the Sheikh holds over them,
that he can command such a thing to be inflicted on
them.  Seeing that the Sheikh, through his employees
like me, has the power to inflict suffering on them
gets them further towards the proper acceptance of
their servile role than many other things have done.


The downside of branding the house mark in to the
inductee is of course that it cannot be removed - I
have mentioned that the Sheikh takes a keen interest
in dealing, and that there is a steady "turnover" of
servants from our holdings to others.  It is
undeniable, though, that a marked servant is a less
desirable property - indeed,  in a recent piece in
"The Economist", it was suggested that marked stock -
especially where this was very visible, such as on the
face or hands - might suffer prices lower by as much
as 15%.

To minimise potential financial loss, therefore, we do
not mark inductees on the face, hands or neck.  The
house mark is seared into the left buttock of each
inductee, so that in general it is only visible when
the inductee is faced away from his master.  Should
the Sheikh subsequently decide to dispose of the
inductee, the acquirer will not necessarily have to
see the Sheikh's mark constantly.  For the same reason
the indictee's stock number is not tattooed on his
face or neck - the right upper arm, at the shoulder,
is considered a good place for this.  All new stock
receives not only the number itself but the equivalent
information in the form of a barcode - the Sheikh is
always keen to ensure an effective, efficient
organisation, and the ability to "scan" stock as it
moves around the Sheikh's holdings means that simple
computer applications can take over many of the
management and control functions previously done
manually by supervisors.


PHYSICAL TRAINING

Once the basic processes I have so far described have
been performed, our initial induction is complete.
Those intended for work in the quarries or field
coffles are therefore turned over to the supervisors
responsible for those parts of the Sheikh's
operations, as we have no further interest in them.
They may not all be in perfect physical condition, but
the hard work they will begin and the controlled diet
they are fed will soon get them into shape, and it is
not necessary to devote specific resources to
increasing their musculature or burning off excess fat
as part of the induction process.

For those who are intended as house servants and
similar roles, however, we next carry out an
assessment of what additional training is necessary to
get the body to the state of physical perfection the
Sheikh requires.    This is of course particularly
relevant to the younger inductees, whose bodies can be
"encouraged" by dint of hard work to put on that
muscular development that makes very young men so
particularly attractive - the ridges across their
bellies and the bulges of their biceps being somehow
more exciting on their relatively slighter frames.

The Sheikh has a good eye for a man, though, even
when, at first sight, the body is unattractive.  He
will choose men with a handsome face and a
well-proportioned cock and serviceable, low-hanging
balls  even if the body is painfully emaciated, or
gross and fat.   He has struck many a deal at a
bargain price as he alone has had the foresight to
observe that some potential servant has the makings of
a real beauty concealed within a body that is at that
point less than satisfactory.

Both of the most common defects - emaciation and gross
overweight -  can be addressed with suitable diet and
hard exercise, and many an inductee has been amazed at
how his body alters very rapidly under the regime that
we impose:  either specially supplemented high-protein
diets or starvation, as appropriate, coupled with long
bouts on our exercise machines.  These are basically
similar to those that you would find in any gym,
except that they have been modified to provide
attachment points so that the inductee can be secured
to them, and their controls and electronics altered so
that, once set, only a supervisor can reset them.

Depending on the type of machine, the inductee can
then safely be left to exercise for hours unsupervised
- particularly in the case of the standard "treadmill"
type of running machine, where, if he stops, the chain
joining his collar to the front of the machine will
choke him.  Or, alternatively, if it is something like
a bench press, a supervisor will monitor progress and
"encourage" the inductee to continue his work rate, by
means of the tawse and punishment cane.  It is
absolutely amazing how, with these simple means of
keeping the inductee working, the body can be pushed
to the limit, which triggers a rapid transformation to
a nicely muscled appearance that is much more pleasing
to the eye.

Those of you who are connoisseurs of the male form
will of course know that there is a difference between
muscle laid down by the kind of rigorous exercise I
have described and that which is acquired by "natural"
hard work.  It is too easy for "machine made" muscle
to look unnatural, with the body perhaps a little
unbalanced.   Consequently in addition to their work
on the exercise machines, the inductees also spend
time in one or more of our "exercise rooms" doing work
that simulates the hard physical labour that they
might have to do in, say, a quarry.

For example, in one of our rooms there is a giant heap
of stones of various sizes, varying from the heavy to
the extremely difficult to carry, and the inductee is
told to move them from one corner to the other and
construct a pile of them within an area marked out on
the floor.  He knows that he will not be let out of
the room, and therefore will receive no food or water,
until this task is accomplished, and this is a big
spur to work hard at a variety of manual tasks with a
consequent subtle toning of his entire body.

SEXUAL "BREAKING"

It is a myth, probably promulgated from the many
erotic stories that are to be found on the internet,
that an owner "takes the cherry" initially of any
virgin inductee.

In our case the volume of inductees going through the
system makes this impracticable, and so the Sheikh
does not routinely do this.  He does, of course,
identify any inductees at their initial inspection
that he wishes to use first, and these are reserved
for him so that once their bodies have been toned and
hardened they can be presented to him for his
pleasure.

Many of our inductees are of course going to work
coffled together in the fields, or the quarries, and
in practice we do not normally bother to use them
sexually at all during training - once they have been
coffled, the normal desires of their coffle-mates and
supervisors generally ensures that they quickly lose
their virginity, whether they wish to or not.

Those inductees who are destined to serve around the
house, or the hamman, or even as gardeners in the
pleasure grounds, might of course be selected by the
Sheikh's guests for their pleasure, and so these
inductees are indeed therefore introduced to proper
man-to-man sex as part of their training.  If the
Sheikh himself has not elected to take the cherry of
an inductee, he is therefore formally "used" by me or
by one of my assistant trainers, and, I have to say, I
regard this as one of the "perks" of the job! Whether
it be a young sixteen year old, or a mature prisoner
of war with much experience of life, there is
something rather special about entering him for the
first time as he lies strapped down and helpless on a
"fucking horse".  I like to think that my men and I
are sensitive to the terror, shame and pain that the
inductee is probably feeling as he is violated, and
that it is therefore better to do this as part of his
training. In some establishments it is of course the
practice to keep all new inductees until such time as
the owner or one of his guests chooses to use him, but
this can be unnecessarily difficult  for both parties,
and we believe our way is preferable.

As you would expect, an inductee who is to be used
around the house or in the hamman is then given a more
rigorous and vigorous training in the techniques that
he will employ to pleasure the Sheikh, his sons and
guests, and this is generally done by those mature
servants who have been performing these roles for some
time.  This "on the job" training, we find, gives the
new inductee a real feeling for the work he will be
undertaking and there is just no substitute for an
older, more experienced, servant showing a younger one
all the "tricks of the trade".


SUMMARY

I hope that in describing the processes we use for
quickly and efficiently inducting new servants into
the Sheikh's organisation I have given you food for
thought.    Working on a very tight budget, with very
limited resources (just me and two trainers, plus
assistance from "regular" servants as appropriate), we
have found that our standardised approach enables a
rapid throughput and the processing of inductees into
useful members of the Sheikh's workforce at minimum
cost.

We are of course always looking  for ways to improve
the process, and I hope that in the breakout sessions
later today and in less formal discussions at coffee,
and lunch, I will hear of ideas that we can import
from your experience to improve our systems and
procedures.

I'd like to thank again my employer, the Sheikh, for
making this session possible, and the members of the
Royal  Society for inviting me to give this paper.

Thank you.


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