kzt wrote:JohnRoth wrote:I'd like to see textev on the idea that Manpower is using prolong to create sex slaves for people with [redacted] tastes. Not that I would put it past them, but my limited knowledge of the situation suggests that it wouldn't create the product that such people want.
I remember suggesting it here, not sure it ever made it into a book. But given the way that manpower is set up and what they are noted to have done, modifying prolong to exaggerate the aging pause at early tanner stage 3 or so seems like a perfectly logical move for them if it's fairly easy to do and has customer demand. There are a huge number of brain changes that start occurring at age 10-11 or so that they would want to slow in concert, so intellectually they stay kids. Not nice people.
Thanks for pointing me at the Tanner scale. There's a comment at the end of one of the snippets on the snippet site that Generation 3 prolong can be administered before puberty starts, but it's rarely done.
I have serious problems with the scenario. There are two situations. Either the slave is going to be sold to someone with those tastes, or ce will be at a Manpower resort for rental to patrons of the resort. In the first case, Prolong would be an obvious sales point, but there's an issue with keeping people's lips zipped about what's going on. In the second case, I can't see them bothering with prolong.
While I remember a number of "exotics," the only mention of actual perversions seems to be with pirates and slavers; the situation in
Let's Dance comes to mind. But none of that involved prolong.
The first two mentions of genetic sex slaves or exotics is either Ginny Usher or Paulo A's ancestors. (I've forgotten which came first in publication order.)
The woman with blue hair on a political show is probably one of Eric Flint's characters. She inherited it from an ancestor who was an "exotic."
We have the officer in SoV who has cat adaptations, likewise inherited.
Rufino C.'s girlfriend/mistress/agent/assistant seems to be another out of the same mold as Ginny Usher. Possibly Captain Gweon's "fiancee" and control is another.
None of these involve actual sexual perversions.
I've got problems with the genetics on the woman with blue hair and the woman with cat features. The first problem is very simple: given the amount of hair dyeing, etc, I would expect that DNA mods to change hair color to just about any imaginable shade are readily available. In fact, I have a vague memory of a story where a school-girl had her hair modified so it was a plaid that matched the skirt on her school uniform.
The cat modifications bring up a different issue. The Beowulf code's prohibition against mixing non-human DNA is, in my considered opinion, not even wrong. It stinks of essentialism. The genetic programs to produce a body plan are really intricate and almost certainly couldn't be transferred by the equivalent of a simple copy and paste.
