Author: Sterling
Title: The Slut and Rapist Virus
Summary: The bonobo species of chimpanzee is famous for the
constant sex with no relationship to procreation. What if it is
the result of a virus that changes the apes' behavior for its own
ends? When it makes the leap to humans, it makes women
insistently seductive and turns men into rapists. The virus
spreads with lightning speed and society is profoundly
transformed.
Keywords: MF Mf mF mf rape reluc 1st beast het cons ScFi

NOTICE:  This story contains explicit sex.

First posted 12/24/2012.

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The Slut and Rapist Virus

Chapter 1

"It has been found that the Toxoplasmosis parasite has the
ability to change the behavior of its host: infected rats and
mice are less fearful of cats -- in fact, some of the infected
rats seek out areas marked with cat urine. This effect is
advantageous to the parasite, which is able to proliferate if a
cat eats the infected rat and thereby becomes a carrier... Some
scientists speculate that Toxoplasma may have similar effects in
humans."

Wikipedia entry on "Toxoplasmosis", November 2012

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Jack and his friend Bill had polished off one six-pack and were
nearing the end of the second. They were juniors at Stanford,
dorm hall-mates. They had wandered the campus a bit, looking for
some sort of action, but there was nothing. Now they were back in
Jack's room.

Bill was restless. "Hey, Jack, you know I work in the primate
lab."

"Yeah, gorillas, right?"

"They've had them a long time, but they got some bonobos last
year."

"No kidding. There's something about them. Aren't they the ones
that fuck constantly?"

"Well, not all the time, but they do it a lot."

"I wish chicks thought that way. I'd like Meghan to say, 'Hi,
Jack, I'm horny, wanna fuck? I know you got to study, but it will
just take a minute. Quick in and out, give me a spurt, that's all
I want.' Oh, baby!"

"Yeah, I wish." Meghan wasn't Bill's type, but a quick fuck -- a
nice fantasy.

His mind wandered from the lack of Saturday night action. He
thought of Patrice, the young female bonobo who was sick. They
didn't know what was wrong with her, and he and all the others
hoped she would recover. He wondered how she was doing over the
weekend. He could check in on her, and it would be cool to show
Jack the facility. It was strictly forbidden to bring anyone into
the bonobo lab who didn't have clearance. But hey, what harm
could it do?

"You wanna go see them? The bonobos?"

"Really? You could do that?"

"I could, sure. I'm not supposed to let anyone else in, but who's
gonna know?"

"Well, OK, it beats sitting around the room on a Saturday night."

It was a half-mile walk to the bonobo lab. Bill punched in his
code and they went in. Most of the animals lived together in the
enclosed courtyard of the building, which had been modified to
simulate their natural environment.

"That's where they live mostly," Bill said.

"Where are they?"

"They have their nests over there." He pointed.

"I can't see anything."

"Well, they sleep at night."

"Can't you turn on the lights?"

Bill laughed. "No way -- I'm not sure I could even find the
lights."
He hoped Jack wouldn't start trying all the switches -- he was a
bit impulsive, especially when drunk.

"But there's one who's not in there. Patrice. She's sick. We
could see her."

"OK, where is she?"

Bill led Jack down a corridor to her room. Someone had left the
lights on, and through the window they could see Patrice,
sleeping in the corner. Bill punched in his security code again
and the two entered. Patrice didn't move.

"She's ugly," said Jack.

"Well, jeez, she's an ape."

"Whatever. They say we're like almost identical, right?"

"In the DNA, yeah."

"Can I pat her?"

"Let's see how she is." Bill went over cautiously. He spoke as if
to a child. "Hi, Patrice, how are you feeling this evening?"

The ape raised her head briefly and barely opened her eyes.

"Not great, I guess."

"Yeah. So, can I pat her?"

She was too lethargic to pose much danger. "Yeah, if you're
gentle."

Jack stroked Patrice's back. Bill couldn't read bonobo emotions
so well yet, but there was no evidence of any distress. "I wonder
where her pussy is. Does it look different from all that
fucking?"

Bill was uneasy when Jack moved his hand down between her legs.
He'd never dared to touch a bonobo there -- he'd never seen any
of the staff do it either, but Patrice didn't seem to mind.

"I don't know about that, Jack."

"Hey, it's natural, right? And she'll let me know if she doesn't
like it. I wonder if she gets turned on from rubbing... Her sex
part does look pretty funny, doesn't it? ... But there's her
hole... Shit, I'm getting hard just looking at it. I haven't had
any pussy in ages."

"Yeah, right, Jack," said Bill. But he noticed his own cock
stirring just a little.

Jack kept rubbing her vulva. Suddenly Patrice turned onto her
back and spread her legs wide and looked up at Jack expectantly,
if groggily.

"Jesus! She's asking for it."

Bill was astonished.

"She's ugly, but she's got a pussy. You think I could? What a
story!"

"Yeah, right," said Bill. "Fucking a bonobo. That will be the
day."

And then in a flash Jack's pants were down, he mounted the little
she ape and stuck his cock right at her ape pussy. "Unnnh, unnnh,
unnnh!" he said with a laugh. Patrice lay unmoving in her
obviously receptive position. "Getting my rocks off in a monkey!
She sure is tight!"

Bill couldn't believe his eyes, then he was horrified. He was
also drunk, and it took him a few seconds before he reacted. "Are
you crazy? Get off of her!"

Jack laughed and got off at once. "Oh well, I barely got into
her."

"Do you realize what kind of trouble I'd get into if anyone saw
that? Or how she could rip you apart if she got pissed at you?"

"Hey, man. It was just a joke," he said refastening his pants.

Bill ushered Jack out hurriedly, and his friend didn't object.

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When they got back to the dorm, Jack took a shower. In
retrospect, the idea that he'd tried to fuck an ape was
disgusting, and he scrubbed his dick thoroughly.

Towards morning he woke up with fever and chills. If it was a
hangover, it was unlike any hangover he'd ever had. But by the
afternoon he felt OK and went about his routine.

In the dining hall that evening he noticed the chicks all looked
especially hot. He was aware of wanting to fuck them all, even
the fat ugly ones. He smiled as he realized they looked a lot
better than that ape. But then the ape had been naked and spread
her legs for him. These girls didn't do that. At least not
without a lot of hard work and some luck, and then not the pretty
ones.

Man, he was horny. When he got back to his room he thought about
jerking off, which would be his usual solution to the problem.
But he didn't feel like it. He wanted the real thing. To get into
a pussy. The desire burned like never before, and that was saying
a lot.

Walking to the bathroom he went right by Meghan's door. And there
she sat in her bathrobe. Shit. His cock got so hard he couldn't
take a leak when he got to the men's room. Shit, why couldn't
they just fuck? It was natural, right? He turned around and
walked back. No one was looking, and with his heart pounding he
walked right into Meghan's room and closed the door behind him.

"Uhh, hi Jack, what can I do for you?" said Meghan, looking up
with an uncertain smile.

"Did I ever get to tell you just how amazingly beautiful you
are?" He quickly moved behind her and started rubbing her
shoulders.

"Ummm, I don't know as you did, and that's very nice, but, um,
you gotta leave." She sounded alarmed.

"Oh, come on, baby. You're so sexy, how about a little quickie?
I'm so fucking horny." His hands moved around to her breasts,
which he cupped firmly.

Meghan scrambled up out of the chair and faced him. "No! No, no,
no! Now get out!"

Her words inflamed Jack even more. "Fuck it. I'm gonna have you,
now shut up!" he said with a furious intensity. He would not be
denied. He shoved her onto the bed, and pulled down his pants to
free his erection.

Meghan cowered back against the wall, clearly frightened.

"Jack," she said. "Come on, now Jack..." she tried softly.

"Spread 'em!" he commanded. "Let me at you. Or else!" He balled
up his fist.

The color drained from Meghan's face, but she lay back and spread
her legs.

"Ha! Look! No panties! I knew you wanted it!"

Meghan whimpered, "But... But I was just airing out... Never
mind..."

Jack was on her in a flash. He roughly opened her nightgown to
reveal her breasts. Big and full. But her pussy was what he
wanted. It was right there. He dove for it, spreading her cunt
lips roughly with his fingers. He pressed his twitching cock
forward when it was right opposite her opening, and then he
shoved. Even with just his tip in, it felt fantastic -- hot and
tight. He realized the few times he'd done it had always been
with a condom, and this was way better. He pressed hard, and
harder still when her pussy resisted. His rapid fucking motion
drove him in deeper with each stroke. He'd do it to her and give
her his load. It was natural. No holding back to make her happy
-- something he'd never succeeded at before anyway. He bottomed
out, and it felt incredibly right to have gotten into her all the
way. With a few more stabs, in and out like lightning, the
pleasure built fast and then broke. He moaned and felt the warmth
of ecstasy spread from his loins to his entire body. His cock was
twitching and shooting gobs of his jism into the hot girl. Before
many seconds he was done and pulled out, totally satisfied.

Something was a little strange, though. What had he just done?
This was called rape, right? But why was it wrong? It was mating.
Natural. He'd never seen it so clearly before.

"You won't tell anyone, right?" he said.

Meghan hesitated.

"I'm sorry," he said, "I don't know what came over me. Jeesh. You
won't tell, right?"

Meghan shook her head tentatively.

"Man," he said to himself with a little smile, putting himself
back together and letting himself out, shutting the door behind
him.

He'd apologized because he thought he ought to, and he realized
it would be bad if she told. But he didn't really regret it. It
felt fantastic. He wondered why he hadn't done that before. Just
taken what he wanted.

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Meghan sat on her bed. She was numb. Incredulous. She'd been
raped. They kept saying it was common, but she'd never really
believed it could happen to her.

But somewhat to her surprise, she wasn't feeling totally
horrible. Her pussy was a little sore, but there had been nothing
physically traumatic about it. She'd had sex with boyfriends
before, and it was exciting to see them go for it at the end,
that masculine power and frantic urgency as they crammed and even
overfilled her private space. Of course she was usually looking
up at them in her own afterglow, as they satisfied her before
going for their own pleasure. Her rapist hadn't, of course. But
she'd found herself getting wet even as he was threatening her,
and realized she was pretty well lubricated by the time he had
shafted her all the way. The feel of his penis was different, too
-- she'd never had one in her without a condom before. It felt
nicer, she realized with some shame. And then he'd unloaded up
inside her. She reached down and ran her finger through the goop
that was oozing out of her and sniffed it. Yeah, definitely
different from pussy juice after condom sex. She'd smelled semen
before in the early days when she'd given hand jobs. She'd even
tasted it a couple times -- blech. The thing was, she was ashamed
to admit that it was kind of thrilling in a horrifying way to get
just taken like that.

A big part of her also felt violated, degraded, dirtied: raped.
But that was what she expected, and the other part was more
interesting, more curious.

She knew what she was supposed to do. The rape hotline phone
number was posted everywhere. A series of sympathetic women would
let her vent her feelings, take down her story, swab her vagina,
and help her fill out forms. There'd be no doubt they'd had
intercourse -- a great gob of his DNA was in her that very
moment. But of course there would eventually be a trial, and his
lawyers would claim she had consented, and it would be her word
against his. And once she told, it would be public, the news
spreading everywhere. Oh, her identity would be withheld, but
people would find out. They always did. Poor Meghan, the rape
victim.

She was aware of that big part of her that felt furious.
Indignant. That wanted to see Jack suffer. But there was another
part of her that reflected on what had happened a different way.
A mere physical act. A cock up her pussy, something she'd
welcomed and enjoyed many times. She wasn't sure how horrified
she wanted to feel. How like a victim. That's the role she'd be
called on to play. Indignant victim, wronged woman. And it would
take the rest of the evening at least. She'd never get her
physics problem set done.

All she had to do was look on the desk for the number -- heck, it
was visible from where she sat, on the sheet of important phone
numbers she'd taped to the wall. All she had to do was pick up
her cell and dial. And walk to the health center. But one minute
went by. Then another, and she just sat. She was still sitting in
her dorm room, which was exactly as it had been an hour earlier.
In so many ways, the world had not changed one bit. She really
needed to do well on the next physics test.

What had changed was that she had sperm in her pussy. She was on
the pill, so that wasn't a problem. Did Jack have some STD? She
could deal with that possibility by just going to the health
center to get tested. It was totally routine. She'd had a
roommate who had done that, who came back relieved and said it
was easy.

But for now she'd take a shower. Her thoughts continued in the
same vein as she got ready and walked down the hall. The water
felt good. She reached inside to try to dig some of the sperm out
of her, but it didn't look like she was getting anything. That
asshole Jack. He raped her and she should go after him. But
conflict always made her really uncomfortable. The physics
problem she had been working on when she was so rudely
interrupted came back. It sure was a lot easier to just go back
to studying. And that's what she did.

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Jack reflected on how fantastic and 'right' his sex with Meghan
had been. He knew she could rat on him and he'd be in big
trouble. And part of him felt guilty. But it would be her word
against his, right?

Instead of feeling satisfied, though, he felt his urges as
strongly as ever. If he could just go in and fuck Meghan, why not
other girls?

There was Anne, who lived down a floor. Anne was kind of fat, but
as he thought about her now his mind focused on the hot, wet cave
she surely had between her legs. He had gotten the feeling she
liked him. It was subtle, but he was pretty sure. He wondered if
she'd do it with him. He'd have to pretend to like her. The idea
of pretending used to bother him, but now he wasn't sure why.

He stopped by her room at 11pm, and after a little conversation
he suggested they take a walk. She did most of the talking, and
he gave appropriate little answers. He realized she bored him, or
more to the point, there was something he wanted a lot more than
her conversation. His cock would briefly rise a little each time
he thought about it.

He tentatively took her hand, and she smiled and squeezed it.
After several more minutes of walking and talking, he asked if
she'd like to come back to his room and look at a cool YouTube
video on his laptop. She hesitated but agreed. Then she stood in
a way which let him know she hoped he'd kiss her. He didn't
really feel like it, but it was a means to an end, and he kissed
her anyway.

And 45 minutes later, at 2:15am, there they were, on his bed, his
hand right on her panty crotch, her only other garment a
practical, ordinary bra. He started tugging her panties down,
waiting for her to lift her butt. He was in just his briefs.

"Jack, that's a great idea, and I'd love to, but not quite yet,
OK? It's awfully soon."

Oh, great. A whole evening and it would come to this. He felt the
same intensity start to burn in him as he'd felt in Meghan's room
a few hours earlier. "But you're so sexy, Anne, I feel like I'm
gonna burst. I've just got to have it!"

"Oh, that's great you want me so much, but not yet, OK?"

"Oh, come on, Anne!"

"Um, you want a hand job?"

"No, I don't want a hand job!"

"I've never done fellatio before," she said.

"Nah, it's got to be the real thing." Women throughout time have
been less than thrilled and men just had to take them anyway. The
survival of the species required it. His mind was made up.

He whipped off his underpants to free his bulging stiff cock.

"Jack!" she said. "No!"

He tried pulling down her panties but she held them up.

"Cut it out!"

"Ah, c'mon, I gotta have it!" he said. "You'll like it too." He
mounted her.

"No!" she said with sudden firmness, twisting under him.

He felt no illusion of affection any more. "Hey. You lie there
and take it!" he said with menace, as he grabbed her head and
shook it from side to side.

Anne stopped struggling and looked to one side, tears brimming in
her eyes.

Fine, whatever. He pulled her panty crotch to the side and nosed
his cock tip into a copious growth of hair. But there was an
indentation when he pressed, a clear indication of where her hole
was. And with harsh, insistent thrusts, he felt his cock tip
break through from hair into smoothness. Anne's body stiffened
momentarily but she didn't struggle. It was tight; he wondered if
she was a virgin. But she was also wet and hot, and he
insistently burrowed in, deeper and deeper. When he was in all
the way he started his vigorous fuck. It was so natural, he
thought. But mostly he thought about how it felt great. In well
under a minute he felt the ecstasy approach and then break in a
wholly satisfactory manner. Ejaculating into a pussy was so great
he wondered if he'd ever jerk off again.

When he caught his breath, he started dressing. "You won't tell?"
he said.

"No," Anne said after the briefest hesitation, and she started
dressing too.

"Good," he said, satisfied. He realized now that raped girls
didn't always just report it. It was a total pain in the ass for
them too.

Anne's rage welled up as soon as she was down on her own floor.
She went straight to the health center. They took her story, took
her vaginal swab, and had her fill out forms.

And the next morning the campus police knocked on Jack's door and
took him in for questioning.

He was worried. But all I have to say is she consented, he said
to himself. Make up a simple story and stick to it.

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Meghan started feeling feverish the next day during physics. The
symptom reminded her that she had to go to the health center for
an STI test, though she thought you had to wait a while before
they could detect anything. She dragged herself through the rest
of the day. At intervals throughout the day, the awareness of her
rape surged back with a vengeance, and she felt rage. But she
also was aware of the primal satisfaction of being mated, quick
and simple, straight to the point.

In bed that night, she found the rage had lessened and the memory
of satisfaction strengthened. She also felt like strangling Jack,
watching the life ebb slowly out of his eyes as a wire noose dug
viciously into his throat. Then the image shifted to his being on
top of her thrusting urgently, bringing them to simultaneous
orgasm before she pulled the wire noose so very tight. And she
imagined his cock still pulsing into her pussy even as he died.

By the time she awoke the next day, she felt all better. She'd
been raped, but somehow it didn't bother her the way she thought
it would. The excitement of Jack's just taking her was strong in
her mind. Of course he wanted to take her. That's what men
wanted, to fuck, so who could blame them if they just went for it
sometimes? And it felt good to her. It wasn't politically
correct, for sure. But if she felt that way about it, who had the
right to tell her she shouldn't? Why didn't girls just say yes
more often?

Throughout the day she thought that if any of the guys who'd come
on to her over the past few months tried again, she'd be
interested. She had dinner with a couple girl friends, as usual,
but she was distracted because most of the boys looked very sexy.
She was aware as never before of just wanting them. By the middle
of the evening the feeling had grown uncomfortably strong.

Carl lived a couple doors down, and he'd made it pretty clear he
was attracted to her.

"Hi, Carl," she said in her sweetest voice, coming into his room.
"How are you?"

"Umm, pretty good Meghan, how are you?"

"Oh, I don't know, kind of lonely. You mind if I shut the door?"

"Um, no! That's fine."

"You mind giving me a hug?"

She was not at all surprised to find he didn't mind in the least.

As they stood hugging, she moved her legs so her crotch was
pressing against his thigh.

"Oh, sorry..." she said, feigning self-consciousness. "It's just
I kind of miss it sometimes, really bad. You know what I mean?"

"Um, about wanting to do it? Sure, yeah. I miss it a lot."

"Would you, um, do you think you could do me a favor, just this
once? I know it's a lot to ask."

"You mean, like, um, do it with you?" He sounded like he didn't
believe his good fortune.

"Well, yeah, kind of."

They kissed, and his hands roamed. He wasn't experienced, but she
didn't care.

He fumbled with the buttons on her blouse, but she diverted him,
her desire rising suddenly to frightening strength.

"I'm so hot, I don't want to wait for that. Down here!" she said,
moving his hand lower.

Despite his inexperience the feeling of fingers on her crotch
rapidly made her pussy go from moist to wet.

"Oh, I'm ready -- just do it, OK?" she said, pulling down her
jeans and panties all in one motion but leaving them around her
ankles, spreading her legs wide.

"Um, OK, gee, what about protection?" Carl said, taking his shoes
and socks off quickly before removing his own pants and briefs.

"Oh, to heck with that. I'm feeling reckless."

He mounted her, his face brimming with excitement.

"In you go!" she said, aiming his cock.

He gasped when his tip first made contact with feminine warmth.
He grinned and pressed, working his penis into her. It fit very
nicely, she thought. He whimpered and made a series of short
frantic strokes as she felt his organ swell, and then he
climaxed. She didn't feel the spurts, but she knew he was pumping
sperm into her. The motion felt kind of nice, but she was nowhere
near an orgasm. It was getting him into her that was so
incredibly satisfying. She thought women worried way too much
about orgasms.

When he regained his breath, he began kissing her all over her
hair and face.

"Oh, that was great, Carl," she said, shaking her head to stop
his attentions. "That was just what I wanted."

Taking the hint, he let his penis slide out and rolled off.

She pulled up her panties and jeans.

"Thanks, Carl. I feel very satisfied."

"Um, no problem! I mean, wow. Who ever thought --"

"Bye, Carl."

She was feeling giddy with excitement. That's all a girl had to
do to get laid. The boys wanted to fuck her, and she wanted to
get fucked, pure and simple, and it all worked out very well.

"Hey, Bill," she said in the hallway, Carl's sperm oozing out
onto her panties. "I'm feeling kind of horny. Would you be
willing to just do it to me?"

"Um, I do have to study..."

"Oh, it can be really quick. Any way you like. I just want to get
it -- from you!"

Bill gulped, while Meghan took him by the hand and towed him to
her room.

"Wait!" he said, then whispered, "I've got some condoms in my
room."

"Oh, it's OK, there's no need for that."

But he insisted. Minutes later they were on her bed. Once again
she saw no need to really get undressed; exposing her pussy and
opening her legs worked fine even if her ankles had to stay
together.

Bill fumbled with the condom, but in half a minute he had it on
and needed little encouragement to go plunging right in without
delay.

"Oh, man does that feel good! But I better slow down --"

"No, don't worry! Just got for it! Come in me!"

Bill smiled at her, closed his eyes, and pumped like crazy.
Within ten seconds she heard the gasp that meant he was finished.
He quickly withdrew, peeled off the condom, and put himself
together.

"That was great," he said, making to leave but obviously
uncomfortable.

"Yeah, just what I wanted!" she said, totally truthfully. Her
smile put him at ease and he was gone.

But she wanted more. She was in a dorm full of horny guys. It
shouldn't be hard to get what she wanted -- and indeed it wasn't.

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Anne sat in the small conference room.

"I don't understand," said Mrs. Worthington. "The night before
last you told us Jack raped you, and now you're saying he
didn't."

"That's right."

"Well, did you consent or not?"

"Yeah, I did. I know I said yesterday I didn't, but I think I
did."

"You don't have to protect him, you know. There's no excuse for
rape, and it's important to stop men, or else they'll just go on
raping one girl after another." She paused between sentences,
hoping to get through to this girl. "You'll end up feeling better
about yourself if you do the right thing... I know it might be
uncomfortable, but you're taking a stand for all women... You
don't want to find out some other girl got raped and you could
have prevented it, do you?"

Anne giggled. "I think it would be fine if Jack raped another
girl. Girls don't know what they're missing. Guys need to do it,
and it feels awfully good to get it. I was a virgin, but now I
know better."

Mrs. Worthington stared. When she said no more, Anne said, "Sorry
to waste your time yesterday, but I don't want to press charges
-- I mean, it wasn't really rape at all."

"But... but you really don't mean that about other girls, right?
Not when you think about it?"

"Bye," said Anne, disappearing with a smile.

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Carl was giddy. He knocked on Anne's door. He might have to rape
her, but he just needed to deliver his load up her pussy. She
might be fat and she might be kind of prudish, but he needed to
do it to her.

"Oh, hi, Carl, come on in." she said. When the door was closed,
she continued, "Say, you wanna fuck me?"

"Boy, do I!" he said, somewhat surprised at her reaction. His
erection pulsed to hardness.

"Goody!" said the girl. She knelt on her bed, flipped up her
dress and pulled down her panties.

He didn't need to pull his pants down further than a few inches.
Cock penetrated pussy quickly. In ten seconds semen pulsed deep
into the girl's snatch.

"Oh, that was fantastic!" said Anne.

"Yeah, sure was!" said Carl.

Ninety seconds after knocking, he closed the door behind him.
Hardly anything had changed, except that a bit of the fluid from
his loins was now swimming around up inside her.

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The compulsion to fuck ever-increasing numbers of the opposite
sex spread like wildfire through the Stanford campus. A
particular pair might do it again if no one else was around, but
the urge was for new partners. Quick matings between the already
infected like Carl and Anne happened with increasing frequency.
But the most intense drive was to do it with a reluctant or
hesitant partner -- someone you figured hadn't had sex lately or
at all. That was the most important thing, not how attractive
they were.

The men spread their infection by a bit of seduction and a lot of
rape. They had to be careful in the latter, though, and they
still frequently found themselves brought in for questioning or
booking.

But it was girls like Meghan who quickly spread their shared
infection far and wide. On the street, she got so she could spot
those who could be easily tempted. A drunk could usually be
persuaded to step into an alley and press his cock up under her
skirt. With a deft hand motion and a little pelvic maneuvering,
Meghan quickly aligned it so the man's thrust drove it into the
wet hole he was instinctively seeking. Seconds later it disgorged
its load. Meghan felt wonderful every time and could easily take
a dozen in an evening. And then it was the men's turn. A little
over a day later, after each had a brief episode of fever and
chills, the world had a dozen new rapists to contend with.

Palo Alto has plenty of people who are just passing through.
Within days, academics leaving a prestigious conference were
carrying the condition back to every corner of the globe.  It
spread even more rapidly through a more impulsive poorer segment
of society, and some of its members are always on the move to
different cities.

Police in Palo Alto tallied up a mind-boggling number of rape
reports. Compared to a usual of one or two a month, 95 in one
week. Just as surprising was that the vast majority of the women
withdrew their accusations within a day or two . Many didn't say
much more than that, but some did report a sudden interest in
sexual promiscuity. Three male detectives reported being
propositioned by these women after their change of heart. Some of
the accused men reported a suddenly increased sexual interest as
well. The authorities urged everyone in the area to use extreme
caution in sexual encounters with new partners, and urged women
to be especially vigilant about the danger of sexual assault.

It became a front-page national news story, and frantic parents
of Stanford students arrived to take their children home and away
from danger. Many were already infected, and the condition was
soon spreading through their home towns.

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Chapter 2

Walking the streets of New York, Meghan was getting a lot of sex,
and she'd never felt better. Some men refused, of course. Some
gave as their reason the fear that she would accuse them of rape.
To meet that objection, she printed many copies of this form:

"I, Meghan McDonald, of 555 Washington Street, Manhattan, hereby
certify that I am over the age of 18 years and that I have
consented to this sexual encounter. I furthermore guarantee that
I shall not publicize this encounter in any fashion and will deny
its existence if asked."

Pulling a copy out was most often met with amusement, but a few
men stuffed one in their pocket before following Meghan to some
secluded spot for a quick score.

With as many as 50 sexual partners a day, she might have expected
to get sore from the friction of penises going in and out. But
the encounters were usually very quick, and previous ejaculations
provided extra lubrication. But she did develop sores which put a
damper on her activity. The doctor diagnosed it as gonorrhea.
When asked if she had had recent sexual activity with a new
partner, her "yes" was accompanied by giggles. His jaw dropped
when she said he'd love it if he'd just do her in a quickie right
there in the examining room.

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A thought flashed through Rachel Johnson's mind and her brow
furrowed. She thought another few minutes. She was a grad student
in primatology, not an infectious disease specialist. Would they
laugh at her? Adam Schwartz had been in med school while she was
in college, and now he was doing a residency in infectious
diseases. She felt pretty sure he at least wouldn't laugh, so she
gave him a call. After the preliminaries, she got to her point:

"You know this wild promiscuity thing that's sweeping the
country?"

"In my field it's on everyone's mind these past few days. And
it's not just this country, it's showing up other places too."

"I guess in this day and age nothing stays in a single country
for long. Do they know what's causing it?"

"It sure looks like an infectious agent. The pattern fits
perfectly. You have an infected individual who has unprotected
sex with someone. There are frequent reports of a mild fever
within the first 24 hours, and then the person is themselves
sexually supercharged, which shows up as promiscuity in females
and aggression in men."

"So do they know what the agent is?"

"No idea, but of course it's only been a few days."

"Well, I had this crazy idea. I hate to even mention it, because
it's not my field."

"Hey, ideas are always good."

"They say this thing started at Stanford, right?"

"Yeah, that sounds right. Somewhere around there."

"Did you know there's a primate lab at Stanford?"

"Sounds vaguely familiar. Did they have a famous gorilla?"

"Yeah, they've had gorillas for a long time, but in the past year
they got a small group of bonobos."

"Oh, yeah, the pygmy chimps, right?"

"Right. There are only a dozen other places in the US with any
bonobos, and most of those are zoos. Just a couple are research
labs."

"OK."

"So you know what bonobos are famous for?"

"Um, constant sex between all different individuals no matter the
relationship?"

"That's right. Suppose there's a link? Something that makes the
bonobos behave the way they do that crossed over into the human
population?"

There was a mere moment's silence. "Holy shit, Rachel! That is
one hell of a coincidence, and it fits. If the infectious agent
affects behavior, it could be what causes the bonobos to do that,
and it does the same in people!"

"We always assumed the bonobo sex pattern was a behavioral
adaptation on the part of the bonobos, but what if it's some bug
affecting the bonobos for its own ends?"

"Like toxoplasmosis."

"Right! Or rabies!"

"To this point, those two were the only cases we knew where it
looks like a microorganism influences human behavior in a
specific way. It hasn't been proven, but the evidence is pretty
good."

"So, it's not a crazy idea?"

"No! I've got to post this right away! Talk to you later."

"But -- "

And thus it happened that Adam Schwartz and not Rachel Johnson
got credit for the crucial bonobo connection. Others claimed to
have thought of it independently, and it was true that the link
was sitting in plain view.

Tissue samples were taken from most of the bonobos in captivity.
The problem was alarming enough that two elderly bonobos were
sacrificed so their brains could be studied, despite bonobos
being a severely endangered species.

The syndrome was called Infectious Hypersexuality Disorder, or
IHD for short.

By comparing bonobos with infected and uninfected people,
progress was rapid. In a matter of months the offending agent was
found to be a virus. A diagnostic test was rushed into
production.

But development of a vaccine was maddeningly slow.


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Chapter 3

Evan Lothrop was 14. He lived in a comfortable suburb with his
mother, father, and 17-year-old sister Allie.

Like most boys, he had sex on the brain. Getting a girl to do it
with him was his idea of heaven, but things with peers were very
complicated. So he had been dumbfounded while walking downtown
when a lovely young woman had approached him with a friendly
smile and asked if he was interested in sex, quickly clarifying
she meant just for fun, not money. She was too pretty and fresh
to fit any prostitute stereotypes -- heck, she was wearing a pink
T-shirt and a knee-length black skirt. She said she just thought
he was sexy and wanted him to do it to her. He was always a
cautious guy and this was very unexpected, so he refused, but now
he cursed himself. To get to do it to a girl like her, just
because she thought he was hot!

It struck him shortly after the encounter that she might be one
of the infected ones from that recent news story. But to him and
his friends it sounded like a dream come true -- lots of girls
who wanted to get laid. They said if a guy caught it, it made him
want sex a lot too, but he and his friends didn't quite get it --
they all wanted sex so much they couldn't imagine wanting it
more.

Luke came over to Evan's house Monday afternoon with a big smile
on his face.

"Well, I did it! Lost my virginity. Did it with three different
girls this weekend."

"You're kidding... No, you went downtown?"

"Yeah, it was like you said. It was no problem finding them.
Fucking is everything I dreamed of and more. And this way,
there's no dating, commitment, foreplay, or any of that. Just a
babe who spreads her legs and invites you in. Man is it
fantastic." He mimed a half dozen thrusting motions with his hips
and gave an orgasmic groan.

Evan's cock surged strongly to erection within his pants as he
imagined the scene. He felt envy for Luke's experience, to be
sure, but there was more than that. Luke was usually a kind of
awkward, dissatisfied kid -- it was one thing they had in common
-- but now he seemed relaxed and confident.

"You ought to come down next weekend. Or even better, tomorrow.
Blow off school."

"Yeah, right."

"No, I'm serious. Whatever good is school, anyway?"

This wasn't like Luke at all, but Evan found his friend's new
attitude mesmerizing.

"Say, you got anything to eat?"

"Sure."

They headed to the kitchen, where Luke's mother was sorting
bills.

"Hi, Mrs. Lothrop."

"Oh, hi, Luke. How are you?"

"Fine, fine, thanks."

They grabbed a bag of chips and sodas and headed back to Evan's
room.

On the way, Evan handed the food to Luke and stopped by the
bathroom. After the noise of his peeing finished, he heard a
murmur of voices, and then suddenly his mother's voice raised in
anger. Something wasn't right, and he raced back into the
kitchen.

Kyle had pinned his mother against the wall and his right hand
was groping down under her dress.

"What the fuck?" roared Evan.

Kyle turned in confusion, but within a second put on his
confident smile. "Oh, hey, man," he said.

"Out of my house!" said his mother firmly.

"Oh, hey, sure, if that's what you want. I just thought you might
like a little excitement."

"Out!"

"I'm going, I'm going..." said Kyle, sauntering off to get his
pack from Evan's room. Evan was furious and had the impulse to
beat the shit out of his friend. But he wasn't sure how such a
contest would turn out, his mother probably wouldn't approve
(would she?), and he was a cautious guy.

Once he had locked the door on Kyle's retreating back, Evan raced
to his mother.

"Are you OK?"

"Yeah. Did Kyle have sex with one of those girls?"

Ordinarily he wouldn't share his friend's confidences for the
world. But this was different. "Uhhh, yeah, he just told me he
was downtown this weekend."

"Well, then he's dangerous. Just like they're saying on TV."

Evan was silent, taking in the new situation.

"We've got to spread the word. Make sure he doesn't try to rape
anyone else's mother..." She paused, a horrified expression on
her face. "Or his own mother! Not to mention all his peers... Oh,
shit!"

Evan set to work posting to Twitter and Facebook. His mother
called Kyle's mother, and he overheard her half of the
conversation.

"Hello? You're Kyle's mother? ... Look, this is Evan's mother ...
Yes, fine, thank you -- actually, not so fine. Your son just
tried to rape me. I think he's infected... What? ... You're
kidding! ... Really? ... Huh? OK, bye." Her face was blank with
astonishment as she hung up.

"What did she say?"

"She said I shouldn't tell lies about her son. And even if he was
'forward', I shouldn't be so uptight. Society's too uptight. All
these accusations about rape have gotten out of hand." She looked
at Evan with panic. "She's infected too!"

"Let's figure. They say it takes 24 hours, right? If he did the
first girl Saturday, then by Sunday he'd show the behaviors, and
if he raped his mother Sunday, then by today... whoa, it fits!"

"And if you hadn't come in to stop him, I'd be the same way in 24
hours!" She shuddered. "You can't go over to his house ever,
right? His mother would try to seduce you."

"Mom, I wouldn't do my friend's mother!" But he reflected that if
he hadn't been forewarned, and she'd come on really strong...
"Should we call the police?"

"No, they say the police are flooded with complaints, and then
the women always say to drop the matter once the bug kicks in."

"But you didn't get infected, right?"

"No, but still. Do you know any girls who might be vulnerable?
Like friends of Kyle's?"

Evan's heart sank. He could think of a half dozen girls the two
of them were kind of friendly with. He and his mother set to work
trying to notify them. Fortunately, the TV stories had already
made a lot of girls cautious. But evidently Kyle had already
gotten to Justine, as he found out the next morning on his way to
school.

"Hey, Evan!" said the girl, just coming out of her house, with a
big smile. She was kind of average in attractiveness all around,
but that made her plenty attractive. And for the first time in
his life he learned what it felt like when a girl came on to him.
The woman downtown was different, because he didn't know her. But
he'd known Justine for years, and the change in her behavior was
amazing.

"Hi, Justine," he said guardedly.

"You sure are handsome, you know. I've dreamed about you... Would
you like to come back into my house and, you know, make out and
stuff?"

"Now?" He was stalling for time.

"Why not?"

"School starts in fifteen minutes."

"Oh, school. Whatever. We can go as far as you want," she said
with the most alluring smile.

"No, no thanks!" he said.

"Am I that ugly?" she said with a playful pout.

"No, but you're infected with that bug! Who'd you do it with?
Kyle? He tried to rape my mother. Did he rape you?"

After a brief hesitation, she said, "He showed me how great sex
can be."

"But did he ask? Did you say yes?"

Justine looked aside. "Well, not technically. And I was a little
uncertain, I guess. But he just nudged me to see how hung up we
all are about sex. It's all so clear now." She put her arms
around his neck and pressed her crotch against his leg. "You sure
I can't interest you?" she said sweetly. "I can see you're
interested," she continued with a smile as she felt his erection
at the front of his pants.

"No!" he said, pushing her away roughly and stalking off to
school.

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Evan was awakened by a scream in the night. He leapt out of bed
in just his underwear and raced to his sister Allie's room and
turned on the overhead light. He found his father wrestling with
her. For the first time in his life, he saw his father's erect
cock as he struggled to expose his sister enough to fuck it into
her. Evan added his own roar to his sister's screams and began
punching and wrestling with his father.

"Hold it, hold it!" said his father, who apparently realized he
was outmatched and retreated to the far side of the room. He was
totally naked and seemed unembarrassed by his erection, which
gradually subsided as they talked. Their mother appeared in the
doorway.

"Hey, kids, no big deal," he said with an easy smile. "I just
thought it was time Allie learned how great sex is, but I guess
she's not ready yet. You don't know what you're missing, honey,"
he said, still smiling.

"Get out of the house!" said her mother firmly.

"Ah, c'mon, I live here too," he said. "What's the big deal?"

"You've been infected and you're a danger to us all!"

"I've just discovered the truth, that's all. You guys will in
time, and if not, that's your problem."

"So you're not going to leave?"

"No way."

"Allie, Evan, get dressed, we're leaving."

The two kids needed no convincing. They needed a place to stay,
and despite the late hour, their mother called her friends the
Chens across town. With temporary beds made up and the Chens
having retreated to their own bedroom, it was just the three of
them. The two females started sobbing. Evan's eyes teared up.

They went over again and again what had happened, filling Allie
in on the earlier scene with Kyle, speculating about how the
world was going to manage.

But something was clearly bothering their mother beyond what they
were discussing.

"What is it, mom?" insisted Allie.

Suddenly Evan felt a cold pang in his stomach when it hit him.
"Dad did it to you earlier, right?"

His mother didn't deny it. "Well, I didn't know! We are a married
couple, after all. Things had tailed off over the years, and I
was thrilled he was so interested... well, this is too much
information, isn't it..."

"Oh, mom!" said Allie, sobbing again. "It's not your fault, of
course. But does that mean you'll..."

"I hope not, I mean, how could a person ever...?" but she trailed
off, looking stricken.

Sure enough, not that night but the following one Evan was
awakened when his mother came into the Chens' downstairs den
where he was sleeping.

"Hi, son," she said, in a voice that was all too calm.

"Yes, mom?" he said, alert and wary.

"You know, we all made way too much of a big deal out of this. We
should go move back in with your father. It really is time Allie
learned about how great sex is... High time."

"No!"

"And you... you're not getting any either, are you?"

"No, forget it! We knew this would happen, right? You're infected
too!"

"Well, now I finally see how things are."

But Evan was already up the stairs and calling for the Chens.
They'd foreseen this possibility and discussed it earlier. His
mother didn't object as Mr. and Mrs. Chen drove her back to join
their father. She didn't object when they explained that she
should leave her car with Allie, who would need it so she could
be independent and ferry Evan around.

It was brother and sister, alone in the living room. Allie
sobbed, and Evan finally lost it and sobbed right along with her.

She tentatively reached for his hand. "You swear you've never
done it?"

"I swear. You too?"

"Yes! Well..."

"What?" Evan was alarmed.

"I did some stuff, but long before this virus hit."

"Oh, OK." He couldn't help a little smile.

"You promise you won't do it with anyone?"

"Yeah, and you too?"

"Of course."

After a moment, Evan withdrew his hand. He felt a tension. He had
no interest in his sister and never had, but if he'd given in
when he was downtown, he would have been trying to rape her
before their father did. And if her father had gotten into her,
she'd be trying to seduce him. Could a virus really do that to a
person's mind? Evidently it could.

"So dad must have cheated on mom," said Allie.

"Yeah. But if you saw how those girls come on to you..."

"Yeah," said Allie with a sigh. "I can imagine."



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Chapter 4

Similar dramas unfolded throughout every community and every
culture. Teen boys were especially susceptible to the charms of
women. Teen girls were initially too trusting, raised in a modern
culture where girls and boys could mix easily as friends,.

The infected were all confident and optimistic, enjoying quick,
hot sex with anyone they could. They didn't see any problem.

The uninfected, by contrast, were worried and anxious. They
retreated into larger household groups for protection. They could
never be sure when one of their women who had been attacked might
suddenly try to seduce every male in sight. Far more ominous was
what happened if one of their menfolk had succumbed to
temptation. And especially for men, the allure of endless sex
with willing partners could be a sore temptation indeed. Some
young men secretly partook of free pussy with the scrupulous use
of condoms, but they of course ran a certain risk of failure. An
infected woman's hand that had some of her own secretions on it
could infect a man if she grasped his unshielded cock. But those
who resisted their initial temptations could see how the mindset
caused by the virus was profoundly threatening to the fabric of
civilization. Fortunately for the uninfected communities, the
virus did not imbue its victims with a great deal of subtlety. An
infected man or woman wanted sex and didn't try to hide the fact.

The uninfected retained their ordinary sex drives, of course. But
sex became less frequent and less carefree, and condom use much
more widespread. Interest in intentional pregnancy went down, as
people foresaw for their children a very chaotic and uncertain
life.

All the major institutions of society split, though the
uninfected were soon in charge of everything vital. The higher
ranks of all organizations were then as always dominated by older
people, who were less likely to become infected. And the infected
in any organization didn't put up organized resistance. Their
focus had shifted to the short-term goal of getting more sex.
While the young men in the vital military and police forces were
seduced out of proportion to their numbers, they didn't mutiny.
They just went AWOL. Martial law was declared, and one of the
most pressing tasks was disarming armed rape gangs. Civil
liberties remained curtailed for many years.

But although the infected were pushed out of existing
organizations, they naturally formed new organizations to meet
their needs.

Gays and lesbians remained uninfected unless a lesbian got raped.
If she did, the virus unleashed as strong a tendency for
heterosexual seduction as in any other woman. But the absence of
compulsive same-sex lust meant that gatherings of infected and
uninfected together could be stable if they were separated by
gender. However, the uninfected were distressed enough by the
attitudes of the infected that they just didn't want to be around
them more than necessary.

Both groups tended to limit the size of mixed-gender gatherings.
For the uninfected, the concern was the increasing danger of one
infected person slipping in as group size increased. For the
infected, it was that the compulsion to fuck everyone of the
other sex made it hard to get anything done at all!

Conservative ministers railed from the pulpit about this new
divine punishment for a sinful world. But those same religious
communities were as often embarrassed by ministers who shared
their revelation: they had seen the light, and free love was the
most important of God's plans for mankind.

Thousands of infected young men were murdered by the relatives of
their rape victims, who realized they had no hope of legal
relief. Once the virus's incubation period was over, the rape
victim would never agree to press charges. Bringing such killers
to justice was not a top priority of the police.

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The Stanford hall-mates Jack and Meghan were both from New York,
and they recognized each other during an encounter on the street.

"Hey, Jack, how are you?" said Meghan warmly.

"Great, great, and you?"

"Fine. Though all this hostility is depressing."

"Yeah, I'll say." His eyes lit up with lust.

"You wanna do it?"

"Of course."

"Where?"

There was no obvious secluded place. "Against that wall would
suit me fine."

"Can we just do it in public now?"

"I've seen it a bunch. I don't see why not."

It was late fall and a bit cold, so Jack just whipped his cock
out of his fly. Meghan had no panties on under her woolen skirt.

"Oh, just shove it up there, OK?" she said with passion.

"Yes!" he said, and within seconds his tip found its way into her
soupy tunnel. "Unnnh, unnnh, unnnnh, unnnnnh, aaahhhhhhh!" he
said, and let his cock slide out seconds later

Meghan was satisfied. She hadn't had an orgasm, but she couldn't
care less. Sex was the thing, getting penetrated, and he'd
satisfied her craving.

"So, now that's done," said Jack, "where are you living?"

They exchanged addresses.

"Say, do you and some of your friends want to come over?" asked
Meghan.

"Yeah, we do get tired of socializing with the same people all
the time."

"Us too!"

That night 6 men and 3 women of Jack's community showed up at
Meghan's. There were 3 men and 3 women in Meghan's unit and the
one next door.

"Hi, everyone!" said Meghan with glee. "This is Jack, who I knew
at Stanford, and a bunch of his friends."

Jack started the introductions. "Yeah, this is John, Sally,
Frank, another John --"

Meghan's roommate interrupted. "I don't care much what their
names are, I just want to get laid!"

"Oh, yeah!" said everyone amid much laughter.

Clothes flew off and soft places were found for the fucking.

David was a large man from Jack's group who paired up with Meghan
first. Their joint purpose was to get his stiff cock into her wet
pussy, and it didn't take long.

She spread her legs wide and held her lips open, while he lined
up and shoved.

"Oh, yes!" she said once he had penetrated her deeply.

"Ah, that's nice, honey!" he said as his cock bottomed out.

"Oh, sure is!" said Meghan, content with being squished by his
weight as she knew it wouldn't last long.

After a few strokes, he pulled out and rolled off her. That was
what their brains were now wired for most. Ordinarily David's
underlying male instincts would have led him to follow up with a
quick orgasm and ejaculation, but that would of course make him
limp and not fit to penetrate all the other pussies. So he'd
pulled out without coming.

"Thanks, man," said Meghan with a smile.

"No problem. Thank you," said David.

They both immediately looked around for a free sex organ of an
unfamiliar member of the other gender.

David had 2 other pussies to screw right away before his most
urgent desires would be satisfied. Meghan had 5 other stiff cocks
to engulf, though as she'd just done Jack that afternoon, their
mutual lust was not so keen and they hooked up briefly only when
there was a lull and neither had a better prospect.

There were 9 fucks of home-team penises into visiting vaginas,
and with no other new females in sight, the 3 men let loose and
spurted their loads up into whichever vagina they were in last.
While the 18 fucks in the other direction were being finished up,
the home-team men summoned the men and women from the other
apartment units in Meghan's community.

In total, there were 24 women and 17 men in their little group of
apartments who were around that evening. Most of the visiting men
didn't make it into all 24 pussies. A guy can hold off a while,
but after 9 or 12 or 19 hot pussies a lot of them spewed their
sperm. The younger ones got it up again and finished off the lot,
but not all did. The 3 visiting women did have the satisfaction
of all 17 cocks rammed up their pussies, each walking back home
with a half dozen or so loads of sperm running down her legs.

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The infected population was still game to go to work in whatever
jobs were left to them, though they approached work with nothing
like the dedication and ingenuity that the best of them had
possessed before. Fucking all one's coworkers daily was a
necessity, and customer service jobs involved sex before service.
Checking out at the grocery store naturally included sex (a quick
poke of cock into pussy) with the cashier and the bagger if they
didn't match the customer's gender.

Those infected with the bonobo virus quickly developed genital
symptoms showing they had contracted other infections as well.
Doctors and nurses would diagnose the condition and offer
treatment -- after the mandatory fuck.

The penetration rate of every STI in the infected population
approached 90%. The solution was ultimately to put everyone
permanently on antibiotics, antivirals, and the HIV cocktail
treatment.

Naturally drug-resistant strains arose, and health among the
infected people suffered. In poorer areas of the world, the
effect was catastrophic. The AIDS cases and associated infections
overwhelmed available supply and infrastructure. Horrendous
suffering and mass deaths were the norm.

In developed nations, the uninfected ceded to the infected
control of many of the drug labs which made RU-486, birth control
pills, and STI medications. The market for those products was
very strong and constant.

Infected women initially became pregnant at an astonishing rate,
naturally. Many managed to get abortions. Moral objections didn't
overly concern either patients or doctors once they had been
infected. But it quickly became standard for all women to get on
the pill unless they were actually trying to get pregnant.

Scientists discovered early on that the virus could not infect
people who were not sexually mature. Babies born to infected
women could remain in the infected communities for many years.

The uninfected were eager to accept any children from the
infected side to save them from the fate that awaited them at
puberty. Some children approaching puberty ran away as they
realized that their parents' brains had been taken over by a bug
and the long-term implications for society became clear. Some
young girls in particular enjoyed neither the prospect of being
raped as soon as they started to develop sexually nor their
mothers' indifferent reaction to the prospect. However, children
are very flexible and will fit into just about any social
arrangement their elders have contrived. Most children remained
in their families, contracting the virus at puberty.

The extent of infection varied a great deal. Large swaths of
rural areas were never infected at all, though they had to remain
vigilant against infected men who singly or in small groups
cruised the countryside in search of fresh pussy. Poorer urban
areas got very high rates of infection. In the US, the infection
rate stabilized at 27%. In areas of the world with weaker
governments and where women have less power, rates were much,
much higher.

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Nineteen years after Jack's initial abortive liaison with the
bonobo Patrice, an effective vaccine was at last developed. The
uninfected communities began to relax.

Infected communities by then had become largely dependent on the
economy of the uninfected. Many of them didn't mind having their
children vaccinated. The virus had evolved to make its victims
want lots of sex, but not to actively work for propagation of the
virus using higher cognition. Similar considerations explain why
ordinary humans do not fight fiercely to be sperm donors or feel
gut-level revulsion at the idea of contraception.

The infected communities gradually decreased in size, though some
people just liked the lifestyle despite the attendant disease.

Rebuilding Third World societies was a very slow process.

There was one permanent effect: prostitution vanished from the
face of the earth. Uninfected men had unlimited opportunities for
sex with infected women. Their vaccination protected them against
the bonobo virus itself, and careful use of condoms protected
them from the other diseases.

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