Do you recognise the people in it?”
I’d been right about the camera flash. I shook my head. Anal sex Mandy was right, wasn’t she? My unconscious could have dredged up her name from the depths below memory and glued it to my fantasy. I mean weeds and thorns during the aftermath, during the so-called ‘upgrading’.”
I watched Mandy’s face settle into mendacity mode and my fists bunched, but I could seldom bring myself to hit a woman. If the Part Three excerpts of the films were genuine, the ‘cutters’ were women, not men. I could answer none of those questions. Upgrading?Sadly, among the twelve who were rescued from maleness during last year’s Festival, three didn’t make it to full womanhood. I was surprised how quickly my body began to change. In yet another article, they identified four potentiating factors in the backgrounds of castration-seekers: (1) childhood abuse, including threats of castration; (2) homosexuality; (3) seeing animals being castrated; and (4) religious condemnation of sexuality. They said it would be explained in the interview room. Why? But even as I wrote it I knew I couldn’t send it.
