from the ceiling like the girl on the Veraceo video shoot. “If you want to get up onto the table,” the doctor said. “Face down.” Brian obliged, climbing awkwardly onto the table and feeling the gown open to show his bare ass. The nurse placed a towel over his butt and began preparing a syringe. The moment he saw the syringe with its plunger he imagined the nurse sitting on a chair with her legs spread, ready for him to penetrate with a grotesquely large syringe. He imagined her moaning as he pressed the plunger, pulling it back and pumping again, pumping her pussy with a man-sized surgical plunger as she rocked her head back and squeezed her own breasts. “I’m just going to administer a local,” the doctor said. “It might sting for a few seconds.” It did sting. Right between the shoulder blades as the needle was pressed between the bones of his spine. It should be uncomfortable. It should be miserable. Yet all he could think of was seeing the nurse’s scrubs torn open to reveal her big swollen tits. He imagined her tied up with surgical rubber, he imagined latex tubing pushed in her asshole, a catheterised urethra and her vagina held open with a speculum. What the hell was wrong with him? This wasn’t right. Where was this overloading of sexual stimulation coming from?
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“Veraceo-Two is more intense than the original, A lot more intense.” Barry had taken Brian to the King Edward Hotel to catch up. He was finding Brian more relaxed than he’d had seen him in a long time. He was placated. Whatever reservations he had about making pornography had been swept aside. “It’s amazing,” he said. “This is something really special.” Barry smiled. “I’m looking forward to trying it.” “I would wait until I have a chance to tame it,” Brian said. “It’s good but it’s unpleasant. In fact, it’s a real kick in the balls and it put me in hospital. There’s something about it, somehow the combination of sex with violence created an incredible mental and physical experience. It was as though I was physically living what I saw on screen. It was felt, physically and emotionally by us as viewers. What I learned is the strength of the signal needs to be dynamic. When the visuals are violent without the eroticism to balance it you feel the pain; when that happens the signal strength needs reducing. It’s strange, it’s the most uncomfortable sexual experience you’ll ever have. You could torture somebody with it if used for evil, you could actively push somebody into serious physical distress. But this now goes way beyond advertising or ways to shape the thinking of the viewer. This opens a whole new spectrum of opportunities. There are avenues of research in mental health, in neurological research and medicine in general.” “So what’s next?” "Control. I need to make the Veraceo-Two signal work the way we want, so it doesn’t hurt to watch. I need to find a way to raise or lower the intensity of the signal to match the content.” Brian held up his glass to the barman and raised a finger to order another drink. He slouched lower into the chair, grinning. He looked like he was glowing. Youthful and energised. “In Pittsburgh,” he continued, “the women are working with the psychologist on perfecting the content. They’re shooting variants and shipping me the test tapes. One of the interesting things we discovered so far is the signal works best when the image is made up from the colour orange through to deep red. The psychologist says they’ve done tests that prove orange is the most oppressive colour to prisoners. I guess it stimulates our brains in a fundamental way… It’s exciting… What I find thrilling is the very nature of how this extends the cathode ray tube. The image on a television screen isn’t really there. It is made up of electrons hitting the phosphor on the back of the tube to make those particles resonate. Television is a