Dive in head first!

Christina picks up the book she had originally pushed away from her. She was here for serious studies, not some cultural vibes based course. The syllabus had been vague, talking about rites of passage in an indigenous context as well as their application on interracial reparations and race relations today. Flipping open the book, she saw that it was an anthology of texts with different chapters highlighting different themes. African Male Rites of Passage ... Warrior Conquest of Captured Female Slaves ... Genital Expansion and Warrior Status ... Papa Legba and the Sexual Deceiver ... Sexual Reparations and Tribal Reconciliation ...

Glancing again at the syllabus, she checks out the first week of class. Servitude and Sexuality: Creation of Group Cohesion in the Bull Tribe. Huh, might as well start there.

Christina began reading the chapter, an ethnographic survey of the Bull Tribe--a pseudonym the author used to protect them. Written by an anthropologist, Sarah Bardsdale, the identity of the group she had studied was kept secret and their exact location hidden. Apparently the tribe's sexual behaviors could be seen a deviant, and so to protect them from Western imperialism she used a fake name.

The Bull Tribe were descended from a powerful warrior kingdom that had once ruled a great swath of the continent, not only conquering neighboring tribes but protecting **** across the Indian Ocean to raid cities as far away as Arabia, India, and even China. But infighting and status competition had ended up pitting their leadership against each other, instead of in defending themselves and keeping their conquests subservient.

Apparently the problem had started from the large harems that the kingdom and its warrior kings had built up through their conquests. Christina read in almost lurid detail about the harems, with the African kings going to great length to target the most beautiful women in their raids on coastal cities. Just the rumor of a particularly prized woman--which to their culture meant a large breasted, curvy woman capable of bearing multiple children--could spark a raid on a city.

Christina sighed, she would never look like that. But did she want to? She wasn't sure. Why attract a successful man when she could just be successful on her own? She continued reading ...

Once a warrior had established his own harem, his troubles didn't end. Since the harems were intended for both reproduction and the warrior's pleasure, the harem women were kept **** to improve both their fertility and their sex drive. But that left the **** girls docile and **** to other would be warrior conquerors. Even the most loyal of guards could be tempted over time by the **** pleas of the **** girls. Fights would break out, jealousy over who had the most desirable women.

Men, thought Christina.

The warrior kingdom eventually fell, but the Bull Tribe survived as an extant group formed by what was believed to be an elite guard loyal to the last king--who himself had temporarily seized control of the kingdom by deposing another king. The guards had believed that the only way to ensure that they did not turn on each other was to institute communal ownership of the harem, not restrictive like the kings of old. But they also implemented a system of Sexual Servitude.

Recognizing that sexual tension had led to many fights and civil wars, alleviating the sexual energies of their warriors were paramount. Communal ownership of the harem helped, but it did not address all problems. A young warrior may wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or a defeated combatant in a mock trial nurse a grudge. The masculine energy that had led the warriors to conquer across the seas could sometimes be clouded by horniness.

So the Bull Tribe implemented a system by which warriors were assigned women who did not meet the beauty standards of the Tribe or could not handle the challenges of child birth. This woman's tasks, her purpose, would be the alleviation of her warrior's sexual energies so he could focus on his tasks. Potent herbalists ensured that she would not be impregnated, as often these women were frail and not perceived of being able to deal with the twin challenges of bearing a warrior child to be as well as breast feeding their appetite. While at first the dregs of the harem, the Tribe continued the practice by trading with other cities in the area or exploiting the occasional raid.

When was this written? Christina thought. Sex slavery, today? That's horrible!

Doctor Bardsdale explained that the women she had interviewed said they would never want to leave the village, believing that what they did contributed to the collective greatness of the tribe. In many ways the tribe now depended on these women as neutral arbiters of conflict when outright **** and aggression would risk harm to too many warriors.

She was so enthralled by the book, despite its lurid descriptions of the sexual relations of both the warriors and their sexual servants, that it took her a second to realize that the door was opening and Jillian was coming back. How long had it been?