Vanessa

Michaela gets Lars' small wink and asks Vanessa "Could you please help with the demonstration?" Vanessa is happy to be chosen. "Sure, what do I need to do?" - "Just kneel on the pedestal. Probably best to take off your shoes".

The cow-holding installation consists of a pedestal large enough for a woman on all fours. It can move up and down, and currently Lars is adjusting it at Vanessa's knee height. At the back there are pads for knees, shinbone and feet, so one can kneel comfortably. On the side are a number of unfamiliar milking equipment and at the front is are steel bars and a place to put a woman's head through.

Vanessa is surprised, but following Michaela's encouragement indeed takes off her shoes. She wears socks and a skirt under her lab coat. She puts her knees on the pads attached to the pedestal. Lars goes to her and says "Let me just adjust it, so it's perfectly aligned. OK?" Vanessa nods, with a slight hesitation. However, the knees and feet are already nicely aligned. The only thing Lars does is to close leather straps over Vanessa's calves and ankles. "Is this really necessary?" Michaela answers for Lars: "It's all part of the demonstration." And before Vanessa can really think about it, let alone react, her calves are well secured. She wiggles a little bit to be more comfortable, and looks at them but she doesn't see how they are locked, as the ends of the straps disappear in the pedestal itself with the closing mechanism hidden inside.

"Thank you, Vanessa, for volunteering." Michaela smiles at Vanessa. "Let me now use this demonstration to disclose our secret. Please remember that the NDAs you signed carry very severe penalties." - She looks around and all nod.

"Great. As you know we are a specialised dairy farm. We are special in our treatment of the milk, but much more special are the animals that give milk: Instead of bovine cows, we use human cows." The girls are shocked and very surprised. Michaela continues: "Human milk has a lot of special benefits that cannot be found anywhere else." Sigrid asks, "So you are collecting milk from lactating mothers with small babies?" Michaela answer, "We thought about this, and actually there were schemes for voluntary exchange of human milk for infants already decades ago, but we found the real curing properties of human milk need a special environment. The XX-Factor in human milk is only produced in sufficient quantities by human cows that have a cow-like lifestyle. We don't know why, which is one reason of why we do testing, but so far our only milk by human cows held in several week-long captivity has the content."

"But isn't it difficult to find volunteers?", asks Vanessa. - "Well, it's OK. We can find a number of women who are turned on by living a few weeks in bondage, especially with the pay we are offering."

"But why this bondage contraption? In contrast to bovine cows, women are usually lactating just sitting on a sofa?", asks Sandra.

"Good question. Turns out the XX-factor is only really released if human cows are properly restrained in a position on all fours. (BTW, they are not called women in this stage.) It's all still a part of the research, but that's where we currently are."

The girls' and Lars' scientific minds are racing, being really fascinated by the problems and the potential reasons for that. Michaela notices. "Very fascinating, indeed, isn't it?"

Addressing Vanessa she asks "as you are already on the milking stand, would you like to volunteer? You'd be locked in your own cow box for 10 weeks, get lactation hormones and being strapped to the milking stand three times a day and milked for a couple of ours each day, you get nice nutritious food and 1000€ a week. - And, I can guarantee you, you'll have much larger boobs after that. :)"

"What? No! Bondage? And being milked? With a machine? - No way!"

"Can you please think about it, you don't have to be worried about the milking machine, most of the time, Lars here would do the milking by hand."

Vanessa makes an especially disgusted face when hearing that Lars would be touching and milking her bare boobs. "No!"

Michaela: "OK, that's pretty clear. So you won't volunteer. Could you for the sake of our research elaborate why you won't and why your reaction is so strong? - Please be explicit, even if it seems obvious."

Vanessa calms down a little bit: "It would be humiliating, it feels like a violation of my body and my freedom. Also, tbh, it has quite some sexual connotation, which really freaks me out. Especially the idea that someone who I am not attracted to, touches my boobs (or any part of my body), is quite revolting. "

Michaela: "Thank you, Vanessa. So it's quite clear: If Vanessa where to be used as a human cow, it would be quite humiliating, and very **** experience for her. Something she'd react to with strong resistance, wouldn't you?" - "Well, Dah. Of course!"

"Well, our research hypothesis is that doing the milking not only in bondage, but humiliating a struggling human cows would boost the XX-Factor massively, and when adding sexual stimulation might even give us the hypothetical XXY-Factor, we are really after."

"This is quite interesting, how is that possible?", Sigrid asks. "Well, the combination of stress hormones, sexual hormones and active struggling creates a unique environment."

"What a pity we can't test this", Vanessa says. - "Well, considering, how much benefit the XXY-Factor can bring, we got our ethics Board to approve experiments on 5 human cows. The fact that out farm's ethic Board mostly consists of older male farmers dealing with bovine cows all their live probably helped. They said, they'd definitely want to watch the results in progress." Michaela and Karl are laughing about this.

"Anyway, this means we can start right away, and Vanessa here could be our first non-volunteer".