work, work, work

One perq that Vixen liken was the vast plasma screen in her office, which afforded her a chance to check secret views of the immediate premises. At the moment she was vainly striving to get a good angle on acitivity in one examination room.

Her trusty lieutenantr, Nurse Katy Kannon, timidly entered. "Vix? It's urgent ... " Then she noticed the screen and brightened. "Oooh! I guess that's Mr. Krown."

"What I can see of him," Vixen grumbled. "I've yet to have actually met him. I do believe my own staff may be working against me."

"I know you're a fan of Mr. Vino Krown, but we've also just acquired a Mr. Ian White. Also, you know how I enjoy mingling with the female student body -- "

"I don't know if I can hear this. Our policy is explicitly set."

" -- but rumor has it that a prodicgy named Robert Cummings has just lost his virginity. Also, it seems that a Cecil Hammer, who everyone knows as Charlie, has demonstrated ... growth."

In spite of herself, Vixen cocked an eyebrow and turned to Katym, intrigued by the magic word. "Growth?"

"With enough stimulation, it is said he could grow beyond ... sixteen."

"We need a more enlightened policy," Vixen sighed. "What we could learn if we could just get our hands on such young ... talent."

"Uh, Vix, it really is urgent. It's Mrs. Littlejohn on the picturephone."

Vixen shut off the view. "Quick, get Lina!"

One of the "scientits," Dr. Messalina "Lina" Mahalingam, soon appeared and sat in Vixen's seat. While also abundantly sexy, Lina came in handy as a more refined-looking representative of the Laboratory. The relationship between the Laboratory for Unusual Volumes of Virile Inseminatory Tissue (LUVVIT) and Mrs. Littlejohn's Organization Biologically Guaranteeing Your Nativity (OBGYN) was ostensibly in the name of a rather dull pursuit of fertility.

"Mrs. Littlejohn, how good of you to call!" Lina greeted brightly.

Mrs. Littlejohn possessed her own smolering sexuality, but looked severely repressed about it. Her suit was conservatively cut, she wore her hair back in a severe bun, and her eyeglasses made her look rather prim. There was also no failing to notice the large crucifix she wore around her neck.

"Dr. Mahalingam, I must come straight to the point. Make your decision this week, or our relationship is terminated."

Lina was stunned. "The decsion will be made, Mrs. Littlejohn, and I apologize for any -- " But Mrs. Littlejohn had already hung up.

"Later, girls, I have work." Vixen saw Katy and Lina out, then returned to her desk and considered three files. OBGYN would fund only one exotic research project. But which one?

The first dealt with the theory that sexuality extended to the subatomic level, that most of the universe was ostensibly feminine "Matrimatter" but there was also masculine "Mystermatter" out there. The idea was to expose human males to meteorites carrying mystermatter.

The second dealt with a theory put out by one Dr. Feierhohs, based on fossils he had dsicovered. He blieved that 60,000 years ago, Nature had gambled on sex rather than brains and created Feierhohs Man, who he believed (for lack of any surviving flesh) to have been superhumanly endowed, and to have been butchered by other early men out of sexual jealousy. He intended to isolate viable Feierhohs Man DNA.

Lastly, there was a rare syndrome known as Delayed Enhanced Enigmatic Puberty, or DEEP. Some mature men had undergone a "second puberty" which had further developed some of their masculine characteristics. it was now believed that DEEP could be induced artificially.

Vixen shook her head. Which way to go?