Sexify

Natalia, Paulina and Monika stare at the CCTV feed with nervous anticipation. Copulatorium. It's all they've been able to think about since coming up the idea for their university graduation project. An app to optimise women's pleasure during sex: could it really be finding its genesis here, now, in that room next door? With its warm ambience, soft lighting, sultry mood music and comfortable king-size bed, Copulatorium is like a sexual muse, or a spatial aphrodisiac. But its hidden cameras and microphones turn it into something harder: a laboratory. And replacing the usual lab rats on hamster wheels will be humans, turning each other inside out. Vigorous sex for rigorous science.

Copulatorium has also been the hot gossip of this residential apartment building for the past week since Monika began artfully slipping it into casual conversation. Gossip became a call to action, and now an array of couples — straight, lesbian, gay, bi, poly, pan — are queuing down the corridor awaiting their Copulatorium appointments. And it’s not just couples — thruples, foursomes, larger groups, and even one brave individual, are booked alongside the couples into half hour time slots in Copulatorium tonight.

Natalia gathers together the questionnaires strewn over the desk in the monitoring room. Every female in the queue has completed the preliminary questions.

BEFORE SEX

1. Current mood
2. Preferred sex methods
3. The group’s sexual skill levels

AFTER SEX

1. Number of orgasms achieved
2. Strength/Quality of orgasms achieved
3. Favourite sex methods used

It's 8pm, and right on time Copulatorium's first patrons walk through its door and appear on the CCTV screen. Natalia, Paulina and Monika inhale almost simultaneously, eyes glued to the monitor. Unbeknownst to Natalia the fingers of her right hand fidget with the hem of her denim skirt under the table.

It's time.

Time for sex.