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From New Blushes 2.22 It is Friday. The day for Sophie Jansen’s second appointment at the local Social Affairs office. Why does she have to be there? What is the exact purpose of the appointment? Sophie doesn’t know. She has been given some vague statement about a survey, but does that really mean anything? Is there indeed any real purpose for her having to go? Apart from the gratification, entertainment, of those two officials, Brewster and Hoskin? But Sophie knows better than to query it, or raise objections. If there is indeed no reason apart from providing some diversion for those two men, well, hopefully this second visit will be enough. Hopefully, they will then he satisfied. Bored with her maybe. Then they will get someone else to toy with. It will be all over for her. Yes that is what Sophie Jansen is desperately hoping. ----//---- The exercise room again. It is 10.30 on this Friday morning. And yes, the two official

From New Blushes 2.22 SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR SURVEY: SUBJECT No. 106. THE SUBJECT IS SOPHIE JANSEN, AGED 22, MARRIED ONE YEAR. FIRST INTERVIEW TO BE HELD 6 JUNE… The official in the Social Affairs Department glanced through the document. There wasn’t a lot in it as yet. He looked at his watch. She was due in five minutes… In the last decade the state had become more strict and authoritarian. The government was no longer prepared to tolerate what it saw as unsocial behaviour. There were strict curfews now for teenagers, and drinking was tightly controlled (for the general population at least). Smoking of course was now completely banned. Another area where the government had developed a keen interest was sexual behaviour. The sexual habits of the general population. This was viewed by some government figures as an area with major potential for antisocial behaviour. Research was needed, and then of course control. Control was certainl