The Voss Papers

  So I may have gotten a little carried away imagining what kind of manual might come with the Mantamer chip. After all, if you’re a new owner of a male who’s just had one installed, it’s probably quite a lot to take in. The chip rewires arousal, speech, behaviour, and long-term sexual conditioning: so it’s not like a vibrator with a three-page leaflet and annoyingly sparse descriptions of the different wave settings. You’d want something more… robust. Something glossy. Clinical. Helpful. So here’s what I picture Vireon slipping into the welcome pack: a crisp, slightly patronising operator’s guide for the woman now in control of a very obedient man. It assumes a certain amount of authority already. And a certain level of curiosity about how far this technology can go. Which, if you’re here reading this… I suspect you have. If you haven't - pick up a copy of Mantamer first: I promise it will make the rest of the post more fun!   Mantamer-Enabled Male Owner's Companion S...

"You’re helping us build something extraordinary," she whispered. "Something that could... could fix relationships forever"  -- Dr Shirin Dastgir,  Mantamer   Mantamer is an interesting one for me - I started writing it half-way through writing of On Chestnut Tree Lane , because I was finding it tough to keep my head in a dystopian setting while also reading the news (Hey, it was late 2024...). I sat down with the intention of creating a fun corporate femdom setting - dominance dressed up as performance reviews, sales targets dressed up as chastity release-conditions, that sort of thing. (And actually, I still think that's a pretty good idea...). But without my meaning it to, Vireon became a biotech company - and really what's more deliciously sinister than a man like Harry, desperate to submit inside and yet trapped in the societal framework of having to play the strong executive, getting so rapidly out of his depth? It was inevitable that Vireon's cor...