First, I’d like to say how very much I enjoy your writings and podcasts! I hope you find the time to continue them!
To respond to your question regarding the story line of ‘The Company’. IMHO the men in question have already given consent. I would argue that means offering them further choices/options is… uhm… contra-indicated. LoL!
Obviously I have no idea what it is like to be a woman, and never will, but I do think that A.) Women are better judges of character then men by nature of necessity. A woman walks into a crowded party alone and she must size up the men in the room – the dangerous ones to avoid, the drunken, too familiar grabby ones, the respectful, loyal ones who may come to her aid should she need them. I imagine she looks at every man and judges the threat level he may pose to her and does it all in a wink of an eye. Almost unconsciously. And, B.) In general, women are far more empathic then most men. Maybe it comes from their role as child-rearer and needing to understand a non-verbal infant’s needs and wants but again, they need it as a defense mechanism against the physically stronger gender. Sensing when a man is thinking of stepping over the line of her consent before he does, is a useful skill. It is a skill that allows them to navigate (and I dare say, manipulate) relationships with the opposite sex a bit more easily. Those qualities, on top of the women of ‘The Company’ being dominant females who like to control and order their own lives and surroundings, qualifies them to choose these men’s futures better than the men themselves can.
So no more choices. Their fates are sealed.
Let’s face it. The women of the Company selected them/him for some reason in the first place. His role was pretty much pre-determined at the outset. Perhaps one of the members thought he had a pretty mouth and face and imagined he’d make an ideal oral slave or human toilet.
Maybe at her tennis club one day, another member noticed a particularly tall, muscular man with long legs and thought his physique would lend itself well to becoming her human pony boy, capable of carrying her on long, hot rides. Or maybe it would make him worthy prey for one of her hunts.
A third member of the Company who works in an office and has been teasing along an obviously submissive co-worker, ‘accidently’ dropped a box of paperclips on the floor and watched gleefully as he rushed to her side and dropped to his knees to pick them all up for her. She smiled malevolently down as she casually placed her heel on the back of his hand and bore down. The manner in which he whimpered but otherwise silently endured her treatment of him marked him as one of The Companies’ future torture toys.
Or maybe it is just his money. The member envisioned parking him in a basement cage while collecting his income to fund a future library for Women’s Studies, fund scholarships for women, or a hospital for gynecological research.
Strung up and gagged punching bags for the women’s self-defense classes, office gimps to manage the Companies vast resources and monitor their ever increasing surveillance network… no, no more choices. These men must have been selected for a reason. The women made their choices and that’s what truly matters.
Like the cardboard cut-out dolls they may have played with as little girls, these women enjoy playing with their toy men. Dressing them up or down, running them over a candle flame until they almost ignite. Leaving them piled in the corner for days or weeks while they play with something else, then returning to dress them up as their loyal butler or pretty French maid or just sit them down for tea parties with their other girlfriends and their dolls.
As far as the Company goes, It is a woman’s world. They only live in it. And in the cases of the ‘sacrifices’, albeit only briefly… 😉