Obey The President

 

1.

A bright young blond, blue-eyed American from Louisiana called Jake graduates with a business studies degree at a prestigious London University.  His parents expect him to return to the US to work in his father’s bank, but he has been invited by two English friends to join them on a trip to Amsterdam, so he decides to accept their offer and stay on in Europe for another week.  He’s had a great time in the UK.  It’s his last chance to enjoy Europe, before going back to the States and to a life that seems already to be worked out by his parents. There’s something predictable and pre-destined about it, which makes him uneasy. There’s even a childhood sweetheart waiting for him. 

In Amsterdam his friends persuade him to smoke a joint. The effect is instant and transformative. They end up in a bar, then a club, and then at four in the morning  Jake is in a cozy gay bar, being seduced by a gorgeous young Austrian prostitute called Olivier. Finally Olivier wins and they go back to his apartment. There Jake takes some of the best ecstasy Amsterdam can offer, and once agin he’s lost in bliss. The sex is very tender. Olivier knows he’s dealing with an innocent.  At one point he gently slides a lubricated vibrator into Luke’s ass and moments later Luke has the most powerful orgasm he’s ever experienced. 

They sleep till midday the following day and then Olivier shows Luke round the city backstreets where sex and sexual paraphernalia is sold. Luke sees a sign in a sex shop window advertising butt plugs and the tag line is ‘Ten Million sold’  He gazes round at the crowds passing in the streets and he’s so delightfully high, he’s convinced he can tell which ones have butt plugs in their asses. Another stoned and sleepless night follows.  Luke cannot stop thinking about butt plugs. He’s convinced that it’s the risk of being caught that makes a butt plug in your ass doubly arousing. It’s at that moment when he is struck by a brilliant idea to create a business enterprise which markets and sell sex toys as discrete devices you can use while at work.  He puts together a list of other toys beside butt plugs, things like nipple clamps, vibrating dildos, latex clothing that can be worn under work-gear.  By morning he’s even come up with a name for the company  -  Work-Hard. 

2. 

Two months later he is back in the States. After a fight with his parents, he leaves home and finds a tiny apartment in the other side of the city. He borrows money to rent an old industrial warehouse, and within a month, boxes of remote-controlled vibrating cock rings are being delivered there from China.

He repackages them as Work-Hard products and starts to send them out to customers around the world who’ve ordered them on line from the Work-Hard website he’s created. It lists a variety of Work-Hard products, including vibrators and vibrating butt plugs, nipple clamps and anal beads.  It takes him a few weeks for him to get the other products on stream, and yet despite only advertising on a few discrete gay and fetish sites, business starts to boom. Luke hires extra staff to help package the products and send them out.  For the first six months he’s working 12 hour shifts, but it’s worth it because a few months later he’s paid off his debts. He doesn’t speak to his parents, both red neck Republicans, because he knows how much they would freak out if they knew what their youngest son was up to.

The new products sell well, but what puzzles Luke is the fact that the bright red vibrating butt plugs are by far the most popular of the Work-Hard products. The president is on television every day now and every time Luke sees the president’s tie, which is in identical red, he keeps thinking that there might be some connection.  

3. 

The president makes a speech at a huge election rally in Pensilvania, and at the end of it, he says, 

‘I like people who work hard and it’s people who work hard who are gonna succeed, 

I promise you.’

Newspapers the following day print the quote across the front pages.  Jake cannot resist it. He copies and pastes it onto the front page of the Work-Hard site. Underneath is another quote: 

 ‘Put the Pleasure back into Politics.’

Within days sales increase by ten per-cent.  His team start to look for bigger premises. He decides that from now on, all Work-Hard sex toys will be red, exactly the same colour as the president’s tie. 

Then one day Jake is approached by a rich businessmen, who offers him six million dollars for the Work-Hard business.  Jake takes the money, goes back to Amsterdam, to live a comfortable life with Olivier.   The new directors of Work-Hard immediately make plans to expand the Work-Hard company, and open factories and distribution centres all over America.  

4. 

A year later,  the presient makes another speech, and at the end of it he says, 

‘Don’t Forget folks, I’m here to put the Pleasure back into Politics.’ 

Three days later he is interviewed on a tv news programme and a journalist asks him if he’s ever heard of a company called ‘Work-Hard.’  The president appears not to have heard of them. The journalist holds up a large bright red vibrating dildo. Everyone in the cramped newsroom is jittery.  Then after a pause, the president smiles sweetly and says,  

‘Well, the colour is certainly a turn-on for me. And whatever turns you on, has my vote.’

Then he flaps his red tie at the reporters before sliding it back into his suit jacket.

Sales of Work-Hard products continue to increase and so does the president’s popularity, which is a relief for him, since the election approaches. The Work-Hard web-site is given an expensive update and more varieties of sex toys are displayed for sale, including bright red latex panties and bright red silicone ball gags.  A free relaxation video is also added for customers to enjoy, which can be viewed by clicking on a link.  They’re encouraged to have a vibrating Work-Hard toy inserted before watching it.  The video consists of a strange sequence of spirals, low pitched hums, subliminal messages and mantras, designed to arouse the viewer, till they sink slowly down into a drooling, trance-like state.

5.

At the start of election year the president holds a massive rally. Eighty-thousand of his supporters arrive, waving their red flags, to stand in front of a huge brightly lit stage and await the president’s arrival. Everyone is happy. Everyone cheers when finally he appears. He makes a speech about his enemies, who stop him from turning his bright vision of the future into reality, and who need to be eliminated.  On the screen behind him a brightly coloured spiral appears, familiar to everyone who has been watching the Word-Hard Relaxation Video.  The crowd grows silent, and as everyone stares at the screens, their gaze becomes unfocused, their mouths slowly fall open and they start to drool. Silence descends on the stadium, except for the soft hum of eighty-thousand vibrating butt plugs. 

The spirals are gradually replaced by video footage of a recent demonstration in the capital, showing a group of young people opposing the president being beaten to death with baseball bats by military police. As the images become increasingly bloody, the president’s brainwashed supporters, sink to their knees, one by one and begin to masturbate. 

Daniel Guy