It's your job, deal with it.

[laffalot]

I’ve been tossing around this idea for a few days now and I think I have it sort of worked out. It’s the not so distance future and every single piece of information about our lives, from the second we are born, is saved in a database. Every meal, every bowel movement, every test score, every date, every purchase, every doctor appointment, all of it. When we approach our eighteenth birthday, say the last week before we hit that milestone, all of that information is digested by powerful supercomputers. The aim of this is so that when our birthday arrives, we already have a career path chosen for us that we must follow.


For those intelligent enough, a set of college courses at the perfect college is listed. The applicant is automatically enrolled. Some students are more in line with technical school, and they are also automatically enrolled in the best fit for them.


For the ones who are not cut out for higher education, they are matched up with the menial skills jobs, like laborers, housecleaning, wait staff, and others. Since the jobs and companies are matched perfectly to each person, there is no need for people to be without work, therefore welfare is non existent and everyone is expected to work with no exceptions.


So with that setup, my idea revolves around a young woman who believes her whole future is going to be very bright. She is at the top of her class and is certain that she will be sent to a quality college. Imagine her horror though when her birthday arrives and her chosen path turns out to be a fetish porn star. Was there a mistake made? Was the system hacked by someone with a vendetta? Did she have a secret life that only the system knows about? What will her life be like as a fetish porn star? Does she come to enjoy it, or does she hate it? Or maybe it could be that some super rich people secretly control the outcome and they can pick the teens that they are attracted to, to do whatever it is they want.


Of course there are multiple possibilities available with the same setup and there could be dozens of stories, each with all new characters who are shocked on their eighteenth birthdays to discover that they are now going to be part of the porn industry, or the plaything of some insanely rich megalomaniac.

If anyone is interested, you are welcome to PM me with your ideas, or add any insight into this post.

 

[Hypoxia]

Sounds like a dreary corporate-fascist state with carved-in-stone social stratification -- and of course the career-determining supercomputer system is run by the elites for their own benefit. Those elites both cooperate and compete.

Some storylines could include conflicts between different elites over who goes where; subjects escaping to other lands for more freedom; POVs of those running the system (the chiefs), those toiling on it (codemonkeys), and those trying to hack it (shit-disturbers), as well as individual stories of those caught in the machine (subjects).

That subjects are diverted into the pr0n industry shows that pr0n is a useful tool of a corporate-fascist state NOT run by religious conservatives. Rather, pr0n, and sports, and fundy religions, and pop entertainments, and rant forums, are systemic diversions for the populace, the modern bread & circus routine.

Bread & circuses. A fully-integrated society where everyone works means everyone is fed -- that's the bread part. Spectacular entertainments ranging from the lewd to holy-rollers to extreme sports are the circus part. It's a divide-and-conquer strategy.

The spectacles serve to stifle or siphon-off political dissent. Don't like your place in society? Join an approved church or gun club or fuckfest or hipster circle or other outlet for your energy and discontent. Focus on your own interests and forget the greater whole. Your interest group is superior to those other fuckers / fundies / fans.

Such factionalism extends into the carefully-engineered pr0n industry. Which fetishes are seen as superior? How do subjects feel about being directed into Gay Male or Interracial or Lesbian Incest or BDSM or Lingerie / Shoe fetishes?

Meanshile, subjects are shoehorned. A white Everyman finds he has a career in having Big Black Cocks shoved into his orifices. A shy Latina finds her job is to wear leather and apply whips to submissive Asian guys. Three bickering sisters learn they must have sex with each other -- and with their flabby parents, all on camera 24/7. A budding science superstar must marry a slut and be a 'cuck', a humiliated wittol. Et cetera.

Rather a frightening prospect, eh?

 

[Strangebuddy]

Indeed, quite the hellish proposition. I'd personally prefer something softer, like some wiseass took a normal career test and threw in an algorithm that picked up on traits that would benefit sex industry workers. The girl gets her test back and is shocked when it reccomends dominatrix. Some students find it funny while others tell her to brush it off. However, she takes it personally since while some of her peers were reccomendend jobs like prostitute, pornstar , etc. she was the only one who got that job.

...so she contacts a dominatrix to find out why she got scored that way.

 

[Sean Renaud]

It sounds hellish. . .until you realize that people really picking their own careers is a relatively modern idea. Once upon a not so distant time a boy grew up to take over the family business and that was basically how it was.

In fiction these societies always seem to be at worst dreary but mostly productive and it seems to hold together. At least enough that this girl exploring the job that the machine tells her to take makes sense. Her dad didn't think he'd be happy being a garbage man but it turns out the hours are awesome (or whatever) and he's happy. Her mother thought that being a teacher would be the worst, she hated kids. Until she realized that she hated kids because they had poor role models and now that SHE was the role model for so many. . . So on and and so forth. All the examples this girl can point to suggest that no matter how absurd the reccomendations are they seem to consistently turn out people who are either genuinely happy with the job itself, or so fucking good at it that it's easy for people at large to say "it's your job, deal with it". So I like that.

The idea that the game is rigged makes sense and could be fun.

Personally I would just follow the girl as she hesitantly enters but fairly quickly discovers that the system does work. She may have the intelligence to do this that or the other but this is where she actually belongs. Then we can explore a world where being a porn star even a "mid level" one isn't a thing of shame. I mean you didn't choose to become Jenna Jameson, you were born that way. Presumably the information is public anyway so unlike today where you MIGHT get away with having been in a few movies here it would presumably be as simple as "What's my 8th grade class up to? Soldier, engineer, waiter, reporter, butthole bleacher, fetish pornstar."

 

[Strangebuddy]

That's an interesting point. What would you need to have to test naturally as a fetish porn star in that society? There might be a stigma but not to the degree in real life. Since it's a recognized job by the government, you probably could get an actual salary, not commission, so you wouldn't necessarily have to take a lot of the side jobs that porn stars usually take.

Actually, would this mean that there are fetish porn inspectors? Like, government agents coming in, sweeping the place to make sure that actors get breaks, equipment is up to code, etc? How do you test for that in this world?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Halfway decent pornstars don't really need much in the way of side jobs. But it in a world where jobs are asigned by the government all jobs must intrinsically have a value to the society. So they would be a lot less frowned upon.

There might be inspectors but they'd certainly be treated better in the grand scheme of things which would probably be fucking huge.

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

A good angle would be if there were hypnotic intrusions into the subconscious that find one's real natures and desires, making it impossible for people to hide them from the State. That is the ultimate breach of privacy, but it paradoxically enables people to be assigned to the very lifestyles, and perhaps even partners, that they like best.

So the woman put in the dominatrix outfit is there, because, deep down, she wants it. The father ordered to get it on with his daughters is also there because he likes it, while the State finds them husbands happy to be cuckolds/wittols and raise the fruit of this incestuous passion. No more unhappily married people, no one given jobs that they hate. The man sent to be a librarian might think it dull, but soon discovers that he enjoys the easy access to all that information.

 

[Strangebuddy]

Halfway decent pornstars don't really need much in the way of side jobs.

Well by sidejobs I mean things like running your own site devoted to yourself, doing camshows, making paid appearances at strip clubs and novelty stores, stripping at highly paid bachelor parties, etc. I remember when I followed a few stars on twitter (f.e. Tori Black) they seemed to have to do the side stuff a lot more than the films they got their names from.

So in this society, would you still have to do all the promotion work, or would you jut be able to make a living doing the films?

 

[Hypoxia]

The soft version: It's not a governmental mandate, just career counseling run amok as Strangebuddy suggested. Someone rigged the evaluation warez; some of the subjects take it seriously.

The hard version: Could be written as utopia or dystopia. And let's expand the sex-work field to include male and female prostitutes. Are the pr0n / sexworker selectees *really* best-suited for a life of public sex? Is it a lifelong career? When do they retire? What is their status vs other entertainers: athletes, non-sexual actors, factory-system bands, political pundits, televangelists, Elvis impersonators, theme-park performers, etc?

A story -- three sisters. One is directed into street prostitution for life. One is directed into camgirl pr0n for life. One (with good cheekbones) is directed into the political realm and will become a noxious Senator. How do they differ?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Well by sidejobs I mean things like running your own site devoted to yourself, doing camshows, making paid appearances at strip clubs and novelty stores, stripping at highly paid bachelor parties, etc. I remember when I followed a few stars on twitter (f.e. Tori Black) they seemed to have to do the side stuff a lot more than the films they got their names from.

So in this society, would you still have to do all the promotion work, or would you jut be able to make a living doing the films?

I assume you would. But some of what you're talking about is part of being a pornstar. Tori Black is/was high tier (no clue if she's active right now.) She was probably commanding 900-1300 per scene and probably doing at least three scenes a month. However in order to keep your numbers that high you need to get your name out there.

So you'd probably have to or at least probably SHOULD. I mean if it's like the military which seems to be an apt comparison for a society like this then you can basically just cruise and fail to fuck up and collect your paychecks get you regular promotions and live. Or you can be Billy Badass and work to get high up there. So just like that you could probably be Tori Black and do everything she did and be a woman who's name gets put on the cover as a selling point for the porn, or you could be one of the five other girls.

 

[Raziel83]

You could do this while giving less emphasis to the dystopian aspects. Maybe the "job application algorithm" is really advanced and the main character really is a perfect match for fetish porn star but she won't realize it until after trying out the job.

Maybe the job isn't mandatory and it's just something that she got out of a test and decides to try out (perhaps pressured by her friends who tease her about it since they think the entire thing is just silly.)

 

[Sean Renaud]

Well my point was largely that it may not be dystopian at all. Most of the stories like this show that the main character is fairly unique for not liking their job. These systems seem to work well enough in fiction that people are either happy or at least content. With the major exception being times like the Hunger Games BUT those are almost always fucked beyond all reason anyway.

 

[loquere]

This should be a utopian communist society. It should have a fair appeal system for a job you wouldn't be prepared to do, for legitimate reasons.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'd skip the appeal system and assume that it's perfect or near enough. Some people don't think they'd enjoy doing 'x' but it turns out that while you never realized you'd enjoy knitting that you're just naturally talented. And then skip to the fun stuff.

 

[Hypoxia]

I think I shall steal this idea but only as a plot gerbil, not a main theme. In the circa 1980 story THE TEMPTATION OF FELICE (now being written) Ron is fucking classmate Babs who wants to be a molecular biologist. She admits she took a personality exam that pointed her toward a career in pr0n -- but she'll stick with science, thank you.

Another approach: A clean-looking group offers free personality / career evaluations. The organization is really a Scientology-like cult stealthily recruiting members -- trapping recruits in sexwork for the group's great profit. Have we got a position for you! After the drugs, hypnosis, and love-bombing, suckers (new members) find themselves well-fucked.

Spinoff: The Sexitologists concentrate on recruiting pastors' wives and daughters for their network. Why? You can probably think of a good excuse. Kink: They recruit white racist fundy preachers' sons for MM / IR / BBC action. That should be good for a laugh.

Or: A researcher develops a 100% reliable career-evaluation test. She packages it as an inexpensive app. The Android version works just fine but the iPhone version gets a small bug that points random test-takers into some sort of sexwork. Being brainwashed Apple junkies, they heed the advice. Hilarity ensues. I dunno what the Blackberry version does.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The last man on the planet with one is told to run for POTUS. He wins.

Wait. . ..

 

[FantasyXY]

A very long winded theme/sub-plot for this story...

So this is some sort of totalitarian government that evolves from the ashes of a revolution that happened because the world's governments could not rein in runaway capitalism that caused the deepest economic depression mankind has ever known. Okay, I get that.

This new regime just has to be run by someone named Dr Soandso. All these stories have to have some smug asshole at the helm that professes to be much smarter than anyone in history, and has convinced everyone he knows what is best for mankind. One of these things instituted by Dr Soandso is the Jobs From Aptitude initiative, that places everyone in the job their testing shows they will be happiest in performing.

Every job in this new society is seen as important, yet some jobs such as porn starts are still seen by most as undesirable and the people that have these jobs are looked down upon. People cast into some of the demeaning jobs, such as porn star, keep their occupation a secret and even lie to their families about what job they were assigned. Just like today, the more desirable jobs can make someone very rich. Once you are cast in your job, that is your role for life. The program is supposed to eliminate both job dissatisfaction and poverty.

Of course in this society everyone who accepts their calling is, at the very least, rewarded with an income that allows them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. Those who reject their calling are cast into the out lands with society's worst criminals, and must eke out an existence in a violent and disease infested world of abject poverty.

Of course this society's rules have become excessively rigid, this rigidity of the laws and policies has caused wide spread corruption. With enough money, bribes can get a person nearly anything they want.

Even though the Jobs From Aptitude system works, it also has become corrupt. The people running the system are taking payoffs to alter the results in order to please the payer of the bribe. For example: A business mogul pays the Jobs people to get an attractive women as his assistant because he wants a hot young woman to do his bidding instead of the openly gay men that have been sent to him his whole career.

Of course bribes are illegal, and anyone caught giving or taking bribes is publicly executed. Even talking about a bribe can get one thrown into the disease ridden out lands. This makes bribing very secretive and it is all done deep underground. Bribes aren't even mentioned among family members. Turning in someone for corruption is rewarded with the ability to jump out of one's assigned career, and select any career they want. Nearly everyone dreams of jumping out of what they are doing and wants one of the top paying careers. People that turn in someone for paying a bribe are also upheld as a hero at the briber's execution.

In the new society's porn industry, entertainment is made for all types of people. Both men and women watch porn equally, but since everyone's kink is highly personal, they keep their porn watching to themselves and of course always claim they don't watch porn. There is plenty of corruption in the porn industry too. A lucky few of the very rich can pay their way into participating in their favorite kink with a porn star. This is usually done under the guise of winning a promotional contest.

One very rich man in this society, badly wants to live out his kink fantasy, but he just isn't attracted to the porn stars that portray his particular kink. So he decides to pay a bribe to get younger and hotter women to play the female role in his favorite porn fetish. Once the type of woman he wants in the industry, he will gladly pay what ever it takes to participate.

So when he pays his bribe to the Jobs From Aptitude people, he describes exactly what kind of star he wants to see down to the minutest of details. Then he bribes the porn industry people and tells them exactly what sort of nastiness he wants to see this hand picked woman do. The man has thought about this for years. He knows the only way to get what he wants is to pull off this sort of risky double bribe. The man is consumed with anticipation, yet fears he will be found out and executed.

The deal he makes with the two parties is once the woman he described is cast in her first fetish role, the industry will send the man a link to preview the woman's work. Then in just a couple of days after he receives the file, he will be declared the winner of that year's Mingle With The Stars contest.

Then the day he has been waiting for has come. The man gets the secret notification that his personally selected porn star's first Holograph Film is ready to be viewed. The man gets the holograph file and locks himself in his study, strips down and is ready to pleasure himself as he begins viewing. He is horrified with what he sees. The woman in the role that has been hand selected for his ultimate pleasure isn't what he wanted. The woman in the film is his daughter.

As the man watches the film it all starts to make sense. He has always had a strange attraction to his daughter. He must have unwittingly described her when he described what he wanted to the Jobs people. His daughter had always wanted to be a doctor, but it seems his bribe has made her a porn star. Deep down he knew he wanted to be with a woman like his daughter, but he never wanted it to be his actual daughter. He never wanted to make her do the things that his fetish demanded.

The man is beside himself. If he doesn't go through with his daughter performing for him, the contest will be investigated and the bribes will be found. If he does go through with it, he will be making his daughter have twisted and demented sex with him. To avoid the death penalty, he decides he has to go through with it and will try to explain things to his daughter, hoping she will forgive him.

The day comes and he meets with his daughter at the studio. He asks to have some time alone with the "star" before the shoot in order to get to know her a bit. Alone with her, he tries to convince his daughter that this whole thing is just a random occurrence and he really did just win the contest. She isn't so sure.

Under the threat of not performing her job and expulsion to the out lands, the daughter goes through with it and has sex with her father. The encounter is put into a Holograph Film for all to see. She can't believe how nasty her father can be. In fact, even though she knew it had to have happened for her own conception, she never even imagined her father having sex with her mother, let alone herself.

After the deed is done the daughter starts putting things together. She realizes that her father must have payed millions in bribes to get what he wanted, and her placement in the role was probably a mistake. She also realizes that her own father's greedy actions have placed her in the porn industry instead of being a doctor.

Now the daughter has a choice to make. Does she keep her mouth shut and take the life in porn she has been handed, or does she rat out her own father and jump into the job that she had always dreamed of having, knowing full well he will be put to death.

 

[EquinoxRising]

You're right about "long". Looks like you wrote a story here.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Wow. That is a LOT of moving parts to get the desired outcome. I'm not knocking your idea. . .I'm saying Rube Goldberg would be very very proud of you. And so am I. I want you to make my coffee. I don't even like coffee. I just want to see how many gerbils you can work in.

 

[loquere]

I'd skip the appeal system and assume that it's perfect or near enough. Some people don't think they'd enjoy doing 'x' but it turns out that while you never realized you'd enjoy knitting that you're just naturally talented. And then skip to the fun stuff.

As they say in new Hampshire ~ Live free or die

 

[FantasisingMale]

I posted a similar idea on here a while back. A new government had taken over forcing anyone who was already on welfare to work for their welfare, homes, security. Not only that they were instantly forced into thousands, millions of pounds of debt for previous welfare received based on a ridiculous way of working out how much should be owed. The penalty for not complying was life imprisonment.

Similar scenario where a women was then given to a male or female neighbour (in my scenario) and had to work for them. They were basically a house slave trapped by the system and a fear of the penalty of doing behaving for their new 'owner'. In this scenario there was no real way of deciding your career path, (again, similarities) it was given to you.

Mine, like most, if not all, my ideas involved the girlfriend or wife of another man though it didn't necessarily need to be written from any particular viewpoint.

 

[FantasyXY]

You're right about "long". Looks like you wrote a story here.

Not a whole story. Just an outline really. What I wrote was what rushed through my head when I read the OP's story idea.


And Sean's point about it having a lot of moving parts... Not really.
Most of what is in my post is just setting the scene of corruption in a supposed Utopian society. The rest is just this...

• Guy wants the sexual encounter of a lifetime.
• Guy bribes who has to in order to get said encounter
• When encounter happens, he is surprised that he has to do it with his daughter
• Because of the totalitarian laws they live under, the guy and his daughter end up following through with the sex
• Daughter figures out that dad caused her to be misplaced in a job she doesn't want.
• Daughter has to choose between her career and her father's life.

Pretty simple. But if you want to see me to make gerbil coffee, you are going to have to step up your gerbil breeding program. Yeah, this is going to take a lot of gerbils.