An object that bottles lust

[Brandnewbuddy]

So the idea for a story with a message came to mind.

Essentially, in the setting a device or artifact exists that can drain someone of lust. Protagonist uses or sells their lust to be drained thinking it doesn’t matter, only to find their life is emotier without it.

For example: convent. Sisters are told to pray once a day or more if needed in front of an artifact, which will strip them of their carnal desires. Protag sees this as a win as she wants to just focus on her tasks and not her desire for her fellow sisters but she soon finds life is emptier without it.

Of course another aspect is: if the item can drain lust, wouldn’t it Stand to reason it could redistribute it or release it?

 

[LoneMilf]

Of course another aspect is: if the item can drain lust, wouldn’t it Stand to reason it could redistribute it or release it?

That was my first thought. Maybe the head of the order is making good use of all that stored up lust? It could be for private consumption or, more likely, traded for influence with the rich and famous.

This could be taken in a dystopian direction (humans as lust generators but not consumers) or more light-hearted (lots of ways for things to go wrong, effects of 'spillage' or overflow from the artifact etc.)

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

Yeah, I was thinking, especially if it’s set centuries back, the church could be using it to play politics: store up lust an then release it to make people engage in blackmail worthy acts or to force beneficial marriages.

Overflow would also be a good one to explore. A protagonist could keep using it, filling it up when they really need to deal with their lust. Eventually it overwhelms the device and it explodesc releasing all of it at once and affecting anyone near it.

 

[LoneMilf]

You can also make it a little more insidious. Maybe it's actually a demonic artifact that siphons off a little of your soul (along with your morals) every time you extract from it? Whoever uses it a lot could turn into something quite out of control

 

[Husky_Embrace]

What if the storage can give back, but only all at once? The sister decides that a little bit of "background horniness" will fill the emptiness in her and others their lives. She discovers a way to give something back. Unbeknownst to her, there is no real gradient.

A few hundred years of literally bottled up horny feelings of hundreds of people pour out. Like the start of any doom game, the ethereal horned up feelings spill out, infecting all it comes into contact with. The slutpocalypse has begun...