Oh I don't know? I bet he was pick to be a breeder and he is not into females at all.What do you do when you are being forced to engage into an act you can't stand doing with a female? You are being called to duty to breed to keep the race going and you don't like females at all? The very idea of being alone with one, let alone touching and making out, turns your stomach and makes your skin crawl? Why was he picked? He knows a dozen or more other males that would love to take his place, but the law is the law and he has to do his duty. How can he get out of this distasteful act? Can he get it up, let alone keep it up to breed with a female? What will he do? What will he do?

That is an interesting twist to it, having the Office of Population Control trying to control the population upward. Once upon a time it was possible for a draftee to pay a person to take his place, so depending on the nature of the society, that might be possible. If the technical level allows, artificial insemination would be possible - with a choice of collection methods.

Or the letter could simply add "selected to be gelded" in the more visible area and eliminate that ambiguity.

Perhaps there is eugenics and *both* cases apply - there are Selected Breeders, and Geldings. And a bureaucracy is apt to mix things up from time to time. Would someone not desiring to a Breeder go as far as getting gelded to avoid that? Or is there a third class of male, the Unselected Breeder. He's not chosen as his characteristics are not terribly desirable, but his breeding wouldn't be unwelcome either so he's not at risk of gelding... unless there's a mix-up or someone at the OPC has it in for him.

Whether he's selected to breed, or selected so he will never breed productively, he would have a few choices:

* If it's permissible, find a substitute - much easier in the case you mention, of course.

* If it's not permissible, try it anyway - still easier in the case you mention, but with more risk if the deceit is discovered.

* Go underground and hope he doesn't get caught - severe penalties if caught.

* Leave the country - assuming he can flee to another country and not be sent back or treated just the same as in the country he left.

* Go through with it. This one has a few choices of its own, as mentioned above for your suggestion of selected to mate. It could also have a couple choices for him he's to be gelded:

- Appear as the letter says and have the procedure done in typical assembly (disassembly?) line bureaucratic style.

- Have the procedure done elsewhere and appear only to present proof of the procedure having been done. There are plenty of variations on this from a hospital or office procedure with better bedside manner, to the extremes fantasy.

I like how you pick up on what I was hinting at. I in my out look they don't have any means or have outlaw artificial insemination for doing things the old fashion way. He maybe part of a long long of strong breeders that have proven they worth over the years, so he maybe trap into going it for the honor of his family line.

I was thinking along the lines of something has happen and there are few males that can breed and create healthy kids, so he has been tested and found to be of good stock. Gelding would be for the males that prove not to be of good stock. he may know others that would want to, but few if any of them can help create healthy kids.

I do love all of your outtakes on my suggestion. So many ways to go with this one. So many outcomes. I am sure we could keep this up all week long. You do have a great imagination.

Thanks for letting me share in it.

Thank you. And you are quite welcome to share in the twists of my mind. Often it seem the big problem is narrowing things down to one particular image.

Something like Thoroughbred racing, all foals must be the product of "natural cover" though without the reason for restrictions being quite that. Tradition or belief system could easily account for not using AI even if it was available.

This image idea could lead to a few more. Would it be one image with nothing showing on the letter except in a though bubble as he read? Then just change the contents of the thought bubble and there are both the horrified Gelding-To-Be and the Worried-Selected-Breeder. Each could be shown as they try to escape or come to terms with their fates.

I don't have anything in mind as of yet either way, and each image would be a snapshot of events. I have thought about writing some, since I do have the odd idea that doesn't translate well to a simple image, so putting a story around it might make some sense. I suppose it'd be something like some of  hooves stories, but more F/m than M/m.

I don't the details of what story might go with this, but I can already see a solution to the Fearful Breeder's problems, after a fashion. And a nasty (but probably quite predictable) twist to the Gelding-to-be's fate, in a couple ways.

I can see your point. But what if the breeder does not want to be gelded? I could see the one that has been pick to want to change places with the breeder. But what if the breeder won't go with the gelding? This could make things very heavy if he backs out at the last minute?

Another good point about the tradition or belief system. One way or another the breeder is trapped and the one that is to be gelded I am sure will be watch at some point to make sure he don't try to get out of it. While the breeder is treated like some big time star and just about given the key to the city. Both would have a hard time finding stand in's that way.

Let us hope you do find someone that is willing to bring your many ideas to life.

I can see non-gelding solution to the Selected Breeder's problem. Not an ideal solution, perhaps, but a workable one.

Yes, there are so many good ones too. Let's hope he finds one that he can live with for all time.