Another Phil Phantom tribute. This one was started a year or two ago but, like many such stories, I lost steam halfway through. Suddenly picked it up again while writing the latest iCity story and finished it up quick (and also used it to try out one or two things before I put it in the other story). As usual, I realize most people don't like these as much as my other work, and I don't care, I'm posting it anyway.
Muckrakers, Slutmakers, and Fucktakers - a Phil Phantom Tribute (mf, mg, Mg, beast, ws, Fg, Fb, bond, inc)
An irresponsible online news story turned our town upside down, inside out, head over heels, and ass over teakettle. That last expression never made much sense to me, but if we changed it to 'ass over windowsil' it would become startlingly accurate to something that happened in the first weeks of aftermath of that Muckraker's story.
That was his name, The Bayport Muckraker, the only name we ever knew, although I've heard a few people jokingly refer to him as Saint Muckraker. He was an online blogger, unaccountable and anonymous, who thought he was speaking truth to power and exposing the seedy underbelly of Bayport, posting about such yawn-worthy scandals like a city-councilman expensing home renovations to the city, or the mayor awarding an important contract to his brother-in-law's business. As you might expect, his blog probably didn't get more than a dozen hits on any one story, until he came out with an impossible-seeming story that caught the public imagination and went viral. "Bayport Pedophile Ring Conditions Middle School Girls Into Sex Toys" the headline went, which just showed he wasn't a real journalist. It was lurid, sure, attention-grabbing, absolutely, but a real journalist would be punchier. "Brainwashed Baby Bimbos of Bayport," maybe, or "Junior High Neighborhood Sluts," or maybe "One Weird Trick That Makes Pedos Dreams Come True." But I guess when you're telling a story that insane and outrageous, you can get away with a long, awkward headline.
The news of the story blew through the whole town in hours... it's a small town, gossip moved fast, and even if the Internet hadn't helped I'm sure by the end of that day everyone would have heard the details: There was, supposedly, an organized effort by a pedophile ring in the Bayport area, one that had been going on for years, with a tried and tested method to condition young girls into sex toys, perfect obedient little fuckdolls. The article referred to this ring as the Slutmakers, and the girls they targeted as Fucktakers, because afterwards, that's all they were destined for, taking a good hard fucking or a load of gooey fuck in one of their holes.
That was the story, anyway... that these girls, when properly approached, would do anything sexual, with any sex or type... men, women, children, seniors, strangers, friends, or family, even animals, they couldn't refuse, so long as they were asked in the right way. More than that, these girls, these openly accessible sluts wouldn't say a word, they would never rat on a lover, molester or rapist, depending on what you might consider the act, they would rather die than give up a name or reveal an impropriety to somebody trying to get it out of them, they were obsessed with maintaining the image of a perfect, virginal girl except when they were getting all those decidedly non-virgin holes stuffed with cock. Most girls can't keep a secret under pressure, but, the story went, these girls had been trained by the Slutmakers with special mind-control techniques. If an twelve-year-old girl in the group wound up pregnant, she would swear to her dying breath that it was an immaculate conception. Present a eleven-year-old girl with leaked video of her getting gangbanged, and she would insist it was a lookalike, demand a lie detector test to prove it, and pass with flying colors. That was, the story went, how nobody knew this society of sex dolls existed.
How could this be accomplished? The Muckraker claimed not to know, and that he couldn't even verify that it was true for all of them, his source said that there were many girls in different stages of conditioning, and the Muckraker could only personally verify one twelve-year-old who had gone all the way, a girl he gave the pseudonym "Baby," because he didn't want to reveal her name and potentially ruin her life... besides which, the story went, "Baby" would only deny the story anyway.
But "Baby" wasn't the only one, the Muckraker claimed. There were dozens of middle school girls in Bayport who had been sucked into this slutty brainwashing cult, to one degree or another, and many more high school girls who had been through early trial-runs of conditioning and could be trusted to have sex with a stranger and be discreet.
That was the most scandalous and, to many such as myself, the most unbelievable part of the whole story, the one that cast doubt on all the rest. The sheer numbers involved made the story ridiculous. This was Bayport, if dozens of middle school girls were part of this sex ring, that was a hefty chunk of the town's middle school population. I could believe one girl seriously brainwashed, maybe a handful who are just molested in the usual ways girls get molested, by a relative or neighbor or stranger passing through town with nothing to lose, but to suggest more than one in four girls at my daughter's middle school was secretly an open-access fucktoy?
Unbelievable. At least, I didn't believe it when I heard it, and still not sure I believe most of it. But no matter what stupid story you find on the Internet, somebody will believe it, sometimes a lot of people, and the more they want it to be true, the more they'll believe it. And I guess a lot of people wanted to believe this rumor, even after the swift official denial that there was any such thing going on, a report that a police investigation was under way but there was no evidence to support the allegations. To the kind of people who would believe this kind of thing, though, an official denial wasn't evidence against it, they twisted it into being proof that it was going on. And you couldn't reason with these people, because, they would always argue, if the girls were conditioned to completely deny anything was going on, how would the police be able to find anything?
The story seemed like it was obviously bullshit, but bullshit can take on a life of its own. To many of those who bought into this variety of bullshit, "1 in 4" girls at Bayport Middle School being brainwashed sluts, who would never snitch in on a pervert and never say no to one either, wasn't a horrifying nightmare, it was good odds. Even if they weren't completely conditioned, they're still an easy target for pedophiles with Internet access and the ability to get to Bayport, at least if you believed in the lie.
And sometimes even lies can take on a little bit of truth. Can you imagine the perverts, emboldened by good odds, taking a chance they otherwise wouldn't have taken, approaching the girls in the right way, and then, whether they were actually part of this fantastical slut training or not, convincing them into sexual activity? Did I mention that the 'right way' to approach these girls, to get them to do anything, was to get them alone and calmly pay attention to their pussy? To reach into a pair of pants or under a skirt like it was your right, like you knew it wouldn't be rejected, and just start stroking pink? I wasn't brainwashed, and if you did that to me, you had a good chance of getting me to do anything, and I'm a church-going mother who now tries really hard to have sex only in a committed relationship, or when temptation pushed past beyond good sense. Temptation and good sense intersected around my pussy, and a thick finger or aggressive cock was a good way to push one past the other. And I'm not even a hormonal adolescent, or a little girl drunk on the power of men falling all over me, not anymore, and not for a long time, built up a huge tolerance to being drunk on lots of things... get me at that middle school age, bursting with sexual feelings I didn't yet understand, and I'd be liable to put out for a stranger I met that hour and call it true love at first sight. Not just liable, that's pretty much what happened, except it was multiple strangers which is liable to make a girl feel less loved and more fucked.
But those interested in testing the Muckraker's story weren't all strangers, and it wasn't just out-of-town perverts, we had plenty of home grown ones, and daddies or brothers wondering if the sweet, virginal little middle schooler in their family would spread their legs if they only grew the balls to stroke their pussy, well, plenty grew the balls, and some, I'm sure, got rewarded with complete virgins who were ready to toss that label away when they got too slick between the legs by a bold family member that they were too afraid to say 'No' too. Not all the perverts were men, either, there were dykes in denial and those just with a little curiosity, all willing to experiment and see if the stories of rampant bisexuality were true.
And, even if every adult behaved like a saint, which nobody could expect, that still left the other kids, those who weren't part of the group but didn't want to be left out of all the sex they now were sure was going on, overheard from their parents or looked up on their own visits to the Muckraker's site. Every boy in school must have tried every girl, and some girls got the message that they could gain sudden and dramatic popularity by hinting about that they might be one of these no-tell sluts and, when approached, live up to the role.