by Zoe Brown
Addicted to Womanhood
Book One
A Recreational Gender-Bending Novel
By Zoe Brown
Revised, Expanded 2nd Edition
© Original Edition 2017, 2nd Edition 2018, Zoe Brown
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Acknowledgements:
Adam Murakami
Preface
On GENTECH International, Temporary Cosmetic Enhancers, and Werewoman
The world depicted within this and many other Zoe Brown stories set within the GENTECH universe is not the world that you know. It is strikingly similar, however, except in the following respect: In this world, medical and pharmaceutical research into nanotechnology and genetic modification is far advanced over what exists in the world that you know, and a new form of cosmetic appearance enhancing products, known as ‘TCEs’ (Temporary Cosmetic Enhancers), that make use of both of these technological developments in order to temporarily manipulate a user’s physical appearance by altering their bodies from the genetic level on out, has appeared on the world stage to great fanfare.
The History of GENTECH and the Development of TCEs
Within the fictional world of this story, in the year 2005 a new startup pharmaceutical research company that specialized in genetic modification founded its first research facility in Ensenada, Baja California (Mexico). Upon securing the rights to the business name ‘GENTECH International’ and attracting a number of wealthy investors, this new endeavor began an exhaustive quest to find a way to synthesize an over-the-counter ‘designer DNA’ drug that could be programmed to grant users any physical traits that they desired. Finally, in 2011 and after seventy-one months of continually over-budget research that had several of the investors looking sideways at the company, the researchers discovered a way to use a functionally defanged (but still highly aggressive) retrovirus to deliver custom-designed DNA sequences into an individual’s body in order to rewrite a tiny portion of that individual’s genetic code, and then to release a targeted burst of energy at the cellular level that would prompt the body to promptly begin manifesting the new phenotype: the desired cosmetic results.
The key to this incredible breakthrough in pharmaceutical science was found through the application of nanotechnology. Every individual dose of the gene-rewriting retrovirus was loaded with thousands of microscopic nanites that were programmed to rapidly deliver a high amount of synthetic energy molecules to the targeted cells, enabling the body to undergo rapid changes that would allow it to conform to its new DNA template. In the earliest trials these new cosmetic changes only persisted in manifesting themselves within the test subject for an extremely limited duration before the baseline DNA reasserted itself, but with repeat dosing or higher levels of initial dosing the time limit before reversion could be extended substantially.
At first the activation time of the retroviruses was rather lengthy, on the scale of hours or even days, but in line with GENTECH developmental goals the scientists continued to work on lowering it. While competing ‘designer DNA’ companies began debuting product taglines such as ‘Six Months to a Full Head of Hair’ and ‘Three Months to a Better Bottom’ for lengthy and expensive treatment plans, GENTECH bided its time and quietly stoked the fire of its continuing research. The visionaries in charge of the company appreciated that while some consumers (particularly the wealthy super elite) might be willing to pay a large amount of money up-front for a lengthy treatment plan involving numerous doses that could result in a long-term, semi-permanent change to their physical appearance, consumers at every level would be willing to collectively spend much, much more money over an indefinitely longer period of time on multiple products within a product line of short-duration, one-off ‘cosmetic’ appearance-boosting drugs that could - for a reasonably low price - temporarily give them the physical appearance of their dreams -- or at least that of their evening’s fancy.
As GENTECH’s pharmacological researchers continued their work on refining the drugs, the activation time of the retrovirus began to come down. By 2012 the activation time had been shaved to just under thirty minutes, and by the time GENTECH’s initial product line launched in June of 2013, it had been reduced to just north of five. The initial product line, tag named Express Yourself, contained twelve ‘Temporary Cosmetic Enhancement’ offerings, six of which addressed hair. Other offerings in the initial launch included options to increase female bust size, enhance the size and firmness of the female bottom, adjust height upwards or downwards by between four and eight inches, change eye color, and (of course) increase the size of male genitalia.
The product packaging promised users that within every single-capsule dose of the drug they were purchasing (sold separately as low as ten dollars a dose, or in 30-dose bottles for nearly a third the per-unit-price) was enough of the gene treatment to guarantee eight hours of new hair, a bigger bust, firmer butt, or whatever the customer was interested in buying. Double dose and Triple dose packages (which correspondingly doubled or tripled the effective time of the enhancement) were sold at discounts alongside the more popular single dose packages. The packaging contained a warning label advising customers of potential side effects, which included possibilities such as other-than-as-advertised results and unintentionally permanent transformations if too much of the drug was consumed all at once or within a six-to-twelve month period, but the incidence of these side effects was initially so low as to be negligible among the general public (less than .001%), and no one much paid attention to the warnings.
Within weeks of the launch all three packaging options were flying off the shelves of pharmacies in major cities across North America. #ExpressYourself became a trending topic on Twitter. The general public went wild for the product line, as men and women all over partook of low-cost, no-side-effect, nearly-instantaneous cosmetic enhancements in order to spice up their dating lives, their sex lives, their interview presentations, and even their high school reunion ‘looks.’ Millions of before-and-after selfies were taken and posted to Instagram and Facebook, and thousands of memes flooded social media feeds. Popular television shows began dropping references to GENTECH’s products and to TCEs into their scripted and unscripted exchanges, and popular support solidified behind the use of these ‘Temporary Cosmetic Enhancers’ as relatively normal and benign, albeit new, forms of grooming.
Of course there was some pushback against the product line, most especially from far-right socially conservative pundits and sex-negative religious fundamentalists who railed against what they saw as the clear intention behind the product line: to boost individual sexual and dating satisfaction alongside overall confidence and self-esteem, but with the first product line even that response was largely muted, as even old, fat, and balding conservative pundits were quick to find use for GENTECH’s cheap, temporary enhancers.
Once the initial craze had crested and receded, demand quickly surfaced for a wider array of offerings, and GENTECH was primed to supply, unveiling the Enhance Yourself catalogue in early December 2013. Where Express Yourself had kept itself to the more obvious ‘basic’ human cosmetic desires, Enhance Yourself set out to address some of the public’s less obvious tastes. The second product line was also larger
than the first, containing twenty-four additional labels in comparison to the first line’s twelve. Some of the products strayed away from the original goal of providing ‘temporary cosmetic enhancements.’ Products offering short-term elevated metabolic rates, resilience against the effects of an all-night-bender, more productive dieting and exercise, and enhanced muscular development took their place alongside the more expected cosmetic enhancers, which included labels targeting nose size and shape, eyelash thickness and length, longer legs, broader shoulders, facial hair reduction (in both men and women), body hair reduction, wrinkle erasure, lip plumping, muscle tone, stomach flab targeting, cellulite elimination, and even knobby knees. But notably, a full fourth of the Enhance Yourself line was explicitly devoted to enhancing the sexual lives of GENTECH’s customers. ‘All Night Long’ guaranteed customers enhanced libidos, improved sexual performance, increased sexual sensitivity, and long-lasting sexual endurance – and it delivered. There were also labels offering increased ejaculation and simultaneously tighter and wetter vaginal passages.
The second product line quickly drew both praise and controversy, as while on the one hand customers in the continually expanding TCE world market swept shelves clean of the all the products that were of interest to them, while on the other hand moralists and conservatives and religious fundamentalists found far more to rail against in the Enhance Yourself line than they had in the Express Yourself. To hear detractors speak, now GENTECH wasn’t just offering you a chance to look better ahead of your big night, they were encouraging you to make radical changes to your lifestyle, promoting materiality and ‘skin-deep beauty,’ and nakedly encouraging customers to engage in libidinous acts of pleasure! ‘Man was not meant to tamper with what God has created’ became a common slogan among these moralizing pushbacks. A reactive wave of vitriol lashed out against people who used GENTECH’s products to enhance their appearances before heading out on the town or meeting up with someone for a date, and a number of gross memes began surfacing among ‘red pill’ websites partial to such repulsive viewpoints encouraging men to take their dates through a series of arcane rituals designed to determine whether or not the ‘real’ person underneath the cosmetic enhancements was ‘attractive enough’ to actually spend time and money on.
But the negative backlash did not impede GENTECH’s sales, and both product lines continued to fly off of the shelves in the months that followed. A remarkably sizable supermajority of people found that they appreciated the ability to look and feel a little better on a discreet, semi-regular, and temporary basis for a reasonably low-priced fee, whatever views they might espouse publicly or to friends and family members. Grocery Stores and Drug Stores both began expanding the shelf space they devoted to GENTECH products, and as other pharmaceutical companies slowly began to break into the TCE market, they expanded them yet again. The initial hype surrounding Temporary Cosmetic Enhancers (TCEs) slowly dissipated over the course of 2014, and as it did sales slowly began to decline, but they levelled off in a very, very profitable place for GENTECH and their slowly-emerging competitors. Public interest in TCEs remained strong even after the hype had passed, and they slowly sank into the public’s conception of ‘normal’ cosmetic enhancement, alongside other options such as makeup, shaving, makeovers, injections, and waxing.
Rather than rest on their successes, however, GENTECH’s leadership decided to keep pushing the envelope -- and wound up nearly pushing both it, and the company, off of a cliff. In late 2014, GENTECH debuted its third and final product line in what later analysts would call the ‘first wave’ of TCEs. Imagine Yourself, which launched in October 2014, contained a staggering thirty-six new labels, not all of which were initially carried in stores and many of which were highly controversial even among the most ardently pro-TCE crowd. In its third product line, GENTECH’s innovators decided to see if they could push the public’s conception of ‘self’ into a new, nebulous zone in which potential customers could imagine themselves as any kind of person they might want to be and then find an assortment of GENTECH products that could satisfy that impulse. There were labels offering subtly-pointed ‘Elf’ ears, fanged ‘vampire’ teeth, big and hairy ‘Hobbit’ feet, ‘Dwarf’ beards for ladies, subtly luminescent eyes in a variety of colors, skin that faintly glistened beneath bright lights, big round ‘anime’ eyes, deeper voices, higher voices, double-jointed thumbs, sixth fingers (or toes), and so on. There were labels for extra nipples, extra breasts, ‘female’ prostates (for enhanced anal sex in women), ‘male’ multiple orgasms, skin-tone and feature-altering ‘ethnicity changers’, and on and on…
The backlash against GENTECH’s third product line was instantaneous and multipolar, with both right-wing reactionaries and left-wing activists joining religious moralizers in finding fault with many of the new products. GENTECH shares tanked in global markets, while competitors saw their sales boom. Within a few months the company’s stocks levelled out again and resumed market dominance (albeit with a diminished share of the overall market), but several of the products in GENTECH’s third line were pulled from the shelves of most stores and relegated to specialty ‘Apothecary’ shops and online merchants, and GENTECH’s board of directors and shareholders cleaned house at the company, firing several members of the company’s ‘innovative’ leadership. Though GENTECH remained the leader in Temporary Cosmetic Enhancers for the foreseeable future, henceforth it set out to contain itself to very moderate levels of innovation - looking to improve upon their successful products while not spending too much time and money in researching ways to push the envelope.
‘Aphrodite’ and Werewoman
However, in July 2015, while debuting some new labels meant to restore investor confidence and bring back positive press, GENTECH accidentally pushed the envelope in an entirely new and unanticipated direction, not only for themselves, or for the field of temporary cosmetic enhancers (TCEs), but for humanity as well. Among the products which they included in their 2015 ‘Second Wave’ Be Your Best product line was ‘Aphrodite,’ one of several ‘combination treatment’ products that GENTECH had spent years putting together. Debuted at a substantially higher price point than the standard ten dollars (US) per dose, ‘Aphrodite’ combined numerous separate temporary cosmetic enhancements designed with feminine women in mind, and added an overall enhancer for a certain specific kind of female beauty: the glamour model look. The new combination product promised women longer legs, absolutely no body hair, tighter abs, hourglass shapes, firmer and fuller and more sensitive breasts, full and pert bottoms, long and flowing and beautifully glossy hair, thick and full eyelashes, plump lips, cuter noses, wider and rounder eyes, glistening skin, ‘aesthetically pleasing’ genitalia, increased vaginal wetness and depth and sensitivity, enhanced libidos and endurance, and more. An early draft of the packaging tagline tempted women to ‘Reveal the Goddess Within.’ And all of the above for only thirty-five dollars a pop! (a hundred for a full day’s dosage, and three hundred for a new, three-day ‘weekend’ package.)
‘Aphrodite’ was hardly alone: ‘Adonis’ promised to turn some men into beautiful Grecian gods of sleek musculature, attractiveness, and sexual prowess, ‘Hercules’ offered other men a more ripped, rugged exterior and physique, and there was even an ‘Amazon’ for women who wished to be a bigger, taller, stronger, and more muscular kind of beautiful. Each of the combination products released at the time could be purchased separately in their constituent parts elsewhere in GENTECH’s product catalogue, but the combination products contained a little extra ‘special sauce’ (or so the Internet called it) that public reviews claimed pushed users from enhanced ‘10’s to seemingly-natural ‘11’s. But ‘Aphrodite’ was unique even among the combination products because of the completely unintended and totally unexpected accidental side-effect it produced when consumed by a user who was male, or whose body had been Assigned-Male-At-Birth (Amab): It transformed the male body into that of an impossibly beautiful and highly sexual female. Completely, down to her te
mporary genetic code and in every way a female body could be female on a physical and genetic level. For eight, sixteen, twenty-four hours or however long the dosage was calculated for, the user was – to all outward appearances and inward pleasurable experiences – indistinguishable from any other female-bodied person, regardless of the fact that she had been male only shortly before. Once the dose wore off, the transformed women then returned to their former, male states as if the events of the previous hours had never occurred, but very few males who had ever taken the drug and had the chance to experience – for however fleeting a time – life as it might have been for them had they been born on the other side of the gender divide (and blessed with a preternatural degree of beauty, femininity, and sensuality, to boot) were ever quite the same afterwards, no matter who they had been before.
When this strange and unexpected side-effect was first reported, it was utterly disbelieved. Years of experience had taught the world that no TCE designed for a man would work on a woman, and no TCE designed for a woman would work on a man: they had been engineered that way. There was some fuzziness once the less-than-entirely-binary nature of human sexes was taken into account, but still: the drugs were designed to break down along a pair of binary genetic profiles: to the drugs, ‘Men’ on the genetic level looked like XY (or some variation of similar) and ‘women’ looked like XX (or something close to that). If you didn’t have that genetic profile, and the drug wanted it, it wouldn’t work on you, whether you identified as male or not. Hundreds of male-bodied individuals had tried to take breast-size-enhancing TCEs over the years since the drugs had first debuted: no one had ever manifested any actual results. The same was true of a not-inconsequential number of women who tried the penile-size enhancers. When the first few stories of men turning into women while under the influence of ‘Aphrodite’ began to surface on the internet in late 2015, no one believed them.
