"Stanislaw Lem. Sexplosion " - читать интересную книгу автора

duty, and its frequency counters with red needles took the place of
phonebooths on the streets. But who is he, this old man, wandering through
underground passages from a room to a room? Head lawyer of "General
Sexotics"? Maybe that's why he remembers the big court processes, some of
which reached the Supreme Court, for the rights to replicate - as mannequins
- body likenesses of celebrities, starting with the First Lady. "General
Sexotics" won it (which set it back by 20 million dollars). And now the
shaking beam of the flashlight reflects in plastic boxes, which hold top
movie stars and other celebrities, princesses and queens in exquisite
outfits - exhibiting them any other way, according to the decision of the
Supreme Court, was prohibited.
For mere decade synthetic sex made way from simple inflatable models
with spring mechanism to samples with automatic thermoregulation and instant
feedback. Their human prototypes were long dead or turned into old farts,
but teflon, nylon, pornofoam and sexonil withstood the tests of time. Like
in a wax museum elegant dames, caught in a light spot of the flashlight,
greet the passing old man a stiff smile, holding the tape with their siren
song in hand (The Supreme Court prohibited putting the tape in the
mannequin, but the customer could do this privately, at home).
Slow and unsteady steps of the lonely old man raise clouds of dust,
through which, at a distance, you could see glowing scenes of group Eros -
often with up to 30 participants, something like giant layered cakes or
tight pretzels. Could it be the president of "General Sexotics" himself
marching down the corridor among homorobots and cozy sodomizators? Or the
chief designer of the concern, the one who genitalized first USA, and later
the rest of the world? Here are visuaries with remote controls, programs and
lead seal of censorship, the very one fought over in six great court
processes. Here are piles of containers, ready for shipment overseas, packed
with "Japanese Balls", boxes with pre- and post-foreplay cream and similar
goods, along with manuals and specifications.
That was an era of democracy, finally realized. Anybody could do
anything - with anybody. Following the advice of the staff futurologists,
the corporations, against anti-monopoly laws, secretly divided the world
market and went the way of specialization. "General Sexotics" was in a hurry
to equal the rights of normalcy and perversion. The two others bid on
automation. The samples of masochistic chains, whips and accessories
appeared on the market to convince the general public that the saturation of
the market is not even a possibility, because big business, I mean a really
big business not just satisfies the demand, it creates it! Traditional tools
of home shared the fate of Neanderthal's sticks and stones. The scientists
developed six and eight year long education courses, then the courses of
high school for both sexes, invented neurosexator, followed by mufflers,
suppressers, special insulation materials and sound absorbers so that
passionate moans would not disturb the rest and enjoyment of the neighbors.
But you have to go on, on and on, confidently and persistently, because
stagnation is a death of production. The models of Olympus for personal use
and first androids with the appearance of ancient gods and goddesses were
already being forged out of plastic in white-hot design shops of
"Cybordelics". There was a talk about angels, with a special fund started in
case of a lawsuit with the church. It was only left to make decisions on