Public Service Broadcast
The television reporter on the Gynarchy’s popular ‘Whipping Channel’ sets the scene for both the studio audience and the audience watching eagerly at home: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to ‘The Whipping Channel’ and our latest live, public whipping for your delectation and entertainment! This old slave man is about to be whipped for the crime of neglecting his mistress’s socks. Fifty lashes!’ The crowd in the auditorium cheer, whilst the nationwide TV audience casually pick their noses and eat their snacks in their onesies, tucked up on their respective sofas. ‘Let us begin by speaking to mistress Lisa, the slave’s owner. Lisa, what are you hoping to see this evening?’ 'Hi, Melanie. I’m hoping that you can make my slave really suffer! Not only did he neglect to straighten a crease in my sock, he actually had the audacity to look up at my bare anklebone above the sock!’ The crowd in the auditorium gasp and there are cries, both male and female, of ‘Whip him!’…. ‘Make him fe...