Nearly half of adolescent men found themselves effectively sterile. The remaining half were on a spectrum of barely viable, to the rare previral sperm...count. At sixteen, all male teenagers undergo testing to determine their ability to produce children. Based on that score, they are given a ranking. Created as a means to help keep track of viable men, the ranking system evolved to determine many men’s life choices.Society had undergone drastic changes after the virus decimated much of the. "Pretty awful"She gathered up the dirty sheets, adding my pyjamas to them. "Well take your medicine, and get off to bed. You'll feel a lot better to get it over with."As she headed out to take care of the washing, I grabbed another pair of pyjamas, downed another bottle of medicine and took a pill. As I was drifting off to sleep it occurred to me that these pyjamas were pinching too.I woke up in the middle of the night again. My sister wasn't there, but I can't say I blamed her. I can't imagine. "Dissolves itself in a 24 hr period." "What do I do first?" Jackie asked."Go into the room and take your clothes off." The man said as he pointedto a curtain covered doorway. "The factory is right back there." "My clothes!" Jackie screamed. "You little pervert!" "I won't see you until you come out of the dressing room in the end." Thestore owner assured her. "The Fetish Factory is fully automatic." "Oh." Jackie suddenly calmed down and went into the back room. Theother side of the curtain was a. Route 95 corridor who might try to listen in. Central to the conversation was Kim, special ROK agent, friend and confidant of Shawn McClellan. Kim hadn’t started as a ROK agent. He’d been recruited when they discovered his involvement with the UN, and his personal proximity to several CID and CIA operatives hadn’t hurt. From his first recruitment had emerged a superlative underground player. Kim was among their very best agents, a valued commodity. It wasn’t that the government of South Korea.