"Did that feel good? She asked."Ya mom, very tasty, thanks." I answered."No, not lunch. What you were doing before you came back downstairs." She said..."I, ah, I just." I started to stammer."It's ok." Mom said. "I thought I detected an odor that I haven't smelled in a long time." " You were masturbating, weren't you? Mom asked. "Oh geez mom, I can't talk to you about that" I said."Ok, just tell me one thing.' " Do you have a magazine or video, or was it me?" She said the last part almost in a. Aren’t you girls afraid of getting pregnant? or a STD? How do you make the guys put on rubbers?”Sarah grinned. “Maybe you really did grow up on Mars, Kevin. I thought everyone in the whole world knew about the magic shot that keeps away the babies and the bugs.”“What do you mean? I lived a protected life, hardly ever saw girls socially and the only birth control I know is the pill and rubber. What’s the shot?”“It was approved, what? five years ago, maybe. It made the Program possible,. Commend themfrom me," she said to the scribe. She looked at Marases and me. "Is thistrue?" Yes," I said, apprehensive. "But we strayed into your lands by accident.We meant no harm and we were ready to leave."She tossed her head imperiously. "There are no excuses. I have no way ofknowing that! You are guilty. You will be punished in accordance withGenorian Law." She turned to the woman at her side. "What do you think,Ceranthis?" Ceranthis was a serious looking middle-aged woman, with grayhair,. “Want a tow, mate?” the young guy said to me grinning.“Sure,” I answered taking up the challenge.He tossed me a life jacket and a ski rope and idled away from me. I slipped the jacket on and grabbed the rope. Placing my feet in front, I hoped I remembered how to get up. I’d only ever bare-footed it once and remembered it could be bloody hell on the feet.I was now starting to think I should have asked for a ski as well. I felt the rope tighten and the boat started to pull me along. I got the.