Anthropology (Sci-fi, horror?)
Dear Mr. Sharp:

Thank you for your letter expressing an interest in our work and in
offering us the possibility of securing funding from your foundation.

As I mentioned to you briefly in my last letter, we are working in the
field of anthropology, with particular emphasis on the antecedents in
the human development cycle.  As you know, we are one of only three
international research institutions who have been given unlimited
access to the Candiga tribe discovered early last year in a remote
area of the Amazonian jungle. This remarkable tribe was discovered by
a logging company, and was virtually on the edge of extinction.  In
fact the last of the females had recently died and there was only a
cluster of 16 males left.  As a humanitarian you will no doubt be
relieved to hear that, as a precautionary measure, we have taken DNA
samples from them and could recreate them if, by some mischance, they
were to all die out before the experiment has been concluded.

The tribesmen bear some resemblance to present-day humans, enough
indeed to suppose that they are probably what our distant ancestors
would look like. They do walk upright, but with a marked stoop and
their knuckles tend to drag along the ground. They have a high,
sloping forehead, deep set eyes and a pronounced mouth. Their bodies
are very hairy, closer to an ape than a present day human and,
although they can communicate, their vocabulary tends to be very
limited but is obviously adequate to their needs.

We have already concluded a range of experiments with regard to manual
dexterity, hand to eye co-ordination and intelligence. They have good
manual skills but their IQ can be measured at below sub-normal
compared to the range of human capabilities. Therefore we can conclude
that they have by no means reached the stage of developmental progress
that the rest of the human race has achieved. This has, for obvious
reasons, made the scientific community very excited.  In fact you may
have already seen the rather sensationalist newspaper reports that we
have discovered the 'missing link'.  On a scientific level we
naturally demurred, but on a personal level I think that this may be
very close to the truth.

I did promise, in my last letter, that I would send more details on
the rather more in-depth study  we have been undertaking.  This
research, as you recall, pays particular regard to the possibility of
breeding the subjects.  I am happy to confirm to you that our research
is going extremely well and I can now describe the program in more
detail.

We have five subjects in total.  These range from older specimens,
which we estimate would be around the 30 years of age mark, down to a
15 year-old.  In order to keep them away from diseases that we have a
natural immunity to, but to which they may not, such as the common
cold and smallpox, we have constructed a series of isolation chambers.
These chambers are glass throughout and resemble large, glass cuboids.
Inside we have equipped the chambers with a reasonable facsimile of
their natural environment, except that we have limited the amount of
vegetation so as to make continual observation possible. The air is
filtered and the chambers can only be entered via an air lock.
Naturally they are very secure as we wouldn't want the possibility of
these creatures escaping.

In this way we have been able to observe and study their, what you
would call, lifestyle habits. This has yielded a fascinating amount of
data with regard to diet, health, exercise and social interaction.
Once we had carried out this observation for a number of months we
decided to introduce a new element.  This new element came about from
our desire to determine both their breeding habits and their
interaction with females.  As all their females had died we had to
accept that we could only offer them a woman, as being the closest to
their species.  The female members of our research team were judged as
being too valuable to our program to allow them to become part of the
experiment so we obtained a young female from our present benefactor.

She is his sixteen year-old step-daughter who was taking no interest
in her studies, but seemed to have more than a passing interest in the
opposite sex.  Moreover she seemed shiftless and without a purpose or
direction to her life.  So he naturally assumed that she would be
perfect for our purposes.  Contrary to his beliefs she was, in fact,
in a virginal state and so we were very excited at the prospect of
introducing her to our control group of three males. I have included a
video tape of the initial introduction which you can review at your
leisure, but in the meantime I will describe what took place.  In
keeping with their unclothed state we took away her clothing. Thus,
naked, she was introduced to their enclosure.  After a period, during
which she banged on the door and screamed, the subjects became aware
of her presence.  Now I must add at this point that we didn't want to
give the female any preconceptions as to the nature of the experiment
that she was to be taking part in.  This was so we could observe her
reactions as well as the reactions of the subjects themselves.  We
feel that this initial inter-reaction was important to observe as it
could teach us a lot about how both they, and the rest of the human
race, would deal with each other on the first meeting of their
opposite species.  

So this initial meeting was rather a shock to her, compounded, I'm
afraid, by the fact that she was being observed by over 100 scientists
who sat in tiered rows around the enclosure and, of course, the banks
of video cameras that recorded every detail.  This was unfortunate,
but unavoidable, and we made the decision that the scientific
observation overcame any slight experimental bias that the presence of
the observers may have interjected.  In the event the subjects, who
were by now used to being observed, ignored the scientists.  So it was
just the girl herself who seemed to be disturbed by our presence, so
much so that she endeavoured to cover her crotch and breasts with her
hands.  This was judged to be predictable and so could safely be
ignored in the scientific pretext.

The next part of the experiment was very interesting.  This was where
the subjects became aware of the female and decided to investigate
her.  Obviously we were very keen to observe their reaction to the
presence of a female and, indeed, whether they would recognise her as
such.  At first we were rather disappointed for, as you can see on the
videotape, they merely shuffled around her occasionally reaching
forward to touch her.  She naturally tried to duck out of the way of
their clutching paws and each time she moved sharply or shouted at
them to desist, they scuttled away.  Happily, after a while, they
obviously perceived that she didn't present a threat and they became
bolder.  Now their touches became lingering manipulation of her flesh
which started her crying, which they ignored.  We took this to mean
that they didn't present, or react to, visible signs of emotion in the
way humans do.

The gripping became bolder and more purposeful.  They seemed
particularly interested in her breasts which they all handled in a
forceful manner.  They did seem to grasp their significance, so much
so that they all took turns to suck at her nipples.  The look of
disappointment on the face of Ug  (the name we gave to the oldest of
the group) when she failed to lactate, was so amusing that all the
assembled scientists roared out laughing, adding to her discomfiture,
I'm afraid.

To our astonishment they all proceeded to use their very long tongues
to lick her all over.  We assumed this was to lick off her body salt
but it did have the effect of starting to sexually arouse the young
girl.  The subjects were not slow in noticing this either and, before
long, the leader was confining himself to licking and tasting her
crotch area.  This in turn aroused her even more and, after a very
short period of time, they were all trying to delve into the junction
between her legs.  The female was alternatively moaning and trying to
pull away, but they had almost superhuman strength and so they pinned
her helplessly in place.  As her arousal grew so too, to our delight,
did theirs and they were soon sporting very prominent erections.  At
the case conference after the event someone (one of the female
scientists if I recall) observed that in penis size the human race
seems to have regressed, rather than progressed, if they were anything
to go by.  We used laser measurement devices to quantify their
erections and we found that the smallest was nearly ten inches long
and 2 inches across at its widest point.  Ug, being the leader, had
the largest appendage.

After a period of about fifteen minutes of licking and fondling, Ug
obviously decided that he wanted to mate with the female.  Now, as you
can imagine, we were all very curious as to how the mating would take
place.  If he were to follow the normal pattern of primate mating he
would want to enter her from behind, but from his present position he
would have to turn her, which he didn't seem inclined to do.  Instead
he seemed content with manoeuvring her legs apart with his, while she
screamed and tried to get away.  Again we noted that the screams
didn't seemed to bother them, which was an interesting scientific
anomaly we will be studying in more depth later.

Once she was opened to his satisfaction he lined his penis up with the
entrance to her vagina and then, with no preliminaries, he entered
her.  It took all his massive strength to force his way into her and
at one point it looked like he was going to give up, such was her
tightness around him. He probably deduced that he had entered the
wrong hole.  However, as we believed, his mating seemed to be purely
instinctual and so he persevered to the point where he had entered her
completely.  At that point he fell forward which naturally pinned her
to the ground.  The other two subjects released their hold on her and
she used her new-found freedom to try and push him off.  He obviously
felt in command of the situation and largely ignored her except to
lick the salt tears from her cheeks.  Then he was off.

In terms of human coupling, the subject's coupling was a long, drawn
out affair.  In fact we measured the time from initial penetration
through to the successful climax as being 43 minutes and 22 seconds.
The coupling itself presented no especial technique but was a
monotonous, although very rapid, series of strokes.  He seemed to
favour drawing the penis virtually completely out of her, before
plunging back to its fullest extent.  We concluded that this was their
method of opening up the female's seedbed to ensure successful
procreation.  To our amazement the female actually had two orgasms
during the mating.  The first was at the 27 minute, 3 second mark and
its peak lasted one minute, the other was as the subject ejaculated
into her and this lasted closer to two minutes.

Once the mating was concluded the subject simply ambled away.  The
assembled scientists stood and applauded me at that point, I must
blushingly confess.

Meanwhile, the next subject had dropped onto her and  was assiduously
repeating the process.  

All in all, on that first day she was mated virtually non-stop for 7
hours, at the end of which she was practically comatose.  We concluded
that this extended sexual activity was part of their genetic makeup,
such that the female would be too exhausted to get up, thereby
minimising the risk of their semen escaping from her womb, by dint of
the force of gravity.

>From that point on they mated with her at least twice a day each,
>always at a time decided upon by Ug.  After a month
and a half they suddenly stopped at which point we performed a
pregnancy test on her and were delighted to find that she was indeed
pregnant.  How the subjects knew this we have yet to determine.  The
interesting thing at this point is that the subjects have lost all
interest in her yet she is always trying to mate with them.  Indeed as
her pregnancy advances, her state of arousal also seems to increase
and she is continually trying to manipulate their penises to try and
make them couple with her.  But they have lost interest to the extent
that they have taken to climbing up the support bars to get out of her
way.  She has, meanwhile, taken to manually quenching her arousal but
with little success, evidenced by her increasing frustration and
annoyance.

There are a number of other observations that we have made during this
experiment: 

 1) She has taken to talking to them in a series of grunts,
reminiscent of their own 'speech', to which they seem to respond.  

2) She takes an active part in their grooming process although she
always tries to work her way down to their genitalia.


3) She completely ignores the scientists even when they speak directly
to her.  In fact she hides behind Ug if a scientist enters the
enclosure.  

4) The ultra-sound scans indicate a normal pregnancy, now in its third
trimester.

I have taken the liberty of including a selection of our observation
and case notes for your perusal as you expressed your interest.

I would also like to take this opportunity to confirm that we are now
ready to proceed with the next phase of our experiment.  This, as you
recall, is where we introduce a more mature and sexually-experienced
female, preferably with a high level of intelligence and beauty, into
one of the enclosures so we can observe the one-to-one relation that
would develop.  We are looking for these attributes to see what
effect,  if any, there would be on the offspring of such a mating.  I
note that you have proposed a suitable candidate, a young lawyer of
your acquaintance who, I believe, led the prosecution of your company
under the environmental protection laws.  I further note that you wish
it to be known that you were in error with regard to the pollution
incident and bear no malice against her, but merely believe that with
her love of nature that she would be an ideal candidate for our new
experiment.  Naturally I concur with your recommendations, but
unfortunately I must point out that without suitable funding we are
not in a position to proceed with the next level of experimentation.

I would therefore be extremely grateful if you could look favourably
upon our grant application (the figures of which are attached).
Please contact me if you require any further details.

Yours sincerely,


Professor Gough Simons 

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