White Slave Act of 2000 Background
Basic background:
In early 2000, a study showing that there were some where around 100,000 “slaves” in the US at this time was released. About half of these were in the sex trades, and another quarter were domestic servants. It was estimated that the modern slave trade was a 7 billion dollar a year industry, all of it un-taxed, of course. To deal with this issue the US Congress passed, and the President signed the “White Slave Act of 2000″, legalizing and most importantly, allowing for the taxation of this trade. The basic provisions were that a White Slaver must have a federal warrant (also called a slaver’s license) to perform his trade. This had a start up cost of $5,000 and a yearly renewal fee of $1,000 and could only be issued after the person had passed a back ground check, mainly to remove drug dealers. Women could be enslaved via 3 routes
1) Volunteering for enslavement. This required a either a written statement requesting to be converted or a recorded verbal request to be converted. The slaver would be required to pay a $200.00 federal slave tax on this transaction.
2) Commitment by Relative or “Person of Personal Contact”. In this case, a parent, husband, or “person of personal contact” could sell the woman to a slaver. A federal court case had held that a “person of personal contact” was some one that had performed consenting vaginal sex with the subject at least 3 times in the last 30 days. This was widely referred to as the “boy friend enslavement clause”. This lead to more and more young women doing either oral or anal sex with their boyfriends, as a way to avoid the possibility of the “breaking up via a slaver” action from happening. Despite this it was estimated that roughly 7% of all relationships that failed, with women in the 18-23 age bracket, ended with her enslavement. Strip clubs started to offer “enslave your bitch and get free drinks and dances” specials. Even though it was called “boyfriend enslavement” there were many cases of lesbian relationships ending in enslavement, in particular in several North East states and California, where the local laws defined sexual acts some what differently. In those cases, any vaginal penetration, to include with a “strap on” or even with a hand held dildo counted as sex for reasons of this act. Exceptions were made in the cases where a monetary transaction were involved, meaning that prostitutes ‘Johns’ and porn stars couldn’t claim their partners in this context. A later federal appeals court ruling on the “monetary transaction” clause held that any “item of value” would trigger this exemption, which had the effect of ending “Ladies nights” in clubs, because club going girls that wanted to pick up a guy (or get pick up) made sure that he bought her at least one drink before they left. The slaver was required to pay a federal tax of %25 of the sale value of the slave or $150.00, which ever was more.
3) By action of a magistrate. The act allowed that “the several states and lesser jurisdictions” may alter their penal and civil code to allow a judge to enslave a women as punishment for “selected crimes”. In this case they newly enslaved women was to be sold at public auction, with only those person with a federal warrant being allowed to bid. 50% of the sale price was to be passed on the Federal treasury in this case, the other 50% going to the jurisdiction that did the enslaving. This lead to most states and several cities enacting laws that allowed for enslavement on charges as minor speeding tickets, however “Public Drunk” and “Creating an Attractive Nuisance” where the most common, along with the obvious prostitution and drug offenses.
For all practical reasons, a 4th way evolved, based on an expansion of the judicial conversion option, that of being in default on a contract of any sort.
An important point, the act provided for the enslavement of women, and went to a great deal of trouble to define it. Only biological females could be converted.
There were, of course, women and girls that were exempted from becoming slaves.
1) Pregnant women and mothers of male children under 14 or female children under 12 were not allowed to be enslaved.
2) Girls under the local age of consent could not be enslaved. There rapidly evolved ways around this at least for teenagers. Once enslaved in a state or country where they were over the legal age of consent they could be transported to a state or country (assuming having a treaty that mutually recognizing slave status) where they were under the age of consent and stay a slave. Net effect was that the lowest legal age of conversion is 16 in the US and 14 in most of Europe and Asia.
3) Men that had a reported history of abuse could not enslave their victims. This had the more or less expected side effect of tripling the number of reported cases of domestic abuse. There is an exception here also, in that having a abuse complaint filed against a some one would not stop a conversion via a civil case. The logic here is that the abuser would not profit from the conversion. Even this wasn’t true in the case of contract defaults. You default on a contract and it’s highly likely that one or more of the women in your household are going to end up being the property of the other party in the contract. In rare occasions, this has resulted in the female members of the board of corporations or much more likely female members of board members families, being converted.
4) Sellers could also be required to pass a drug screen, but that was optional and was to be established by the states. Some states, those with strong “war on drugs” laws made it a requirement, others made it a “random” test. After the “pot revolution” of the early teen’s of the 2st century this became less and less likely to be triggered.
Judicial Conversions (and contract conversions by extension) could ignore most of the rules about the classes of women that could not be converted. Being pregnant, having the other party in a civil case (other than divorce) having an abuse complaint filed against them or having under age children might not be a shield against enslavement, depending on which court the case was heard in. As a general rule, “lower” the court, the greater the chance of enslavement. The fact that government entity associated with that court got 50% of the sale value of the slave had a great deal to do with this, most observers noted.
Once a woman was enslaved and the proper fees were paid, she became a “person of limited rights” and could be resold to any one, with a 15% tax on the sales price. However the new owners could not re-sell her, except to a licensed slaver. Basically, any slave transaction required that either the buyer or the seller be a licensed slaver. The term “person of limited rights” was, at best, a misnomer. About the only right left to an enslave woman was that her children were born free. All other rights, be they financial and property rights, civil rights or basic human right had been removed. This means that an owner could, if he or she wanted, torture or kill a slave, with nothing other than his or her code of ethics to stop them. This, of course, meant that a great number of slaves were tortured or killed. A fairly large “Pay Per View” industry arose for torture and snuff shows, and Hollywood, as a whole, embraced the enslavement of actresses. Within a year of passage of the act, over 40% of all screen and TV actresses were enslaved, and by 2004 the number had risen to nearly 70%, with it reaching almost 90% of those under the age of 35. After the initial rush to enslave actresses several major studios started to reverse this trend, at least for their leading ladies. Extras, of course tended to by bought and sold as needed. A slightly unusual trend started to happen around 2010 with “major” porn studios only using “free” actresses, but putting through very degrading, and often painful, sexual acts. Snuff movies, of course, only used slave actresses, at least in theory. There were several where the conversion was in question due to the “stars” being widely know as doing “free actresses porn”. Despite these cases being, in theory, 1st degree murder, enough papers were shown that there was a conversion in place that no charges were filled.
One “positive” aspect of not having most laws apply to the “persons of limited rights” was that neither federal or state drug laws applied to them any more. This one aspect alone accounted for roughly 50% of the voluntary enslavement in the year 2003. With the “pot revolution” this became less and less important.
Voluntary enslavement accounted for about 20% of the enslaved women. Sales by family accounted for another 40%, and “boyfriend enslavement” accounted for 30%, with the remaining 10% being by judicial action. This was the nation wide averages for the year 2003, however in some states judicial action would, at times, account for over 50% of the enslave women. Gulf Coast states during “spring break” being the most obvious and famous, but ski areas during winter breaks also had high rates of judicial enslavement.
Shortly after this bill had passed, of course, the “Mad Cow” scares started. Congress passed the “Alternate Meat Source Inspection Act of 2001″. In it, they directed that the FDA was to draw up the requirements to inspect and grade “Non traditional meat animals”. The act explicitly allowed “person of limited rights” as a “Non traditional meat animal”. With the passage of this act, many custom butcher shops obtained federal slaver warrants, so that they could directly buy “meat slaves” and many other established working relationships with white slavers in their towns or cities to buy unwanted slaves, or to act as “disposal” plants for slaves that had been killed for one reason or an other. Of course all of this was really unneeded, given that slaves could be killed in any way their owner wanted, and that, in fact, slave meat was more likely to have diseases than any non human animal would, but the public appetite, so to speak, for spit roasted teens was not to be denied. A complex grading system soon evolved. It became a point of pride, in select circles, to have a meat grading of “A” or better or to have a wife or daughter with these gradings. Having a high grading would effect the slaves price, but the exact amount of this varied over time, as the popularity of watching women being cooked waxed and waned.
Tapes of young coeds being arrested on various “public drunk” or “creating an public disturbance” charges, then taken to special courts where they were enslaved and sold off became some of the best sellers for the various “Girls Gone Wild” companies.
A lawsuit brought against one of the tape companies that alleged that they had set up the girls to be arrested was rejected on the grounds that while that tape company did in fact own the bar in question, had “all you can drink” specials for young women and had called the police to the bar, it was ruled that the young women in question had entered into the bar of their own free will, and that there were warning signs that this was a “public drunk enslavement community” within sight of the bar entrance and with these things taken into account their family had no grounds to sue. In the discovery portion of this lawsuit it was found that not only was the bar that sold the girls the drinks that lead to their being enslaved, the bar that bought them at the public auction were all owned by the same media company. The establishments that bought the slaves used them as wait staff, cage dancers, and sexual favors for customers (in so called “fellatio kiosks”). There were cases where girls would enter a bar, become drunk, be arrested, convicted (based on blood alcohol test evidence), put up for auction and be bought by the same bar they entered as free women, all within a 8 hour time frame. Many of these unfortunate co-eds found that being enslaved by a “bar and grill”, and not making enough “tips” (which were taken from them at the end of each shift) was a way to win a quick trip the spit and being the daily special. After a few years, however, this practice lead to a sharp decline in co-eds coming to some towns during spring and winter breaks, and it became much less common.
In addition to the “bar of enslavement” trick, which only really worked in the towns in the party area, many smaller towns “on the route” adopted “zero tolerance” speed zones. A popular “trick” speed limit for these towns would be 2-3 MPH under the “normal” highway speed limit. The ticketing officer, of course had full control over who got a “warning” and who had to go down town to see “the judge”. Oddly, fat guys in Semi rigs tended to get warnings. A young female driver on the other hand, could pretty much count on seeing the judge.
The “boyfriend enslavement” clause of the act, of course, also got a rather high rate of use during spring and winter breaks, with it being rather common during the early years of the modern white slavery era for a mixed group to head to a party area, run out of cash, and sell one or more of the girls in the group to pay for the rest of the party. This got to be so common in some schools, that “girlfriends” were know as “spring break bank accounts”. The requirement of having had vaginal sex with the intended slave at least 3 times in the last 30 days lead to two things, massive black market sales of various ‘date rape’ drugs, and most co-eds sucking cock pretty much on demand as to avoid the possibility of being sold into slavery by her “boyfriend”. Of course, because all it took was a sworn statement from the seller and a medical exam proving that the intended slave was not a virgin in this case, there can be no doubt that many “break banks” were sold by persons that may or may not have meet the full legal requirement. After a couple of rather high visibility court cases, leading to a higher standard of proof (normally taken to mean either photographs or video of the sex acts, or notarized statement from the women in question) this practice died off by 2009 or so. A major exception to this is southern Florida. In a rather unusual case, a Florida court ruled that it could be assumed that an out of state coed during a school break could be assumed to have sex, so that a request for conversion was not required to have the same standard as applied in other cases. Much to most people’s surprise, this ruling did not stop south Florida from being a spring break destination. The exact reason for this is still under study. Most people that think about it assume that those coeds coming down for break are in fact voluntary slaves, but want to have a bit of chance about it.
Differences between the White Slave Act of 2000 world and ours.
Let’s start with the big one. The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. In this universe it reads:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted or by act of congress, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
For those not up on the amendments to the US Constitution, the “or by act of congress” part in section 1 isn’t there in the real world.
History:
The White Slave Act of 2000 universe history is the same as the “real world” history up to the end of WWI. The flu pandemic that swept the world after the end of WWI, in addition to the death and suffering it brought, also caused a mutation to the human genome, which really didn’t manifest it’s self until the next generation (i.e. the parents of the baby boomers). This mutation caused the birth sex ratio to change from 1.05 males per female live birth to .55 males per female live birth. Given the other factors (mainly that more young males die than young females, for a large number of reasons) this make the over all sex ratio, in general, to be 50:100 male:female. This ratio is worse in some parts of the world (Eastern Europe and Latin America being the chief places). Oddly the mutation did not seem to have as a pronounced an effect in African population (and the US African-American population). Another effect of the mutation was a slight increase the amount of testosterone in male, leading to a slight increase in male aggression and a slight decrease of the hormone in females leading to a slight increase in female passiveness.
The 1920-1950’s went pretty much as they did in the real world. The changes started happening in the 1960.
Major points of difference:
Kennedy was not assassinated in 1963. He was reelected in 1964. Nixon still wins in 1968, however.
North Viet Nam, instead of attempting an guerrilla war to “liberate” the south, attempted a conventional invasion in 1964, much like North Korea did in 1950. This lead to a massive US/UN operation, much like in Korea, which, like Korea, resulted an “armed truce” with the armistice being declared in 1968. Needless to say, this had a huge effect on the US political scene. Basically the anti-war movement never got started.
The increase in the amount of testosterone in the baby boom (and post baby boom) generation had several effects. One was to increase the death rate of young males, because, well, young males tend to do dumb things, ranging from higher accident rates to an increase in violent crime. Another was to increase, by about a factor of 3, the number of gay men. (from a historical rate of about 7% to just under 21%). This lead to the “Gay pride movement” being the primary ”Gender politics” of the 1960’s and 70’s not the feminist movement. Gay marriages were made legal in most states by the mid 80’s, and nation wide by 1988.
Another major change was that the “Rockefeller” branch (aka the “liberal” branch) of the Republican party took power of the party. This lead to the Republican party (”The Party of Lincoln”) having a much stronger role in the civil rights movement. However, the party did this to offset the loss of white male voter (due to rapidly changing number of men and women entering voting age). The Republican party became the party of social conservatives of both sexes and males in general, regardless of race.
The Democratic party, having not had the anti-war movement, and having had the civil rights movement co-opted away from it in the mid 1960’s, staying the party of the blue collar workers and some rural areas. This had the effect of the Republican party taking control of the Federal Government roughly 10 years before it did in our world and keeping control far longer than they did in the “real” world. This is of little consequence in the context of these stories as neither party resembles our political parties, other than by name.
When the US Supreme court had the pornography cases brought before it, instead of ruling as they did here, they did a complete legalization of porn, however the states and Congress could limit children’s access to it. Congress responded with the first of a series of “Sin Taxes”, the “Porn” tax which raised the price of X rated movie tickets by roughly %50.
Congress also directed the FCC to come up with regulations for dealing with it. The result was that:
“Free TV” (read broadcast TV or basic cable) had quite stringent rules and content restrictions put in place. This makes showing things even as tame as beauty pageants a bit tricky. Network TV is very family friendly.
“Premium TV” (read subscription based or Pay Per View channels) could show any thing they felt like. These two resulted in very bland network TV and the rise in things like “The Torture Channel” or “Cable Snuff Network” in the cable and satellite markets. The success of the “Porn Tax” resulted in several other “Sin Taxes” being put in place, mainly on things like tobacco, alcohol, selected types of cars and boats. When the size of the illegal slave importation problem, (mainly women from Eastern Europe and Latin America) was shown to congress, several people looked at the actual text of the 13th amendment, which combined with the current craze of creating “Sin Taxes” to control “social issues”, resulted in the White Slave Act of 2000. This act, it thought, would, because of the high costs, stop or slow the slave trade. The act also includes penalties for being an un-registered slaver, which could be a capital crime. They neglected to consider that the porn and sex industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and that people will pay a lot when sex is involved.