Chapter 19

To: Harlan Woodmaker, Superintendent

From: Janet Lee Cooper-Wayne, Curriculum Coordinator

Re: New Health Textbooks

I have reviewed the sample books provided by several publishers, and I believe that McGraw-Hill's The Human Body most closely aligns with our current abstinence only policy. It can and should have certain sections removed. Below are the chapter titles and the changes I believe are appropriate.

Introduction - no changes

Pre-Genome Bomb Female Physiology - no changes

Pre-Genome Bomb Male Physiology - no changes

Post Genome Bomb Female Physiology - retain summary section only

Post Genome Bomb Male Physiology - retain summary section only

Hermaphrodite Physiology - delete

Reproduction - Abstinence Only version, no changes

Sex and Sexuality - delete

Gender and Gender Roles - delete

- Internal memo, Richardson Independent School District, Richardson County, TX

"Coach says that just 'cause you're on maternity leave you still gotta be at practice and stuff," Tiny growled. "He said the medic cleared you for noncontact stuff for another month. So be there. We gotta game on Saturday and we need everybody." Tiny stalked off.

"Why are all the DMs into you?" Kura asked.

"How the fuck should I know?" Joey glared at his classmate. "And what do you mean 'into'?"

"Tiny wants you bad," He snickered.

"On the field, yeah. You act like he 'wants' me." Joey indicated his round midsection. "No one wants this."

"He probably does. Tiny's already got two kids."

"What!"

Kura shrugged. "DoubleMale. They get a lot of tail. Isn't like that in the US?"

"No. And teens with kids is a big freakin' deal. We don't talk about that G-stuff. I mean, not where I was. Not outside the stuff you gotta know. I mean, yeah, there were a couple people in my school with obvious issues. But people pretty much pick one - boy or girl."

"That's just whack. Why?"

"We just do. It's normal."

"Ok, so what about a guy like Ryou? I mean put Otogi in a room fulla bitches and he fits right in. But Ryou's a guy. I mean sports, beer, and chicks."

"Ryou?" Joey quirked an eyebrow. "White hair? Big chest?"

"Ok, to be honest, he's not real picky about who's in bed with him. But he's not a girl. He doesn't do 'girl' things. I tease him all the time, but I would never tell him to wear a dress. So where does he go in your school - with what he is or what he looks like?"

"I don't know!" Joey shrugged. "Look, in the States, I just never saw a guy like him. And hey, if nobody has to be one or the other, how come we got girl and guy uniforms, huh? Shouldn't we all just wear the same thing?"

"We've had the same uniforms for, like, a million years! But nobody's required to wear only one of them, and not the other. I mean, Mutuo's wearing a skirt today, and that's all Otogi wears once summer hits. Hell, even I wear a skirt if it's hot enough."

"So you all crossdress? The school allows that?"

"It's not crossdressing, it's just choosing uniform A or uniform B. I thought Americans were all live free or die and shit. It sounds kinda repressed. You can't be a guy unless you look like a guy? Seriously?

"Hell, I never saw a guy like you, or me. I sure as hell never saw a guy with two dicks till I saw Kaiba."

"And you saw every dude naked?"

"Not every guy, but you know, gym, the locker room. Normal places."

"And you're gay so you were checkin' out the guys you did see."

"No! I am straight!" Joey realized how stupid that statement was. "I mean, I was straight. I mean - nevermind. I wasn't peeping at naked men. Girls, yes; guys? Not."

"So if you weren't looking, maybe you just didn't see the guys with double nuts. And how do you tell if a guy is Female Recessive and has boobs versus a guy who's just got man-tits?"

"I don't know!"

"Then quit acting like G-DNA is some WTF thing. They got it everywhere, so it is normal."

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Seto ran the new program and watched the animated elves dance across the fantasy forest. He could still concentrate while programming, at least.

He'd started the design based on something Katsuya had said about playing games with his sister. They had different skill sets; his games were too hard for her, but he found her games boring and 'girly.' Seto decided to build a game with elements that they both could enjoy. A little combat, a few puzzles, some parts needing skill, some wit, some patience and luck. Add in some impressive art and a few mammoth explosions. It was going to be a gift to his first boyfriend.

Now it would just be something new under the Kaiba games banner.

But the technical process was moving smoothly, which was more than Seto could say for other areas of his life.

Typos. Miscalculations. He'd even entered something on his calendar for 'am' instead of 'pm'. Seto was aware that his mind was not on business. He just could not stop asking himself 'why.'

Why had Katsuya taken another lover?

The idea plagued him. Science does not lie. If Seto was excluded, then Katsuya must have had sex with another male - one who had the necessary genetics to impregnate the boy.

'When' he took one was obvious - Seto should have found a better way to balance Katsuya and the company. And Seto was not particularly concerned with 'who' the lover was. 'Why' was the key to preventing it from happening with someone else.

Presuming, of course, Seto ever dated anyone else. As far as he could tell, entering the Battlefield of love was as wise as jumping off a cliff carrying a cannonball.