s****l relations between Subjects and men who were not Members of the Society was, surprisingly, unregulated. The view was that this was entirely a matter for a Subject’s sponsoring Member to control. If he wished to permit her to have s*x with other men, that was his affair. And in practice all kinds of external relationships were tolerated. One Subject with whom Sophie became a firm friend, Joanna, was married to an elderly millionaire. It was not he but her lover, Greg, who was her Sponsor. The millionaire was happy to accept this arrangement on the simple condition that Joanna have s*x with him once every two months—the maximum, apparently, that he was now capable of. Vanessa, another Subject with whom Sophie formed a friendship, was regularly encouraged by her sponsor to pick up young
