Dear Senator Ford:
This is Dale Evans, and I'm writing you to ask you to do whatever is in your power to stop this rampant outsourcing we're facing.
I mean, back when I was a kid, it was bad enough! See, my dad was a miner. Back then, we thought mining would be the last thing to be outsourced. You remember, don't you, how back in the 2010s "outsourcing" meant your computer was serviced by some guy in India and your shoes were made in China? But of course, you know what happened next, once colonies started hitting the other planets, mining was the first thing to go overspace.
Now, I'm all grown up now, kids of my own and all, and I'm a manager. And when I first got into this business, I thought to myself, "Dale, one thing you'll never have to worry about, is losing your job to outsourcing like your pa did." Sex makes the worlds go round, as they say, and I always thought you'd never be able to outsource sex. Import some pretty girls from Singapore, maybe, and heck my best girls spend a month out of every year on Luna - it gives them a sort of flexibility you don't get spending all your time in 1G - but outsourcing, real honest-to-goodness outsourcing?
Well, no thanks to those damned Dollah managers and their girls, that's what we've got now - sex outsourcing.
They've taken our own VR programs, and added two-way functionality to them, and everybody, just everybody, wants to bang a Dollah now. If I could, I'd just take advantage of that and import some Dollah girls, and I've tried, Senator, Lord knows I've tried! But, as they say, "Why should we leave our home when we can service our customers remotely?"
Of course, I've still got my human girls, but the Dollah have made VR sex more popular. All my customers, even the ones who don't like Dollah, have started to prefer the "natural" feel - and by that I mean unprotected, because there sure isn't anything "natural" about banging a holowhore! On top of that, they like to bring up how sex with a Dollah holowhore is cheaper and safer than sex with a human fleshy. That may be true, but which is more important - guaranteed freedom of unwanted pregnancies and diseases among prostitutes and their clientele, or families such as my own, which need my salary to survive?
I can rent a VR room, no problem, but thanks to this outsourcing stealing all my customers, I can only afford a full body scan of one of my girls. And yeah, the one I had scanned is my most popular girl (you remember her, don't you? Christine? The one with the whip?) but she's not my only girl, and up until these Dollah got their scheme going, I was known as having the best selection of any manager north of Cuba. Now I've just got Christine and a bunch of fleshies, and nobody wants sex with a fleshy anymore. "Protected don't feel as good," they say, "and unprotected has too many risks."
I hope my story will help convince you, Senator, that I and other business owners like myself are being hurt by this outsourcing to Dollah. Please consider banning interplanetary sex broadcasts to the Sol system, or at the very least, to Earth.
Yours truly,
Dale Evans
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Senator Ford killed by angry wife
by OMIL HILANAL (5 Nov 2064)
WASHINGTON, DC - Andrea Ford, wife of Senator Jacob Ford, turned herself in late last night after killing her husband.
Ms. Ford and the chief of police both refused to comment, but one of the deputies, who agreed to be interviewed on condition of anonymity, had this to say:
"She was really distraught - she says she murdered him, but we think actually, it was an accident, she just got so mad at him and the stairs were right there and she expected him to be stronger than she was, andÉÊyou know? It's a sad thing," He shook his head, remembering the sobbing woman who arrived at his station only an hour before. "And then she came here and after we locked her up she just sat there, quiet except for every now and then she'd say something like, 'Yeah, I hope that [censored] Christine loses her job to some Dollah holowhore.' When I asked her what she was talking about, she just started rambling about some letter she'd found and how she didn't mind if her husband went out with holowhores, but she was [censored] if he was going to be [censored] any fleshy but her."
Ford, like many other politicians, has been well known for visiting holowhore brothels, but this is the first anyone has referred to his ever getting involved with what locals call "fleshies" - women, usually prostitutes, who do not use VR interaction with their clientele, but interact with them directly.
Ford was planning on running for President in the next election. Asked what he thought of his opponent's untimely demise, Senator James Little responded by saying, "I don't know what's going to happen now, politically, it depends on who the Republicans choose to run against me. I feel very sorry for the Ford family."
Little was then asked if he was surprised to discover his opponent had been seeing fleshies. "Not really," he replied. "All this time, he's been pushing to allow fleshies to keep operating, even though holowhores are better all around, no risk of disease, and the risk of attachment is so low most wives don't even consider it to be cheating, just a sort of digital masturbation. I could never figure out why he wanted the fleshies to keep running, and now I know." With a sigh, he added, "It's too bad, if someone had just known he had a fleshie fetish? We might have been able to stop him. We might have been able to keep his wife from being so angry when - if - she found out, we might have prevented all this."