Marseilles Adventure

Two college boys were captured by arab slavers in Marseilles.  They 
became familiar with a world of enslavement, castration of all kinds, 
and sexual variety.  The core of the story is true, with some 
educated guesses here and there for embellishment.

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I was in Marseilles about 3 days after my 21st birthday.  It was
summer, so my friend and I were wearing very short shorts and
skimpy T-shirts, with sandals.  My friend was somewhat a dweeb,
but he had some money, amd I had a nice car, and as we went to
the same school in the States and in Germany, we often travelled
together.  We were in school in Munich, but off on spring break
for one month in Italy (March), and one month in France (April).
I was very athletic, basketball in HS, Lifeguard later.  I was
also a fair weightlifter.  I was 6'6",  weighed about 180#, had
medium length brown hair, with green/brown eyes.  I had a great
tan because I was a nudist (still am).  My basket showed a lot,
as I was both thin and hung 7.5" with larger than usual balls.
When we got to the arab quarter of Marseilles, I cautioned my 
friend that one may not take photos of arab women, and best not
to photograph anything, as we might be misunderstood.  Under-
stand that I had a brand-new german Ford, a Blue and white
super sedan that was so new that it had not been seen in Italy
or in France.   We both had expensive cameras and watches, gold
chains, and a lot of money on us, just in case.  We looked
around a lot, enjoying the unfamiliar varieties of foods,
dress, etc.  Of course we had never seen such beautiful men--
they were everywhere, and so friendly!  Then we met two very
VERY cute arab guys about our age.  My friend was straight, 
but I took a great interest in these hot boys.  They wore arab
dress, had beautiful skin and teeth with the most spectatular
smiles.  They oozed personality. You know how those cocks push
out (tent up) inside those night-gown thin cotton outfits.  Then
they all seem to have itchy cocks which they are fingering all
the time.  I was in love!  They wanted to know where we were from,  
where we were going and when we had to be back.  They also asked
about our transportation, and upon hearing that I had a new car,
they cautioned me about parking it on the street.  I told them
we had parked it on a very safe main street just around the corner.
At the time, these questions seemed normal, and we thought
nothing of them.  Finally they asked us if we had ever had any
turkish coffee.  Of course, we had not, but would love to try
it, especially me, as I had a severe caffein habit and had
always heard that turkish coffee was strong and bitter.  They
said they made it better at home than in the restaurants,
which seemed hospitable and probably true.  So we went off with
them for coffee..  Down a narrow alley that was dark even
though it was around noon.  This alley could not have been more
than ten feet wide.  I think it was a mostly residential area
in the arab quarter.  When we had gotten about a block,
happily chatting, and with my being full of anticipation of
being alone with the two arab hunks, suddenly whistles blew,
a dog barked, and people were shouting in French.  We could
not understand the French, but it seemed prudent to freeze,
which we both did instinctively.  The two arabs disappeared,
down different side alleys, even smaller than the one we were
on, with one cop chasing each, one staying with us.  The three
cops had a dog, a pistol and a machine gun!  It seems that the
French were having trouble with Algerian revolutionaries at
the time all over France; hence the machine gun, which was not
usual.  When the cops returned without the arab cuties, they
told us that the two arabs were slavers, and had they asked
us this & that--exactly what they had asked us.  It seems the 
arab boys had discovered where the car was parked, that we
would not be missed for at least a month, when we were due
back at school.  We were just the types they were seeking for
slaves. We were admonished to leave the city at once, and to
never speak to arabs again while in europe.  The police had 
been following the two slavers for some time, but they always
got away.  About 1000  young boys, mostly under 21 disappeared
every year from Marseilles, with a similar number from Naples.
The Neapolitan boys were usually very young, being caught from
the mob of street urchins who lived in and roamed about the
ruins of Naples' slums.  No family, no one to miss them.  If
they are captured very young, especially from homeless misery,
they are not likely to try to escape from the relative luxury
of their new homes.  Their lives as eunuchs are much better
than that they could have ever hoped for as men.   Now this
actually happened.  I did a lot of research in the years that
followed.  Part of it was told us by the french police.  Had
we not been rescued,  the coffee would have been drugged.
Those two boys were the "finders" They would have gotten
maybe $300 for each of us, plus all of our belongings,
including the car for stripping, the gold, the watches, rings,
cameras, clothes, both in the car and that which we wore. 
Even our American Passports would have been sold by the
finders.  It seems that US passports were very hot items on
the black kmarket.  We would have been sold naked and semi-
conscioius to the "processors," who would get us ready for
market.  In some basement in Marseilles the processing
chamber was without windows, somewhat soundproofed, and
prepared to process about a dozen boys at a time.  Kept
drugged, so they know what is happening, but really don't
care, they are fed horrible food like oatmeal and water.
They may not wash for about 2 weeks.  (You might note that
the French do not wash very often either, so that may not
be considered punishment!) The processors have a large staff
of friends to help with fucking and face-fucking the boys.
They are bound in such a way that they can't jerk off, and
chained so they can't help each other. Most of the boys they
get are straight, so they must get used to serving men sex-
ually. Tightassed virgin boys are practically worthless on
the slave market.  You must be able to fuck them easily
without much preparation.  Each boy is fucked brutally
several times each day.  But they must never come.  They
must live for their masters and come only when permitted.
The whole process is designed to break their spirits, and
it always works!  After two or three weeks,  A very special
day comes. A visitor arrives and supervises the preparation.
Each slave is washed carefully, with all body hair shaved off--
Chest, arms, legs. underarms, pubic of course, perinneal, 
even ass-hair.  There is not even one hair left below the
lower eyelashes.  When properly stripped of hair, and very
clean, they are sucked and jerked off.  Just at the moment
of orgasm the visiting castrator cuts off the slave's
scrotum and its two little passengers, using a short curved
knife.  It would probably have a jeweled handle, being
a regulation arab castration knife.  When this first slave
was sewn up, the second one was put up on the table, already
washed and shaved.  You see, balls cut off a virile male
just at point of orgasm are considered by superstitious
desert arabs as very good luck. They pay about $400 for a
pair properly removed, dry them and wear them on a string
around their necks.  Wearing dried testicles supposedly
gives the wearer the potency of the original wearer.  A
document with several witnesses' signatures accompanies
the nuts to the markets.  A male slave sells for only
maybe $1000 in the markets, but a eunuch brings $3000 to
$5000, even more with muscles or if extremely cute.  A
few lose their penises as well, usually those who are very
well hung.  The dicks sell for quite a bit, also to be
worn by old men, and these total eunuchs sell for $10000
or more.  Total castration is not done a lot in the
preparation process, because many die from bleeding.  When
done, total castrations are usually performed in arab
hospitals or private clinics.  These preparation arabs do
not understand the concept of germs, so they rarely cut off
dicks.  The removal of the penis, especially, has always
rewarded the slave seller with a much better price for the
eunuch.  One last type of eunuch is made from the boy with
huge muscles, or unusually large nuts, capable of lifting
and carrying things around the house or work-place.  Nutting
him would weaken him in the long run, so that is sometimes
not done.  To make him know and accept his position as a
slave, and to make it possible to use him in the house, and
especially around women, only his cock is cut off.  His
powerful body will be maintained by the hormones generated
by his still potent balls, but he can't fuck, so this kind of
eunuch gets mean and must be closely disciplined.  Those 
boys who were intact (uncircumcised) like me would also
receive the blessing of a circumcision, as Moslems are
totally grossed out by a "dirty" foreskin.  One type of arab
circumcision which is particularly cruel (also used on their
own teen-age boys) involves cutting around the head and around
the base of the dick.  Then, the entire sleeve of dick skin is
pulled off with one jerk.  Scar tissue then forms along the
whole length of the shaft.  That particular procedure is
fortunately not always done today.
  Now, the eunuchs being processed in Marseilles, having been
cut, are treated better, but still are kept secure and
underground.  Exercise routines are introduced, probably
including weight lifting.  They are never allowed in 
the sunshine because the buyers pay more for really
white slaves.  Tans are not desirable.  During this
period after their castrations, the slaves are forcibly
"milked" several times a day to make absolutely sure that
not one sperm is still within them at the time of sale.
When they are healed, after about 2 weeks, they are
drugged very heavily to keep them quiet, and loaded into
crates which are then loaded onto ships at night, to be
taken to Algiers, Tangier, or some other arab place,
even Saudi Arabia and the little emirates in that area.
It might be pointed out that slavery was illegal at that
time in France, but once the shipment of slaves reached
international waters, and in Algiers, Tunisia, Arabia
and other places, they were the legal property of their
captors. They will be cleaned up, given perhaps less
drugs, and put on a high "block" in the market square
to be sold at auction to the highest bidder.  The slaves
are mostly bought for sex slaves in the home, but some,
(usually the older ones like us) go to male whore
houses.  In these brothels, they were forced to take on
as many customers as the boss required, basically they
got fucked all day long.  I imagine the customers were 
not the nicest of people, who bought their own slaves.  
The brothel boys did not last very long.  When they were
worn out or sick beyond repair, they were turned out into
the streets to make their own way, having repaid their
masters their investment many times over, This was legal
until about 1962. Then, the UN forced those slave holding
countries to agree to abandon slavery.  Actually, all it
did was make them close the public slave markets.  After
that auctions are held privately in grand houses with 
rich friends of the master being invited to the sale.
Small alterations wanted by the Masters can be made
there, e.g:  If the slave still has his dick, it can be
removed. If he still has his balls (that rarelly is the
case), They can be swiftly removed.  Remember, now they 
have doctors or medics present for such operations.  The 
whole procedures from sale to alterations are much photo-
graphed by master and guests.  Video camcorders are very
usual in arab countries.  They must make their own porno,
because such tapes cannot be imported into nor bought in 
these countries.
  Many religious Muslims will not castrate a slave, but
they can buy him already castrated, or even have him
castrated by a non-muslim.  The main reason the Muslims
have for having eunuchs is that only one set of testicles
is allowed by tradition in the harem, but eunuchs are
good slaves for cleaning, serving and for fucking when the
man is tired of his women, or when he is actually gay.
In fact, a large part of the need for eunuchs is due to
the muslim prohibition against fucking a man, but a
eunuch is not a man, and therefore, it is not forbidden.  
Most of the boy slaves were younger than we, as college
boys are not preferred for sex, but are used mostly for 
accountants and book-keepers, perhaps teachers for the 
Master's children.   On the block there was little
reluctance or resistance, but a few eunuchs had to be
prodded with a cattle prod to make them jerk off for the
buyers.  Seems odd that the buyers were so interested in
dicks when they were buying eunuchs.  I guess some of them 
would use testosterone shots so they can be fucked by
their eunuchs.  If they were to buy a real, dick and ball
bearing boy, someone might suspect they were queer.  Many
of course, are, but they must remain officially straight.
A eunuch can never be called a man, and therefore cannot
be a threat to their fragile masculinity!  If you imagine
a harem with several wives and perhaps dozens of concubines
and lots of slave girls.  It is very important to keep the
sperm supply tightly controlled.  All the children are the
master's children.  Many of the slaves come from this 
European route, but others are captured tourists in Africa, 
black slaves brought up from below the Sahara, bought in 
India or Indo-china--really anywhere there is poverty and 
a few  dollars can feed the family for a month, in exchange
for a boy or girl who will starve with the rest without this
money.  When intact boys with dicks and balls were sold,
they were presented naked like the others, but not having
had the breaking and training available in Marseilles,
they often had to be prodded to the front of the platform
where they could be examined, prodded, and hardened.  Again
they always want to see the cum-shot.  Usually they were
gelded after the sale down to the side, where dozens of 
people watched.  Some buyers came up to the platform to
check the teeth and mouth in general.  They had their
fingers sucked to see how the slave would be at sucking
dick.  Then, using their wet fingers they checked the
assholes to see if they were too tight.  They usually felt
the prostates as well, trying to produce an orgasm.  After
that, they always returned their fingers to the slave's
mouth for cleaning, as he had been trained to do. The
last reason for having slaves in general is that the
Masters get "brownie points" in heaven for freeing a slave.
If you have no slaves, how can you get those brownie points?
The slavery system is, therefore, sanctioned by religion.
The prices mentioned herein are from the 1960 era.  They
are certainlly much more now, even fifteen times more.  I can
find no price quotes that are after the time that slavery
was officially abolished.  

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