A Modern Day Slave Raid

The "pink dollar" is a large part of today's economy and is eagerly sought after by enterprising merchants and business men.

Recognising that most gay men have large, disposable incomes, a consortium of businessmen have established a resort for gay men known as "The Patroclus Club" on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to cater for the European gay community. Here, gay men are assured of the outmost privacy and there are no restrictions in place to limit their activities.

As the resort states in its glossy brochures extolling the advantages of vacationing there -  "At Patroclus Resort anything goes and the gay man is free to be himself." Needless to say, the resort is well patronised.

It is mid-autumn and the club is at near full capacity with guests from all over Europe and North America all relaxing before the onset of winter.

It is mid-morning and as the club's patrons relax in the resort's bars or eat brunch in its restaurants, shop in the clothing and souvenir stores or lie on the warm, golden sands working on their tans, they are unaware they are under attack from modern day, Barbary pirates - until too late.

As we see in the above picture, the pirates are rounding up the club's guests, stripping them naked and immobilising them. Soon they will be loaded onto fast vessels waiting just offshore and sped away into modern day slavery. 

In the clandestine slave-markets of the Africa, Asia and the Middle-East there is great demand for slaves who share the sexual orientation of the resort's guests. On sale day, the auctioneer will extol the virtues of these new slaves as they stand naked and shackled on the auction-block, declaring they are fully "broken in" and come ready for instant use.

The artwork for this story is one of Amalaric's earlier works entitled "Pirates raid the coast of Southern California" and from memory, it was used to illustrate one of his marvellous stories. However, the text is mine and shouldn't be confused with his story.