the ideal society?

The town was a good 200 miles from civilisation, the perfect place to build a community shaped by Wallace’s values. He made his beliefs into some form of religion and had enough families with him so that within 50 years it had grown to the size of a small town capable on the whole, of supporting itself. By then the town had its own schools, town hall, courthouse, prison and hospital. Hydro electric power and farming the land kept them pretty self sufficient, apart from electronics. He created a community where generations had been born and bred to his ideals and principles, namely that women were property of men, a male supremist society where women had no rights and were taught to believe that was the right way to live.

From birth differences emerged, if a woman gave birth to a boy, celebrations would ensue, and the woman would be given a gift from her husband, usually a simple bead necklace, she would be able to care for her son, and would be given a higher status for each boy she produced.

If she gave birth to a girl, the child would be taken from her and cared for in a nursery and she would be banished from society for three months. She would be kept locked up in a room where she would be allowed very little contact, meals would be provided through a sliding door. No one would be allowed to communicate with her, and during that time she would have to write out long tenents and apologise to the community for producing a drain on their society. Her confinement would end with a ‘court case’ where she would be publicly tried for her ‘crime’ and punished accordingly. Often with a public beating, the three months period would be to allow her to be strong enough to take it. Women were never given access to their daughters, they were always taken from them and cared for in a type of nursery until they reached the age of 5, women born in the community had no way of knowing who their parents were, and women would try to recognise a feature, but by the age of 5 it was sometimes difficult to tell for sure. This disconnection helped to re-enforce Wallace principles.

Girls and boys were kept apart until ready for ‘marriage’ usually when the girl reached her 16th birthday. Men could have as many wives as they wished, even though girls were not valued, the female population did a majority of the work in the community to keep it running. Males were given more over seeing roles rather than having to do any physical work. In order to keep the male population down, Wallace manipulated the chances of having female offspring by ensuring that copulation did not occur during the woman’s ovulation. It meant that on the whole eight female babies were born to every boy, ensuring that there was always a larger supply of females to males.

Boys were taught engineering and given access to computers and a broad education, whereas girls were not allowed to know how to use computers or read anything other than recipe books and ‘tenents’. The tenents were lists of rules that reenforced the mind set of the women to believe they were inferior to men. Girls would recite passages from the tenents, from a very early age, such as;

women are the property of men and should obey their husbands without question
women should not speak to a man unless he speaks to her first
women should be grateful to their husbands for taking care of them
women are born to serve a man

Girls were taught no more than domestic skills, how to cook, sew and more importantly clean. Their limited schooling would end at the age of ten, when they would start some form of domestic duties. As they had no husband girls were considered no more than maids they had the lowest social status of all, often sleeping in the kitchens at night, and doing the duties of a scullery maid, carrying in wood for the fires and making them up, scrubbing floors and washing pots. They were rarely allowed outside the homes, and were ingrained to be almost invisible. If they were cleaning a room and a man entered, they were to kneel in the corner, facing the wall until he left. If it was a woman using the room, she was to continue her cleaning but she was not allowed to talk or make a noise. She would receive any discipline from the ‘housekeeper’ usually the second or third wife of the house.

Discipline was an inherent part of a female’s upbringing, as soon as a girl was able to understand she was taught that she should be punished. Crimes were almost impossible to avoid, sometimes punishment just happened without any crime taking place. Spankings took place every morning and evening and was a normal acceptable part of being female. Girls believed they deserved to be punished, the ‘tenants’ contained so many rules, amounting to 26 volumes of over a 1,000 pages each, that it was easy to find something to punish a woman for. Up until the age of sixteen though, a girl would be mostly punished by older females of higher status.

When a girl reached the age of sixteen her life would reach another stage, she would be given to a man as his wife. Wallace tenents stated that a man could have as many wives as he wished, but he followed the principle that they should be treated equally. That meant that each woman had to sleep with her husband for one night a month as a minimum. This meant that a woman spent most of her life pregnant, and ensured that the community thrived, especially as the gender balance meant there were always enough woman to keep the town prospering, and the males were generally living the life of leisure.

One of the key aspects that Wallace felt threatened the balance of power was the beauty of women and how love could weaken a man. He therefore banned women from wearing any form of make up, nor were they allowed to look in mirrors. He kept his equality rule absolute, women wore the same clothing, a simple dress made from black fabric that kept a woman humble. Women were not allowed to cut or style their hair, and were made to wear headscarves. The only thing that differentiated women were the bead necklaces given when they gave birth to a boy, other than that women’s identity was kept pretty uniform. However, he also made vanity a crime, any woman who began to take pride in her appearance was tried in the court, and the punishment would be to have her head shaved. This robbed a woman of her glory, and she was not allowed to cover her baldness with a headscarf. Depending on the severity of her ‘crime’ a woman who had been considered very vain might have her hair shaved several times before she was allowed to let it grow back, maintaining her humiliation for as long as necessary. Until her hair grew beyond her shoulders, she was treated as a low status female, unable to attend social events. She would be further humiliated by being placed in the stocks every day naked apart form a sign hung round her neck with ‘vanity’ written on it, from sun rise to sun down as her punishment. She was only allowed to drink water during the day and fed pigs swill morning and evening. She had to eat this out of a bowl with her hands tied behind her back so that it caked her face. Since she was tethered the whole day it often meant she sat in her own filth which gave further cause for her humiliation. Wallace ensured that there was always at least one female kept in this condition so that the fear of this punishment kept the other women in a state of humility.

Women were not allowed to read anything other than recipes and the tenants, but if they were disrespectful or rebellious they had to wear signs round their necks telling everyone what their ‘crime’ had been.


The houses were large, seven wives were considered the norm, as each wife had to be treated equally, they had their own bedroom. The man would give the pecking order to his wives, nominating them numbers rather than names, and No 1 wife would have the highest status. She would be in charge of the household, and instruct the housekeeper as to what to cook etc. Wives were expected to be accomplished hostesses, and parties and gatherings were the norm, where women and men enjoyed socialising together, in a similar way to the outside communities.

Each house had a punishment room, Wallace enjoyed the practise of SM and ensured it featured heavily in his society. Women were spanked daily as a matter of course, a husband was expected to spank his wives, and they in turn would punish higher ranking maids and then they would continue down the ranks the scullery maids who would be punished by the housemaids. It ensured that every woman knew her place and would be reminded of it by a red bottom twice a day.

In addition S&M activity took place within the marriage, bedrooms had a cupboard where wives would keep floggers, whips canes and cuffs handy for her husband’s use. Usually the room would have tethering hooks, and rope. If a husband decided to tie up his wife for a day, he could leave her that way, and she would be kept safe and tended to by the housemaids. Women were trained from the age of fifteen to perform sexual services such as deep throating, on dildoes so that they were able to satisfy their husbands from the first day of their marriage. A man could have any sexual desire met, as the females were indoctrinated to service a man in any way he chose, no sexual act was considered taboo and the wive believed her body belonged to her husband, and would endure any pain he chose to inflict. A husband could use the pecking order to his advantage, giving status to the wife who most pleased him, so that often wives would do all they could to give him satisfaction. They would learn particular poses that a man could order so that she would make her body available for any practise he chose. Women therefore, would wear their bruises with an element of pride, but also wary of not committing the crime of vanity.

In the household, the man was responsible for daily punishments of his wives, this took place morning and evening, but anything he considered more serious he could send his wife to the court house to have her publicly tried for her crime. If convicted she would be stripped of her wife status and sent to prison. It would sometimes be a way for a man to rid himself of a wife he no longer wanted.

The prison was where women did hard labour, building works, road building, potato picking , they were outcast from society and kept in chains for the rest of their lives. Once convicted a woman never returned to their homes. Their food was kept to the minimum, just enough to keep them alive and able to perform their work, mostly in the form of ‘pig swill’ the scraps from the homes that was collected the day before and fed to the prisoners. These women had their heads shaved, and were naked except in the winter when they would be allowed nothing more than sack cloth to wear.

The community is still in existence but remains tucked away in a very remote area, to external eyes, it appears to be a town like any other, but its location does not attract any attention.