Little did Jon know that his crazy idea was not possible to wish for because it already had been that way before, and there was no going back. Of course Karyn wasn't going to tell him either. After telling Jon his idea for men and women to pleasure each other was "weird", she made an excuse to go home.
As Karyn walked home she thought about how she had broken civilization, and what if anything she could do about it. As she walked she saw multiple people, both male and female, pleasuring themselves out in the open.
There was a young something beautiful woman at the bus stop at Sixth and Franklin fully naked and going to town on herself. She alternated between tweaking her nipples and stroking her clit. A group of 3 college guys was also at the bus stop and they didn't even really notice she was there! They truly did not care at all that an attractive young woman was naked and pleasuring herself in front of them. She may as well have been blowing her nose.
Another odd thing that Karyn noticed as she ran into people is that there were no couples. Usually you see young people necking each other or old people holding hands but now there was nothing. People grouped up still, but they were all just friends. Men and women had no sexual tension because there was no sex, and Karyn's previous wish had all but made men and women the same anyway. A guy was just as likely to be friends with a girl as a guy.
At the intersection of Sixth and Hamilton Karyn got to see what counted as "sex" now. A young woman was reading a book while a man masturbated next to her. As he shot his load into a napkin she politely asked if she could have it. He said "sure no problem" and gave it to her. She then unceremoniously wiped up his semen and unzipped her pants to insert it by hand into her own vagina. She then went back to reading her book about "what to expect whist you are impregnated".
Karyn stopped at this bus stop because it connected to her bus line and went into the bathroom. The women's room had these trough urinal things that reminded Karyn that she was supposed to pee standing up now. She shook her head as she thought how all of this started with something so silly.
She dropped her pants and squatted over the trough and relived herself. After zipping up, she calmly went back out to wait for the bus. After the bus was late as usual, she wished she had the stone, but she had left it with Jon...
