In my original CARGO series bible, I introduced the chastity dating app HrLckr (no official pronunciation, lol).
HrLckr is an app like Uber, but for women who like Chastes. Most women won't want to mess with a chaste off-app.
Chastes register for free, subject to verification by a HrLckr agent, usually a part-time freelancer. The agent may act as keyholder for Locked Chastes.
A chaste’s HrLckr profile includes reviews and an overall star rating (subject to an algorithm to correct for overly negative female members). There are the usual dating preference options. Dates are arranged by invite, or acknowledged retrospectively via “Hook Up Reviews”, the one kind of review a male can refuse.
Women HrLckr Members are also subject to verification and must pay a yearly fee (there is a discount for students). Women go by their nicknames. These aren’t unique, but are only differentiated by serial number for each male member, e.g. I might have HotBabe#1 and HotBabe#2 on my app, but the same women could be HotBabe#2 and HotBabe#1 on yours. This makes it hard for chastes to share information on women users online— which is against terms of service anyway.
The LckHr app supports a range of exclusive arrangements, taking one or both parties off the market. Various terms and time periods are possible.
I imagine there’s a HrLckr FAQ circulated by chastes…
HrLckr FAQ — FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
PLEASE DON’T POST THIS ONLINE!
It will only get taken down, and may result in blowback for the hosting site. Also, if Artemis traces it back to you, you may find that “life” conspires to nudge you in unpleasant ways. The last person to do this ended up as a “Capon” living in a Neo-Shaker commune where all forms of eroticism are off the menu. Just saying.
All that said, feel free to email this to other Chastes.
How do I get a date?
You get a date in three ways:
A Virgo may browse the local Chastes and then send you a chat and/or date request.
A Virgo may scan the QR code on your collar, if worn, and then send you a chat and/or date request.
A Virgo may hook up with you in the old-fashioned way, and then send you a “Hookup Review” which you may accept or decline.
When do I see a potential date’s profile and what does it look like?
You can’t browse the “Virgos” on the app. However, when one contacts you, you can then see her profile unless she ends the connection:
Nickname: Not unique, but with a unique number for you.
About Me: Very short bio.
User Picture: As taken by the HrLckr Verifier. These are updated every 12-18 months.
Selfies: Anything she’s taken herself. These are not verified.
Matched Preferences: Which of her sexual preferences overlap with yours.
Average Review: Average number of stars given.
Reviews: All the reviews she’s given, anonymised.
How do I protect myself from “problem dates” and review trolls?
By design, there’s no ability for Chastes to review Virgos. However, nothing is forcing you to go through with a bad date. Don’t allow yourself to be bullied by the threat of a bad review! Virgos who consistently leave bad reviews have their reviews down-weighted. If you have substantive concerns, you can report them and a HrLckr agent will investigate — there are rumours of “secret shoppers” on the payroll.
I have a five-star rating — why aren’t I swamped with contact and date requests?
HrLckr algorithm throttles your visibility, including especially the range of what counts as local.
Officially, this is for your own good. HrLckr doesn’t want you to be overwhelmed or have to do too much emotional labour choosing a date. However, we’re pretty sure that the real reason is to prevent you from having too much choice or much of a negotiating position. We also suspect that the algorithm punishes you for turning down too many dates by further reducing your visibility.
Hang on! The HrLckr algorithm punishes me for being picky? What else does it do?
Yes, if you get too picky, the algorithm usually progressively reduces your visibility —what counts as “local” to you — until you complete a date. However, not always. If you’ve had a long dry spell, it sometimes increases your visibility, especially to Virgos that it thinks are your type.
Sometimes it seems to manage the local chaste “dating market” by connecting you to the least attractive matches first, and by hiding potential romantic matches so you don’t pair off and become unavailable.
However, some people argue that this is part of the Artemis scheme for growing the Chaste/Virgo population — because, if you dig, the same Artemis that install our chastity devices also own HrLckr.
WTF? Artemis is scheming to grow the Chaste/Virgo population?
We know this sounds like tinfoil hat stuff, but yes.
Remember those waivers you clicked through when you signed up? The Virgos also accept them.
So, Artemis has duty-of-care exceptions to data privacy laws, and also patents for DNA personality testing. In other words, it knows everything about you, the other Chastes and the Virgos. It knows your sexual tastes and it also knows your romantic needs, and it uses these to manage the lifecycle of both Chastes and Virgos.
So, how does Artemis manage my lifecycle?
If you are a newly upgraded Chaste, you’ll tend to match with more experienced Virgos, but not with ones you might pair off with… that is unless you’re being very shy, at which point expect to bump into Miss Right like something out of a Netflix Christmas movie.
The algorithm is more hands off after your first year, though it seems to try to get you to expand your sexual range. If your personality profile indicates possible masochism or sexual submission, expect to meet some very kinky ladies. Then, as you move into your fifth and final year, it will nudge you towards another term by either throwing hot young women at you, or else firmly steering you towards Miss Right.
If you do a second term, or if you are a Neuter, then in your last year, the algorithm tries hard to get you to settle down. The younger women tend to dry up, but you’ll meet at least one potential life partner who only wants you if you are chaste — though, if you don’t get the message, we suspect it’s not above connecting you to a much younger Virgo who’ll make you feel old.
Unless, that is, the algorithm thinks you’re not thriving in chastity, in which case it avoids tempting you to sign for another five years. That’s not out of the goodness of its non-existent heart! Artemis doesn’t want any high-profile discontents making nuisances of themselves or campaigning for a change in the law. It does, however, want happy older Chaste role models.
If you do push on into a third term and insist on playing the field, the algorithm watches for any signs of you becoming a sad old lech, and tends to keep you out of the path of much younger women. Really, at that point it’s working hard to get you to settle down.
Though most of this is done through the app, there are rumours of special offers and free prize draws “just happening” to bring people together. Since Artemis owns several recruitment agencies, it may even be matchmaking by moving people around the country. How big is your tinfoil hat?
Does Artemis manage the lifecycle of Virgos too?
We think so.
New Virgos seem to get matched with the high-rated veteran Chastes. More mature and experienced Virgos get to break in the callow novices. If Artemis thinks a Virgo has Virago — that is dominant — potential, it tends to feed her compatible submissive Chastes. If it thinks she’s striking up a romance, it tries to reduce her temptation to have casual hook-ups.
What’s Artemis’ agenda?
You have to remember that behind Artemis Futuristic is the actual Artemis, Iranian former model turned entrepreneur. She’s so unbelievably hot that just googling her makes it hard to think…
But we do think that Artemis is trying to normalise Chaste and Virgo as identities and orientations, and establish them as a viable community. Given that she’s probably behind the CARGO legislation, and funds various women’s scholarships and professional programs, it’s tempting to see this as part of a grander social engineering project to do with the role of women in society.
However, we know that her husband was the world’s first chaste, and that he’s rumoured to have been “upgraded” in ways not yet legal in the UK.
So it’s highly likely that she also finds all this something of a turn on.
If that makes you feel bad, try googling her…
So, would you use the HrLckr app? Let me know in the comments.
Yeah sure. But I want to know what I see of the talent pool (do we get to see psych assessments for example?) in terms of profile info and generally a similar FAQ for Vir(a)gos.
I also want to know if chastes on the app are allowed to join other hookup or dating platforms (het or, for the bisexual ones, gay)? Is HotBoy1998 likely to turn up as "TightHoleLadboy on GrindrPlus, for example?
Meta level: I'm thinking of an sorta-underground or at least informal off-app "back to nature" movement of chastes and their fans, where people refuse to sign up to the app yet (for obvious reasons) create a bit of a community: clubs, raves, events where devices are not permitted and collars unscannable. Is Artemis bothered? Tries to infiltrate? Attempts to discourage or poach? What % of chastes is on the app, in fact?