Crimes of the Future 1970 Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod Mlodzik, sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women Tripod joins a succession of organisations including Metaphysical Import Export and the Oceanic Podiatry Group, and meets various individuals and groups of men who are trying to adjust themselves to a defeminized world One man parodies childbirth by continually growing new organs which are removed from his body Eventually Tripod comes upon a group of paedophiles which is holding a 5 year old girl, and they urge him to mate with her He senses the presence of Antoine Rouge