I really appreciate your review. I really think this is the best individual story in the series. 

I have thought a lot about the balance involved in rebalancing the sexes. In some of the earlier stories, the Goddess of Love was very scrupulous about maintaining the equality and choice of men. In none of the stories I've written, for example, has the GOL allowed outright violence against men. She does not seek to destroy or humiliate, but does seek to humble men. 

One thing I've tried to do is reverse the dilemmas each sex faces in mating. Women must take the chance of being with a bigger, and potentially more dangerous partner in our reality. In the Rebalancing universe, that is the men's problem. Men must deal with an insatiable libido when young and healthy. In the Rebalancing universe, women also have an insanely strong libido, making it more their problem because they're the bigger sex. Men must make sure they get shrunk by the right woman, for their own safety, as in our universe women musst make sure they pair up with the right man. I think the Goddess treats "equality" as each sex now dealing with issues that had previously been the other sex's problem. 

Men still make choices, as women have in our reality. But in the Rebalancing universe, they find (as women did here until recently and still do in many parts of the world) that to accomplish anything beyond the bedroom, they have to work through the other sex and build up the bigger -sized partner. For men, women's crucial need of them as sex toys gives them a degree of power and agency. Although they do not run the world anymore, they can shape it, by satisfying the mighty women above them and bonding them together as sex partners. As we say "behind every great man is a great woman", the Rebalancing universe says "inside every great woman is a great little man." The women for the most part don't seek to oppress, they're just thinking with their big wet, steamy caves. 

In some of the later stories in the series, such  as "There Is No I in Toy", and the "Cougars Get Hotter" anthology, there is a focus on older women - younger men, which would seem to indicate a power imbalance. Again, I'm trying to replicate and reverse some of the inequalities of our own universe, where a younger woman often sought to win resources by courting an older partner. But even there, it's not entirely about the women's power and ability to compel such a relationship. The mature women these young men ultimately end up with, try very hard to be respectful of the younger man's choices, as much as their libidos will permit. ("Blue vag," as a character said in "Breasts and Buttocks.") They may not have the ideal set of choices, but these tiny men (or men about to become tiny) have agency, and choose to be with the older woman who is most attractive and / or respectful of their situation. They also find themselves attracted to the older women for their levelheadedness and see some of the alterations of age (such as a wider butt) as symbols of power and an ability to protect and provide physical and emotional shelter for tiny men. The changes that make a mature woman's face less feminine or "harsher" can appear to be reassurance to a man once he's made tiny. They make their own choices based on the attraction that pulls them toward these attributes. 

Another natural imbalance is that the larger sex tends to have more partners. Given that, it makes sense that women would often have more than one lover. Is it unequal? Does each man not have more than an abundance of female physical companionship? I tend to think the latter. 

In the end, doesn't it make sense though, that a universe in which women tower over men would be to some extent female-centric? How can it all be about the man when a skyscraper of female thoughts, lusts and desires looms above?  A big part of this series is the man achieving dignity in smallness, by becoming emotionally small, abandoning swagger for playfulness, and seeking to be the useful toy who persuades his partner rather than imposes his will upon her. 

I have thought about some ways to get closer to the Goddess's stated aim of equality. One way could be to set a date each year on which men return to their old sizes for a day, giving them the power to leave their current mate and seek out another. Also, the possibility of shops where men can make a living by hiring themselves out to please women who can't find a man. 

I enjoy your comments. Please weigh in on future chapters and stories!