Chapter 3. "Virginity Contract."
Credit, debt, and the contract for the sale of Blen's cherry. Two-finger test. The lady-house. Gary. Precious and Klaus.
The next day, at 10.30am Blen was shaken awake by Mama Mutia, five hours later than the hour she was accustomed to rise. She joined the other girls in the kitchen. Girlie, Amor and Precious were anxious to exchange tales of their first day of work; all had cash in their pockets, and wages and commission to come.
"My customer will come to barfine me again tonight," boasted Girlie.
"Well, my customer has given my barfine already and ask me to return to his hotel as soon as possible," countered Precious.
Amor had not lucked out. "My guy will come to see me before he go home"
Blen laid out her two notes, totalling 1500 pesos."This is my tips for last night," she said proudly.
"Have you sell your cherry already?" cried Girlie.
"Noooo ... it is only two blow-jobs," she told her disbelieving friends.
They agreed all foreigners were open-handed millionaires and they would make a fortune.
Mama Mutia brought them back to earth. "You have one first night only. Customers like new girls, but now you must work hard, you must develop regular customers, that is how to earn steady money. And now you are earning you must start to pay back your credit, so I have prepared your accounts."
She handed each girl a piece of paper. As they looked at the papers, gasps of shock filled the room.
Blen was astonished. "22,242 pesos, I owe that money."
"Of course. Remember I have pay for your birth certificate. You have never been register. I get your birth certificate. I have pay your travel. You have buyed your costume and many nice things from my catalogue, and with the first months interest of 12 ½ % that is what you owe. You can go through the account and check. That is why I give it to you. But do not worry. Now you work, pay it off quick as you can, that way you will not pay so much interest."
Girlie owed 12,742p, and Amor 16,540p. Suddenly, their earnings of last night were put in perspective.
"If you work hard, you keep more commission," Mama explained. "If you exceed 100 ladies drinks a month, that is three a night, you get 60% instead of 50%, that is an extra 500p or more. If you exceed 10 bar-fines a month, that is one night in three, you get 60% instead of 50%, that is an extra 900 pesos or more. You will work fifteen days and then one off, so you will get two days off a month. But, remember, when you go bar-fine it is like a night off, and your customer will buy your food and drink; give good service and you will get lots of breaks.
"Now, you did well last, night, just keep it up. Precious have a bar-fine already. Girlie, you expect your customer to bar-fine you out again tonight, so you are fix up. Amor, you will go back dancing also, but you already know how to treat a customer. Blen, you cannot go boom-boom until some guy will buy your cherry, so you will be my special blow-job girl.
"But also, I have a proposal concerning your cherry. Your cherry fee will maybe clear your credit, but maybe not, and with interest, you will owe more each month. I like to clear your credit today, but in return, I am the one to arrange your partner to take your cherry."
"I do not understand that," said Blen, "how much is a cherry fee?"
"It could be 10,000 or it could be 30,000. It all depend. But you do well last night. You are a good girl. I think we can be a team on this, so I would like to share with you. I will take a chance. I think you can be a popular girl, I think I can trust you, so I will take a chance and give you 22,242 pesos for your cherry, right now," Mama told her.
"And what happen next? Do I not pick the guy?"
"No, I will choose," said Mama Mutia. "This will be business. We will have a contract. I will pay you a lot of money, so I will make all the arrangements. It will be my job to make a profit. Think of it like an arranged marriage, like the Muslims have. You will marry for just one night, and after that you can choose any guy, and as many as you like."
Blen paused briefly to assess the situation. While she would prefer to choose the man - her fantasy was that some foreigner would fall in love with her, and she with him, and he would buy her cherry - there was this unimaginably large debt accruing interest at 12 ½ % a month. In three months, it would grow by a third, and that would mean she could not pay off the debt, even if she received 30,000p. Three months was a very short period to meet Mr Right. She could try to pay the debt from her earnings but, after rent and food, how much would there be for her to send home? The debt seemed completely unbearable. She made up her mind.
"OK Mama, it is best if I sell to you."
"That is a good deal. We can cancel your credit right now."
Mama opened her ledger and took a document from the back, filled in some names and dates, then came to sit beside Blen, placing the document in front of her. "This is the contract form. It is a standard management contract. I will read it to you and you can read it as I go."
She read out loud, slowly and deliberately:
"I , Blen Baitan, being of full age, declare that I am a virgin with intact hymen, and freely and irrevocably assign to Mutia Patacsil, for the sum of 22,242, pesos, all rights to appoint the time, occasion and means by which my hymen will be breached and my status as a virgin brought to an end, together with the right to keep, sell, assign or otherwise dispose of such right by private treaty, public auction, or otherwise (the Rights). I agree to cooperate in all ways with Mutia Patacsil to perform my obligation under this contract, and further agree to any examination necessary to confirm my status as virgin by any person Mutia Patacsil shall nominate. If at any time before performance of my obligations, such examination shall disclose that my hymen is ruptured and I no longer hold the status of virgin, this contract will be void, and all monies credits and benefits received by me under this contract, and in addition the sum of 10,000 pesos, or such other certain sum as may have been offered for purchase of the Rights, shall be payable, with compound interest accrued at 15% of the full amount due, per month or part of a month, from today's date to the date of full repayment of the amount due."
"Then there is a space for you and me to sign, and a certificate of virginity signed by two witnesses. They will be Girlie and Amor," added Mama.
"How do we know that?" asked Amor who had no reason to believe Blen was not a virgin but, so far as she knew, there may have been some, un-confessed, possibly shameful, event.
"We will examine Blen before we sign. That is the next thing we do," said Mama. "Do you understand that you are selling me your cherry rights, and you must do what I tell you to help me to sell them, Blen?"
"Yes I do."
"Mama set about making the arrangements. "We can use the table, and some cushions." She fetched a camera and a newspaper. "First, I want you girls to look at something. Come over to the computer."
She Googled 'Hymen' and clicked on 'Images.' The screen filled with illustrations of vaginas, opened to display the vaginal entrance. She indicated several images.
"These are photos of women who have lose their cherry. See how wide the entrance to their vagina is. Now look here," she indicated some others, "these are virgins. You see the entrance is narrow, and obstructing it is this tattered white skin. It can be more or less complete, but you can still see it there. It may have a hole, big enough for your finger, or maybe two if you try." She pointed again at the images. "Me, Precious and Amor are not virgins, our vaginas are like this, and Blen's will look like this - if she is a virgin.
"Now we play, I show you mine if you show me yours. I will go first, then Girlie, then Amor - then we will compare our own with Blen's."
"Why do you want to see our pussies also?" objected Amor.
"It will also be an exercise," Mama explained. "I want you girls to learn to be bold. In our work we must be bold to earn well. Some girls are happy to take only ladies drinks and remain cherries while they seek a husband. I like you girls to be business girls and take your work serious. It is necessary to be bold."
She slipped off her briefs, lifted herself onto the table, pulled a cushion under her hips to raise them, and drew her knees back and apart. "Blen, hold my vagina open, like on the computer, for Girlie and Amor to look."
Blen had never touched female genitals other than her own before, and she moved cautiously and gently, as if handling something precious and fragile. Mama felt softer and fleshier than her own body; her labia were large and dry and gripping them in her fingers she drew them apart, peeling her vagina open.
"Pull more ... make it open so they can see inside," urged Mama.
