They decide among themselves whose turn it is. That's the deal: just one of them, at the end of the session, their choice of hand job or blow job. To completion, as they say. The others take pictures and direct the action. But that's for later.
My name is Louise, and this is one of several groups that I model for -- it's just the four men, or arguably three men and a boy. There's George, whose big, comfortable house we're in: a businessman, about forty, plays squash and keeps fit; Eric, age indeterminate, tall, thin, wears glasses, who is and looks like an accountant; Alan, thirtyish, something to do with the police, with a gorgeous, sexy wife; and Gerald -- Gerry to his friends -- who is George's son.
George's wife -- Gerry's stepmother -- insists that Gerry is of legal age, which in England is eighteen for most things. I have my doubts, but it's not really an issue: after all, he's going to be photographing me, not the other other way round. And he's a computer nerd: when digital cameras replaced film it was Gerry who knew how to store and manipulate images, set up a virtual private network and create a secure website, where images could be organised, displayed and shared with the others. So there are no secrets from Gerry and if his stepmother, who poses for the group like the the other wives, is okay with it then it's really none of my business.
Anyway, back to this evening.
I arrive in good time: I always do. I think that if people are paying a fair amount for three hours of my time then the least I can do is to be there, dressed -- or undressed -- and ready to work at the start of the session.
In the corner there's a dressing table and stool for the model. It can be screened off for modesty, which seems pointless to me. They're paying me to strip off and pose naked: why would I undress behind a screen?
I touch up my hair and make-up and take off the clothes I arrived in, folding them over the back of a chair. They're busy checking lights and cameras; I doubt if anyone even notices that I'm briefly naked before I get into the lingerie I have brought for the first session. Later they'll tell me what they want me to wear, but the first change is usually left to me. It doesn't take long: stockings; a waspie with long suspenders; no bra, but a filmy chemise that doesn't quite cover my bum; and skimpy knickers. I know what they like. The knickers won't be on for long, but Alan likes them, by which I don't mean that he puts them on his head or anything, just that he likes me to pose with knickers pulled aside, or pushed down to my thighs, or round my ankles, or... you get the idea.
I turn to see that they're watching me now, their preparations done. I smile: "Okay, guys -- ready when you are."
I feel my nipples stiffening; they always have, ever since I discovered my inner exhibitionist at a shockingly early age. Photographers like it, though, so these days it's a plus.
There used to be strip-pubs: quite a few of them. Any town of any size had pubs with back rooms where more or less raunchy strip shows were a regular part of the entertainment; there would be a coterie of girls working the circuit and I was a natural shoo-in.
And it was okay. It was never going to make me rich, but it paid the bills. I got along with the other girls, learned how to tease and entertain the punters while keeping the management at arm's length. I got the now familiar buzz from stripping for an audience and they responded enthusiastically to a stripper who enjoyed her work. On a good night with a friendly crowd I'd get naked, give them a raunchy dildo show, then pull a carefully selected punter onto the stage, get his dick out and give him a wank or a blow job. And they loved it. But then came the killjoys and the do-gooders, and these days a strip-pub is a rarity. Mary Whitehouse, you have a lot to answer for...
People I knew got me into what was euphemistically called "glamour" modelling. I posed regularly for girlie magazines and websites, and still do occasionally, but I prefer camera clubs and informal amateur groups like this one - friends who started out photographing their wives, then progressed to photographing each others' wives and the occasional paid model. For the most part they're friendly and considerate; if they like you they book you again, and over time you get to know them.
And I
am
good at it; if I wasn't they wouldn't pay my not inconsiderable hourly rates.
Glamour modelling these days is basically soft porn. And not always so soft. There used to be categories: 'UK Magazine' (open legs), 'US Magazine' (spread pussy) and 'Continental Magazine' (fingers, dildos, vibrators); these days you do it all, or you don't work. And I confess the 'US Magazine' category was always a bit of a mystery to me. I mean, I did it; we all did. And still do. But while I can see why a photographer might want me to spread my legs, and I can understand the erotic impact of picturing a woman pleasuring herself with a dildo, the attraction of a gynaecologist's view of the inside of a vagina is lost on me. Still, who pays the piper calls the tune, and if that's what they want...
And a word about the language:
tits
,
bum
,
arse
,
pussy
and the like are just working vocabulary to a nude model, though I dislike
cunt
, which to me is a coarse and ugly word.
I don't know if it's due to porn on the Internet, but there is an expectation in recent years, especially among amateur photographers, of interaction with the model. It starts innocently enough: a shot at the end of the session with the photographer or photographers and the model, who is invariably naked. Harmless fun and something to show their mates. But then there'll be arms round shoulders, a hand on a breast or a buttock, and you have to draw a line about what is and what isn't acceptable.
Interestingly -- to me anyway -- in groups like this one it's often the wives who blaze the trail. Eric's wife Mary is a case in point. Like him she's an accountant. Dressed for the office, wearing glasses and with her hair up, you wouldn't look twice. But with her hair down and a touch of makeup she's gorgeous. In front of a camera she's uninhibited bordering on lascivious. She has nipple and labia piercings, which the photographers love, and a collection of rings, studs, pendants and chains to go with them. She gets a kick from setting off airport body scanners and having to be examined in private by customs officers.
When I saw a group shot with Eric's wife in which they were all naked and the men all had erections I realised I was in danger of being eclipsed. I upped my fees and my game a little and offered a hand job or blow job at the end of the session: it's not as though I haven't done it before, on stage for an audience, and it's an arrangement they're happy with. For now.
Eventually, I suppose, it will all become more explicit. I've done explicit porn shoots with multiple partners, and I'll do them again if the price is right and I like the people involved, but they're the exception and I'm choosy about who I do them with. If it gets to the point where every photographer just expects to fuck the model as part of the deal, then that might be when I'll retire from this sort of work and find something else to do.
Anyway, I settle into the armchair they've put at the front of the studio and look sexy. Not everyone can do that, especially when wearing next to nothing. It's partly a skill you can learn, but mostly it's innate: you have it or you don't. And if you don't you're not going to succeed as a stripper or a glamour model.
I run through a few standard pouts and poses: enough to break the ice and get the session under way until someone starts to direct. It doesn't take long. And I was right about the knickers: within five minutes they're gone, but not before Alan has had his fun with them. Alan's favourite poses all involve me spreading my legs and pulling my knickers aside, a blatantly erotic display that appeals to them all. It's not hard to tell; if they're asking you to hold the pose and jostling for position to get the shot then you know it's a good one.
It does help that I'm smoothly depilated down there, which they like. And I have "interesting" labia; they like that, too.
Young Gerry, who's still a bit reticent, asks me to lift the chemise up over my tits. I flick my nipples to harden them up for him and he grins as he takes the shot and moves in for a close-up. Photographers do like my nipples: they're pert, pink, prominent and respond visibly to stimulation. When Gerry's satisfied, the others move in for close-ups while my nipples are still exhibiting their appreciation.