"Baby?" My wife asked in that questioning way I know is always an ask beyond the norm.
"Yes, love?" I answered back... my usual "what is it this time?" hiding in plain sight in the tone of my reply.
"Okay... so.... So you know how desperate we are for money, right?" She asked me.
Oh god... please tell me you haven't sold the car for Bitcoin or something.
"Yes love, always for us." I replied.
"So... I think I have a good way to really make a lot of money fast that... you might be okay with... or even like." She said to me.
"Okay, babe... what is it?" I asked.
She considered just showing me straight away on her ipad but decided to keep that in reserve in case I went off the rails.
'Okay... okay... and hear me out first before you react ok?" She asked. I said I would be patient and kind with my reply.
"Okay... so Reese called me to offer me some... work... a bit like the old days... but I could make several hundred bucks an hour..." she told me.
"Wow... that's... what exactly is the work?" I asked thinking prostitution or worse.
"Modeling... of a sort.... Softcore adult movies. But softcore--no actual fucking... all implied... I mean, there's some touching... it's gotta look real, but I'd basically just be naked having guys bump into me from behind to make it look like they were fucking me... but not. So you know, not porn porn... just...." She said, trailing off to see my reaction.
I sighed... and thought about all the ways it could go wrong... but honestly I really wasn't that opposed to the idea. I thought it was hot when she was stripping... my friends always wondered what it was like to date a stripper... I was a hero back then... would this be different?
"Tell me more about the uh... movies... and all that?" I asked.
"Well Reese says softcore is a real niche right now, so people are paying for it... bigtime... there isn't enough free stuff on the free porn streaming sites... and he has a kind second dimension where he's doing niche videos on top of softcore itself being a niche." She said.
"Like... what?" I asked.
"Things you like" my wife said with a wink.
She could tell I was pretty interested... so she pushed it further and said, "Do you want to see an example? I uh... they shot a short test for me today to show you. If you don't like it, that's the end... if you do... I can make $500 or more in an hour. Think of how quickly we could pay down the things we owe!"
"You... already shot one?" I asked in disbelief.
"I knew you'd react that way... it was just getting naked and a little touching... but if you don't want to see it, I'll delete it and we won't talk about this again." She said coyly. She knew there was no fucking way I didn't want to see it. We had talked about something like this before... it was a minor fantasy of mine to be honest...
"No no... please show me!" I begged.