Because I get asked a lot, here it is. The story of how I became a medic and the misbehavior that has resulted since.
"Oh my God," said Jasmine, sticking her head into the VIP section where I was dancing at, Totally, the upscale topless gentleman's club. "It's a raid!"
Like a flash I grabbed my top and the customer who had been enjoying his lapdance was on his feet in a panic.
I was just fitting the cups on my big 34DD tits as the loud raucous noise of the sheriff's officers crashing through the main stage filled my ears and before I had time to reach back and clip it securely, a deputy in riot gear poked her head into the semi-private booth.
"Just stay like that, hon" she said whipping out a zip tie to lasso my already positioned wrists.
Unfortunately for me, I hadn't had time to secure the clasps and the cups of my bra slipped off my breasts and fell to the floor. It was just what the deputy wanted. She gave me a really bitchy grin.
"Oh well," she said cinching down the plastic cuffs.
I wouldn't be the only one in such a fix. She grabbed my arm and ushered me out into the main area of the club where over two dozen Totally topless dancers were just that. As if timed for perfect effect, someone threw on the overhead lights.
Now if you have ever been in a "strip" club you know it is all low lighting or at least pink or blue hued. There is a reason for that. Harsh white light is not kind. It reveals everything, all the flaws, the little things you don't want anyone to see. Frankly, it's the stuff of which legends are killed. As we all looked around at each other, most with heavy augmented boobs hanging and not nearly enough g string below to hide, certain...grooming decisions and other aspects of anatomy a general humiliation settled in. It was just terrible. A lot of illusions were being destroyed. Age -- I myself was almost 30 -- c-section scars, and more, were completely on display. Worse we all had our hands behind our backs, so all those grinning male deputies were getting quite the look. The grins from the female deputies were of a different sort, a kind of "see I told you so" expression at the imperfections that, even more than our near nudity, were humiliating us beyond recovery.
"Okay ladies," said the deputy, a sergeant actually, that had cuffed me. "We are going to take you out to the vans. You will be transported downtown, and you will then be processed. Now listen up. You have the right to remain silent..."
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"Okay, so here's what your facing..." My lawyer opened the file and started to read.
"Uh huh, solicitation of prostitution." He looked up from the folder and smiled.
"What?" I asked.
"Yeah. It's what all the women from the club are being charged with."
I was sitting there in a county orange jumpsuit, the most decent thing I had been allowed to put on since the arrest. Underneath, I had on nothing. The county jail matron had required the g string and had placed it in an envelope with a kind of smug grin before telIing me I could pick it up if I made bail. My nipples and areola, which are always very prominently knobby since my boob job -- I am 34DD on a 5-4 118 frame -- were making an obvious pokey detailed outline on the top of the cotton jumpsuit. My lawyer, who it turned out was representing all of the dancers from the club, could barely keep his eyes off the outrageous pinging that was always there regardless of whether I was turned on, or cold, or not. Being honest, while it had made a huge financial difference to my "dancing," I had a lot of regrets about getting this augmentation. Outside of the club, my disproportionately large tits were a liability. Women took one look and judged me, men took one longgggg look and judged me only to a different purpose. Also, it had made buying any bra and top that could hide their details a challenge.
"I wasn't doing that! I am not a whore," I said emotionally.
"Of course not," he said calmly staring at my chest. "Like I said, it's what they are blanket charging everyone with."
"What?" I was beyond freaked out.
"Yeah, don't worry about it. It's a game they play. They always go for that. We counter with a lesser charge. You plead guilty, or better, no contest. The cops get a big bust, makes the news that they are stopping immorality and crime. You don't do any time, maybe some probation and keeping it to a misdemeanor makes it expungeable later on."
He made it sound so reasonable. The part he left out was that for a period of time I was allowing myself to be labeled as something I was not. I was admitting to something I didn't do, and I would have to do some awful penance of probation.
I just sat there dumbfounded at first. "No. Nope. Not doing that," I said.
He gave me look like it wasn't up to me.
"Listen, they have two cops who will say they were undercover and that you propositioned them. You are a stripper--"
"Dancer," I corrected. For as long as I had been dancing, for all of us that danced topless, in fact, the terminology was important. Stripper had a much lower connotation in our world.
"Whatever," he said. "Look, who do you think a judge or jury will believe?"
I knew he was right and sat there looking frustrated and furious.
"What do I have to do?" I said finally.
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Judge Hannah Humphreys was a graduate of Houston Christian College and had risen to her elected position as a staunch advocate of law enforcement and protector of family values and morals. She was also a cruel bitch and hated "strippers." A few years earlier she had caught her husband frequenting a topless club and ever since she had harbored a hateful vendetta. Beyond that, she was known for being a clever and imaginative in her punishments, and never more than when someone like me was before her bench.
As I stood in court dressed modestly in a plain skirt suit, without a shred of make up and my hair pulled back in a small bun, I could have passed for any normal suburban woman with one major exception, my big tits.
Unfortunately, despite the thicker bra and the material of the skirt suit, the "just there" expression of both bolting nipples still drew attention to the disproportionate swell of my boobs. One look from Judge Humphreys and I knew she was estimating me based on them as well.
"So, I see here that the charge has been reduced to indecent exposure and public lewdness," she said looking over the top of her little reading glasses.
The words dripped with derision and disgust. I felt about an inch tall.
"How do you plead?"
My face burned as I cleared my throat and said, "No contest, your honor."
The way she looked at me made me feel like I had a big scarlet W emblazoned on my chest.
"Okay, well. You do realize that no contest is not the same as not guilty?"
I looked at my lawyer. He looked a little surprised.
"Uhhh, your honor," he started to say.
"I want to hear from the defendant," she said cutting him off.
"Yes, ma'am," I said.
The look she gave me wilted any sense of self-esteem I had left. I felt like a total whore and sensed that anyone listening would think of me the same way.
"Where do you currently work?" she asked.
I felt almost light-headed.
"I am a dancer at Totally," I said, my face burning red with shame.
"You are a stripper?"
I started to react with what all of us did when that term was used, but my lawyer's slight hand signal was enough to tell me that I was flirting with disaster.
"Yes ma'am."
"A stripper?" she said. It was clear the moralistic bitch wanted me to say it too.
"A stripper," I said.
"Uh huh," she scoffed. "Well then, this constitutes moral turpitude and moral turpitude is no less a criminal offense than other form of vice, whether it be prostitution or all the other degrading acts. I take it seriously. The community demands that we all do, and it is my responsibility to assure that you feel that responsibility in the punishment I assign. With that in mind, I am sentencing to no less than one year of probation in a civil capacity."
And with that she banged her gavel.
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"Don't worry. You won't have to be on probation for a full year."
My lawyer handed me a handkerchief which I took and dabbed at my eyes out in the hallway of the courthouse.
"That was so humiliating," I said.
I looked up at my attorney. He was staring at my chest with a gawky lusty fascination. My nipples were standing out like two number one erasures. It only made me feel even more scandalous and objectified. It was a byproduct of having worked in a sexually inclined setting for so long. I was 30, and had been a dancer since I was 19. Sometimes for reasons I couldn't explain or even entertain, sometimes even when I was embarrassed or mildly shocked or even outraged, I would have a bewildering little physical reaction. My brain and sensibility would be saying NO, but my body would be giving telltale signs of response.
Such was the case just then and my lawyer was transfixed. If Judge Humphreys had sentenced me to Cirsei's walk of shame in Game of Thrones, I couldn't feel more utterly exposed, ashamed, and vulnerable.
"Uh, if you just do the probation and get good reviews, meaning you show up on time and do the work, you get the requisite signature, then you'll be done 3-6 months. In the meantime, you can keep dancing and making a living. All in all, I have to say," he said to my chest, "I think it went pretty well."