Regrets and Signals
The day after her trip with Antwan, when the rush had fully subsided, real life raised its ugly head. Jessica was at home when she was suddenly hit by an overwhelming wave of guilt and fear for her future. She was honest with herself - she hadn't been forced into doing anything out in H-town. She'd been felt up in a public restaurant, she'd sucked and fucked in a nasty porn store gloryhole, she'd been a stripper in a low-rent dive and then, the ultimate disgrace, had sold her body for sex with a succession of black strangers. All that - and she hadn't been forced into a damned thing. She'd got into a slutty exhibitionist groove and it had all just seemed to flow naturally. It was as scary as hell.
Worse, she knew she'd been filmed in many of her actions and that there was a website out there featuring her. She fetched her lap-top and typed in the title that she remembered seeing at Antwan's, 'High Society Snowbunny'. Google had lots of answers but none of them related to the site she had seen. That was a bit of a relief but she knew that exposure on a site like that would destroy her career and her life in seconds.
As she sat pondering her future her phone rang. It was Jenny from the club. "Damn, Jess, still waters run deep, eh."
"What do you mean?" asked Jessica nervously.
"Girl, Antwan said you were the wildest woman he'd ever met," the club manager gushed. "I'm here to tell you that man is not easily impressed. He says you might be the best he's ever seen. He posted on the boards and your site is getting a shit-load of attention from our sponsors."
"Oh my God, that can't happen. I can't afford for anything that I did to get out. I think this might all be a huge mistake." Jessica began sobbing.
There was a moment's silence. "Hang on in there, Jess, we'll come over and talk this out."
Thirty minutes later Jenny and a man were at her door. Jenny was dressed like any suburban housewife, a bit of a shock since Jessica had only ever seen her in her club finery. The blonde moved forward and hugged Jessica. "Poor baby, it's confusing isn't it. I told Antwan not to take it too fast but I guess he just got over-excited. Which, after all, was probably your fault." She gave a confiding little laugh and smoothed Jessica's hair with her hand. "Now let's see if we can sort this out. This is Mike, my husband."
The man smiled at Jessica and offered her his hand to shake. "I help out with the foundation's computer work on a voluntary basis. I'm here to explain how we work. Did you try to access your site?"
"Yes - but I don't have the right address."
"It wouldn't have helped. We operate on a specialised server system which requires bespoke software and a password to access. If you check your prospect card then the bottom line operates as your password. It changes each month and the same is true for sponsors so long as they are contributing in some way. Each clip requires a valid password to work and each downloaded clip is automatically coded to identify the member downloading. It might be possible, with work, to convert a clip and leak it onto the web but why would our patrons do so. They'd be immediately identified and have their password revoked. They'd lose access to the finest collection of interracial porn in the world and risk other consequences."
"Other consequences?" asked Jessica.
"Mr Taylor doesn't approve of his employees and associates being doxed. A few years ago we had one or two cases. They were quickly dealt with and the individuals concerned learned that we have a lot of friends in high places. The last guy also had a nasty accident. He broke all his fingers by slamming both hands in his refrigerator door. Funnily enough, we've had no problems with leaks since that news got around."
"Don't frighten her, Mike," scolded Jenny. "Set her laptop up to view her site."
It took only a couple of minutes and a small download. Then Mike showed Jessica how to navigate around the record of her debauchery. "Check every file and picture," he suggested, "you'll find our facial discretion software has blurred out all faces on prospect websites. At the moment you only have access to your own site but if and when you upgrade you'll be able to see the sites of all the other prospects, members and ex-members."
Jenny took Jessica's hand in hers. "That tech is all very well but let's get to the heart of this. You're scared that something might get out. Why? You might lose your job, your friends, your family. Your life might be changed completely and irrevocably. You don't think that we all felt that way once?"
"Even you?" asked Jess. Jenny always seemed absolutely comfortable with who and what she was.
"Did I!" said Jenny. "It was before I ever knew Mr Taylor. Nothing makes you consider where things are going like that first time you miss your period after being with a Black guy bareback."
Jessica didn't know what to say.
"Mike and I had to face where this lifestyle can lead and decide if we wanted to go there, perhaps to go all the way. Mike loves to see me getting fucked and I'm one helluva exhibitionist but in the end my love for Mike meant I had to leave the decision to him."
"That's not quite how it is," gently rebuked Mike. "I worship Jenny and I find nothing more arousing than the sight of her gaining pleasure. She has a high sex drive and we both are rather kinky so I pretty soon realised that on my own I was never going to satisfy her."
"Blame that on a highly conservative religious family and education," said his wife. "Once I first got a taste of that forbidden fruit I just couldn't get enough."
Mike continued, "We discussed things - just how much was going to change. We agreed to go ahead, to raise the child as our own and to recognise who we were and just how strong our bond was with each other and with this new life. We decided all that and then three weeks later we lost our baby."
"Oh no..." said Jessica as Mike moved to hold his wife.
"That was very bad - as bad as anything can be," he said. "We pulled out of the lifestyle completely for a time. Six months in we began trying for a baby. Maybe it was fate but it just didn't happen for us in those first few months. If it had then we might have tried to make a go of it as a vanilla couple..."
"...I don't think that could ever have worked," interjected Jenny. "We are who we are. After ... it ... happened we had to take a break but with hindsight I think we would always have come back. The first time we went back to a swingers event we met up with an old African-American friend of ours and he told us about the Taylor Foundation for the first time. It sort of seemed like a sign."
"I still believe it was," nodded Mike emphatically.
"I told Mike that he had two months to start our family. If he failed in his duty then I'd have to find stronger, fitter, more potent men who COULD get our family started. After all I was into my thirties and I decided I wasn't going to stop at one."
"Such a turn-on," beamed Mike.