Mom was a successful business woman. Mom kept a Whorehouse. It was where I grew up. She taught me most everything I know about business. How to write a development application, and business plan, how to screen clients, how to maximise profits, work with the tax office and best of all how to be ethical and have fun.
What Mom didn't need to teach me was how to be a dyke. That came naturally. She only employed lesbians. Less trouble that way. No romantic entanglements with the clients. She didn't even mind when their interludes with each other turned sour. In Mom's efficient way she dealt with it: "Sort it out, or get out!" she'd say. She always made the women responsible for their own behaviour. So I always had plenty of strong women to emulate.
In school they used to have Mother and Daughter Days, or Career Women Days, Take Your Daughter To Work Days. They were big on role modelling, and Mom and I used to laugh about it a lot. We'd imagine Mom taking work experience students - we'd look through the Year Book and pick out likely candidates. One or two Prom Queens from my high school did become trusted working girls. One of them was my first lover . . . I laughed like crazy when Renee told me she was packing a dildo under her prom gown and poked it towards her dance partner, Raymond Grotty, who fled the dance floor. The other, Cherry-lee defied her girly name and wore a tuxedo to the dance. Took Yvette Livingston as her partner. No one knew up till then. It was her Coming Out Ball. Had her glossy, curly black locks shorn at Peterson's Barbershop that morning. Cherry-lee worked summers and college vacations, returning from her Eastern fine arts college each semester break.
One whole summer long, whenever Renee was off work, we fucked and fucked - on the big red velvet covered bed, on the soft carpet, in the spabath, in the shower, slammed against the wall, straddling the chair, upside down on the sofa, face down/ass up over my study desk - all in my bedroom suite and ensuite. I never got a tan that summer but I did learn how to ride-a-buck-horse and how to use ping pong bats for things other than table tennis. Mom had to install soundproofing - the clients were starting to expect more animated noise for their fuck-buck. Mom always used to say "Better to have you rutting at home where I know you are safe, than spreading your legs and wiggling your bare ass in places unknown."
Mom made a lot of money, and so did her whores. The girls commanded top price, and mom never exploited them. She always thought I'd follow her into the biz, but I was convinced my talents lay elsewhere. Oh, don't get me wrong, plenty have called me "whore". I'd just never taken money for sex. I would grimace at the thought of men touching my body, though I have several close (mainly gay) male friends. And I loved sharing my body with other women so much I never thought to charge. Unlike Mom's girls I was privileged not to need to earn my living fucking. I could live to fuck, rather than fuck to live.
I went away to Art School to study photography. I wanted to become a sought-after porn (oh, sorry, erotic) photographer. Don't get me wrong. Women only. My shutter wouldn't close when there was a prick in the pic. My Box Brownie only flashed for cunt.
At college I lived in a group house for women. Not exactly a sorority, but a large converted old house with many bedrooms. I quickly recognised that what was happening was so similar to life at home, I was comforted by the familiarity. The only difference was my housemates weren't charging money. Many were struggling to pay college tuition fees. Others lived on beans and toast, too impoverished to do much more than stagger from home to school and back. Some gave away sex for a night out with a likely lad. Oh, they called it dating.
It troubled me to see my sisters caught in this trap and I fretted about it aloud to Mom whenever I visited home. Here was I, no money worries, studying what I loved, and fucking whom I pleased because she turned me on at the time, not for the sake of preferments - dinners, movies and visits to country estates, enduring the agony of 'meeting the family' on holidays.
Mom wondered why with all my experience around the Game I didn't get my college mates organized. She thought it mad to give away sex for such miserly reward. She never could stand a woman selling herself short. She offered to help.
Mom left Renee in charge and came to stay with me for a time. She managed a sub-let from a girl who had left to pay the ultimate price for being kept: marriage. Mom had become a Den Mother! One by one she met and made friends with all the girls in that house. After several weeks the college announced that it was facing a million dollar deficit and was charging a levy next semester on top of normal tuition. That threw the majority of the girls into complete panic. One particularly talented girl, Polly, was sure she would have to leave. Polly was a painter and destined to win major awards around the world. But in her student days she was a scholarship winner, eking out an existence on the miserly stipend afforded her. Polly had more than once declared "I'll have to sell my cherry to stay here!" Which was a bit of hyperbole as her cherry had been plucked many years ago, and Polly was an enthusiastic and voracious bisexual, often taking part in threesomes of any combination. Mind you, I had never sucked her pip myself, as I don't appreciate bloke-aroma; even the faintest tinge makes my nose quiver and sneeze.
Well, Mom was ready to help. Polly was her first recruit in that house. What Mom soon realised was, though I was screwing dykes like there was some sort of war effort going on, there were more lemons in the college bars than met the eye. Women college professors came in three varieties: ineluctably straight (the smallest group), closeted or curious, and out. Category 2 comprised about 55%, meaning a huge, untapped clientele of frustrated lizzies.
Pretty soon, the poverty days were far behind the girls of 1145 Main Street. A root was worth more than a chicken dinner, though payment-in-kind was still accepted in some circumstances. Girls could also entertain their own boy and girlfriends, the latter preferred. In the early days, Mom had to compromise on that, and accept the heterosexuals' preference, but as time wore on, and the reputation, and popularity, of the house grew, she switched the balance, until the perfect 100-0 split was achieved.