Hard Times
Chapter 1: Saving the Farm
It wasn't even my idea. In fact, I was shocked when Jeff proposed it. I hated the idea.
But times were hard--very hard. We were in danger of losing the farm. And I didn't have any better ideas about how to avoid that disaster. And, ultimately Jeff's plan worked... just not the way either of us had expected.
We'd been married for four years. We married young--Jeff, was just 21 and I was 19. Jeff was an only child and when his parents didn't want to run the family farm any more, they took out a mortgage to cover their retirement, gave Jeff the farm (and the mortgage) as a pre-inheritance gift, and retired to Florida. It was really very generous. There was still significant equity in the farm and, if we worked hard, we should be able to cover the mortgage and make a good living.
And we
did
work hard. We worked our tails off. For a few years, things were going smoothly, as expected. Then the U.S. imposed tariffs on other countries, who retaliated in kind, and our profits nosedived. Monsanto jacked up the price of soybean seeds and we learned that our new John Deere tractor was designed so that even relatively routine repairs could only be done by certified John Deere technicians, at a premium price.
For the last year and a half, we'd been running in the red and we were getting in a deeper and deeper hole. Things began to look bleak.
Losing the farm would be an economic disaster for us, of course. But I think the greatest fear for Jeff was the shame he would feel with his parents. Despite all the uncontrollable challenges we were facing, the bottom line would be that they had gifted him a well-functioning family farm--one that had been in the family for three generations--and he'd promptly run it into the ground.
It was this fear that really drove Jeff to desperation. And his proposal was the child of that desperation.
What was his plan to save the farm? Producing and starring in our very own homemade porno flicks!
Jeff had, true to character, done his research. I'm sure that getting ideas and scoping out the potential competition was fun for him. (He watches a lot of porn and I'm fine with that. I don't see it as a threat to us. I know he's completely faithful to me, body and soul. If he enjoys letting his mind wander a little, that's okay by me.) In addition to that, though, Jeff had carefully analyzed how much money people could make from these sorts of things.
"People love this stuff," Jeff said. "And they especially love amateur porn. It's so popular that professional sites try to create fake amateur material."
He said that we couldn't just do videos of us having sex. We needed a gimmick, a hook. And he'd figured out what that would be, too: cuckoldry.
Shit!
My jaw dropped when he said that.
"You want me to cuckold you?!"
"No, no!" he shot back. "That's the trick. The shots of you with your 'bull' will all be of you with me but they won't show my face. Then, you'll confront and humiliate me by talking about your lover while I jack off eating your used pussy, for example."
The "no other people" aspect was a relief to me. I wasn't really into that and the idea that Jeff would willingly lend me out to other men would have been disturbing. The "eating your used pussy" was intriguing. I loved it when Jeff licked my cunt. What woman doesn't love a good cunt licking? So, this promised more of something I loved. And, frankly, the idea of him eating his cum out of my freshly fucked cunt was exciting.
"Do people--and by 'people' I mean
men
, of course--really go for that sort of thing?" I asked. I wasn't just playing devil's advocate. I really couldn't see why men would pay to watch cuckold porn.
"They sure do!" Jeff, having done his homework, shot back. "I think some men imagine themselves as the bull. Some probably take some sort of schadenfreude-like pleasure in watching the cuckold be humiliated. They might be thinking, 'I'm not like that; I wouldn't put up with that.' But some get off on the thought of being humiliated. Maybe they don't want it to happen in real life, but they get some vicarious pleasure out of imagining being humiliated."
Still, I was reluctant. I wasn't ashamed of my body. I have a great body. But the idea of my body,
and face
, being out there in the huge body of internet porn was concerning. But, like I said, it's not like I had any better ideas to save the farm.
So, we committed to it. We bought professional video equipment, including a camera that would follow motion. And, while still working the farm, we found some spare hours to study both the technical and aesthetic aspects of our project. (If you think that amateur porn doesn't require aesthetics, just watch a bunch. You'll see the difference between one's you'd be willing to pay for and others.) We converted a spare room to be the faux master bedroom for our fictional couple.
The idea was to have public personas that our subscribers would come to know and want to follow, like an X-rated soap opera but with only one story line. We needed pseudonyms. I chose, maybe not showing stellar originality, 'Crystal.' Jeff decided to go by 'Willie'--a strange choice but he argued that it could be later used in phrases like 'little Willie' to add to his humiliation.
While Jeff would do all the production work and post the videos, it would look as if I was the one doing this. That would allow me to narrate some of the action and for there to be some videos that included me talking directly to the audience about my feelings and plans.