Legalized Sex Work
The Morning Show with Bill and Laura.
Bill: With the passage of the Sex Work Act, Prostitution, now known as Sex Work, is a legal and protected profession in the United States. The act mandates licensing for all persons engaged in providing sexual services as well as training/id cards for all patrons of these services. Brothels will be licensed and inspected. Police will be retrained to understand the difference between a legal sex worker and a trafficked person.
Laura: The issue that allowed this controversial bill be passed was informed consent. One of the major requirements of the law is that all parties must document their consent. Informed consent opens up a world of possibilities.
Bill: What sort of possibilities, Laura?
Laura: The proponents of this bill suggest that people who are sexually active get their license even if they don't anticipate using it. Married women could be licensed and prepared to subsidize their income if they needed extra funds due to emergency situations.
Bill: Are you getting your license, Laura?
Laura: Well, that's a private matter. If you want to know if a person is available as a sex worker, just ask 'Are you working?'
Bill: I still think that will get my face slapped. Either by the woman or my wife.
Laura: Unless she's working...
Jim grinned at his 39-year-old wife, Mary. The mother of three still didn't look her age. He turned off the TV. "You ought to get your license."
"What?" Mary threw a pillow across the room at her husband.
"Sure, then you could quit your job with that crap store and keep us in high style." Jim laughed.
"You'd be OK with me as a sex worker?" Mary walked to where Jim was slouched on the couch and dropped a knee between his legs with enough speed and accuracy to make him flinch. "Do you
want
me to be a sex worker? Use my ass to put food on the table for you and the kids?"
Jim slapped her denim clad butt with a sharp smack. "I'm just kidding. I don't want you taking a bunch of random cocks."
"Why? Do you think some random cock is going to take me away from you and our kids? These are guys that need to pay to get laid." Mary looked in the mirror. She was almost 40 though she didn't really look her age. But she did look like she'd had three kids and never quite lost the baby fat. And her boobs were petite. "I probably couldn't get any hits on the app anyway."
"I'd pick you." Jim didn't believe his wife of nearly twenty years would open herself up to let strangers touch her, and the thought disturbed him when his cock twitched.
"You'd have to get a client card. All clients must be registered and tested. It's tracked in the app." Mary pulled her hair loose and shook it out. She still dyed it dark pink and purple. She stripped off her outer shirt and looked at herself in the mirror with her Five Finger Death Punch wife beater clinging to her figure. She twisted back and forth and considered all the extra lumps. Would guys want to pay for her favors? She looked back at Jim. "I think I will. Thanks for the idea."
"Well, I don't like it." She had to be teasing him for mentioning the sex worker license. But she'd been researching the subject. Was she interested? "You haven't applied for a license already, have you?"
"Not yet." She kissed him. "But I might."
She led him into the bedroom.
***
A week later Mary breezed into the kitchen and dropped her keys on the table. "I picked up my license on the way home from work."
Jim stuck his head out of the laundry room. "What? What license?"
"The sex worker license. We talked about it."
"No. I thought you were teasing me." Jim's temper usually got the better of him but when he looked at his wife's determined face he backed down. She just got the license. That doesn't mean she'd be taking clients. Lots of women were getting licensed as a way to tease their husbands.
Mary was the love of his life. They had three kids, and she looked like she'd had three kids. Two of them were teenagers and their little girl was going into first grade. Mary hated her job, but they needed the money to supplement his disability payments.
"I don't want you to get fucked by other guys," he whispered so the kids couldn't hear. "That's bullshit."
"Yeah, well I'm tired of getting fucked dry at work." Mary kicked the table. "Besides I need to set up a site on the app. Do you want to help? I need photos."
Jim's face turned hot, bright red. "What kind of photos?"
"Advertising photos." Mary peeled out of the top layer of clothes until she got to her tee shirt and bra. "I want to show off my tattoos."
"Oh..." Jim groaned. Her tattoos weren't too bad, except for the chest piece on top of her breasts. She could still be covered. "OK but you're not showing everything to the world."
"No, I don't want to get too explicit. Do you want to see what other people are doing?"
Jim's eyes flashed open. "Wait how many people are on this app?"
"In our area... 675 as of this afternoon. And 12,293 clients."
Jim and Mary bent over the phone and scrolled through the listings. They were marked as available for men only, women only, couples along with sex preferences and gender. The client list for women available for men was the longest at 506 workers.
Jim shot several bedroom shots of Mary with and without her bra in just a pair of lace boy short panties. She covered her nipples and displayed her back, arm and chest tattoos. Jim loved her tattoos, especially the dragon with its long green wings wrapping around her nipples and flames shooting from its nostrils onto her belly. He sighed when he sent the cropped photos to her phone. If she turned on the app someone was going to see her hot dragon.
"How can I see how your site looks on the phone?"
"Download the app and input your client number."
"I don't have a client number. Why do I need a client number?" Jim grumped.
"Because no one gets to see the sex worker listings unless they have been vetted, logged and trained."
"Trained?" Jim almost laughed. "I'm pretty sure I know what to do."
"Training teaches you the law and the responsibilities of the client. You can take the test online and get your client number. They can validate you through the camera on your phone."
"Jeezus. That's a little intrusive." Jim shuddered.
"The business is intrusive too, you might say." Mary arched an eyebrow at him.
"You're not really going to do this? Why would you?" Jim pleaded.
"I don't know." Mary looked at her husband. "Mom had to when we were young. My father died and there was no money. She worked at the diner but rent and fuel oil sometimes got paid by the landlord. And he expected sex for his help."
"Things aren't that desperate," Jim whispered. "Are they?"
"No. But I like having a backup plan or a stopgap so I can make sure the kids get fed and we don't lose the house." Mary hugged Jim. "I love you. It's just a job, if we don't make a big deal out of it. I wouldn't be cheating on you, because it's transactional and you know what I'm doing. And I'll tell you everything if you want to know."
Jim groaned. "I don't want to know about some guy fucking you..."
*****
"Fuck..." Jim slammed the cupboard doors. "Why isn't there anything but Rice Crispies in the cupboard?"
"When they cut my hours last month, it reduced my paychecks and I can't get all the food we need. Teenagers eat too much." Mary opened the refrigerator with its stale condiments shelf being the only one that was full. A pickle jar with only juice in it. An orange juice container with a slosh of juice at the bottom. A few plastic containers with science experiments growing on the forgotten leftovers.
"Guess we go to the food pantry." Jim said.
"They'll be out of stock at the end of the month. Everybody trying to get by until the checks show up on the first." Mary pulled out her phone. "Time to see if anyone is interested in my services."
"What?" Jim turned around.
Mary opened the SW app and logged into her account. There had been several inquiries over the last few weeks since she went live but she hadn't made her status 'Available'. Until now.
She hadn't told Jim, but the inquiries had been exciting. The idea of new cock excited her, but she could never tell Jim. Well tonight would answer all of their questions.
Her phone dinged.
"What's that?" Jim growled at her.
"The SW app. We're going to take the kids to McDonalds for dinner." Mary shivered. If she was ever going to do this now was the time.
"I thought you said..." Jim looked confused.
"Let's just go. The deposit will be in our account by the time we get there."
Jim stared at her with a look of horror as Mary went into their bedroom to change.
She decided to wear a sundress. It wasn't her usual style, but it would make it easy to get undressed. She changed her underwear to a set of black lace panties and push up bra to enhance her assets. She shivered at the thought of getting naked for a stranger. Of being touched. Of the $150 deposit in her paypal account.
The ride to McDonald's was quiet. The kids were engrossed with their phones. Jim drove with a knot cramping his belly. And Mary concluded the paperwork for her first client encounter.
One of the options the law had opened to sex workers was the use of restaurant toilet facilities to do their business, as long as occupation of the premises wasn't disruptive. There had been a few incidents initially, but rules had settled out after the first month or so. A location flag had been added to the app to indicate if a worker was using a particular facility.
That way abusers could be tracked.
When they pulled into the parking lot Mary leaned over to Jim and kissed him. "I want you to wait here with the kids for five minutes so I can meet the client, get his thumbprint on my contract and go to the restroom with him. Can you be cool?"
Jim nodded glumly, stomach griping at the thought of what his wife was going to do. He also noted the tightness in his pants as his cock swelled.
"Kids? You and Daddy are going to wait a few minutes while Mommy goes in to take care of some business. I'll join you after I'm done." Mary opened the car door to a chorus of grunts from the back seat.
She walked into McDonalds with a little extra bounce in her step. She was excited and frightened and worried about her husband. Was she doing the right thing? The client had already made a deposit of half her posted fee and she hadn't done anything. How hard could this be?