Life had been pretty good to Jack and Jenny. They were in their mid thirties, had been married for just under ten years and were doing ok. They didn't have children yet but neither was worried, there was plenty of time for that. They were just enjoying themselves. Jack's job in finance paid well and they took at least two holidays a year, had a nice house and both drove late model cars. Jack considered himself lucky, not least because Jenny was a very beautiful woman with a body that always turned heads when they were out.
Then came the recession. Finance was especially hard hit and when Jack's line manager called him into the office and explained that he was going to have to let him go, Jack could almost feel the house of cards collapsing around him.
They did the best they could for as long as they could. Jack looked for work, but there was not much he was qualified to do. Jenny tried a few jobs, all of them minimum wage, but it was not enough to keep up with the loan payments and the credit cards.
They had always had a good physical relationship and both of them resolved to retain this as they did not want to be one of those couples who split up over money. They made love several times a week and showed their affection for each other as much as they could. Both Jack and Jenny were fond of porn and sometimes watched it together as a prelude to their love making. One night as they were lying together in bed watching a flick, Jenny said out of the blue, "I wonder how much they make."
Jack shrugged. "Dunno," he said. "Got to be a bit though." They continued to watch for a while, then he said, "what makes you ask?"
"Well," she replied, "we could do with the money."
Jack hit pause on the remote, just as the actress was having (faking?) a huge orgasm. Her contorted face filled the screen. "Did you just say what I think you said?" he asked.
Jenny looked at him. "Don't you think I could?" She said. "Am I not good looking enough?"
Jack held up his hands defensively, "I never said that," he said. "I meant, are you serious about wanting to do it?"
"It's not that I want to do it," Jenny said, looking back at the frozen face on the screen. But if it is good money, and if they would be interested, then it's worth considering." She took the remote from him and pressed play. The couple on screen went back to their frenzied coupling. "It's just fucking," Jenny said with a shrug. "I mean, it's no big deal."
"I think it is a pretty big deal," Jack said.
"Well, it is when we do it," Jenny said. "But that is different. With us it is not just fucking, it is making love. It's a whole other thing." Jenny kissed him and pulled him toward her, and they lost interest in talking about it.
During the following week Jack didn't give it another thought. Jenny did though; she did a bit of research on the net and found that the girls in the films they watched made pretty good money. Certainly enough to keep them out of the poor house, provided she was willing to make enough movies. The thought of the money was piquing her interest, but if she was going to be honest, she was getting just as interested for another reason too.
Jack was in the den rewriting his CV for the hundredth time when Jenny walked in. "I want to ask you something," she said. He looked up and nodded. "Go ahead."
"I made a couple of calls," she said.
"To?"
"To a production company," she replied. "You know, what we were talking about the other night."
Jack looked confused for a moment before the penny dropped. "You must be kidding," he said.
"Nope," she said. She sat down opposite him and took his hands in hers. "Honey, the money is good, well great, and I sent them some photos and they are really interested."
"But, I mean, you would have to make love, I mean fuck, other men."
She looked him directly in the eye. "Tell me truly," she said. "Aren't you even a little bit turned on by the thought of that?"
He tried to keep her eye but had to look down at the floor. "Well," she said. "Go on."
"Okay, okay," he said. "When you suggested it at first I was a bit."
"A bit?"
"Maybe more than a bit," he said. He looked back up at her. "OK, I got a massive hard on if you must know."
She smiled, "I knew it," she said sighing. "I have an appointment," she said. "Tomorrow afternoon. With a casting agent."
"What, er, what will you have to do?" He asked her.
"They didn't say," she said. "But I would imagine they will want to see me naked."
"Nothing more than that?"
"I really don't know," she said. "I guess I am going to find out."
She arrived at the office, on the first floor of a non-descript block downtown. She knocked and was let in by an attractive blonde woman in her late twenties wearing a blouse and short skirt and large horn-rimmed glasses. She gave Jenny a bright smile. "Come in," she said, "we've been expecting you." She led Jenny into a small waiting area and told her that the agent, Brad, would be with her in a moment.