Judy or the Misadventures of Reluctant Sin
Chapter THREE - Judy continues her story
The next step was to get ahold of this guy in Dubai. According to Hanson's information the guy was an Englishman who used to work for the Bank of England named Humphrey Morice. Morice went in the Mideast by "Hussan." We sent a message about our interest in Taritarat to the email address Hanson gave us but just got a programed response that H. Morice was away and would respond to messages after he got back.
It had been months since I'd started my research and all I had was a little information of dubious value and a contact for a guy who travelled to Dubai, Glaessov and who knows where else.
Meanwhile, in the first positive development for the Rocklin children in a while, my brother got his shit together. Charles had gone back to college and gotten good grades and was applying to grad schools in international policy. Knowing his parents history, he had become interested in the Middle East and was studying Arabic.
On the other hand, Cate went completely off the rails. She was working full time as a stripper, sleeping with guys on the side for money, doing more drugs than ever and living in a house with five guys all of whom were sleeping with her. Gloria thought it was ok. "I was just like her at her age." I was surprised when she reached her 28th birthday.
I continued to write travel articles about places I'd only been to vicariously.
About a month after we got back from Veracruz, Dalman said that a select group of people from the magazine had been invited to attend what was otherwise a family gathering at the home of Roger Norman, founder of Big World Adventures, and his wife, Melody. Others that would be there were Bry Gorrig and his wife, Angie, and Roger Norman's son, Roger Jr., and his wife Molly. Also, Roger Senior's daughter Genie, a 20 something would be there with a few of her friends. From the magazine there would be me, Julie, Tony and Dalman.
I had only seen Mr. Norman from afar when he addressed large corporate meetings. I had never met Melody, Angie, Genie or Molly.
I was reluctant to go but Dalman said that it would be harmful to him and idiotic for me not to go. He said to dress as an attractive woman because both Norman and Gorrig would expect that. I did not have to worry about not having a thousand dollar dress as Norman knows how much employees are paid. Dalman said also that he did not really know what would happen other than dinner. He knew groups from other corporate sections had been invited to such events in the past. Dalman concluded, "Knowing both Norman and Gorrig, I'd say you should expect to be gazed at a lot and boorish conversation. There might be other forms of insulting behavior. Wear clean underwear." I hoped the food would be good.
At first, I really did not understand why the magazine people were at the gathering at all unless it was that Gorrig and Norman felt they had to talk to Dalman and could not stand him undiluted. They did not need Julie and me as eye candy because the other women there were all beautiful. Norman's wife, Melody, is probably younger than me, particularly if I was born two years earlier than I'd thought. Of course, she was a former Centerfold. Roger Norman Jr.'s wife Molly was about Melody's age and also looked like she could have been a Centerfold. Gorrig's wife was in her early 40s and very attractive.
Genie was the daughter of Norman's wife after Angie's mother. She had with her three male friends, Mike, Matt and Chris, all of whom looked like they could be male nude dancers. In fact, I think they were.
The fourteen of us assembled and started with a cocktail in the Norman's incredible living room of high priced art and glitter. I'd decided to wear my long dress that was tight about my hips and showed lots of cleavage. I was a bit worried I might have been immodest until I saw that Melody's dress was cut with a V in front that came down almost to her navel and was so short it barely covered her ass. The diamond choker around her neck contained more expensive rocks than I had ever seen before. Mrs. Gorrig, although supposedly of an age and Norman's daughter by some much earlier wife, was dressed still more immodestly. One could see right through Angie's blouse and her skirt was as short as Melody's but made of leather. Genie was dressed no more modesty than her half sister with a skin-tight top made of some expensive translucent material, no bra and a mini-skirt that barely covered her butt. Molly, also with a diamond choker wore a short, skintight dress with a zipper in front that seemed to say, "In case of horniness, pull chain." I hardly need mention that Julie was dressed like she planned to be undressed soon with a very short tight black dress, a leather choker with blood red rhinestones, fishnet stockings and heels so high that I don't know how she walked.
The talk in the living room started predictably. After introductions, there was talk about what everyone did, weather, and college football. There was chat about the backgrounds of the people who were not of the family. It seemed Gorrig and Norman picked particularly on me with embarrassing questions about my personal relationships and family background. I definitely did not mention the circumstances of my birth, particularly as I was not sure myself anymore.
The older men moved the conversation to work, not caring that that left half the people there out of the discussion. It left Julie, Tony and I with nothing to say that would not get us into trouble. Dalman naturally spoke about how great the magazine was and spoke of efforts to make it more of a real source of news that someone might seek out to read in addition to serving as an advertising piece for the corporation's hotels and travel services. No one made much effort to act interested in what Dalman said.
The discussion eventually turned to the favorite topic of Roger Norman Sr., Roger Jr. and Bry Gorrig, the inferiority of women and the need to keep them from involvement in activities outside their proper roles in the bedroom, nursery and kitchen. Women are too governed by their lusts and emotions it seems. "Just look at how Angela Merkel screwed things up in Germany with her stupid compassion for Syrian refugees. A man would not have done something just because he felt sorry for people," Roger Sr. said. "I agree that Merkel should not have further compromised the ethnic purity of Germany," Gorrig replied, "but part of her thinking was reasonable. Because the stupid Germans largely forgot to have children in the 70s and 80s, they badly need new people to keep their economy going. Mercedes can't automate everything." "True," Roger Sr. said, "but the reason the birthrate in Germany is below 1.5 is that the Germans have allowed women to decide how many children they would have. Left on their own, women won't have enough children to man the factories and the battlefields. When Germany was great it had a birthrate that allowed it to do great things." "Merkel should have done her duty to have children," Gorrig agreed. "Frauke Petry has four which gives her at least some credibility in my book."
The Normans and Gorrig voiced more such reflections on current and historical events before agreeing that things were now moving in the right direction and even many women now realized that governing was best left to men. "53 percent of American white women know their place and I foresee a day when the ill-advised 19th Amendment is repealed and voting is left to men entirely," Norman Sr. said. It was then announced that dinner would be served.
We went to a large but not too large dinning room and were seated comfortably at a table. I should say; the table and chairs were comfortable. My placement across from Gorrig, between Dalman and Norman Sr. was about as uncomfortable as possible. Dalman bumped his leg against mine a number of times. This was annoying. Norman glanced down my dress frequently. That was expected. I had, after all, worn a very low cut dress. Gorrig looked across the table from me from time to time as though he was not sure whether to eat his next course or to attack my breasts with a spoon like bowls of sherbet. That was frightening.
The food was excellent. I'd never tasted so many elegant little portions of varieties of shrimp, lobster, and beef dishes. The Grand Cru Chablis was super and went straight to my head. The super Tuscan served with the beef was also excellent, dry but not excessively.
When it came time for desert, Norman Sr. said that the sugared desert would be saved until later. He had another type of desert in mind now. He then asked Julie, "Would you have sex with me for 20,000 dollars?" Julie was a bit in her cups of wine with the cups holding her breasts starting to fail. Without thinking, she said, "certainly." Norman then said, "I must warn you that I always begin by delicately but painfully flagellating a woman from neck to knee before I fuck her." To this Julie replied, "In that case, I might be able to give you a discount from the $20,000." Everyone laughed.
Turning to me, Roger Senior said, "Tell me Judy," Rogers said, "would you let me flagellate and then fuck you for $20,000." I had heard the old saw about G.B. Shaw or someone asking a woman if she'd sleep with him for 20,000 pounds and then offering 20 pounds after she'd said "yes" to 20,000. So I replied, "No, I don't think you can put a price on honor." Rogers snorted out, "Are you shitting me?"
Gorrig instantly took up a debate that it was clear that he had had with Norman before. "Oh Roger, the point of the story is that a woman willing to compromise her honor for any price is a whore, but you don't believe in honor so the whole game with Judy is pointless. She probably does not really believe that sex outside love and marriage is sinful and you certainly do not, so how could you think less of a woman for agreeing to sex for money when according to your values it is not worse than writing a magazine article for money."