Chapter 24 - The Zenith of the Plague
Monsieur, for the next year, the City of Orange was in stable pattern, run by a tripartite cabal made up of mobsters interested in making money off of sex, social Darwinists interested in pushing their agenda of forcing the types of people they wanted to reproduce to reproduce whether they wanted to reproduce or not, and religious fanatics, some of whom were really hucksters.
As to me personally, my sexiness and fertility were conserved with rigorous diet, exercise, careful avoidance of disease and medical treatment. Because both the sex faction and the fertility faction needed me to be healthy, my keepers were careful about who could have unprotected sex with me, requiring tests of customers and requiring condoms of all but the most trusted customers. I was a cow, but a prize cow that produced big money as a sex worker, milk and multiple births. Except on rare occasions when a customer was interested in talking to an intelligent woman, I was not called on to think much more than a cow. Given the situation, thinking was not helpful. I had escaped from freedom if that was what I ever wanted.
After the twins were born, Alice Wissen lost interest in me for a while. Apparently, under the deal among the factions that controlled my body, I was to be used to maximize prostitution profits for five or six months after my post-partum period. Alice turned to overseeing the impregnation of other women as well as her own career as a celebrity advocate for women to be baby makers.
Tucker decided I could spend the post-partum month recovering my mind as well as healing my body. I was allowed to read books and newspapers on computers or tablets. After I began seeing customers again, I received a variety of news particularly as this time the Pleasure Palace displayed many of us sex workers out in public.
The news I learned of Orange was not good. Although there was a small hint in a paper of a federal prosecutor opening an investigation of alleged tax irregularities at the brothels, the plague was at its height. The sex tourism business was reaching new peaks. The international advertising campaign was a huge success. The airport was expanding. Casinos, concert halls, convention centers and various sports venues were opening to amuse men between their visits to the brothels. This in turn caused all sorts of other businesses to prosper. Even people who fully understood the basis of this wealth, felt there was nothing to do but keep their mouth shut and cash their dividends. The fact that wages, particularly for women, were very low was noted only by a few dissidents. Even these dissidents were quiet about the low wages given their fear that they or their female relations might find themselves forced to work in the brothels supposedly as volunteers.
The brothels could hardly meet the demand. Even moderately attractive women were urged to become sex workers and even moderately desirable women who were not actively attached in a reproductive marriage had reason to fear that they might find themselves shanghaied to work at the Playground, Dick's Delight or the Pleasure Palace.
Because many of the local woman thought attractive were either in a traditional marriage or in a brothel and the cabal did not think they could press the local population too hard, the brothels started to import women from outside. Some of these foreign women knew more-or-less what they were getting into. Many, though, were lured to the city by promises of a job as a nurse, maid, or saleswoman, but were forced into the brothels after they arrived.
Along with poor Chad who was caught in bed with a gangster's girlfriend, a few women were sold overseas if they could not adjust to living in a brothel or no longer were attractive merchandise. Baytown had become a slave market for both import and export.
Another business that was booming was the sale of babies. That is not what it was called publicly, but people from other lands wanting children came to our city, stayed in nice hotels and paid large fees to adopt. Spencer's Helpers and the open racists prevented such exports as to the children that they identified as superior Ubermenschen but they actively supported sale of children from the area of town controlled by The Church and of poorer women throughout Orange.
Tucker told me that If any of the nice law-abiding outsiders adopting these children of sex slaves understood the circumstances and felt guilty, they could tell themselves that the scheme was not as bad as the adoptions of the children of people murdered by the military during Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s. Unlike during the Dirty War, the mothers of these babies had not been murdered, merely enslaved. The fathers of the children adopted by people from overseas were reputable men in the community.
Anyway, most people did not know that women, like me, had been enslaved. Most of those that did know thought it was alright given the promiscuous nature of we women who were enslaved.
Kroesek never came back to town from his retirement and Mayor Murphy stayed out of town as much as he could. The Mayor seemed not want to see what he had helped create.
If Mayor Murphy had been in town, he would have seen Steffy, Adri, Saheeda, Donna, Connie Lake, me and others strutting into casinos and clubs wearing next to nothing, shaking our breasts and butts, and acting like nothing would give us more pleasure than to entertain a large group of overweight German engineers or loud insurance salesmen from Wisconsin. Our humiliation was complete.
We celebrity sex workers were the cream of the crop. Practice makes perfect. We had as much practice at sex as was imaginable. Also, although worse off in other respects, sex workers in other cities had not been so thoroughly forced to focus their lives on creating sexual pleasure. Customers enjoyed having women who had been completely broken in and trained to be purely sex objects and breeding animals. The fact that we were often lactating during the periods we were available for sex was seen as a plus by the Pleasure Palace and many customers.
Oh, Monsieur, to promote business at the brothels, we ladies put on quite a lot of bawdy shows for large adult audiences. One of the most grotesque of these shows was the bowling game.
I guess some of the mobsters had seen one of the several horrible movies involving women being raped with a bowling pin. Under the rules of the game that these guys made up, six women, two for each of the brothels, had to play a game for an audience in a bowling alley in which they started fully clothed in bowling league shirts and normal pants but had to take off an article of clothing whenever another women scored a strike. The woman with the lowest score when the second woman was stripped would have to masturbate with a bowling pin for the audience with the other naked woman to help her.
The event was heavily advertised and a big crowd was assembled. Someone had decided that I would represent the Pleasure Palace along with Karen Edwards. Priscilla and Jayda were the Playroom team and Sheila and Casandra were there for Dirk's Delight.
None of us were good bowlers. Priscilla and Jayda had never bowled before and Sheila had only done so once. Casandra, the former cheerleader, had natural athletic ability and got several spares and had the high score although she never got a strike.
We were told to try to keep the game light-hearted but we all tried to bowl the best we could. None of us was eager to have a bowling pin up our vagina, particularly not in front of an audience. While outwardly we were smiling, we pretty tense and competitive inside.
Surprisingly, Priscilla got the first strike and Jayda got the second but those lucky strikes were the only marks they got. With six players, we got to four frames in a second game when Sheila got the strike that cost me, Cassandra and Karen our panties. Priscilla, who'd gotten one strike and otherwise only gutterballs, clearly lost. So, Pricilla was the loser but two more of us were nude than the guys who designed this degrading game had anticipated.
Naturally, I did not see the problem. It just meant that there should be three helpers instead of one. But Jimmy for the Pleasure Palace, and guys representing the other two brothels decided that they needed to amend the rules to take care of this non-problem. Of course, they were just adding to the obscene show.
After the discussion, it was announced that the three nude women would play one game with the woman with the lowest score getting a bowling pin up her pussy and the second lowest helping her shove it in. The winner would help with Priscilla. Priscilla had to stay on the next lane on her back with her legs spread wide while we played with nothing to do but dread the impending assault.