A Load in Every Hole Ch. 04 - Sex Stories

A Load in Every Hole Ch. 04

... tomorrow. I need to know by then.

"It's not the money," I said "ten thousand dollars for a day's..." I burst out laughing. "I guess I wouldn't call it work, would I? Anyway, that kind of money for a day of...fun, sex, whatever you'd call it...well, that's crazy. But it's not the money, you could offer a hundred thousand and I still couldn't do it."

"$15,000," AJ said out of the blue.

"What?" I asked, confused, was he increasing his offer? Trying to hard ball me? Right after I told him I wouldn't do it for a hundred thousand? He could see my confusion.

"I'm answering the question Mark's about to ask, which is: 'how much does a glamour shot cost,' zat right, Mark?"

Mark just smiled.

"Oh my God!" I huffed. "That's crazy!"

"No, it aint," AJ said, "it's rock bottom. Location is $1,000 for a day, my guys average $1,500 a day, got a makeup artist, two professional cameramen, a lights man, a sound editor, and a fluffer, then I need to make some money off the script and my work. $15,000 is what it is."

"What's a fluffer?" I asked, less interested in learning what one was than buying time.

"You won' splain that one Mark?" AJ said, grinning.

"Jus kiddin.' We have some long gaps in filming when we move things around, change positions, change rooms, set lights up, whatever. Don't want the posse to go limp and need to start all over from scratch, and don't want to wear my woman down, so the fluffer...she fluffs, like you fluff up a pillow, only it ain't a ...

... pillow."

"I see," I responded weakly. This was indeed another world.

"Come on, let me show you the studio before you head out!" AJ said proudly, "and no, we're not filming anything right now, so you won't have to hide your eyes. We do about forty percent of our shots here, and most of our glamour shots, but not yours. Yours we'd do on site."

We walked back into the studio. It looked like I imagined a real Hollywood studio might appear: one primary shooting area with cameras banked at 45-degree angles to an oversized bed, moveable walls and wall coverings to change the scene in dozens of different ways, dozens and dozens of pieces of surprisingly high-end furniture designed to create different looks, tapestries, rugs, paintings, the whole nine yards. It was...impressive.

Throughout AJ held forth, regaling us with stories of his shots, of some of the funnier "bolter" episodes, of the odd things that happen on a porn set, and he was downright hilarious. My blood pressure dropped back down to normal, and I found myself enjoying the tour, and his company enormously, even though my cynical side told me he'd given this speech many times before.

We walked through a door in the back and into a small intimate high end bedroom setting.

"This is where we do test shots," AJ said, as if that were self-explanatory.

"Test shots?" Mark and I both asked.

"Test shots," AJ said. "Woman comes to us, doesn't know if she wants to or she don't. So, we do some test shots to see ...