Say What ?

Young women never cease to amaze me, or rather, shock me. The things they talk about is truly disturbing and leaves me thinking - is it me, am I that old-fashioned..?

Early yesterday evening a young woman hailed me in a darkened street near New South Wales University. Given the location and her age around the early twenties, I figured she was a student. She climbed in the back seat and sat behind my security screen.

With a distinctly polished accent she chirpily ordered an East Sydney location, then inquired of my night. After some easy small talk I challenged her to 'tell me something interesting'. ‘Tom Cruise is paying Katie Holmes two million dollars to prove he’s not gay’, she offered. ‘That’s not interesting’, I retorted dismissively. ‘Tell me something about yourself, something unusual’. As I hadn't detected alcohol odour my intuition said she was sober and comfortable enough to speak openly...

‘I gave head to a Big Brother contestant’, she blurted out. It sounded like bullshit and I told her so. ‘Actually you’re right, I lied’, she laughed. ‘But I did try to work my magic on him before realising he was gay. He dumped me for another man !’. ‘So how did you meet him - are you involved in the entertainment industry or something ?’. ‘Kind of..’, she replied with some hesitation.

Shortly after, when I mentioned recently seeing ‘something weird’ on the Internet, she interrupted, ‘That was probably me...’. ‘What, are you on the Net ?’, I asked. However her response was unclear so I asked, ‘Don’t tell me you’re on You Tube ?’. She didn’t know of You Tube, which surprised me, but named a site called, Beautiful Agony.

I’d never heard of it. ‘What’s that ?’. ‘Well, have you heard of I Shoot Myself ?', she asked. In fact I had - it involves women taking naked self-portraits and posting them online. ‘It’s not like that is it ?’. ‘Yes, except they pay for videos’ she replied. ‘Videos of naked girls ?’. ‘No, there’s no nudity whatsoever’, she replied, ‘it involves suggestion only. How it works is you videotape yourself having two orgasms. For this they pay you $160’. ‘You did that ?’. ‘Uh huh’. Like I said, call me old-fashioned but I was shocked. Yet somewhat intrigued.

‘Is it really graphic like, or...?’, ‘No, it’s actually quite tasteful’, she said. ‘So, umm, why did you do it ?’ I asked. ‘Well, I was skint and needed the money’, she replied. I thought about this then asked, ‘Would you do it again ?’. Now she paused for a bit. ‘I guess I might’, she said, ‘yes probably’. Then quietly added, ‘You know, I’ve never told anyone about this, not even my friends’. She genuinely sounded surprised.

I wanted to quiz her further but by then we were approaching the destination. She was such a well-spoken and seemingly average girl yet the story suggested a total radical. So much for perceptions. After she alighted, a waiting young fella hopped straight in. I asked him, ‘Was that girl attractive ?’. ‘Sure was’, he said, ‘she was hot’. I related her story. ‘A hundred and sixty bucks’, he exclaimed, ‘I’d pay her three hundred !’. Indeed.

After dropping him off at Fox Studios, two young women and a guy jumped in for Kings Cross. The carried shopping bags from the Sexpo exhibition and were off to a strip club. Don’t ask. ‘You want to hear something outrageous ?’, I asked them. ‘Sure, but nothing would shock us’, came the reply. After telling them of my Beautiful Agony passenger, one girl loudly proclaimed, ‘Gees, for that sort of money I’d be a millionaire by now !’.

After last week’s encounter with the latex girl who gave a fake Yahoo name, with a large dose of scepticism I Googled for Beautiful Agony. The website certainly exists, and in the format indicated. Whilst it doesn’t necessarily prove my passenger is a participant, I tend to believe her. Either way, it’s a helluva story.

Comments

[ab]

Geez Adrian, I can't imagine why you get women in ur cab who don't want to talk to you! Do they always presume that 'interesting' means, 'sexual'?

See if you asked me that question, I'd tell you that I can balance a hard boiled egg on my nose whilst singing Madison Avenue's 'Don't call me baby' & hopping on 1 leg...

[adrian]

Too true ab, I guess it relates to different strokes and all that. Plus one can't rule out modern stimuli.

[lg]

Boy! My life and me must be sooooooo boring!
And to think I will never get a chance to give head to a Big Brother contestant! Damn!

[huggies]

I noted the price for signing up. $495US for lifetime membership. Got better things to spend my money on.

[lg]

Well said, huggies! :)

[ab]

Did any1 see the funny faces on the beautiful agony site, what a cack! It can't be voyeurism - it's w-a-y comedy.

[kar]

sorry to tell you this Adrian, but Beautiful Agony is kind of old hat :)
the site was feted/lampooned around ye olde Internet many moons ago.

just out of curiousity, would you have been as shocked if the passenger confessing this to you was a young man?

[adrian]

No, I don't think so kar. It's to do with young womens' lack of reticence in relating such things to strangers. Male to male tête-à-têtes do not have the same confronting element as that with young female to male.