Breaking Bad

[WestVaCouple]

I am a fan of the AMC Original Series "Breaking Bad." Show follows high school chemistry teacher Walter White who lives in New Mexico with his wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime. With the help of a former student he uses his Chemistry knowledge to cook Meth. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

I would like to take this concept and explore what a female would do for her family. What situation could a woman be faced with that would possibly make her turn to a life of, possibly prostitution? Possibly rising to the point, unbeknownst to her suburban family, running a prostitution ring. Who would she ask for help? How would she hide her activity from her family? Where and how would she get her girls?

Just a thought, any help or suggestions on this potential series of stories?

 

[emap]

So much ground to cover, let's start small and easy.

So for the first part, assuming it is basically the same idea as Breaking Bad. She would turn to prostitution because it's easy, when you won't live long anyway you can not care about diseases and such. So now about the family not knowing, escort she can set her own hours so she simply goes out and gets paid for sex when her kids and husband are at work/school. Incall means the customers house so easy enough to not have family come home early and find her plying her trade. Most likely cover story would be got a job as an Avon representative or something like that, would cover the calls and trips.

Now as for a prostitution ring, that gets trickier. Cause to start with you gotta get advertising, that's not cheap, you don't need more than one or two gals cause just starting out but more would be needed quickly. To find the gals really all you gotta do is do ads in the paper, and keep running them, prostituting is a big fantasy area for alot of women, but it's not a suitable practice for most so high turn around. Same with porn actually. Course you also would need to find protection for your gals, cause escorting doesn't mean better customers, though still don't need anything more than an ad to find the guys. As for who to turn to for help, really all she would need would be an accountant to help her hide the income or rather nature of the income.

 

[WestVaCouple]

WIth a female lead character I would think that the crisis situation would strike someone in her family. What wouldn't a mother do for her child, ailing mother, etc.

 

[darkbeast]

This is an interesting concept to explore and there are definitely two paths of exploration. The first and the one I think has the most promise is if she herself were dying. The second is if her child is in need of something to live that they can't afford. The reason why I think the second is less compelling because it doesn't allow for a dramatic spiral downwards. The first path has a looming awful deadline (no pun intended) meaning she may start off thinking she can pull a few tricks a week to get the money, but quickly does the math and learns it isn't going to be enough. She needs to scale her operation, take riskier jobs, and eventually working with other women, running a ring.

I'd see this playing out just like in Breaking Bad with her struggling against pimps. They want to hustle in on her action, she needs to keep it a secret, and the struggle leads to her clashing with a small time pimp, getting him arrested or worse. The girls he was running turn to her for guidance and that is how she starts her own ring, but she does it with a mom mentality. She doesn't want to see the girls get hurt and really wants to see them escape this life.

 

[WestVaCouple]

but she does it with a mom mentality. She doesn't want to see the girls get hurt and really wants to see them escape this life.

Nice touch. Thanks

 

[darkbeast]

As I further contemplate this subject, part of me is really attracted to the gritty realism but the more of that you add in the story becomes less erotic and more depressing. Something really needs to make the reader want this woman to succeed (again, just like in Breaking Bad you want him to succeed, even though that means breaking the law in a way that destroys society).

I'm thinking that this starts with her diagnosis just as a brother-in-law gets busted for hiring an escort. She finds herself in court with him and in a conversation with the escort whom turns out to be a very nice normal sort of person. This escort becomes the Mom's guide into this seedy world, helping her place her first classified ad and helping her after her first client.

Do you see this ending as a tragedy?

 

[emap]

Personally I think it would work best as just ending, you know exactly what happens to her at the end, so why spell it out.