Slumming

[Reshbod]

I was reading the other day and the concept of slumming came up. Slumming originated in London, where wealthy residents would visit the East End to observe the lives of the poor. Of course I started having dirty thoughts about this concept. Jump to the current time and you constantly see reports of how people are lonely, and that there is no longer a "third place" where people can get together between work and home.

In the story that is forming, a young woman just graduated college and got a very prestigious job at a big firm. After some time and saving up money, she decides she can't go on the American way. So she quits her job and sells most of her possessions, gets a beater car and hits the road. Similar to many TV shows from the 70s of a stranger arriving in a town, gets a job, helps someone then leaves.

The story I'm working on involves her first job being at a truck stop working the graveyard shift. Soon she discovers she could make more money and have more fun being a lot lizard. Does that for a while and finds she really enjoys it, but at some point decides it's time to move on and and since she loves slumming, she's on the lookout for other things to try.

 

[OnlyHappyEndings]

Works a glory hole at an adult bookstore culminating in a two-hole gangbang. Does the dancer behind glass thing where the window shutter flies up when johns deposit money. Pretends to be a drag queen like a dirty version of Victor Victoria.

Like in a 70s show, in each episode she befriends some sympathetic unfortunate and uses her gumption and resources to help them and maybe foil a villain.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

I was reading the other day and the concept of slumming came up. Slumming originated in London, where wealthy residents would visit the East End to observe the lives of the poor. Of course I started having dirty thoughts about this concept. Jump to the current time and you constantly see reports of how people are lonely, and that there is no longer a "third place" where people can get together between work and home.

In the story that is forming, a young woman just graduated college and got a very prestigious job at a big firm. After some time and saving up money, she decides she can't go on the American way. So she quits her job and sells most of her possessions, gets a beater car and hits the road. Similar to many TV shows from the 70s of a stranger arriving in a town, gets a job, helps someone then leaves.

The story I'm working on involves her first job being at a truck stop working the graveyard shift. Soon she discovers she could make more money and have more fun being a lot lizard. Does that for a while and finds she really enjoys it, but at some point decides it's time to move on and and since she loves slumming, she's on the lookout for other things to try.

Sort of an American sex Odyssey? (One thing that happens in that long poem is that Odysseus meets everyone and visits every place most people in the audience would have heard of.)

-Eddie

 

[Rob_Royale]

This is a very cool idea in a Touched by an Angel way. I think it would be a very successful series. Based on content you could do multiple categories and bring readers to your work that might not ordinarily find your stories. With each chapter being a stand-alone story, people would enjoy it, even if they didn't want to read more.

I think this idea needs to happen. I'd read it.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Not big on the trucker whore bit.


Consider the 1985 series Stingray.

in this version, it's 'Rae', not 'Ray'. She travels the country in search of those in need. In a small town, she may find a hapless soul who needs help with some sort of problem. She has the skills and resources to help them see their life in a different light and better themselves. She is extraordinarily attractive (in keeping with that time period, think Susan Anton) and able to use her feminine wiles to help men and women alike.






*** Is she really 74 years old now?

 

[LiverpoolMaster]

I was reading the other day and the concept of slumming came up. Slumming originated in London, where wealthy residents would visit the East End to observe the lives of the poor.

It wasn't just to 'observe' but actually to help. Distribute food etc. Many saw this, and still do, as a 'salve to a guilty conscience'. I wrote one along those lines many years ago about a parson's wife thus engaged.

The more modern take would be the do-goodery associated with charitable collection etc. by those who themselves are comfortably off.

 

[Carnevil9]

I could see an upper-crust young man, just out of college, working at a prestigious firm and dating all the right women, planning to find a refined wife to help him carry on the family name.

But he finds all the rich bitches tedious. He finds himself more attracted to the cleaning lady at his office, the waitress at his coffee shop, the maid at the hotel he stays in occasionally. He embarks on a dangerous program of fucking all of the blue-collar women he can find. Dangerous to his career, that is.

Or you could easily flip the sexes and make it an upper-crust young heiress attracted to mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, etc.

 

[Joe_Doe_Stories]

I wrote a Halloween story, REFLECTIONS, about a lawyer who becomes a lot lizard. Victoria's Secret: Hotel Hooker is also about a slumming adventure that gets real. I hope you like them!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

So this take on 'Stingrae' would be a sex-active, sex-positive version of the A-Team? Or The Hulk? Wanderers, perhaps hunted by others, who do good and benefit the nearby community or at least one good person, then disappears off to whatever Fate puts on their plates next.

Why do they keep moving on? Don't want to be recognized? Maybe there're paparazzi trying to get 'revealing' pics of the protagonist for big money, or a PI trying to discredit them funded by a high-society competitor? Doesn't have to be physical beat-down to be detrimental repercussions from their actions, after all.

Maybe the protagonist has a "morality" clause in their employment contract while working for a soulless, abusive corporation that they pull Scarlet Pimpernel/Batman actions to fight? IE, gotta maintain the APPEARANCE of morality while we financially and socially devastate our clients and employees for the financial benefit of the top 1% of the company.

It'd be a balancing act between being effective, being caught, or making the company look so bad they start firing people. Maybe eventually a middle-manager gets suspicious as to the protagonist's activities and becomes a Recurring Villain....

The idea has a lot of potential!

 

[Reenigam]

I could see an upper-crust young man, just out of college, working at a prestigious firm and dating all the right women, planning to find a refined wife to help him carry on the family name.

But he finds all the rich bitches tedious. He finds himself more attracted to the cleaning lady at his office, the waitress at his coffee shop, the maid at the hotel he stays in occasionally. He embarks on a dangerous program of fucking all of the blue-collar women he can find. Dangerous to his career, that is.

Or you could easily flip the sexes and make it an upper-crust young heiress attracted to mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, etc.

In search of a "bit of rough", as we say in the UK. Great idea and not seen often enough in stories.

 

[Reenigam]

It wasn't just to 'observe' but actually to help. Distribute food etc. Many saw this, and still do, as a 'salve to a guilty conscience'. I wrote one along those lines many years ago about a parson's wife thus engaged.

The more modern take would be the do-goodery associated with charitable collection etc. by those who themselves are comfortably off.

I remember that one you passed around. Was the one about the aristocrat student who had to find ways of keeping herself in her luxury lifestyle also yours? I've been hunting round for it in my emails but can't find it. R and J both seem to be off grid at the moment so can't be asked.