Chapter 20: Hook Me Up

The next several months passed in a fairly uneventful fashion. April hatched out her baby (a girl) and both mother and child are doing fine. She and Katelin helped me evaluate the potential new staff to fill most of the rest of the rooms at our site. It was also their idea to reserve a couple of the rooms and start a “hook-up” service. That particular idea was a stroke of genius. In fact, we’ve pretty much decided not to replace the first several staff members that decide to leave to free up more space for that service.

It works like this. Any person can come in and request a “hook-up” with any other person. They do have to be able to positively identify that person (mostly so we know who to contact). We then contact the person and arrange the hook up and agree on a price that will be paid to the object of the request. The requester pays that amount, plus an amount to us for the service.

There are several safety features built into the deal, as well. The activities take place under our supervision to try to prevent things from going beyond what the subject has agreed to. The subject also has the right to change their mind at any time during the process. Education and training are provided to underage or similarly inexperienced subjects. If the subject is underage, the parents or guardians are made fully aware throughout the process.

It turns out to be a win-win situation for both parties. The classic situation is the “middle aged guy” submitting a request for the girl down the street, or the girl at the coffee shop, or any other girl he can positively identify. We then approach the girl, and her parents if necessary, and make an offer. The girl is guaranteed safety (and a nice paycheck), the guy is guaranteed safety and avoids the embarrassment (or worse) of making unwanted advances to an unreceptive subject.

The older guy/younger girl combination is probably slightly over half of our activity at this point, but there have also been classmate crush hook-ups, coworker hook-ups and even one or two family hook-ups (not much money changed hands between the two parties on those). So far 96% of the subjects eventually accepted an arrangement. Only one of the parties has been less than 100% satisfied, and he even gave us an 85% satisfaction number. His desired partner was very understanding of the whole situation and put on quite a show for him using the various toys in the room.