Bimbos Bounce Back

I started Bimbo Luxe with a plan. It was always a flexible plan, but there were specific goals I was trying to achieve. Then, my situation changed. The original goals are no longer applicable. I had to stop and ask myself, “What am I doing now?”

After a brief break, I’m back to shed some light on the purpose of Bimbo Luxe and where we go from here.

Laid Bare

Bimbo Luxe is the culmination of everything I have experienced in Second Life. That is why I go back and tell stories from my past. I’m providing context. To really understand what Bimbo Luxe is about, you need to know the strange journey that brought me to this point.

The specific genesis of this project was a revelation I had when I was working at X-Sisters. I was working a shift with the owner, Jess, and one of the other girls. I don’t remember which one. A guest came into the bar and flirted with all three of us. But when it came time to hire someone, he hired Jess.

He said, “I have the chance to be with the woman I’ve been reading about. I can’t pass that up!” He was a follower of Jess’ blog. To him, she was a mini-celebrity. Of course he was going to choose Jess over two random escorts. I’d do the same thing.

“SL fame” is a silly thing. If you want to put in the work, you can use it to your benefit. Before I started working at the bar, I had already built up a good-sized following on Flickr as a SL blogger. I would get recognized randomly in-world for my pictures. It was nice.

As a blogger, I received messages from people who wanted to meet up. Most of them were looking for sex. That seemed like an obvious source of clients. But it turns out, most of the people following me on Flickr weren’t interested in paying for an escort. They wanted something else.

Most of them wanted what Daddy Cal wanted. They were looking for a relationship. I was constantly turning down partnership proposals from guys I just met. They wanted me to quit the bar. Take their name. Have their baby. And preferably to do all of these things very publicly. They wanted a status symbol.

I don’t object to being a status symbol. I love being trophy wife. But there are trade-offs involved. I flirted with the idea of giving Cal what he wanted and it blew up in my face. Every time I have even considered rearranging my Second Life around a man, it ended badly.

The idea of “fame” as a currency stuck with me. The problem was that I had the wrong brand. I was a blogger. If I wanted to benefit the way Jess did, I needed to create a brand that matched my goals. I needed to target all of you wonderful Second Life perverts!

Cummings and Goings

Looking back, my tenure at X-Sisters was turbulent. Messages from management were frequently threatening. “The beatings will continue until morale improves.” That kind of thing. On the one hand, we’d be told how wonderful we all were. And in the same breath, we’d be threatened with termination.

Eventually, I was fired for reasons I haven’t covered yet. I plan to tell this story in my next post. So stay tuned! What’s relevant here is that I wasn’t ready to go yet. I strongly suspected that Jess fired me to teach me a lesson. Lesson learned. I was an asset to the bar. But I was also expendable.

I wanted my job back. But that wasn’t all I wanted. I wanted to make a difference. I knew there were things I could do to improve the bar. Both in terms of the working environment and the bottom line. I could make things better and prove my value to the bar. It would be a win-win for everyone.

Word got back to me that one of the managers at X-Sisters either quit or was fired. The details depended on who was telling the story. I saw an opportunity. I sent a message to Jess. I told her that she should not only rehire me. She should promote me to manager. And I stand by that. She should have put me in a leadership role.

Jess was happy to rehire me as long as I promised to behave myself. No rule breaking of any kind. Even the rules no one knows about. The ones that may or may not actually exist. However, she stopped short of promoting me. I was back to being a low-level whore dancing on a bar for tips.

Reinvention

As I was waiting for my re-instatement, I started kicking around ideas. One of the things that kept getting me in trouble was changes to my look. When you get hired at X-Sisters, you’re not allowed to make changes to your appearance without approval. I asked how one obtains approval. Never got an answer.

The enforcement of this rule was inconsistent. Girls changed their looks all the time. Some changes were more drastic than others. Whenever I would ask, I was told to stick with the look I had when I was hired.

I was told this was for marketing reasons. Just before my firing I was supposed to appear on the cover of X-Sisters magazine. If I had ever appeared in any marketing for the bar, that argument would make sense. But when I was fired, Jess took my place on the cover. So there was really no reason I couldn’t mix things up.

I decided that my comeback to the bar would embrace my background as a bimbo. I was ready to embrace bimbodom. From a marketing standpoint, I figured it would differentiate me from the other girls. But this was immediately shot down by management.

It was actually shut down by Jess although she had another manager deliver the message. This kind of thing was common. Three of us dancing on a bar but the owner passed me messages through a go-between. Yeah, it was annoying. And I suspect it all came from a place of insecurity.

Jess’ avatar is blonde and buxom just like me. I was told there was some reluctance to hire me in the first place because the bar didn’t need another busty blonde. “Can you have too many curvy blondes at a whore house?” I asked half-jokingly. And the answer was a no-nonsense “Yes.”

I don’t want to belabor this point because it doesn’t matter. And even if it did, I can’t definitively prove anything. But I noticed that I got chastised any time my chest slider went past 60%. Other than that, it didn’t matter what changes I made.

Another girl bought the Waifu boobs add-on for her Reborn body. She made the mistake of wearing them to work and was immediately dogpiled. I told her the same thing happened to me. That I thought Jess sees a bustier blonde as competition. And she’s not going to allow that in her place.

So I was faced with a choice. Continue Bimbo Luxe or leave the bar. I came up with a compromise. I decided I would use Bimbo Luxe to build up my own brand. X-Sisters would benefit indirectly. I would bring people to the bar, but I wasn’t going to tie my project into a business I had no control over.

That turned out to be a good decision. Because after only a few months, I got fired again.

Bimbo With a Cause

You see the issue, right? I started Bimbo Luxe to promote my career as a sex worker. But as soon as I started picking up steam, that career ended. The original purpose of Bimbo Luxe was no longer relevant.

There are other brothels I could work at. There’s one I’m looking at right now. But I’ve found I am enjoying my freedom. Getting canned freed me to officially partner Darden. We’ve been enjoying an extended honeymoon period. While I know she would support me if I went back to work, it would mean giving up some of our time together.

Time is my primary constraint. My time in Second Life is limited. That was part of what got me into blogging. I can perform my blogging duties on my own schedule. Fifteen minutes here. Twenty minutes there. I can come and go as I please.

When I do have more time, I need to make the most of it. A lot of that time is set aside for my partner. She has stood by me through so many things. I plan to tell the full story of how we met in future posts later this week.

What’s left is my free time. I use this time to shop and sometimes scout out potential sponsors. It’s also when I meet up with people who have reached out. Or research topics to share here on the blog. This is when I make new discoveries. Cynically, this is when I do the things that turn into content.

So what is the purpose of Bimbo Luxe if I am no longer working at a sex bar? The philosophy hasn’t changed. I am still promoting sex positivity and inclusion. I still want to make a better virtual world through bimboism(?) bimbosity(?)… bigger boobs.

I also want to meet with my readers in-world. I’m figuring out what form that will take now that the bar is no longer a factor. I’ve got more freedom now than I did before. I just need to figure out the best use of my time.

More to come, dear readers. Thanks joining me on my journey!