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Ermingarden ([personal profile] ermingarden) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt2021-12-17 01:57 pm
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Dear Prudence: My Brother-in-Law Is Secretly Sleeping With a Married Couple for Cash

Dear Prudence,

My brother-in-law disclosed to me that he had multiple sexual encounters with a married couple in exchange for money. He and my sister are struggling financially, and when he first mentioned that he was propositioned, I urged him to decline the offer because no good would come of it. That was about a year ago; then recently he said he gave in (at least twice, I guess) because they needed the cash. However, he has not told my sister. I am upset that he thought it OK to engage in an affair like this and upset that he disclosed this to me and expects me to keep it from my sister. They have two young children, and I know if I said anything to my sister, their family would implode. Keeping it from her also feels bad because if she were ever to find out that I knew, it would destroy my relationship with her.

—No Good Options


Dear No Good Options,

Why would he tell you this? Maybe on some level he wants you to tell your sister. Perhaps she can tell him to stop? Or she can know how hard he’s working to support the family? I really have no idea. But you don’t owe him anything, and you don’t have to keep this secret. Tell your sister, and she can decide whether or not her family implodes over it. This is a much better scenario than risking your relationship with her by hiding what you know.
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[personal profile] cereta 2021-12-17 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
This is where I get down off my high horse and admit that "non/dub-con in which submission is coerced with something other than physical force" is a serious kink for me, right? Although it's pretty much never for money. More for the "person will expose the secret identity of my superhero mentor/bestie who I am secretly pining after" kind of thing. Superhero mentor/bestie thinking relationship is consensual and throwing names/person out of the house only to learn how very wrong they were and then beating the shit out of the person who coerced their maybe-superhero protege/bestie who they secretly pine after into sex is optional.
minoanmiss: Minoan version of Egyptian scribal goddess Seshat (Seshat)

[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-12-17 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
*takes notes rapidly*
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[personal profile] cereta 2021-12-18 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Given your history of writing excellent fiction that jumps up and down on my buttons with the force of a hydrolic press, I choose to encourage this. And really wish I still had my Neal Caffrey icon.
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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-12-18 04:38 am (UTC)(link)

makes delighted squeaky noises

I am about to write Neal engaging in a ritual gangbang. OTOH, he's really looking forward to it. Am contemplating how long to spend describing every crease in Peter's forehead.