"You don't have to tell me this." I interrupted, I didn't like hearing about mom being hurt, but his remark of her being that casual with sex had gotten me thinking about the movie I'd just watched. The idea my mother was, for a lack of a better term, easy wasn't as disturbing as it should have been.

"You need to understand what led her to that industry. Your mom was a beautiful girl and had said she'd always wanted to act. In an effort to get her on a decent path one of the women who worked at the home had her friend who was a photographer take some...