NSFW... Harmless Typo or Freudian Slip?

Recently a client of mine, a model, has been calling and emailing me for services beyond what I normally do for them. She’s made some comments that I don’t know how to take. I’m pretty oblivious when someone is flirting with me, and even more oblivious to advances. It just doesn’t register, because I have a strict policy to NEVER get involved with people I work with or for.

I know many photogs that can’t get work because they have a rep for screwing with the models. Refusing to do so is one of the reasons I’m still around after thirty years.

I never get high on my own supply, so to speak.

Well, in working out portfolio prints a few months back, I made it clear that my cough was because I was sick with bronchitis. She asked if I was taking medicine. Yes, the Doc put me on some kind of steroid. She seemed extremely interested in my taking the steroid, and made it clear that I would be a sexual superman while taking it. I shrugged her comments off as friendly odd conversation, but the way she kept on about it was a bit uncomfortable.

Now she’s wanting additional services that are out of the norm. And the email she sent has a typo that stuck out to me like a sore thumb. Maybe I’m a bit sensitive and making this all up, but something tells me that she has other intentions on her mind. The last line of her email reads as follows:

“I will pay you. Contact me soon for disucss.”

Now… is it just me, or is the way she spelled “disucss” a Freudian Slip for Dick Sucks? I might add that she’s disrespected her husband on a couple of occasions, out of the blue, with no prompting by me. I always get off the phone wondering why she said some of the things she said.

Well I don’t want to turn away honest business. But I also don’t enjoy working in uncomfortable environments. My job is to tell women how beautiful they are, and to feed their egos. It helps them relax for my camera and produces better photos for fashion. There are times I feel that goes beyond what it is intended to do. I find that sometimes the more beautiful a woman is, the more insecure she is with herself. If she’s having troubles in her relationship, she may take my comments too much to heart, beyond their intentions for a smooth photo shoot, and use them as an excuse for further advancement.

Uhhggrrhhhaggg… I hate this side of my business. Is she coming on to me or am I just an old man reading more into things than he should?