She put the whip down and went to the back of the booth to a rack of equipment. She slowly perused the various options and finally said, "Ah. This one... I think." She picked what looked to Quinn like a wicked looking paddle. It was made of two leather straps attached front-to-back to a wooden handle. She approached Quinn and tapped the paddle on Quinn's skirt, then reached back and brought the paddle down hard. The paddle made a tremendously loud "SLAP!" that startled Quinn enough to make her. And if I see some other help woman, she’ll be happy to let me do her. And I do, plenty. All the females get an implant at puberty and they’re never fertile unless they take a specific drug. And when Gertrudehelp was that way, she would never do it with another guy. She’d only do it with me. So the baby would be ours.”“Yours plural?”“Me and Ebenezerhelp. We’re the same person, genetically speaking.”There was a great deal of what Jason had been raised to call “sleeping around.” He had also. I opened Suzette's door for her — and I noticed her mother glaring out the window as I headed to the passenger side."Suzette," I said when we were moving. "I don't want to be in the middle of a pissing contest between you and your mom. She doesn't like me — with good reason, I might add." I like you," she said with her pretty mouth turned up in a smile. "That's all that matters."I told her that didn't allay the rest of my fears — specifically about her reputation."My concession to you in that. "We don't think it occurs very often in ours because of the bonding and mind-link. Our records show that both of these are much stronger in a ship's crew than those residing on our home world, but none of us have lived on our home world, so all we know is what is in the records." Wow," said Aoife, "so you've never seen your home world or been there?" Not quite, we have all been there mentally and seen it in holographics, but never physically. It has not been possible to even consider it since.