Love & Addiction

By James Press

Maria is a Hispanic American woman. She is a professor at a university in Monterrey, Mexico. There is trouble in her marriage. She falls in love with Stanley, a Hispanic-American doctor, who is a Neurologist at a hospital in Monterrey. After much pain, she leaves her husband and moves in with Stanley. Crime has broken out in Monterrey. Stanley and Maria decide to move to Laredo, Texas. Stanley and Maria are kidnapped by one of the gangs. They are beaten, raped, and injected with heroin. Maria becomes addicted. She explores prostitution to pay for her habit. She commutes from Laredo to Monterrey to see her two children Maria lives the life of an addict, but she is also addicted with sex.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781469139432

James Press

James Press is the author of four fiction books, and is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of California at Riverside. He has held professorial positions at The University of Chicago, Stanford University, Yale University, University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Riverside, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of British Columbia. He has also worked professionally at the Bureau of the Census. He consulted at The Rand Corporation for some thirty years, worked at Brookhaven National Laboratories, Northrop Aircraft Corp., McDonald-Douglas Corp., and is currently President of Statistical Analysis Inc, a statistical consulting company.

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Copyright © 2011 by James Press.

Library of Congress Control Number:       2011962872

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Contents

I Monterrey

II Rosa

III The Psychologist

IV Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico

V After Laredo

VI The Final Solution

Index Of Important Names And Words

Acknowledgement

The author is indebted to Dr. Judith M. Tanur for her careful editing of this manuscript.

I

Monterrey

Maria Velasquez is 28 years old. This woman is at the height of her beauty and attractiveness. She lives with her family in Monterey, Mexico, and teaches Biology at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. She lives nearby the Institute. She has lived in Monterrey since she was ten. She had a sister who had kidney failure and died from it at age 12. Before that her Hispanic parents lived in the United States. She and her parents are still American citizens, but they haven’t voted in any elections for many years.

Maria met her husband, Juan, on a movie theater line. They were both on line to get into the theater to watch the movie, but they got to talking, and their meeting developed into a courtship. The movie they wanted to see was El Infierno (The Inferno). They sat together in the theater, and afterwards, they went to a restaurant for coffee and pastries. Maria was despondent from having broken up with her boyfriend that week, and Juan was sad because his mother had died two weeks earlier. They cheered each other up, and did whatever they could to appear to be happy. Maria and Juan continued their courtship and were married thirteen months later. They made love, which he enjoyed, but they didn’t make love very often. Their love-making was a great disappointment to her. Maria eventually gave birth to their son, Miguel, who is now 6 years old. Maria’s husband, Juan, is now also 28. Juan is a lower level executive in the Pemex Corp., the major oil company in Mexico. He is in charge of 7 people, and has been with Pemex for 8 years. He is involved with the chemical process of converting the oil to gasoline.

Maria is an attractive woman. She is about 5'6", very trim from working out most every morning, and she is quite slim. She has dark brown hair, brown eyes, and a fetching disposition. Maria has an exciting personality. She is easily irritated, and likes to be right. In fact, she finds it difficult to be told, and to realize, that she is wrong about some opinion she holds. She has strong likes and dislikes and holds sway in an argument until she realizes that she is wrong. She notices men’s apparel and forwardly, looks carefully at their fly, to see whether she can detect their erections in her presence. They usually don’t notice this. If she finds such a man who has erected in her presence, she will quietly and privately try to find out what he finds attractive about her.

Maria likes having sex, and having it often. Also, she is good at it, which means that she is concerned as to whether he is enjoying it also, and she makes sure that he is.

Maria recently learned that she is pregnant for the second time. But she is worried about this pregnancy. Some questions in her mind are: In which hospital should I choose to have my baby? Do I want to use some doctor who has never gone to college and went straight from high school to medical training? Many Mexican doctors (Maria used such a doctor when she gave birth to Miguel) do have such backgrounds. Alternatively, perhaps Maria wants to have the baby somewhere in the US? What if some mistakes are made in her delivery? What will be her recourse? Will she be covered by insurance? She also worries about whether she will be able to continue making love during her pregnancy, and how often? Will Juan continue to want her during the nine months of her pregnancy?"

Maria has many doubts about this baby that is coming. Maria is also particularly worried because of her occupation. She reasons that, female professors who get pregnant are not treated especially well in Mexican universities. They are not promoted as rapidly as male professors, nor are they given any special research privileges. Fondling of female professors by senior professors or administrators is always an issue, as is rape. Traveling across campus to a class for a female professor is a matter of taking your chances", but no more than the chances of a female being sexually abused while on the street. But women’s sexual problems are usually not treated as a major matter on Mexican campuses.

After Miguel was born Maria was accidentally assigned even more teaching to do, so she had even less time for research (it is on the basis of research that promotions and salary increase decisions are made). And that’s how it’s been.

Maria thinks, What will happen to my academic career after I give birth? Do I really want this child? Should I have an abortion? I will lose my figure and I won’t be attractive anymore. Now do men look at me and think: What would it be like to be in bed with that woman? Would I be active or completely passive in bed? So what devices can I use to minimize the negative effects on my body of my giving birth?

Maria also thinks, Juan is no help. He’s a good Catholic, and he’s strongly in favor of pregnant women carrying the baby to term. He would not consider that she have an abortion under any, other than unusual, circumstances. (Maria is a Methodist.) That is, Juan prefers that pregnant women carry their fetus to full term, if at all possible. But he also has a positive" side. He is a handsome man, he is reliable, he works hard, and he earns a good salary.

Nevertheless, their marriage has been on the rocks for the last few years. Probably it is because he is squeamish about sexual things, things that she loves, such as being taken from behind.

She developed the attraction for this kind of love when she was a teenager. Her body developed physically rather quickly, so she looked quite a bit older than she actually was. Accordingly, she was sometimes mistakenly invited to events designed for older women. One day, when she was 17, she was (mistakenly) invited to a party for men and women most of whom were in their mid-twenties. She accepted the invitation. At this party, the women were nonchalantly taught to be taken from behind. Maria loved the novelty of it, but didn’t really enjoy it. She was still a virgin at that time. Men noticed that she was bleeding when they did this. So she passed it off as a frequently occurring event. And no one was the wiser. But she was questioned about it.

At this party, Maria was fondled by many men, and she fondled many of the men, and she also copied many of