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What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« on: 21 April 2019, 09:28:30 pm »
I often worked with mature ladies who had some great tales of pre internet days. Has the type of clientele changed? Is there more crime directed at us girls now or have we always had robbings and weirdo fantasists? Was there a booming trade even though it seemed a lot more taboo back then? Could women really charge £200 for anal by itself?  How did OWO become a thing since everything was usually covered? Was band of gold series quite a realistic representation of what it was really like? Any one got any good books that detail the history of our line of work?  Or great personal stories from the 1970's, 1980's or even before?

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #1 on: 21 April 2019, 10:51:12 pm »
OOOHH I like this thread and am very interested.

I have Mayfairs from the 1970s onwards

They started off with pussy covered by drapes then not covered then spread eagled. Interesting to see the difference in them as time went by.

In ireland condoms were banned for many years not sure when there became available so I think BB must have been usual as they was no choice and from what older clients tell  BB was the only thing 

I have only been escorting 4 years so very interested
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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #2 on: 21 April 2019, 10:52:28 pm »
Yeah I know some young thing is going to ask what Mayfairs are and make me feel ancient  ;D

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« Reply #3 on: 22 April 2019, 04:21:41 am »
God, this is going to make me feel old lol. I started in 2000 which is slightly outside your period but might still be interesting. Back then we used cards in telephone boxes and carefully worded ads in newspapers. 'Stress relief' was a phrase we often used. Massage, french lessons, greek (meaning anal) etc.
In terms of the clients, they didn't have those god awful review sites yet. Internet porn was in its infancy so their expectations were more realistic. OW was standard and they were much more 'grateful' if that's the right word. We didn't have our photos online so there was much less risk of being outed.
On the negative side, Ugly Mugs was literally a printed leaflet with some sketchy drawings of thr suspects. Most clients called from a phone box so there was no way of saving their numbers and passing them on to warn others.
If I think of other differences I'll post again. Interesting thread!

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #4 on: 22 April 2019, 04:22:45 am »
Yeah I know some young thing is going to ask what Mayfairs are and make me feel ancient  ;D

What are Mayfairs?  ;D

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #5 on: 22 April 2019, 06:00:12 am »
Mayfair is a  photographic magazine I believe .
This is a very interesting thread thanks x

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #6 on: 22 April 2019, 08:28:13 am »
Mayfair is a  photographic magazine I believe .
This is a very interesting thread thanks x

Also a cigarette brand.

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #7 on: 22 April 2019, 11:13:59 am »
Mayfair is a  photographic magazine I believe .

Yes I believe it was started in the 60s as the Uk's answer to the likes of Playboy and Penthouse.

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #8 on: 22 April 2019, 11:55:51 am »
What are Mayfairs?  ;D

boot up the bum for you my Dear  ;D

Mayfair magazine same as penthouse

Men read them for the motoring articles they just happened to also have naked ladies photographs and very saucy stories about plumbers and how they got paid  :D

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« Reply #9 on: 22 April 2019, 12:38:28 pm »
Oh god, yes Mayfair magazines! When hairy bushes were more common as well

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #10 on: 24 April 2019, 07:09:06 pm »
I love Band of Gold watched the whole thing again not long ago... remember watching that when I was a kid  ;D :o  Not sure it's really for kids ha. Anyway, I think ads in papers were defo a big thing in the past and now everything is online there is so much porn and seems to be loads of girls but I think overall it must be safer. We do have Ugly Mug alerts and we can use the AW booking system or take deposits. I wouldn't feel safe without all that. I do hear stories of girls making way more money before online porn but it's prob not all true I'm sure some did and some didn't like now.

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #11 on: 25 April 2019, 08:59:41 am »
A friend of mine started working in the 1970s and she said everyone did BB because the pill was available and AIDS hadn’t yet come out, this might well be why so many men of a certain age ask for it due to it being the norm back then, she also said that outcall escorts were £150 an hour back then too, that’s crazy to me because I charge that now and so do many other girls, crazy to think that the price hasn’t improved for over 40 years, and the fact that they haggle this price now, I think back then it was really only rich people that must have gotten escorts to their hotel or house.

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #12 on: 26 April 2019, 09:38:58 am »
A friend of mine started working in the 1970s and she said everyone did BB because the pill was available and AIDS hadn’t yet come out, this might well be why so many men of a certain age ask for it due to it being the norm back then, she also said that outcall escorts were £150 an hour back then too, that’s crazy to me because I charge that now and so do many other girls, crazy to think that the price hasn’t improved for over 40 years, and the fact that they haggle this price now, I think back then it was really only rich people that must have gotten escorts to their hotel or house.

Well realistically the price has dropped, if you look at inflation.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator

What you bought for £150 in the mid 70s would cost about £1200 now.
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« Reply #13 on: 29 April 2019, 02:31:23 pm »
I've worked in the industry for a long time and I remember regularly having conversations with women who started in the 80s and 90s back then, talking about all the changes that came with new technology and other things. Positive side to 'the halcyon days' was I do think prices have overall not kept up with inflation...I was a newbie to the industry without any financial commitments and was very popular for a period with the first place I worked, and binned a lot of money on designer rubbish, and I remember an older woman in her 40s saying "Oh you remind me of all the designer whores of the 80s...good days". Its always stuck with me. I would have pinned that down to one women's perception but I heard it very commonly, 'the business is not what it was', financially speaking. But also, house prices were a lot lower back then and the cost of living generally was too, so saving to buy a house or just save for retirement was easier.

Mind you, as I say, lots of these women started late 80s and 90s so post the AIDS crisis and people were hyper vigilant about condom use. When I started, all the brothels and agencies I worked at had a culture were even OWO was still very stigmatised. Which was understandable given the collective memory, but it could be harsh for someone if they were 'rumour milled' as doing it without. But then that febrile shit still happens only now its 'she does penetration without' if she's popular etc There was a bigger culture I remember of feeling that someone who did more services or charged less for 'extras' was undercutting and letting the side down. But thats probably brothels per se.

I started just as the transition to internet advertising was becoming the norm. At first it was positive as less dependency on brothels and agents and the capricious newspaper ads if you were indie, so was obviously a good thing, but when AW et al went on the ascendancy, that meant more search engine ranking competition for websites, so it was harder to not rely on directories. It was easier to not list the services you offered, either, and therefore there were no 'promises' but as AW (and as a corollary the punting sites) started to get more popular I noticed clients got more demanding, 'you advertised you do this so now you must', somehow forgetting  sexual coercion is a more serious offence than 'false advertising', and that no means no money or no money (or at least I hope I'm right on that front). And yes you more or less have to expose yourself more so discretion and compartmentalization is so much harder.   But then there are sites like these and client eye as well as the increased independence and ease with which even more vulnerable sex workers can organise meets off the street. I'm tempted to think the new technologies have been good and bad in more or less equal measure.

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Re: What was prostitution like before 1990's and internet?
« Reply #14 on: 29 April 2019, 02:39:25 pm »
I'm tempted to think the new technologies have been good and bad in more or less equal measure.
You nailed it there.
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