Ok..so I was chatting with a very cool guy on here this afternoon as Dora the Explorer was teaching my niece and I some Spanish..we chatted for a bit and I got curious and asked him how long he'd been hobbying..and he told me..so that piqued my curiosity even more and I asked him if hobbying was different back then than it is now and he said it was..mainly because quality ladies arent the same price as they once were in the past and because the internet wasnt available at the time and street walking was more prevalent..what tickled my funny bone was the fact that escorts used the yellow pages as a form of advertisement..which is a little hard to imagine today..
Now what I'd like to know from the guys and ladies on here is how has providing/hobbying changed from how it was back then..say the 90's, 80's, 70's, etc? And do you prefer the way it was back then or how it is now in the present?
That GFE didn't exist. It is a fairly new concept, and guys never really expected it before (in the 90's).
But again, I heard - could be just a rumor/false.
In the late 90's at least one of the first questions a guys wanted to know is if a lady kissed. They were thrilled if a lady did. It could make or break a booking even "back in the day".
inicky is right. Hobbied in that time frame before being married. Started again after my divorce. Although there was some excitement and that I found 2 good ''houses'' you still could get there and not one of your faves.
I saw 2 different gals in 1 house, and on 1 night I got a ''retirement'' two-for by both as 1 of the girls was retiring. was a rare treat but did happen ''in those days''.
Still; its better now with the research you can do and you can stay out of those "exciting'' but SCARY situations that happened previously.
It wasn't called "hobbying." There was no such thing as GFE. Nobody called herself a "provider." No BBBJ (except once, with a gal who really liked me). Maybe you could get something like GFE at the higher end, but I paid between $150 and $200.
No Internet then, so you had to buy a sex tabloid and read the ads. Fake pix and a real phone #. Call, get an address and ring the buzzer. Go upstairs and find a sitting room with a few (or as many as 6-7 girls). Pick the one you wanted and go to a bedroom. She leaves so you can get undressed, and the transaction only took place after that.
Sounds crude and it was. But guess what? There were some hot girls and great sex. It was exciting walking into the room and wondering what I'd find. I found 4-5 houses where there was always something good. I had a shit-ton of fun. Am I having more fun now? It's not a simple "yes" or "no." Partly because I'm older. I'm spending more money but the girls are by and large higher quality. In some cases (like yesterday) MUCH higher quality (are you reading this, babe?). But I got with a bunch of really hot gals.
Still, I prefer today. Doing the research is fun. If you do it right there re almost no bad surprises. I've been with some truly gorgeous gals and the proportion of hits to misses is much higher now. Nice hotel rooms help, too.
As for price/value, I'm not sure how to adjust for inflation but I assume the $200 I paid for an hour then is about the same as $300-$400 now. If that's true, I'd say things are better than ever.
People have posted the link to an on-line reprint of an old pamphlet(s?) from the 1800s or early 1900s describing options in NYC. I've got to guess that other big cities had pamphlets way back then, too. Kind of like a 'gentleman's guide', long before the tabloids with the classified ads in major metro areas. You can still find the printed classifieds in major cities.
Pamphlet currency: 6 months - 1 year?
Tabloid currency: one week?
Internet currency: HOURLY!
I worked in a hotel as plainclothes hotel security (the house dick, with W.C. fields comes to mind) as part time college job. The high end girls that worked the hotel, were known to us and we looked the other way. I got friendly with a couple of the regulars and would talk with them endlessly between clients. There was no GFE back then and kissing was discouraged. LE was a regular hassle to be dealt with as even if they were not busted they were routinely hassled for sex or bribes.
These girls were not street walkers but their primary means of soliciting business was sitting in the hotel bar to get picked up. They both belonged to an escort service which ran newspaper and yellow page adds, and they frequently worked the pay phone near the hotel bar to answer pages and arrange meetings.
screening of clients was not existent and both of the girls I knew well were assaulted (unreported) at least once in the two years we worked together.
I think if they were still around today, they would really appreciate the internet for communications and the screening capabilities it provides.
I could not afford the hobby at the time, but one of the girls gave me a freebie once. The nominal rate for sex at the time was $100.00, which was way out of my college student budget.
The funniest thing about that time that I remember is the civie girls would frequently get propositioned being mistaken for hookers. It even happened to a GF of mine waiting for me to get off of work.
wow..seems as though this hobby has come a looooong way since the past..even though some things are still the same...I wonder if LE resents the internet now since it means they have to work even harder?
These girls were not street walkers but their primary means of soliciting business was sitting in the hotel bar to get picked up. They both belonged to an escort service which ran newspaper and yellow page adds, and they frequently worked the pay phone near the hotel bar to answer pages and arrange meetings.
screening of clients was not existent and both of the girls I knew well were assaulted (unreported) at least once in the two years we worked together.
I think if they were still around today, they would really appreciate the internet for communications and the screening capabilities it provides.
I could not afford the hobby at the time, but one of the girls gave me a freebie once. The nominal rate for sex at the time was $100.00, which was way out of my college student budget.
The funniest thing about that time that I remember is the civie girls would frequently get propositioned being mistaken for hookers. It even happened to a GF of mine waiting for me to get off of work.
back in the day the girls were routinely hassled by LE for BJs or even extended sex sessions. i know in my hotel we comp'd rooms to the vice squad for "enforcement" purposes, but arrests were rarely made. i hope that providers in this day and age are spared the degradation of having to give a BJ to someone because he wears blue.
cost less than a dollar extra, and meant BBFS....
Yep, times have changed....
Have to admit it was just as much fun scanning ads in funky little city papers trying to figure out who was offering what as it is looking at internet ads and escort malls today
and 411 from fellow traveler was the most reliable info back then, as it is now...
The review boards have taken a lot of the sport out of it - and yet how people bitch about them lol...
Since she was watching Dora I'll assume she was a minor.
Really that's not very discreet.
I am going to pass on asking all the obvious questions your comments lead to.
In response to your concern, my niece is only 1