Saturday, November 10, 2007

It’s business time

The Economist reports on the tricky issue of sex-related classified ads in newspapers – it is legal in England to buy and sell sex, but soliciting is forbidden, as are brothels (defined as places where more than one prostitute works), so:
The Newspaper Society advises its members not to accept adverts for massage parlours if there is reason to believe that sex is going on. But blind eyes are being turned on an epic scale.
Which means, according to the Poppy Project, a charity that tries to rescue women caught in sex-trafficking, that the mainstream media are conniving in a covert legitimisation of this awful industry. And:
New media have pushed prostitution right into the home: on Punternet, a website for buyers of sex, dozens of men each day post cheery reviews of women as if they were books on Amazon.com.
Which is where it gets really mucky. This new area of internet reviews is inherently unreliable, isn’t it – how seriously do you take those anonymous restaurant reviews, for example? But sex reviews – eww. I’ve been to the site so you don’t have to – but I bet you will – and what’s striking is how many of these English men have such, ah, specialised tastes and requirements. If one of them wants to have sex with two hookers ending with him being sodomised by one of them wearing a strap-on, here’s a guide to who may oblige, what it will cost and whether it qualifies as GF sex. (This seems to be “girlfriend sex” – so one wonders why these guys don’t just get girlfriends. At £300 an hour for two temporary “girlfriends”, or £120 for one, wouldn’t it be cheaper? And, well, nicer?)

The strap-on reminded me of the last time I saw Peter Plumley Walker – you remember, the cricket umpire whose bound and gagged body was found below the Huka Falls in 1989 after a bondage/domination session had gone wrong. We were sitting around after dinner at our mutual friends’ house, and somehow the conversation got onto S&M. Being a naïve lad from the provinces, I said, “What’s wrong with just fucking?” There was an awkward silence, and our hosts changed the subject. Years later, I found out they were into it too.

So I asked my mentor in sexual and most other matters, a Distinguished Poet of a Certain Age, “Is everyone else into this and I'm the odd man out?”

He replied, “Not at all. I once went to bed with a woman who wanted me to whip her before the main event. I found it didn’t really suit me.”

The woman in question was English, as was poor old Peter. So is it just an English thing? I’m sure Mrs Smith will have a view. What do other readers think?

7 Comments:

Anonymous Pirateking said...

I had a look at that website - Jesus, Englishmen are weird.

3:10 PM  
Anonymous Elinore said...

I'd love to see the women's comments on their clients. What pathetic plonkers.

3:24 PM  
Anonymous lauhykate said...

You KNEW Peter Plumley Walker? Legend.

7:14 PM  
Blogger Mrs Smith said...

Ha! I will give this a little thought - but am already thinking of some lovely, heart-warming tales to share.

7:41 AM  
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