Question to all the BabyBoomers

[vitamin]

I'm no spring chicken but I've always had the internet around when my punting journey began.

But how did it work way back in the day. 90's 00's

Before pictures were heavily photoshoped
before forums

How did it work?
Just rock up to a shop and see a lineup?
and drive around shops until you settle for someone you like
AR was word of mouth amounts mates.
How do you even know where shops were?

Please Share stories of how it use to work and what the punting scene was like. I mean pre 1995 brothels were illegal.
What happened before then?

And when Brothels first got started. What was the scene like?

[trampslikeus55]

Back in the days the Kings Cross was the place for the action. Everything was there. 😎

[schloong]

Unlike now we used to get our intel from either the Daily Telegraph or local rags classifieds. Rather interesting times back then...

[jfoldbar]

the local rags were full of ads. so was the tele. there was no texting to book. mostly just lob and see whats avail. i guess there was a lot less privates because the privates had no way to advertise like a shop did.

[Wayne]

Taxi drivers knew where all the action was. And classified at the back of local papers and girlie magazines, Pic and Post. Street walkers were common on Darlinghurst and Canterbury roads. Lots of terrace houses in Surry Hills and Darlinghurst would have red lamps shining discretely near front windows. There’s a line of a dozen tiny terraces on Crown street in which each door was left a little ajar when services were on offer. Workers always found a way to sell themselves

[rooter]

I am Gen X but I remember life before the internet.
We still managed to get on with life.
You can't miss something that doesn't exist yet.
I do love the internet though. It's fucken awesome. Hard to imagine life without it now.

[jfoldbar]

I am Gen X but I remember life before the internet.
We still managed to get on with life.
You can't miss something that doesn't exist yet.
I do love the internet though. It's fucken awesome. Hard to imagine life without it now.

c'mon man, we all know you were born in the back room at 310 and have lived there ever since.

[rooter]

Nah bro. I am a Sperminator. Sent from the future to fuck as many young Japanese girls as possible.

[jfoldbar]

Nah bro. I am a Sperminator. Sent from the future to fuck as many young Japanese girls as possible.

hahaha. whats wrong with the japanese chicks from the future? i bet the oceans running out of whales meant the jap chicks pussys all dried up and the only thing they want is the lubeadildo3000

[I_luv_doggie.]

Don't know really as didn't start punting until around 2000. Early days of the internet and early days of forum chat sites.
Remember being called an "internet boy" way back then.

Newspapers had pages and pages of offerings. Local papers (those owned by the Murdoch boys) had the same.

Telephones have been around for a while ........................

[Pattyherb]

I heard you could have fs for an hour with a hot fotb 19yo chinese girl back in the day! Is that true?

[rooter]

I heard you could have fs for an hour with a hot fotb 19yo chinese girl back in the day! Is that true?

There were hundreds of young Chinese WLs arriving all through the 2000s and 2010s, started slowing down in the late 2010s and then stopped when Covid started and never took off again.
Japanese girls used to be very rare once.
Now it's the opposite. Lots of young Japanese girls and hardly any young Chinese girls.

[Roydemeo]

I’m gen x also- Used to be the best trawling the local papers for ads. You really had no idea what was good and what wasn’t.
Also, the majority of those joints were illegal back then.
There were some established legal places that would post ads like The Black Garter or Tiffany’s, but a lot of them you just rocked up to a flat above a shop or whatever. None of this “massage” shop cover business like today where they are in every single suburb.

[drifter]

Some of these brothels from the 80s, 90s are still around.

[jfoldbar]

this gives me memorys of a korean only place that was on crown. and boy did some dolled up honeys come through there.

[Themassageking]

I'm no spring chicken but I've always had the internet around when my punting journey began.

But how did it work way back in the day. 90's 00's

Before pictures were heavily photoshoped
before forums

How did it work?
Just rock up to a shop and see a lineup?
and drive around shops until you settle for someone you like
AR was word of mouth amounts mates.
How do you even know where shops were?

Please Share stories of how it use to work and what the punting scene was like. I mean pre 1995 brothels were illegal.
What happened before then?

And when Brothels first got started. What was the scene like?

I started when I was 18 which was 1991, I never got my driving licence until 23. I used to ride by bicycle everywhere. I used to read the local newspaper and just go and check out the shop and the line up. Back then it was only nude massage and proper body to body massage. About 2 years later I rocked up at a shop and girl from high school was there. Good times.

[dewayne]

I'm Gen x and my first punt came by word of mouth. "You know Jen? Ask her if she wants $50"

[Pattyherb]

Some of these brothels from the 80s, 90s are still around.

Same women are still working in them

[madness123]

Lots of people call anyone over 45 boomers these days abd and a lot of gen X get the tag as well. Most of us gen Xers did read the local papers and Penthouse even had adds for Kings Court.Thr yellow pages had tonnes of huge ads as well

[vitamin]

Was there a big shift that happened when they legalised it in 1995?

Also pictures in the classifieds? just stock women pics or actual pics. I guess not a lot of catfishing if they did advertise their real pics.

[madness123]

Stock " sexy" pictures

[vitamin]

I remember in early 90's whenever a family member came to visit Sydney. My dad would always drive them to Kings X to gawk at the ladies standing on corners. I was too young to understand. Just sat the in back seat playing my tetris.
Years later it clicked.

[Kiki kong]

I remember in early 90's whenever a family member came to visit Sydney. My dad would always drive them to Kings X to gawk at the ladies standing on corners. I was too young to understand. Just sat the in back seat playing my tetris.
Years later it clicked.

That's what is called drive by window shopping

[Wayne]

That's what is called drive by window shopping

Standard for anyone coming to Sydney to visit. Not known as Sin City for nothing. I remember doing the exact same thing for visitors as Vitamin’s dad. Used to get blokes in my taxi off the ships docked down at what is now Barangaroo. They’d request a drive past before making their choice. Once had a suit hail me on Darlinghurst Road with a young aboriginal girl. She would have been underage. She serviced him in the back seat while I drove around the block. He paid me, got out and then the girl asked me whether I wanted a turn. The past is a different country, so they say.

[mylovelypenis]

The small ads in the local papers. plus just walking round the city and inner west.

[Roydemeo]

Standard for anyone coming to Sydney to visit. Not known as Sin City for nothing. I remember doing the exact same thing for visitors as Vitamin’s dad. Used to get blokes in my taxi off the ships docked down at what is now Barangaroo. They’d request a drive past before making their choice. Once had a suit hail me on Darlinghurst Road with a young aboriginal girl. She would have been underage. She serviced him in the back seat while I drove around the block. He paid me, got out and then the girl asked me whether I wanted a turn. The past is a different country, so they say.
So you had a turn didn’t you?

[vitamin]

So you had a turn didn’t you?

he never said he declined. just ended the story right then and there. some things are best left unsaid.

[John Holmes]

A lot has charged & at the same time not much has changed. Basically the knock shops has always been scattered around legal or not and Surry Hill (Sydney) is the capital. Night walkers (at Canterbury Rd, William St is not like it used to be to be and I think thats a good thing there is some boundaries created such as health check. Those days are fucking dangerous for the WL getting abused and taken advantage, the pimp was a target getting rolled and the Johns might catch something more than crabs.

The biggest change was Marketing channel, No internet, just your local newspaper or Daily Telegraph in the classified section find ‘Personal ’ section which only tells you- Business name, Address and Phone number plus maybe open 7 days till late. Girl description, you need to relay on front desk, 80/20 rule 80% Bullshit 20 truth.

In conclusion, it gives me great honour to finally to use this line…. You bloody keeps got it so good these days with all the technology. Internet, mobile phone, Uber, Syd99 forum, E&Bs… when I was young I had to get the newspaper then walk to a public phone call them to check any girls available then find a cab just to get me dick wet…..

[Fezco]

Standard for anyone coming to Sydney to visit. Not known as Sin City for nothing. I remember doing the exact same thing for visitors as Vitamin’s dad. Used to get blokes in my taxi off the ships docked down at what is now Barangaroo. They’d request a drive past before making their choice. Once had a suit hail me on Darlinghurst Road with a young aboriginal girl. She would have been underage. She serviced him in the back seat while I drove around the block. He paid me, got out and then the girl asked me whether I wanted a turn. The past is a different country, so they say.

So you were an accessory to statutory rape?

[vitamin]

A lot has charged & at the same time not much has changed. Basically the knock shops has always been scattered around legal or not and Surry Hill (Sydney) is the capital. Night walkers (at Canterbury Rd, William St is not like it used to be to be and I think thats a good thing there is some boundaries created such as health check. Those days are fucking dangerous for the WL getting abused and taken advantage, the pimp was a target getting rolled and the Johns might catch something more than crabs.

The biggest change was Marketing channel, No internet, just your local newspaper or Daily Telegraph in the classified section find ‘Personal ’ section which only tells you- Business name, Address and Phone number plus maybe open 7 days till late. Girl description, you need to relay on front desk, 80/20 rule 80% Bullshit 20 truth.

In conclusion, it gives me great honour to finally to use this line…. You bloody keeps got it so good these days with all the technology. Internet, mobile phone, Uber, Syd99 forum, E&Bs… when I was young I had to get the newspaper then walk to a public phone call them to check any girls available then find a cab just to get me dick wet…..

By the sounds of it, we do have it good. Wonder what the future holds.


So you were an accessory to statutory rape?
lol

[Wayne]

So you were an accessory to statutory rape?

Thought about that over the years. It was common for working girls around Darlinghurst to hail cabs and conduct their business in the back seat. Then throw the cabbie double fare. I only allowed it the once; through ignorance. It was happening before I realised. And the girl initiated the whole thing. I suppose I could have driven to Darlo cop shop. But really didn’t occur to me at the time. Don’t know what else I could do. And then, when she offered her services to me, I said no and couldn’t wait to get her out of my cab. What’s the legal position of someone who witnesses a crime but does not participate or willingly facilitate it?

[Roydemeo]

Thought about that over the years. It was common for working girls around Darlinghurst to hail cabs and conduct their business in the back seat. Then throw the cabbie double fare. I only allowed it the once; through ignorance. It was happening before I realised. And the girl initiated the whole thing. I suppose I could have driven to Darlo cop shop. But really didn’t occur to me at the time. Don’t know what else I could do. And then, when she offered her services to me, I said no and couldn’t wait to get her out of my cab. What’s the legal position of someone who witnesses a crime but does not participate or willingly facilitate it?

Witnesses to a crime in Australia are generally not liable for the crime itself, there may be exceptions and specific obligations to report or intervene depending on the circumstances.

Given your profession as a taxi driver, rather than a doctor or social worker, I'd say you're in the clear. And you probably earned that gratuity haha

[vitamin]

Thought about that over the years. It was common for working girls around Darlinghurst to hail cabs and conduct their business in the back seat. Then throw the cabbie double fare. I only allowed it the once; through ignorance. It was happening before I realised. And the girl initiated the whole thing. I suppose I could have driven to Darlo cop shop. But really didn’t occur to me at the time. Don’t know what else I could do. And then, when she offered her services to me, I said no and couldn’t wait to get her out of my cab. What’s the legal position of someone who witnesses a crime but does not participate or willingly facilitate it?

You were an unwilling accomplice. What's the statutory of limitations on stuff like this? I'm sure you're right.

[Fezco]

You were an unwilling accomplice. What's the statutory of limitations on stuff like this? I'm sure you're right.

Well he knew she was underage and could’ve turned down the fare. But possibly more of a moral issue than a legal one. And whether the girl was willing or not is legally irrelevant.