Now I've been living in Sydney for over a year, I can explain a few differences. The PLA in Qld makes it really difficult and expensive to get licenses - which is why a punt in a legal brothel in Qld is more expensive than Sydney. A massage shop that did extras would need to be a brothel and pay the same as a brothel, so they choose to be brothels as who would pay FS prices for massage? Most massage shops are illegal in both states, but Qld is more high risk as the prostitution act has more penalties. The girls are taking a bigger risk so they charge more. Most of the massage shops in Sydney are technically illegal too. They need development approval from the local council as 'sex services' premises, which is often difficult to obtain, as local councils put restrictive zoning rules around them in their Local Environmental Plans (planning scheme in QLD). So mostly they just open and risk it - depending on the council area, some are more blatant than others. The big difference is due to recent court cases down in NSW, the standard of proof for a Council to close down an illegal shop is really high, and almost impossible to achieve. The council's need to pay thousands of dollars to private investigators, who have to prove that two or more girls are providing sex services and that it is sanctioned by the owners. The investigators need to make repeated visits over months to gather this evidence, and in many cases the evidence doesn't gain a conviction. So the Councils blame the state government and most only make a token effort when they get a complaint. The shop owners know this and most just operate openly and if they get too much heat, will close then open up again nearby. This means you can visit a local shopping strip and find three or more places pretty much operating side by side. You've got to be careful though, there's a lot of old pork chops and highly mercenary girls who won't hesitate to try and rip you off, because there's so much competition (lower George Street near Central Station there must be 30+ shops, LOTS of Thai shops). You might pay 10-20 dollars more for the legal ones (say $110-120/hr - but the tip is included and the girl is often fully nude and bodysides are included). Some girls in legal shops will do illegal extras (bbbj, natural, CIM/COF etc) and some shops don't like this and may sack a girl who is offering more than the 'standard' service. These extras can often be expensive (an extra $40-100 on top of the price) in which case you may be better off visiting a FS place as it could well be cheaper. Standard prices where the ending is not included are $20-30 per h/j (never been asked for $40+) and $50-60 for full nude (usually allows a lot of touching, but depends on the girl). There are a lot of girls who offer a pretty poor massage, but will immediately try to upgrade you to FS for $80-100 (on top of massage price) - again, if you're visiting for 30 minutes you may be better off going straight to a FS brothel as you will be more comfortable than one of the narrow hard little massage tables - and the ML will probably only give a 10 minute fuck at the end - so value for money can be poor (and there a lots of really grasping ML's who don't give a shit about serve (usually Chinese, but some Koreans and Thais fit this description too). All that said, you can get good service almost anywhere and pay $20-50 less per session. There are more expensive places yes, but these are usually high-class bodyslide shops with absolutely stunning girls who can charge over $200/hr.