Answering my own question
[QUOTE=Priamos]Interesting, Swamp Rat. One question, though: are you a Greek and/or look Mediterranean? I ask this question because when I last visited Athens some three years ago most of the studios in the Fylis neighbourhood were very reluctant to accept my custom because (or so they said) the police did not allow them to take foreign clients. Or, if I'm mistaken, have the rules changed?[/QUOTE]
Well thanks for nothing, guys!! Fortunately I'm now in a position - after three days in Athens - to answer my own question. I had no problems with access to the tiny brothels on and around Fylis street this time round. Maybe they have changed the law after all? If not then I suspect that this may have to do with the fact that the Greek authorities increased the number of brothel licenses in preparation for the 2004 Olympics. In consequence there are more of the famous white lanterns - especially in some of the northern side streets - than I remember seeing before. Maybe the owners are quite simply... hungry for business?
My only positive experience in this part of town (I had a couple of quick jerk-offs as well) was in one of the side streets, in a small studio down a cellar. Only one girl was working, in one room. The mama spoke no English but instead of gibbering away in Greek (as is normal) she clapped her hands and called the provider, who turned out to be a young African - Nigerian she told me, and maybe she was - girl who spoke a decent English. "Clara" had a body to die for: very slim, cinnamon coloured, big natural breasts. Only problem was her face, which had that tiny jaw and big mouth that one often sees in the Bay of Guinea - and which I don't find attractive. But... hey, one shouldn't get too picky! She demanded the habitual 20 euros for a suck-and-fuck. I slipped her 30 and intimated that I expected a bit of extra time up front. Clara was (apparently) thrilled and rewarded me with 10 minutes of deep throat (covered, alas) licking of balls and, eventually, biting of (my) nipples and a**hole stimulus. I don't know what I'd done to deserve all this. Maybe it was the fact that I was clean, dressed in Ralf Lauren and paid a tad extra? She definitely wanted to see me again.
What nobody has written about recently (though maybe on the archived threads - I haven't checked) is the streetwalker scene in Athens. I stumbled upon this - or one part of it - by accident. It was located just north-east of Omonia square, around the Socrates Street. Girls hang out on the street from early afternoon, or else walk around the block(s) on both sides. Also, there are some cafes located just next to neighbourhood hotels in/outside which girls hang out for longer periods of time - though they too walk the streets occasionally.
Their business method is to take you to a hotel, where you'll have to pay 10 euros for a room (no id papers needed...) and 20-30 euros to them for a full service. Unlike the girls in Fylis street you can negotiate more time and "special" services. Most of the providers are either Greek MILFs or younger foreign girls from Romania and Albania. I even ran into a particularly pug-faced woman I'd met on the streets of Paris a year ago: I was so convinced that she - and other dark skinned and not-so-pretty woman in the St. Denis area - was a Romanian gypsy, but no... Albanian. Silly me!
I had a couple of reasonably slim young girls for "shorties", though in one case I paid 50 euros for a half-hour. The sex was... OK, but I'll say one thing for the girls of Athens: they work their BJs! Other cheap providers in other countries tend to give you 1 minute of BJ and if that's not enough 1 minute of wanking - after which they'll ask you to f**k them whether you're ready or not. If you're not ready it's YOUR fault, and she'll get dressed. Well... not so in the cheaper parts of Athens. I wasn't always in the best of shape (totally pissed one evening...) but whenever I had a problem with erection the girl redoubled her efforts, and if that didn't work redoubled them again. Once I told a provider that "look, it's not going to work, honey. Just keep the money." She was incensed: "Lie back, you! I'll take care this! You relax!"
Well... bully to the Balkan girls of Athens.