No need to ask a Policeman
[QUOTE=PayForIt;1939334]Shame it's come to this! Great advice for first time visitors to the London thread who will now read your post and think that the best way to find a brothel in London is to ask a Policeman. Well done. Now let me think of whether I will be trying that out sometime soon. ?[/QUOTE]Found it for you so there's no need to ask a Policeman. We have a terrible problem with the prostitutes opposite the Monkey Puzzle pub, next to the two telephone boxes. They scream and shout obscenities between each other and between them and their pimps. There's fighting between the girls, fighting between the girls and the pimps, and sometimes fighting with customers. It's only in the last year that it's got absolutely terrible. The reason is that they've been cleared out of King's Cross and they've come down here and the existing prostitutes don't want them, so there's a turf war. ' [URL]http://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/04/the-arab-street/[/URL] A Bangkok Soi 1,3 and 5 kinda of area in Central London. Best meat market in Town where you can have your steak and eat it.
We've gone from asking a policeman to visiting a war zone!
[QUOTE=Jojosun;1939517]Found it for you so there's no need to ask a Policeman. We have a terrible problem with the prostitutes opposite the Monkey Puzzle pub, next to the two telephone boxes. They scream and shout obscenities between each other and between them and their pimps. There's fighting between the girls, fighting between the girls and the pimps, and sometimes fighting with customers. It's only in the last year that it's got absolutely terrible. The reason is that they've been cleared out of King's Cross and they've come down here and the existing prostitutes don't want them, so there's a turf war. ' [URL]http://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/04/the-arab-street/[/URL] A Bangkok Soi 1,3 and 5 kinda of area in Central London. Best meat market in Town where you can have your steak and eat it.[/QUOTE]I'll say this Jojo. Nobody does research quite like you! I'm grateful I don't need to now ask a policeman. Though having read the link in your article I'd need to ask one to accompany me to that area of Edgeware Road to avoid getting into a real fight. I wanted a line up not a punch up! I've just about given up on it. As Krazydudesays: what I'm looking for just doesn't really exist in London.
Options / Optificks and law and Order
[QUOTE=Krazydude;1939448]I joined the discussion after post #5174 where the general tone of the post was there are no good punting options in London. No mention of LU and Brothels. Haven't dug deeper into any previous posts / conversations.
I only use independents and find them much better than brothels / agency girls. Photoshop is common on both platforms; they'll want to entice you by whatever means necessary. With indie's you can see them when they open the door and invite you in, talk to them to establish if they know the language and ask about what services they offer. In these 2-3 minutes, if you don't think it'll be a good session, say Thanks, but no thanks and leave. Sat in a hotel. So you mean outcalls? Also how does seeing a face ensure good service. In FKK's you have a lot of of optificks, who look great, but are poor service providers. Are you just going for Optificks?
Also on UKP, you can go into a FR and ask the OP if the photos on AW are a good representation or not. This helps you get a good idea about what a WG looks like in person.
Under UK brothel laws, any premises. For example, private flats, saunas, massage parlors may be classified as a brothel if they are used by more than one man or woman for the purpose of prostitution, whether on the same day or on different days. Soho / HoD / LMP are all toeing the line on this and therefore have the rota system where they try to appear to be independents. So there are options and if you are comfortable to work with the options then you get results. If however you have a problem with how things are set-up as opposed to other cities in the world, then yes you will find that your style of mongering is better catered to in other parts of the world. As for me, I want good service and am happy to go with the flow of things. Even if I have bad punts, I know that this isn't a 100% success rate hobby. My good vs bad punt ratio in the worst month of punting over the years in London has been 2:1.[/QUOTE]Think we've come to the end of the (useful) discussion on it. Couple of points on your interesting response: Yes I prefer outcalls (not if I have a car but I don't in London). Waiting in a hotel, the girl turns up, is not great or like the girl you selected, or is a lot fatter, it is pretty difficult to tell her "thanks but no thanks" not least as she has a driver outside. I have done it when the girl is just completely unacceptable, but you are in a public place, at risk that she will start shouting and alert all around you to the fact that you've hired a hooker to the hotel. So maybe getting transport around London to visit the girls is the better option. It's just a drag having to trawl around at the end of a night.
You've obviously had successes. But it's just too hit and miss for me though I take your point on being able to converse on UKP to attempt to get some corroborative evidence before you make the choice. All fine if you live in London or have time to plan a visit. For me, I might only find out on the morning of a visit I'm going. Pretty difficult to then start messaging other members to find out what I want to know. So I am pretty much limited to selection from what I see online. And my success rate on agencies / independents is really quite low.
Just on success rates. I agree with you this leisure activity is far from guaranteed. Yes I love the optificks, indeed I really enjoy the whole pastime of going to a club in Spain, or Germany, or Dubai and being able to select a companion from maybe 50+ girls. I don't just choose based on looks. You can "interview" the girls and build a rapport (or not) about what you are looking for. It would be wrong of me to suggest even this is failsafe. It's not. I've had some poor sessions still. But firstly I'd say they are rare if I've already conducted a proper discussion with the lady, and secondly, even if the chemistry isn't there despite our best efforts, having sex with someone who looks really attractive (because in part of course you only initiate discussions with the ones who hit the spot for you) is still no real chore. AND - you know that you can take a short session knowing full well that you can end it, and go back out to the club to select someone else. In that way you are seriously limiting the risk of an unsuccessful outing. The same applies in the brothels in Manchester, Leeds, Milton Keynes and even in Scotland. If you have a bad session with one girl but saw someone outside who is also sexy, you can move on to another session. Still no guarantee but it helps with the odds! None of that is possible with using independents unless you are willing to say "no thanks on her doorstep" return to your car/cab/tube and start looking, and travelling all over again. What a nightmare!! So whilst it's great if you meet an indie who ticks your boxes, so you are assured of many good sessions, you really are chancing it a bit if you select one on the day, online.
The law in London is no different to that in Manchester. It is how strictly, or not, it is enforced and I get the impression, for whatever reason, that it must be far more strictly enforced in London for the likes of LMP and HoD to be needing to shelter behind the guise of independents. In Manchester for example, the various venues (I think from recent posts we got to 8 of the better known ones) openly advertise in the local press as well as online!! I have NEVER seen a raid at one. I had a moment last year in a brothel in Manchester where the girl jumped off the bed with at towel, told me to wait, and whispered 'police'. Never has my heart raced so much. On went my clothes, quickly, but not as quickly as I lost my rock on boner (!!) which reacted to the word 'police' in the same way as if someone had taken a large mallet to it! Whilst I was thinking of my lines "I thought this was just a massage place" etc. The girl returned, quite relaxed, and then removed here towel to continue the fun. She told me to do likewise. I asked if she'd got it wrong about the police. "No" she said. "They are here but don't worry they are fine....having a beer and might see one of the girls." I didn't believe her completely and told her I needed the bathroom. Whilst sneaking to the toilet I managed to get a look in the lounge and sure enough, two officers were sat with the receptionist having a chat, one with beer in hand. Several customers were sat around and three of the girls (who they hadn't selected). Still in my clothes I asked the receptionist for another beer. One of the officers said Hi and asked if I was having a nice time. I said I was. With some recognition of the danger involved, I asked why they were here. I was told that the police are well aware of the establishments in Manchester and provided they are satisfied that there is no trafficking, no drugs on the premises, a proper liquor licence, no violence, they are happy to allow things to remain as they are. There is one parlour in Manchester where a bouncer kicked a troublesome guy down the stairs and he broke his back. Even after that, it's still open (not the best place!).
So maybe it's just the difference between local police policies but it looks like in London at least, the same line up offerings are not there unless you pick a card from a phone box and hope to get a choice when you arrive. Or head to the area in Jojo's latest post armed with your best knuckle-duster so that whilst trying to build a rapport with a SW you can be ready to engage with the Mike Tyson of Edgeware Road!!
I think it boils down to. Looking for line ups. Head to Manchester Germany or Spain but not London. Looking for indies head to UKP. That doesn't make London "hopeless" for everyone. It makes it pretty poor for me and anyone used to selecting girls from a line up. So be it. I'd have expected that in so little town in mid-Wales, or the Lakes, but certainly not in our wonderful capital city.