Back page newspaper ads, are where it all began for me. Local, daily sport, ad mag wherever.
Then onto parlours, RLD’s and of course AW when online took over.
Sorry this post turned out to be a lot longer than I originally thought it would be but once I started strolling down memory lane..........
Similar for me, i'd moved to an area for work and basically didn't know anyone then found out the social life was crap at my new place of work, i'd done pubbing and clubbing on my own about 5 years before after a long term relationship break down and believe me most of it wasn't much fun
I spent probably 12 months + looking at the newspaper ads in the local rag (back in the days that they were allowed to advertise escorts), boy how great most of these girls sounded but as I was to quickly discover what the ad or parlour receptionist describes often bears no resemblance to the actual reality
I eventually plucked up enough courage to phone an ad of a girl who was about 5 miles away and as I drove there I was feeling horny while oggling all the flesh on show from the scantily clad girls walking around mid summer.
No sat nav but I was armed with an A-Z and a mobile phone, got to about where I thought the girl was and the reception was either shit or non existent, fucking phones in the early 2000's
Eventually managed to get through and she somehow managed to talk me in via a big metal fire escape at the back of this building, I remember feeling really exposed and like I had a big sign and flashing neon lights above my head as I clanked up the staircase saying "Bloke visiting a Prossie"
Got inside and I was nervous as hell but I picked up that she also seemed nervous, told her it was my 1st time which was probably a rookie error and she said that she had only just come back to the game after Uni as she couldn't find a job and she basically said she didn't really want to be doing it but needed the money to pay bills.
I remember thinking she was OK looking probably a 6/10 and body was also OK, oral was with, can't remember if the option of without was given but it was a few years before I ventured down that road for fear of catching an STI.
I remember she asked me if I wanted my foreskin pulled back or not before she put the condom on which seemed really weird but she said some guys don't like it pulled back, is that actually a "Thing"
Oral was a bit unremarkable but got me hard enough before moving onto mish where she squirted a ribbon of some white cream onto her finger before lubing herself up, remember thinking it all seemed a bit clinical / medical
I jumped on and did the business then while dressing she gave me a business card with her work details on and said I was a nice guy so she was happy to see me again, again i've never had a business card given to me since in over 20 years
Didn't see her again and her ad disappeared a month or so afterwards
I know she had indicated she didn't want to be doing escort work and I did feel a bit bad driving back home
I don't remember a thing about the 2nd punt but think it must have been a parlour as my 3rd punt was and i'm sure i'd been there before and had a decent time, the 3rd girl was a fat unenthusiastic girl with a bad attitude and it put me off, when I went back next time the maid asked me who i'd previously seen and i gave her the names then she said "Cat" wasn't there anymore as they had lots of complaints about her
I'd only punt 3 or 4 times a year for the 1st couple of years then it became once every 4 or 6 weeks and i'd sit in the room waiting for the girl thinking WTF am I doing here again but it served a purpose
I was late to the internet so it probably took me another 6 or 7 years to get online so I continued with newspaper ads for Indi's and a couple of parlours
Once I got online it felt like a kid in a candy shop just looking at parlour websites and then parlour girls started talking about AW and Sandy's being the best parlour in the NW
After that I never really looked back and found this site from an Indi girl I punted a few days after having been robbed as she recommended it as a great place for punters to share information, and that's despite her having been banned
I now punt more than ever and despite a slight dip the last couple of months i'm probably punting around 6 times a month
Do I regret starting
The simple answer is No I don't as it's a relatively easy way to satisfy a primal urge for sex and I can walk away afterwards without the baggage of a relationship where the sex inevitably dries up anyway.
Probably 80% of my punts I couldn't tell you about or even remember; 10% were shit shows but it's the 10% that you still remember for all the right reasons even 10 or 15 years on that keep me going back for more of what is possibly an addictive Fix