Is £150 p/h the new norm - and should it be?

[Hobbit]

 Personally, I think girls should charge less for longer bookings and that would appeal to me and perhaps others. Nowadays, I am very precise with what I want and I wouldn’t pay loads of money for a mediocre service.

[Vice Admiral]

The problem is that the pound keeps going down.  But as long as the girls also do, I suppose that we'll go on biting the bullet.

[Steady Eddy]

Nope - I am still around £120, perhaps £140.  Think twice if £150+

[akauya]

So how come we have service providers expecting £150 p/h and how come some are paying it!

WGs will charge as much as they can get away with and as for long as there are punters out there willing to pay for it.

Also, comparing WG rates to normal working wages is fallacy... unless of course you compare them with solicitors' fees. The minimum hourly rate of a firm of solicitors I use is £250 per hour (and that's a junior solicitor). The difference of WGs and solicitors is that instead of me doing the fucking I feel I'm the one being well and truly fucked.

[akauya]

The weakness of the pound?

Don't mention Brexit! 

[Jonestown]

Gs will cWharge as much as they can get away with and as for l
Also, comparing WG rates to normal working wages is fallacy... unless of course you compare them with solicitors' fees. The minimum hourly rate of a firm of solicitors I use is £250 per hour (and that's a junior solicitor). The difference of WGs and solicitors is that instead of me doing the fucking I feel I'm the one being well and truly fucked.

The other advantage of taking your troubles to a WG rather than a solicitor is that WG's don't charge VAT for their services.

[unclepokey]

Nope - I am still around £120, perhaps £140.  Think twice if £150+

I agree. £150 is too much for just an hour. £130 is tolerable. £200 for a couple of hours is enough.
I'm not mean but just why should married punters pay a premium for their careful efforts to cloak disbursements from the family purse in order to keep, in large numbers, the SP working population with their incomes rather than risk nothing.

In the end I well understand the balance between dusty phones and male lust. It is a rather perfect market. But some girls test our limits, I think, speaking as a punter.

Uncle pokey

[hendrix]

No DFK, OWO and shagging. What do you pay them for?  Talking? 

 

Only anal, extreme facefucking, rimming and watersports. Not interested in anything else. I might fuck the pussy, but getting to be rare 

[winkywanky]

...watersports too, I'm amazed you can do all of that on the back of a speedboat hendrix   .

[hendrix]

...watersports too, I'm amazed you can do all of that on the back of a speedboat hendrix   .

   where there's a will etc

[mike63]

I haven't noticed anyone pointing out the correlation between the age of an SP and the hourly rate. As the first goes up the second comes down in my experience. I'm sometimes  more than happy to see an enthusiastic and experienced 50 year old SP for £100, rather than a 30 year old for £150 for equivalent services.

[Payyourwaymate]

I haven't noticed anyone pointing out the correlation between the age of an SP and the hourly rate. As the first goes up the second comes down in my experience. I'm sometimes  more than happy to see an enthusiastic and experienced 50 year old SP for £100, rather than a 30 year old for £150 for equivalent services.

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

[winkywanky]

  where there's a will etc

With all the shit you get up to hendrix, I do hope you have made a will! 

[king tarzan]

With all the shit you get up to hendrix, I do hope you have made a will! 

You might be the first beneficiary 😀😀😀

[LLPunting]

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

Punting is just like Porn it caters to all tastes.  You're just being puerily mainstream.

Plenty of 40-60 year olds who are attractive with a ton of experience, past their menopause and gagging for it.  Given their age they know they have to make up for lack of youth with charm and performance.

[mike63]

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

Well, I live by myself without being in any relationship and I'm a pensioner myself.. So I don't have a 'normal' experience at home. I mix things up a bit and see different ages, but rarely under 30. Each to his own-I don't want to see 'hot young babes' giving a poor service.

[winkywanky]

Punting is just like Porn it caters to all tastes.  You're just being puerily mainstream.

Plenty of 40-60 year olds who are attractive with a ton of experience, past their menopause and gagging for it.  Given their age they know they have to make up for lack of youth with charm and performance.

Yep.

And the older gals will be much more likely to do anal, rimming, swallow, watersports etc, and with a willing smile.

So long as they've kept themselves well they can still be attractive, and many will fuck like a train.

[EnglishRebecca121]

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

some of the hottest sex ive had with men and women have been in the over 50s age range...

[LLPunting]

some of the hottest sex ive had with men and women have been in the over 50s age range...

Hop onboard ER, 'coz I is the Love Train innit, booyah, what, tally-ho, ya feel it, oh baby!

[Mallow841]

I agree. £150 is too much for just an hour. £130 is tolerable. £200 for a couple of hours is enough.
I'm not mean but just why should married punters pay a premium for their careful efforts to cloak disbursements from the family purse in order to keep, in large numbers, the SP working population with their incomes rather than risk nothing.

In the end I well understand the balance between dusty phones and male lust. It is a rather perfect market. But some girls test our limits, I think, speaking as a punter.

Uncle pokey

Punting is a luxury not a necessity.

How much would you charge to fuck every woman in the room of a pub for example? 

[Mallow841]

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

Maybe for you.

Punting is different for ALL punters. Some want pretty young things, some want a Dom, some want someone they can relate to both in and out of the bedroom and age will play a part in this.

I prefer someone nearer my own age than someone half my age, because I’m going for a whole experience rather than just a hole to fuck. Each to their own.

[Mallow841]

Yep.

And the older gals will be much more likely to do anal, rimming, swallow, watersports etc, and with a willing smile.

So long as they've kept themselves well they can still be attractive, and many will fuck like a train.

I agree with this.

I find the older WG’s tend to come across far more natural and at ease and far less like they’re doing a service.

Also like you said, they’re more likely to be adventurous and kinky in my experience.

[Nirvanian]

If people keeping posting threads with daft titles (like this one) which seem to be recommending a price increase , then £150 WILL soon become the norm.
FFs use your brain before posting: by all means complain about price increases, but please don't make it look like you're advocating them

The 'daft title' is a question Scutty... I'm clearly questioning rather than advocating - which bit don't you understand?

[Nirvanian]

You are living in a fantasy world, there is no group when it comes to paying WGs, punter choose what to pay, and anyway many many punters aren't on UKP. Get real and if a WG charges too much for you go elsewhere.

What is a good idea is Tontober that has been run the last couple of Octobers and originated on here by Cueball with help from TCM where WGs involved as they choose to be charge Tontober rates. Maybe that will run again this year, if bothered get involved in that.

Segregate yourself if you wish Smiths. Agreed with regard to Tontober - last year worked really well... let's all be bothered if we choose to be bothered - let's try and be positive eh?.... 'bothered' is a tad negative - cheer up!

[Home Alone]

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

It's surprising - disappointing, in a way that someone who obviously has some insight - we do excuse your ignorance, btw - should rush into demonstrating how immature he is. 50 never was "borderline pensioner" as you'll realise when you're that age and realise just how far you are from drawing your pension.

When you grow up - mature - a bit, Pywm, you'll hopefully be able to understand the thinking behind the maxim, "Many a good time played on a old fiddle" and the thinking behind the comment that I've sometimes made that punting's like a market in the sense that there are many different stalls purveying different wares.

As a regular, but increasingly infrequent, punter of 73, I wouldn't want to see a "hot young babe" - I'd probably dismiss her AW Profile as some bimbo, btw- not just because I probably wouldn't have the stamina to keep going at her pace but because i] I'd think it quite creepy to fuck someone young enough to be my grand-daughter; & ii] she wouldn't satisfy me.

And surely what we all want is satisfaction for the not insubstantial amount of money we give her for the pleasure of sharing a bed with her. As you'll hopefully discover when the day dawns - it will, I promise! - that you can no longer keep up with a "hot young babe" and you're left with the feeling that you've effectively just thrown away your £150. Or, worse, whatever's the going rate then.

Then, hopefully, it'll how immature you were back in 2019. And even more hopefully, regret being so..

[smiths]

Segregate yourself if you wish Smiths. Agreed with regard to Tontober - last year worked really well... let's all be bothered if we choose to be bothered - let's try and be positive eh?.... 'bothered' is a tad negative - cheer up!

I will stick to the world of reality rather than the fantasy you live in. As to segregating myself, yeah I have only been a member of UKP for a poxy 8 and a half years, done 170 or so reviews, was the first punter to do 100 reviews on here and contributed to UKP on a very regular basis. All the evidence points to me segregating myself, Fucking clueless.

[Turtle1]

Some of the nastiest looking hookers are Charing £100 plus now days. Why? Because dumb people are happy to waste their hard earned cash. Stop paying dumb prices and you’ll see a drop.

[RadioKid]

I think fluffies paying ridiculous sums of money certainly doesn't help.

[Payyourwaymate]

Well, I live by myself without being in any relationship and I'm a pensioner myself.. So I don't have a 'normal' experience at home. I mix things up a bit and see different ages, but rarely under 30. Each to his own-I don't want to see 'hot young babes' giving a poor service.

Oh, I see. Fair enough, that is understandable and makes sense. It seems I showed my age with my last post  .

[Payyourwaymate]

It's surprising - disappointing, in a way that someone who obviously has some insight - we do excuse your ignorance, btw - should rush into demonstrating how immature he is. 50 never was "borderline pensioner" as you'll realise when you're that age and realise just how far you are from drawing your pension.

When you grow up - mature - a bit, Pywm, you'll hopefully be able to understand the thinking behind the maxim, "Many a good time played on a old fiddle" and the thinking behind the comment that I've sometimes made that punting's like a market in the sense that there are many different stalls purveying different wares.

As a regular, but increasingly infrequent, punter of 73, I wouldn't want to see a "hot young babe" - I'd probably dismiss her AW Profile as some bimbo, btw- not just because I probably wouldn't have the stamina to keep going at her pace but because i] I'd think it quite creepy to fuck someone young enough to be my grand-daughter; & ii] she wouldn't satisfy me.

And surely what we all want is satisfaction for the not insubstantial amount of money we give her for the pleasure of sharing a bed with her. As you'll hopefully discover when the day dawns - it will, I promise! - that you can no longer keep up with a "hot young babe" and you're left with the feeling that you've effectively just thrown away your £150. Or, worse, whatever's the going rate then.

Then, hopefully, it'll how immature you were back in 2019. And even more hopefully, regret being so..

I'm 26; forgive me  . Well, thank you for your insight and I suppose I will learn to understand what you have said in due time.  .

[daviemac]

Oh, I see. Fair enough, that is understandable and makes sense. It seems I showed my age with my last post  .

The other way to look at this is, if at 26 you fancied trying an older woman just for the experience then punting is by far the easiest way to do it.

It's the beauty of it, you can have whatever you fancy at the time, be that a 21 year old hottie, a 50 year old with experience, a size 6 to a size 20+, there are no rights or wrongs.   

[OakTree]

I agree with this.

I find the older WG’s tend to come across far more natural and at ease and far less like they’re doing a service.

Also like you said, they’re more likely to be adventurous and kinky in my experience.

I’ve also found some older WGs to be jaded and complacent. It’s total tosh that older WGs are such better service providers. I’ve had good and bad across all ages. The idea that age is going to improve your experience (of course unless age is part of the preference) is a fallacy. A woman who’s good in bed is so regardless of her age. Some are good and some are just shit.

[blend57]

WGs will charge as much as they can get away with and as for long as there are punters out there willing to pay for it.

Also, comparing WG rates to normal working wages is fallacy... unless of course you compare them with solicitors' fees. The minimum hourly rate of a firm of solicitors I use is £250 per hour (and that's a junior solicitor). The difference of WGs and solicitors is that instead of me doing the fucking I feel I'm the one being well and truly fucked.

I think it is also worth pointing out that this hobby has been getting cheaper, not more expensive. Many WGs do not changed their prices. Some of been charging the same price for over 10 years. A WG who charged £150 an hour 10 years ago should really be charging £197 an hour if they had kept up with inflation. The fact this has not happened means that there has been commercial pressure preventing this from happening. I think it might even be the case that the price of punting has been falling since the 1980s. I think there was a thread on this board that discussed historical prices and the average off street WG was charging something like £60 an hour back in the 70s. Adjusted for inflation that is about £500 an hour in today's money.

[mrdiamond77]

My regular charges £150, but as i'm now only punting once a month, it's not problem. But there are good SP's who charge £120/£130 too. Just sad that there are not many good ones anymore in my area that charge £100 an hour.

[advent2016]

For a number of years I have budgeted £200 per hour once a week over 46 weeks often only paying £100 per week and having a large surplus that I can blow  at year end or throughout year. e.g. £1000 a night  SA when the mood takes me. I like the rate to be fully inclusive with no extras.

[Mallow841]

I’ve also found some older WGs to be jaded and complacent. It’s total tosh that older WGs are such better service providers. I’ve had good and bad across all ages. The idea that age is going to improve your experience (of course unless age is part of the preference) is a fallacy. A woman who’s good in bed is so regardless of her age. Some are good and some are just shit.

As my quote says “in my experience”

Experiences will differ, and in my experience I have had better punts with women nearer my own age, than I have with women significantly younger than me.

[smiths]

I think it is also worth pointing out that this hobby has been getting cheaper, not more expensive. Many WGs do not changed their prices. Some of been charging the same price for over 10 years. A WG who charged £150 an hour 10 years ago should really be charging £197 an hour if they had kept up with inflation. The fact this has not happened means that there has been commercial pressure preventing this from happening. I think it might even be the case that the price of punting has been falling since the 1980s. I think there was a thread on this board that discussed historical prices and the average off street WG was charging something like £60 an hour back in the 70s. Adjusted for inflation that is about £500 an hour in today's money.

Yes cheaper for some dependent how they punt. In my case 15 years ago on average I was paying more than I do now, I found punting forums and met some other punters which all greatly helped.

What though IS the case in my punting area, London and Herts is that in the last 5 years or so average rates have gone up, Brits were already charging a premium just for being Brits in the main. But many EE WGs who were from £60 an hour, many more at £80-100 an hour are now £120 an hour or more, with only a small number at under £100 an hour in comparison to back then.

Competition can be fierce fortunately in punting and that helps keep some rates down. And the other crucial point here in my book is London can be expensive of course. Oop North I read about lower rates a lot.

[scutty brown]

The 'daft title' is a question Scutty... I'm clearly questioning rather than advocating - which bit don't you understand?

When you say "and should it be?" that comes across as you suggesting it should be and you're hoping others agree. Looks as if you're deliberately talking up prices.

[tesla]

I think it is also worth pointing out that this hobby has been getting cheaper, not more expensive. Many WGs do not changed their prices. Some of been charging the same price for over 10 years. A WG who charged £150 an hour 10 years ago should really be charging £197 an hour if they had kept up with inflation. The fact this has not happened means that there has been commercial pressure preventing this from happening. I think it might even be the case that the price of punting has been falling since the 1980s. I think there was a thread on this board that discussed historical prices and the average off street WG was charging something like £60 an hour back in the 70s. Adjusted for inflation that is about £500 an hour in today's money.

back in the 70's when I started punting, street prices were about £10 not £60 , so get your fact rights before trying to change the way we see things

by the way a girl who charged £150 an hour ten years ago was expensive

[Ali Katt]

 

back in the 70's when I started punting, street prices were about £10 not £60 , so get your fact rights before trying to change the way we see things

by the way a girl who charged £150 an hour ten years ago was expensive

I agree, but only outside London. Pretty sure Belle de Jour was £150+ from what I read in her book.

[Jonestown]

:DI agree, but only outside London. Pretty sure Belle de Jour was £150+ from what I read in her book.

Early 70's I was paying £3-£5 in west end flats, not soho walk ups. By the end of the 70's is was around £10, then there was a big jump to £25 -£30 in early / mid 80's. By late 80's early 90's it was around £50. This would all be for what was in effect a P&D, once you'd come you were on your way.

[scutty brown]

I think it is also worth pointing out that this hobby has been getting cheaper, not more expensive. Many WGs do not changed their prices. Some of been charging the same price for over 10 years. A WG who charged £150 an hour 10 years ago should really be charging £197 an hour if they had kept up with inflation. The fact this has not happened means that there has been commercial pressure preventing this from happening. I think it might even be the case that the price of punting has been falling since the 1980s. I think there was a thread on this board that discussed historical prices and the average off street WG was charging something like £60 an hour back in the 70s. Adjusted for inflation that is about £500 an hour in today's money.

Another idiot pimp trying to justify a price increase.

[blend57]

back in the 70's when I started punting, street prices were about £10 not £60 , so get your fact rights before trying to change the way we see things

by the way a girl who charged £150 an hour ten years ago was expensive

I stand corrected. But to be fair, it is a little hard to be accurate about this. I was born in the 70s so I was not punting back then. And it is not like there are published lists of prices for this sort of thing. I was working from my memory of a thread I read several years ago.

[smiths]

:DI agree, but only outside London. Pretty sure Belle de Jour was £150+ from what I read in her book.

Belle De Jour aka Dr Brooke Magnanti worked through a London agency who charged £300 an hour of which she got £200 so she posted elsewhere years ago Ali. She got the hump with me when I posted I didn't find her attractive and she had facial acne.

[unclepokey]

Just out of curiosity, why would you see a 50 year old SP? Excuse my ignorance, but I thought a big part of punting is to have experiences you normally wouldn't with hot young babes, not a borderline pensioner?

Total nonsense.
The offering of more mature women is often - very often  - very significantly superior to that offered by the more inexperienced  woman.

Uncle Pokey

[unclepokey]

Punting is a luxury not a necessity.

How much would you charge to fuck every woman in the room of a pub for example? 

Not a penny piece. And I might not part with such a sum so to do.
Idiot

[Mallow841]

Not a penny piece. And I might not part with such a sum so to do.
Idiot

You’d fuck every woman in a pub for free?

Good on you mate, I fucking wouldn’t 

[MilleMiglia]

I think it is also worth pointing out that this hobby has been getting cheaper, not more expensive. Many WGs do not changed their prices. Some of been charging the same price for over 10 years. A WG who charged £150 an hour 10 years ago should really be charging £197 an hour if they had kept up with inflation. The fact this has not happened means that there has been commercial pressure preventing this from happening. I think it might even be the case that the price of punting has been falling since the 1980s. I think there was a thread on this board that discussed historical prices and the average off street WG was charging something like £60 an hour back in the 70s. Adjusted for inflation that is about £500 an hour in today's money.

Agree with this. In my area, prices in parlours have been pretty well static for over 20 years.

[scutty brown]

Agree with this. In my area, prices in parlours have been pretty well static for over 20 years.

How would you know that? Based on your reviews you've never punted in three years of membership here.

[yobbra]

How would you know that? Based on your reviews you've never punted in three years of membership here.

Look at their websites maybe?   They all have prices on their sites.   The guy is spot on in his statement imo.   They haven't gone up in 20 years in the areas i used to punt in prior to finding SA 4 years ago and that effectively stopped me punting because SA was so much cheaper longer term.  I haven't been in a parlour in my old areas for 5+ years or seen any sp outside of seeking i could review but it doesn't mean i can't comment on their prices 20 years ago or 10 years ago when i used to frequent parlours and the prices now which are easily accessible on the parlours websites.